AI War Beta 3.908 Released - 4.0 Release Candidate One!

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Original: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2010/10/ai-war-beta-3908-released-40-release.html

This huge release has a lot of good stuff, and it's one of the last pre-official-4.0 versions.  The main outstanding item we have left is the intermediate tutorial, and everything is fixes and minor tweaks.  The shortlist of what's new in this one:

• Improvements to the pre-4.0 settings importer, and making it more obvious that it exists.
• Basic tutorial 3 has gotten a heavy revamp.
• Space tank balance is completely redone.
• Control group double-and-triple presses work again.
• The keybinding screen now binds based off keypresses rather than making you choose from a massive list (yay!).
• Tip of the Day on the main menu!  If you have last-minute ones you want to get into 4.0, let us know! We'll still be taking suggestions post-4.0, too, of course.
• The intro story and credits now play on the main menu, and the credits have been updated a lot.
• Lightning turrets are now a lot more useful.
• Armored golems, botnet golems, and artillery golems are no longer self-damaging when they attack, and have otherwise been rebalanced to account for that change.  Now none of the golems cause AIP increases or self-inflicted damage from attacks.  Again: yay!
• Vampire armor is a thing of the past (man that was too tough).
• Many various other bugfixes and a tad of performance tuning.

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.

[Zeba]

Features page says this: "You do have a few things going in your favor. Your ships are much faster."

Title screen says this: "The AIs are ..faster.."

Please don't shoot me out the nearest ion cannon. ;p

Otherwise looks good and will try to get a complete game in on this release later tonite.

[Collic]

Its looking very close now ! Glad you've fixed vampire claws and the tank changes sound great too (haven't had chance to test them yet). Before they didn't seem to kill much, but by god where they tedious to kill without a fleet full of bombers.

[zebramatt]

Mantis needs a "3.908" build version.

[Fox Soul]

How many candidates are planned before the official 4.0 release is released?

[Collic]

Are you still taking minor ui tweaks /feature requests? Theres at least one thing I can think of suggesting (should be relatively simple to do), but I'm not sure whether to keep the tracker clear for you or not.

Not for the 4.0 release you understand, but the on-going stuff afterwards.

[x4000]

We're definitely still considering tweaks and such, mostly for post-4.0, but definitely don't stop sending those in. This will probably be the only release candidate, as the final 4.0 is due by 1pm pst today in orderr to have a release tomorrow. I'll set up 3.908 in the release tracker. Thanks!

[Collic]

Excellent. Thanks for all for the hard work!

[Winter Born]

Are you still taking minor ui tweaks /feature requests? Theres at least one thing I can think of suggesting (should be relatively simple to do), but I'm not sure whether to keep the tracker clear for you or not.

Not for the 4.0 release you understand, but the on-going stuff afterwards.

make sure to put it in Mantis 

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My pleasure!

[Collic]

Are you still taking minor ui tweaks /feature requests? Theres at least one thing I can think of suggesting (should be relatively simple to do), but I'm not sure whether to keep the tracker clear for you or not.

Not for the 4.0 release you understand, but the on-going stuff afterwards.

make sure to put it in Mantis 

Will do ! I'm trying to get better at that. I'm still used to the old way of doing things when everything was via the forum, so I do slip up still - well, quite a lot haha

[Winter Born]

see crash report - bug report 900
May need a vanilla install w/o expansions to test the base game for the bug

[x4000]

Thanks -- that's a really important one, we'll see what we can do!

[Winter Born]

Are you still taking minor ui tweaks /feature requests? Theres at least one thing I can think of suggesting (should be relatively simple to do), but I'm not sure whether to keep the tracker clear for you or not.

Not for the 4.0 release you understand, but the on-going stuff afterwards.

make sure to put it in Mantis 

Will do ! I'm trying to get better at that. I'm still used to the old way of doing things when everything was via the forum, so I do slip up still - well, quite a lot haha

NP

Fall down seven times, Get up eight  --  Zen saying
for me, fall down seventy times, think about getting up the 71st time  

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