Flight Commander Gets Engine Upgrade

Following on from the news about progressing Linux support, eddieb has released news of what upgrades Flight Commander with receive in its upcoming 1.1 patch. There are a lot of changes to the game and the engine which will make things look a lot prettier. Here are some of my favorite additions:

• Dynamic lighting
• Comm videos, including new status comms, and a reworked comm menu.
• Asteroids
• Cool new cutscenes for takeoff, landing, and eject
• Turrets (no AI just yet)
• Cockpit improvements (ITTS, More transparency, New color scheme)
• Missile exhaust and more missile sounds
• Can import more graphic files, include jpegs and transparent pngs.
• Many more capships available.