AI War Beta 3.900, "Taunts In Your General Direction," Released!

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This release is smaller on the surface than usual, but it still packs a punch. The biggest thing fixed here is that now the AI Taunts are once again functioning.  On OSX, this is a pretty critical fix, as it was apparently deadlocking the game when trying to taunt on that side (or after 25 taunts, possibly).  So this release really fixes up the stability on the OSX side in a major way.

There are also a number of other more minor fixes and changes, and -- more importantly -- the balance for ion cannons now scales with the ship scale.  This should make things much easier for players playing on lower ship scales when they run into a bunch of ion cannons!

We also got Steamworks integration in and working, but it's not in a fashion that can be publicly used yet.  Monday, though!

At this stage, we're getting very close to being release-level quality.  There are comparably few major issues open at the moment, and we're still working through those.  But, for the next day or so it's going to be a bit slower on that because I'm going to be working on the storefront text, trailer, screenshots, tutorials, manual, and wiki, getting those ready for 4.0.  Busy times!  But it's really rewarding to see how this is all finally coming together.

This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 3.701 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 3.701 or later, you can download the windows installer for 3.711, or the OSX installer for 3.712. Once you do an in-game update, they'll both be on the latest version, despite starting at slightly different versions.

[orzelek]

Please take a look at http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=765 since I think you misread it a bit

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Please take a look at http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=765 since I think you misread it a bit

Yup, I saw it, thanks -- I did indeed.  For the various outstanding mantis issues (like that one), Keith is moving through them while I'm busy with the other stuff, and then I'll hit anything else that's critical, or get to it over the weekend.  That one is important, just hasn't been on top of my list yet.

[Giegue]

and now this question arrises: what the hell is in that picture?

[wyvern83]

It's the new Hybrid Hive design.   

I'm a fan of the recent change to have more starships unlocked; the Bomber starship is especially awesome. 

[Giegue]

the bug related to the galaxy map still hasn't been fixed.

I've attached a screenshot. you can't see it, but the mouse is over one of the planets, and nothing is being displayed. also: some of the early planets are not being displayed at all.

[RooksBailey]

But, for the next day or so it's going to be a bit slower on that because I'm going to be working on the storefront text, trailer, screenshots, tutorials, manual, and wiki, getting those ready for 4.0. 

A new trailer for 4.0!  Hurray!  The only thing better than playing AI War is posting vids about it all over the internet.   

I can't wait to dive into 4.0!  I've shelved 3.x for the last few weeks in anticipation of 4.0, so I am really eager to get back into the human-AI war.    

[Shardz]

the bug related to the galaxy map still hasn't been fixed.

I've attached a screenshot. you can't see it, but the mouse is over one of the planets, and nothing is being displayed. also: some of the early planets are not being displayed at all.

Dang! Those fleet numbers on that screenshot are huge compared to what I'm seeing. I have a 24" LCD and I find myself squinting on those little numbers. My numbers appear to be directly over the planet, much smaller, and much harder to read. It must be that resolution scaling creeping in...Time for either glasses or a 48" monitor I guess.   

[Giegue]

why are you going on about the numbers? can't you see that there is clearly something wrong with that screenshot?

[x4000]

the bug related to the galaxy map still hasn't been fixed.

I've attached a screenshot. you can't see it, but the mouse is over one of the planets, and nothing is being displayed. also: some of the early planets are not being displayed at all.

Dang! Those fleet numbers on that screenshot are huge compared to what I'm seeing. I have a 24" LCD and I find myself squinting on those little numbers. My numbers appear to be directly over the planet, much smaller, and much harder to read. It must be that resolution scaling creeping in...Time for either glasses or a 48" monitor I guess.   

I'd play at a lower resolution in fullscreen, if you're having trouble reading the numbers.  That's what the lower resolutions are for.

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the bug related to the galaxy map still hasn't been fixed.

I've attached a screenshot. you can't see it, but the mouse is over one of the planets, and nothing is being displayed. also: some of the early planets are not being displayed at all.

Please log it in the bugtracker, if you don't mind.  Also, if you have a save or steps to reproduce, that would be helpful.  From the screenshot it's not imminently clear that anything is wrong, as you might just have Show Unexplored Planets unchecked or something.  You should still see tooltips for windows even then, but we can't reproduce and no-one else has reported it (this is the first I've heard of it at all, perhaps you mentioned it somewhere else in the forums rather than the tracker, not sure), so without some more details there's not anything we can do yet.

[Giegue]

actually, someone else reported it a few versions back, but I gave a false on that one having not encountered the bug yet.

also: I have NO idea how it happened, one minute everything was fine, another minute half of my planets aren't showing up on the map, and the planet preview thing isn't showing up, either.

and if they were unexplored, there would still be a planet icon over it.

[x4000]

That's odd.  The planet icons would not show in the mode I'm talking about, but it sounds like you're not in that mode.  If you can look for error messages in the runtimedata folder, and/or the output_log.txt file in AIWar_Data if you haven't started a new game since that issue when you see it, etc.

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10/20/2010 4:33:19 PM (3.719)
-----------------------------------Error-----------------------------------Log String: Update: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at Planet.RenderGalaxyView (.UnityRenderer R, Boolean IsForLobby) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Game.DrawGame () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Game.UpdateDisplay (Boolean IsFullVisualUpdate) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at MainCameraLogic.Update () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
Stack Trace:   at Planet.RenderGalaxyView (.UnityRenderer R, Boolean IsForLobby) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Game.DrawGame () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Game.UpdateDisplay (Boolean IsFullVisualUpdate) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at MainCameraLogic.Update () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

that might be it. I found it in ErrorsReportedByEngine.txt.

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That would do it!  Can you post it to the bug report you logged?  Thanks!