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Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

AirMech Strike Pack · published 9 years ago

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The Gangster makes short work of lighter units.

AIRMECH STRIKE UPDATE #262

The Gangster is now available! With wheels in stead of treads, this heavy truck chassis has a lot of mobility, decent armor, and a nasty gattling gun. Sounds pefectly OP--be aware it isn't cheap to build and requires level 6 to build, so don't think you'll be Fort rushing using these out of the gate. But once you can build them, they are quite a threat to infantry and AirMechs alike.

We have another new unit coming next week, however our primary focus is on bugfixes right now, next up being a deeper balance pass to prepare for finally hitting that "release" button and leaving Early Access! There are always a ton of things we want to do but the game is in a nice stable spot where it makes sense to leave Early Access.

A feature we have been working on but probably won't be finalized for leaving Early Access is our new automated Tournament system. Inspired by Bloodline Champions, we wanted to make it much easier to host weekly tournaments all around the world on a regular and automated schedule. More info on this soon, and we might be running some small and quick tournaments over the next week for testing. This is intended to replace the previous weekly leaderboard race for PvP rewards. It's also possible (but not yet confirmed) that players or Factions will be able to create tournaments specifying their own rules and prizes. We see a lot of really cool things that can come from this.

We love getting bug reports, balance feedback, and whatever is on your mind using the ingame reporting tool! While we can't reply to them, we do read them all and appreciate your feedback. Especially now as we are working down to our final short list of things to do before we fully launch AirMech Strike to the world!

NEW CONTENT

Gangster - fast attack vehicle with a chaingun. Level 6 build requirement.
Protectorate of Justice- pet designed by Liquidsnake3 (Shop variant, can be Gold plated)
Wisdom Guardian- pet designed by Liquidsnake3 (special reserve)
Disco Ball- pet designed by ProProProPro (Shop variant)

CHANGES

Local Player fog now focuses on the watch player, not the local player.
let allies, spectators and replays show cloaked units w/ a min clamp on the cloaking (0.75) as the local player sees themselves
Updated FAQs
increased Missile Silo Marker HP to prevent Striker Sword from destroying it without assistance 3500 > 4500
add even lower quality 4 level, no shadows (Wreckz mode)
reduce default quality for weaker GPUS to 3 and 4 respectively
reword shadow sampling logic for all shaders and quality levels
add gaussian blur passes and offset subpixel sampling in most shadow sampling
update Disco Ball icon
tournament UI work (in progress)
setting up tournament join commands
setting up brackets and qualifiers for tournament
preliminary gamepad support for main menu (work is being done, still not useable)
make invite list background size dynamic
Hide chat during map preview mode
Don't show map preview on tutorial map
Disable tournament billboard in lobby
Update Common Name for Gold VIP Cubes
Some more setup for faction boosts
Update some mini inspect buttons
on unit stealth, don't make completely invisible to spectators and replays
Adding crate sequence back into strike and fixing up timing

BUGFIXES

fix missing checkbox for central asia region
don't refund ability point on extra guardian removal, since this system has long changed and it's a bug/exploit
Fix overlapping "Leave the pit" button
Intro cameras adjusted / all rotation cams replaced
Changed lighting effects to start after intro cams
Some tweaks for for clearing the sample map fixed height when going into tryout/pit
Some misc updates for Wastelands promo
Some fixes for inviting players/adding bots while in "the pit"
Setup "map preview" before pregame loadout choice
put in extra check if spectator for bindings
move around leaderboard menu
Possible fix for loadouts getting copied and saved
fix conflict of activeloadout name for ingame (possible Loadout duplication/swap fix?)
more fixes for lobby slots with different game modes
fixes to lobby slot order, invites, teamswapping
Fix tooltip for sg member icons while in "the pit"
Fix chat in lobby
show ping info for Hong Kong server
Fix assert when scrolling in inventory ui
Disable late glow once crate opening sequence is done
change where backend disconnect messages are logged
change indexes of practice pilots to sync bot adding and training menu
Updating text for SYS_IsOnline and SYS_IsOffline, and adding game tags
updates for traditional chinese language usage
Updated "OpenCrate3D" so that it can be skipped and cleared correctly
Tweeks to the rocketeer to help not get stuck in the air, away from the land.
Some tweaks so that the ingame loadout stuff doesn't touch the "ActiveLoadout" symbol at all
Some more cleanup for ingame loadout stuff
some gnd/air SI force updates to reduce first time visual popping particularly when transforming down to ground mode for the first time
more state initialization to try to address debris position popping
Fix up overlapping text in quests ui
Fix up market listings ui after getting inventory
Some cleanup for mini inspect/unlock dialog
Fix repeat build name label being the wrong unit
Fix gamepad ability ui not clearing correctly
Fix mini inspect info when inspecting something from mail ui
Fix market ui after accepting the terms
Fix going into editor mode from pause menu
Fix "resume" button on pause menu
draw units in the stealth state so you can actually see them at clamped stealth amount for allies/spectators/etc this includes mines
use a ModelMatPresent material on the assassin/InfantrySpy so you can actually see it on the fort/outpost present platform
don't show HpWarnRing or HpCriticalRing when spectating, since these are LocalAM_ symbols which will be 0 index when spectating
Clear some dialog menus when using item from mini inspect dialog
add non-stealthed versions of mine materials so they don't disappear on the unit present platform in forts and outposts

That's all for now. Over the next week we'll be making more annoucements about the exact end of the free Founder's badge window, the end of the Beta Bundle, and the date we will be leaving Early Access. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way, you will find lots of benefits for being counted among those who played the game before the full launch!

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