Ancient Warfare 3 News

We now have a Discord server for Ancient Warfare 3. The plan is to use it for suggestions, bug-reports, discussions about the game and to make it easier to interact with the community. Patch notes of smaller updates and announcements will also be posted on Discord .
The community hub can still be used, but the plan is to switch to Discord as the main platform for the development.
You can join the server with this link: Discord Server


In the last couple of weeks, the stability of the game has become a problem for some users! The latest patch fixes some crashes and adds more debug information to make it easier to find reasons for game crashes.

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs, suggested features and content and helped to improve the game. This is the changelog of version 0.28:

Content

• New future content
  
  • Added a zombie grenade
    
  • Added a throwable turret
    
  • Added a material melting gun which shoots through units
    
  • Added a black hole gun
    
  • Added a repair beam
    
  • Added a laser grenade
    
  • Added a mech unit
    
  • Added a future tank
    
  • Added a spider droid
    
  • Added shield and heal field units
    
  • Added a unit for the EMP grenade
    
• Added passive units
  
  • Passive units are decorative units which are doing a civil task
    
  • If they get attacked or an enemy gets close to them, they will run away
    
• Added 2 new WW2 planes
  
• Added a polar biome
  
  • This is an ocean biome with a lot of ice floes
    
• Added shield and heal fields as objects
  
• Added small decoration which do not affect the gameplay
  
  • Arrow
    
  • Bullet shells
    
  • Blood stain
    
  • Rubble pile
    
  • Rubble planks
    
  • Iron sheet
    
• Added a medieval church
  
• Added a medieval lantern
  
• Added cross and T-way tranches
  
• Added modular wood bridges
  
• Added some small ammo packs
  

Features & Improvements

• The player can now crouch (default key: Left Control)
  
• Improved rifle and pistol idle, walk and run animations
  
• Improved the game database stability to reduce loading errors
  
• Improved the tank AI and navigation
  
  • Tanks can climb higher slopes
    
  • Tanks that got stuck will now try to move backwards to get unstuck
    
  • Improved the rotation of tank turrets to move at a constant speed
    
  • Fixed the rotation of tank turrets while driving over hills
    
  • Restricted the wheel rotation, so that vehicles don't get stuck because their wheel rotation is bugged
    
  • Fixed that wheels would jump from rotation to rotation
    
  • Tanks have much more power so that they have less problems to cross uneven terrain
    
• Improved the rotation of siege weapons (constant rotation speed)
  
• AIs will try to find a different target, if a target is already targeted by many units to reduce the 'horde' behaviour
  
• The selected objects variant will get saved now
  
• Made it easier to pick up objects by looking at them
  
• Improved the crosshair and hitmarker
  
• Add arrow trails for default arrows and bolts
  
• Added an option to enable only melee units in the arena
  
• Improved the visuals of burning vehicles
  
• Improved the weapon rotations with scopes
  
• Planes will try to not crash into each other now
  
  
  It can still happen that planes crash into each other if they are at high speed or tight room, but they are trying to avoid each it
  
• Reduced the size of the game and improved the startup time
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash
  
• Fixed a bug that caused snap traps to not work
  
• Fixed that thrower units keep their weapons when they got killed
  
• Fixed that the player go teleported to the ground if his equipment got changed
  
• Fixed that ranged units were shooting too high or low
  
• Fixed that vehicles exploded when they touched each other
  
• Fixed a bug that caused melee units to walk in front of walls and stop there
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash in 1 out of 10 starts of random battles
  
• Fixed a bug that caused siege weapons to start to work before the battle started
  
• Fixed a bug that caused saving and loading to not work on Linux and Mac OS
  
• Fixed a bunch of scripting errors to improve the stability of the game
  
• Fixed a bug that caused units to get killed by barbwire in the editor
  
• Fixed a bug that caused tanks to be immune to grenades and bombs
  

Next update
The next update will be smaller update with the focus on improving some areas of the game by adding some new features and improving existing features. There will also be new content available.
You can find the roadmap here.

In addition to that, there is a new website available, which shows all commits to the development version, so that you always know which feature is currently being worked on. You can find it here: AW3 Commits

Also, there are plans to create a discord server for the game, if you guys want to. There are more updates for the workshop planned and I think discord is a good platform for discussions about workshop objects and the general development of the game, because there are more features and it's easier to discuss about things on Discord. So, just let me know what you think about that.

First of all, I hope that everyone had a good start into the new year.

For 2019 there are 11 to 12 content and feature updates for AW3 planned. And towards the end of the year, we will hopefully leave early access.

There is a new website in progress with a roadmap for the upcoming versions, which you can find here: AW3 Homepage
The roadmap and the website are not finished yet and there will be some updates in the next few days.

In addition to that I will tweet some images about the current development on my twitter account: @jannik_jn

That's all for this update, see you in the community hub.

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.