Résumé des dernières mises à jour disponibles. Nouvelles cartes et optimisation de l’I.A. pour Supreme Commander 2, rééquilibrage et optimisation de la gestion de la mémoire vidéo pour Order of War, nombreux ajouts et améliorations diverses pour UFO Alien Invasion, hotfix pour Musket and Pike renaissance, très nombreux ajustements et réglages divers pour Elemental War of Magic, dont la sortie est toujours prévue quand les développeurs seront satisfaits, probablement entre le troisième trimestre 2010 et le premier trimestre 2011.
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Supreme Commander 2 1.11
New Features
New AI categories are now available via the Skirmish or Multi-player lobby menu:
Air: Focuses on Air units.
Land: Focuses on Land units.
Rush: Focuses on large amounts of land units and less on defense.
Balanced: Balanced between Land and Air.
Naval: Focuses on Naval units.
Turtle: Focuses on defenses and Experimentals.
Random: Chooses one of the above based on various factors.
Added the Steam avatar for each player on the multiplayer summary screen: This will let players click on the avatar image and access that player’s Steam profile. From there, they can add that player to their friends list if they’ve had a good match
Added Mic Icons display in game when bringing up the in game score menu (F2) allowing players to mute individual players
Improvements
Added anti-cheating code that will detect modified lua files and prevent playing with unmodified users. This also prevents achievement and leaderboard updates. Still permits playing with others who have identically modified their games.
Disconnections in Ranked: The game now tracks the number of disconnects a player has during Ranked 1v1 matches. If you exceed a certain percentage of disconnects to games played, they will count as losses instead of wins.
AI Improvements:
The AI will no longer get stuck in its startup build sequence if rushed or if there are build restrictions in place.
The AI will choose an appropriate archetype based on unit restrictions.
If a unit type is restricted the AI will act as though the unit does not exist in the game.
AI will now group units based on their target enemy’s threat.
AI will now group experimentals based on their target enemy’s threat.
If the victory condition is Assassination we are artificially inflating the Neural Net data to make attacking the ACU more desirable for both Land and Air units.
AI can now respond to being attacked my Nukes or Artillery, even if it cannot see where it is coming from.
Fixed a bug where threat build conditions were not being used.
The AI should no longer attempt to send attack platoons to unpathable areas.
The AI will hold back units until it thinks it has enough to make a push based on defensive intelligence.
Fixed an issue where the AI would constantly pull units back to attack an expansion base instead of pushing forward.
The AI will no longer build more than 3 transports unless it has land units and it is not a land map.
Added AI response to make a land AI get land unit AA upgrades if the enemy has air units.
The Naval AI will not build more than 3 subs unless the enemy has Naval.
If Research is disabled the AI will not build research facilities.
The AI will add a small amount of threat to all enemy start locations so it knows where to find them.
Platoons will try to only attack areas where they think they can do enough damage before dying.
The AI will react to enemy TML, artillery, or Experimentals by building more shields and placing them closer together.
The AI should send a more appropriate number of units based on enemy threat.
AI will build and use Mass Convertors.
If the closest enemy to the AI is a lot weaker than the other enemies the AI will focus on the weak enemy.
The AI’s air units will wait longer before re-evaluating which target to attack.
The AI’s NUC will now check for pathability before firing units.
The AI’s Nuke Launcher will now check for pathability before firing.
You can now select which AI type you would like to play against from the dropdown in the game lobby (random is still an option).
AI will build factory shield upgrades more often, not just when the enemy has air.
Factory upgrades now have a threat value.
AI should react better to an enemy having nukes.
AI will not build research stations if it already has everything researched.
AI will not build a mass convertor until it has enough energy to convert.
Added bigger Air and Land platoons.
When a build item has a resource type of All the AI will use Slush first.
Added build conditions to check for current target enemy threat.
AI air scout platoons will now path around threat as much as possible.
Mass convertor research is now a higher priority for the Turtle AI.
Changed some threat evaluation when deciding where to attack.
AI will build fewer MMLs and Mobile Artillery.
Added a new function to store the victory condition for the AI.
When an AI unit dies it will add threat to the instigator’s location to warn other units.
Added some anti-turtle measures.
Fix for units that were built outside of the AIs base not being used.
Fix for AI not using its full base radius.
Land AIs on Island maps should build Air factories to build transports.
AI should send platoons when it is at unit cap, no matter what.
AI will space out naval factories more to prevent blockage.
The Ranked maps have been updated to:
Markon Bridge
Clark Training Center
Coalition Ship Yard
Arctic Refuge
Open Palms
Finn’s Revenge
Fixes
Fixed units arriving from Space Temple teleport immunity to Magnetron effects
Fixed Engineer pathfinding in crowded conditions
Fixes for occasional crash if Client disconnects at the same moment Host launches Ranked game
Fix for Crash / Soft Locked: Players can get soft-locked in the ‘Starting Game’ screen if other players disconnect when matchmaking begins ‘Starting Game’
Backspace will reveal all characters in the edit box when you have more characters than the visible section
Tuning and Balancing
Capturing units now provides the same experience as killing them
Téléchargement automatique sur Steam.
N.B. le précédent patch n’était pas le 1.5, mais le 1.1 a priori.
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Order of War: Challenge
* Balance of heavy tanks changed
* Added unit limit in Survival missions
* Reduced consumption of video and system memory
* Greatly improved performance for SLI systems
Téléchargement automatique sur Steam.
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UFO Alien Invasion
Monthly update for March, 2010
* some new textures and normalmaps
* fixed a glitch in the menu item rendering
* fixed « No free inventory space! »
* improved lua ai
* GLSL support for geoscape rendering
* fixed some map related bugs (like wrong level flags and misaligned textures)
* reaction left over TUs is now a per-player-setting
* updated the material files with some texture animations
* fixed invalid entnum for local model ERR_DROP
* changed the default font from FreeSans.ttf to DejaVuSans.ttf
* Show antimatter quantity when click to the building
* fixed a civilian ai hiding bug
* fixed « Actor sometimes uses 1 too many TUs for movement. »
* added tags for animated palms
* new music tracks
* fixed « first actor can »t move in first turn »
* fixed « actor movement different to displayed path »-bug
* fixed « No light armor on Tamans »
* try to equip medikit and other items even if armour is not allowed
* added missing level preview image
* merged flare and corona support from quake2world for the material subsystem
* render bounding boxes for bsp surface if r_showbox is 2
* reworked nation happiness calculations
* reactivated the weather particles in some maps
* some savegame related fixes
* implemented the ability to spawn dead actors
* fixed a bug with aliens calculating the risk of RF
* great speedup for the AI
* reworked huge parts of the reaction fire
* introduced cvar g_reaction_fair to activate/deactivate reaction fire timeout
* reduced employee salaries
* item production revisited
* death texturs for aliens
Jeu en cours de développement. Site officiel.
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The Renaissance V1.02
- Removed automatic Disorder for units in same hex with block units.
Hotfix. En téléchargement sur le site de HPS Sims.
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Elementals War of Magic beta 1z2
As I mentioned earlier this week, we are committed to releasing the game when we’re happy with it even if it means we have to delay it repeatedly to do so.
That said, as you can see with this 1 week of progress, there is also good reason to believe that we will still make the 3rd quarter release (if not, it’ll get pushed to 1Q2011). I currently do think that we’ll likely make the 3rd quarter release if progress continues at the current rate (especially since the whole graphics engine continues to evolve in tandem which, when switched on, will change the perception of how far along the game is).
What’s new since last Friday:
- Elemental 1Z Update Change Log -
* Unit Movement *
+ Fixed bug that would pick invalid destination tiles when leaving a city+ Added check in CancelDestination to fix offcenter object only if not moving in tile (using temp code set to false)
+ Added function CheckNextTile (moved CMoveCheck and set move cost from MOveToTile
+ If MoveToTile is called when the next tile has already been set to the tile being passed in, it just updates FOW instead of checking the tile and setting the position, so that it can be called after animated moving
+ Changed QuickMove to Move and added code for animated movement if the unit is visible
+ Added function MoveAnimated which contains very similar code to AnimateMoveGfx, which was removed.
+ Added cost callback AutoExploreAStarCostCallback for picking good destinations for auto explore
+ AutoExplore now will go through the rest of the tiles in the sector if the first one is not a good destination
+ Added Move cost parameter to CollisionDetection so that when it’s in path check mode, it can affect the move cost based on what is in the tile (your own city tiles cost 0)
+ Fixed bug in CollisionDetection where the code was using m_lNextTileX, m_lNextTileY instead of the tile being passed in
+ Added function HitCheckObjects, made from code that used to be at bottom of CollisionDetection
+ Removed parameter bMoveInstantly from SetPositionTile and related code
+ Added check in FindPath to skip leftover moves if the destination is cancelled because it can’t create a path
+ Added checks for m_bWaitingForUserResponse in FIndPath
+ Added call to CalcAStarPathToDest under UpdateDirective so that the unit can move immediately after its directive is updated
* Unit Customization *
+ Can now alter the face and eyes of your Sovereign
+ Added a bunch of IsBodyPart checks alongside checks for clothing and hair so that faces are treated as randomized backup items like hair and clothes already are, and so they don’t get cleared when the unit type is cleared
+ FillItemList doesn’t make a category for the face equipment slot
+ Fixed crash that occurred if CreateTemporarySceneNode failed
+ Fixed bug where items would use custom textures of other items on a character
+ Fixed some T-poses that would show up for female sovereigns (like female children) because of some doubled animations that caused it to access random animations with out of bounds indices
+ New « EYES » material added.
- This material animates the eyes so they automatically blink
- Blinking eyes is disabled on info card
- Blink constants are defined in CharacterGraphic.cpp
* Event List *
+ new tooltips implemented specifically for the Event list…line up over whichever entry triggered it
- right clicking on certain events will either select the UNIT or CITY the event refers to (still hooping this up for more events, but it should work for the main ones)
- started converting all the seperate CReportItem classes to just use the core one…the other classes were proving redundant
- Hit detection improved in the Event list by setting several editfields to be transparent
* Gameplay *
+ Pioneer can not longer build on top of an existing pioneer improvement
+ Removed retreat code
- Retreat button is now Cancel button, only available to attacker. Since you no longer move into the tile when attacking, no retreat code is necessary
+ Custom Unit Quotes and Names being auto-generated, picking from a handful of options
- currently hardcoded…will be converting to the FlavorText system next
+ Turned autosave on by default
+ Fixed bug where ability bonus options weren’t actually being applied to factions in the customize faction screen, which manifested itself by clearing all the checkboxes when the race spinner was updated (because of a UI refresh) and obviously not getting any of the ability bonuses
+ Entries used for showing stationed units and subunits in main UI don’t show number if the unit has only one troop
+ AI will now check that the items it is using to design unit types are supported by the model of that unit (no more female faces on men), and will make sure that a face is always chosen
+ Fixed bug where auto-upgrading your housing would cut your population level to whatever it was without any housing, because of capping it in the middle of the upgrade. I’ve fixed it for now by making sure no UI updates are called that will try to get these values and force the capping to happen, but I don’t think this will always work in case some construction code ever needs to just access a resource amount in the city during that in-between time, so I think I’ll add something more robust tomorrow.
+ Changed OnConstructionComplete to be called on completed improvements after they’ve been added to the correct vectors in the city/player, so that when stats are set to dirty they can be accessed anytime and we know they’ll be recalculated to the right value
+ City hubs are now taken into account when calculating battle bonuses for stationed units
+ Unstationing or removing multiple units from an army will leave whatever unit was last selected selected, instead of just selecting the first unit in the list
+ City Hub now offers bonuses to stationed units
+ Forge and Granary now have XML tags for improvement requirements
+ Mine and Apiary internal names changed for consistency
+ Town Hall adjusted to give +2 prestige points instead of a percentage
+ Crystal now uses new Icon
+ Fixed issue with quests that required you to escort a unit back to a city not completing (the quest condition tracker was attempting to get said units by calling CWorld::GetUnitByIndex( ) with the unit’s ID, when it should have been using CWorld::GetUnitByID( )).
* UI *
+ Race Logo appear on the Unit Context window for the currently selected unit
+ City Build List: you may now select non-buildable improvements so you can mouseover their stats easier even though you still can’t build them.
+Reworked zoom to cursor to zoom in along the vector pointing to the area on the ground where the mouse is pointing, rather than gravitating toward nearby objects. The camera system will need a bit of a rework to make this a little smoother.
+ Recruited champions now correctly show up in the empire tree after a load.
+ Improvements that require previous improvements now have those requirements implemented. Example: a forge cannot be built until you build an iron ore mine.
+ tweaks to edge scrolling
+ Selecting a unit from the stationed unit list in a city will show the information for that unit
+ Fixed bug where units under fog would occasionally pop in and fade out
* Restarting a Game*
+ Starting a new game from within a game will now « work ». Still some issues to be tracked down.
- Fixing an issue where game modifiers saved their parents, which could cause an issue with reference holding.
- The game, when uninitializing itself, will now clean up tactical map graphics, and will now properly call ResetWorld on the world.
- Added a DestroyWorld function to world that clears data when world is deconstructed (as opposted to simply reset).
- The world will now delete and reinitialize the event center.
- The world will now add its listener when it is reset.
- Added an assert to see if a unit was leaking when the world released it.
- The loop to create champ NPC units and place them on random tiles will no longer run infinitely, and will assert after 100 runs.
* Misc.*
+ Fixed crash caused by adding patchwork armlets and a shield to the same guy (both used the same attachment pt)
+ Fixed bug where using quickstart with your prefs/faction configs set such that you ended up playing one of the core factions, your units would have all white hair and skin
+ CClothIconManager now tracks which icon sets have had icons added/removed since the last update, removing the need for external code to keep track of “dirty” icons.
* Memory *
+ Restructured CClothIconManager to use std::maps for storing tiles, rather than pre-allocated 2D arrays, resulting in a dramatic reduction of the game’s memory footprint. Previously, the cloth icon manager was pre-allocating data for each tile in the map for every active icon type, regardless of whether or not there was actually an icon at that tile. On the Beta 1Z map, which is 128 by 96 tiles and has 47 different cloth icons on it on the start of turn 1, this system would consume nearly 150 megabytes of memory. By switching the cloth icon manager over to using std::maps and only allocating memory for icons that are currently on the map, we save enormous amounts of memory. If you clear the fog of war at the start of the first turn on the
Beta 1Z map with this new system, it uses roughly 21 kilobytes to represent all the cloth icons on the map, giving us a reduction of Elemental’s memory footprint of nearly 150 megabytes. On larger maps with a greater number of different icons the memory savings will be even more dramatic.
* Balance *
+ Lots of tweaks to costs and benefits on buildings
* Known issues *
There are some pathfinding issues and mountains aren’t showing up in FOW early.
* Is this build ready for beta 2? *
Will have to play the beta version first. Our internal build is, as you can imagine, nothing like what is in the public beta.
* How will I know if it’s ready for beta 2? *
The goal of this build is stability. If it is stable and doesn’t run out of memory then it’s ready. If it’s unstable (crashes) or runs out of memory on you then it’s not.
Beta 1 is not about game balance. If you’re enjoying beta 1 then we have failed as beta 1 should not be remotely fun (I’m seriously about this guys because if it starts feeling fun it will create unanticipated inertia towards certain game play elements that we may radically change for beta 3 – ask anyone who’s ever been in a beta before, people get really invested in bad game concepts that they get used to).
Stay tuned!
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