AI War 2
5.513 Necromancy And Reclamation
This one has some tweaks and improvements to Necromancers, as well as a whole bunch of mods. Dyson Sidekick, DpsHud, Outguard Party, Reclaimers, and Points of Interest all saw updates. Lots of updates from Dismiss and Badger, primarily.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.512 Dyson Reapers
This one allows exo-war units to attack the necromancer. Spicy! Maybe convert them to mummies, or maybe run in fear? (I'm sure it will be mummies)
This one has a huge rebalance of the Dyson Sidekick mod by Badger, making them a lot more balanced and interesting based on his ongoing playtesting with his multiplayer group.
The Reclaimers and Point of Interest mods by Dismiss also have a number of bugfixes and tweaks.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.511 Modtopia
This one has yet more multiplayer improvements, and some general bugfixes, both from Badger. There are also a number of balance improvements from CRCGamer, and some quality of life improvements by Dismiss, and then... so many new mods, and mod changes!
There's a new Exowar Overhaul mod by Lord of Nothing, which gives you more exo war unity variety.
The Dyson Sidekick by Badger has been refined a lot further, although I understand even more refinements are planned. His multiplayer group has been getting happily murdered in that scenario, so I gather these are balance and other adjustments to make that a more fair fight.
Dismiss has been an absolute mod factory in this timeframe. The Reclaimers mod has exploration outposts now. The Generator mod has more map refinements. Points of Interest is an all-new mod that includes new game features like Points of Interest (natural phenomena, etc), and also new AI types.
Not listed in the release notes, but Puffin has also made a ton of updates to his Classic Fusion total conversion mod. If you've been playing that and enjoy it, make sure and let him know! I don't think he's heard anything from anyone except other modders, and that's a pretty amazing mod he's got going on.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.508 Multiplayer Bug Smiting Part 4
More bugfixes for MP, and more balance in general for the necromancer, the dyson sidekick, and a load of mod updates. Dismiss comes in with a bunch of updates to his Outguard Party mod, the Reclaimers mod, and the Generator mod.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.507 Multiplayer Bug Smiting Part 3
Another big batch of MP bugfixes from Badger, along with other bugfixes and balance tuning from Badger, CRCGamer, and Dismiss. Also lots of mod updates from Dismiss that aren't in the release notes, but should be visible in-game.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.504 Multiplayer Bug Smiting Part 2
This one includes more MP fixes, as well as some fixes and balance to SP. Lots of work from Badger, CRCGamer, and Dismiss in here.
The MP fixes mostly center around when new planets appear, as well as quiet some logging with some of the Neinzul factions. Really there's not an overall theme here with the fixes and balance, each line item pretty much speaks for itself in the release notes. It's a great collection of stuff to have fixed, including a number of items complained about recently by folks.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.503 Multiplayer Bug Smiting
This one fixes the most notorious of the multiplayer bugs that players have been facing -- big thanks to Badger for rooting out several that I just could not see, and had looked right past before. Wormhole changes were completely not working when sent to clients unless you disconnected and reconnected, due to a really subtle bug that I'd been unable to find for months. Badger found and nailed it. Then there was also a bug with occasional corruption of data with any faction that used fireteams, which was also incredibly subtle in its expression. Badger found and fixed that, too, along with the hacks getting out of sync on the client.
Previously, when the fireteams sync got messed up, it was pretty much just completely scrambled on the client from then on until disconnect and reconnect, so a number of other bugs should be gone now thanks to that one fix. In a similar vein, the bug with units being in random wrong spots on the client, but only sometimes, is hopefully now fixed -- that one is very hard to test in such a way that we can be sure it is gone, but fingers crossed. The fix for that was another subtle one, but seems logical that it would resolve it.
There are also new MP sync options. There's a button in the debug menu under the escape menu that you can press to force an immediate sync to all of the clients, from the host or clients, so that if things don't look right on the clients, they will be straightened out right away versus anyone needing to disconnect and reconnect. Secondarily, there's a new setting (under Networking) called "Host Only: Force Sync Interval". On this interval (in minutes), the game will automatically sync all data to clients. So if you set this value to 20, every 20 minutes the game will resync to clients.
What about beyond multiplayer? Well, CRCGamer has made a number of balance improvements to DLC units, and also to his More System Defenders mod. Badger has also made some balance improvements to his Dyson Sidekick.
Classic Fusion by Puffin and a variety of mods by Dismiss have also gotten a variety of updates, but those haven't had their notes updated in the wiki; that's up the the mod authors themselves, and I think they may have some notes inside the mods themselves. It looks like there's a whole new mod from Dismiss as well, which is exciting!
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.502 No More Overlord Doubling
One of the larger bugs this one fixes is "wow two AI Overlord Phase 2s appeared instead of one." That was a bug that was introduced over a really long period of time, in a really indirect fashion; it seems to have actually become extant in early July, but the groundwork to make it work was laid much longer ago. The most interesting question on that one is "why wasn't this extant prior to July?" which, even with code history, is actually hard to answer in this case.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.501 Fixes
This one is smaller, mainly some fixes. Some of those for mods, some for the main game. More fixes and similar are coming; it's been a really busy period, and those of us internally have been spread unusually thin.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!
5.500 Classic Fusion, And A Megaton Otherwise
The first thing of note is that Puffin's massive total conversion "Classic Fusion" mod is now released in this build. This has been a two-year project for him, and it essentially hybridizes the first and second AI War games, using the engine of the second game but mostly ship stats and designs and such from the first game. This is a very exciting thing, because Puffin and I wound up having some disagreements on just where to be similar to the first game versus where to be divergent, and I'm really glad to see his version of that vision now as something that others can also enjoy. Hopefully it brings a lot of fans of the first game joy!
But wait! I said there was a megaton otherwise. By that I mean this is absolutely a packed build, partly because it's about 3 weeks of work; I was traveling out of the country to visit family, and folks were busy while I was away and couldn't push builds.
Badger has also added a new mod, this one the Dyson Sidekick. "This is a new player-controllable faction. Play as a coalition of Zenith, Neinzul, Templar and Spire trying to build a Dyson Sphere, while fighting the AI and the Reapers, the forces of an evil Necromancer."
Good grief! That's quite cool, and also huge!
And another big mod: The Reclaimers by Dismiss are a human faction dedicated to human recovery and advancement in the galaxy, though not through direct combat.
And SirLimbo has re-released his AMU mod: "Right now AMU is only at about 20% of the code it had before, but a lot of AMU has been integrated into the main game, so the actual progress is probably between 30-40%."
Outguard Party by Dismiss has been updated to v3! DpsHud by Dismiss has been updated to v2!
Tom Prince fixed a ton more bugs, and made a number of more things run more smoothly. CRCGamer has been working on balance like a madman. These are each really long sets of release notes all on their own, and exciting even for folks who aren't interested in all these new mods and such.
More to come soon.
Enjoy!