AI War:Current 4.0 Beta
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Prerelease 3.700
- AI War version 3.189 converted to the Unity 3D engine. Only new features since 3.189 are mentioned here.
- There are no longer any prerequisites for running the game.
- The game no longer uses GDI+, so it is no longer at all dependent on system fonts, and programs like FRAPS are able to record the menus as well as the actual gameplay.
- Thanks largely to the removal of the GDI+ components, the game application itself opens markedly faster now.
- The draw-framerate is now independent from the simulation-framerate.
- This is a huge benefit, because now the draw framerate automatically drops under serious load (like a big battle), which lets the actual simulation speed stay at 100% during play in many cases.
- Thus the game doesn't slow down to a crawl during big battles (it just gets briefly choppy, if that), which passes much more quickly and is markedly less frustrating.
- Also, if one player has a slightly underpowered machine during a network game, it is less likely to slow down the simulation for the other players, which is also excellent.
- This is a huge benefit, because now the draw framerate automatically drops under serious load (like a big battle), which lets the actual simulation speed stay at 100% during play in many cases.
- The keyboard bindings are now able to be edited.
- In-game textures are now streamed into the game in a queue, rather than loaded-all-at-once when first encountered. This avoids choppiness and momentary lag when loading savegames and similar. This does cause images to be invisible and then pop-in during that same time, but that's much preferable in the main.
(note: the above changes reflect our work-in-progress build that has not yet been released)
