Ancient Warfare 3 News

In 3 months and 14 versions, 100+ bugs got fixed, 50+ features and 75+ content objects got added and many improvements have been made.
Thanks for all the suggestions and bug reports!
Also, from now on, small patch notes will get posted on Steam
Below is a list of all patch notes of the development cycle from 21.06.2019 - 20.09.2019
(0.31.1 - 0.32.0)

Content

* Added world war weapon sights
    * 1 reddot, 2 scopes
* Added apocalypse weapon attachments
    * 3 weapon sights, 1 scope, 1 silencer, 1 laser
* Added a future silencer
* Added biodomes (7 variations) and a satellite dish
* Added 4 ancient greek temples
* Added a future weapon with a projectile that bounces off walls
* Added a chinese medieval helmet
* Added destroyed and deactivated spider droid objects
* Added tall hedges
* Added the MG34
* Added 5 new biomes
    * Dry Alien Planet
    * Ice Alien Planet
    * Gas Alien Planet
    * Lush Alien Planet
    * Moon (low gravity)
* Added objects for the future era
    * 4 alien pillars
    * 10 buildings
    * Solar panel
    * Spaceship platform
    * Antenna
    * Barrel
    * Large container
    * 3 small container
    * Lamp
    * Gas bottle
    * Wall
    * Table
* Added shoes for players and custom units
    * Default shoes
    * Boots
    * Rubber boots
    * Medieval shoes
    * Medieval boots
    * Sandals
* Added face equipment for players and custom units
    * You can choose as many equipment objects as you like to
    * Bandana
    * Beards
    * World war and modern gas masks
    * Elf ears
    * Orc tusks
    * Eye pathces
    * Night vision device
    * Head wraps
    * Cigar
    * Cyborg eye
    * Glasses
* WMC rewards
    * Added a future HMG (siege weapon)
    * Added ceilin lights and spot lights
    * Added a small tent
* Added reversed modular L-stairs
* Added fall conifer forest biome 
* Added a futuristic dropship (WMC 34 reward)
* Added medieval unit statues (WMC 35 reward)
* Added skeleton corpses
* Added hedges
* Added the Kar98k (SR98, WMC 32 weapon)
* Added the FG 42 (S42)
* Added blue fire and dust particle effects

Features & Improvements

* Allied units will no longer ignore the player and push him around
* Editor settings for placed ranged weapons
    * Choose the start bullet amount in the weapon
    * Choose attachments for the weapon
* Improved all modern house models
    * Doors and garages are animated
* Roads will now align with terrain
* Terrain editor improvements
    * Added a setting to rotate the terrain brushes
    * Added a linear ramp brush
* Improved autosaving
    * There are 5 autosave slots which will cycle
* All units will look in the same direction now when spawning in conquest and KOTH
* Updated to a newer engine version
    * This should improve the performance and improve the stability
* Improved the placement of wood and stone bridges
    * Placement is based on the two end points
* Enabled none fog option
* Increased the maximum spectate camera height
* Added a target frame rate option
    * This will work as a frame limiter if vsync is deactivated
* Added descriptions to the game settings
* You can now use left shift to speed up the height change while placing modular bridges
* Added new terrain height presets
    * Flat desert
    * Moon surface
    * Desert hills
    * Mountains
* Improved terrain editor
    * UI Improvements
    * Increased the maximum terrain height
    * Speed setting for all tools
    * New noise shapes
    * Customizable road width
* Removed forced Vsync
    * Still available as an option in the settings
* Custom unit creator Improvements
    * UI improvements
    * Shows attack range of units
    * Unit range fixes
* Reduced the player control while jumping
* Removed motion blur
* Slightly improved the loading speed of game
* Improved ladders (Press the jump key to climb)
* Units will now try to move away after landing with a ship
* Units will now avoid each other while walking on ships
* Added a new sky material
* Added a max unit amount setting to unit spawners
    * All unit spawners will only spawn units if there are currently less than x units in the battle
* Added custom unit support for conquest and KOTH
* Players can now create custom animal and siege units
* The player can swim now (based on a map setting in the player settings)
* Updated the unit placement list to show units as variants of other units
* Unit attack range will now affect tanks
* You can now place some objects on other objects like foundations, walls and towers
* Improved the way how object are being replaced after the terrain got changed
* Improved the landing of ships
* Increased the terrain edit radius
    * Also improved the performance
* Players can now exit the air vehicle that they are flying with a parachute
* Most of the gun's projectiles fly twice as fast now
* Improved the editor selection performance
* Added a minimum limit of two levels to upload campaigns
* You can now place multiple conquest/KOTH spawn flags
* Ranged units will now be affected by the attack distance settings
* Added an option for the AC-130 to set the parachute unit target landing spot
* Updated the Steamworks API to improve the stability of steam functions
* Added zombie spawn points for zombie survival
* Parachute units will now try to find a landing spot on the terrain
* Added bullet impact effects
* Improved the ranged weapon handling
    * Crosshair will show the impact point based on range
    * Decreased the recoil recovery time
    * Looking up/down will now move the head and arms instead of the body
* Improved the rendering performance
* You can now place trees, bushes and rocks in the editor
* Added different tank color variants (default, desert, snow, forest)
* Updated the unit and object icons
* Editor code Improvements
    * If you notice editor bugs, please let me know in the #bug-reports channel
* Added an autosave on/off option in the game settings

Bug fixes

* Fixed pathfinding bugs and crashes on modular bridges
* Fixed a bug that caused roads to disappear in some cases
* Fixed a bug that prevented units from walking into future structures
* Fixed medieval mortars
* Fixed some unit icon problems of workshop units
* Fixed that controlling a clothed unit would remove the clothes
* Fixed that units could walk through destroyed vehicles
* Fixed that changing the terrain would destroy modular bridges
* Fixed that some siege weapons were allowed to be placed on ships
* Fixed the ship sail visuals
* Fixed that the player can fly with horses and siege weapons
* Fixed some loading bugs that affected the player equipment
* Fixed the barrel attachment position of the HSG shotgun
* Fixed the sight position for the S36
* ... + about 100 more bugs that got fixed

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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