Ancient Warfare 3 News

Content

• Added a maul weapon (WMC reward)
  
• Added paper sheets and sticky notes
  
  
  
  • Can be placed on any other object (except for generated environment)
    
  • Text can be adjusted and supports basic tag based formating
    
• Added computer screens, a computer, mouse and keyboard
  

Features & Improvements

• You can now choose spawner limits for a specific team
  
• Spawner destruction can now be deactivated
  
• You can now climb down ladders by not pressing space
  
• You can now still move in each direction while on a ladder
  
• Doors will no longer open automatically
  
  
  
  • The interact key (default: F) can be used to open/close them
    
  • Modular doors can now be locked
    
• Added keys and keycards that can be assigned to doors to unlock them
  
• Performance Improvements
  
  
  
  • Improved the loading speed for users with many custom units/prefabs when the hard drive is not the limiting factor
    
  • Reduced lag when loading images of workshop items and store battles/units/...
    
• Reduced health of air vehicles
  
• Increased damage of flak cannon, marksman tank and AMX tank
  
• Improved targeting of flak cannon, marksman, AMX and AA unit against air vehicles
  
• Missing prefab workshop icons will now be downloaded from steam instead of generated
  
• Deathmatch mode can now result in a draw
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed newly subscribed prefab icon format
  
• Fixed that crouching in lava biomes would set the player on fire
  
• Remove laser turrets from airdrops
  
• Fixed rug placement on drywall floors
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause spawners to spawn units inside objects
  
• Fixed floating hostage units
  
• Fixed zombie grenades on passive units
  
• Fixed default animation settings in the unit creator
  

Content

• Added a future cannon turret
  
• Added a WWI 6 inch cannon turret
  
• Added a construction modular building set with framed and drywall parts
  
• Added 60+ decorative objects like filled palettes, rubble piles, material stacks, ...
  

Features & Improvements

• Added an option to create prefabs with the size of regular maps
  
• Improved the editor selection of objects to work when clicking on any part of an object
  
• Empty vehicles can now be placed on objects
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a freeze/crash that happened when closing the game
  
• Fixed that the terrain did not count as an obstacle for the AI (as a result, placing objects below the terrain can block their AI navigation!)
  
• Fixed missing icons for some objects/equipment
  
• Fixed that changing the custom unit type would reset the appearance setting
  
• Fixed pause menu continue button in the arena
  
• Fixed selection of skeletons/ghosts when trying to select a unit to play as
  
• Fixed bullet icon resolution issue
  
• Fixed animations of some vanilla skeleton units
  
• Fixed skeleton hands clipping through gloves
  

Content

• Added a half version of the wood fence
  
• Added a two filter gas mask
  

Features & Improvements

• New skeleton model
  
• Skeleton units can now be equipped with all weapons and equipment objects
  
• Allowed a lot of objects to be placed on other objects
  
• Skeletons can now be passive units or corpses
  
• Custom zombies can now be poisoned or burned
  
• Added custom ghost units (they dont bleed and have no visible color but are still fighting for one color)
  
• Improved the stability of the custom battle creator
  
• Added a margin settings for heightmaps
  
• The WMC panel will now be hidden after the submission period ended
  
• More objects can now be placed on other objects (hedges, decoration objects, destroyed vehicles, ...)
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed that melee units couldnt target siege weapon control units
  
• Fixed that the grid overlay would be visible on certain object
  
• Fixed back of M1 tank model
  
• Fixed object category of some tanks
  
• Workaround for text mesh overflow error
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the custom battle editor to keep working on old tasks
  

Hello, I prepared another small bug fixing patch to improve the overall stability of the game. The next regular feature update should be available in approx. 2-3 weeks.

Bug fixes

• Fixed that units would try to shoot through indestructible glass
  
• Fixed custom poses when loading some custom units
  
• Fixed terrain holes from trenches in the prefab creator
  
• Fixed/added metallic/smoothness settings for camo clothing
  
• Fixed ammo variants for future shotgun and material melting gun
  
• Fixed missing face equipment icons
  
• Fixed lag when adjusting the filter in the equipment panel
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the unit creator to lock up when changing a unit while animation preview was playing
  
• Fixed flickering of settings panels when clicking on an object
  
• Fixed flying ship bug
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed equipment panel UI after playing a campaign
  
• Fixed santa beard color of old units
  
• Fixed arena mode if no units match the settings
  
• Fixed that passive units wont die under water
  
• Fixed physics problems when picking up arm plates
  
• Fixed arm plate duplication exploit when picking up/dropping them
  
• Fixed UI blocking problems in the terrain editor
  
• Fixed terrain height slider min limit (1 -> 0)
  
• Fixed recommended workshop item error after loading
  
• Fixed wrong icons for the recommended workshop items
  
• Fixed exit button crash
  
• Fixed grid overlay on windows
  
• Fixed missing shape rotation indicator when editing the terrain (Q/E to rotate)
  
• Fixed camera problems when rotating the shape when editing the terrain
  
• Fixed that control units in vehicles could be killed by explosions