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Sins of a Solar Empire v1.1 BETA 3 Change Log

Coming to an Impulse client near you...

October 8, 2008 2:53:43 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

We're in the home stretch of the Sins of a Solar Empire v1.1 testing!  We're planning to release BETA 3 on Thursday (10/9/08) and follow-up with one more update later this month before calling v1.1 final.

Here's the changelog for BETA 3:

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Sins of a Solar Empire v1.096 (aka 1.1 beta 3) Changelist
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Note: It's named v1.096 instead of 1.1 beta 3 because the Games for Windows version tools won't let us use letters. This was a common question and I agree its confusing. I would change it if I could -Blair

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Gameplay / Balance:
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-Changed pirate raid target selection so that it is guaranteed to always pick from among the players with the most bounty on them.
-Fixed bug where ships in fleets would try and return to their rally point. Thanks to everyone on the forums involved with tracking this down.

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Graphics:
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-Fixed bug in normal calculations for meshes that don't have them provided.

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UserInterface / HUD:
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-Quick pirate bounty window no longer allows putting bounty on players who have lost.
-Quick market and Quick Bounty windows are now hidden during recorded game playback.

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Modding:
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-Fixed bug in normal calculations for meshes that don't have them provided. (Will improve lighting of custom meshes that are relying on Sins to generate normals)

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Misc:
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-Fixed various version control problems (achievements, user settings, etc).

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Reply #1 October 8, 2008 3:14:31 PM
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Yay! Good fixes

 Finally squashing the "one ship always trying to jump back" bug is teh awesome

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Reply #2 October 8, 2008 3:55:18 PM
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Quoting ,
quoting post


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-Changed pirate raid target selection so that it is guaranteed to always pick from among the players with the most bounty on them.


Could you clarify this? What if somebody increased the bounty on another player, 0.5seconds after the raid launched? Will it go to the new person with the highest bounty?

 

Also, yay!

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Reply #3 October 8, 2008 4:06:49 PM
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Gameplay / Balance:
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-Changed pirate raid target selection so that it is guaranteed to always pick from among the players with the most bounty on them.


Could you clarify this?

 

Before the fix, some changes in players' bounty that resulted in a tie for highest bounty didn't force a re-evaluation of the raid target, meaning the first player with the highest bounty was always raided. In the new patch, any of the players who are tied for highest bounty could be the unlucky target.

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Reply #4 October 8, 2008 4:42:55 PM
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Quoting Steve Mackay,
reply 3


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-Changed pirate raid target selection so that it is guaranteed to always pick from among the players with the most bounty on them.


Could you clarify this?
 

Before the fix, some changes in players' bounty that resulted in a tie for highest bounty didn't force a re-evaluation of the raid target, meaning the first player with the highest bounty was always raided. In the new patch, any of the players who are tied for highest bounty could be the unlucky target.

 

cool!

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Reply #5 October 8, 2008 5:46:43 PM
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Please just bring out the 1.1 already.  The online games are suffering from the delays.

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Reply #6 October 8, 2008 5:55:36 PM
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Patience is a virtue.

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Reply #7 October 9, 2008 1:28:12 AM
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Thanks for the effort!

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Reply #8 October 9, 2008 3:57:08 AM
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Question: Will this Patch will be available via Impulse only?

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Reply #9 October 9, 2008 4:09:21 AM
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That is correct Haldolium.

 

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Reply #10 October 9, 2008 8:31:00 AM
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Why do people hate Impulse?  It works great for me and I love it.

Also, why do we need a 4th beta?  It looks like the bugs are pretty much gone now.  With this beta, the rest of the bugs will be fleshed out and it will be ready for prime time. 

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Reply #11 October 9, 2008 2:31:22 PM
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I have another question:

when the game loads, I can't see the intromovie anymore...

is this normal?

 

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Reply #12 October 9, 2008 2:31:57 PM
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The last beta is going to add some new Impulse functionality for multiplayer games (if all goes well). It should be a fairly quick turnaround and we're aiming to have v1.1 final out this month.

BTW - V1.1 Beta 3 is now available.

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Reply #13 October 9, 2008 4:17:06 PM
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This couldn't possibly mean that if you host a game with a custom map, impulse will download the needed files?  Dude, you have to stop being vague and just tell us...Annatar11 is about to have a siezure.

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Reply #14 October 9, 2008 4:29:11 PM
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I am?

It's probably the Impulse Reactor coming into play with Impulse-based game matchmaking.

*has a seizure*

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Reply #15 October 9, 2008 10:55:11 PM
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you guy's are just too funny. LMAO!

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Reply #16 October 10, 2008 7:11:57 AM
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Btw, looks like I was right. If you click Sins in My Games, you'll see a "View All Multiplayer Games" link in its box on the right. Clicking it will take you to the Impulse MP matchmaker. It won't find any games, but you'll notice Sins is selected in the drop-down, and if you click Create it'll launch the game..

Dun dun.

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Reply #17 October 10, 2008 8:17:13 AM
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While cool, I still hope my idea enters in as well.  One can hope...

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Reply #18 October 10, 2008 8:52:18 AM
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I dunno. You might have to sacrifice a herd of goats for that. Or a virgin.

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Reply #19 October 10, 2008 9:10:04 AM
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My vote is for a herd of goats.

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Reply #20 October 10, 2008 9:23:37 AM
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It can be a dude virgin.

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Reply #21 October 10, 2008 9:29:27 AM
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Ok, offer him up then, I'm cool with that.  Just leave the nice virgins out of this.

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Reply #22 October 10, 2008 9:49:50 AM
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Ok, offer him up then, I'm cool with that.  Just leave the nice virgins out of this.

Where's eets when you need him Always hiding.. then again, I can't say I blame him. He's always the prime target for a virgin sacrifice.

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Reply #23 October 13, 2008 12:29:14 PM
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My game version number is still 1.09b[b].047 and it won't auto-update. How do I update to v1.1 Beta 3?

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Reply #24 October 14, 2008 12:05:48 AM
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My friend and I tried played a couple 2v2 games with the new beta.  Good stuff!  Hard AI is actually somewhat hard now, new graphics look nice, games ran and play smoothly without crashes or noticable bugs, LRM spam can be stopped now.

 

The new quick-market bar is fantastic as well.  Great work, and fantastic support for the game Ironclad!  Looking forward to being able to play on ICO, and the the first expansion!

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Reply #25 October 18, 2008 7:57:33 PM
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Im kinda intrested in tryin the beta, i went to impulse and i might as well be lookin for bin laden. where on impulse is there anything to DL that doesnt cost $ (the beta for example)

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