Ashes of the Singularity Beta 2 Changelog

[IslandDog]

• HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Multi-GPU support... including mixed AMD/Nvidia combinations
  • Multiplayer Season 0 begins
  • New Visual Effects
  • Stability Fixes
  • 3 New Maps
  • Improved AI
  • New music tracksLots of visual improvements, UI tweaks, balance, community requests, and bug fixes
     

• Gameplay
  • Improved Substrate faction AI
  • AI now uses Orbital Abilities
  • Added starting point selection for Skirmish and Multiplayer
  • New & improved Benchmark
  • Added pause queue option for factories
  • Added delete unit/structure button
  • Factory queues can be started before the factory is fully constructed
  • Units stop faster when ordered directly from the UI
  • Additional multiplayer cheat protections
  • New Maps
    • Eridon
    • Pyn
    • Cygnus
  • Map Balance:
    • more radioactives on large maps
    • kralon - removed rads from VP regions
    • frozen wastes - fixed resource placement (radial symmetry)
  • Balance
    • Substrate Orbital structure build times adjusted
    • cut passive heal bonus for Herc level up in half
    • make the Savager attack lower tier units also with its main gun
    • adjust Hercules autogun turrets a tiny bit so that it can hit t1s that are directly in front of it
    • added energy cost to Prometheus vampire effect
    • Substantially increased building HP
    • Increased SkyCleaner accuracy from 20% to 60% (keeps its low damage per hit)
    • Decreased Apollo accuracy from 70% to 40% (maintains its high damage per hit)
    • Avatar shield recharge rate reduced from 5 per second to 2 per second
    • Reduced metal cost of Substrate Punisher
    • Doubled rate of fire of Archer rockets but reduced damage
    • Reduced accuracy of Hermes autocannon but added more shots per volley
    • Nemesis HP reduced from 600 to 500
    • Controller Plasma bolt damage reduced from 25 to 10
    • Hyperion main gun cool down reduced from 6 to 3.2.
    • Hyperion main gun damage increased from 25 to 40
    • Removed 2 of the 4 Heavy PLasma cannon from the punisher to bring its damage inline with the Hades
    • Falcon cost reduced
    • Annihilator now has 1000HP
    • Annihilator now has light armor
    • Drone MRV now has light armor
    • Blossom launcher has light armor
    • Annihilator cost reduced to 150 metal.
    • Mauler max energy reduced
    • Martyr shields increased from 80 to 160
    • Martyer shield regen incresaed from 0.5 to 1
    • Martyr HP increasd from 40 to 50
    • Reaper shield regn decreased from 1 to 0.5
    • Reaper cannon cooldown reduced from 6 seconds to 3.2 seconds
    • kill Drone swarm Drones after 2 minutes to minimize a certain cheeze tactic
    • PHC orbitals always require some rads
    • reworked mouse input handling in ui w/ regard to scale
    • make short range units a little more aggressive at charging to the frontlots more
• Art & Graphics
  • Improved glare visual effect
  • Improve Substrate unit and building materials
  • Increased size of Resource Extractors and Amplifiers to improve legibility
  • new PHC factory model
  • Turinium lines not so bright anymore
  • Team color now shows on resource deposits
  • VFX
    • Hades bombs and and rocket flames more visible from far distance
    • VFX on Turinium Generators when a player is nearing critical mass
    • Orbital Strike vfx polished
    • Boost vfx polished
    • Overcharge vfx polished
    • Kill beam vfx polished
    • Shield Recharge vfx polished
    • EMP vfx polished
    • Seed Destruction VFX added
    • Plasma Storm: Lightning added, reduced cloud clipping, general polish
    • Polished Teleport Effect (Incursion, Call Engineer, etc)
    • Dreadought destruction vfx polished more
    • have some weapon lens flares match the main eapon color a little better
    • Amplify, Boost, and Overcharge vfx now last as long as the gameplay effect
  • Unit & Structure polish
    • Substrate Nexus
    • PHC power relay
    • Radioactive Extractor maps
    • Drone Host
    • MRV defensive structure
    • Annihilator Cannon
    • Sensor Post
    • various Orbital Ability structures
    • Turinium GeneratorAnimated lights on Hercules
• UI
  • Added Borderless Window option
  • Added feedback as to your current Quantum Upgrade level
  • Lobby Browser
    • added prompt to host a lobby if all lobbies are full/in progress
    • now shows games in progress (grayed out)
    • automatically refreshes every 10s
  • Lots of visual polish on icons and opacity
  • Improved Victory Screen
  • New “orbital cast” cursor
  • Improved Dreadnought level up ability icons
  • Dead/Surrendered/Disconnected players now marked in HUD
  • Drone modules now display in unit/building context area
  • Quanta icon in HUD is now more legible
  • Team color now represented by the 3 colors that are painted on it’s units
  • Made the Metal and Radioactive icons more readable on the MaxiMap
  • Tooltip improvements
    • Lots of typo fixes
    • Added tooltips for AI difficultieshave dps display factor in accuracy
• Sound
  • 8 additional ambient music tracks added
  • 2 new Win/Loss music tracks
  • New main menu and multiplayer menu music
  • New and improved destruction sounds
  • Capture region order now plays a sound confirmation
  • New VO notifications for Quantum Upgrades, Dreadnoughts launching,and Dreadnought upgrades
  • Sound plays when Ranked match is found
  • Added Avatar weapon sound
  • 3D sound when a relay is captured
  • hooked up ReaperParticle Beam soundincreased radius of construction sound
• Performance
  • reduce memory needed for notification sounds
  • reduced memory needed for minimap images
  • reduced UI memory usagereduced bandwidth usage
• Stability
  • Fixes our re-entrancy crash for msg registration
  • Increasing some buffer sizes that are cutting it close in AshesUnitPanel
  • Fixed game re-entry crashes
  • Warn users if they are crashing as a result of a bad install
  • fixed crash on game startCrashes related to starting/stopping building construction
• Bug fixes
  • “Fixing Dan’s Crap” - Nathan
  • Multiplayer
    • Fixed situation where MP game wouldn’t end when the host Nexus was destroyed
    • Fixed server disconnect issues on multiplayer match loading
    • Fixing hang on clients in matchmaking if the host player failed to create a lobby
    • Disabling auto saves in ranked matches
    • Player slot pulldown popup was being forced to be too short in lobby setup wnd
    • Winning Team was being reported incorrectly for some matches
    • Fixing lobby setup UI not being set up completely when returning to the lobby
    • Bandwidth optimization for deep unit construction queues
    • Resolved bandwidth spike caused by CreateMetaUnit messages
    • Don't allow entering a lobby with a different version of the game by invitation
  • Gameplay
    • Game speed now properly impacts Turinium points and Quanta
    • AI picks level up bonuses for Dreadnoughts
    • Fixed capture orders not coming through when an Amplifier was built at the region
    • You can't cast boost or overcharge on enemy relays anymore
    • fix for metaunit childrn sometimes not going to the correct location
    • Fixing minimap icon displayed for a seed that is destroyed and becomes a generator
    • fix for substrate seed not rotating and a few tweaks to its weapons now that that is working properly
    • Fixing UI formatting issues with lobby browser
    • fixed in game chat colors being wrong
    • Lobby chat now text wraps
  • Graphics
    • fix for flickery amplifiers
    • Fixing flickering previews for buildings
    • Fix for flickering part on Sky Factory in FOW
    • Fixed ship model gets stuck on partially constructed adv factory
  • Misc
    • Fix for missing selection rings on some units/buildings
    • Resource panel at top of HUD z-order change so the "tooltip" popup isn't covered up
    • Misaligned invite friends entries
    • Fixing save game screen not showing map previews for selected entries
    • unit and building tooltips no longer have extra ":" at the end
    • fixed boost orbital icon
    • reworked mouse input handling in ui w/ regard to scale
    • If you win against a single opponent that surrendered, will now say that they surrendered in the victory screen
    • Auto scrolling to selected map entry in skirmish and lobby setup screens
    • changed the Seed icon the be something other than the Substrate symbol

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[lavizh]

Now thats a nice changelog, big thanks.

[[ΖмBя.™] Catolico]

and mult gpu?

[Zuluknob]

Holy ♥♥♥♥, you guys have been busy...

[NilkkiHiiri]

Awesome!

[Superfl0yd]

Originally posted by edutamy:

and mult gpu?

Thanks, this is great! But yes, what about multi gpu support? Still don't see it. Was it not supposed to be included with Beta 2?

[Superfl0yd]

Originally posted by Superfl0yd:

Originally posted by edutamy:

and mult gpu?

Thanks, this is great! But yes, what about multi gpu support? Still don't see it. Was it not supposed to be included with Beta 2?

I apologize, I take it back. I should have taken more than 5 seconds to look for the option to enable it before opening my big mouth :(. Thank you devs!!! Love the game!!

[Griezell]

- rankd games stil vs AI with re-tard mode on

- extractors stil low health get one shot by hades or "unarmd" pan scout units...

- still no use for 'form army' the blob wil spead out and die in fornt line 1 by one.
beter to have no army group and then atack move to destination so they al dive in to the fight.

- random that happens alot is when finding rankd game and you got one ( vs an ai) it chrashes

just from doing 1 game rankd

[Schism Navigator]

This patch was a huge performance hit for me in DX12 running a GTX 660 even on low settings. I've had to switch over to DX11 now which runs a great deal better.

Otherwise I am happy with a lot of the core game improvements and assets. Just need to get back to optimisation for DX12 guys now that you have your fancy multi-GPU support.

[Kaldun]

I am disappointed! That game ist in EA and u already sell it for 50%. What the hell? The discount on xmas was a good deal. but this deal shows me that you do not sell enough copies. That puts you and the game in a bad light in my opinion.
I dont regret my purchase support from xmas. I am just disappointed by this move!

[PeTTs0n]

How does multi-GPU work for DX12 capable iGPUs (Intel HD Graphics 4200 and up, AMD Kaveri) in conjunction with a dedicated DX12 GPU/multiple DX12 GPUs? Will there be any noticable performance gains? In which (if any) situation(s)?

[Tom]

Amazing work guys cant wait to test this!

[lavizh]

Originally posted by Kaldun:

I am disappointed! That game ist in EA and u already sell it for 50%. What the hell? The discount on xmas was a good deal. but this deal shows me that you do not sell enough copies. That puts you and the game in a bad light in my opinion.
I dont regret my purchase support from xmas. I am just disappointed by this move!

I dont see the problem, they want to do a weekend deal. I say let them, if it leeds to more players, good.

[Frogboy]

We've done pre-launch sales on every game we've launched on Steam going all the way back to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. The idea is to build up a final push of players to make sure we haven't missed something in our own testing.

[Superfl0yd]

One little bug to report, still occasionally seeing that purpulish tint to everything. Quiting to menu and starting the game again seems to fix it every time.

[Ekko Tek]

Has the bug where clicking on Dreadnought upgrades does nothing been fixed? Didn't see it in the changelog.