AI War Beta 5.094 "Apply MkIV Sanding Machine" Released!

[keith.lamothe]

(Crossposted from this blog post)

This one is near the end of our polishing the game to get it ready for 6.0.  There's one more chunk of changes I want to get in before calling it a release candidate.

So this one's basically bugfixes and some balance, including many smaller suggestions from our players that I hadn't gotten to until just now.  Please hammer away on it and tell us if anything breaks.

One notable change is that champion respawn is no longer completely free; it now requires a small amount of capacitor charge to happen and completely discharges the capacitor.  The end result is that "dying" twice in row (or once, after totally draining the capacitor on abilities) will cause about a 20 second delay before respawning again.

It's been a long road since 5.0, and even since the start of the Ancient Shadows beta, but we're almost there.

Enjoy!

This is a standard update that you can download through the  in-game updater itself, if you already have 4.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time.  If you don't have 4.000 or later, you can download that here.

[Winge]

That just leaves the MkV Sanding Machine...I can already see Keith putting a Waffle on his polisher for this one...

[Aklyon]

Theres also the Hunter/Sander mentioned before as a backup to the MkV Sanding Machine.

[TechSY730]

A little sad that the attack-move fix got in a little too late for this version, but it is easy enough to avoid.

Anyways, looking great. And thanks for the respawn "nerf". It was sort of abusive before.

And also thanks for fixing those "state corrupting" bugs with the FS and ARSs.

[LordSloth]

Cool. Well, I'm ready now to have fun test interactions with people lacking the expansions - I'll check my messages and am capable of hosting. If you happen to be on steam, LaughingThesaurus, I go by the same name and have a murderous robot avatar.

[keith.lamothe]

and have a murderous robot avatar

Emulating the enemy, eh?

[LordSloth]

I'm a 7.3 Camouflager AI in real life, my secret is revealed. Now I must devour your fleshy corpse to cover my tracks.

[LaughingThesaurus]

I thought zombies ate flesh, not robots.
Are you a zombie AI?

Also, I will be adding you, LordSloth. My gaming habits can be schizophrenic though I can get into any game if I really have to.

[Eternaly_Lost]

Why is it that every time you release a patch, I go and read the logs and notice something in the one that is not out yet that I like.

Now when a champion respawns, it automatically queues up the highest eligible mark of each module instead of just keeping exactly the modules that were on it before dying/warping.

Just missed making it into this one by only a little?

[keith.lamothe]

Why is it that every time you release a patch, I go and read the logs and notice something in the one that is not out yet that I like.

Careful planning.

Now when a champion respawns, it automatically queues up the highest eligible mark of each module instead of just keeping exactly the modules that were on it before dying/warping.

Just missed making it into this one by only a little?

That actually took about 3 hours to get working right (together with the button on the ship design window).  And I really wanted to get 5.094 out early enough in the day that any critical gotchas would get got before the "I'd like to be sleeping now" part of the day

[Histidine]

Zenith Reprocessors are now immune to reclamation

Noooooooooo!

On my last game I had to put up with Zenith Reprocessors constantly slipping into my rear areas and making huge annoyances of themselves by blowing up undefended command stations. I eventually got my revenge by using the Botnet Golem to mass-convert hundreds and hundreds of their brethren into loyal, fearless, cookie-monster-proof defenders. Now those happy moments will be nothing more than distant memories... *sniffle* 

[keith.lamothe]

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