Ancient Warfare 3 News

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.

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.