BATTLEZONE

Version 1.5.2.14

Released 2013-09-16

Holy crap, has it really been four months?

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1.5.2.11 Asset Pack (unpack into addon)

What's New

Gameplay

• Player-controlled APC can deploy only within 75m of an enemy target
  • It could previously deploy within 75m of a friendly target too
  • Reduces exploitability of the APC in multiplayer
• Howitzer allows Attack menu when not deployed
  • Unit deploys immediately when told to attack
  • Lets mixed groups (deployed and undeployed) use the Attack menu
• BuildingClass supports "portal" class label
  • Prevents an error when creating a portal building (e.g. cbport)
  • Doesn't actually implement portal behavior, though
• Skip sending bomb to locked geysers (Dx)
  • Note: Should skip sending bomb to scrap
• Fixed Day Wrecker bug (Dx)
  • Skips Day Wrecker state update

Interface

• Ensure that team colors are always up to date
  • It's cheap enough that it's not worth being clever
• In-game UI supports custom object and weapon names
  • Use (localized) sprite-based names when available
  • Use (currently non-localized) text-based names otherwise

AI

• Scavenger AI creates an escort goal in multiplayer
  • This should make AI-controlled teams work better in MPI
• Added filtering and adjusted strength of AI evasion maneuvers
  • Should make it less unfair for players

Stability

• Scavengers no longer crash on non-player teams with no strategic AI
• Workaround for assert when an object's team number is negative
  • These are removed GameObjects that have not been deleted yet
• Fixed crash when creating a team-hazard object on team zero

Scripting

• LuaMission properly loads string and table types now
• These never got tested properly... :P
• Added a Lua panic handler that shows an error dialog before exiting
  • This should never happen for players
• Lua error outputs a debug message in addition to showing a dialog
• New Script Utility functions
  • AddMaxPilot: add to max pilot count
  • SetMaxPilot: set max pilot count
  • AddMaxScrap: add to max scrap count
  • SetMaxScrap: set max scrap count
  • IsCraft: is an object a craft?
  • IsBuilding: is an object a building?
  • GetBase: return base config of the object (which actually represents which model it's using)
• Lua support for 3D vector and matrix types
  • BuildObject taking a position vector
  • BuildObject taking a transform matrix
  • GetTransform: get object transform matrix
  • SetTransform: set object transform matrix (teleport)
  • GetPosition: get object position
  • SetPosition: set object position (teleport)
  • GetFront: get object front direction vector
  • GetVelocity: get object velocity vector
  • SetVelocity: set object velocity vector
  • SetVector: build a vector from numbers
  • SetMatrix: build a matrix from numbers
  • Various operators for matrices and vectors
  • SaveValue and LoadValue handle vector and matrix values

Multiplayer

• Person starts the "standing" animation when created
  • Should fix the randomly-occuring rotated first-person gun
  • Applied the same change to Walker for consistency

Utility

• /largemap correctly handles 16-bit and 32-bit textures
• Mission files don't load or save unlabeled (AI-generated) paths
  • Eliminates a bunch of useless clutter
  • Mission files exclude AI state so these paths are never referenced
• Fixed reading strings from ASCII mission or savefile
  • Reads to end of line instead of stopping at the first space
  • Fixes nav names getting truncated in misn04

Campaign

• Mission 5 (Dx)
  • Fixed Mine 16 and 24
  • Changed boltmines to team 2
• Mission 6 and 7 (Dx)
  • Fixed a crash if player died during the camera scene
• Mission 11 (Dx)
  • Fixed typo for camera
• Mission 12 (Dx)
  • Show Objective after the camera scene finishes
• Mission 17 (Dx)
  • Fixed 3 BuildObject typos "eggiezr1"
  • Fixed missing mines [MINE {10, 54, 55, 56}]
  • Fixed Damage on MINE[53]
  • Fixed Tower 7 name
  • TODO: Fix in Sprite table