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AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« on: December 15, 2010, 11:52:39 am »
Original: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2010/12/ai-war-beta-4050-released.html

This one is another really long set of release notes, partly because it's been several working days since we've done an AI War release -- just due to timing, other obligations, the Tidalis updates, etc.  But we've been working on AI War all throughout that time, too, which makes the list longer-ish, though not as huge as some of the recent ones.

Anyway, the big thing here is the rebalance of the bonus ships, especially a lot of the Neinzul stuff but also Spire stuff and base game stuff.  Additionally, the experimental anti-bottleneck/anti-giant-fleet feature from the last version has been removed, as it just wasn't working out.  Thanks for all who tested with that and offered feedback!

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.
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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2010, 11:58:35 am »
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Fixed a since-the-port-to-Unity bug with ships being selected, where if you drag-selected once it would select military-only, and then on the second time over the same group it would select all.

THANK YOU! That had been driving me slowly mad.  ;D

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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2010, 12:02:59 pm »
Me too.  ;D
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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2010, 12:23:59 pm »
Sure that wasn't a feature? ;)

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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2010, 12:24:59 pm »
Definitely sure. ;)
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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2010, 12:57:29 pm »
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Fixed a since-the-port-to-Unity bug with ships being selected, where if you drag-selected once it would select military-only, and then on the second time over the same group it would select all.

THANK YOU! That had been driving me slowly mad.  ;D
That is awesome! But I've kind of gotten used to it by now. . . Let's see how long time it takes to get used to it being normal again.  ;D

Anyway, big thanks!

That reminds me, in the pre-unity game. There was percentages of hitpoints on the group currently selected by ship types (something like "48x bomber II 76%"). Is this something that might be going in again sooner or later? Just wondering.

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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2010, 01:13:41 pm »
That reminds me, in the pre-unity game. There was percentages of hitpoints on the group currently selected by ship types (something like "48x bomber II 76%"). Is this something that might be going in again sooner or later? Just wondering.

I started a Mantis ticket for that one awhile back, actually:

http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=979

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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2010, 01:44:20 pm »
cool!
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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2010, 05:31:44 pm »
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« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2010, 05:39:44 pm »
:)
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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2010, 06:21:24 pm »
The next beta seems to be just minor bug fixes, and of course a pretty big fix, a whole freaking immunity being ignored, can we expect another minor bugfix beta release tonight or tomorrow?

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« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2010, 06:23:55 pm »
Yes, there will be another release tonight for sure, probably in another 4ish hours or so.
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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2010, 06:25:16 pm »
Yay!  ;D

EDIT: Given how many minor factions have been fixed, maybe the name of the next beta should be something like "The Minor Factions Strike Back" or some shorter version thereof.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2010, 06:33:45 pm by techsy730 »

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Re: AI War Beta 4.050 Released!
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2010, 06:44:59 pm »
Thank you so much for getting rid of that bottleneck business!

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« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2010, 06:53:09 pm »
Thank you so much for getting rid of that bottleneck business!

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