POWAH! SPEEED! - Update v1.16 — Lightspeed Frontier Steam update #622162

Good morning/day/evening and welcome! This update is a little bit different than usual, as it focuses primarily on optimizations and performance gains, as well as some building system and ship destruction upgrades. And what performance gains are there you ask? Massive! Insane! Monstrous! It's all a bit technical however, so if you don't feel like reading the entire thing skip to the part with the group selection and ship breakups. Let's start from the top: Physics Engine Upgrade https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F26909000%2Fcb80f11357fa0ef52f76a3106986e47c82b1d023.png Long story short, the game uses the Bullet Physics Engine to power all ship ship movement and collisions, BUT until now it was actually not the official version of the engine. What it did use was a 2004 Java port of it, since well the rest of the game is Java and it was compatible out of the bo...