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AI War Official 8.001 "Oiling The Engine" Released!
« on: August 20, 2014, 08:05:11 pm »
Original: http://arcengames.com/ai-war-official-8-001-oiling-the-engine-released/

This one is our first post-8.0 update.  It's an intentionally small one, as we're trying to wait and see if there are any serious things that crop up before going through other kinds of bugfixing or balancing.

In this particular case, some of the Unity 3D engine upgrades that we did between versions 7.0 and 8.0 may have led to some incompatibility with certain older drivers or graphics cards, thanks to the game erroneously trying to force 2X antialiasing on.  The way that fullscreen mode was working on OSX was also incorrect, but now all of the above match how our other later games (The Last Federation, etc) work.  There were some people who strangely could run TLF but could not run AI War, while running on the same engine version, so hopefully this fixes that for them.  It's tricky, though, because it's an incredibly minor subset of people on some very specific older hardware.  Fingers crossed for them!

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.
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Re: AI War Official 8.001 "Oiling The Engine" Released!
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2014, 12:14:22 pm »
Initial comments on the expansion:
Kite Flier / Cowardly is really annoying with it's cloakers.
Starship Fanatic and Vanguard do wonders for my performance.
I really like the Exodian Blade plot. ;)
Nomads are really interesting.

The achievements appear to be broken. (Not unlocking on steam, anyway, for all three levels of AI difficulty achievement on Cowardly, Starship Fanatic, Kite Flier, and the Exodian blade plot completion one.)



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Re: AI War Official 8.001 "Oiling The Engine" Released!
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2014, 01:15:48 pm »
Initial comments on the expansion:
Kite Flier / Cowardly is really annoying with it's cloakers.
Starship Fanatic and Vanguard do wonders for my performance.
I really like the Exodian Blade plot. ;)
Nomads are really interesting.
Glad you're enjoying it :)


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The achievements appear to be broken. (Not unlocking on steam, anyway, for all three levels of AI difficulty achievement on Cowardly, Starship Fanatic, Kite Flier, and the Exodian blade plot completion one.)
Do you know if it's working for achievements from before the expansion?  Or is it just all achievements?  If the latter, it may be that the steam overlay isn't running.
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Re: AI War Official 8.001 "Oiling The Engine" Released!
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2014, 01:51:03 pm »
I checked overlay- it was on. Achievements from before are working- one AI was a dif 9 dual starship fanatic-Starfleet commander, and I got all three Starfleet commander achievements, but not the new ones.

Also, unless it's some weird cache issue on my end (And I tried three browsers), the steam achievements page shows 0.0% of players have every single one of the expansion achievements.

I also just checked the actual in-game, non-steam AI war achievement list, and all appropriate achievements were unlocked correctly there.
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Re: AI War Official 8.001 "Oiling The Engine" Released!
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2014, 05:41:23 am »
Just letting you know that the achievements seem to be working now- at least, mine all unlocked when I started the game this morning. :)
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Re: AI War Official 8.001 "Oiling The Engine" Released!
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2014, 10:04:24 am »
Just letting you know that the achievements seem to be working now- at least, mine all unlocked when I started the game this morning. :)
Glad to hear it :)  Chris and I patched up the internal names on the steam side yesterday, when he noticed that I'd left off the EXP6_ prefix on them.
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