Author Topic: TLF Version 1.002 Released (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)  (Read 5617 times)

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Original: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2014/04/tlf-version-1002-released-tech.html

Version 1.002 is now out, and includes lots of goodies.  One of the top-requested features was a way to get techs from races that already have them, and so that's today's "feature of the day."

Beyond that, there are a ton of fixes and improvements all over the place:

* A few GUIs are now quicker to navigate through (those small-action "after action report" popups, primarily).

* A lot of racial attitudes now shift in reaction to bad things that you do to other races.

* Fixed three exploits that clever players found.  It's always fun to see what an increasingly-larger audience thinks of that a smaller one did not.  And then of course do something about it. :)

* We also fixed some really unfortunate errors in the planetary ground and bombing attacks that were making those basically... well, borked.  Incredibly sorry about that.  It was a small change that we had made right prior to the weekend that caused it, and the fact that it was happening was not immediately obvious.

* And then some other, smaller bugfixes as well.

Today is the first day of us releasing at least one new free feature every DAY at this point, thanks to the overwhelming support this game has had.  Seriously, this is now our best launch ever, and we're extremely grateful to our ever-growing community for their support, as well as to the press for taking the time out to look at our stuff.

After this week, we'll continue putting out at least one new free feature every week for at least a few months, if not longer.  A quest, a new weapon or ability, a new ship, a new action... something.  We'll vary it up, and make it fun.  I'm really excited about expanding the game even further, as large as it already is.  Right now we're doing that very fast in response to all the huge numbers of new players and all the things that a larger audience is bound to dig up in a game of this scope and complexity; once that settles down, we'll make it less intensive but still ongoing.

More to come tomorrow.  Enjoy!

This is a standard update that you can download through the  in-game updater, or if you have Steam it will automatically update it for you.  To force Steam to download it faster, just restart Steam and it will do so.
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If you haven't already, can you post this to Steam Discussions as pinned post maybe?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/273070/discussions/
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I've been doing that as announcements.  Think it needs to go in the discussions, too?
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This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater [...]
Actually, I can't. Is it too soon to download? 1.001 updated without issue the other day, but 1.002 doesn't download at all. :\ (Humble Widget version)

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I've also been having issues with updating the game.  Doing it through the in-game updater doesn't end up downloading anything.

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Actually since it shows when their is new updates in the Title Screen, i don't think you need to post in discussions. Just like the folks here, it shows on the Title Page "New Official Version" but it won't download or update.

I found this inside the UDA folder, maybe it helps.
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Sorry about that, for some reason Amazon decided not to give anyone read permissions on the new file. (WTF?)  Sometimes the combination of Amazon S3 plus CloudBerry explorer does that, but thankfully very rarely.  It should work now.

Steam itself, unfortunately, is having some issues with their back-end servers and is not allowing me to get to the page to push the new version live even though it is on their servers.  Sigh.  Sorry about that.
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This update is great news. Finally, Hari will be destroyed! ... Maybe I should capture some video. This planet is going to die so quickly it will be hilarious.
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Ok The Updater works now.

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Awesome. :)
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Re: TLF Version 1.002 Released (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2014, 10:20:59 pm »
I've been doing that as announcements.  Think it needs to go in the discussions, too?

I, for one, don't usually see the announcements nearly as much as a stickied discussion.

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Re: TLF Version 1.002 Released (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2014, 10:26:37 pm »
Congrats on the very successful launch, then!  That's great to hear.

I aint tiring of the game myself.  Though it does have it's frustrating moments, but I"m enjoying the level of challenge it puts out.

...except for when I dodge EVERYTHING on the screen at pretty close range, except for the ONE bullet that can insta-kill me (MONITORS ARGH). 

There's still some definite issues with the game, as I see it anyway, but I wrote that up in seperate topic and on MAntis.


Anyway, cant wait to see where you go next!   As new content goes, I"d most like to see the quest system expanded with more of them. 

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Re: TLF Version 1.002 Released (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2014, 10:40:35 pm »
 :D

I’m very excited for the future of this game and Arcen!

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Re: TLF Version 1.002 Released (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2014, 10:46:38 pm »
Glad to see some critical things as well.

Another critical thing is that my Boarine problem with the federation is not isolated, many players report they simply cannot get them into the federation directly. The menu is simply missing.


I cannot remember my mantis tooltip, otherwise I'd do it myself. But it is a fairly critical problem with an easy fix.
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Re: TLF Version 1.002 Released (Tech Acquisitions And Planetary Attacks)
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2014, 10:47:33 pm »
I cannot remember my mantis tooltip, otherwise I'd do it myself. But it is a fairly critical problem with an easy fix.
It's already in Mantis, and hopefully scheduled for 1.003. *crosses fingers*
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