Summary of Changes
- Community Mods in-game mod manager
- Custom Server support
- Server improvements
- New modding capabilities
- Numerous UI enhancements
- Tons of bug fixes
Full changelog below.
Community Mods in game mod manager
No external application required. Uninstall your mods in PAMM first and then reinstall them through Community Mods.
- added community mods in game mod manager to start menu
- added auto updating of mods
- added dependency tracking to automatically enable and disable dependency mods
- replaces PAMM (PA Mod Manager) external application
Custom Server support
No mods required.
- added game server browser support for hosting, joining and spectating custom server games
- added game invite support for custom servers
- added game configuration in new game support for custom servers
- added reconnect support for custom servers to start menu
- custom servers now advertise max players and max spectators
Servers
Applies to Uber and custom servers:
- added metalClusters, metalDensity, landing_zones_count, metal_spots_count and planetCSG_count to game beacons and system info
- added support for 32 colours
- added support for custom commanders
- added support for selecting of AI commander
- added server mod identifiers to game beacons
- added support for custom servers to advertise max players and max spectators in game config beacons
- added –max-players and –max-spectators command line options
- added –server-password command line option
- added –default-lobby-name command line option
- added –default-game-type command line option
- added –replay-timeout command line option to set timeout when replay will be written even if clients still connected
- added –replay-filename command line option
- added UTCTIMESTAMP token for –replay-filename to automatically name replays based UTC timestamp
- added support for lobby chat history
- added support for lobby custom json messages (will also add to playing)
- improved support for server mods status
- added support for server mods in replays and saved games
- fixed null secondary colour causing server crash when starting game and showing new game commanders cinematic
- added validation of secondary colour
Modding
General
- added support for Legion Expansion mod
- added support for companion mods to reduce the size of large server mods
- added game info to session, connect_to_game and various scenes:
- serverType / game_server_type (local|uber|custom)
- serverSetup / game_server_setup (game|replay|loadsave)
- gameType / game_type (Galactic War|Ladder1v1|FFA|TeamArmies)
- gameModIdentifiers / game_mod_identifiers (work in progress)
- deprecated joinLocalServer / join_local_server in preference to isLocalGame / is_local_game
- changed isLocalGame to use the same is_local_game session key everywhere
- changed join_lobby helper to use isLocalGame
- updated to latest knockoutjs 3.4
- added save method to storage extenders
New Game
- added support for model.send_message(‘set_ai_commander’, {id: model.playerId(), commander: commanderSpecString});
- fixed empty spectators (playersWithoutArmies)
- added spectatorCount observable
- added emptySpectatorSlots observable
- added serverModsState (uploading/downloading/mounting/mounted) string observable
- added buildVersion string observable
- added isLocalGame boolean observable
- added gameModIdentifiers
- added serverMods observable array
- added gameCheats observable arary
- added localChatMessage(name, message)
- added mods lobby chat message type
- added registerHoldReady(identifier, info)
- added unregisterHoldReady(identifier)
- added registerJsonMessageHandler(identifier, handler, priority)
- added unregisterJsonMessageHandler(identifier, handler)
- added sendJsonMessage(object)
Live Game
- exposed listen_to_spectators in GameOptionModel
- fixed lobbyId not set
Build Bar
- improved modability of build bar (wondible)
Icon Atlas / Strategic Icons
- added engine support for server mods and reloading (Uber)
Uberbar
- updated to latest strophe (xmpp used by uberbar and PA Chat)
APIs
- added api.download for community mods manager (Uber)
- added api.file.list for community mods manager (Uber)
- added api.file.zip for community mods manager (Uber)
- added api.memory.remount for community mods manager (Uber)
- added api.mods.getMounted (Uber)
- deprecated api.mods.getMountedMods (Uber)
Engine
- implemented watcher support for OS X / linux
- implemented memory mounted shader reloading
5. Polish
Game Server Browser
- added saving of game server browser filters with reset filters button
Connect To Game
- added status messages when mounting server mods
- added busy animation
- added mounting of server mods when starting game (moved from new game lobby to fix many UI issues)
Galactic War
- changed default save name to include time
New Game
- added lobby chat history
- added planet radius, metal / custom metal, custom landing and custom csg in a tooltip to planets
- added halleys required and increased size of planet icons
- added highlights to econ rate when not 1.0
- moved mounting of server mods when starting game to connect to game
Live Game
- changed default save name to include time
- changed global spectator chat default to team chat
- added spectator label for spectator chat
Live Game Planets
- added display of metal spots count to tooltip in planets summary
- reduced size of planets summary tooltip to minimise overlap with preview
- added metal spots count to planet list with localised metal tooltip
- reduced height of planets list for large systems with many planets
Live Game Players
- added right click look at player in PIP
- added right click track commander in PIP
Uberbar
- added searching by display name
- added lobby status to game invites
- added cancelling of game invites if full or inviter leaves lobby
- improved reconnect handling
Replay Loading
- added support for server mods in replays and saved games
- added downloading server mods status
6. Fixes
GPU
- fixed windows laptops with AMD GPUs to always use discrete (Uber)
- fixed negative output of dither in HDR compose pass… should fix crash on Intel 5xx GPUs (Uber)
Audio
- fixed windows 10 audio issues with updated FMOD (Uber)
Uberbar
- fixed display names not updating
- fixed buy missing content dialog description when a classic player is invited to a titans game
- fixed a long standing issue where a network / data issue or reloading the uberbar reset the user tag map and killed friends list
- fixed the ubernet extender to not lose data or use bad data from playfab or local storage
- fixed the ubernet extender to correctly check previous and not update on refresh
- fixed long standing issue with large user tag and id to interaction time maps (based on optimise user tag map)
- fixed a long standing issue where idToJabberPresenceTypeMap and idToJabberPresenceStatusMap were not written to session storage
- fixed long standing issue where searches of existing friends add duplicates to friends list
- fixed invites to private games
- fixed long standing issue where previously accepted game invite fails then later invite from same person teleports you into new game without confirmation
New Game
- fixed game password lost after refresh, selecting system, settings, etc
- fixed cannot join empty slot issue where player disconnects without leaving
- fixed the many issues caused by new game lobby loading without server mods ready and the freezes while server mods are uploading and remounting
Live Game
- fixed alt-tab back to PA then backspace with chat window open triggering window back then reload or connecting to server
Live Game Players
- fixed missing look at players for spectators
Game Over
- fixed server freeze 30 seconds after game over while replay is being written which prevents chat, stats, review, etc
