Melee

• Improved Melee to result in less “I hit that guy but it didn’t count”
  
• Melee impact traces are now more consistent and framerate independent - improvement should be particularly noticeable when rotating at lower FPS
  
• Melee sweeps widened by 40%, better matching Savage 1
  

General Improvements

• AI Commander is smarter about placing buildings
  
• Selecting a spawn point is now much more responsive
  
• AI Commanders won't end warmup and start the match until 3 minutes have passed without players taking the seat (up from 1 minute).
  
• AI Commanders won't fill an empty seat until 25s after the human leaves it (up from 5s)
  
• Auto detect graphics is now a dialog that can be cancelled by the user, but auto proceeds after 10s with no input.
  
• Created “AI Commander Only” mode for use in custom games
  
• Votes are now usable while dead in FPS view
  
• Commander election vote is now easier to pass, lasts longer, allows multiple people to run at once, displays the commanders score division, and has a sound
  
• Added chat messages about more vote events
  
• Tweaked hit boxes on some of the larger units
  
• Flux gun animation updated
  

Fixes

• Fix concede vote not working sometimes
  
• Fix some sound events on endgame screen
  
• Fix fps spec bot indicator
  
• Fix a server crash
  
• Fix Heal Spire healing too much over the first few seconds of it's life
  
• Fix some AI Commander double chat messages
  

Changes and Additions

• Bots are now aware of and will frequently follow Commander orders
  
• Added repair/build nearby building behaviour
  
• More personality updates
  

• Improved snap casting mechanics
  
• The default right click action is now swap to melee and leap/block - you can still enter aiming mode with middle mouse or Z
  
• You can restore the previous default aiming behaviour in the controls settings
  
• This changed required us to reset some of your settings, sorry about that!
  

• Add steam friend backer to scoreboard
  
• Summoner can now enter first person aiming mode
  
• Increased warmup minimum duration back to 120s
  
• Simplified healing aiming options to either snapcasting or not
  
• Added Shaman shield sound
  
• Enable log window with -log commandline argument in shipping builds
  

Balance

• K.O.N.G. firing arc adjusted, reducing his ability to shoot near his feet.
  
• pro tip: if you run in front of him in order to get to his feet, he will still probably shoot you - go around the side instead*
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed snapcast targeting failing a lot
  
• New bot filters now update immediately like the others do
  
• Healer extra nameplate vision only applied to units (was showing gadgets)
  
• Fixed some extra maps being included that didn’t need to be
  
• Fixed swap + block/leap behaviour
  
• Fixed block UI element getting stuck on sometimes
  
• Fix garrison select sound being too loud
  
• Fix Commander stat grab
  
• Fix map name on team select
  
• Fix revive indicator appearing to commander
  
• Fix dev bot count showing up on game list
  
• Fix throttling on commander taunts
  

Changes and Additions

• Improved Block's interaction with lag compensated impacts (should make blocking ranged attacks more reliable)
  
• Improved Loadout responsiveness
  
• Approved requests now auto equipped
  
• Bots now join/leave up to 7 total slots per team, e.g. if 14 humans are in the game there will be 0 bots, if there are 4 humans there will be 10 bots.
  
• Add bot filters to game list
  
• Low/Medium overall graphics settings will disable foliage
  
• Added auto balance option to custom games
  
• Casual games will now start with 1 human player
  
• Updated Forcefield icon
  
• We no longer interpolate character rotation (no more seeing people block you with their butt)
  
• Increased default snapcast break angle to 25
  
• Increase minimum bot block reaction time
  
• Make average bot aim less accurate
  
• Polish localization updated
  

Bug Fixes

• Fix request feedback docking
  
• Fix red/green model highlighting not clearing sometimes
  
• Fix learn section typos
  
• Fix case with 2 elect votes
  
• Fix lobby names not propagating to game server
  
• Fix for initial manaregen time not being synchronized between client/server
  
• Revive alert shows only if your class can be revived
  
• Fix death dialog bot indicator
  
• Made endmatch data more reliable
  
• Fix login music ear blast
  
• Fix weapon fire animations sometimes not playing when holding down the left mouse button for summoner, healers, and beast units with a mana crystal
  

Optimizations

• Consolidated particle components for Boom Buggy

Frame rate and performance

Netcode and Responsiveness

AI Commanders + Players Bots v0.1

Healer Rework

Balance

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

Player Hosted Dedicated Servers

What’s Next For Savage?

• Improving our new AIs
  
• Finishing up a new map
  
• Fixing those bugs
  
• Monitoring the effect of the latest balance changes, preparing new ones
  
• Working on netcode (to improve melee feel)
  
• Working on performance (to continue improving framerate)

For More Details

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0.1.17

• Decrease max bot count to 6 per team in official casual mode
  
• Bots will choose from more available paths when moving around the map
  
• Bots have varying levels of awareness, causing them to react at different times
  
• Bot personality variance increased, various tweaks made to likelihood of certain behaviours
  
• Bots won’t be distracted by other player’s pickups
  
• Bots won’t all try to take the spawn flag at once
  
• Tweaked wording on starting new games to better convey that the game will be hosted on official servers, not your local machine
  
• Fixed crosshair for K.O.N.G.
  
• Allow bots to be enabled/disabled when starting a new custom match
  

0.1.16 Changes and Additions

• Lowered max bot count from 12v12 to 9v9 (temp fix until they spread out a little more)
  
• Added bot indicators to team select and nameplates
  
• FPS command snapshot now excludes queued (not current) workers, so you can focus on more important research
  
• Improve Commander AI expansion logic
  
• Polished some chaplain effects
  
• Set casual mode max human player imbalance back to 1
  

0.1.16 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a server crash
  
• Fix several commander AI bugs
  
• Fixed double playing research sounds
  
• Added research complete generic sounds to the items missing individual ones
  
• Fixed chaplain heal/shaman shield stopping firing in some cases when targeting a building
  
• Fix some cases of the green shading being stuck on
  
• Disable spammy attempt building messages
  
• Fix other teams vote feedback sometimes showing to you
  
• Fix chaplain shield not awarding score
  
• Don’t show revive indicator for enemies (derp)
  
• Fix beams getting stuck on sometimes
  

Want A Map Teaser?

• AI commanders.
  
• Player bots.
  
• Healer rework.
  
• Netcode improvements.
  
• Balance changes.
  
• Bug fixes.
  

AI Commanders v0.1

• Casual games now have AI commanders that will begin the match if at least 2 human players are on the server and warmup has ended.
  
• Humans can take command if elected to the position by their team
  
• AI Commanders will take over if the human commander leaves their seat
  
• We expect to be continually improving the AIs intelligence, but we felt it important to get this feature out and start getting feedback now
  
• Our final goal with casual AI matches is to allow any and all skill level players to quickly find a suitable, fun match at any time of the day. We think adding AI Commanders and Bots is a huge part of priming the pump that is Savage, and increasing our concurrent players.
  

AI Player Bots v0.1

• Any missing slots in official casual games will be filled with player bots, these will leave as real players join and take the spot
  
• These bots are tuned to be quite easy, we have much more difficult bots available to release fairly soon
  
• We expect to be continually improving the AIs intelligence, but we felt it important to get this feature out and start getting feedback now
  

Netcode

Bandwidth

Healers Rework

• Now cost 500g (down from 2500g) for the player
  
• Available with a single building, require no additional research
  

• Heal is always available and about twice as powerful
  
• Now has a channeled ability to set up a mobile defensive forcefield, requires only Stronghold level 2
  
• Resurrect ability has slightly longer range, requires only Stronghold level 2
  

• Now has a 2 part melee combo
  
• Heal is always available and about twice as powerful
  
• Shield ability requires only Lair level 2
  
• Revive ability has slightly longer range, requires only Lair level 2
  
• Shaman heal and revive now use classic snap casting as their default aiming mode, you can change this in the controls settings (Aiming Mode: Prefer Quick Cast)
  

General Improvements

• New dealing damage / taking damage feedback (your target’s model will glow red briefly)
  
• Added subtle refire / cooldown feedback to the crosshair
  
• Greatly improved tooltips for unit classes and ranged weapons
  
• Added more loading tips
  
• Updated Shaman jump and sprint animations
  
• Added effect to make landmines more visible
  
• Made sensors less visible
  
• Reverse input field / send button on in-game chat
  
• You can now double click workers to select all nearby workers
  
• You can now double tap the idle worker button or hotkey to select all idle workers
  
• Added announcements for enemy main base taking damage
  
• Improved timing of ranged dealt damage sound for several weapons
  
• Update normals on many buildings, improving their look
  
• Updated Chaplain animations
  
• Play kill taunt and killstreak lines in the world, so nearby players can hear them
  
• Spawn sound radius increased
  
• Spatialized voice lines from nearby units
  
• Zooming while in third person will temporarily swap you to first person
  
• Preventing damage with a shield will award score
  
• Improved levelup descriptions to be more specific and accurate
  
• Added sound quality levels and options to change them
  
• Added more server messages: ‘game was forfeit’ and ‘base was destroyed’
  
• Updated localization for French and Russian
  

Balance

• Fireball: damage 230 -> 260
  
• Chaos Bolt: range and speed 3750 -> 6260, damage 100 -> 90
  
• Incinerator: damage 5 -> 5.5
  
• Tempest: cooldown 1.4s -> 1.15s, damage 125 -> 120 (15% dps increase but requires 3 hits to kill a level 1 Nomad instead of 2)
  
• Rupture: damage 80 -> 100
  

Bug Fixes

• Improved player bot pathing (practice with bots)
  
• Fixed a player bot crash (practice with bots)
  
• Fix order ant trails when selecting groups of units with different orders as commander
  
• Fixed announcements for your main base taking damage
  
• Fixed building on fire sounds not clearing when building was repaired
  
• Fix an end game crash
  
• Fix loadout tech highlights appearing when there’s no items available
  
• Fix voiceover and music at endgame playing the wrong line sometimes
  
• Fix some map ambient sounds not respecting their volume slider
  
• Fix VOIP not respecting its volume slider
  
• Fixed several sound positioning bugs
  

What Are We Doing?

• Improving our new AIs
  
• Finishing up a new map
  
• Fixing those bugs
  
• Monitoring the effect of the latest balance changes, preparing new ones
  
• Working on netcode (to improve melee feel) and performance (to continue improving framerate)
  

• Balance Changes
  
• Healer Improvements
  
• AI Commander
  
• AI Players
  
• A New Map
  
• Bug Fixes