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luthier 06-17-2011 04:54 PM

Friday June 17 Update – Next Patch Info
 
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We’ve been pushing it out all day, but it’s just not coming out.

Or rather, we have two known issues: new ship-related online code is occasionally crapping out, and the new multiplayer GUI is not quite fully cooked.

We plan to work on it over the weekend, test internally on Monday, and release the beta on Tuesday.

The patch will contain everything I’ve said previously. Most importantly, online stability and the improved online GUI make online games much more interesting.

Some shots of the new GUI and the new warship are attached.

Sorry to keep you waiting!

Quote:

Our next BETA patch is tentatively scheduled for two weeks from now for Friday the 17th, and the release version of it is scheduled for the Friday after that, June 24th.

The next patch will contain:

* Improved streamlined multiplayer GUI
* Other multiplayer improvements - more stability, all plane settings like convergence and paintscheme working at all times, less rare bugs, etc.
* Various graphical improvements. The distant clouds are finally back - i.e. the flat representations of clouds you saw on beta screenshots with pretty sunlit borders. Finally fixed the landscape stripes bug, etc.
* Improvements to FM and DM and various cockpit systems, as usual - long list there.
* AI improvements, including at least the majority, if not all, of the order system working.
* A new warship!

Other things that are in the pipeline:

* Sound. This is probably the biggest issue we're facing. We're taking a very drastic approach to the issue and pretty much redoing our sound from scratch. This means you won't see the new sound for a few more months.
* FPS. The final remaining performance issues, which fortunately are comparatively minor, lie very deep in the engine, and require us to do a significant amount of work. Probably at least 2 months of it.
* Online stability, more anti-cheating controls, and server and aircraft SDK - also a few months out. Dedicated Server SDK and documentation is probably going to be done the quickest.

NOTE: this isn't an exhaustive list, but rather the main bullet points.

luthier 06-17-2011 04:54 PM

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And the ship.

JG52Krupi 06-17-2011 04:56 PM

Nice, thanks for the update.

As some ppl have a short memory I though I would just add this line...

"Our next BETA patch is tentatively scheduled for two weeks from now for Friday the 17th, and the release version of it is scheduled for the Friday after that, June 24th."

Now I am off to the pub :D

blackbirdslo 06-17-2011 04:56 PM

Thanks!
Keep up the good work!

louisv 06-17-2011 04:57 PM

Thanks a lot :grin:

adonys 06-17-2011 04:58 PM

Thank you for the update, Luthier!

kristorf 06-17-2011 05:00 PM

Ta

Kankkis 06-17-2011 05:00 PM

Thanks for the info Luthier.

baronWastelan 06-17-2011 05:02 PM

Good to know you're still alive and kickin Ilya. Thanks for checking in with us.

Mags 06-17-2011 05:03 PM

See you on Tuesday then!
Have a nice weekend, guys.


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