Experimental changes

These are the deployed changes on the fafbeta game mode. This game mode is for testing new features or balance changes. The changes here are subject to change and may be modified again or removed entirely.

This changelog is autogenerated from the actual deployed changes and always up to date.

You can test these changes by hosting a game in the fafbeta game mode.

Features

  • In fullshare, make self-destruct with a selection that includes ACUs only destroy the ACUs (#7132).

  • Add a new temporary template hotkey that can save a selection of structures and then recall it as a build mode when used with an engineer selection, or as a cheat-only spawn mode when used with no selection (#7185).

  • Give external factories their respective factory’s UI selection sound (#7207).

  • Add “restart session” button to the quit game dialog for skirmish missions (#7226).

Bug fixes

  • Add missing tooltips for the following game options (#7044):
    • Invert middle mouse button
    • Reclaim batching threshold
    • Painting duration when observing
    • Assist to upgrade radars
    • Default to repeat build
    • Show player names

  • Fix a very badly named key for the “show player names” option. Unfortunately this requires players who were using it to re-enable the option (#7044).

  • When using MergeLabel to merge weapon blueprints, merge into all weapon blueprints that have that label instead of merging into only one blueprint under the assumption that labels must be unique (#7191).

  • Fix error when worldview with render shapes is destroyed (#7210).

  • Fix assisting to upgrade T2 radars not checking for any adjacent pgens to be built first (#7212).

  • Fix displayed abilities for Aeon torpedo bomber and Aeon and Cybran hydrocarbon power plants (#7225).

  • Fix error with shields that have a mix of guards with and without orders queued after the assist order (#7227).

  • Fix error when using interrupt pathfinding on immobile engineers (#7228).

  • Fix MaxHealth buffs (used by regen aura) not setting health to a lower new max health value (#7230).
    • Fixes aircraft getting stuck in air staging after losing the regen aura buff.
    • Fixes units taking less damage than expected for 1 shot after losing the regen aura buff.
    • Fixes units instantly refilling to the boosted max HP when regaining the regen aura buff.

  • Fix DiskGetFileInfo crashing to desktop with non-string parameters (#7258). This would rarely cause a crash when joining a lobby right as a host launches the game.

  • Added missing platoon builder for Seraphim AI in FA campaign (#7279)

  • Fix error when issuing an assist order to a mobile shield/deceiver with a destroyed unit in the selection (#7284). This should fix mobile shields sometimes stopping in range of enemies while assisting another unit, instead of continuing to move.

  • Fix error in /sim/recall.lua when switching armies in non-team games (#7285).

  • Add backwards compatibility for the naval formation changes in Nomads (#7289).

  • Disable the default score board sending chat messages when gifting units or resources, as that has been replaced by the chat rework (#7293).

  • Fix issues with the fire beetle (#7307):
    • Fix fire beetles sometimes running in circles when issued an attack command.
    • Fix fire beetles not attacking when patrolling or attack-moving.
    • Fix damage effect not being affected by changes to the weapon’s damage table, such as damage and damage radius modifiers.
      • Visuals are now scaled with damage radius modifiers.
    • Fix the explosion range’s indirect-fire (yellow) range ring not showing. The direct-fire (red) range ring is the detonation range when attacking something.
    • Update weapon names and information in UI to make it more clear what they do.
  • Remove the SONAR category from the UEF Spy Plane as it has no sonar (#7310).

Graphics

  • Give the Seraphim ACU’s Refracting Chronotron Amplifier its own model, so it is no longer visually identical to the engineering upgrades (#7197).

  • Double the resolution of the shield dome mesh and clean up the shader code (#7263).

AI

  • Created a new file with helper functions for formation commands that orient the formations correctly by angle on each node. (#7267)

  • Refactored platoon and ScenarioFramework to use the new formation commands. (#7267)

  • Attack platoons in campaign now orient formations correctly, so units move through path nodes faster. (#7267)

Performance

  • Use per-unit order functions in SimUtils DisableAI (#7293).

Other changes

  • (#6550) Add argument to choose game exe file to use in launch script.

  • Add functions for UI mods to add or remove context-based templates on the fly (#7004).

  • Add SHIFT binding options for “Pause Unit” and “Toggle Repeat Build” (#7170).

  • Annotate various sim unit, UI, and sim sync functionality (#7208).

  • Fix FAF intellisense plugin not detecting hook paths with non-word characters, and fix new diagnostics showing up from hooked content (#7213).

  • Clean up code style and fix annotations in ACUUnit.lua (#7215).

  • All custom String_ functions are moved to the default string library. Same pattern as the extended table. (#7250)

  • Annotate formations.lua (#7259).

  • Annotate WldUiProvider class (#7268).

  • Improve a large amount of annotations (#7270).

  • Refactor and annotate the BaseManager class and other files and functions used by the campaign platoons. (#7271)

  • Unified objective logic under a new class (#7273)

  • Improved ObjectiveGroup (#7273)

  • Document debugging process for replays and desyncs (#7274).

  • Cached results of categories set operations to reduce object de/allocations and improved sim-speed performance. (#7280)

  • Fix annotations in Shape.lua and for __pow (#7293).

  • Update annotations for OnBeat, GetConstructEconomyModel, SelectedUnit, and weapon damage attribute-changing functions (#7293).

  • Log number of mods set when setting selected mods (#7293).

  • Fixes annotations of table.find (#7309)
  • Added table.findCustom function (#7309)

  • Added table.has function (#7309)

  • Added single unit variant to all relevant IssueCommand sim functions (#7311)
  • Improved documentation of IssueCommand sim functions (#7311)