Ancient Warfare 3 News

Content:

• Added some new units and weapons
  
  • Greek fire unit
    
  • Cannon & Scatter Cannon unit
    
  • Spear thrower
    
  • Axe thrower
    
  • Knife thrower
    
  • Hwacha unit
    
  • Poison bow unit
    
  • Poison crossbow unit
    
  • Hoplite unit
    
  • Dog unit
    
  • Ladder unit
    
  • Moving ballista unit
    
  • Compound bow unit
    
  • Compound crossbow unit
    
  • King unit
    
  • Flag bearer unit
    
    • This unit will heal units in a 7.5m radius and increase their movement speed by 1m/s
      
  • Modern mortar
    
  • Modern flame mortar
    
  • Baron Von Games special unit
    
• Added a campfire
  
• Added a dog cage
  

Improvements & Features:

• Added 34 steam achievements
  
• Re added the arsenal
  
• Horses will now have random colors
  
• Added blood splashes for projectile impacts
  
• Ballista arrows will now penetrate units
  
• Bow, crossbow and hwacha arrows will now penetrate units before sticking to it
  
• Added a search option for custom unit equipment
  
• Added an option to start workshop items directly instead of loading them to the editor first
  
• You can now use more characters in names for the workshop: . , : / ( ) [ ] ' # + % $ ! ? < > | ;
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• Errors while loading a battle will no longer freeze the game. Instead the game will try to continue loading the battle and show the errors at the end of the process
  
• Added armor to air vehicle pilots
  
• Added a whip to the elephant unit
  
• Improved the rendering performance of some objects
  
• Changed the UI font
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused weapons to cut body parts through armor
  
• Fixed that siege weapons would animate movement while not moving
  
• Fixed cannon projectile collision detection
  
• Fixed that crossbow units cancel their reload animation and shoot into the ground
  
• Fixed that ship scatter cannons didn't work
  
• Fixed some UI issues which occured on the first game start
  
• Fixed some UI issues at the end of Conquest & KOTH
  
• Fixed a bug that caused flame grenades to continue doing damage without the flame animation
  
• Fixed that deactivating friendly fire made the player invincible
  
• Fixed that large zombies couldn't do damage to units
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to get stuck in shooting range doors
  
• Fixed a bug that caused vehicles to not do any damage with friendly fire disabled
  
• Fixed the option 'Game over on player death'
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some weapons to block the view of AIs
  
• Fixed a bug that caused bow units to miss too many of their shots
  
• Fixed the "Air Vehicle" filter in the editor placement list
  
• Fixed a bug that caused units to be placed too high and flying instead of walking
  

Next update:
Alpha 27 will be released before christmas. It will contain new christmas content and probably a new wild west faction.

Since there was some confusion about the release date of Alpha 25, we just wanted to give you some information about the future update plans.

Alpha 26 is almost finished and the planned release date is the 1st December 2018.
The update will reimplement some of the missing Ancient Warfare 2 units. Beside that, there will be some new units, Steam Achievements, some smaller improvements and bug fixes.

This is a screenshot of some of the new units:


Alpha 27 will be released one or two days before christmas with new content, improvements and bug fixes.
After that, there will be a two week development pause which we will use to create a public roadmap for 2019.

New content

• Added 9 destructable suburban houses
  
• Added a medieval horse stable
  
• Added large concrete walls
  
• Added wire fence
  
• Added stone barriers
  
• Added a practice target
  
• Added a cinderblock wall
  
• Added trainings range walls
  
• Added a large world war tent
  
• Added a camp bed
  
• Added a metal table
  
• Added powerlines
  
• Added medieval torture objects
  
  • Gallow
    
  • Pillory
    
  • Pyre
    
  • Guillotine
    
• Added a world war tank barricade
  
• Added horse corpses
  
• Added a world war AP-mine
  
• Added a medieval well
  
• Added a radio tower
  
• Added to wirespools
  
• Added a stack of barrels
  
• Added a stack of pallets
  
• Added a stack of tires
  
• Added trenches
  
• Added armored lightsaber units
  
• Added armored bow and crossbow units
  

Improvements & new features

• AI units will now use ladders
  
• Added a filter to the unit placement list
  
• The unit placement list is now ordered alphabetically
  
• Improved the game database to reduce corruptions and problems and reduce the time required to add new content.
  

Bug fixes
This is the list of bugs that have been fixed in all patches after Alpha 24 and in Alpha 25:

• Fixed that custom units will show up in unit spawners (Planned as a feature in Alpha 26)
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed object placement while editing the terrain
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the ship control unit to disappear
  
• Fixed a bug that caused picked up weapons to stop working
  
• Fixed a bug that caused grenade units from spawners to not work correctly
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to reload rocket launcher twice and blow himself up
  
• Fixed a bug that caused units in rivers to fly in some cases
  
• Fixed a bug that caused horses to play the run animation while standing still
  
• Fixed the horse saddle color
  
• Fixed that custom units with viking helmets would not shoot
  
• Fixed a bug that caused custom units to not attack the right targets
  
• Fixed a bug that caused ship, vehicle and siege weapon control units to have their legs displaced
  
• Fixed a bug that caused cannon balls to explode directly after they spawned
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the ship cannon projectile settings to reset
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed the placement of siege weapons on ships
  

Alpha 26
The todo list is very long and there are so many suggestions left. For alpha 26 it's planned to add missing units from Ancient Warfare 2, more siege units, suggested features and some things that were originally planned for Alpha 25. If there is still time left, I want to add steam achievements.
The trenches and some other things delayed the development plan.
However, the plan is to accelerate the development and push Alpha 26 at the end of this month and Alpha 27 before christmas.

Content:

• Added a halloween biome
  
• Added a few skeleton units
  
• Added a chainsaw unit
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that allowed unit placement while editing the terrain
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the ship control units to disappear if the 'dynamic sails' option has been disabled
  
• Fixed a bug that caused weapons to stop working
  
• Fixed that grenade units from spawners wouldn't throw grenades
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rocket launchers to explode in some scenarios
  
• Fixed a bug that caused flying units in rivers
  

Other:

• Added a future shotgun
  
• Enabled an experimental feature which allows units to use ladders
  

Alpha 25 is still in progress and it will need some more time until the release.
Below are some screenshots from a few new objects.

Modern houses:
There are 8 fully destructable suburban houses to create urban environments. There are also some other urban decoration objects planned.

New barricades
There are some new barricades and decorative objects to create something like a shooting range.

Trenches
This is the main reason why the update takes so long. This has been a highly requested feature, which is quite difficult to implement, but I'm on it and the progress is looking good so far.

Content additions:

• Added some high culture horse units
  
• Added horse units with armored riders
  
• Added a world war mustard gas grenade
  
• Added flamethrowers
  
  • Improvised flamethrower
    
  • Single-shot-flamethrower
    
• Added a new jungle biome
  
• Added bone armor and armored stone age units
  
• Added placeable corpses
  
• Added an airdrop flare
  
• Added a gauntlet dagger unit
  
• Added decorative grave objects
  
• Added an aerial dart bomb
  

Improvements & new features

• Added an option for supply planes in custom battles
  
• Added an option to choose the spawn points for conquest and KOTH
  
• The default spawn areas are now being visualized in the editor
  
• Added a search field for custom units
  
• Added a search field for save files
  
• Players can now fly planes and helicopters
  
• Added a basic tutorial
  
  • The tutorial will explain the basic editor functions, player controls, war plane controls and helicopter controls.
    
• UI improvements
  
  • Improved the random abttle UI in main menu
    
  • Improved the battle settings in editor
    
  • Improved the panel position if there are many units selected in the editor
    
• Removed animation head movement in first person
  
• Improved the ship landing
  
  • Ships will now land directly on the coast and no longer in shallow water to make it easier to create working landing maps with custom oceans
    
• Updated the engine to fix some small lags caused by some physic interactions
  
• Added descriptions for all objects and equipment
  

Weekly map competition:

• For all of you who don't know about the weekly map competition yet, please make sure to check out this forum post: AW3 Weekly Map Competition by Desert-Mammoth
  
• The current topic and time left for the competition is being shown in the main menu
  
• The winning map of the latest competition will get featured in the main menu
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed missing armor on some units
  
• Fixed wrong terrain shading on cancel edit mode
  
• Fixed wrong terrain collider on cancel edit mode
  
• Fixed that editing custom zombie units would stack up armor and weapons
  
• Fixed that airdrops started before the start of the game
  
• Fixed an error which prevented battles from being saved in some cases
  
• Fixed wrong unit amount after loading a conquest battle
  
• Fixed military jeep camera
  
• Fixed that entering and moving vehicles willbroke the player
  
• Fixed that units spawned in the water in conquest and KOTH
  
• Fixed that units spawned in the ground in the gladiator arena
  
• Fixed not working machine guns on F16, F20 and future jet
  
• Fixed that world war tanks spawned modern units
  
• Fixed the size of the terrain ground
  
• Fixed the occurrence of a terrain hole, if water was enabled
  
• Fixed that units walked through roads
  
• Fixed that changing terrain details will mess up bridges and units
  
• Fixed unarmed weapon sounds
  
• Fixed that deleting a road node reactivated trees
  
• Fixed that planes will not get destroyed if flying into buildings
  
• Fixed that planes sometimes collided with its own bombs
  
• Fixed that helicopters didn't crash if they hit objects
  
• Fixed that driving over ragdolls will not work with some vehicles
  

Next update:
Alpha 25 will be a content update. There is a lack of buildings and decorative objects in game which makes it bit difficult to build maps.
Also, I would like to continue fixing bugs and improve the stability of the game, so please continue reporting bugs and problems to the community hub.