New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.802_New_Challengers_Approach This is another big one. First off, it has a ton of bugfixes, including substantial improvements to multiplayer yet again. The encyclopedia has seen a first round of updates, but there’s more that needs doing. You’ll notice some empty dropdowns and textboxes along the bottom, which I’ll be filling in tomorrow or…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.801_Load_Estimates_And_Unit_Encyclopedia Another really huge one! There’s a new unit called the Ultimate Fortress that you’ll run into out in the galaxy if you have the galaxy option turned on, are playing on difficulty 8 or higher, or are playing on expert mode. Zeus outdid himself with this terrifying thing, which also shows off…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.800_That_Expert_Has_A_Deathwish.21 This one is huge, considering it’s the second one of the day. And the first one had the giant Spire Infused Empire in it! This one doesn’t quite complete Expert Mode, but it’s getting darn close at the point. Other than some UI bits, and some stuff for the fallen spire /…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.799_Spire_Infusion On the one hand, this is a hotfix because it fixes a stupid bug of mine that broke map generation in the last build (my bad). On the other hand, this is a pretty exciting build, because it adds the final planned player type to the game: the Spire Infused Empire, part…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.798_Reliability This one is all about the bugfixes, for the most part. The most serious issues that exist should be resolved now. Hopefully this makes multiplayer even more playable. This also includes some new features for DLC1, although they are only behind a cheat code right now. Those will be coming out in…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.797_Eldritch_Art This one is a bit different! It has a pretty huge amount of new art for the game, including some revisions to things in the base game and DLC1, and new art for DLC2 and 3. The release notes have videos of a couple of particularly cool items. There’s more to come…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.796_Greatly_Thinning_The_Turncoats This one still has an occasional turncoat unit (grrr), but they are REALLY hard for us to hit, now. Versus after yesterday’s build, threads were no longer insane, but turncoats were still frustratingly frequent. There was also a performance regression in the build of yesterday or the day before, and that’s fixed…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.795_Deduplicating This one hopefully is going to fix a LOT of the strangeness that we’ve been seeing. Essentially, this was a confluence of a couple of bugs that combined in some nasty ways, but generally speaking did so only a few times an hour per machine. The frequency has gone up a lot…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.794_Synchronicity This one has some (hopefully) major improvements to some of the odd threading issues we’ve been seeing on the beta branch. The release notes have the details, but essentially I had switched a couple of our pools that are used in a cross-thread fashion to use the (relatively) new Concurrent collections from…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.793_The_Turncoat_Question There was limited time today, but this one includes the new Dire CPAs feature thanks to Badger for DLC3 testers to experiment with (it will be public to everyone on the beta branch soon). This one also includes more instrumentation to try to figure out why ships are switching sides, since they…
