A host of new custom commanders, free for everyone!

• Added Locust, XOV, Reaver, spz58624, raizell, visionik, tykus24, mostlikely, nagasher, zancrowe, kevin4001, damubbster, commandonut, sadiga, jt00010177, vidicarus

Balance changes:

• Removed friendly commander reclaim
• Changed grenadier group preference to back
• Changed default bounty to 0.25

POV Camera Mode, Spectator Selection, Holodeck Improvements

• A POV camera mode that follows a unit and watches the action from their perspective! The default keybind for this is Ctrl+Shift+M.
• More details can be found on the following thread in our forums: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/new-pov-camera-mode-testing.72119/

Alternative Win Conditions

• Sudden death for teams (protect your weakest player)

Sim Speed Control for Local Servers

• Added sim speed control for local servers with key bindings -/=

AI Improvements

• Added AI shared armies
• Added resume anywhere for AI games with no human players

Fixes

• Fixed black screen joining game over state
• Added social notifications when uberbar hidden
• Fixed broken classic galatic war saves with missing combined unit_list.json for.ai and .player spec tags
• Changed handling of look at player for spectators to use units
• Changed label for dynamic alliances eco sharing from RESC to SHARE ECO

Modding

• Added Friendly_Commander reclaim type and excluded friendly commanders from default unit reclaim type. Commander reclaim can be enabled again by adding Friendly_Commander to reclaim_types.

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

Fixes

• Fix for ranked match making

TITANS HOTFIX 88288 – 9/23/15

Bugfix/polish:
Fix for the infinite load bug.

TITANS HOTFIX 88163 – 9/21/15

AI changes:
AI perf improvement to build location updates.
Reduce how often the AI updates planet army data while not training neural networks.
Added some new inputs to the AI neural networks.
-These new inputs represent a more strategic view of the game. This helps the AI take planet wide information into account when deciding where to attack and when to run away.
More work on rally point placement.
Altered the way the AI chooses rally points.
Improved AI threat responses.
AI will utilize boom bot platoons a bit better.

Bugfix/polish:
Added starting planet indicators to the system indicator in the new game, server browser, and load system scenes.
Fix for case were the connect to game screen would hang indefinately due to getting a PollWaitTimeMS response. The screen will now only try a fixed number of times, then give up.
Bug fix for case where client crashed while in a lobby. The server lobby now correctly handles the case where clients disconnect without sending a leave message.
The AI landing zone policy widget will now appear when using a multiplanet system that was not created using the advanced system editor.
Steam users can now choose to use a display name that is different than the default Steam display name.
Reformat keybinds in action bar, display them within tooltips for idle fab/factories, ping, pip. Also added ability to access game stats from game menu.
Fix for issue where players could not join a lobby where the creator was spectating and all other slots were empty.
AI perf fix for when the AI has a number of fabbers that cannot find anything to build or assist with.
Visual tweaks to the ai landing preferences control.
Units will no longer move extremely slowly when in from of a group that has reached its goal.
Fix for segHitPathablePos improperly returning a voxel when the check failed.
-This is to fix a specific case in factory build task where the rolloff position would be unitialized, causing units to roll off at odd angles and move on invalid terrain and get stuck.
Quick pass on armory tab that upsells titans. Now shows the following:
– price
– video trailer
– description (pulled from steam)
– min reqs (isn’t set to display relevant platform yet. added work needed.)
Adjusted the bounty mode economy modifier limits. The new limit is from 0.01 to 10.00
Removed the Artillery unit type from the Tesla bot.

AI changes:
AI perf improvement to build location updates.
Reduce how often the AI updates planet army data while not training neural networks.
Added some new inputs to the AI neural networks.
-These new inputs represent a more strategic view of the game. This helps the AI take planet wide information into account when deciding where to attack and when to run away.
More work on rally point placement.
Altered the way the AI chooses rally points.
Improved AI threat responses.
AI will utilize boom bot platoons a bit better.

Bugfix/polish:
Added starting planet indicators to the system indicator in the new game, server browser, and load system scenes.
Fix for case were the connect to game screen would hang indefinately due to getting a PollWaitTimeMS response. The screen will now only try a fixed number of times, then give up.
Bug fix for case where client crashed while in a lobby. The server lobby now correctly handles the case where clients disconnect without sending a leave message.
The AI landing zone policy widget will now appear when using a multiplanet system that was not created using the advanced system editor.
Steam users can now choose to use a display name that is different than the default Steam display name.
Reformat keybinds in action bar, display them within tooltips for idle fab/factories, ping, pip. Also added ability to access game stats from game menu.
Fix for issue where players could not join a lobby where the creator was spectating and all other slots were empty.
AI perf fix for when the AI has a number of fabbers that cannot find anything to build or assist with.
Visual tweaks to the ai landing preferences control.
Units will no longer move extremely slowly when in from of a group that has reached its goal.
Fix for segHitPathablePos improperly returning a voxel when the check failed.
-This is to fix a specific case in factory build task where the rolloff position would be unitialized, causing units to roll off at odd angles and move on invalid terrain and get stuck.
Quick pass on armory tab that upsells titans. Now shows the following:
– price
– video trailer
– description (pulled from steam)
– min reqs (isn’t set to display relevant platform yet. added work needed.)
Adjusted the bounty mode economy modifier limits. The new limit is from 0.01 to 10.00
Removed the Artillery unit type from the Tesla bot.

AI Changes
Update to the neural network for Classic mode
Toned down the AI’s nuke happy nature.
The AI should always be expanding its economy.
The AI now has a shutdown path to clean stuff up better.
AI will now create and destroy planet managers as needed.
Adjusted AI commander behavior a bit to keep it from doing nothing.
Improved the way the AI updates planet manager statuses.
Improved the way the AI calculates its main economy planet.
Improved the perf overhead of updating AI base deploy data.
Added some new cheap build conditions to test for platoon build items before we do the more costly canFindPlaceToAttack.
AI perf improvements to finding a place to attack.
AI should be less flippy floppy about what fabbers are assisting.
Improved AI Land and Orbital interplanetary assistance calculations.
Improved the way the AI chooses where to expand.
AI will build a bit more defenses.
AI should no longer attempt to build Halleys, Catalysts, or Ragnaroks if an ally already has one or more of them on the planet.
AI will now use the average max range for keeping targets at range.
-This will help the AI keep as much DPS as possible in range of the target.
Fix for the AI getting stuck not sending out attacks due to the AI’s factory rally point being inside wreckage.
The AI will now disband units into the general squad.
Improved AI stuck detection for air based platoons.
More work on fixing issues preventing the AI from sending attacks.
Minor fixes to AI threat response.
Fix for issue in the AI where the recon gone state was not being handled.
Added an AI placement buffer value to the Ragnarok.
AI will no longer build the Ragnarok or the land/air titans on asteroids.
Added threat checks for the Orbital and Structure titan build items.

Bugfix/polish
Add an #id to the Uberbar options button.
Revamp panel ordering to ensure consistent ordering even with child panels
-New order, starting from the top-most panel:
–Main
–Video Player
–Uberbar
–Game
Don’t accept input for the game panel until splash is dismissed.
AI influence map perf improvements.
Removed some variables that were no longer needed.
Fix for AI not clearing build items when a factory dies.
Fix for AI crash in land teleport to planet task.
Orbital work:
– Units that are sent as a single order arrive spread out
– If a user made a mod that issued unique move orders across an entire planet it’d work fine and there’d be nothing we could do to stop it
– Distribution isn’t even because createCelestialMoveTask is called before all units are added to the order. But it’s good enough for now.
– orbital_arrival_radius and orbital_arrival_unit_radius are defined in nav.json. They can be tweaked to fudge things around.
Fix for loading classic saved games.
-The saved games browser will now show saved games for both classic and titans, regardless of current mode.
-Titans saved games will be marked with an indicator.
-If you attempt to load a game that doesn’t match your current mode, you will be prompted to switch to that mode.
-The main menu ‘load latest save button’ will not show a save if you would have to switch modes to load it.
Fix for resource leak related to trees and rocks.
Fix for AI commander getting stuck if it was in danger as it teleported.
Fixes for orbital unit damage upgrades in galactic war.
Fix certain characters in your user name causing games to not start.
Fix for PA owners getting error about “commander_step.pfx” failing to load.
Fix for AI crash if the AI receives a killed unit message for a unit assigned to a planet manager that has been destroyed.
Fix the “Architect” achievement requiring the orbital radar unit.
Fixed a bug where time spent as a spectator was not counting towards the relevant Steam achievements.
Fix for the bug on Linux that caused certain menus to become unclickable.
Mesh rendering behavioral change to help track down mesh culling crash.
Fix for units not leaving wreckage upon loading a saved game.
Fix for the default LOD group not getting set for mesh instances that are added during the frame.
Orbital teleports are inactive for a few seconds after entering orbit.
Fix for client mesh instance crash caused by units transitioning between planets.
Added kickstarter backer name to credits list and their planets names to the planet list.
Fix issue where planes that begin a new move order after moving over CSG would do a slow vertical take off rather than move forward.
Fix a crash that could occur on save/load due to uninitialized memory.
Fix some bad perf situations on client.
Fix for unnecessary nav overhead on the client.
Added a draw call limit to the virtual texture processing.
– Helps limit the amount of time spent rendering virtual texture pages.
– Also helps reduce the amount of memory allocated to virtual texturing in texture buffers.
More nav perf improvements, mainly in sweep waves.
Fix for uv scrolling behavior on units. Now materials are only updated when the unit is moving.
Fix for AI crash in transport to planet task if a planet gets destroyed during the loading step.
Editing landing zones will also lock in the position of metal spots (that way they will not be repositioned after you finish editing the landing zones).
Added “anti_entity_targets_units” to weapon specs to speed up anti-entity weapons that do not target units.
Refactored auto repair task to speed it up a bit.
Shared armies will no longer self destruct after 10 minutes if one of the players disconnects. The army will only self destruct if all the players in the shared army disconnect.
Added landing zone options to the AI in the lobby.
-If a system allows multi-planet spawns, you can force the AI to spawn on the same planet as a player, or on a planet with no players.
-If the conditions are impossible, the AI will ignore the restrictions.
-The option should only appear if the planet supports multiplanet spawns.
Added restrictions to the bounty mode modifier. Values must be within [0.1, 1.0]
Fix for AI checking Support Commander affordability against the advanced bot fabber.
Orbital Teleporter work:
– Update orbital teleporter to use new inCircle function that evenly distributes points across area