Alpha 21 is now available

Additions

Added Artic Biome with ice instead of water
Added a helicopter for the future faction
Added a transport helicopter for units (CH53)
Added a plane, which will drop units (AC130)
Custom units can now be shared in the Steam Workshop

Improvements

Custom units can now have up to 100000 health
Added an option deactivate dismemberment for custom units
Added an option to choose the faction of a destructable object
Added an option to deactivate unit despawning
Thrown melee weapons will now cause damage
Added an arrow, when placing air units in the editor, so that it's easier to place them
Updated to .NET 4.6 scripting runtime
- This will do some performance improvements
Updated to a new engine version
- Improved particle system rendering
- Improved crash handling
- Some small performance + stability improvements
Added ambient environment sounds for each biome

AI improvements

Implemented a priority queue
- Each unit can now have it's own priorities for targeting units
- For instance: Anti air tanks will now priorize air vehicles, units with RPGs will priorize vehicles, ...
Improved AI targeting process
- Until Alpha 20, the units would just find any target in a certain radius.
- Now, units will only find targets if:
  - The target is in the field of view (170 degrees for default units)
  - The target has shot it's weapon or hit another unit with a sword
  - The target is under 5 meters away
  - The searching unit got hurt
- If there was no target for a while, units will start to look around to find a target
Improved the AI behaviour
- AIs will no longer shoot, if there is an allied unit in the line of fire

Bug fixes

Fixed some errors with the units in helicopters and ship cannon units
Fixed weather size on large terrains
Fixed a bug, that caused ships to not land correctly, so that the units drowned
Fixed a bug that caused units to not leave the ship
Fixed a bug that caused the on ship unit movement to stop working
Fixed a bug that units could walk through wood log walls
Fixed a bug that caused rpg units to shoot for no reason
Fixed missing vehicle shot sound
Fixed vehicle engine sounds while not moving

Balancing

Decreased battering ram damage
Increased catapult damage
Increased AMX and Marksman (anti air vehicles) attack range

Next update The engine and runtime update for this update took too much time, so that there are many AI improvements left for the next update. For instance, there is a cover system planned, so that the AI will search for cover points in their environment. The new 'Eliminate' game mode was planned for this update, too, but it will be in the next one. Since there are many suggestions for new buildings and decoration objects, there are many new objects planned for Alpha 22. For instance, there are WWI/WWII air planes planned.

[ 2018-05-31 08:07:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ancient Warfare 3

Jannik Nickel Developer

Jannik Nickel Publisher

2017-12-21 Release

Indie Strategy Simulation Singleplayer EA Tags

Game News Posts: 148

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Overwhelmingly Positive (2401 reviews)

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The Game includes VR Support

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Ancient Warfare 3 Linux_Universal [584.43 M]

Ancient Warfare 3 is a complete redevelopment of the second part to improve the experience from the core of the game. Dive into a huge sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different gamemodes like Deathmatch, Reach point, conquest, king of the hill, zombie mode, arsenal and more. Download level bundles to play small campaigns or create you own scenarios in the custom battle editor. Choose your rules, change the environment, place units, objects or traps, choose your equipment or just relax and spectate a battle.

Explore the content from all kind of eras like stone age, high cultures, medieval ages, WWI, WWII and compare them to modern and future weapons or just recreate some historic battles.

Your player can use a very advanced and mixed equipment which will allow a dynamic combat. Use a sword to cut your enemies into pieces, a baton to punch them down, guns or bows to shoot at them, or an rpg to blow them up. Protect yourself with a shield and wear armor to get some protection for different kind of weapons. To support you and your mates, you can carry different grenades, medipacks or ammo supplies.

Much content is already in game and there are still much more gamemodes, units, weapons and equipment planned. Until then, you can test the 300+ units in game with 150+ equipment objects and place 43 different objects.

This is an early version of the game and many things will change until the completion of the game. The system specs are provisionally and may change at any time.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04+ 64bit
Processor: Quad Core 2.5GHz+Memory: 3 GB RAM
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ or Vulcan capable
Storage: 3000 MB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04+ 64bit
Processor: Quad Core 3.0GHz+Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ or Vulcan capable
Storage: 3000 MB available space

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