Open beta version
Patch 2.5.2
This patch addresses various issues in the The Alliance of the System Lords galactic campaign, including but not limited to:
- Several tweaks, fixes and adjustments to galactic goals
- Various adjustments to tactical missions, especially tweaks in regard of the selected difficulty
- Adjustments to nearly all ground maps to make them more fun to play
- General stability and performance of the GC, including a fix for crashes during tactical caused by missile projectiles
Moreover new weapon hardpoint symbols have been added to all ships, to allow distinguishing between light, medium, heavy, artillery, and special weapons as well as missiles/drones at first glance.
Changes:
Art:
Particles:
- Decreased particle counts for some "heavy-hitters" such as the missile smoke effects, should now only take about a third of the particle amount
- Changed some settings for several recently added particles as a precaution, some of those (Goauld hit effects) might be removed down the line
- Small visual improvement to Hatak projectiles.
Textures:
- Added new hardpoint weapon icons for all ships (light, medium, heavy, artillery, and special weapons as well as missiles/drones)
- Added several new galactic planet previews (zoomed_terrain_image)
- Added missing Tauri_Land_Building_Resource_Mine_Big2_Diffuse.dds texture
Models:
- Added new Systemlord specific buildings for big resource mine and palace
- Added new reinforcement points: New symbols for the System Lords and added blink effect to Vocume to make them easier to spot. Neutral posts now also show the pop cap they provide
- Updated Asgard ONeill model, fix shadow and shield and use it for Thor as well - resolves #3342
- Fixed Wraith Hangar ALT stage gate position being off (Resolves #3311)
- Fixed particle name in Tauri_Projectile_Satellite_Railgun_Blue.alo (Resolves #0003343)
- New version of Map_Asset_Goauld_Pyramid.ALO with shadow
Code:
The Alliance of the System Lords:
- Added free spawn units to all main faction ground production buildings
- Added new ground capturables: Abandoned Goauld factory, Abandoned Goauld sensor array, Abandoned Goauld Deathglider/Teltak/Alkesh
- Added Kull spawns to Symbiote Tank and fixed Symbiote Tank not being hit by projectiles (Resolves #0003433)
- Added missing planet ability to Anubis Homeworld and Earth
- Fixed base shields being buildable twice
- Fixed base shields still showing shield bubble after being destroyed
- Fixed Systemlord units not being capable of capturing landing zones and turret build pads
- Fixed Tower Defense buildings not having a destroyed state
- Fixed Bastet Guards missing in public beta
- Fixed planets connecting in GC that shouldn't connect
- Fixed syslord starbase spawning more units than desired
- Increased planet capture bonus from 50 to 300 for all planets
- Increased AG-3 health and damage
- Increased damage/armor of all syslord space heroes significantly
- Potential fix for AI not moving Baal (Issue #0003385)
- Recoded all Syslord ground buildings since they all had prereqs they couldn't meet. This should fix a bunch of AI issues and the HQ appearing twice in tactical.
- After invading land, the gate will now shut off, giving the impression the invader just came trough the gate
- Goauld: Increased the damage of Herak-in-Anubis-Supership energy weapon
- Goauld: Fixed Eye-for-the-gods excavation requiring a starbase - resolves #0003384
- Goauld Revanna: The mission difficulty now depends on the games selected difficulty
- Goauld Revanna: The poison carrier is now easier to catch up with
- Goauld Revanna: Added new hint telling the player who can be killed and who shouldn't be
- Tauri: Made Tau'ri Big Resource Mine buildable on Erebus
- Tauri: Fix removing objective to send Selmak to Revanna
- Tauri: Give player credits for fleet build up before Vorash mission
- Tauri: Allow SG-1 trigger Chulak mission if other units are around
- Tauri: Increased 'Baal escaped' timer
- Tauri: Increased the damage and durability of the Syslord invasion Kull significantly
- Tauri: Reduced the amount of systemlords starting forces
- Tauri Earth: Make radar blip for Antarctica defense appear earlier
- Tauri Vorash: Add difficulty adjustments and a tactical hint on how to win the mission
- Tauri Hassara: Reduce detection range further
- Tauri Hassara: Allow Selmak to hide in space fields
- Tauri Hassara: Adjust turret positions and add tactical advice
- Tauri Chulak: Increased fow reveal for Tealc during the mission
Pegasus Prelude:
- Fixed difficulty check for PP Athos mission not working
- Disable Pathfinder for PP: Wraith: Final mission to prevent a soft lock making the fisrt mission stage nearly impoissible to win
- Added Asuran shipyard to the Asuras forces in PP (Ancient side) (Issue #0003377)
- Fixed PP Wraith story line having debug events enabled
General:
- Added capital to the frigate targeting priority set. This should fix any issue with the heavy sats not prioritizing capitals over fighters
- Anti Air units and Medics will now stay further back when being moved together with other squads
- Bombing run units can no longer capture CPs
- Changed how the hyperspace window works hopefully increasing stability since a lot less objects scripts are run
- Changed income bonus of ground and space resource mines from a percentage to a fixed income
- Fixed an issue with transports potentially spawning units outside of the landing zone
- Fixed hardpoint error in Aschen starbase
- Fixed some a_count + 1 == static_castint(sfx.size()) errors for some ground building (Issue #0002307)
- Fixed some buildings being targeted at too high, causing some shots too miss
- Fixed Teltak, Alkesh and Wraith Shuttle moving inside each other occasionally - resolves #0003411
- Fixed Transportation Rings being targetable
- Increased clickable area of the Battle Pending Dialog (Resolves #3331)
- Made all no_prereq variants neutral to remove them from ai considerations (minor performance boost)
- Prevent mod from loading some unneeded vanilla units (minor performance boost)
- Reduced the general efficiency of anti-air in tactical land battles
- Updated Gun Balloon: Moved to lower build row and changed last fow state to true
- General code-cleanup
Goauld:
- Priest now has a better effect on low-health units and a less extreme boost on high-health units
- Increased land Alkesh anti-infantry damage
- Fixed wrong good/bad against settings of the System Flagship and the Artillery Hatak
- Fixed Ground-Teltak death clone being scaled too big
- Updated Goa AA unit Targeting_Max_Attack_Distance - resolves #3412
Tauri:
- Recoded all missiles to prevent issues with crashing
- Allowed Thor to Focus Fire on orbital structures (resolves #0003430)
- Added more meaningful range indicators to Thors Chariot ability- resolves #0003402
- Added sensor jamming ability, stealth detection and reinforcement disruption to Tau'ri Long Range Scanner
- Added self-healing to Selmak, Baratc, and Tealc
- Increased Carter Grenade Activation_Max_Range and made the grenade explode faster
- Increased Tauri AA turret projectile Max_Flight_Distance since you could see them disappear in mid-air
- Fixed Targeting_Max_Attack_Distances on Stinger Team, MG team and Mortar
- Fixed faulty Asgard Shipyard module HPs (issue #0003397)
- Disabled O'Neill C4 autofire
- Reduced projectile speed of the Tauri land bomber's bomb
- Removed special forces destruction survivors from Tauri structures
Tokra:
- Fixed Tokra Teltak deploying Jaffa instead of Tokra soldiers
- Added custom ability name for Tokra Commando blend (issue #3394)
Wraith:
- Changed Wraith Shuttle to only carry infantry
Sound:
- Added new speech sounds for Bratac (fix #3358)
- Added more speech sounds to Selmak
- Added new iconic Goauld bombardment sound
- Created speech sounds for female jaffa and added them to the Bastet Guards
Leveldesign:
- Fixed the first landing zone not being automatically assigned to the attacker on: Cal Mah, P5S-117, and Pangar
- Significantly increased the quality of all skirmish ground preview map images
- Fixed wrong SysLords Guard Tower starting forces on Juna breaking the ground map preview (resolves #3378)
- Fixed some broken AI data on some maps, potentially preventing a hard crash
- Fixed wrong ambient sounds (birds, ...) on some space maps
- Corrected turret rotation on various ground maps
- Various core space maps now have their special structures moved closer to the starbase
- Updated the passability of all ground maps to better reflect the pathing options on the minimap
- Reworked all ground maps, with some of the applied changes as follows (but not limited to):
- Cal Mah (ground): Smoothed the hill that blocked the turret next to the gate
- Chulak (space): Updated sun settings to make battles easier to read (resolves #003407)
- Chulak (ground): Added another CP to the center, changed passability to "impassable" for the empty area north of the city, and removed trees from the base buildings (resolves #0003398)
- Dendera (ground): Moved pads outside the LZ radius, reworked the access to the outbase building near the LZ, updated passability for building, added more turrets, added more props, extend the city along cliff westwards, added capturable Teltak (resolves #0003410)
- Delmak (ground): Fixed transportation rings not showing up, updated passability, added more turret build pads, increased the pop cap of the starting landing zone and updated empty pits
- Entac (ground): Improve lighting, Change LZ positions, Add turret buildpads (resolves #0003409)
- Erebus (ground): Moved bottom right landing zone so it doesn't overlap with the steep terrain (Resolves #3351)
- Hakytl (ground skirmish): Fixed several unique props missing. Prevented units spawned in the camp LZ being stuck in the tents (Issue #0002596)
- Juna (ground): Added turrets to outbase position area bottom left, cleared LZs from obstacles (resolves #0003413)
- Pangar (ground): Updated passability setup on GC ground Pangar in order to avoid weird movement of hover units (issue #3334)
- P3R 636 (ground): Added ground capturables
- P3X-367 (ground): Fixed affiliation of some turret build pads, added new path from starting position, fine-tuned passability map, minor map adjustments (issue #0003399)
- P3X-116 (ground): Updated starting landing zone
- P3X-666 (ground): Increased starting popcap to 4 (resolves #0003419)
- Tartarus (ground): Added Base Shield marker (resolves #3388)
- Tartarus (space): Updated sun settings to make battles easier to read (resolves #003406)
- Tollana (ground): Fixed wrong affiliation of the turret build pads preventing them from showing up on the map
- Vorash (ground): Fixed reinforcement point capacity (resolves #3370), exchanged Teltak prop for capturable unit
Text
- Adjusted Vorash mission goal (resolves #0003317)
- Added new event texts for System Lord GC and made some corrections/improvements (resolves #3352, resolves #3357, resolves #3365)
- Added new ability name for Tok'ra Commando, secondary objective to The Sentinel and new tooltip for targetable hangars (resolves #3394, resolves #3367, resolves #3373)
- Added additional text to barracks, hangar and vehicle factory of all playable factions saying that the buildings spawns a unit in battle (resolves #0003417)
- Removed the mentioning of fleet commanders in the description of Goa'uld Temple, Tau'ri Academy and Wraith Breeding Station (resolves #0003420)
- Various text corrections and improvements based on community feedback
Patch 2.5.1
This patch addresses many of issues found by the community in the Alliance of the Systemlords campaign
Art:
- Fixed bone orientation Goauld_Land_Unit_Hover_Tank.ALO
- Fixed non-manifold geometry on Tauri_Projectile_Drone.ALO
Code:
The Alliance of the System Lords:
- Fixed SG-1 respawn bug causing story events to break
- Fixed SG-1 only partially respawning (Resolves #0003318)
- Fixed Selmak respawn bug causing story events to break (Resolves #0003322)
- Fixed Selmak Reinforcements carrying over to GC (resolves #3327)
- Fixed Tauri mine not being buildable and adjusted tech level for all mines (Resolves #0003320)
- Fixed an infinite amount of SG-teams being able to gate travel
- Fixed Goauld Guard Tower radar icon size being way too big
- Fixed Syslord Tauri finale cutscene freeze (issue #3323)
- Fixed Syslord variants of Guard Tower and Shield generator not showing up at their marker positions
- Prevent Tokra Commando attacking while stealth active
- Tauri: Increase time between Kull attacks after the first three
- Tauri Hassara Mission: Reduce detection range and don't attack Selmak with Osiris
- Tauri Hassara: Make detection range dependent on difficulty
- Tauri: Made the ending of the Chulak easier on easier difficulties (Resolves #0003325)
- Anubis: Tagrea mission is now easier on easy difficulty
- Anubis: Spawn Osiris when truce starts
- Added several tweaks and fixes to the Systemlords AI player
Leveldesign:
- Added new main menu map
- Fixed lag/freeze on the Ancient vs Wraith main menu map
- Fixed Alpha Base ground preview image broken
- Fixed prop passability on east end of Dakara map
- Anubis HW: Slightly moveed markers to reduce overlap in map preview
Text
- Some important text corrections and additions
Patch 2.5.0
This patch revolves around the release of our second story-based galactic conquest: The Alliance of the System Lords!
The new campaign depicts the rise of Anubis, the fall of the System Lords and the beginning of the Jaffa rebellion. Will you save Earth from its impending doom or help the darkest of Goa’uld rise to power?
This time, the battle will not just be decided in space but on ground as well!
The galactic conquest encompasses 30 planets all known from the series, each one accompanied with a custom-made space and ground map. Nearly each planet comes with unique, handmade props, many with exclusive abilities and new dashboards, and some with special build options.
Furthermore, the patch tweaks a few issues in Pegasus Prelude, tweaks ground skirmish, adds some more particles to ground and space combat and contains a few minor bug fixes as well as some under-the-hood code rewrites.
Art
Models:
- Added several new custom map props (Alpha Site, Rebel Jaffa tents, Dakara, Earth, Kheb, Langara, Latona, P3S_113, P3X_367, PX9_757, Tartarus, and more)
- Added new Wraith_Land_Hero_Queen.ALO with shadow mesh
- Added Wraith_Projectile_Infantry_Stun.ALO issue #3236
- Added Particle and Projectile for Micheal Infect Ability issue #2878
- Added several new particle / shield hit effects:
--- cyborg_particle_fighter_shield_hit.alo, goauld_particle_alkeshbomb_hit.alo, goauld_particle_big_hit.alo, goauld_particle_fighter_hit.alo, goauld_particle_medium_hit.alo
--- goauld_particle_small_hit.alo, ori_particle_superlaser_shield_hit.alo, wraith_particle_plasma_artillery_shield_hit.alo
- Added new Goauld_Land_Building_Turret_AI_UC.ALO with a new collision mesh so it can be destroyed when being shot at
- Fixed some wrongly named textures in models
- Fixed shield texture Asgard DJ class
- Reexported Antarctica low orbit background with lower diffuse eimission (resolves #3274)
- Deleted lots of unused textures freeing some space
Misc:
- Fixed UI elements offset in mission loading screen (resolves #3282)
Code
General:
- Added new galactic conquest: The Alliance of the System Lords!
- Added warning message to not save/load during tactical (issue #3271)
- Added Category Mask to Tokra_Reinforcement_Beacon
- Rewrote large chunks of the ground building code, making it a lot cleaner and fixing some minor issues/inconsistencies
- Rewrote some unit code to make it cleaner (Pegasus Cyborgs, Aschen)
- Updated Tagrea Gun Balloon: It is no longer victory relevant and can now be targeted by anti air units
- Tobin mines no longer explode when the target is cloaked
- BBS: Fixed Destruction_Survivors still appearing after self destruction
- Removed unused Vehicle Thief clones (Remnants of the old SG1 space capture ability)
Goauld:
- Increased the Deathgliders inaccuracy against land infantry (Issue #0003265)
- Increased shieldgen turret GUI_Bracket_Size
- Fixed population value for Herak and Apophis. (Resolves #3297)
Ori:
- Decreased Ori Mothership Shield Strength for WM
Tauri:
- Made UAV more useful: More reveal, more health, and now, when being shot at after given an attack/follow command, the unit will flee for a while before returning to it's former position.
- Added limiter to Selmaks Reinforcement ability so only one unit can be called in at the same time (issue #3249)
- Made Prometheus' nuke missiles no longer fire at opportunity targets
- Fine tuned ONeills C4 ability:
-- Added damage type Damage_Anti_Structure, increased total damage and restricted to Vehicle and Structure targets. (issue #3285)
-- Lower Activation_Max_Range significantly: Activation works a lot better now (still not 100% of the time, but it is way better) (resolves #3279)
Wraith:
- Made ion shot ability of the Exp Dart more visible (+attempt fix for Ancient sat going in rapid fire mode)
- Exchanged anubis- with new hatak in hive strong_against
The Alliance of the System Lords:
- New galactic conquest added!
Pegasus Prelude:
- Fixed Melia's Energy Barrier ability not showing a particle effect
- Adjusted costs for Moros Dreadnought upgrade in PP
- Desperate und unlikely attempt to fix Envoy appearing twice in PP (Issue #0003252)
- Rewrote starbase replace script for PP hoping to fix #0003247
- PP Wraith Gonta mission: Added script to ensure that Janus and Delphi spawn and don't get stuck in reinforcement pool (resolves #3254)
- PP Wraith Gonta Mission: Added engine hp to Delphi
Sound
- New sounds for Hammond
- New sounds for the System Lords
- Increased Priest Speech Audio volume (Resolves #3296)
Leveldesign
- 30 new space maps for The Alliance of the System Lords
- 30 new ground maps for The Alliance of the System Lords
- 7 special mission maps for The Alliance of the System Lords
- Fixed tilted turret buildpads so those turrets work again
- Removed bunkers from Pangar ground map, they were confusing the AI (resolves #3284)
Text
- New story texts for The Alliance of the System Lords
- Updated description text for Selmak's reinforcement ability
- Various minor adjustments
Patch 2.4.1
Added new Base Build Strategy (BBS) game mode for ground skirmish.
Art
Models:
- Fixed Vorash rock assets not being in public versions
- Fixed error "missing W_TE_Rock_f_02b.dds" by adding an empty dummy texture
- Ground Skirmish: Create proper shadows for Wraith Barracks damage stages
- Ground Skirmish: Fixed Alkesh shader+model, create proper deathclone
- Ground Skirmish: Added custom ability icon for Wraith Hunter's tracking drone
Code
- Fixed Apophis' shield abiltiy (Prevent him from attacking while shield is on)
- Fixed Oberoth missing deathclone
- Fixed Vanir Beliskner Deathclone not disappearing
- Fixed scripted fleet attacks in GC potentially being stuck in retreat<->attack loop
- PP Wraith: Retreat player after asteroid field mission
- PP Wrath Vanir mission: Replace Tauri Beliskner with Vanir version, Add Highlights and improve Beliskner visibility in Cutscene
- PP Wraith Final Mission: Disable Automatic Victory and Make Satellites victory_relevant
Balancing
- PP Wraith: Increased the wait time of the random fleet attacks
- PP Wraith: Reduce Queen's Hive price reduction
- PP Wraith: Increased damage of the Warlord's Flare
Leveldesign
- Tagrea Ground (SK): Passability updates to reduce large hoverers clipping through high buildings
- Vorash Ground (SK): Fixed missing Skirmish loading screen texts
- Revanna Ground (SK): Improve base structures position and rotation
- Dagan Space (GC): Fixed attacker possibly spawning in asteroid field
- Unknown Sector Space (GC): Moved base nebula farther away and defending forces marker further back to prevent units of large fleets spawning inside of it.
Text
- Slightly changed position of description text in GC selection menu to better fit the frame
Patch 2.4.0
This patch aims to flesh out the last remaing issues in ground combat. We've added several new effects and sounds for the ground units and fixed many bugs reported to us.
The easy AI now goes a little softer on new players, balancing has been adjusted once again and many missing details have been added.
We've also adjusted the skirmish menu a bit, now always pre-selecting our mod maps. And while we were at it, we've added three new ground maps for you to play on: Vorash, Pangar, and Revanna.
Additionally, we've also made the planet connections in the Pegasus Prelude GC visible so you don't have to guess the hyperspace routes.
Lastly, the Asurans now also brought into space skirmish in stable.
Art
Models:
- Added missing to Hassara Station, Asgard Furnace, Ancient Defence Satellite and Traveller Frigate (resolves #3150)
- Added new Tauri 303 Prometheus model and deathclone
- Added new version of Wraith_Land_Hero_Todd.ALO with a new face Wraith_Land_Hero_Todd_Diffuse.dds
- Added generic fighter DC (Issue #0002785)
- Added rotation animation to faction-owned reinforcement points
- Added Tokra reinforcement beacon for Selmak ability
- Added Alkesh Self Landing Transport- resolves #3208
- Fixed Wraith transporter beam cone size so it reaches the ground when deploying high units like the harvester
- Fixed exp dart landing shadow and light mesh z-fighting - resolves #2806
- Fixed Indoctrination Camp UC, remove ALT0 from submesh names - fixes #3002
-Fixed wraith barracks damage proxy always showing - resolves #3230
- Reversed Wraith landing transports beam direction
- Reduced mod file size by 200 MB using the compactor on the Othala space map props
Effects:
- Added "keep area clear" select box to ground transports issue #2857
- Added Effect for Tauri Ground Turret Inhibitor
- Added new Flyer Explosion Particle
- Added missing engine effects for Vanir+Traveller ships and Replicator frigate (Resolves #3128)
- Added empties for missing effects. New DC explode effects (big + huge only for now)
- Added impact particles for Goauld hovertank
- Added hit effect for Wraith Anti Infantry Turret Issue #0003185
- Added bigger impact effect to necroguard projectile
- Updated Wraith Chimera spray particle effect issue #2777
- Scaled down Wraith bombingrun impact particle - resolves #3130
- Increased size of Wraith Anti-Air Turret Hit effect from Small to Medium for better visibility Issue #0001548
- Changed projectiles with Max_Speed or Projectile_Max_Flight_Distance of 0.0 to 0.01 to improve performance Resolves #3121
- Fixed error regarding missing Tauri_Projectile_Satellite_Railgun_Blue.alo
Code
Pegasus Prelude:
- Increased the reduction on Wraith fleets spawns for taking the clone base
- Updated PP traderoutes so you can always see how planets are connected to each other
- Adjusted text strings for planets in PP that don't have an ability (Resolves #0003178)
- Fixed vanishing bug after killed in autoresolve for Wraith Commando Fix (resolves #2959)
Ground:
- Stupefied Easy AI to give new players a chance :)
- Implement dummies to lock base shields behind Tech3 in skirmish issue #2499
- Updated all combat bonus abilities (Issue #0003193) and adjusted ability stacking (Resolves #0002778)
- Inceased the cost of all air craft as they proved to be too efficient, especially on larger maps
- Increase Wraith AV turret damage
- The Goauld field commander now unfolds his helmet when using his special ability
- Added target bones to the ground mines to fix thge mine not taking damage despite being under fire (fixes #3214)
- Added target bones to scorpion
- Give Hovertank AOE damage, slightly increase AntiVehicle damage against structures
- Fixed some inaccuracy values allowing some unit to finally miss (Resolves #0003110)
- Fixed Tauri AA units not hitting air units
- Fixed/Adjusted/Updated all Applicable_Unit_Categories in all files
- Fixed mines radar icon is visible through FOW (Issue #0003204)
- Fixed Selmak not being able to call reinforcements in Beta
- Fixed wrong Good / Bad against units for Mantis and Scorpion (resolves #3167) and the chimaera company
- Fixed some Wraith buildpads being hard to see because partially or fully below ground - resolves #2890
- Removed the explody impact particles of Wraith stun weapons
Space:
- Added meaningful good/bad against tags for Wraith Commando PP variant
- Added preliminary fighter garrison to Oberoth Carrier
- Adjusted Asuran credit income in skirmish
- Adjusted prices for most Asuran units and heroes above tech level 3
- Updated Vanir frigate ability
- Fixed Asuran heroes still being selectable in skirmish even if heroes were turned off in the settings
- Fixed Ori WM Wave numbers
- Fixed Ori Cruiser deathclone not disappearing
- Decreased targeting max range and FOW reveal range of Asuran Drone Satellite
Sound
- Added SG1 speech sounds
- Added Wraith materializer beam sound (Issue #0003020)
- Added new speech sounds from SG2 for the Marines and some old space ones for the special forces
- Added speech sounds for the marines (and most other soldiers) from the old 1.3
- Added UAV engine sound
- Fixed Aris Boch speech files- resolves #3203
Leveldesign
- Added new skirmish ground map Reavanna (Resolves #0000299)
- Added new skirmish 2-player ground map Vorash
- Added new skirmish ground map Pangar
- Made Juna into 8 player map
- Fixed Anubis HW outpost/mineralpad rotation
- Fixed Haktyl steep terrain in reinforcement point causing units to get stuck
- Fixed Haktyl mineralpad rotations
Text
- Added info text for land Shield Generator being available at tech 3 (Resolves #0002499)
- Added info text for ground transport units to keep the landing area clear (Resolves #0002857)
- Added ability text for Seed Ship
- Added info about combat boosts and galactic price reductions to unit description (resolves #0003193) (resolves #0003192)
- Some minor changes and adjustments on a few descriptions
Patch 2.3.9
This patch aims to improve the overall stability of the mod, especially in space skirmish.
Most notably, a lot of sound file errors have been fixed which were suspected to crash the game occasionally.
Meanwhile ground skirmish gets fleshed out with new particle effects and a bunch of QoL updates.
Art
Models:
- Added new version of Map_Space_Building_AncientSensor.ALO with a build_00 animation and shadow
- Fixed hangar shields on all ancient stations
- Fixed shield mesh of Asuran_Space_Unit_Cruiser.ALO
- Reduced size of the shield bubble of Tauri_Land_Building_Shield_Generator.ALOTextures:
- Added Tok'ra ability icon for Selmak
- Add missing map textures w_8 and w_8_b from 1.3.1, create normalmap w_rivrock00_b (resolves #3129)
Effects:
- Added new Field Commander buff effects for all factions
- Added new model and particle file for Wraith Queens Ghost ability
- Added new Intimidation effect for Anubis
- Scaled heavy Grace proj up and light proj down for better visual difference (issue #2906)
- Reduced Screenflash for Tauri orbital strike
Code
General:
- Updated FormationOrder for all ground units where it made sense
- Updated shipname assignments to ships (resolves #3073)
- Improved wraith and tauri fighter flight behavior/targeting (issue #2925)
- Adjusted Secondary_Mining_Facility to stargate mine
- Fixed crash introcued by the latest Steam versions if more units can be built than there are buttons in the command bar.
- Fixed Barrage randomly stopping after a period of time
- Fixed Ashen cruiser HP naming (issue #2906)
- Fixed Grace ship select_box_scale
- Fixed duplicate hero clash "ObiWan_BobaFett"
- Fixed nonvalid abilities in GameConstants
- Fixed nonvalid starting planet of the Wraith Queen
- Fixed incorrect tags in Unit_Space_Tauri_O_Neill.xml, Unit_Space_Tauri_BC_304.xml, Unit_Space_Tauri_F_302.xml, Unit_Space_Tauri_B_302.xml, Unit_Space_Goauld_Anubis_Hatak.xml, Unit_Space_Wraith__Hero_Michael.xml, Unit_Space_Tauri_HB_302.xml
- Fixed unknown model or particle "Teltak_L.ALO"
- Fixed unknown model or particle "Goauld_Space_Projectile_Alkesh_Bomb.ALO"
- Fixed unknown model or particle "Wraith_Land_Building_Command_Center.ALO.alo"
- Removed unused text strings (#3126)
- Removed unused icon and radar icon names (#3126)Goauld:
- The Alkesh can now perform a proper barrage (Resolves #0002688, resolves #0002566)
- Fixed code error in the Alkesh fileTauri:
- Coded smoke greande ability for the Special Forces (Issue #0002911) (WIP)
- Recoded all Tauri space units using the template (except for fighters)
- Fixed CategoryMask for SG team and Sniper (resolves #3090)
- Fixed too high Ranged_Target_Z_Adjust for Tauri shield
- Fixed inhibitor having WEAPON behavior (assert error)Wraith:
- Fixed wrong Garrison_Bone_Name for Wraith Shuttle (potential fix for issue #2857)
Scripting
- Pegasus Prelude: Fixed a script crash in the Wraith Envoy script
- Fix ground_turret script not tirggering abilities and adjust ability ranges (issue #2648)
- Removed freestore requirement from PP story scripts
Sound
- Added sounds for Tokra units (Selmaks special ability)
- Transport rings can lo longer be heard over the whole map. Sound is also added to sfx anim txt instead of script. (Resolves #0003065)
- Fixed unknown SFX event "Unit_Defeat_Wraith_Superhive"
- Fixed unknown SFX event "Unit_Defeat_Prometheus"
- Fixed unknown SFX event "Unit_Barrage_Genii_Space_Destroyer"
- Fixed unknown SFX event "Unit_Defeat_Envoy"
- Fixed unknown SFX event "Unit_Barrage_Rebel_Space_Station"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\Asgard_Beliskner\Asgard_Attack__ENG.wav"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\Daedalus\Daedalus_Low_HP_ENG.wav"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\X304\X304_Critical_HP_ENG.wav"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\X304\X304_Low_HP_ENG.wav"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\Michael\Michael_NoEngine_ENG.wav"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\Wraith_Zerstoerer\WZerstoerer_Critical_HP_ENG.wav"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\Baal\Baal_Guard_ENG.wav"
- Fixed unknown sound file "Data\Audio\Speech\General_Wraith\General_Critical_HP_ENG.wav"
Leveldesign
- Add missing com_array markers to Juna skirmish map
Text
- Added Selmak ability text and icon issue #2848
Patch 2.3.8
The Wave Mode maps in skirmish can now finally be played in multiplayer without causing a synchronization error.
The Wraith got some explosion sounds for their land units for more 'boooom', and we've fixed a nasty crash related to the destruction of the Goa'uld shrine.
Code:
Goa'uld:
- Fixed Shrine potentially crashing the game when being destroyed
Wraith:
- Fixed another cause of the Hunter being stuck in his walking animation
Sound:
- Added new explosion sounds for most big Wraith weapons (land): Most notable on the Walkers and the Queen's Cruiser ability
- Removed X-Wing spin away death sound from X-301
Level Design:
- The Wave Mode maps no longer go out-of-sync when being played in multiplayer!
- On the Earth and Dakara WM maps, fog of war has been added
Patch 2.3.6
Hotfix to fix 'Chinese' ship names.
Art:
Models and Effects:
- Upadted Wraith_Land_Unit_Harvester.ALO - the unit can crush infantry now
- Deleted unmegged shaders and updated shaders.meg
Code:
General:
- Added textual info which fighters are hyperspace-worthy and which are not (Resolves #0002463)Goauld:
- Removed non-existing sound reference Unit_Defeat_BaalTauri:
- Replaced non-existing targeting priority SG_Infantry_AntiAll with SG_Infantry_AntiInfantry
- Added missing hardpoint to X-301 spaceWraith:
- Removed WEAPON behaviour from the Wraith Queen since she can't attack
- Fixed Dart self landing transport submerging below the ground when deploying (Resolves #0002743)
- randomized Wraith fighter Squadron_Offsets
- Fixed Error: Object type PROJ_TAURI_BOMB_B302_LAND has no XML category mask assigned to it
Scripting:
- Updated ground skirmish AI scripts: The AI is now better at building upgrades and special units
Level Design:
- Removed a ground map from stable that should not have been there
Text:
- Fixed some shipnames being displayed in unusual characters
Patch 2.3.3
This patch includes some fixes for PP that have been introduced with the last patch, new planets and new shaders for GC making everything look better and various text updates.
For ground we also added new content, such as a cooler Wraith bombardment, a lot of new weapon sounds, a new Alkesh landing transport animation, updated Targeting Priorities (making units act more intelligent), a new ability for Selmak, and several tweaks/fixes.
Art:
Models and Effects:
- Added new Galactic Planet Models (resolves #3046)
- Added new shaders to improve visual appearnec of planet models
- Added Goauld_Land_Unit_Alkesh_Landing_Self.ALO (new landing transport animation)Icons:
- Reduced radar icon size of all satellites (resolves #3055)
Code:
General:
- Added Targeting_Priority_Sets to all ground units where it was missing
- Adjusted Score_Cost_Credits, Build_Cost_Credits, and Build_Time_Seconds for all units
- Fixed several issues with transports. All transports use the template now and all self landing transports should now work in space (Resolves #0003052)Pegasus Prelude:
- Updated some of the planets with the new galactic modelsGoauld:
- Fixed Herak build icon having ground strings in space skirmish.
- Removed non-existing hardpoint from Baal space hero (no bones for HP_BAAL_F_SBH_00)
- Recoded the Goa'uld fighters (space) to use the templateTauri:
- Adjusted bombardment blob size
- Added new special ability for Selmak: Call Tokra reinforcements
- Added blend with terrain ability to the new Tokra Commando unitWraith:
- Changed Wraith orbital strike to match the Goauld one better
- Increased Bombardment_Offse> to give kami dart projectiles more time to reach the ground and play the sound to the end (reduced Bombardment_Initial_Delay in turn and adjusted timings in the other faction's bombardments)
- added a 50% chance for the sound to play to avoid too many overlapping sounds
- Fixed Wraith Scorpion Good_Against / Vulnerable_To
- Disabled the Hunter's ability because it would cause the unit to get stuck in the walking animation (Issue #0002922)
Scripting:
- Fixed Skirmish error caused by ObjectScript_Remove_Starbase_PP
Sound:
- Added new/additional weapon sounds for Ashrak, Jumper, Dart, Ronon, Wraith Stunner, Wraith Pistol. Wraith Cull Beam, TER, Ori (Resolves #0003059, Resolves #0002768)
- Added sounds for Wraith ground vehicles + turrets
- Added script for playing sound to the dart bombardment proj
Text:
- Fixed text for KS7_535 not being displayed
- Updated CreditsTexts
Patch 2.3.2
This patch further improves ground skirmish by adding new units and abilities (Wraith foremost), improving balance and visuals and fixing several minor and major issues with ground battles in general.
The fix for the long standing bug with the Wraith Queen not spawning in the Pegasus Prelude tactical battles is also included.
Furthermore, it adds a new ground skirmish map - Yus Homeworld - and slightly improves the mods' performance, especially the load time on startup.
Lastly, as usual, we continue improving our description texts: Thanks to community member Boriss for all his work on the English texts, and AbkanST for his work on the Russian translation and darkyuri for his work on the Czech translation.
Art:
Models and Effects:
- Added new model for the Wraith Queen
- Added Iratus Bug model
- Added mortar grenade smoke trail
- Added TurnL and TURNR animations to Wraith_Land_Unit_Chimera.ALO
- Added PRS_INTERDICT_FX proxy to Goauld Artillery Hatak
- Increased the visibility of the Field Commander buff particle
- Improved idle animation of the Wraith_Land_Unit_Harvester.ALO
- Fixed Wraith bomber shadow
- Fixed Wraith_Land_Unit_Harvester.ALO muzzle bones and attackidle animationIcons:
- Added Icon for Wraith Worshippers
- Added radar icon to offensive and defensive turrets
- Added new ability icons for Wraith Ghosts and Cruiser Bombardment
- Added unit icon for Iratus Bug as well as an ability icon with Iratus Bug for Michael
- Improved all ground building radar icons and gave them contours for better visibility
- Improved icon of Wraith Soldier and Elite Soldier to be able to distinguish them more easily
- Adjusted scale factor for every ground building radar icon
- Changed Space hero Apophis to now having a different icon than the ground hero
- Replaced the of the Artillery Hatak with the new one used by the actual ship (resolves #3008)
- Implemented workaround for Projectile_Dirt_Collide being spawned with the field commander buff projectiles
- Fixed missing Regeneration Alcove icon
Code:
General:
- Made the game no longer load the vanilla config file to prevent it from loading a lot of un-needed stuff. This should give another performance boost
- Created a new template for ground buildings and made basically every ground building use it. This helps making the code a lot cleaner and prevent potential errors
- Fixed invalid Fire_Cone_Height in HP_BAAL_F_SBH_00 and HP_Wraith_Rebel_Starbase_M_WP_00 making those hardpoints work properly again
- Removed LAND_OBSTACLE behaviour from transportation rings
- Unified land/space retreat messages, added custom messages for every faction
Pegasus Prelude:
- Fixed the Wraith Queen not showing up in tactical battles
- Fixed Wraith scout being buildable twice
- Fixed Wallus not spawning fightersSpace Skirmish:
- Made Unit_Space_Replicator_Cruiser use the correct template and re-added shields that accidentally got removed.
- Fixed Wraith Corvette ability not ignoring cloaked unitsGround Skirmish:Goauld:
- Increased fire rate for the Kull to make the unit appear more authentic. DPS untouched.
Tauri:
- Fixed the Shield Malps' shield not protecting properly from enemy fire
- Nerfed F-303
- Changed Ranged_Target_Z_Adjust of the Tau'ri Radar Station to 10 so it can be correctly hit now
- Fixed grenade ability errors
- Added an additional ability for reducing reinforcement time to Tau'ri Inhibitor
Wraith:
- Added new units: Wraith worthshippers and made them recruitable on the Indoctrination Camp structure available on the outpost buildpad
- Added less ugly ghost model to the queen.
- Added new ability Wraith_Cruiser_Bombardment to Wraith Queen
- Added new ability for spawning an Iratus Bug Nest to Michael
- Added TURRET behav to all walkers to enable TURN animations
- Added a tag for Wraith Jammer allowing it to prevent bombing runs in a certain radius
- The Harvester can now kill infantry by running over it
- Improved the handling of the Wraith stun bomb: Added new particle effect and added Recharge_Seconds to the ability which allows the timer "ticking back" if aborted
- Changed Mantis to use an in-code turret. This allows for all barrels to be used
- Switched Seeker to hover template/walk locomotor to improve the odd movement behaviour
- Improved Brutes walking into each other
- Increased Idle_Chase_Range to 350 for the Brute: as a melee unit, it wouldn't react to being attacked in some cases
- Increased Fire_Cone_Width for Harvester AI guns
- Coded harvester head as turret so it looks at enemies when firing
- Tweaked harvester movement animation rate to avoid moonwalking
- Fixed non-working ghost ability for the Wraith Queen
Sound:
- Added new speech sounds for the Wraith Queen (English only)
- Added new authentic engine sound for the Goauld Probe
- Added new sounds: shields on/off
- Added (currently unused) Zat open sound
- Replaced vanilla Stealth SFX with Jumper stealth sound
- Removed vanilla retreat sound
Level Design:
- Added new land skirmish map: Yu's homeworld!
- Increased Anubis Homeworld lake height to prevent units from being hit while being in water
- (Re-)moved the hill on M4X-337 which would cause units to get stuck frequently on spawn
- Removed fire-obstructing hill on M4X-337
- Fixed missing "spawn garrison" on outpost markers on Tagrea and Othala
- Fixed units getting stuck in middle landing zone on Haktyl
- Fixed missing Othala space map preview in game due to "Othalla"-"Othala" filename inconsistencies
- Fixed skydomes being cut off on large ground maps
Text:
- Added improved English texts by community member Boriss
- Updated several mod translation files, especially Russian (Thanks to AbkanST!) and Czech (Thanks to darkyuri!)
- Fixed some issues in the English textfile
- Added text for Wraith ground unit Ghost and for Wraith Queen's ability Ghosts and Cruiser Bombardment
- Added custom retreat texts for every minor and major faction
- Adjusted description for Ancient Dreadnought and Moros' Flagship
- Rephrased some PP GC event texts
Patch 2.3.0
This patch introduces ground skirmish to the open beta!
The main features include:
- unique ground units over all three factions - all of which are based on units featured in the series. (In case of the Wraith we had to invent some units though)
- 15 additional hero units: 6 heroes for Tau'ri, 5 for the Goa'uld and 4 for the Wraith
- 30 new base building models: Around10 for each faction, each with neat construction animations and damage models
- Completely new set of offensive and defensive turrets for all three factions
- Amazing new animations for each unit and many buildings
- Special Jaffa units with retractable helmets – just like in the movie
- Unique features such as shield MALPs, Thor’s chariot, the Tacluchnatagamuntoron (congrats if you know what we are talking about without googling it:)), or Transportation Rings which allow you to instantly travel to distant locations on many maps
- Brand new walker vehicles for the Wraith that should catch the spirit of overall Wraith style very well
- Many new “made from scratch” special abilities that are faithful to the series
- Sound effects and music taken directly from the series for the most immersive experience
- Stargate-based ground maps that were made with care to faithfully re-create iconic locations from the show. For Tagrea alone we created around 50 individual building types, including a fully animated train and the Gun Balloons that surrounded Prometheus.
- 7 ground skirmish maps total and more on the way, which will be added later
- Exceptionally stable performance especially in multiplayer – say goodbye to synchronization errors!
Furthermore, the patch adds new music tracks to the mod as well as new speech sounds and sound effects to the space part of the mod.
Additionally, it includes many gameplay improvements and fixes for the Pegasus Prelude GC (including all new planet ability icons!) along with a bunch of minor updates for skirmish such as infinite fighter respawn for all ships with hangar.
### ART ###
General:
- Added ground skirmish! Listing all the features would bloat the changelog so just go check it out!
- Added many new planet ability icons (Resolves #2902)
- Changed/Improved some icons for GC and Skirmish
Goa'uld:
- The Anubis Flash Satellite now uses the new Goa'uld textures to have a consistent look and feel
Tau'ri:
- Added special death clone for the Prometheus (Resolves #2752)
- Fixed shield of Tauri_Space_Unit_DanielJackson.ALO (#2830) and Tauri_Space_Unit_BC-304.ALO
Wraith:
- Fixed an issue with the Wraith starbase level 4 where some hardpoints wouldn't take damage if fired upon from a specific angle (Resolves #2832)
### CODE ###
General:
- Added ground skirmish! Listing all the features would bloat the changelog so just go check it out!
- Changed the fighter respawn of all ships with destroyable hangars to infinite where it wasn't already the case
- Tauri ships flight behavior improved: Updated rolling angle and turn rate for more realistic curves
- Fixed Thor being slower than regular O'Neill classes
- Added NotOpportunityTarget to AstroGun
- Fixed all Key-Value pair errors caused by wrong tags in special abilities except for upgrades increasing load time on startup (Resolves #0002503)
- Changed all instances of non-working defense bonus abilities to a health bonus
- Re-coded all Replicator space units using the template to improve stability
- Re-coded several Goa'uld units using the template to improve stability
- Removed some undesired sound files from faction xml and changed an inconsistency regrading base visibility
Pegasus Prelude:
- Added new planet ability icon names to many planets
- Fixed wrong text strings for some planet advantages
- Buffed Janus a little - he is a hero after all
- Since we don't use vanilla-style corruption we removed the hyperspace speed bonus the Ancients would get when travelling between corrupted planets
- Added a hangar bay HP to the Wraith Space Hangar to spawn Dart squadrons (resolves #2916)
- Adjusted hyperspace speed for Wraith to have a notable slowdown in hyperspace speed compared to the other factions (Resolves #0002938)
- Ancients: Fixed PP not ending in case the Asurans have not been researched
- Ancients: The Hippaforalkus can now longer randomly spawn on Taranis, which could result in immediately winning the mission (Resolves #0002831)
- Ancients: Added several fail-saves for other occasions the script could crash if the player played the events in an unexpected order (i.e. building the Doranda energy source after he already defeated the Wraith) (Resolves #0002947)
- Wraith: Enabled auto victory in PP Wraith Asteroid Field mission (resolves #2900)
- Wraith: Asteroid Field Mission: Wraith ships are now invulnerable during the intro cutscene. After the mission, the fleet now instantly moves back to Arcanus
- Wraith: Removed some newlines in the story log to avoid scrolling
- Wraith: Added a Scout to the starting forces so new playing don't waste their ships on Laros/Doranda that easily
### SCRIPTING ###
- The mod now uses compiled lua files hoping to improve stability and performance
- Removed local variables from ability handler scripts
- Removed some unwanted object scripts
### SOUND DESIGN ###
- Added new music tracks from the show to the game and improved the situational music playing in GC and skirmish
- Added more faction-unique tracks
- Added improved Helia sounds made by community member CommanderWarcraft
- Added new Daedalus attack sound from CommanderWarcraft
- Updated/Added Apollo sounds
- Varios minor sound updates made by CommanderWarcraft
- Fixed the Hatak engine sound being labelled incorrectly
- Added new Ori_Plasma.wav sound (Resolves #2508)
- Added new sound for all Goa'uld ships with deploy ability (i.e. Apophis)
- Added blank sounds for all sounds that have no English or German counterpart hoping to improve stability
### LEVEL DESIGN ###
- Rotated the special structure positions on Laros by 180 degrees
- Improved spawn position on Vedeena
### TEXT ###
- Various text improvements made in conjunction with community member Boriss (for example a shorter one for ZPM Hive)
- General text improvements and correction of spelling and grammar mistakes
Patch 2.2.0
This patch greatly enhances the visuals of space battles: Not only are all ships and structures capable of casting shadows, we have also given our Goa'uld fleet a major overhaul by replacing nearly all of the existing models with new ones.
Some of our questionable English translations have been improved by community member Boriss for better readability and our AI got yet another big update allowing it to use the majority of unit abilities intelligently in battle.
Furthermore, Pegasus Prelude has finally made it into the stable version of the mod, accompanied by various fixes, beautiful new intro movies, a new background and various balance and QoL changes.
### ART ###
- Added shadow meshes to ALL space units including the main factions, side factions starbases lvl 1-5, and space special structures
- Replaced the biggest part of the Goa'uld fleet with new models and texture from the SGI team. Big thanks to them!
-- In particular, the following models have been replaced: Pyramid Ship, Old Hatak, New Hatak, System Flagship, Super Hatak
- Updated and improved the the textures for the Goa'uld starbase level 1-5, Artillery Hatak, the Anubisglider, Baal, and the Replicator Hatak
- Added a new galaxy background model for the Pegasus Galaxy
- Optimized the Ancient Starbase: reduced total Polycount down to 18.000 polys
- Updated pause and battle-pending dialog
- Reduced font size on buttons of battle-pending dialog (I_ATTACK_MODE_CHOICE)
- Changed i_attack_mode_rollover to i_attack_mode_rollover_small in CommandbarComponents
- Added I_ATTACK_MODE_ROLLOVER_SMALL to Commandbar
- Added new W_planet_fleet.ALO model
- Added stun proxy to the Ancient Defense satellite so it has a visible stun effect when it is hit with the ion cannon of the Experimental Dart
- Updated icons for all new SGI Goa'uld ships including radar icons
- Improved icons for Selmak, Hammond and Caldwell
- Added updated Battle_summary.dds from community member White_Red_Dragons (Thanks!)
- Fixed planet name location in IDD_BATTLE_END_DIALOG and removed the two horizontal lines between heroes and units, as they are separated by the texture already
- Blackened the alpha channel of Wraith Dart normal map to reduce extreme light reflections
### CODE ###
General:
- Adding some AI behavior for station defense
- Added Selt_Destruct_SFXEvent_Start_Die to all units where it was missing
- Removed self-destruct behaviour from units that didn't need it
- Fixed scripts referring to units not existing
- Removed duplicate stub units from beta
- Fixed Underworld corruption effect and icon showing up in tactical battle
Pegasus Prelude
- Fixed a crash in the AFG function that prevented the GC from ending after the player captured all planets
- Fixed potential crash when loading a save
- Added new intro movies to PP
- Set nearly all PP starting forces as script spawn with AI usage being disabled: this fixes the problem with the player being attacked too heavily at the beginning of the GC
- Fixed an issue which would say that you have won the GC but still trigger the "lost" screen
- Locked all non-PP specific Wraith units in the STORY SCRIPT
- Made Ancient Defence Satellite buildable at Vedeena for PP
- Adjusted Ancient Starbase garrison spawns
- Removed Ancient Satellite from Gonta
- Ancient campaign: Added additional victory check in case the Asurans never turned hostile
- Ancient campaign: Minor increase of the starting credits on easy
- Ancient campaign: Made the final mission a little easier: Because you are supposed to lose the GC, not the mission^^
- Wraith campaign: Fixed Orakis mission not failing when you lost all your ships
- Wraith campaign: Added Branch_Finale_Orakis / Branch_Finale_Athos to more events, disable the whole branch if the respective planet gets taken instead of only disabling the tactical mission. In that case, also disabled the finale hint which mentions Athos and Orakis.
- Wraith campaign: Added text to Gonta mission that suggests taking out the Delphi engines and prevented AI retreat for the first 120 seconds of the battle
- Wraith campaign: Reduced playable area in Aesculetum mission
- Wraith campaign: Improvements for Athos mission
- Wraith campaign: Improvements for Orakis mission
- Wraith campaign: The last drawback problems
-- Reduced delay between conquering of J, A or B and finale hint storylog triggering
-- Removed STORY_TEXT for the finale hint and instead made the story log pop up
-- Reduced delay between conquering all three planets and the Athos/Orakis story logs triggering
-- Changed Prereq of Athos Story Log to finale-root, so it doesn't break if the orakis log gets disabled.
-- Restructured the ending. Taking the three planets (Aesculetum, Jenev and Belkan) is now a separate mission, which can be failed by moving on to Orakis or Athos before completing the three other planets. Failing this will prevent the missions on Athos and Orakis to become available.
- Removed interdictors from escort plan and added corvettes; removed corvettes from scouting plan
- Updated Wraith AI PP budget and increased offensive budget: AI should build more ships and less space stations and defense structures
- Updated TaskForce: added variable MovementStatus
- Added PP heroes to freestore
Ancients/Asurans:
- Fixed Melia crashing PP
- Improved Melia: Fixed non-working radar icon and decreased the cooldown for her invulnerability ability
- Ancient warships now use their self destruct ability in certain situations
- Recoded the deploy satellite ability of Wallus to use POWER_TO_WEAPONS because of AI issues
- Updated Janus' holo ability so it no longer drains its shields. It now reduces his fire power instead.
- Change to Wallus' satellite ability so it has a visible cooldown
- Fixed Ancient Starbase Heavy Bomber garrison spawn issue
- Fixed SHIELD_REGEN_MULTIPLIER of Ancient_Hero_Pride_Of_Troy causing it to drain it's shields when it should strenghten them (Resolves #2425)
- Fixed Ancient Station Laser malfunctioning
- Commented out unnecessary station laser upgrades and removed them from the station and fortress
- Renamed Ancient_Station_Level_6 to Ancient_Headquarters and moved it to Space_Buildings_Ancient.xml
- Changed every entry of Ancient_Station_Level_6 and coded an Asuran variant of Ancient Headquarters
- Set tech level and base level for Ancient_Headquarters and Ancient_Fortress to 99 and removed every upgrade and unit/hero from tactical buildable objects
- Added GUI bounds scale to Ancient starbases and the defense sat
- Added empty version of Helia_Attack_4 because it was missing in German
Goauld:
- AI now uses Anubis's flash weapon
- Heraks bomb can autofire and is used by AI now
- Aris Bochs bomb now autofires and is used by AI
- Recoded Herak and added a new ability, replenish wingmen
- Updated Herak space mp company to show the correct ability icons in preview. Also fixed some odd code.
- Fixed a hardpoint on the Super Hatak using the wrong muzzles
- Anubis does now unfold when being called into battle
Tauri:
- The Tau'ri AI uses the ability of the O'Neill class ships now way less frequent in inappropriate situations
- AI can use Prometheus weapon switch now
- AI now uses the Odyssey's Asgard lasers
- Shield Satellite's health bar is now closer
- Fixed missing speech sounds for Sol
Wraith:
- Made AI use the corrupt systems ability of the Hive
- Made the old hive script specific for Todd
- Added automatic activation of the Corrupt Systems ability to the Hive script
- Steve should now use his cluster bombs properly
- Increased threshold for corrupt systems ability activation
- AI now uses the kamikaze darts of the Wraith battlecruiser
- AI now uses regen ability of the Wraith commando
- All Wraith PP specific abilities can now be used by the AI
- Added "Structure" to Applicable_Unit_Categories for shield leech ability
- Added better fitting fleet move sound for the Wraith Cruiser
### SOUND DESIGN ###
- Added dummy sound effect Effect_Empty_Sound to prevent game errors in situations where we need to overwrite vanilla sounds or only one of the languages is
### LEVEL DESIGN ###
- Fixed Sagon starbase position
- Updated Asteroid Field map
- Moved Special Structure Markers on Asuras Space Map lighting update on Asuras Space Map, fixed some SS marker position
- Updated lighting on Thaltus skirmish map
- Updated Hoff map
### Text ###
- Many English text improvements made by community member Boriss (Thank you buddy!)
- Made new droid advisor tooltip texts and deleted all vanilla ones
- Added missing strings to the Textfiles so that both languages are identical
- Fixed, changed and improved some of the PP texts
- Updated Creditfile and mentioned the music composer for PP intro music
- Adjusted text for Ancient Station garrison and added a description for the shield ability
- Added Asuran Retreat String to Textfile and Faction File
- General text improvements
### Video Design ###
- Added Pegasus Prelude intro movies
Patch 2.1.1
Thanks a ton for your vital feedback on patch 2.1.0! You helped us to identify some more issues which we're fixing today with patch 2.1.1. This includes: - Wave mode maps are working again
- Hostile objects on space maps are working again
- Herak was missing from skirmish battles
- Save games for Pegasus Prelude are now working properly
- The shield HP of the Asuran fortress was hardly targetable
- The Asurans stations Superlaser was still active after the station was destroyed
- They Pride of Troy defend ability was slowing down shield generation instead of improving it
- English texts have been improved. Thanks to Boriss for that!
Patch 2.1.0
Models: General: General Galactic AI: Skirmish AI Pegasus Prelude AI: Ancients/Asurans: Tauri: Wraith: ### SOUND DESIGN ### Sounds:
This patch adds a massive amount of AI changes and improvements to the mod.
We have improved the AI on various fronts, significantly improving its performance in GC and skirmish.
This includes a re-balance of Pegasus Prelude and will also benefit all future GCs.
For Pegasus Prelude, we have also fixed the Asurans being nearly useless as they hardly killed any Wraith forces at all.
Additionally, units use their special abilities more intelligent now.
Furthermore, this patch incorporates various feedback by the community, numerous balance updates and several minor bug fixes and tweaks.
### ART ###
- Improved Cityship model performance, reduced the polycount of the old model (50.000 ploys) by nearly 50%
- Updated bump map for all Tau'ri space ships
- Enabeled shadows for all Tau'ri and Wraith space ships
- Merged the light mesh textures into the diffuse textures to reduce the lag when the ship is being spawned
- Improved/simplified the collision meshIcons
- Minor improvements
### CODE ###
- Slightly de-buffed the strength of all space bombers
- Removed the WEAPON behaviour of Goa'uld AF and AC satellite, Tau'ri AF and AC satellite, Wraith AF and AC satellite as well as Ancient defence satellite (issue #0002317)
- Fixed SSG unit buildability
- Changed how non-playable factions behave in the mod
- Deactivated a bunch of superfluous goals
- Conquer plans got hung up on trying to build a starbase on planets that don't allow one. Added checks to FundBases whether the planet has non zero starbase/groundbase slots.
- Removed FireDeathStar plan
- Added our starbases to the AI equations
- Replaced Variable_Self.BaseLevel with a function that works correctly, in particular the AI won't be burning its units (as much) anymore
- Re-enabled the automatic FOW reveal
- Removed Tyber manager plan from underworld player
- Allowed the AI to build a groundbase at a planet where it doesn't have a starbase yet
- AI now likes to park units where they actually are of defensive value (i.e. on planets connected to the enemy with bonuses for important/valuable planets) and tries to park them in bigger fleets
- Disabled interventions for the SandboxHuman player so it can be used in GC's without side effects
- Removed block that kept non-rebels from raiding
- Minor changes to AI conquer plans
- Floored desire to go after any enemies objects that aren't mines, unless the AI is on easy
- Added initial delay for area sweep and scout plans
- Deleted desire reduction to go for enemy mines
- Further increased desire to go after mines and reduced desire to go after other buildpads
- Slightly increased desire to by upgrades
- Decreased desirability to burn units
- Slightly increased to upgrade starbase desire when the AI has a lot of money
- Increased desirability to buy units when the AI has a lot of credits
- Fixed AI trying to attack the invisible dummy prereq counters
- Split up tactical freestore script into a land and space version
- Minor modification to the skirmish AI template
- Made freestore units also go after mines
- Removed a duplicate equation
- Decreased desirability to go after non-refinery buildpads, this seems to have had quite the positive effect
- Created a Space_Skirmish template to better manage skirmish specific goals
- Small change in the Needs_Mining_Facility (edited)
Pegasus Prelude story fixes:
- The Asurans can now successfully conquer Wraith planets
- Fixed Deconstruction for Ancient_Space_Building_Sensor_SS_PP
- Disabled retreat for the Wraith Asteroid mission
- Fixed inconsistent Wraith starting forces
- Added space stations as starting forces to some Wraith planets that had special structures but no stations (the special structures never got spawned correctly)
- Reset the starbase script to an object script for Tauri starbases, as it was meant to be
- Added a template to shut down aggressive AI behaviour in the beginning of the game (except on hard)
- Made the grace period depend on the planet difference between human and AI player on easy and medium
- Lowered the starting credits from 5000 to 1000 for the Ancient AI
- Reduced Ancient AI starting forces and made most of the remaining starting forces non-AI-usable
- Now giving an AI to Asurans only when they get spawned. Disabled automatic victory trigger for the duration of the Asuran event
- Added extra difficulty adjustment sets for the ancient AI for easier fine tuning
- Fixed Vader's squadron being buildable for the AI
- Made easy AI easier by disabling the Unrestricted_Grab_Space goal, this should significantly reduce the number of attacks
- Fixed some old references in PegasusPreludeGoalsGalactic.xml
- The AI can no longer build Tauri satellites
- Balanced Ancient/Asuran bomber: reduced speed, significantly reduced health, reduced squadron size, increased price
- Fixed Ancient/Asuran bomber firing inaccuracies, category and targeting priorities
- Edited some values of the Asuran/Ancient fighter to fit better with the bomber
- Adjusted Ancient starbase health and shield
- Fixed an issue with the Ancient Defence Satellite: removed unnecessary hardpoint from UC variant and added fire restriction category so it won't target fighters and bombers
- Added missing SFX Weapon_Ancient_Superlaser to Ancient_Defense_Satellite_SS
- Fixed and re-added the effect for the self-destruct ability of Aurora-class ships
- Also changed some timings of the Aurora self-destruct effect
- Fixed Ancient Cruiser not having a hyperspace window
- Fixed Asuran Destroyer not constantly being visible on radar map
- Fixed incorrect scale value for death clone of the O'Neill
- Added a script specifically for the Beliskner ability that will now use its ability if there are 6 fighters or 4 bombers in range and only frigates or capitals with combined combat power of at most ~80% of the Beliskner's own combat power
- Added the hyperspace script to the BC304 which seems to got lost at some point
- Added correct radar icon for the Tau'ri Shield Satellite
- Added missing death clone and radar icon to Wraith Space Hangar, increased tactical health from 1000 to 4000 and adjusted the scale factor
- Michaels invulnerability now auto-fires for human and AI players
- Removed non-existing hardpoints from Wraith space station
- Adjusted starbase garrisons
- AI now uses the Wraith Corvette's ability as (pure) fighter/bomber defense
- Added Hive ability script to Todd
- Removed SpawnList calls from the Hive ObjectScript which crashed the game when the Hive had no AI
- Removed non-existing attack 3 sound of the BC-304
- Removed non-existing select 3 and 4 sound of the X-303
- Removed non-existing select 3, attack 5 and move 4 sound of Michael and replaced the non-existing spawn sound
- Removed non-existing select 3 sound of the Systemlord Flagship
Patch 2.0.0
This patch comes with a variety of important changes: firstly, all Steam users will be happy to hear that we have fixed the problems that occurred when trying to play our custom TPC maps online.
We have completely solved the issue so go online and battle your friends on your favourite TPC maps!
Secondly, we have added a completely new AI to Pegasus Prelude. The new AI will be much more adaptive to player's actions, produces more units on its own and can construct all available resource buildings and starbase upgrades.
In conjunction with the new AI we have also doubled the amount of ships the Wraith can spawn during a tactical battle (We halved their popcap-requirements).
This should further add to the Wraith strategy of flooding the enemy with inferior ships as it was introduces in the Stargate Atlantis TV series. Furthermore we improved some events and minor problems to make Pegasus Prelude better than ever before.
Last but not least we also fixed an issue in multiplayer which would cause the capture ability of SG-1 to not work properly.
Art
Models:
- Fixed incorrect button size for auto-resolve menu
Coding
General:
- Updated hyperspace capabilities for several fighters
Asurans/Ancients:
- Removed incorrect weapon behaviour from Ancient_Space_Building_Satellite_Wallus
- Added missing Targeting_Max_Attack_Distance to Wallus' mini sat
- Removed some incorrect tags from the Asuran Heavy Transport
Tau'ri:
- Fixed an issue with SG-1 which would cause the capture ability to malfunction (Issue #2000170)
- When selecting the Daedalus nuke beam ability, a selection circle now shows the explosion range of the nuke (Issue #0002290)
Wraith:
- Removed health from non-targetable hardpoint HP_Wraith_SupplyDock_Dummy
- The Wraith Shipyard can now always be seen on the radar map even if under fog of war
Pegasus Prelude GC:
- Added a completely new AI specifically designed for PP (still needs balance testing)
- Reduced the starting credits for the AI. Additional money is given via script depending on the selected difficulty
- Granted additional money to the Wraith AI when the retreat event triggers for the Ancients
- Decreased the additional starting forces on hard in the Pegasus Prelude campaign as the now working AI will otherwise use them to wipe out the player in minutes
- Reduced the PopCap requirements of the Wraith by half
- Lowered the time it takes for GC heroes to respawn (still higher than vanilla but less ... astronomical now)
- Icreased galactic credits cap
- Added a chokepoint hint for Proculis
- (Ancients) Fixed a wrong event prereq
- (Ancients) Fixed a rare error where the Attero Device off button didn't get removed from GC
- (Ancients) Potential fix or the Asurans being enemies right away if the Nanite event triggers too late in the story line
- (Wraith) Added an Ancient fleet spawn after the mission in the Asteroid Field
Scripting
- Added a completely new AI specifically designed for PP!
Level Design
- Multiplayer maps now work again in Steam multiplayer!
Patch 1.9.8
This patch incorporates a massive rework of our xml structure. We heavily worked on increasing the stability and load time of the mod by fixing countless errors that have accumulated over the last years of constant TPC development.
Not all crashes have been fixed but there is a noticeable performance and stability boost with many fixing enhancing the general gameplay.
Most important fixes in this patch encompass a game crash when playing with more than 6 players/AIs and all tactical missions in Pegasus Prelude being broken in Steam.
Aside from the now working tactical missions Pegasus Prelude has an improved late- and midgame without the Wraith becoming too passive. The constant money flow has been deactivated and many events have been improved and bugs were fixed.
For Steam users, we were also able to fix non-working shaders which caused many planet backgrounds on tactical maps to appear in bright green.
Furthermore, the Dakara Wave Mode map received a major balancing update.
Art
Models:
- Re-exported Map_Texture_Loader_Ancients_Wraith.ALO to remove no longer existing textures
- Re-exported Tauri_Space_Hero_SG1.alo to fix a hardpoint issue
- Re-exported Map_Planet_UnknownSector.ALO to add a missing starbase marker
- Fixed Replicator_Space_Unit_Beliskner_D.ALO broken animation
- Added Othala space structure that was missing in the stable version
Icons:
- Added Jumper radar icon
Effects:
- Replaced several non-existing explosions with a newly created explosion
- Fixed countless incorrect shield hit effects
Shaders:
- Added shaders that were part of the last official Steam patch to the mod so non-Steam users can benefit from the changes as well
- Added our custom shaders to a meg file so they will be recognized by the game (this fixes all green planet backgrounds!)
Coding
General:
- Removed files listed in the GOF that don't exist
- Deleted some Star Wars units that referenced to a non-existing variant
- Removed a lot of un-needed vanilla files that were still loaded through our GOF. This resulted in further deletions and changes in the GroundUnitsStarWars.xml
- Added missing vanilla units whose absence cause script errors
- Removed non-existing entries for ShipNameTextFiles in the GameConstants.xml
- Added Damage_Default, Armor_Default, and Shield_Default to GameConstants.xml
- Fixed incorrect Traveler text ID
- Replaced several instances of the non-existing Text_ID NONE with TEXT_NONE
- Replaced all instances of LEERSTRING and -PLAIN with TEXT_NONE
- Fixed XML bad comments in in Markers.xml and Wave_Objects.xml
- Fixed a syntax error in Particles.xml (random "z")
- Fixed non-allowed characters in Props_Stargate.xml, Props_Stargate_Space.xml, Test_Ships.xml, Test_Units_Ground.xml, Unit_Space_Neutral_GC_Dummies.xml
- Removed non-existing Targeting_Priority_Set for Wave_Aurora_Star_Base_1, Unit_Space_Asurans_Aurora.xml, Unit_Space_Asurans_Puddlejumper.xml
- Removed non-existing Space_Layer 'fighter' from all fighters that had it
- Removed all damage types from the vanilla projectiles
- Fixed several non-existing armor and damage types
- Fixed an issue regarding some of our damage types not working
- Fixed all entities in which damage was set to 0
- Fixed BuildReqGroundBaseLevel for various space units
- Removed Wave_Asteroid_Void from the main menu map
- Fixed FogOfWar grid size error in the main menu
- Replaced non-existing units Goauld_Hero_Anubis_GC, Alliance_Assault_Frigate
- Removed several Corruption_X_Success_Unlock_Unit_Type rewards
- Fixed some incorrect Targeting_Priority_Sets
- Fixed some projectiles not having a XML category mask assigned to it
- Removed a ton of non-existing entities, way too numerous to list them here
- Fixed more stuff that we don't want to spend more time on writing down than on fixing it
Upgrades:
- Fixed incorrect naming for various Combat_Bonus_Ability used by upgrade objects
- Removed US_Cloaking_Generator_L1_Upgrade and US_Cloaking_Generator_L2_Upgrade from the game
- Fixed invalid values for the US_Magnetically_Sealed_Armor_*_Upgrade, US_Reinforced_Structure_*_Upgrade, and RS_Reinforced_Armor_*_Upgrade upgrade objects
Factions:
- We have reworked our faction code (order, files, number of factions, maps, ...)
- If placed in different files, Steam and retail versions of the game read the factions from units pre-placed on a map in a different order
- It is important that the ORDER of the factions does not change, otherwise faction attribution in the map editor will break
- Adding more factions as this will result in multiplayer crashes with too many players; we had to delete some factions to fix everything
- This fixes major Issue #0002150 (7+ player crash) and major Issue #0002191 (Tactical missions in PP broken in Steam)
- The Genii are now named "Pirates" in the code (The game didn't like the pirates removed)
- Removed some left-over references to no longer existing factions
Starbases
- Added a tag for all five levels of the Tau'ri starbase to activate the loop idle animation
- Fixed an error that prevented the Supply_Dock_Income_Bonus being applied to Goa'uld and Wraith starbases (Tauri was working fine)
- Fixed Aschen starbase radar ability not working
- Fixed incorrect shield armor type for the Tauri level 5 starbase
- Fixed an error caused by none of our starbases having a damage value
Hardpoints
- Moved all hardpoints into separate files
- Deleted some non-existing hardpoints
- Removed non-existing HP_E_EMITDAMAGE
- Fixed some hardpoint errors
- Fixed last remaining hardpoint errors caused by fake HPs
- Fixed all HP entities regarding damage decal and damage particle bone
- Removed Model_To_Attach entries from hardpoints that should not have them
- Deleted invalid HARD_POINT_GOAULD_STAFF from GameConstants
- Created Hardpoint_None for unit variants that should not have hardpoints
Satellites:
- Replaced non-existing armor type "Armor_Capital" with "Armor_Normal" for several satellites
- Removed invalid Targeting_Priority_Sets for various satellite hardpoints
- Deleted various un-used satellite hardpoints from the 1.3
Aschen:
- Fixed incorrect attachment bone for HP_Aschen_Corvette_Shield
Asurans/Ancients:
- Fixed incorrect affiliation of the Asuran_Laser_Satellite
Genii:
- Fixed invalid value in Fire_Cone_Width for Kolya
Goa'uld:
- Renamed duplicate entry Proj_Goauld_Station_Laser_Artillery
- Removed un-needed LURE behavior from the Anubis Glider
- Removed non-existing target bone from the Old Hatak
- Fixed invalid value in Fire_Cone_Width for Baal
Ori:
- Fixed spelling error in one of the Ori ship's behaviors
Replicators:
- Fixed incorrect death clone of the Repli Hatak (Issue #0002236)
Tau'ri:
- After all these years the HB-302 can now finally fire its anti-fighter missiles
- Fixed incorrect fire bone A named MuzzleA_06 for hard point HP_BELISKNER_FL_ICS
Tobins:
- Fixed missing fire bones error for Tobin_Mine
Wraith:
- Removed non-existing HP_WRAITH_F_WPH_00_PLACEHOLDER1 from several Wraith units
- Removed non-existing HP_WRAITH_BATTLECRUISER_HANGAR_KAMIKAZE from Wraith Battlecruiser
- Fixed invalid value in Wraith_Hero_General_PP_Reflective_Hull
- Fixed spelling error for the armor type of Wraith_Replicator_Fighter_SK
- Fixed an issue with the PP Commando Wraith
- Added Base_Position 'Orbital' to the Wraith_Hangar
Pegasus Prelude:
- Fixed a major issue in AFG which could cause the fleet to choose the wrong target planet after the original target was captured. This should heavily impact PP during late- and midgame and keep the Wraith threat high!
- Fixed an issue with the Taranis attack fleet might arriving too late
- Fixed wrong event (Hippaforalkus) being fired as emergency trigger for the final mission
- The Asurans-turn-hostile event should now work properly
- Updated Arcturus event so it can also trigger if the player re-conquers Doranda if he had lost the planet before
- Updated Atlantis mission map that had units placed with wrong faction attribution
- Re-wrote the Upgrade-Moros-Dreadnought event. Moros will no longer automatically despawn - only when you construct the upgrade
- Removed StoryModeService and put conquer victory check in a separate function that only becomes active once the Wraith Homeworld has been conquered (a lot better on resources!)
- Enabled automatic GC victory in case of a script hiccup
- Fixed incorrect order of texts if the player conquered Gonta early on
- Lowered the build cost for Ancient drone and fighter units to make up for their research cost
- Fixed Gonta event chain triggering too early
- Project Arcturus will now be removed from the active log as soon as the player has paid for its research
- The player no longer gets any constant money flow (so no more money while the game is paused)
- Fixed Melia not being a major hero
- Fixed missing event PPM_Objective_Convoy_Ships_Survived_5_AI_NOTIFICATION in event PPM_Objective_Convoy_Must_Survive_Complete
- Fixed an issue where Ancient starbase would always spawn with level 1 in battle regardless of the actual GC level
- Adjusted the max speed for some Wraith and Ancient ships (Issue #0002262)
- Specifically locked the Odin for the AI in the helper plot files (Issue #0002264)
- Added a message for the start log telling the player he can open the log at any time to get more information about the current mission (Issue 0002271)
- Added wraith_Defense_Satellite_ANTIFIGHTER_SS back to PP because it works now
- Removed the (unused) Rebel AI from PP
Dakara [Wave Mode]:
- Replicators will no longer attack before the space station has been conquered
- Increased the reload time for the Goa'uld flash satellite
- Fixed an issue which caused player units to attack their own station once its attribution had shifted
- Increased the difficulty (more Repli ships!) (Issue #0002235)
Scripting
General:
- Removed reference to non-existing file HW_Blue1.lua
- Added None.lua dummy to remove object scripts from variants
- Removed non-existing lua script from the Tauri starbase
- Removed even more non-existing scripts
- Fixed a syntax error in the HW Huge script
- Fixed ObjectScript_Remove_Starbase_PP trying to use nil value
- Removed several unused buildings from our scripts whose existence cause script errors
- Removed non-existing pirate units from PGCommands.lua
AI Changes:
- Deleted cantina from AI plans
- Restructured some of the basic base build plans
- Moved starbases in the GOF further up to avoid a bug where the Rebel AI has trouble building starbases most of the time
- Stopped Empire AI from saving money for an imaginary Death Star
- Added new hint sets, telling the AI on which planets shipyards can be built
- Some small changes to the AI's perceptions
- Updated AI_Combat_Power for Goauld space units
- Added new tech behavior for BasicRebel and AI_Player_Underworld, all factions should be able to fully tech now
- Completed capital shipyard hints
</scripting>
<sound>
- Fixed several errors caused by the min volume for a sound being bigger than the max value
- Replaced the following non-existing sounds with existing, fitting ones: Unit_Goauld_Ship_Laser_Fire, Unit_Heavy_Turbo_Laser_Fire, Unit_Rebel_Ship_Superlaser_Fire, Unit_Goauld_Ship_Laser_1_Fire, Unit_Heavy_Turbo_Laser_Fire, Weapon_Drone2_Ancient, Weapon_Middle_Missel_Tauri, Weapon_Heavy_Missel_Tauri
- Removed countless non-existing vanilla sound references
- Added missing SFXEventsEngines.xml to SFX events files (this fixes quite a lot of issues)
- Removed all R/U/E-HD sound effects
- Fixed localize flag for Unit_Dart_Kamikaze_Attack
- Removed some more non-existing sounds
- Added missing SFX_Weapon_Hit.xml to SFX event files
- Changed Envelope_Hit_Medium.wav to a mono sound so it can actually be heard
- Removed empty SFXEvent_Attack_Hardpoint and SFXEvent_Hardpoint_Destroyed
- Fixed all SFX events using Explosion_Med1.wav incorrectly labeled as localized sample
- Added SFXEventsDeaths.xml to the mod which re-adds vanilla building explosion sounds
- Added some missing speech sounds for Apophis
- Created non-existing Unit_Torpedo_Fire fire sound (Weapon_Torpedo_Fire)
- Replaced non-existing Weapon_Railgun_Tauri with Weapon_Railgun_Tauri_Small
- Fixed an error with Data\Audio\Engine\Hive.wav not found
- Fixed labeling errors for SFX speech events Zelenka, SG1, Atlantis and Super Hatak
- Fixed several sounds, heroes mostly, especially a lot of engine sounds (Sol, Odin, Korellev, Hunter, ...)
- Fixed incorrectly labeled Goauld Pyramid select sounds
Level Design
The Might of the Asgard:
- The upgrade satellites are now available again
Dakara [Wave Mode]:
- Moved the planet Dakara further in the background
Texts
- General text improvements
- Updated the description text for Dakara Wave Mode
- Updated several text strings
Patch 1.9.7
This patch adds a new wave mode map for skirmish in which you can fight the Replicators over Dakara.
Furthermore it includes some obligatory fixes (including a fix for missing Asgard props on the Othala skirmish map) and balancing updates, especially for the fighter heroes.
It also fixes some issues in the Pegasus Prelude campaign, such as the Empire level 5 space station and a too passive AI
Art
Models:
- Added the Replicator Beliskner
- Added the Replicator Hatak
Icons:
- Various minor icon updates
Coding
General:
- Fixed Asgard support station missing on the Othala space map
- Fixed an issue with a marker refering to an non-existing model
- Deleted duplicate Othala skydome
- Deleted AlamoEngine.fxh and BumpColorize.fxh because there was no difference to the vanilla file
- Added Grass.fxo, Meshshadowvolume.fxo, and Rskinheat.fxo from Petro's patch so non-Steam users benefit from the updates as well
- Various updates, fixes and improvements
Goa'uld:
- Fixed Herak incorrect armor type
- Slightly increased health of Osiris
- Changed Goauld_Hero_Anubis_Space to Home_One
- Reduced PopCap of Baal
Ori:
- Fixed select box scale of the Ori ship
Replicators:
- Added the Replicator Beliskner
- Added the Replicator Hatak
Tau'ri:
- Fixed an issue with SG-1 not being buildable
- Increased recharge time of Mitchells lucky shot
- Fixed an issue with a duplicate entry for Weapon_Heavy_Missile_Tauri
- Slightly decreased X-303 damage
- Fixed Odin using an outdated hyperspace script
Wraith:
- Increased power of the Wraith Hunter's stun ability
- Increased damage of the Wraith Hunter
- Increased health of the Commando Wraith
- The Wraith scout is no longer visible on enemy radar
Pegasus Prelude GC:
- Attempt to make the AI more agressive
- Fixed an issue which could cause the Ancients to flee mid-misison in the Orakis mission
- Fixed Wraith level 5 space station incorrectly being replaced by an Imperial station in the campaign
- Fixed asteroid mission being marked as lost in the log even if it has been won
- Fixed Hives deploying Kami Darts out of playbale map area as apparent in some tactical missions
Scripting
- Added Get_Game_Mode() checks to all scripts where they were missing to prevent them from triggering when not needed
Sounds
- Added Deathglider engine sound and added it to all to Goa'uld fighters
- Added Goa'uld Alkesh engine sounds
- Fixed Herak not having speech sounds
- Added new small missile sound
- Added F302 engine sounds and added that sound to all Tau'ri fighters
- Fixed non working engine sound of the Wraith Scout
Level Design
- Added new Dakara Wave Mode map
Texts
- Fixed several spelling mistakes
- Minor adjustments
Patch 1.9.5
This patch adds several balancing changes to skirmish. Overall, the Tau'ri are now less overpowered.
Fighters and bombers have significantly decreased build costs and construction times making them much more viable.
Additonally, the game has been polished and many aspects, such as new build animations for all satellites, have been reworked.
Furthermore it contains the usual bug fixes to issues reported by our beloved community.
Art
Models:
- Updated space turret build pad so it doesn't need custom shaders
- Replaced the existing Beliskner model in the Pegasus Prelude missions with a new unique model of the Vanir Beliskner
- Updated the Goa'uld jamming satellite model
- Added new build animations for all skirmish satellites
Icons:
- Added general satellite radar icon name for all satellites
- Added new icon for the Kamikaze Dart
Coding
General:
- Fighter rebalance: Signifcantly changed the build costs and construction times for all fighters. Fighter and bomber rushes are a thing now if you have no Corvettes to counter!
- Removed chat, groups and unused buttons from MP lobby and redesigned layout to fit the background better
- Various code updates, fixes, and tweaks
Ancients/Asurans:
- Adjusted tactical health of the Dreadnought and the Aurora class to prevent simultaneous hardpoint blow-up
Goa'uld:
- Changed HP string names of all Goa'uld heavy staff weapons turrets (space buildings only)
- Added shields to the Goa'uld Alkesh increasing its survivability
- The Alkesh will now shoot visible bombs
- Slightly increased the shield strength of the System Flagship
- Increased the damage of the Super Hatak
- Increased the shield strength of Anubis and slightly increased his damage and HP health of shield, engines and his special weapon
Tau'ri:
- Increased the build time of Mitchell and SG-1
- Increased the production cost of the Tau'ri X-303 and the BC-304 in multiplayer
- Set Base_Income_Value from 350 to 35 and Income_Additive_Value from 250 to 25 of Tau'ri skirmish starbase lvl 2
- Fixed incorrect Targeting_Max_Attack_Distance of the Korolev and the Daedalus
Traveler:
- Traveler Frigates now have less shields and hull points and do slightly less damage
- Fixed incorrect good/bad against description for the Traveler Frigate
Wraith:
- Fixed non-working autoheal ability of the Wraith PP Queen
- Fixed German speech sounds of the Queen in English version
- Removed the negative side effects of Todd's (and the Queen's) power to weapons ability and changed the icon accordingly
- Disabled autofire for the Wraith Scout's beacon ability
- Increased health of the Hive's forward hardpoints
- Slightly increased health of the Wraith Cruiser's frontal HP
Pegasus Prelude:
- Adjusted difficulty of the PP W Orakis mission
- Added new info text that triggers if the player doesn't conquer the Asteroid Field after a certain amount of time
Texts
- Adjusted encyclopedia class strings for satellites to better clarify their role
- Updated various texts to fit gameplay changes
- Fixed several spelling mistakes
- Minor adjustments
Patch 1.9.4
This patch greatly improves the Pegasus Prelude GC.
The Wraith campaign has been massively reworked, various bugs have been fixed and the balancing is much fairer now for default and easy difficulties for both factions.
While many game-breaking bugs have been fixed this patch does not fix the general instability of the GC. Save often!
Art
Icons:
- Upgrade icon for charging Goauld planetary staff cannon in space skirmish updated
- Fixed an icorrect GUI bracket size of the Dreadnought
Coding
General:
- Added/removed hyperspace capabilities of some fighter units were it was necessary
- Removed 'Spotted' SFX from faction files
Ancients/Asurans:
- Fixed an issue with the Dreadnought version of Moros not having any speech sounds
- Melia will now die 'properly' - no more hero head icon after death
- Delphi and Pride of Troy are no longer major heroes (they don't respawn after death)
- Changed tech level of the Ancient_Space_Building_Sensor_SS from 4 to 3
Goa'uld:
- Increased damage of the GTSW from 2000 to 6500 and changed the construction costs to 3500
Tau'ri:
- Increased damage of the GTSW and changed the construction costs to 3500
Wraith:
- Removed the pop cap of the Kamikaze Dart
- Removed hyperspace capability of the Exp. Dart
- Added price reduction ability to the PP Queen
- Increased damage of the GTSW to 300 per projectile and changed the construction costs to 3500
PP GC (Ancients):
- Fixed an issue which would cause convoy mission transports being stuck at the exit point
- Slightly increased performance of the script at various locations
- Fixed an issue which would cause the Tau'ri starbase to spawn if only Asuran units were on the map
- Added the Fortress for the Asurans
- Decreased the chance for the Arcturus mission still being active even after the Aurora tech already became available
- Increased the time for the player to construct the Arcturus device before the mission times out
- Increased the chance for the Asurans being friendly towards the player for a longer time making it more lucrative to invest in their research
PP GC (Wraith):
- Added debug events for the Wraith story line
- Removed the AI lock for the Vanir planet which caused the planet to have a red glow. The AI will not move there and the Vanir are allied to the Ancients anyway.
- Significantly changed the story script for the Wraith. There is now one single attack function for all attackers
- The Gonta revenge fleet list will now try to spawn at Dagan
- Tried to make the story mode service code more efficient
- The Asurans now spawn a lvl 5 starbase
- The Arcanus attack fleet and the Gonta attack fleet will now both try to spawn on Taranis to make it less likely that the fleet will arrive after the resp. mission has been accomplished
- Removed some Ancient starting forces on lower difficulties
- Fixed non-working price bonus for the Hive on Arcanus
- Significantly decreased the difficulty on lower difficulties. Especially the attacks at the beginning are much weaker now
- As soon as the Dreanought event starts some of them will be spawned on Taranis
- Fixed a potential crash in the Moros upgrade event (Sleep was set _after_ TestValid())
- The Dreadnoughts produced on Taranis will now properly attack the player
- Fixed Delphi not being registered as dead in the Gonta event making it unable to win
- Added additional fail possibility for the Gonta event in case the City Ship retreated during battle
- This also prevents the possibility of an incorrect text of the Ancients evacuating the settlement when they take the planet back even if Delphi wasn't present
- Also fixed an issue which would cause the Delphi-successfully-defeated event to trigger even after the planet was lost and the mission failed
- Increased the chance of Asuran or Dreadnought attacks compared to regular Ancient and Vanir attacks if either of them are active
- Added 'final hints' text strings to the story dialog so it would finally show up and not just show an empty log
- Fixed an issue with the finale text not being displayed due to duplicate event names
- The Athos/Orakis final missions will no longer time out after they have been played
- When the final mission is won, the player fleet will no longer retreat
- Orakis Mission:
-- Reduced the difficulty for this mission on Easy and Medium settings (Wave strength and number of defense satellites)
-- The Wave spawn entry point is now a bit further away from the area that needs to be secured
-- Added missing objective to secure the landing zone if they player killed the under construction ships before the timer was up
-- Reduced the speed of spawned capital wave ships
-- The wave ships will now properly move toward the landing zone
-- The mission is now marked as 'won' in the log after it has been completed successfully
- Atlantis Mission:
-- The transport ships will now properly move towards the descent zone
-- Fixed hero death events not working (Find_First_Object() requires capitalized input strings!)
-- Added a function to track the status (spawned, dead) of each hero that triggers player victory
-- Fixed an issue which could cause a hero not to spawn as tranport escort
-- Revealed spawn area of Melia and the first transport
-- The mission will now be lost when all Wraith ships have been defeated
Texts
Various text and spelling improvements, especially for the English translation
Patch 1.9.3
Some fixes for the Ancient campaign
Coding
PP GC:
- If Asuras is given to the Asurans as a result of the nanite development this will no longer count negative to the planet count of the hold ground event (Ancient campaign)
- Removed non-functional tech level dummies which became accidentaly builadble for the Ancients in patch 1.9.2
Scripting
PP Wraith:
- Asteroid Field Mission: General improvements, Added intro camera sequence
- disabled debug objects
Level Design
- Asteroid Field Mission: Improved map lighting and background
Patch 1.9.2
Various PP balancing improvements
Coding
General:
- Added deconstruction for Deconstruction_Ancient_Space_Building_Sensor_SS_PP
Ancients/Asurans:
- Heavily increased the survivability of heavy fighters and bombers
- Updated the tech levels for all ships and stations
- Moros (Dreadnought version) shield strength increased by 10 percent
- Added Puddlejumper engine sound
- Added new Helia speech sound to Cruiser and Frigate
- Changed shield and hull points of the cityships
- Pride of Troy model should appear now
Wraith:
- Added Wraith Dart engine sound to (heavy) Dart and Bomber and the Exp. Dart
- The Wraith Queen and Todd no longer prevent auto-resolving battles
- Added new fire sound for the Kamikaze Dart ability of the Battlecruiser
- Increased the stength of the Wraith Queen by 30% (more health + more damage)
PP GC:
- The Ancient sensor sat is no longer buildable for the Wraith
- Increased the info screen time for all events
- Increased trigger delay for certain events to decrease the chance of multiple events triggering at once
- Updated planet descriptions: Irrelevant (land related) planetary advantages are no longer displayed
- You can no longer get access to the Aurora research before Project Arcturus was offered
Sounds
- Added Wraith Dart and Puddlejumper engine sound
- Added new speach sounds for Helia
Patch 1.9.1
Fixed a CTD on the gas nebula map.
Level Design
- Added missing Map_GC_Space_Metreongas_Nebula.ted
Patch 1.9.0
Welcome to the open beta! This is the base version.
For now the open beta contains the content of the stable public release plus the nearly complete version of Pegasus Prelude for everyone to test. This version is feature ready meaning that everything gameplay related is implemented. Also we fixed all the game breaking bugs found by our closed beta testers. However please note that the version of Pegasus Prelude in the open beta is of course still work in progress and that other bugs are still present including the following:
- The GC is prone to crashes. Save often!
- The Tau'ri tactical dashboard, GC space station and some other Tau'ri specific logos are still visible.
The target of this open beta test is especially to know if the balancing of the GC is alright and if we missed some bugs. Therefore we would like to encourage everyone willing to share bug reports, his opinion and ideas about the open beta and the current Pegasus Prelude version in our new open beta forums.
While talking about sharing... All members of our community are free to share images and videos of the open beta in all places of the world wide web! The only thing we would like to ask for is to be always clear that you're sharing content of a beta version of our mod.