AI War Beta 4.030 Released!

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Original: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2010/11/ai-war-beta-4030-released.html

Today's release has a number of important bugfixes from the prior version, including a fix to the AIs only getting the basic triangle ships to start out in new campaigns.  It also fixes a longer-term issue with the AI Carriers, um, never appearing and always being barracks instead of carriers.

More exciting is a bunch of new stuff for the Fallen Spire minor faction, which is basically a scripted story-style campaign within the larger campaign.  This fixes a number of bugs in the first version of the Fallen Spire minor faction, and adds more content onto it (previously we were only about 10% done with the story events in this, now it's a bit further along).

Additionally, there have been numerous rebalancements including to some of the guardians, the superfortress, colony ships, armor ships, shield bearers, and hybrids.

A bunch of other design/art/coding/music work has also been ongoing behind the scenes, with results that are not yet ready to be made public.  But soon!  The art for some of that new stuff is already in place, if you're looking for clues as to what they will be...

More to come tomorrow.  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.

[Spikey00]

The ship cap for colony ships has been dropped from 60 to 5

The once great commander of many a great colony ships, the one who used to have in possession an infinite amount of them hath already suffered a perilous loss within this year upon the Conquest, and yet once again, the fleet of 60 hath been reduced to a mere five...

Prepare the pyre, for I can no longer continue, as my heart and soul aches with tremendous grief.

[mavorspam]

Planetary armor booster has 2,000,000,000 hit points? Is that new? It's going to take me 30 minutes to take that down and I have 1200 ships!

[orzelek]

Armor booster: no that's not new - try to capture it instead.

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The ship cap for colony ships has been dropped from 60 to 5

The once great commander of many a great colony ships, the one who used to have in possession an infinite amount of them hath already suffered a perilous loss within this year upon the Conquest, and yet once again, the fleet of 60 hath been reduced to a mere five...

Prepare the pyre, for I can no longer continue, as my heart and soul aches with tremendous grief.

Yeah, we knew you wouldn't be pleased on that one.  Sorry, but it was a balance issue -- come back into the light!

Planetary armor booster has 2,000,000,000 hit points? Is that new? It's going to take me 30 minutes to take that down and I have 1200 ships!

That's always been the case.  2 billion was always our cue for "invincible," in this case something that you should capture.

[mavorspam]

That's always been the case.  2 billion was always our cue for "invincible," in this case something that you should capture.
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Sorry for the noobness. I already have 2, guess one has to go blam. Thx for the update!

[orzelek]

You don't need to destroy any from ones you have. Captured one will be gratis above the cap.

[Spikey00]

No light... no light...

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As a slight note, core fighters are currently reclaimable.

*And core frigates.

[Buttons840]

The ship cap for colony ships has been dropped from 60 to 5

The once great commander of many a great colony ships, the one who used to have in possession an infinite amount of them hath already suffered a perilous loss within this year upon the Conquest, and yet once again, the fleet of 60 hath been reduced to a mere five...

Prepare the pyre, for I can no longer continue, as my heart and soul aches with tremendous grief.

Do us all a favor and post a response like this on every update.   Reminds me of the awesome dwarf fortress updates.

[Giegue]

wow, I was just here a couple of hours ago! you guys are awesome!

[Lancefighter]

the discrepancy is that core bombers are NOT reclaimable, not that the other core units are not

[Malibu Stacey]

Today's release has a number of important bugfixes from the prior version, including a fix to the AIs only getting the basic triangle ships to start out in new campaigns.

Just to make it clear in case people don't read the release notes. This doesn't fix existing games which are bugged, it means new games will be fixed. The bug was breaking something during generation of the game so you'll need to regenerate your game to see the benefit of this change.

Thanks for the quick update as always. Can confirm the missing guardian sprites in the Steam version are now fixed in 4.030 =)

[Lancefighter]

First thoughts from a multiplayer game started under 4.03 - working fairly well so far, actually. only ~2h in, so we didn't get the finish as far as the plot allows, but we are getting there.

[DakaSha]

there is a pretty major problem involving forcefields though

[LintMan]

Just to make it clear in case people don't read the release notes. This doesn't fix existing games which are bugged, it means new games will be fixed. The bug was breaking something during generation of the game so you'll need to regenerate your game to see the benefit of this change.

Thanks! - I forgot all about the release notes and was wondering this.

there is a pretty major problem involving forcefields though

Something new to 4.030?  Can you explain what the problem is?