AI War 2:Post Completion

Reporting Bugs

• Any bugs or requests should go to our mantis bugtracker
  • If you need to submit log files, those can generally be found under your PlayerData folder in the folder your game is installed in. The most relevant one is called ArcenDebugLog.txt. You can send us the whole thing, or just strip out relevant parts.
  • In rare cases, mainly if your entire game crashes (that almost never happens), we will need your unity player log. That gets overwritten the next time you run the game after a crash, unlike the other log. These can be found here:
    • Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Arcen Games, LLC\AIWar2\Player.log
    • macOS: ~/Library/Logs/Arcen Games, LLC/AIWar2/Player.log
    • Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Arcen Games, LLC/AIWar2/Player.log

• Feel free to join discussions on discord!

What Happens Now That The Game Is "Done?"

The last of the AI War 2 DLCs is now out, the Complete Edition is out, and you can read a retrospective of the entire project if you would like to.

At this point, we have primarily moved on to other projects aside from bugfixes and balance tweaks and modder-support throughout 2022. That said, expect patches to arrive weekly or so at least, and in the short period after DLC3 releases it will be even more frequent.

We expect AI War 2 to have a long life if AI War Classic is anything to go by. The game is in a really good state, and we want you to be able to enjoy it for years and years.

5.002

(Not Yet Released)

• Orbital mines for captured outposts were dying to remains that the Necromancer could not interact with and thus making captured orbital outposts with minefields effectively null and void since they could not replace expired minefields with dead ones clogging the slots. While this will definitely help newer games already impacted games may simply be out of luck.
  • The attribute never_leaves_remains="true" has been set for the various types of orbital minefields. Replacements are put in play by the host outpost.

• Received report that AI Spire Rail Destroyer were massively larger than their common cousins visually. Went ahead and made their regular AI Spire Destroyer companions a little larger visually while making the AI Rail Destroyers smaller but still larger slightly visually.
  • AI Spire Destroyer visual scaling 1 -> 1.5
  • AI Spire Rail Destroyer visual scaling 3 -> 2.0
    • It is still useful to the player to be able to distinguish which ones are infinite range at a glance in a mixed group.

Tooltip work

• The current amount of Weapon Points is now displayed in the buff row.
  • Thanks to Puffin for creating the mechanic and zeusalmighty for requesting.
  • The FixedResourceTextStats class is now renamed FixedTextFormatingStats (as it supports more than just resources), has been moved to the AIW2 Core project and given the ability to support Geo icons.

• Began an overhaul of the entire entity type tooltip to fit more icons instead of text, and in uniform show either icons or text and not a mix of the two. For now this is inactive code, existing next to the original tooltip code. In the future there will be a setting to use the experimental tooltip code instead of the current one. Thus all of the below has no effect on the game just yet:
  • Removed the old Start[Something] or Add[Something] extension methods for ArcenCharacterBufferBase. Now they are either named Start[Something], End[Something] and Wrap[Something] to clarify.
    • Additionally there now is support for generic resources to automatically find the correct FixedResourceTextStats object to work with, support for the PlayerTypeData resources and a way to end with the resource name.
  • The tooltip for planetary energy and metal boosting after X seconds now has an unified code path, and will combine the numbers for energy and metal if they are both the same, and both are either enabled or disabled.
  • The tooltip code for Factory assisting, factory boosting, claiming, rebuilding and repairing has been rewritten in large parts. Individual repair speeds for hull, shield and engine can now actually be displayed. The assist range will only be displayed once, sine all except internal factories (which measures range in hops) use the same range.
  • Unified the code paths for the lower part of the orbiting tooltips, ships orbiting the gravity well will now show the current distance.
  • Unified and completely rewrote the code for planetary attack and speed amplifiers and inhibitors.
  • The "CEASEFIRE" and "CEASEFIRE BLOCKER" parts are now in color so they stand out more.
  • Unified the code paths for harmonic damage increases.
  • Units with a hacking response multiplier that is >1 (= units that worsen the AI response to hacks) will now display it as a "HACKING MALUS" instead of always "BONUS".
    • This section also no longer refers only to hacking the AI, as other factions may also have responses.
  • On minimum tooltips the hull, shield and speed values now display the percentual values (for hull and shield the percent of the maximum, for speed the percent of the base value)
  • On medium tooltips the hull, shield and speed values now display the same information as full tooltips do, but with icons instead of text.
    • Thanks to General Frost for requesting.

5.001 First Post-Completion Tweaks

(Released April 22nd, 2022)

• Update the tooltip for the bubble forcefield module to clarify the behaviour
  • Thanks to Strategic Sage for reporting

• Fix a bug where the Spire Infused Empire was not generating its periodic exos, and the 'exo on spire city build' was trivially small. This will make the Spire Infused Empire much more interesting
  • Thanks to Trantor63 on discord for the initial report, and Lord of Nothing for providing a save game to examine

• Fix a bug where the necromancer would basically get no resources if played on Challenger or above.
  • While the necromancer is not really intended to be played except for in HA mode, there's no reason to break it at higher levels
  • Thanks to Gzar for reporting

• Swapping a necropolis that has an amplifier now causes the amplifier to change which necropolis owns it. Previously the amplifier would just vanish, which was not great
  • Thanks to Doc_Den for reporting

• Clarify distribution nodes for necromancer
  • Thanks to ptarth for suggesting

• Elderling hacks no longer make you select a particular hacker (since it doesn't matter which hacker is used)
  • Thanks to ptarth for suggesting

• The necromancer text popup at the beginning of the game now explicitly warns players who are above HA that they may have unexpected issues.
• Also clarify the Necromancer description to explicitly disclaim necromancer support
  • We had a couple people playing on Challenger today and finding bugs (Gzar and ussdefiant in particular), so I want to make it clearer that Challenger+ is not really supported

• Small correction of oversight in albedo for a strikecraft within DLC 3 with cloaking.
  • Stealth Bombard albedo 0.4 -> 0.7

• Fixed a grammar error in "The Migrants: The Arrival" Journal.

Prior Release Notes

AI War 2: The Final Cycle