The OpenMW team has reached another milestone with the release of version 0.30.0 of the project. And to celebrate, they’ve put together a video showing off what’s new:

New features in the engine (in addition to a ton of bug fixes) include:

• Implemented Ranged Combat
• Implemented Sneaking Skill icon
• Implemented Crime and Punishment
• Implemented correct trader gold handling
• Implemented AIFollow package on summoned creatures
• Implemented run stance in the AIFollow package
• Implemented all NPCs in the area attacking the player when the player attacks one
• Implemented terrain threading
• Implemented correct GUI save/load progress bars
• Implemented saving the weather state in save games
• Implemented class creation form remembering previous changes
• Implemented quicksave, quickload, and autosave
• Implemented deleting saves
• Implemented bribe gold being placed into the NPCs inventory
• Implemented saving quick key bindings
• Implemented NPCs returning to their default position after pursuing the player for a crime
• Implemented vertical axis navigation for flying and swimming creatures
• Implemented functionality for NPCs to evade each other when walking around
• OpenCS: Implemented region map context menu
• OpenCS: Implemented region map drag & drop
• OpenCS: Implemented scene subview drop
• OpenCS: Implemented preview subview
• OpenCS: Implemented OGRE integration
• OpenCS: Implemented Dialogue Sub-Views
• OpenCS: Implemented lighting modes
• OpenCS: Implemented different camera navigation modes

As always, the OpenMW team seem to be making great progress. Let us hope that this latest advancement in their efforts helps Ultima IX: Redemption get just that much closer to completion, as well.