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Beta 3.742 "Classic Map" For DLC1

New build, and there's some surprises in here! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.742_.22Classic_Map.22_For_DLC1 1. First off, there's a new map type for DLC1 (hey, wasn't that complete in early 2020?) based loosely on some of the favorite maps from AI War Classic. In general, we're going to be beefing up DLC1 and adding more to it over the next few months, then renaming it and slightly raising the price. Folks just don't seem sold on this DLC to the same degree that DLC2 is exciting them, and so we'd like to fix that so that it's truly a must-have. If you already have the DLC (or buy it now while it's still slightly cheaper), you're just getting this bonus stuff for free. 2. Lots of bugfixes, including many for the Fallen Spire. Huge thanks to Tom for most of these. The Fallen Spire is apparently pretty much fully playable again on the beta branch, although there's still some bits I need to finish to fully bring it home. 3. Badger's done a lot with the Necromancer faction for those folks testing DLC3, and feedback would be awesome. Not only that, but there's a new Elderlings faction that is related to Necromancers, or that you can use independently of them, and which are kind of roaming monsters in the galaxy. I'm really excited about this addition. DLC3 is really just getting kind of mind-blowingly large, and I'm really excited about it. That's one of several reasons we really needed to up the game on DLC1 so that it feels comparable to these other two giants. 4. Consulting with Tom, there's a new strategy for how I'm quarantining ships that have recently died, so that there's a lot less chance of random errors in the codebase related to UI elements or otherwise still referencing something that is in the process of being disassembled. The changes here solve a whole host of known bugs as well as a bunch of likely unknown ones. Tom did further refinement to fix more of them, with a lot of debug assisting from Daniexpert. 5. Speaking of Daniexpert, they've been invaluable for helping me find and fix more memory leaks and odd-allocations of RAM over the last few days. There are several notable fixes that really eliminate the most notable memory leaks that we've been able to find so far, and the game also runs more smoothly than ever. Whether there are any more memory leaks remaining is not yet clear, so please do let us know what you find! There are a number of known exceptions that I haven't had a chance to look at yet, both reported on Steam and on mantis, but I'll be getting to those mainly on Tuesday. I've got some other things going on on Sunday and Monday that will cut into my work time a lot, but I'll be back at things on Tuesday. More to come soon. Enjoy!


[ 2021-10-31 05:37:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

AI War 2
Arcen Games, LLC Developer
Arcen Games, LLC Publisher
2019-10-22 Release
Game News Posts: 506
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive (1068 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
  • AI War 2 Linux [1.72 G]
Available DLCs:
  • AI War 2: The Spire Rises
  • AI War 2: Zenith Onslaught
  • AI War 2: The Neinzul Abyss
AI War II is a grand strategic RTS against an overwhelming, inhuman enemy who has conquered the galaxy. The enemy has made only a single error: underestimating you.

You must steal as much technology as you can, and take enough territory to fortify your bases and launch your attacks. But every conquest you make turns the attention of the AI ever more in your direction... so choose your targets with care.

It's "a sequel to [Arcen's] enormo-space RTS AI War, which we called'one of this year's finest strategy games' back in 2009" (Tom Sykes, PC Gamer)

What's New?

We still have a lot of work to do on the game, and we're undergoing some major work with our beta testers before heading to Early Access, but a lot is already awesome:

  • The game is crazy moddable.
  • It's multithreaded to take full use of modern computers.
  • The new 3D graphics are working out great.
  • The UI has already been dramatically improved by the introduction of a tabbed sidebar in the main view, and streamlining of several other mechanics that felt very difficult in the past. More to come, there.
  • We’ve got art for over 130 distinct units (not counting different mark levels), and there's more to come.
  • We’ve got over 1500 lines of spoken dialogue from more than 25 actors, focusing primarily on the human side at the moment; we have a few hundred lines of AI-side taunts and chatter, some of which is recorded but just not processed yet.
  • There are hundreds of high quality sound effects for a varied battlefield soundscape (with distance attenuation if you’re far away, and positional 3D audio if you’re down in the thick of it), all routed through a tuned mixer setup for optimal listening to all the various parts.
  • We have a set of music from Classic that is over four and a half hours long, and the new music from Pablo is partly in, but mostly set to be mastered and integrated within the next week or two.
  • There’s also a ton of map types, many of them new, and with a lot of sub-options to make them even more varied.
  • And a whole lot more.

Wishlist the game to be notified when it becomes available!

MINIMAL SETUP
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+
  • Processor: Dual Core 64bit CPU (2.2+ GHz Dual Core CPU or better)Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 510+. Radeon HD5900+. or Intel HD4000+
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUP
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  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7870 2GB
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
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