Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2015-03-08T20:59:28+02:00

I'm going to sum up development and timeline for the next patch (we'll require public testing) tomorrow on the what's new page, likely accompanied by a discussion thread.

Would have done it tonight but I'm taking the night off

EDIT: Published the update here.

I'm aware I don't cover everything in the OP -- I'll update the roadmap sometime during this week as well

Statistics: Posted by Sheeo — 08 Mar 2015, 20:59

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2015-03-08T19:11:06+02:00

Can we have an update on this plox?

Statistics: Posted by Kalvirox — 08 Mar 2015, 19:11

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2015-02-09T03:55:22+02:00

Gotta get Frozen_byte to push that official LINUX CLIENT out: viewtopic.php?f=2&p=90097#p90097

Statistics: Posted by gnatinator — 09 Feb 2015, 03:55

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-22T22:03:46+02:00

IceDreamer wrote:
I might add that this is a good thing, although annoying. The UEF Navy is already arguably the strongest in the game overall, and without Shield boats overspilling the full 50% the increase in strength would be... Well, a bit broken OP probably

I still think that the overspill isn't a good way to handle this*, a better idea IMHO would be to make neighboring shields stop recharging as well (so the total HP for one charge is still the same but they can't recharge or regenerate when the grid is under fire)

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Spoiler: show

Statistics: Posted by zeroAPM — 22 Dec 2014, 22:03

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-22T21:09:57+02:00

I might add that this is a good thing, although annoying. The UEF Navy is already arguably the strongest in the game overall, and without Shield boats overspilling the full 50% the increase in strength would be... Well, a bit broken OP probably

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 22 Dec 2014, 21:09

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-22T20:30:58+02:00

-_V_- wrote:
Would that explain the problems of why shield boats are depleted at the same time for mysterious reasons?

It's hard to tell why in game when you have dozens of shields overlapping, but something feels really fucked up there. Most of the time you lose all shields at the same time

IceDreamer is talking about the previous overspill code that was in place. The current should be working as intended.

Mobile shields (This goes for shield boats as well), all give do 50% of the incoming damage as overspill to overlapping nearby shields. With battleships, the incoming damage is typically large, and for the UEF shieldboat, the radius to overspill to is huge, so it is to be expected that shields drain fast and tend to go down at the same time (Or right after eachother) when in close proximity.

Statistics: Posted by Sheeo — 22 Dec 2014, 20:30

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-22T12:13:31+02:00

IceDreamer wrote:
In this case, what happened was that the balance teams decided "We want this" and told someone to go and make it happen. That someone then wrote utterly broken code which didn't even trigger, clearly didn't even try to test it at all, and didn't even notice the half a dozen true bugs already in the stock game with shielding, then came back and said 'Done'. The code was 'Fixed' after people noticed something wasn't right (It wasn't actually fixed at all) so that by the time I got to it, after 4 or 5 iterations, it was still nonfunctional.

Would that explain the problems of why shield boats are depleted at the same time for mysterious reasons?

It's hard to tell why in game when you have dozens of shields overlapping, but something feels really fucked up there. Most of the time you lose all shields at the same time

Statistics: Posted by -_V_- — 22 Dec 2014, 12:13

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-02T16:28:12+02:00

The code dealing with this before is apparently a wide-open security breach, so it was removed until the approach could be rethought. I think...

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 02 Dec 2014, 16:28

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-02T15:05:22+02:00

Afaik the only way a unit can lose an attack order is when you target a transport and the transport lands on the water.

Statistics: Posted by Vee — 02 Dec 2014, 15:05

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-02T14:11:03+02:00

ohhhhh ive been wondering about that. It seems really counter intuitive. I get why its refered to as just fixing stealth. Thanks for the prompt reply

Statistics: Posted by rexx1888 — 02 Dec 2014, 14:11

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-02T08:18:47+02:00

Units can follow other stealth units under the fog of war.

A previous patch was fixing that behavior, but it didn't please a lot of players so it was removed (except for the cybran ACU).

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 02 Dec 2014, 08:18

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-12-02T05:44:32+02:00

i gotta ask, in the tentative patch notes, it mentions as a future project implementing proper stealth... what does that mean, is stealth bugged?? is there a redesign in the vein of engie mod?? can i pick the brain of whoevers designing it because it sounds interesting(i dont especially dislike stealth as it is, but id love to hear how experienced people think it should be implemented)

Statistics: Posted by rexx1888 — 02 Dec 2014, 05:44

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-11-25T14:14:56+02:00

The matchmaker system I've prototyped allows you to pre-form a team and play the map you want.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 25 Nov 2014, 14:14

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-11-25T13:53:21+02:00

belatedcube wrote:
what is happening to custom games when team matchamker comes? personally I would prefer custom cause I like knowing who my team is before the game starts.

I'd have thought it will be like custom 1v1s where if you know who you want to play and/or the map you want to play on, do custom. If you just want a 1v1 now, search.

Under the new system you would search if you just want any old team game, if you want Setons with the guys online on your friend list and then balance with randoms, host it. That's how I'd expect it to work anyway.

Statistics: Posted by Sir Prize — 25 Nov 2014, 13:53

Re: Roadmap / Status of Developments

2014-11-25T11:17:39+02:00

belatedcube wrote:
what is happening to custom games when team matchamker comes? personally I would prefer custom cause I like knowing who my team is before the game starts.

Matchmaker will stay, it might change a bit (ratings). Just playing custom teamgames will stay the same concept I think.

Statistics: Posted by Aurion — 25 Nov 2014, 11:17