Up to date beta patch info..

SunDevil · #1 February 7th, 2001, 08:17 PM

Wow! Waiting for this patch to come out is worse than waiting for this game during christmas break.

Does anyone know how much is left for Aaron to do before he releases the patch? I mean, he already has fixed about 80 things since the Last patch. Is this going to be the patch that ends all in-game fixes for a while?

SunDevil · #2 February 7th, 2001, 08:28 PM

Correct that, Aaron has fixed/revised 113 issues so far. Thanks MM!

Baron Munchausen · #3 February 7th, 2001, 08:31 PM

Between the file fixes that have been discovered independently by the modders and these combat fixes, I think you'll find this next patch is practically a different game. The AI used to handicap itself in all sorts of ways in combat, like moving TOWARDS the enemy after firing missiles or firing seekers on each ship before it had finished firing direct fire weapons -- and destroying some of the targets of the seekers before they could even move. With the build bottleneck broken and the combat smarts added you'll be fighting for your life against these modded AIs...

Emperor Zodd · #4 February 7th, 2001, 08:51 PM

6. Added - Added a new tab to the Strategies window called "Damage". This
tab allows you to set the percentage damage you want to inflict
on different kinds of enemy ships before moving on to a new
target. So for ships, if it says 80%, then your ships will
damage the ship up to 80% and then will switch to a new target.
If no other targets are available, your ships will go back and
finish off those remaining ships. There is also a setting for
"Damage targets until all weapons gone". If this is set true,
then your ships will fire on enemy ships until all of their
weapons are gone, regardless of the percentage damage setting.

Great addition!!!

Richard · #5 February 7th, 2001, 08:51 PM

You never know we have a tough crows of testers, including the Baron himself

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I am very please, personally, to see all of this going so well.

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JDL · #6 February 7th, 2001, 08:55 PM

While everybody is at this patching, is there a way to patch the game so that when you select a group of fighters and deselect some of the rocket pods, then fire, ALL the pods don't fire? You should not have to fire them ALL.

Emperor Zodd · #7 February 7th, 2001, 09:11 PM

Maybe we won't have to use AI bonus' anymore.