Update 2

Over the last few months, I have been tinkering with Only War to deliver a new update that addresses some of the problems people have had with the game, as well as adding more content and polish in general. This new update should add plenty and make the game much easier to get into, though more work is still needed to increase the game's replay-ability. A list of the new features are shown below:

- New faction: The Blossoming. These take the form of various large seeds throughout the galaxy that will periodically blossom and release clusters of flower-inspired ships to attack every other faction.

- Gates: There are intergalactic gates every-so-often in the galaxy. When one of the factions controls 50% or more of the total planets, gates will activate to call in fleets for the other factions.

- Each faction now has an additional battleship in their inventory they will deploy from more populated planets, albeit rarely.

- Music has been added for both the main menu and gameplay.

- A credits scene was added for the music.

- The intro-cutscene is now skippable and has additional slides explaining the three main factions.

- Sound effects have varying pitch to make them less repetitive.

- Laser sound effects were added to make Interceptors sound different from Fighters.

- The thruster animation has been finalized to now update its size when it is being used rather than being based on speed like before.

- A lot of optimization was done to make the high amount of ships and bullets less resource-intensive (collisions were reworked, bullets have an object pool, etc.).

While these features and changes have been great in making the game far more playable, there are still many changes I intend to make. First and foremost, I plan to add a method to call in fleets and armies to follow you. This will likely use some sort of "Legitimacy" resource you will earn by destroying enemies and completing objectives (these need to be implemented). I will also need to add some sort of large-scale events that can happen periodically in the galaxy, such as major planetary rebellions, fleets switching sides, a planet being entirely destroyed, etc. Besides these ideas, I have some more plans, such as a new game mode, but those will have to wait until I can get more work done on the game.

Best wishes to anyone who reads this!