Major update

PAnet Migration and TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 3

Planetary Annihilation · published 7 years ago

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Migration to PAnet was completed on 2019-05-20 with build 113298.

Hello Commanders,

We all know machines are superior to organics, yet they’re only as good as the hardware underpinning them. You know this, we know this, which is why upgrading the game’s server infrastructure has been such an important goal for us. The road has been long, the struggle real, and we are finally migrated to (drum roll please)… PAnet. Oooooo, literal chills. Uh, I mean, bleep bloop, fellow machine.

PAnet (Planetary Annihilation Network) is our replacement for UberNet and provides all the backend infrastructure for managing game servers and player accounts. It has faster servers for better sim speed, more regions for lower latency, and higher capacity servers.

TITANS 1v1 ranked season 2 came to a close at the end of April. It was hard fought for a while with Uber #1 changing hands multiple times. But as the dust settled a clear victor emerged in NikolaMX, a good 100 points clear of the nearest competition. Should the Progenitors return we know who they will want as their leader.

With season 2 over we surprised everyone with a transition to a season that was one digit higher. Four maps from season 2 have returned, along with 12 entirely new maps, courtesy of WPMarshall. The lessons of season 2 have been applied and we think you’ll find these maps a big upgrade. Ranks were wiped clean and it’s anyone's game to win once more.

AI performance has been improved and its impact on the server decreased. In addition, we have again put a big focus on eliminating known sources of client and server crashes

PAnet Features

New features in PAnet:

modern servers with faster CPUs, more memory and increased bandwidth
new regions (see below)

New Regions:

USWest (Oregon)
USCentral (Ohio) - this was USEast (Virginia) on UberNet since March 2018
USEast (Virginia)
APSouthEast (Singapore)
APNorthEast (Japan)

The following regions have higher capacity servers for bigger games:

USWest (Oregon)
USCentral (Ohio)
USEast (Virginia)
EUWest (Ireland)

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 2 Winners

Uber #1 (US$1,000): NikolaMX

Most active players (US$100 each)

Uber

NikolaMX
Diskraip
nimzo

Platinum

Pa!nCorgi
Viroo
Sinoccence

Gold

Qivy
Alive In
theiban

Silver

muhr
G-Force
go

Bronze

FrigoPorco
TotalAnnihilator
MrStorm

If you have not received your prize contact support via https://support.planetaryannihilation.com/

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 3 Prizes

Mid-season at 2019-06-06:00:00 UTC

Uber #1 – US$500
Three most active Bronze players – US$100 each
Three most active Silver players – US$100 each
Three most active Gold players – US$100 each
Three most active Platinum players – US$100 each
Three most active Uber players – US$100 each

End of season 3 at 2019-07-25:00:00 UTC

Uber #1 – US$1,000
Three most active Bronze players – US$100 each
Three most active Silver players – US$100 each
Three most active Gold players – US$100 each
Three most active Platinum players – US$100 each
Three most active Uber players – US$100 each

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 3 Maps

Four maps carried over from season 2:

Aquilaris
Disparity
Centax-3
The Ardennes

Remaining season 2 maps have been added to the in-game map list.

Twelve new maps:

Backbone
Exeunt
Basilica
Hopper
Rotunda
ASAT
Hyde
Kelvin
Echo
District
Maginot
Bailiff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9FV3rGqkZQ

Technical Notes

Legacy builds are no longer supported and will not be updated.

Translations

Dutch updated as an official language

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Improvements

Improved region selection for players in different continents

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Fixes

Fix for failed to join game (113329)

AI Improvements

Improved performance of AI deployment data
AI will do better at protecting its commander against nuke snipes (113318)
Orbital lasers and the Orbital Titan will make attacking units that can attack orbital a priority (113318)

AI Fixes

Fix for platoon disbanding weirdness
Fix for evaluateReconNeed AI crash
Removed a couple of duplicated build conditions (113318)
AI dps calculations will correctly take projectiles_per_fire into account (113318)
Units that can target Air will now correctly have AntiAir threat (113318)
Walls will now have Land threat (113318)
MetMinFabberCount now counts Naval fabbers (113318)

Client Improvements

New 1v1 and shared army team vs team maps from TITANS 1v1 ranked season two
Updated Coherent UI with improved 4K+ support for Windows
Improved start menu videos feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)
Improved start menu streams feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)
Improved start menu news feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)

Client Fixes

Fix for 4K+ crashes on Windows
Fix for Coherent UI crashes
Fix for material library crashes
Fix for social bar not shown after 1v1 ranked requeue

Server Improvements

AI no longer directly influences sim and all commands are queued
AI now updates concurrently with history

Server Fixes

Fixes for shutdown crashes

113318 TITANS Balance Changes

Holkins Long Range Artillery

Target priorities added:

Commander
Titan & ( Land | Naval )
Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval )
Nuke | NukeDefense

Ares Hover Titan

Target priorities added to main weapon:

Commander
Titan & ( Land | Naval )
Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval )
Nuke | NukeDefense

Bumblebee Bomber

Target priorities added:

Commander
AirDefense & ( Land | Naval )
Titan & ( Land | Naval )
Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval )
Nuke | NukeDefense

Kestrel Gunship

Can now target underwater layer (subs)

Target priorities added:
Commander
AirDefense & ( Land | Naval )
Titan & ( Land | Naval )
Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval )
Nuke | NukeDefense

Hornet Tactical Bomber

Target priorities added:

Commander
AirDefense & ( Land | Naval )
Titan & ( Land | Naval )
Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval )
Nuke | NukeDefense

Wyrm Heavy Bomber

Can now target underwater layer (subs)

Target priorities added:

Commander
AirDefense & ( Land | Naval )
Titan & ( Land | Naval )
Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval )
Nuke | NukeDefense

Zeus Air Titan

Target priorities added:

Commander
AirDefense | ( Air & Fighter)
Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval )
Nuke | NukeDefense

Orca Destroyer

Torpedoes now have splash damage

Typhoon Drone Carrier

Drones can now fire a single short range low damage torpedo

https://planetaryannihilation.com/news/panet-migration/

New Developer and Publisher Since 2018

https://steamcommunity.com/games/233250/announcements/detail/1709566654618577848

Both games are updated at the same time.

Kickstarter Backers From September 2012

Founding Kickstarter backers from September 2012 were gifted TITANS for free.

All other owners of classic PA can upgrade to TITANS at a permanent discount of 90% off.

Permanent 90% Off Upgrade To TITANS

This is the first thing we changed.

Visit the TITANS store page and

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Buy Upgrade to TITANS from Classic Planetary Annihilation

for the permanent 90% off special upgrade price of ~US$2.99.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/386070/Planetary_Annihilation_TITANS/

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/85408

News: https://planetaryannihilation.com/news/

Development and Updates Timeline: https://planetaryannihilation.com/timeline/

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