Ancient Warfare 3 News

Small patch notes are only posted on discord. This is the collection of the latest patches:

Features & Improvements

• Improved the movement system
  
  
  
  • Even if there is no path to the target available, the unit will walk as far as possible
    

Bug fixes

• Fixed missing missing weapon icon for the BBD revolver
  
• Fixed a visual bugs with crouching passive units
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from cenceling operation in the custom unit creator
  
• Fixed that units would not walk towards targets on not walkable towers
  
• Fixed that player could walk through walls while riding animals
  
• Fixed workshop icon generation for units with clothing items
  
• Fixed a bug that placed the player into the ground after changing his animal, vehicle or siege weapon
  

Features & Improvements

• Heavily improved the movement system navigation data generation performance for maps with many buildings
  
• If a player controlled ship hits the terrain, it will get stuck and try to drop the units on board
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the load/save panel to hide some items
  

Content

• Added the P90 (WMC27 winner request)
  

Features & Improvements

• The application will freeze less when loading the game
  
• Ranged units have an additional attack range now
  
  
  
  • + 50% attack range
    
  • They run short distances in combat
    
  • They shoot while running if they look at the target
    

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the scope zoom from the previous weapon to stay
  
• Fixed a bug that caused ship captains to fly in the air
  
• Fixed medieval ship ladders
  
• Fixed the gladiator arena once again...
  
• Fixed that the submitted data from the prvious competition would load
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented some maps from being uploaded to the workshop
  

Content

• Added 2 text sign objects
  

Features & Improvements

• Added naval boarding
  
  
  
  • Ships will try to enter each other if they are allowed to (change settings by selecting a ship in the editor)
    
  • NOTE: Ships will only start to enter other ships, if there are units on the ship
    
• Reduced the zeppelin hp
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from starting some game modes with a player in a plane
  
• Fixed the selection of units on ships
  

Content

• Added the A7V tank
  
• Added the Mark V tank
  
• Added the Suomi KP 31 (WMC 28 winner weapon)
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed the missing WMC data
  
• Fixed that caused vehicles to move after their destruction
  

Usually small patch notes are only posted on discord, but since Alpha 31 will be published in many small updates instead of one big update, you can find the list of patch notes for the first half of the month below:

(New featues are available since Alpha 0.30.10)

• Fixed the terrain editor
  
• Fixed fence placement
  
• Fixed missing rain in first person
  
• You can place floors above stairs now
  
• Fixed flying units from CH53
  
• Fixed helicopter rotations
  
• Fixed a possible workshop error
  

• Fixed non tree areas
  
• Fixed that empty vehicles would count as units
  
• Fixed crouching passive units
  
• Fixed flying units after building destruction
  

• Fixed modular building destruction in editor
  
• Fixed that unit saving did not work
  
• Added future minigun units
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the playing from shooting in vehicles
  
• Fixed missing materials on small stone walls
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from building a second floor
  
• Fixed HUD visual bugs in the gladiator arena
  
• Fixed random player rotations in first person
  
• Fixed stair walking
  

• Switched wall banner icons
  
• Fixed future minigun armored variants
  
• Fixed duplicate unit entries in transport vehicles
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the play button to not work if logging into steam failed
  
• Fixed steam login on MacOS
  

• Increased editor object loading speed
  
• Fixed a bug that caused units to not try to walk around units on guard mode and get stuck
  
• Fixed that ranged units did not walk towards targets without line of sight
  

• Fixed the missing gatling gun model
  
• Fixed horse vs horse movement
  
• Fixed tank vs tank movement
  

• Fixed campaign update problems
  
• Fixed vehicles after dropping units
  
• Added workshop legal agreement message
  

• Improved the way how units exit transport vehicles
  
• Improved the drop position for units from planes
  

• Fixed that vehicles were not moving after dropping units
  
• Fixed the hostage mode
  
• Fixed passive units on ships
  
• Fixed some editor problems
  

Features & Improvements

• Added an option for planes to drop bomb carpets and leave the battle
  
• Added an option for players to start in drop planes and drop helicopters
  
• Added auto saving in a 2 minute interval to the editor
  
• Added airdrop settings to filter the equipment in airdrops
  
• Selecting the player will show the player settings now
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed not working hostages
  
• Fixed player rotations in planes
  
• Fixed that zombie survival game elements started before the battle started
  
• Fixed that bombs didn't deal any damage to CCKWs
  
• Fixed that units would target not moving passive units
  

Features & Improvements

• Added clothing items to each faction
  
• Added 2 clothing slots to the player and custom unit equipment
  
• Added clothing color customization
  
• Added weapon attachments to the custom unit editor
  
• Added the BBD Revolver (Requested weapon from the winner of the Weekly Map Compeition 26)
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused guard towers to be invisible with destruction deactivated
  
• Fixed a bug that caused automatic wall factions to be wrong
  
• Fixed that the CCKW wasn't able to kill units by running them over
  
• Fixed the arena game mode
  
• Fixed the weapon attachment problems in the arsenal
  
• Fixed that custom units without weapons would not deal damage
  
• Fixed a bug that causes a reset of the drop position of planes/helicopters/transport vehicles
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some horses to belong to the wrong faction
  

Content

• Added a modern rhib boat
  
• Added empty vehicles as placement object
  
• Added a WW2 unit transport vehicle (CCKW)
  
• Added modular building parts
  
  
  
  • There are wood, stone and concrete parts which snap to each other
    
  • Each part is destructible and destroying some parts might result in other parts being destroyed
    
• Added new passive units
  
  
  
  • Lumberjack
    
  • Blacksmith
    
  • 3x hurt unit
    
  • 2x sleeping unit
    
  • Scared unit
    
  • Crying unit
    
  • Engineer
    
  • Scout
    
  • Units that are lying down can be placed on beds and tables
    

Features & Improvements

• Formation & line placement
  
  
  
  • Add new placement modes that allow you to place up to 20 default units at once in different formations
    
• Added banners to walls to show their owner
  
• All siege weapons are destructible now
  
• LAV-25 and BTR can now transport units
  
• Added an option to copy and paste bomb drop settings
  
• Improved some of the tank models
  
• Enabled lord equipment for custom units
  
• New movement system
  
  
  
  • Most of the development time of alpha 30 was used to develop a new flexible and accessible movement system for the future of the game
    
  • It provides more information about the classification of a position in the world which means that the AI has more data to work with
    
  • This opens up new possibilities like a cover point system (alpha 31) and AI improvements (alpha 31+)
    
• AI improvements
  
  
  
  • Units are way more likely to find own paths and split up instead of walking in lines
    
  • Fixed many cases where the AI tried to attack things that it was not allowed to
    
• Added an option to set the player start health
  
• Added filters to custom unit creator equipment selection
  
• Oil barrel 2 explodes now
  
• Sand barricades are destructible now
  
• UI improvements
  
  
  
  • Load/save panel
    
    
    
    • Selects save name input field automatically
      
    • Added an option to sort save files by date
      
    • Improved visuals
      
    
    
  • Improved the editor warning panel
    
  • Enabled the pause menu in the editor
    
  • Added a quick access button to update workshop maps to reduce duplicates
    
  • All custom battle editor panels are placed next to each other now
    
• Added an overall game volume setting
  
• Added sounds for some transport
  
• Implemented a new Steam workshop backend
  
  
  
  • The old backend prevented some changes to the application structure and had some problems (especially on MacOS)
    
• New scripting backend for Windows
  
  
  
  • Performance improvements in some areas
    
  • The game should work more the same on all platforms now
    
    
    
    • A lot of problems got reported, that weren't really replicable because it only happened on some systems
      
    
    
  • Also, this should fix some crashes
    
• Added weekly map competition in game submission system in main menu and custom battle editor
  
• The winner of the weekly map competition can now choose a content object based on the reward description
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed that the battle workshop showed campaigns
  
• Fixed that standing vehicles killed units
  
• Fixed that you were able to place too many units in drop planes
  
• Fixed that destroyed vehicles would continue to move
  
• Fixed that some siege weapons moved in guard mode
  
• Fixed that hwachas would shoot a random targets
  
• Fixed friendly fire bugs
  
• Fixed that MLRS vehicles would not do any damage to each other
  
• Fixed that traps damaged buildings
  
• Fixed that elephants didn't deal any damage
  
• Fixed that ships were immune to bombs
  
• Fixed the delete player button
  
• Fixed the invisible head bug after using a vehicle
  
• Fixed missing icons
  

Next update
Please check out the roadmap

Other
If you want to suggest something, give feedback or just want to get involved into the development, make sure to join the discord server
The old version (alpha 29) is still available on a branch. Just in case that there are any game breaking issues.

Content

• Added A zeppelin which drops bombs
  
• Added a rocket launcher vehicle (MLRS)
  
• Added 2 WWII rocket launchers
  
• Added modular bridges without pillars
  
• Added empty siege weapons as objects
  
• Added fire and smoke as decoration objects
  
• Added blue blood decoration objects
  
• Added a blackhawk helicopter with miniguns
  

Features & Improvements

• Players can now control ships
  
  
  
  • Just kill the captain and go to the control wheel to control it
    
• Hostage game mode
  
  
  
  • Place one or more hostages
    
  • The player has to get to the hostage to free them
    
  • After that, the hostage will follow the player (or stay if you want to)
    
  • The goal is to bring the hostage to a selected extraction zone
    
• You can now choose between different crosshairs in the settings
  
• Improved the hitmarker position (Now stays at the hit point)
  
• Improved helicopter options
  
  
  
  • Added an option to not use missles
    
  • Added a skill slider to helicopters (Adjusts accuracy)
    
  • Mounted machine guns fire automatic bursts instead of full auto
    
  • Added a waypoint system for helicopters, so that you can choose paths for them
    
• Added different tank secondary weapons
  
• Updated rain visuals and ambient lighting
  
• Improved pause menu
  
• Improved settings panel
  
• Settings can now be changed from the pause menu
  
• Added an option to draw a 1x1m grid over the terrain
  
• Added an option to snap the unit placement to the grid
  
• Added effects for material melting gun impacts
  
• Updated the steamworks API to improve the stability
  
• Improved castle building
  
• Balanced some SMGs to do more damage
  
• Reduced startup lag
  
• Ranged AI will no longer walk towards their dead target
  
• Balanced black hole gun
  
  
  
  • It will grow to a size and shrink after that
    
• Improved vehicle movement
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused spider droids to not be destructable
  
• Fixed that dropping the shield would put it on the bag
  
• Fixed despawning heal fields in editor
  
• Fixed AI placement in player vehicles
  
• Fixed that handcuffed units get attacked
  
• Fixed missing icons
  
• Fixed that the player could not use siege weapons
  
• Fixed full auto cannon behaviour
  
• Fixed that the black hole gun did not affect vehicles
  
• Fixed that the AI walks into deep water and die
  
• Fixed some possible crash errors
  
• Fixed fast tank movement
  
• Fixed ranged units targeting
  
• Fixed unsmooth helicopter rotations
  
• Fixed a bug that caused planes to crash with bombs
  
• Fixed future mech destruction
  
• Fixed that changing the weapon in the respawn panel would reset the attachment data
  
• Fixed vehicle shooting
  
• Fixed that the player got stuck when trying to exit a battering ram
  

Next update
Actually there were some more features, like campaigns, planned for Alpha 29.
UnfortunatelyI don't have much time for the development at the moment, so that I decided to publish the existing new features and fixes now.
There will probably be some small patches in March to add the missing features and improve some areas of the game.
Basically the plan is to release the missing parts of Alpha 29 and 30 as soon as they are ready, so that you don't have to wait a month for the next major update.
Also thanks for all the suggestions and bug reports on Steam and Discord!