3712 ongoing development thread

[PhilipJFry]

Hello there,

this thread is meant to give you an overview of what is going on regarding the next game development/bugfix patch.
We're currently at Patch #3710 but I assume that the next balance patch will snag the #3711.

I will tag all Pull Requests for this patch with the 3712 milestones so you can easily filter and find them here.
The following changes are currently merged into the deploy/fafdevelop branch and thus available for public testing via the FAF client by playing the FAF Develop game mode:

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1. Refactoring - just some cleanup very amazing cleanup that improves the simulation speed
2. Fixed - score window can be closed with [F2] but you can't open it with [F2]
3. Fix timing of the UEF build beams
4. More refactoring - even more very amazing cleanup
5. Fixed position autofill window when resize the gamewindow
6. In cheat menu added the ability to spawn with veterans and improved usability
7. Fix building effect playing twice for command units
8. Fix targetting of structures for beam weapons
9. Improve Frigate sink animation rate
10. Fix UEF Navy UI things
11. Many small fixes and several new features for Scoreboard
12. Don't set the center background Tiled in the popout window
13. Ui scaling - Give option to scale the Ui for people playing with big screens
14. Update mapblacklist - Remove desert arena v1 from blacklist
15. Moved Mod Manager to the top menu. Reduced sound noise. - Moved Mod Manager menu from extra menu to main menu.
16. Fixed on/off of mods dependencies in ModsManager - Fixed some bugs in the mod manager with mods dependencies
17. Prevented unnecessary focus changes when cheats are enabled
18. Added 4 new functions to the Engine documentation
19. remove dragbuild from sensors - Removed dragbuild on radars/sonar/stealth field and Soothsayer
20. Black plane - Fixed the black plane bug for maps
21. Misc Performance Enhancements - Improved simspeed
22. SingleRangeOverlay cleanup - Removed code that wasn't working
23. Fix Kennel lag and animation - Improved Kennel animation and reduce lags due to kennel
24. Massive localization fixes - Improved text display in game and translation
25. Add Chinese translation
26. Add support for custom map Props
27. Improve Sim Dialogue - Improvement for dialogue button especially for coop
28. Fixed lobby player names - Especially fix Russian name being wrongly displayed in lobby
29. In cheat menu added placing multiple units while holding Shift
30. Don't send results after initiating a `SafeQuit` - A fix for wrong rating reward
31. Improved message about banning ctrl+k in coop - changed the display of the warning when trying to ctrlk ACU in coop
32. Seraphim shader patch - changed the aesthetic of seraphim units
33. Ru update strings_db.lua - improved russian translation

Contributors:

• speed2
• KionX
• keyser
• Uveso
• BlackYps
• Strogo
• Stratege
• ZeroCiel
• Exotic-Retard
• Lorhtan
• Askaholic

This post will be updated whenever new changes are merged and thus available for testing in the FAF Develop game patch.
If anyone is interested in testing PRs that are not yet merged then you can do so by following this guide.

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edit: 12.02.2020 -> added #3, #4, #5 and #6
edit: 15.02.2020 -> added #7
16.2.2020 -> added #8, #9 and #10
22.2.2020 -> added #11, #12 and #13

[speed2]

• Refactoring - just some cleanup

"just some cleanup" !!! thanks for this description

[PhilipJFry]

fixed it for you

[Sir Prize]

I said this in the other thread:

Seems the update broke the scoreboard in replays if you watch from a player's perspective. Obviously it's more important to have the anti-ghosting change and the added functionality in the scoreboard are really good for in-game, but it would be ideal if you could still track the progress of all players when watching replays from a POV. Could the code for the scoreboard change(s) have a new line inserted to only activate when it's not a replay?

I guess it belongs here.

[PhilipJFry]

added #3, #4, #5 and #6
FYI the scoreboard fix also allows you to disable showing information to your allies which is a) nice to have i suppose and b) required for game modes such as PhantomX

[PhilipJFry]

added #7

[PhilipJFry]

3 more PRs got merged (#8, #9 and #10)

[PhilipJFry]

3 more PRs (11,12 and 13)

[Sir Prize]

https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/2994 pls?

[PhilipJFry]

if you want it to get merged faster then pls help testing
i don't have a 4k monitor so testing it on my end is not great...
i can still do basic tests to see if stuff breaks but not as much as i'd like to