Alpha 27

Content

• Added a wild west faction with the following equipment:
  
  • Western hat & coat
    
  • Bowie knife
    
  • Coach gun
    
  • Dynamite
    
  • Gatling gun
    
  • Sawed off coach gun
    
  • 3 revolvers
    
  • 4 rifles
    
• Added a static world war flamethrower
  
• Added a sticky rgo grenade
  
• Added a sticky C4 pack
  
• Added a heal crate
  
• Added a future ammo pile
  
• Added an oil barrel and a burning barrel
  
• Added a wooden table to store equipment on it
  
• Added a flak cannon
  
• Added the lord units from Ancient Warfare 2
  
  • Lord of Darkness
    
  • Lord of Vikings
    
  • Lord of Fire
    
  • Lord of Ice
    
  • Lord of Samurai
    
  • Lord of Silver
    
  • Lord of Bronze
    
  • Lord of Hell
    
  • Lord of Lords
    
  • Please note that the lord equipment is exclusively made for the lord's. You can pick it up, if you kill a lord, but you can't start with it
    
• Christmas content
  
  • There is an improved christmas biome available from last year, as well as santa and snowman units
    
  • In addition there are now snowball throwers, a candy stick weapon and present grenades in game.
    

New features & improvements

• You can now look at things you want to pick up
  
• Improved the look of projectile trails
  
• Workshop items will show there whole description now
  
• You can now cancel shotgun reloading with left click
  
• Performance improvements
  
  • This update will improve the performance quite a lot and there are plans to continue to improve the performance in 2019.
    
  • There are major changes to physics and some other systems to improve the performance and stability. If you notice any problems related to physics, please report them in the community hub.
    
  • There is a new option in the settings called "Low RAM mode". The option is deactivated by default and it should stay deactivated to improve the performance. However, if you really need every single MB of RAM and you notice very high RAM usage, you can enable this option.
    
  • The performance is obviously different on any system, but with the new changes, test battles which ran with 30-40 fps in the alpha 26, will now run with 50-60 fps in alpha 27. However, the improvement depends on your system, but you should be able to create larger battles than before.
    

Bug-fixes

• Fixed a bug that broke the custom unit editor then using an equipment filter
  
• Fixed a bug that caused AI shotgun units to only reload one shot
  
• Fixed that buildings created blood splashes
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the camera to shake after selecting a unit to control
  

Next update
Alpha 28 will probably be released at the end of January 2019. There will be a development break until the beginning 2019.
In 2019 I want to continue to develop Ancient Warfare 3 and it is planned to give the community more insights about the current development. There is a new website in progress with a roadmap and there will be teasers on twitter during the development of an update.