AI War 2 News

New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.511_Modtopia

This one has yet more multiplayer improvements, and some general bugfixes, both from Badger. There are also a number of balance improvements from CRCGamer, and some quality of life improvements by Dismiss, and then... so many new mods, and mod changes!

There's a new Exowar Overhaul mod by Lord of Nothing, which gives you more exo war unity variety.

The Dyson Sidekick by Badger has been refined a lot further, although I understand even more refinements are planned. His multiplayer group has been getting happily murdered in that scenario, so I gather these are balance and other adjustments to make that a more fair fight.

Dismiss has been an absolute mod factory in this timeframe. The Reclaimers mod has exploration outposts now. The Generator mod has more map refinements. Points of Interest is an all-new mod that includes new game features like Points of Interest (natural phenomena, etc), and also new AI types.

Not listed in the release notes, but Puffin has also made a ton of updates to his Classic Fusion total conversion mod. If you've been playing that and enjoy it, make sure and let him know! I don't think he's heard anything from anyone except other modders, and that's a pretty amazing mod he's got going on.

More to come soon.
Enjoy!

New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.508_Multiplayer_Bug_Smiting_Part_4

More bugfixes for MP, and more balance in general for the necromancer, the dyson sidekick, and a load of mod updates. Dismiss comes in with a bunch of updates to his Outguard Party mod, the Reclaimers mod, and the Generator mod.

More to come soon.
Enjoy!

New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.507_Multiplayer_Bug_Smiting_Part_3

Another big batch of MP bugfixes from Badger, along with other bugfixes and balance tuning from Badger, CRCGamer, and Dismiss. Also lots of mod updates from Dismiss that aren't in the release notes, but should be visible in-game.

More to come soon.
Enjoy!

New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.504_Multiplayer_Bug_Smiting_Part_2

This one includes more MP fixes, as well as some fixes and balance to SP. Lots of work from Badger, CRCGamer, and Dismiss in here.

The MP fixes mostly center around when new planets appear, as well as quiet some logging with some of the Neinzul factions. Really there's not an overall theme here with the fixes and balance, each line item pretty much speaks for itself in the release notes. It's a great collection of stuff to have fixed, including a number of items complained about recently by folks.

More to come soon.
Enjoy!

New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.503_Multiplayer_Bug_Smiting

This one fixes the most notorious of the multiplayer bugs that players have been facing -- big thanks to Badger for rooting out several that I just could not see, and had looked right past before. Wormhole changes were completely not working when sent to clients unless you disconnected and reconnected, due to a really subtle bug that I'd been unable to find for months. Badger found and nailed it. Then there was also a bug with occasional corruption of data with any faction that used fireteams, which was also incredibly subtle in its expression. Badger found and fixed that, too, along with the hacks getting out of sync on the client.

Previously, when the fireteams sync got messed up, it was pretty much just completely scrambled on the client from then on until disconnect and reconnect, so a number of other bugs should be gone now thanks to that one fix. In a similar vein, the bug with units being in random wrong spots on the client, but only sometimes, is hopefully now fixed -- that one is very hard to test in such a way that we can be sure it is gone, but fingers crossed. The fix for that was another subtle one, but seems logical that it would resolve it.

There are also new MP sync options. There's a button in the debug menu under the escape menu that you can press to force an immediate sync to all of the clients, from the host or clients, so that if things don't look right on the clients, they will be straightened out right away versus anyone needing to disconnect and reconnect. Secondarily, there's a new setting (under Networking) called "Host Only: Force Sync Interval". On this interval (in minutes), the game will automatically sync all data to clients. So if you set this value to 20, every 20 minutes the game will resync to clients.

What about beyond multiplayer? Well, CRCGamer has made a number of balance improvements to DLC units, and also to his More System Defenders mod. Badger has also made some balance improvements to his Dyson Sidekick.

Classic Fusion by Puffin and a variety of mods by Dismiss have also gotten a variety of updates, but those haven't had their notes updated in the wiki; that's up the the mod authors themselves, and I think they may have some notes inside the mods themselves. It looks like there's a whole new mod from Dismiss as well, which is exciting!

More to come soon.
Enjoy!