Ancient Warfare 3 News

Content

• Added a wild west faction with the following equipment:
  
  • Western hat & coat
    
  • Bowie knife
    
  • Coach gun
    
  • Dynamite
    
  • Gatling gun
    
  • Sawed off coach gun
    
  • 3 revolvers
    
  • 4 rifles
    
• Added a static world war flamethrower
  
• Added a sticky rgo grenade
  
• Added a sticky C4 pack
  
• Added a heal crate
  
• Added a future ammo pile
  
• Added an oil barrel and a burning barrel
  
• Added a wooden table to store equipment on it
  
• Added a flak cannon
  
• Added the lord units from Ancient Warfare 2
  
  • Lord of Darkness
    
  • Lord of Vikings
    
  • Lord of Fire
    
  • Lord of Ice
    
  • Lord of Samurai
    
  • Lord of Silver
    
  • Lord of Bronze
    
  • Lord of Hell
    
  • Lord of Lords
    
  • Please note that the lord equipment is exclusively made for the lord's. You can pick it up, if you kill a lord, but you can't start with it
    
• Christmas content
  
  • There is an improved christmas biome available from last year, as well as santa and snowman units
    
  • In addition there are now snowball throwers, a candy stick weapon and present grenades in game.
    

New features & improvements

• You can now look at things you want to pick up
  
• Improved the look of projectile trails
  
• Workshop items will show there whole description now
  
• You can now cancel shotgun reloading with left click
  
• Performance improvements
  
  • This update will improve the performance quite a lot and there are plans to continue to improve the performance in 2019.
    
  • There are major changes to physics and some other systems to improve the performance and stability. If you notice any problems related to physics, please report them in the community hub.
    
  • There is a new option in the settings called "Low RAM mode". The option is deactivated by default and it should stay deactivated to improve the performance. However, if you really need every single MB of RAM and you notice very high RAM usage, you can enable this option.
    
  • The performance is obviously different on any system, but with the new changes, test battles which ran with 30-40 fps in the alpha 26, will now run with 50-60 fps in alpha 27. However, the improvement depends on your system, but you should be able to create larger battles than before.
    

Bug-fixes

• Fixed a bug that broke the custom unit editor then using an equipment filter
  
• Fixed a bug that caused AI shotgun units to only reload one shot
  
• Fixed that buildings created blood splashes
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the camera to shake after selecting a unit to control
  

Next update
Alpha 28 will probably be released at the end of January 2019. There will be a development break until the beginning 2019.
In 2019 I want to continue to develop Ancient Warfare 3 and it is planned to give the community more insights about the current development. There is a new website in progress with a roadmap and there will be teasers on twitter during the development of an update.

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.