Since everyone's really high about the upcoming new version of <b>Crossfire 1.8: Inner Core</b>, here are the changes (updated 18.3.09). Cheers
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<h1>New in Crossfire 1.8</h1>
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<b>Inner Core</b> system and black hole
- 8 new factions (GMG Expedition, Ancients, Warrior, Savage, Sentinel, Dom'Setek, Dom'Nepesh, Dom'Razak) related to the <b>Inner Core</b> story
- highly extended storyline based on many quests
- custom NPCs including ones which represent the Crossfire dev team
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Destructable Bases and Solars
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New splash screen
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New menu screens
- SuperFlame Missiles
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New engine trails
- Battle dust
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40+ new cockpits
- 600+ realistic and very detailed infocards for Systems and Bases
- 2nd licence slot activated
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39 new high detail suns
- 10 new intro scripts[/size]
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- New Crossfire intro movie
- Alternative FL Intro included
- FL Story prequel movie included
- Starlancer: Sol War trailer included
- 2 new interfaces (Blue, Green and Red + Orange and Dark Blue)
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New clan logo billboards
- <b>ENB bloom shader included</b>
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Dynamic lights
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Rebuilt Earth's atmosphere
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Organic Station decks
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Optional particle colours
- Fluid Space Concept
- Screen capture option
- FLMM activation procedure improved
- Installation instructions included into FLMM
- <b>CrossFire Guide</b>
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New jump tunnel effects
- Optional Vanilla Starspheres
- Optional effects choices
- 4 Movie options
- Dynamic Economy added to SinglePlayer mode[/size]
<h2>Detail improvements</h2>
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- Much more detailed planets and asteroids
- Higher rendered detail
- Higher detail on vanilla planet rings
- Highly improved Vanilla effects
- New high detail explosion effects
- New high detail transparent nebulae with real dust effects
- Heavy detail improvements on both Vanilla and CrossFire content
- Max sound channels increased to 32 (for 3d sound)
- Detail improvements on Sol system
- Simulated bump mapping
- Motion blur[/size]
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- Planet Lost Paradise Isles improved (high detail)
- Planet Lost Paradise water improved (high detail + waves move into correct direction now)
- Planet Lost Paradise pyramids improved (high detail)
- New high detail Jump Gate and Jump Hole effects
- Reflections added to the oceans
- Weather effects added to Planet Lost Paradise
- Ocean sound added to Planet Lost Paradise
- Higher draw distance for Dimensional Rift[/size]
<h2>Minor additions</h2>
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- Flame atmosphere burn effect
- DomKavash ass kicked and gone from Sol
- New FLConfigDatabase
- New ZLib
- Hit sparks effect
- New mouse cursors
- 40 new Starspheres
- Seltos Roid miners added
- More than 100 coalition depots and wrecks added to Altair
- New Navigation Maps
- New Alien Organisms
- New planet rings
- CrossFire logo in Manhattan
- New explosion for DomKavash ships
- New weapon models for Phoenix Projection Cannon, Dom'Kavash Annihilator and Coalition Gattling
- Redundant ship hardpoints to all CrossFire ships
- Defying Gravity theme
- 25% inertia to all Nebulas
- Minor interference in Nebulae
- New damage effects
- Flak explosions
- 20 new weapon models
- 5 new missile models
- SWAT-Portal Recticle Mod
- Music in prison stations
- 548 solar objects added to the rumor database
- GMG research facility and Hypergate
- Power and Communication satellites
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New Dimensional Rift effect
- Full market information about Stations and Planets (just like on Vanilla bases)[/size]
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- Thousands of rumors about CrossFire content added to the bases of Sirius and Altair
- Damaged Station cores
- MP Welcome message
- New clan logos
- Atsugi Naval Shipyards added
- Juneau Shipyard made dockable
- Sounds added to the clan logos (giving a warning)
- BG clan logo at the NY gate
- 6 new engines with new visual effects added to Ships and Battleships
- New Freelancer DataStorm warning
- 61 detailed BMG infocards
- Dom'Kavash Energy Relay Station
- New planetary docking rings
- 37 new custom planet models
- 2 Ancient Stations
- Ancient drone
- Ancient Energy Cannon added and lootable on Ancient drones
- Ancient cruise disruptor (NPC only)
- VHF fighter encounters added to various sirius factions
- Stationary Ion Cannons
- 221 anomalies
- Light flicker in X-3043
- New CrossFire icon
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Rusty Coalition Warpgate
- Bremen holoprojector
- Ulysses holoprojector
- FLListServer support
- Freeport7 turned into a warzone
- Freeport7 station debris
- 132 mineable fields
- 5 Tradelane Construction sites added[/size]
<b>And more than 55,000 other changes, including bugs fixes, code improvements, spelling corrections, balancing and additions!</b>
See the full list HERE!