Ooo... Nice to see. Any chance this will look at fixing resolution options and a few distorted graphics on Apple Silicon Macs?

Nice! :) 

It's awesome to see some more love being put into this game!

Good work to Cobbs and Cyrob. Also Rip to lack of alternative fleet skins for AI in this.

Praise Cobbs and Cyrob! They did amazing work with ESG, I'm so glad to see their work getting recognition! Great changes overall! I love the bug fixes the most.

This is just what i need. Can't wait to see the final patch.

Fantastic news, thank you very much for this! Testing the beta now, and cannot wait for release.

somnolentsurfer wrote:

Ooo... Nice to see. Any chance this will look at fixing resolution options and a few distorted graphics on Apple Silicon Macs?

Unfortunately, I can't make any promises about that. We learned the hard way with Humankind that even with a relatively recent version of Unity proper support for Silicon Macs is difficult, and the Unity version ES2 runs on is pretty ancient at this point. We can try to look into it, but it very well may turn out to require more work than we have time for, given the other necessary fixes.

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Unfortunately, I can't make any promises about that. We learned the hard way with Humankind that even with a relatively recent version of Unity proper support for Silicon Macs is difficult, and the Unity version ES2 runs on is pretty ancient at this point. We can try to look into it, but it very well may turn out to require more work than we have time for, given the other necessary fixes.

Thanks for the response. Yeah, I certainly wasn't thinking of a full native Apple Silicon port. I realise that would be a lot of work for such an old game. But maybe it's possible to fix the Intel build so that at least displays correctly in native resolution using Rosetta. I don't know anything about the technicalities of it, obviously, just that there are plenty of older Mac games that don't have that issue. I gave a full explanation in this thread.

As I played a bit more after that I also discovered that a very few of the graphics on the information screens about events and things are just weirdly corrupted as well. Not as major an issue, but it's so rare that it seems like something that must have one odd cause somewhere.

somnolentsurfer wrote:

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Unfortunately, I can't make any promises about that. We learned the hard way with Humankind that even with a relatively recent version of Unity proper support for Silicon Macs is difficult, and the Unity version ES2 runs on is pretty ancient at this point. We can try to look into it, but it very well may turn out to require more work than we have time for, given the other necessary fixes.

Thanks for the response. Yeah, I certainly wasn't thinking of a full native Apple Silicon port. I realise that would be a lot of work for such an old game. But maybe it's possible to fix the Intel build so that at least displays correctly in native resolution using Rosetta. I don't know anything about the technicalities of it, obviously, just that there are plenty of older Mac games that don't have that issue. I gave a full explanation in this thread.

As I played a bit more after that I also discovered that a very few of the graphics on the information screens about events and things are just weirdly corrupted as well. Not as major an issue, but it's so rare that it seems like something that must have one odd cause somewhere.

As I say, I'll make sure it's on our list of issues, but we may not find the time for it (as the number of people we have with the know-how to tackle this problem is quite low, as far as I know).

As for the corrupted graphics, that may not be related directly to you playing on a Mac. Unfortunately, due to the large number of assets in the game, we sometimes run into problems where some assets are corrupted when compiling the build, and the only fix is recompiling it. (However, if you are playing on the beta, please bear in mind that it is purely a Windows build with no MacOS compatibility at all, Silicon or otherwise. Due to the time it takes to compile these builds, we will unfortunately not be providing a Mac version until the full release of the patch.)

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

As for the corrupted graphics, that may not be related directly to you playing on a Mac. Unfortunately, due to the large number of assets in the game, we sometimes run into problems where some assets are corrupted when compiling the build, and the only fix is recompiling it. (However, if you are playing on the beta, please bear in mind that it is purely a Windows build with no MacOS compatibility at all, Silicon or otherwise. Due to the time it takes to compile these builds, we will unfortunately not be providing a Mac version until the full release of the patch.)

Ah, OK. Thanks. That wasn't in the beta, it was a couple of weeks ago that I noticed it, before the beta came out. If I have time I'll see if I can replicate it on Windows.

The Mac version and the PC version are compiled separately, so it may indeed run fine on Windows. In any case, it should hopefully resolve itself when we make the new Mac build for the release version of this patch.

This is awesome, the Nakalim really struggle, I do wish they had some more changes, but thanks for this.

There's also the annoying conscription thing when trying to take a planet, makes sieging take wayy too long.

Excellent! Glad to see the Death without a Corpse bug getting fixed.

NovaBushido wrote:

This is awesome, the Nakalim really struggle, I do wish they had some more changes, but thanks for this.

There's also the annoying conscription thing when trying to take a planet, makes sieging take wayy too long.

Currently working on their redesign. Can you elaborate on the conscription thing

CaptainCobbs, your team's work is greatly appreciated! ES2 is one of my all time favorites, your ESG project helped me to spice up my games after I got bored with vanilla. You are an embodiment of dedication!

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:
The mining probe lifetime of multiple Behemoth modules is no longer additive, now taking the highest instead

Will there be some sort of toggle/config to bring back the old, additive behavior? You know, since mining the galaxy is the favorite past time of every chicken samurai. :)

KryoVault wrote:

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:
The mining probe lifetime of multiple Behemoth modules is no longer additive, now taking the highest instead

Will there be some sort of toggle/config to bring back the old, additive behavior? You know, since mining the galaxy is the favorite past time of every chicken samurai. :)

Probably not, but Behemoths are one of the big subjects we want to tackle once we're confident Awakening is in a better state.

I have some plans for the Hissho to make Behemoth Mining just one potential playstyle for them.