Ancient Warfare 3 News

Additions

• Added a military jeep
  
• Added a new faction (High Culture)
  
  • There are Egyptian, Greek and Roman units + equipment
    
• Added some new WWI/WWII weapons
  
• Added a new volcano biome
  
• Added stone bridges
  
• Added a future ammo pack
  
• Added a nuclear bomb
  
• Added 2 modern jets and 1 future jet
  
• Added large lazer fences
  
• Added an anti air rocket launcher
  

Improvements

• Added a fog option in the environment settings
  
  
  
  • Fog is enabled by default
    
• Squad mode
  
  
  
  • This is an experimental feature! Players can choose up to 4 units which will follow the player and attack the target, the player is attacking
    
  • You can choose the units from the battle settings panel
    
  • You can also change the kind of formation by pressing 'H'
    
• Added an option to search units in unit spawn settings
  
• Added FOV settings for first and third person
  
• The player will now pickup the bullets from guns on the ground
  
• The player will now stay on boats
  
• Added an option for friendly fire in editor
  
• Improved zombie survial mode
  
  • Players have to open airdrops to get food and water
    
  • Added an option for a time limit to win the game
    
• Added a spawn direction option for unit spawners
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed that custom zombie units wont cause damage
  
• Fixed that zombies wont find targets in zombie survival
  
• Units can always destroy castle gates now
  
• Fixed a weather sound leak in the editor
  
• Fixed the destruction of transport helicopters/planes
  

Next update
For Alpha 23, there were some other things planned, but I decided to add the missing 'High Culture' faction first.
With the next Alpha, I want to add more content and features (there are still many suggestions left), but I also want to work on the stability of the game, polish all things a bit and work towards the end of early access. This doesn't mean the end of development and new content, but the game and it's updates will be more polished and stable.

Additions

• Added 3 world war planes
  
  
  
  • This planes will use machine guns to fight air targets and bombs to attack targets on the terrain
    
• Added new units and equipment
  
  
  
  • Medieval heal stick unit
    
  • Modern field paramedic unit
    
  • Minigun unit
    
  • Molotov unit
    
  • Grenade units for RGO-grenades, poison grenades, ...
    
• Added the gamemode 'Eliminate'
  
  
  
  • Choose a target to kill or defend to win the game
    
• Added the following objects
  
  
  
  • Watertower
    
  • Supermarket (with and without interieur)
    
  • Burger shop (with and without interieur)
    
  • Coffee shop (with and without interieur)
    
  • Gas station (with and without interieur)
    
  • 2 kinds of lazer fences
    
  • Barbwire trap
    
  • Ammo pile
    
  • 2 small stone bunkers
    
  • 13 destroyed vehicles
    

Improvements

• You can now create custom zombie units with melee weapons
  
• Terrain editor improvements
  
  
  
  • Paint ocean areas
    
  • Paint non tree areas
    
• Reworked the 'Gladiator Arena' mode
  
  
  
  • New arena with obstacles to have some cover
    
  • There are rounds of units from different entries
    
  • Medipacks, Ammopacks and grenades will spawn after each round
    
  • Options in the main menu (difficulty, equipment, enemy era)
    
• Grenades will now fly towards your aim target
  
• Helicopters will crash to the ground instead of exploding into the air
  
• Zombies can now drop out of planes
  
• Improved the main menu settings panel
  
• AI improvements
  
  
  
  • Ranged units will rotate their arms towards their target
    
  • Ranged units will continue to move towards their target until they have a line of sight
    

Bugfixes

• Fixed that the player couldn't use shields while walking
  
• Fixed problems with cursor restrictions
  
• Fixed that transport helicopters count as unit if off map
  
• Fixed some visual glitches for units on towers
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the unit placement to stop working
  
• Fixed that controlling custom units would not apply things like custom health
  
• Fixed that units could walk through containers and castle gates
  
• Fixed an error that broke the updating process of steam workshop maps
  

Next update
The next update will be released at the end of next month.
There will be more content, like world war weapons, buildings, a new biome and more. In addition, there are many improvements and smaller features planned, which will improve the editor and the gameplay.

Update delay

Until now the updates were released monthly.
Unfortunately there is a delay with Alpha 22. It's planned to release it between mid and end of July.

What will be included?

• Medic units (medieval and modern)
  
• Grenade units
  
• Minigun + unit
  
• Molotov cocktail + unit
  
• Arena mode rework with settings and more factions
  
• WWI/WWII planes and air battles + land bombing
  
• New decorative objects and buildings (based on suggestions)
  
• Custom zombie units with melee weapons
  
• AI improvements
  
• Terrain editor improvements
  
• Bug fixes
  

Some screenshots from the current version:

Additions

• Added Artic Biome with ice instead of water
  
• Added a helicopter for the future faction
  
• Added a transport helicopter for units (CH53)
  
• Added a plane, which will drop units (AC130)
  
• Custom units can now be shared in the Steam Workshop
  

Improvements

• Custom units can now have up to 100000 health
  
• Added an option deactivate dismemberment for custom units
  
• Added an option to choose the faction of a destructable object
  
• Added an option to deactivate unit despawning
  
• Thrown melee weapons will now cause damage
  
• Added an arrow, when placing air units in the editor, so that it's easier to place them
  
• Updated to .NET 4.6 scripting runtime
  
  
  
  • This will do some performance improvements
    
• Updated to a new engine version
  
  
  
  • Improved particle system rendering
    
  • Improved crash handling
    
  • Some small performance + stability improvements
    
• Added ambient environment sounds for each biome
  

AI improvements

• Implemented a priority queue
  
  
  
  • Each unit can now have it's own priorities for targeting units
    
  • For instance: Anti air tanks will now priorize air vehicles, units with RPGs will priorize vehicles, ...
    
• Improved AI targeting process
  
  
  
  • Until Alpha 20, the units would just find any target in a certain radius.
    
  • Now, units will only find targets if:
    
    
    
    • The target is in the field of view (170 degrees for default units)
      
    • The target has shot it's weapon or hit another unit with a sword
      
    • The target is under 5 meters away
      
    • The searching unit got hurt
      
    
    
  • If there was no target for a while, units will start to look around to find a target
    
• Improved the AI behaviour
  
  
  
  • AIs will no longer shoot, if there is an allied unit in the line of fire
    

Bug fixes

• Fixed some errors with the units in helicopters and ship cannon units
  
• Fixed weather size on large terrains
  
• Fixed a bug, that caused ships to not land correctly, so that the units drowned
  
• Fixed a bug that caused units to not leave the ship
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the on ship unit movement to stop working
  
• Fixed a bug that units could walk through wood log walls
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rpg units to shoot for no reason
  
• Fixed missing vehicle shot sound
  
• Fixed vehicle engine sounds while not moving
  

Balancing

• Decreased battering ram damage
  
• Increased catapult damage
  
• Increased AMX and Marksman (anti air vehicles) attack range
  

Next update
The engine and runtime update for this update took too much time, so that there are many AI improvements left for the next update. For instance, there is a cover system planned, so that the AI will search for cover points in their environment. The new 'Eliminate' game mode was planned for this update, too, but it will be in the next one.
Since there are many suggestions for new buildings and decoration objects, there are many new objects planned for Alpha 22.
For instance, there are WWI/WWII air planes planned.

Additions

• Added 3 helicopters
  
  • AH-64
    
  • MI-28
    
  • Tiger
    
• Added flame crossbows and bows
  
• Added static MG with and without shield
  
• Added a grenade launcher
  
• Added a future turret
  

Improvements

• Added a destruction settings panel for buildings
  
• Improved all tree colliders, so that only the branches will cause collisions
  
• Vehicles can now drive over units
  
• Units can burn now
  
• You can now choose a RTS camera in the options
  
• Added an option to invert the mouse
  
• Added an option to deactivate blood
  
• Vehicles will now use real physics
  
• Improved vehicle functionality
  
• Improved the vehicle camera
  
• Improved the environment material light behaviour
  
• Added a progressbar to display the loading progress in the custom battle editor
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed missing zombie armor
  
• Fixed reversed bolo machete materials
  
• Fixed some errors/problems with weapon attachments
  
• Fixed the weapon grip selection
  
• Fixed that closing the pause menu would cause the controlled vehicle to shoot
  
• Fixed siege weapon rotation jittering in some situations
  
• Fixed bullets were using the wrong caliber
  
• Fixed a bug that caused tree spawning in buildings
  

Next update
For the next update, there are many AI improvements planned. The AI will get a field of view, react to sounds and to their environment. There is a new targeting system planned, which will be customizable in editor.
Other planned features are a new gamemode, future content, improved editor settings, an engine + scripting runtime update and sharing custom units in the steam workshop.