AI War Beta 5.052-5.057 "From The Shadows" Released!

[keith.lamothe]

Update: 5.057 hotfix is out to fix a few unanticipated side-effects of the new Normal+Champion role.  Nothing catastrophic this time, but wanted to get those and a few other important champion changes out before the evening to allow for testing.  Thanks for the testing!

[barryvm]

Is it possible to preorder/buy the expansion on steam ?
Since I do not currently posses a credit card it is the only way for me to acquire a license key.
I'm downloading the trial now and it doesn't seem likely I'm getting any sleep tonight.

[Kahuna]

Is it possible to preorder/buy the expansion on steam ?
Since I do not currently posses a credit card it is the only way for me to acquire a license key.
I'm downloading the trial now and it doesn't seem likely I'm getting any sleep tonight.

It's not on Steam yet because it's still Beta. It will be there though (I think so).
I bought my Ancient Shadows with PayPal.

[Kemeno]

Quick question: Will we need to start a new game with every update to get the latest missions/etc as they're added? Or can we do them bit-by-bit like with the Fallen Spire campaign (and just stop if we see a dupe mission, or something like that)?

Just wondering if the missions/wormhole areas are pre-seeded.

[snelg]

Having bought the previous Ai War titles from gamers gate I'm wondering if ancient shadows will be up there as well.
Perhaps I've just missed it if it has already been mentioned.

[keith.lamothe]

Having bought the previous Ai War titles from gamers gate I'm wondering if ancient shadows will be up there as well.
Perhaps I've just missed it if it has already been mentioned.

In the past they've been quick to carry our new stuff, but no one ever really carries any of it from day 1, which is just as well really, helps us find any really ripe bugs first, etc

[LaughingThesaurus]

Oh, thank goodness for player+Champion. But, playing around with it for about 30 minutes, it got on my nerves that when I left the champion selected on a different planet, it would still show its stats when I went to say my home planet. Is it possible set it up so that the champion must be selected on the current planet to show that UI? Not as big a deal either way as having to manually switch player UIs from the stat screen, though. I'm definitely thankful for that change.

[keith.lamothe]

Oh, thank goodness for player+Champion. But, playing around with it for about 30 minutes, it got on my nerves that when I left the champion selected on a different planet, it would still show its stats when I went to say my home planet. Is it possible set it up so that the champion must be selected on the current planet to show that UI?

Sure, what about if you have it selected and switch to the galaxy map, but haven't switched planets yet?  Champion UI or normal UI?

[Martyn van Buren]

I'm very happy to see that AS is getting a good reception at RPS, which was a big locus of AVWW hate.

 http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/09/darkly-devious-ai-war-ancient-shadows-expansion/#more-119268

Also, challenge: can you get more acronyms into a 22-word sentence than that?

[Volatar]

Oh, thank goodness for player+Champion. But, playing around with it for about 30 minutes, it got on my nerves that when I left the champion selected on a different planet, it would still show its stats when I went to say my home planet. Is it possible set it up so that the champion must be selected on the current planet to show that UI?

Sure, what about if you have it selected and switch to the galaxy map, but haven't switched planets yet?  Champion UI or normal UI?

I'd say normal UI, since the galaxy map is an overview of everything it should default to empire management in my opinion.

[Martyn van Buren]

I think Champion AI for galaxy map; you're likely to be there to give the champion a long-distance move order.

[Cinth]

Oh, thank goodness for player+Champion. But, playing around with it for about 30 minutes, it got on my nerves that when I left the champion selected on a different planet, it would still show its stats when I went to say my home planet. Is it possible set it up so that the champion must be selected on the current planet to show that UI?

Sure, what about if you have it selected and switch to the galaxy map, but haven't switched planets yet?  Champion UI or normal UI?

Currently the game holds which ever UI (Champ/ Norm) that was last selected.  If you have Champ UI up, there isn't a way to get back to the Normal UI without visiting the planet your Champ is on and deselecting it.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Cinth's got it down exactly right. That's exactly what was going on.

[Shardz]

I picked this badboy up this morning, but didn't have time to stop by and blurt out any random tidbits. Great job and congratulations on the new expansion and all the swell new toys we get to play with. I will prepare myself for the flood bank of patch releases then. Oops, there's one already! It's like a chicken from King Midas over here.

Thanks, guys!

[Ricca]

Considering that Missile Module Forts may become popular, Keith...

None of the new ships in the expansion are going to be Polycrystal hulls with missile immunity, right?