When taking the jumphole from New Tokyo to Honshu during Mission 8, an issue would be apparent where one BD fighter fails to enter formation and gets left behind. This however doesn't happen when the latest Autosave is loaded; the BD fighter will enter formation correctly and follow the squad. The issue was caused by the fact that the BD fighter didn't jump through correctly, which has now been fixed. Another notable issue was that another BD fighter would spawn right near Yukawa Shipyard, before you and the other BD fighters reach the Transport. This resulted in the BD fighter getting destroyed by the Naval Forces escort as soon as you arrived. This caused Ozu to say 'We lost a fighter, we need to cover each other' right away. This has been fixed by making the BD fighter a part of the escort as soon you enter Honshu. It may sound a bit strange that you suddenly have an additional fighter (4 in total), despite Juni asking about the 3 ships before taking the jumphole. However, based on the radio messages from Ozu, this approach makes the most sense.
Juni said in two comm messages in Mission 4 that she made it to a few planets in Bretonia. However, while docked she shouldn't be wearing a helmet. Therefore, that's been removed. Furthermore, a delay to the first comm message has been added because you previously couldn't see her in the top left due to being in a jump tunnel.
During Mission 7 when you approach Cali base, you can see the announcer is missing the Outcast mask, which all Outcast base announcers wear. This has now been added for the announcer during the mission.
During mission 5 when you talk to the Battleship Norfolk announcer, he has the wrong body. It used to be from Liberty while the base is owned by the Armed Forces. He's now been given a Bretonia body. Additionally, in the second comm he was missing the neuralnet accessory, which he did have in the first comm. This has been added for the second comm too.
When you attack the Navy squad after they kill Brandon Rowlett, you'll see the leader comming without a helmet. However, comming pilots should always have a helmet if they are in space. Hence he's been given a helmet now.
Patrol Zeta 1 during mission 2 has the LPI faction assigned. However, the leader mentions 'Navy Patrol Zeta 1'. Furthermore, Juni says that she ordered a wing from Rio Grande, which is a Navy base. Hence the faction has been changed to Navy.
There were some inconsistencies based on the text and the used news images. There were stories regarding Rheinland and Bretonia. However, an appropriate faction flag rift image was missing. Therefore, I decided to make it myself. It's been added in the previous commit to newsvendor.txm
It turns out that after the previous changes made in this file, the issue where the Q's Men ships fire at the player after the race still occurs. Unfortunately I wasn't able to fix this, even after 5 hours of trying because the FL mission scripting engine doesn't really seem to agree (one of the two ships just always kept firing at the player, despite it being friendly to the player, no matter what). Instead, I've made the ships fly away at cruise speed to a different location. This way they just mind their own business and don't attack the player.
For some reason, during Mission 7 when the player reaches the gas pocket field, the player is made invulnerable. Because of this, the player doesn't take any damage from the gas balls, despite Juni saying that they may damage your ship. Hence this could teach the player that the gas balls only show a cool effect and not actually do damage to the ship. This is unfortunately false and so the invulnerable state has been removed. These gas balls specifically do very little damage anyway.
Despite the fact that this issue has already been fixed (sort of), the battleship could still be seen if you stuck around at Holman and started going to the trade lane slowly. Now it spawns the battleship right before it uncloaks, so that fixes it.
