Alpha 2

davea

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700g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 3:18:24 PM

Ghost fleets are a graphical bug. Often when you defeat an enemy fleet during your turn, the graphical display of their fleet at your system stays there.

tracek

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tracek

Newcomer

13 years ago

May 17, 2012, 12:35:57 PM

Lt_Miles wrote:
we think the huge number of AI fleets is fixed too. The number of times you are unable to choose auto/manual should have drastically decreased (should be null, in fact)

The huge number of AI fleets does not seem to be fixed. Or if so, then only on new games. Can someone confirm that?

Somewhere in the middle of my war I got update to Alpha 2. After 20 turns or so my opponent has two small systems with 3 tiny ugly planets. When I invaded one of them the next turn huge number of fleets appeared (12 x 9) and smashed me out of the sky. Upon returning to previous turn I find myself already fighting with enemy (ghost fleet?). Is there any other solution than fighting this swarm (like some nice console command to kill X)? And if I win, any guarantee that the situation will not repeat itself? I don't see any chance for enemy to produce / buy that kind of army.

KnightHawk

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KnightHawk

Newcomer

13 years ago

May 17, 2012, 8:33:12 AM

Prior comment about tonnage after further testing appears in error - comment removed to prevent confusion

SuperLordPedro

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SuperLordPedro

Newcomer

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 4:30:09 PM

New Alpha.... Move over Diablo 3!!!

MODVieuxChat

Chameleon

Truth is a chameleon. Herbert

MODVieuxChat

Chameleon

25 400g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 4:26:43 PM

Scopeh wrote:
No new races, I am sad panda

They probably will be release for the beta (because a beta should be feature complete). So as long as they speak of "alpha x" I wouldn't expect new race.

Moonbeam

in Disguise Face

Moonbeam

in Disguise Face

14 300g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 4:24:24 PM

Update is live.

Webbie

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Webbie

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13 600g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 4:04:16 PM

Just for an alpha im pretty happy with it, and with these new fixes, the whole listen to players and have them vote what made me buy this game. No regrets

Zenicetus

Old Timer

Zenicetus

Old Timer

17 900g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 4:01:20 PM

Scopeh wrote:
That option on steam doesnt work, if you have it selected, steam will still auto update your games. I dont think it has ever worked- not since i have used Steam (7 Years) anyway.

That might be related to Steamworks, to keep all all game versions in sync for multiplayer. I've been able to turn off auto-update for things like Total War series games, where I didn't want an update to break mods I was using. But that didn't use Steamworks (at least not at that time).

Edit to add:

Thinking more about this, there does need to be an option to disable updates at some point, for those who don't play multiplayer at all (like me), and who dont' want big, long-running games broken by an update. I'm expecting frequent updates at this stage, so every campaign is "provisional" and I don't care that much if I re-start. But I can see this being very annoying later on, after release, when the game is more polished and updates are just minor fixes.

sagittary

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sagittary

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18 200g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 3:43:30 PM

davea wrote:
Ghost fleets are a graphical bug. Often when you defeat an enemy fleet during your turn, the graphical display of their fleet at your system stays there.

Well that's less exciting than I thought. I like my version better. Ghost ships sailing through the galaxy.

DEVSpaceTroll

Creative Director

DEVSpaceTroll

Creative Director

45 100g2g pts

13 years ago

May 17, 2012, 12:41:26 PM

if you started this game in alpha 1 then the problem is probably still there. if that game started with alpha 2 then we would gladly look at one of your savegames.

sagittary

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sagittary

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18 200g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 3:12:49 PM

I don't know what Ghost Fleets are... but I like 'em! I get this mental image of sci-fi equivalents of The Flying Dutchman and such.

HolyTerror

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HolyTerror

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10 100g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 2:45:50 PM

yeah the huge downside to alpha and beta testing. Specially infuriating on rpg games, where you start a character over... and over ... and over.

StK

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StK

Newcomer

300g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 11:11:19 AM

Very nice.. so many much needed features.

@davea: Wait a second.. Crap.. you are completely right.. I have to finish playing my AAR today before i can't finish it anymore.

Scopeh

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Scopeh

Newcomer

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 10:08:35 AM

davea wrote:
You should never count on save game compatibility this early in a release. But, I understand you "can" turn off auto-update in steam. Not sure if it will help, and not good as a long term solution.

That option on steam doesnt work, if you have it selected, steam will still auto update your games. I dont think it has ever worked- not since i have used Steam (7 Years) anyway.

Moogel

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Moogel

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6 600g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 9:53:38 AM

i have 21 hours in with this game, and by looking those patch notes i can say that number will skyrocket as soon as the patch is out. Like the guard command and victory condition fix... cant wait

Mesthione

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Mesthione

Newcomer

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 6:33:38 AM

SomethingBlue wrote:
Crappiest thing about this is I can't bring myself to start a new game knowing the Alpha 2 is coming.

I wanted to play my 100 turnish save game today, but knowing the next version would be out soon...I had to do the same thing you did. (*sob*)

Moonbeam

in Disguise Face

Moonbeam

in Disguise Face

14 300g2g pts

13 years ago

May 16, 2012, 5:40:56 AM

Lovely. Looking forward to this now that I can play the game slightly above newbie status.

Sick about no pause on battle or the removal of the daft timer altogether.

4x_Fan

Newcomer

4x_Fan

Newcomer

UE Turn 149 Fleet Bug.zip

13 years ago

May 17, 2012, 5:53:51 PM

SpaceTroll wrote:
if you started this game in alpha 1 then the problem is probably still there. if that game started with alpha 2 then we would gladly look at one of your savegames.

Found it ~ this is a alpha2 game. Not just the Hssh, either, sadly.

Urdnot-Shepard

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Urdnot-Shepard

Newcomer

13 years ago

May 20, 2012, 4:36:59 AM

I'm SOOOO happy about widescreen. Seriously, the non-widescreen resolution drove me CRAZY.

terrano

Newcomer

terrano

Newcomer

13 years ago

May 20, 2012, 12:54:54 AM

AI trolls hard with Huge fleet size and over the cap. My game has this continously every other turn

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/39gv8

SOPHONS - Turn 205.zip.zip

have fun getting beaten the hell out of your fleets by the AI

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