AI War Beta 7.048-7.061 "Because It Was Going Too Smoothly" Released!

[keith.lamothe]

How are the textboxes behaving (on windows, osx, or linux) ?  We've seen strangeness from them in some tests, but perhaps that strangeness is specific to the testing environment?

Textbox weirdness:
On the Galaxy map, when you edit the notes for a system, if you change the name of a system, you cannot then switch to the lower 'notes' textbox.
The old "Cursor disappears and cannot highlight text" bug is still there in the 'notes' textbox as well.
The "Narrow Search" filter textbox works correctly, but the "Broad Filter" has the same issues as the "Save Game" textbox (see below).

The "Save Game" screen filename textbox has a few issues.  Backspace deletes the entire name.  Cursor keys (and Home, End, etc) do nothing to move the cursor, nor does clicking anywhere in the textbox.  The Paste command replaces all text.  Cannot highlight text in order to copy.

Lobby textboxes appear to be working correctly.

That's what I see so far.

Thanks; just checking, but is this on Windows?

[Toranth]

Thanks; just checking, but is this on Windows?

Yes, Windows 7.

[x4000]

Update: 7.051 to fix an issue in the prior version that prevented OSX from loading the game.

Update: 7.052 to make the textboxes work, and improve the sound effects stacking issue even further.

[TechSY730]

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.[/html]

Just a nitpick. This is NOT a standard update. You can't get to 5.052 using the old updater, nor does the old updater seem capable of getting the new updater. You must download the new updater, like through the steam beta channel.

Might want to post instructions to this effect.

[vigilo confido]

I had a serious bug where I tried to update form 7.049 to 7.052, the updater would fail to execute and I had to get the beta through steam. I now can not opt out of the steam beta.

[keith.lamothe]

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.[/html]

Just a nitpick. This is NOT a standard update. You can't get to 5.052 using the old updater, nor does the old updater seem capable of getting the new updater. You must download the new updater, like through the steam beta channel.

Might want to post instructions to this effect.

Rather than post instructions on working around it, we'd much rather fix it so that it's true that you can update   Can you tell us more precisely what happened when you tried to update from one of the old-updater versions (7.047 or earlier) to 7.052?

I had a serious bug where I tried to update form 7.049 to 7.052, the updater would fail to execute and I had to get the beta through steam. I now can not opt out of the steam beta.

What serious bug?  How did the updater fail?  What prevents you from opting out of the steam beta?

We're happy to fix stuff, I just don't think we're getting enough info to do so

[keith.lamothe]

FWIW, I just did a fresh steam install of the game (7.001) and was able to update just fine to 7.052.  It goes in two stages (first to 7.048, then to 7.052) but it worked.

[Bognor]

This will probably be an annoying post, but...  Did anyone else find the louder, "distorted" sound effects freaking awesome?  To me everything seemed livelier, stronger, almost tactile.  Loading a bunch of engies into a transport sounded silly, but actual battles rocked!

[keith.lamothe]

This will probably be an annoying post, but...  Did anyone else find the louder, "distorted" sound effects freaking awesome?  To me everything seemed livelier, stronger, almost tactile.  Loading a bunch of engies into a transport sounded silly, but actual battles rocked!

Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1172/

[Draco18s]

This will probably be an annoying post, but...  Did anyone else find the louder, "distorted" sound effects freaking awesome?  To me everything seemed livelier, stronger, almost tactile.  Loading a bunch of engies into a transport sounded silly, but actual battles rocked!

Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1172/

I love that strip.

Speaking of, there was a demonstration of some voice acting in a game from the days before Audigy and Soundblaster.

The game slammed the CPU in regularly controlled bursts at the right rate to induce grinding/whining/clicking at the frequencies required to produce speech.

[vigilo confido]

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.[/html]

Just a nitpick. This is NOT a standard update. You can't get to 5.052 using the old updater, nor does the old updater seem capable of getting the new updater. You must download the new updater, like through the steam beta channel.

Might want to post instructions to this effect.

Rather than post instructions on working around it, we'd much rather fix it so that it's true that you can update   Can you tell us more precisely what happened when you tried to update from one of the old-updater versions (7.047 or earlier) to 7.052?

I had a serious bug where I tried to update form 7.049 to 7.052, the updater would fail to execute and I had to get the beta through steam. I now can not opt out of the steam beta.

What serious bug?  How did the updater fail?  What prevents you from opting out of the steam beta?

We're happy to fix stuff, I just don't think we're getting enough info to do so

I updated the game to 7.49 today. I go to play it later and there are more hotfixes.  I thought I might as well download it also. I try to download it and I get a window saying the updater failed to run, please report this problem to Microsoft. You can try checking online for a solution. I got the same error message 3 times. I used the steam beta and it did the job. Steam allowed me to opt out of the beta after I restarted it for some reason.

My memory is a bit clouded but I think I updated from 4.047 to 4.049.  Oh, I remember now. I downloaded 4.048. I then immediately downloaded 4.049. Then the updater stopped working for 4.052.

[Kahuna]

AI War has become laggy.

EDIT: Another thing I noticed when I was testing stuff.

I can no longer (EDIT: sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't)
press enter --> copy paste a cheat --> press enter again to cheat

Now I have to
press enter --> mouse over the text box and click it --> copy paste the cheat --> press enter again to cheat
..infuriating

EDIT: Or maybe my keyboard and mouse are hugging with me.. I've been meaning to buy new ones..

[Toranth]

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.[/html]

Just a nitpick. This is NOT a standard update. You can't get to 5.052 using the old updater, nor does the old updater seem capable of getting the new updater. You must download the new updater, like through the steam beta channel.

Might want to post instructions to this effect.

Rather than post instructions on working around it, we'd much rather fix it so that it's true that you can update   Can you tell us more precisely what happened when you tried to update from one of the old-updater versions (7.047 or earlier) to 7.052?

I had a serious bug where I tried to update form 7.049 to 7.052, the updater would fail to execute and I had to get the beta through steam. I now can not opt out of the steam beta.

What serious bug?  How did the updater fail?  What prevents you from opting out of the steam beta?

We're happy to fix stuff, I just don't think we're getting enough info to do so

I updated the game to 7.49 today. I go to play it later and there are more hotfixes.  I thought I might as well download it also. I try to download it and I get a window saying the updater failed to run, please report this problem to Microsoft. You can try checking online for a solution. I got the same error message 3 times. I used the steam beta and it did the job. Steam allowed me to opt out of the beta after I restarted it for some reason.

My memory is a bit clouded but I think I updated from 4.047 to 4.049.  Oh, I remember now. I downloaded 4.048. I then immediately downloaded 4.049. Then the updater stopped working for 4.052.

This was my experience as well.  7.048 to 7.049 worked fine through the in-game button, but to get 7.050 or higher, I had to subscribe to the Steam beta branch.  When the updater ran from in-game, it would do the download, close the main AIWar application, then disappear.  No pop-ups or obvious errors, just AI War was no longer running.

I had just assumed that was (at least partially) deliberate, so I didn't mention it.  Now that I look, however, there's a Windows Event error log entry and an APPCRASH WER report.
I've attached the WER report.  I don't think there'll be much useful in there, but maybe anyway.

The event entry:

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Faulting application name: ArcenUpdater.exe, version: 4.2.1.11687, time stamp: 0x521c6950
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18247, time stamp: 0x521ea8e7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000222d2
Faulting process id: 0x9d8
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfadc0a1f9fadf
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AI War Fleet Command\UDA\ArcenUpdater.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: e0357823-19b3-11e4-a197-002522adb0da

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, thanks for the info, sorry it's not working right yet.  Have let Chris know.

Maybe we forgot to tick the checkbox on the Updater saying "please just work, ok?"

[@B0FH]

I guess no news is good news... other than being slammed in the patch notes (*mwahahaha*) I've managed to update from the live Steam build to latest beta without any issues whatsoever (all patchers worked as expected, and version shows correct now (7.052) and launches)