What Happened To The Controls??

[matt3916]

Finished the tutorials on 3.120.  Spent the last several days reading the forums.  Finally decided to attempt my first game.  Downloaded and installed the betas (up thru 3.718) and started a game. 

But, but, but...where is the minimap?  And I can't place new turrets with the game paused?  And I can only queue 10 ships at a time instead of 50? 

Am I missing something somewhere?  Or did the interface change that much between 3.120 and now.

[keith.lamothe]

Welcome to the forums

You jumped from an official version (3.120) into the middle of an unstable beta on a new engine.  Go back and try again   More seriously, I'd suggest playing on 3.120, or perhaps 3.172 (still a beta, but it was played for a long time, etc).

[x4000]

The minimap has really changed, you hit T to view it.  The tutorials from 3.120 don't really apply to the new betas, and the new tutorials aren't yet in place.  The turret placement thing is a bug.  And, yes, the build 50 has been removed for now.

[Mánagarmr]

To answer your last question:
The official 3.120 version (official) and the new game (4.000 Unity version) will be vastly different, but still the same core gameplay. If you are interested in actually playing, you should stick to 3.120 for now, but if you don't mind the odd quirks and issues here and there, feel free to join us in bugsquashing in the new beta! (And trust me, you are most welcome to do so. We need all the help we can get!)

[keith.lamothe]

feel free to join us in bugsquashing in the new beta! (And trust me, you are most welcome to do so. We need all the help we can get!)

I'd like to echo that

[Lancefighter]

Make sure you log into irc to join the QA team......

[Spikey00]

Make sure you log into irc to join the QA team......

YES!

[TheMachineIsSentient]

Yeah, come join the unofficial QA team in IRC. We are lots of fun, including riveting discussion  on AI war, the fine arts, justice for all, and a new topic-dwarf Fortress! A mix of intense AI war discussion, nerd rage, and good humor.

[Lancefighter]

[19:45] *** keithLaMothe ([email protected]) joined
Apparently that piqued Kieth's interest 

[keith.lamothe]

It just told me where to find the chorus of agony if there was one to be found   Instead the worst you could do was shot-drawing-distance and the mouse-scroll-wheel, pshaw

And I was mentally fried, so I knew I wouldn't be losing much actual productivity in the inevitable time-lost-to-the-irc-window.