April 1st has come and gone, but have no fear, for beta2 is here.

We've fixed a bunch more since beta1, and need more testing. Also, we added some new features! Highlights include:

• Snow-covered rocks are now visible
  
• Steep hills from map generation or heightmap import now get extra rocks
  
• Houses can be individually placed by players in the scenario editor and (if enabled) in-game, and can be protected from replacement during town growth
  
• Touchpad two-finger map scrolling for Windows
  
• NewGRF Badges
  
• A variety of bugfixes

(As always, see the changelog for further details).

What are badges, you ask? Badges are something add-on (NewGRF) authors can put on their content to help you find e.g. the vehicle or station you want to use.
For example, various vehicle add-ons use a mix of different icons, overlay images or texts to indicate the power source or the suggested usage of a vehicle. With badges, this information can be represented in a clear way including built-in filtering, that is cohesive between different add-ons.

As this beta is the first release featuring badge support, there aren't many updated add-ons yet, but we're excited to see what authors do with the new feature.

Finally, the usual titlegame competition has been announced on the forums[www.tt-forums.net].

You can find this beta under the "testing" beta in Steam.

* Changelog[cdn.openttd.org]
* Bug tracker[github.com]
* Questions and player support[www.openttd.org] (Discord[discord.gg])