Ancient Warfare 3 News

[h3]Special Weekly Map Competition[/h3]
Starting on December 17th, 2020 at 18:00 UTC (10:00 PST) you got time until christmas eve to create the best winter themed map.
The winner gets to choose an item or object that will be added to the game.
Just like for the regular weekly map competitions you can upload your map through the popup in the main menu. The competition is hosted by Desert-Mammoth.

[h3]Snow update[/h3]
To help with the winter theme, there is a new option in the environment settings called "Coverage" that allows you to a layer of snow in each biome. The option got added in the latest version 0.35.0.3 which is available now!

The full patch notes are below. In case you prefer a video, here is a quick summary of the most relevant features and improvements in version 0.35.0: https://youtu.be/QLXG4AloM4Y

[h2] Alpha 0.35.0 patch notes[/h2]
Content

• Added M2 flamethrower
  
• Added flamethrower backpack (required for M2 flamethrower), but can be used as decoration on custom units
  

Features & Improvements

• Added anti aliasing (can be enabled in the graphics settings)
  
• Melee system improvements
  
  
  
  • Reworked some of the melee animations
    
  • Melee weapons will stop when hitting another weapon/shield
    
  • Players can now defend in 4 directions
    
  • Attack/Defend directions now work based on mouse movement (indicator and sensitivity adjustable in the game settings)
    
  • Skill setting is now working for AI melee units
    
  • Melee AI units will now block melee attacks
    
  • Melee AI units will now use their shield when they are getting shot
    
  • Melee weapon attack speeds depend on the weapon weight now
    
  • Blocking an attack will result in a short stun for the attacking unit
    
  • Improved melee weapon hit detections
    
  • Added blood splashes for melee weapon hits
    
  • Added dismemberment probabilities for each weapon
    
• AI targeting improvements
  
  
  
  • Units will now prioritize units that they can see
    
  • Guard/patrol units will only target units they can see
    
  • This will help to prevent targeting through walls in close quarters if other units are visible
    
• Other AI improvements
  
  
  
  • Improved visibility of ranged units
    
  • Improved navigation around corners (fixed jittering)
    
  • Melee units will no longer attack buildings
    
• Navigation features
  
  
  
  • You can now draw preferred and avoided areas for the AI in the editor
    
  • Added path preview tool the navigation preview
    
• Character body and head animations will now play in 3rd person
  
• Players can now sneak behind other units
  
• Jumping and running will now cause noise
  
• Noises are now related to a position in the world
  
• Arrows now have a chance to get stuck in shields
  
• Large bullet calibers can now penetrate shields
  
• You can now choose unlimited patrol points for units
  
• Added options to enter default or guard mode after the patrol path ended
  
• Units will now skip non traversable patrol paths
  
• Updated game settings save model (Will reset all game and audio settings)
  
• Added a light culling option to the render settings to improve the performance with many decorative lights
  
• Heavily increased flame thrower damage
  
• Battles, prefabs and campaigns are now stored in a compressed format to allow more advanced features to be stored in the files in the future
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed some problems with prefab placement
  
• Fixed problems with ladder climbing
  
• Fixed the functionality of the battering ram
  
• Fixed too many units warning when placing a lot of corpses
  
• Fixed that crouching could prevent the player from getting targeted in some cases
  

Next update
The next update will improve and expand the functionality of squad units. I will try to release it before christmas. Between christmas and new year, I will implement suggestions from the community to prepare a content update for early 2021.

Content

• Added a maul weapon (WMC reward)
  
• Added paper sheets and sticky notes
  
  
  
  • Can be placed on any other object (except for generated environment)
    
  • Text can be adjusted and supports basic tag based formating
    
• Added computer screens, a computer, mouse and keyboard
  

Features & Improvements

• You can now choose spawner limits for a specific team
  
• Spawner destruction can now be deactivated
  
• You can now climb down ladders by not pressing space
  
• You can now still move in each direction while on a ladder
  
• Doors will no longer open automatically
  
  
  
  • The interact key (default: F) can be used to open/close them
    
  • Modular doors can now be locked
    
• Added keys and keycards that can be assigned to doors to unlock them
  
• Performance Improvements
  
  
  
  • Improved the loading speed for users with many custom units/prefabs when the hard drive is not the limiting factor
    
  • Reduced lag when loading images of workshop items and store battles/units/...
    
• Reduced health of air vehicles
  
• Increased damage of flak cannon, marksman tank and AMX tank
  
• Improved targeting of flak cannon, marksman, AMX and AA unit against air vehicles
  
• Missing prefab workshop icons will now be downloaded from steam instead of generated
  
• Deathmatch mode can now result in a draw
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed newly subscribed prefab icon format
  
• Fixed that crouching in lava biomes would set the player on fire
  
• Remove laser turrets from airdrops
  
• Fixed rug placement on drywall floors
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause spawners to spawn units inside objects
  
• Fixed floating hostage units
  
• Fixed zombie grenades on passive units
  
• Fixed default animation settings in the unit creator
  

Content

• Added a future cannon turret
  
• Added a WWI 6 inch cannon turret
  
• Added a construction modular building set with framed and drywall parts
  
• Added 60+ decorative objects like filled palettes, rubble piles, material stacks, ...
  

Features & Improvements

• Added an option to create prefabs with the size of regular maps
  
• Improved the editor selection of objects to work when clicking on any part of an object
  
• Empty vehicles can now be placed on objects
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a freeze/crash that happened when closing the game
  
• Fixed that the terrain did not count as an obstacle for the AI (as a result, placing objects below the terrain can block their AI navigation!)
  
• Fixed missing icons for some objects/equipment
  
• Fixed that changing the custom unit type would reset the appearance setting
  
• Fixed pause menu continue button in the arena
  
• Fixed selection of skeletons/ghosts when trying to select a unit to play as
  
• Fixed bullet icon resolution issue
  
• Fixed animations of some vanilla skeleton units
  
• Fixed skeleton hands clipping through gloves
  

Content

• Added a half version of the wood fence
  
• Added a two filter gas mask
  

Features & Improvements

• New skeleton model
  
• Skeleton units can now be equipped with all weapons and equipment objects
  
• Allowed a lot of objects to be placed on other objects
  
• Skeletons can now be passive units or corpses
  
• Custom zombies can now be poisoned or burned
  
• Added custom ghost units (they dont bleed and have no visible color but are still fighting for one color)
  
• Improved the stability of the custom battle creator
  
• Added a margin settings for heightmaps
  
• The WMC panel will now be hidden after the submission period ended
  
• More objects can now be placed on other objects (hedges, decoration objects, destroyed vehicles, ...)
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed that melee units couldnt target siege weapon control units
  
• Fixed that the grid overlay would be visible on certain object
  
• Fixed back of M1 tank model
  
• Fixed object category of some tanks
  
• Workaround for text mesh overflow error
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the custom battle editor to keep working on old tasks