This is a preview of work in progress for the next major update to PA.
Technical Notes
TITANS Balance Changes
- TODO: reclaim metal value based on metal cost (vs max health)
Client Improvements
- Added first pass of terrain horizon occlusion for icons, status, blips and features
- Added first pass of visible wreckage reclaim progress
- Added connect timeouts to download manager and initial support for full offline / disconnected mode
System Editor Improvements
- Data editor for terrain height adjustments
Client Fixes
- TBD
System Editor Fixes
- TBD
Server / Sim Improvements
- TODO: reclaim wreckage value based on metal build cost
- TODO: update height of reclaimed wreckage
Server / Sim Fixes
- Fixed incorrect initial and dead reclaim values
AI Improvements
- Added easy difficulty for AI skirmish
- TODO: AI retraining with air changes
AI Fixes
- Fixed undefined behaviour with fighter and bomber attack tasks
Galactic War Improvements
- Added normal difficulty
Toolchain
Updated software development toolchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolchain
- C++17
- Visual Studio 2019 latest with 142 build tools / Windows 10 SDK latest
- Xcode 11 / macOS 10.15.x latest for macOS Mavericks 10.9+ with full notarisation using hardened runtime
- Latest steam Linux runtime with gcc-9 / LTO (previously limited to gcc 6.2 and no LTO)
- Steamworks SDK 148
- Windows libcurl 7.68.0 with nghttp2 1.40.0 for HTTP/2 and multiplexing (will upgrade to 7.70.0 soon)
- breakpad latest
- libpng 1.6.37 with SSE
- libsquish 1.15 with SSE
- stb_image 2.25
- stb_truetype 1.24
- lz4 1.9.2
- miniz 2.1
- zlib 1.2.11
- sdl 2.0.10 (will upgrade to 2.0.12 soon)
Modding
- Added wreckage_mesh_bounds for visible wreckage reclaim (defaults to mesh bounds)
- Added icon_vertical_offset for terrain horizon occlusion (defaults to top of mesh bounds)
Breaking Changes
- strategic icons for metal extractors now include green metal spot
- particle_icon.fs
- custom URL protocols will be changing:
- atlas:// > coui://atlas/
- spec:// > coui://spec/
- bundle:// > coui://bundle/
- uncached:// > coui://uncached/
Known Issues
- TODO: Fix Linux segfault in CoherentUI_Host
- TODO: Fix Linux mesa corruption
- TODO: Fix reclaim server crash
- TODO: Reproduce line formation client crash
- TODO: Reproduce load game crash
