Checkmate

I am loving this game the game is amazing can't wait for multiplayer XD

Wow, awesome changes! But yikes, I went through the first tutorial again and after moving some pieces around at the end, and then pressing Enter to exit, I got: http://imgur.com/a/8LPx4

I can't seem to find the graphics processor part: http://imgur.com/a/X4fb8
Anyway, this is a very cool game. I would love a free-rotating camera!
I find that the GUI needs the most work to make playing the game less tedious:

1. In the tutorial, the text-advancing arrow keys hinder the experience, because you have to be at a certain zoom level and also be able to see the right side of the board to advance. It would be better to be able to advance by pressing Enter and/or the arrow keys to progress. It also shouldn't immediately move to the next tutorial text line if you press early, but should finish the text if it was still rolling out (Some of us read fast and want the tut text to display instantly.)

2. At the end of the tutorial, there is no warning given that the last click of the right arrow ends the tutorial. It should say "Clicking the right arrow will end this tutorial," or the arrow keys should disappear completely, letting the player use Esc to leave. I accidentally exited when I wanted to do the practice that it suggested.

3. The unit that you just moved shouldn't deselect simply because you gave it a place to move to, especially if you accidentally click on a location across the map that's too far for it to queue moves to (because then you have to bring your mouse back to that unit to re-select it and give it a more fitting move order).

4. Checkmate severely suffers from how tedious it is to select and move units, because you can't drag a box and have to click exactly on one unit at a time to select it (which can be pain if you're zoomed out for a tactical view, or if you're zoomed in but in the wrong area of the screen). Numbering units 1-9 would be very helpful (like in Red Alert or Total Annihilation when you can press Ctrl+# to assign a selected unit a number.) When zooming out, Supreme Commander-/Planetary Annihilation-style icons for easier selection of individual units on the map would be very helpful. And/Or maybe there could be a column of little icons on the left side representing each of your available pieces, which you could click to more easily select one, and double-click to also center the screen to it.

5. Panning through the research menu can feel heavy and time-consuming. If the build screen was made to dynamically follow the mouse's screen location (so that mousing to the bottom-right of the screen would show the bottom-right of the research hierarchy) instead of needing WASD to browse through everything, that would be awesome.

6. Double the scrolling speed if you use WASD and also put your mouse at the edge of the same key-pressed screen(s) at the same time.

7. There is no alert for the location of the enemy you discover. I sent out many pawns exploring the map at once, and when hybrid suddenly went from real-time to turn-based mode, I had no idea of where the encountered black piece was and had to look carefully. It would be very helpful if there was a minimap and/or the ability to repeatedly press a key to cycle through all visible enemies on the screen, or at least of the ones that moved in the last turn.

All in all, from what little I've played so far, I think this is a fascinating game that could benefit tremendously from a more sophisticated user interface that helps the player handle the basics of command more easily.

Please Help
Crash Report:

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FATAL ERROR in Fragment Shader compilation
ShaderName: sh_diffuse

C:\Users\Anderson\AppData\Local\game-jolt-client\Games\checkmate-178465\default-266292\memory(11,21): error X4502: invalid ps_2_0 input semantic 'NORMAL'

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called from - gml_Object_menuObj_Draw_0 (line 17)

NVM. I must have quit while it was saving or something. It worked fine now.