Ancient Warfare 3 News

General

• Removed ground vehicles from the game (for now), old maps can still spawn the vehicles
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed the UI of the apartment building settings
  
• Fixed lag that could happen when multiple spawners used the same spawn rate
  
• Fixed a lag that could happened when duplicating spawners
  
• Fixed UI issues in the custom unit creator when using a 21:9 apsect ratio
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed that AIs would try to shoot through environment objects
  
• Reduced lag when deleting objects in the editor
  
• Fixed selection functionality and visibility of some objects like fences and signs
  
• Fixed the drop zone marker for future dropships
  
• Removed barrel attachment slot on the Val
  
• Fixed the dent in house 8
  
• Fixed clipping problems with greek garnment and greek armor
  
• Fixed that AIs would not target small units
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed that flags spawned units in the air
  
• Fixed that players could not choose elimination targets and squad units
  
• Fixed that units in guard mode did not work as expected
  
• Fixed that trenches could not be placed in some cases
  

WMC Poll Results
Fire catapult: 207 votes
Inflammable oil areas: 333 votes
Medieval cape: 226 votes
Laser beam rifle: 359 votes


The laser beam rifle will be added in the 0.34.0 update.

Content

• Added a variant of the swat helmet without face shield
  
• Added a night vision effect for the night vision device, if the player is wearing one (Toggle on/off with "n")
  

Features & Improvements

• Improved cpu performance while playing a battle with units
  
• Improved the rendering performance of environment objects, indestructible or objects with deactivate destruction while playing a battle
  
• Reduced editor cpu usage
  
• Improved editor physics performance
  
• Minor custom battle editor UI improvements
  
• Updated battle start and end UI
  
• You can now preview walkable AI areas in the editor
  
• Loading battles from the workshop will run async now
  
• The editor info tooltip now shows the amount of environment objects
  
• Editing roads will now show the road and node index
  
• Flashbangs have a higher effect radius and work more reliably now
  
• Replaced the beach biome environment sound
  
• Container towers can now be placed on other objects
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed that duplicating (or placing prefab) foundations would reset their height
  
• Fixed that duplicating (or placing prefab) modular bridges would reset their height
  
• Fixed that unarmed players could not throw grenades
  
• Fixed that containers did not block AI movement
  
• Fixed that spawn/capture flags did spawn units inside foundations and other objects
  
• Fixed that placing a player while editing a drop vehicle could result in 2 players in one battle
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the main menu from loading
  
• Fixed a UI bug that messed up placement options when duplicating some objects
  
• Fixed that flashbangs did not stop already walking units
  
• Fixed a bug that some objects did not block AI movement the way they should have
  
• Fixed that changing the start color of the flag would not change the material of it
  
• Fixed broken custom unit thumbails after subscribing to it
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented low foundations to connect to the terrain in some cases
  
• Fixed illegal placement of some objects if they got connected to another object of the same kind
  
• Fixed that subscribing multiple times in the same session would duplicate workshop units
  

Next update
The next update will probably take a little longer than a week.
Follow the roadmap (https://aw3.jnigames.com/) or #development-preview channel on discord to see what is currently being worked on

Features & Improvements

• Improved navigation data generation performance
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that resulted in unwalkable areas if the blocking object got destroyed
  
• Fixed a bug that caused units to walk to positions of dead units
  
• Fixed that saving a battle did not show the progress
  
• Fixed ship unit rotation
  
• Fixed that furniture objects did not block navigation