Ultimate General: Gettysburg
Patch 1.01 HotFix is finally ready!
Patch 1.01 had been brought back because of some technical issues but now it is live again!
The hotfix includes the following:
- Freezes cure for all systems. Please let us know if you anticipate any issue.
- Morale balances so that it is resilient but not so stiff to result to frequent total annihilation of units.
- AI improvements/Fine tunes. Repairs in some AI which were so defensive that they did not want to attack in some maps.
- Fixes in targeting. Affects positively AI and auto-line management.
- Further fixes in retreat direction.
- Balanced artillery to do more reasonable damage from far distance and not so heavy from short distance.
- Minor text fixes.
- LoS max intensity increased to be more evident (You can configure in options the optimal intensity).
Read the full changelog of v1.01 here:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/306660/announcements/detail/132056593482281876
Waiting for your feedback in our forums:
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
We hope you enjoy the game,
The Game-Labs Team
Patch v1.01
You can read about version 1.01 in our blog:
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/patch-101
or below:
Ultimate General: Gettysburg Patch 1.01
LINUX version available!
Linux users will now be able to enjoy Ultimate General: Gettysburg. It’s also good to note that a single game purchase via the Steam store is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux.
MULTIPLAYER
• 7 New Multiplayer maps:
- The Confederates counter-attack on Seminary Ridge
- Fight for 2 hills
- Meeting at Cemetery Ridge
- The Round Top hills attacked from the south
- What if Buford had not held McPherson Ridge?
- Pickett's charge! (multiplayer edition)
- Ewell advances
Multiplayer has now 12 scenarios for 1vs1 matches.
• Chat functionality: You can chat in the battle lobby using the new text window, as well as during a battle using the “Enter” key.
• Updated game with the new single player improvements (see below).
• Fixed some multiplayer stability and functionality issues.
• “Conquer the map” now gets cavalry reinforcements correctly from the western valleys, giving more opportunities to the Confederates for flanking Cemetery ridge.
AI
• The AI will now be a stubborn defender when it has to be. It will actively try to protect high priority objectives and will not chase other units away as it did before. This is best seen on maps where the AI Union must protect Cemetery hill.
• The AI will be more decisive when storming your positions with multiple unit charges.
• The AI will often maneuver its units in columns behind its lines to support flanks and mobilize reserves. This helps a lot when it must defend locations like Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill, where it is needed to switch reserves between the hills.
• The AI more often will move its artillery closer to your positions to inflict more casualties.
• All AI personalities have received improvements according to their character.
• The AI will not use cavalry & videttes irritatingly and too aggressively, but will use them to harass you when it is needed, as a player does.
GENERAL GAMEPLAY
• More resilient morale that takes into consideration more the units' combat effectiveness. Units that inflict many casualties will fight more heroically and will have steadier morale. On the contrary, units that are badly beaten and have poor combat effectiveness will be more fragile throughout the battle.
• Reduced the strength of charges. Uncoordinated frontal assaults on heavily fortified positions will be suicidal and can lead to units losing their fighting condition very fast. A slower advance results in units being effective for a longer time.
• Reduced cavalry strength. Cavalry are weaker against massed firearms.
• Improved unit targeting and auto-line management. Units now need even less babysitting.
• Artillery movement speed is increased in relation to infantry speed.
• Intensified terrain movement penalties. Units climbing hills, entering built-up areas, forests will slow down significantly. As a result, defensive positions are now more powerful.
• Rebalanced terrain cover bonuses/penalties so that the benefits of concealment are clearer.
• Units moving in a firing line formation will be much slower compared to units in column formation. You can now use columns to maneuver faster or slowly fire and advance in line formation without isolating units from the main force.
• Increased ranged combat lethality. Close-ranged musket and canister fire is now more lethal. Artillery will be an essential defensive weapon and can effectively support attacks from a distance, especially when firing on flanks.
• Improved soldier movement mechanics. Sprites die in the formation more evidently and they are less synced with each other for more realistic visuals. The new soldier effects also affect gameplay, as wider formations receive more damage and trigger melee collisions better.
• Improved melee damage and visuals.
• Increased command radius for Confederate Generals Hill and Ewell.
• Reduced some Generals' morale and condition regeneration bonuses that were too high.
BATTLE FLOW
• Pender's Division infantry arrives now sooner and can participate in the first battle engagement for the Confederates. This increases tension in the first battle and opens up more speculative scenarios.
• Stannard will arrive sooner if the Union withdraws to Cemetery Hill in the 2nd phase of the battle. Stannard significantly helps the army of the Potomac to hold its ground.
• Battle delay is now triggered properly. If objectives are secured, then the timer will start and you will not have to wait long, unless your enemy presses the attack.
• The battle will now end if one side routs the entire enemy army off the map.
• Increased available time for many scenarios that were previously too short.
• Fixed several battle flow errors that resulted in the battle campaign ending prematurely or not to continuing to a special scenario. For example, you could lose Cemetery Hill even though 2 battles ago, you secured it, or you could retreat to Cemetery Ridge while your forces gave a hard fight to hold Oak ridge etc.
• Fixed errors in some battles that did not give a victory message, even though you had captured the most important objectives.
BUG FIXES
• Major artillery targeting fixes. Artillery will no longer refuse to fire on locations with clear line of sight or ignore nearby enemies. Due to this, canister auto-targeting is now deadly.
• Fixed the irritating back and forth movement of some units, particularly skirmishers, cavalry and artillery.
• Solved many problems that could result in incorrect retreat directions.
• Fixed or made very rare a bug that causes units to target dead enemies.
• Fixed a freeze bug when Slocum reinforcements arrived.
• Fixed incorrect randomization settings for some historical custom battles. For example, you can now enable “Randomize” for the Pickett's Charge battle and units will start from the historical positions, instead of random ones with varying condition.
OTHER
• New music volume slider in options. The volume is 100% by default and this could not be changed because it could corrupt your user generated options.
• Tilt-Shift is now brighter and less blurry.
• All custom battles are unlocked. You can play any of them from the start without needing to unlock them from the campaign.
• Improved 3D perception of map and repairs to various sections that created problems of reduced visibility.
• Increased terrain elevation of Cemetery Hill (it was too flat), increasing its defensive bonuses.
Players are advised to use new saves instead of old ones because old saves may not include some needed morale, battle flow or reinforcement timing changes.
Ultimate General: Gettysburg has been improved in many areas, but we need your feedback to be sure and to know if there is something else we must fix. Please provide your opinions, reviews and criticism on our forums:
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
PS. We have added one more multiplayer map “Ewell advances” that was not mentioned in our first announced patch notes.
PS2. The patch 1.01 has been rolled back due to a technical issue. It will be reverted asap. Please read:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/306660/discussions/0/624075036472580214/
A note from the designer
The game's designer, Nick Thomadis, writes about the game's main features in our blog:
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/ultimate-general-is-fully-released
And please do not forget to keep the feedback coming. We want to prepare a good patch for you.
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
Enjoy,
Game-Labs
A thank you message to Early Access buyers!
Early-Access ends
The Steam Early-Access program has been very beneficial to the project. Your reports defined what would make a great game. Your many positive reviews motivated us to respond with passion and dedication. Syncing with your requests assisted us in reaching our goal and bringing the game to release.
We are not only talking about bug fixes and necessary balances, but also new features that we added following your criticism and feedback. We wish we could add more, but development could not take longer and we believe that we’ve built a complete and innovative game. Nevertheless, we will continue to support Ultimate General: Gettysburg and we hope that you will enjoy it for a long time.
What comes next?
We are going to continue to support Ultimate General: Gettysburg and in the meantime, will focus our efforts on the mobile releases, firstly for iPad. In parallel, we will work for future battles, possibly based on a different era as well. Thanks to your amazing support, the Ultimate General brand has successfully entered the strategy gaming world and is going to offer you more titles. Follow our progress and you will not be disappointed. Meanwhile we would appreciate if you review our game on metacritic and steam review section.
Many thanks, and have fun with our game,
The Game-Labs team
Version 1.0 for testing
You can read the patchnotes in our blog (Includes important images):
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/ultimate-general-pre-release-patch-7
or below
Ultimate General: Gettysburg version 1.0 Patch
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MULTIPLAYER
• Added multiplayer matchmaking. You can now use the “Random” button to automatically join an available battle or create a random new one.
• Updated gameplay speed to be a little slower.
GAMEPLAY
• Slightly reduced overall gameplay speed.
• Fine-tuned the AI’s ability to keep a distance from the enemy.
• LoS improved in some locations (fixes issues of artillery not firing).
FIXES
• Removed bug report buttons.
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Note: To ensure game stability, every Early Access player must manually clean up the installation folder to enable use of the Steam Overlay and screenshots on Windows 8 systems. Please read the following instructions:
ESSENTIAL CLEAN-UP OF GAME FOLDER
Step 1
Go to the Steam Library => Right click on "Ultimate General: Gettysburg" => Select “Properties”
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Step 2
In the pop-up window, go to “Local Files” tab => Click “Browse Local Files”.
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Step 3
You are now in the game's installation folder. Select and delete all files and folders.
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Step 4
Delete local content via the Steam automated process (Step 3 ensures that Steam does not leave any left overs).
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Step 5
Right click on the game again in Steam library and re-install.
Step 6
After installation, go into game folder as described in step 2 => Select game executables (single and multiplayer) => Right mouse button click and select "Properties" => Go into compatibility tab => Disable check box in compatibility mode panel.
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RELEASING TOMORROW
Tomorrow, we plan on moving from Early Access to full release. The selling price will be raised and will be announced as soon as possible. Steam may delay a bit to approve the release. In the meantime, if you are interested in buying the game, then you can still find it at a reduced price on our Steam store:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/306660
As always, your feedback is very helpful. Please share it in our forums:
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
And once again, thank you all for assisting us with this endeavor!
Enjoy,
Game-Labs
Responding to your requests
You can read about the update in our blog:
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/ultimate-general-pre-release-patch-6
or below:
Ultimate General: Gettysburg Patch 0.97 HotFix
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MULTIPLAYER
• Stability increased.
• Gameplay update to fit Single player balances.
GAMEPLAY
• AI improvements. Noticeable change is that the aggressive personalities are much more eager to seek for a charge and push to attack an objective. Union chances to hold Cemetery Hill on the 1st day should be increased.
• If you play as Confederates and have kept only Herr's Ridge in first battle, in the next engagement the AI may decide to keep the defense high, at Oak ridge and Oak hill. This was actually a bug that was fixed because player had this option.
• Buford's skirmishers have less starting morale and cannot hold their ground against brigade attacks for much time.
• Videttes are less effective. They can receive more casualties with well placed volleys.
• Pettigrew and Brockenbrough may arrive sooner. That makes the 1st battle more interesting to replay for both sides in single player.
• Confederate artillery effectiveness slightly increased.
• Various slight balances on USvsCS combat effectiveness.
OTHER
• Menu music sound quality increased (there were some compression issues).
We hope you like the new changes. Please continue to share your feedback in our forums. It helps a lot:
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
Enjoy,
Game-Labs
Patch 0.96 Hotfix with new AI mechanics
You can read about the patch in our blog:
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/ultimate-general-pre-release-patch-5
or below
Ultimate General: Gettysburg Patch 0.96
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MULTIPLAYER
• Fixed some stability issues.
• "Conquer the map" battle now has less duration and delay.
• Gameplay update to fit new Single player changes.
GAMEPLAY
• New AI mechanics to improve the general AI behaviour. AI should now more frequently fall back when it attacks vs overwhelming odds. Especially in Defence AI should be much more resilient. It should prefer to stand and defend objectives according to personality.
• Charge melee bonus slightly increased. Previously charges were mostly handled easily by the defenders.
• Buford's skirmishers have slightly reduced accuracy in long range fire (this made them a bit overpowered as reported).
• Slight rebalances of some units. Pettigrew will not get tired so fast as before. Union large inexperienced units will have less accuracy in long range fire.
OTHER
• Menu music got a slight improvement.
We will appreciate a lot if you play the game in its final stages of Early Access life and report to us any good or bad that you find. There is still time to correct major issues. Please let us know in our forums:
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
Enjoy,
Game-Labs
EDIT: 11/10/2014
Revision update available for PC, in a few hours also for Mac users:
- Fixed AI not moving in some Custom Multiplayer Maps and adjusted it better as per first feedback.
- Rank reset bug for Multiplayer fixed.
Patch 0.95 back online
We had reverted yesterday's patch 0.95 http://steamcommunity.com/games/306660/announcements/detail/130926883523241155 because many users reported black screen at launch of game and were unable to play.
We just now uploaded again 0.95 with a hotfix which hopefully addresses successfully this technical issue.
Please inform us if you still anticipate problems to run the game.
Dedicated to you,
Game-Labs
The pre-release patch
You can read about the patch in our blog:
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/ultimate-general-pre-release-patch-4
or below
Ultimate General: Gettysburg Patch 0.95
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MULTIPLAYER
• Fixed issues that could cause seriously desynchronized melee collision and overpowered melee damage.
• Fixed a bug that would wrongly give both players a victory point.
• Alt+Tab should now not desync the game.
GAMEPLAY
• AI tweaks/improvements - the AI should attack/defend more actively. The AI may still be too cautious in the early stages of the first mission. This will be addressed in the full release.
• Slight rebalance to melee to make it shorter and less damaging.
• Melee soldier mechanics improved.
• Iron Brigade, Cutler for the Union and Pettigrew, Brockenbrough for the Confederates may be delayed longer before arriving at the 1st battle engagement.
• Further AI and gameplay changes to help the Union AI better hold Cemetery Hill on the 1st day.
FIXES
• Fixed bug that allowed control over the AI opponent’s units.
• Fixed some issues in which the camera would scroll incorrectly.
OTHER
• Text to indicate battle delays or the end of battle is now better highlighted.
• Day 4’s custom battles now unlock from any side. Previously, you had to play a 4th Day’s battle in the campaign only as Confederates.
Ultimate General: Gettysburg's Early Access phase ends soon, but we still need your continuous comments and feedback, especially for gameplay balance and AI. If you notice any glaring issues, please do not hesitate to report them at Game-Labs Forum and Steam Forum.
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
Enjoy,
Game-Labs
Introducing Tilt-Shift Mode
You can read about the patch in our blog (includes Tilt-Shift screenshots):
http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/ultimate-general-pre-release-patch-3
or below
Ultimate General: Gettysburg Patch 0.94
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NEW FEATURES
• Tilt-Shift: We’ve deployed the first version of our unique image filter that makes the battlefield appear more 3D, as seen in our first promotional screenshots. The option is on the first page of the menu for easy access and is disabled by default. We hope you enjoy playing with Tilt-Shift enabled and await your feedback on how to improve it for the best visual experience.
Note: Depending on your system specs, tilt-shift may reduce performance.
MULTIPLAYER
• Fixed frozen units/flags bug.
• Fixed Line of Sight not working in multiplayer (you could see your opponent inside the fog of war).
• Fixed some other bugs that could cause disconnections.
Note: Melee can still be buggy. You might see a unit in melee and your opponent will see the same unit fighting at range. Due to this bug, melee can last longer than intended. We’re working to solve the issue. Please report the bug if you think you’ve found it.
GAMEPLAY
• AI Generals will now make more sensible decisions about when to charge, all based on their personality.
• The AI should now have more effective decision-making, especially in defense.
• Melee and charges are now much more powerful. Previously, we felt they were weak. It will now be possible to trap and demolish units with flank attacks or careful defensive play.
• Close range fire will now be devastating, making frontal charges extremely detrimental for the attacker.
• Defensive positions and cover and terrain bonuses have been enhanced. It will now be much more difficult to capture a heavily defended position. The Union will generally benefit more from this as they tend to fight in defense.
• Stone walls on Cemetery Ridge (The Angle) and Oak Ridge (Where Baxter was fortified) now give increased cover bonuses, making these positions even more valuable.
• Improved Line of Sight and terrain features in various locations. E.g. Much better visibility from Cemetery Ridge to shell attackers. This applies to other areas, including Little Round Top, Round Top, Seminary Ridge etc.
FIXES
• Fixed issue in which AI units moved back and forth aimlessly.
• Cleaned up code that could result in some minor issues.
OTHER
• Added music to the preview battle screen (The game has different music for Menu, Win, Loss, pre-battle events).
• Added option "Crash Report" at launch for users that may have problems launching the game. If this is the case, for example you have a CTD at startup, then please run the game by selecting "Crash Report" and write the issue so we receive the appropriate data.
We changed the Union AI to be better at defending Cemetery Hill. We would like your opinions on whether this was successful. Share your feedback on the Game-Labs and Steam Forums.
- Game-Labs Forum
- Steam Forum.
Enjoy,
Game-Labs