Release-20180923 - Discussion

[EnkerZan]

Commandos in Tiberium Dawn need to not prevent you from ordering the rest of your selected unit to attack something. Please fix this.

This also happens in RA with unarmed civilians or medics in a group, attack orders turn into move orders.

https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/13723 could be related.

Yeah that's it. It's doing that with anything that can't attack buildings; so Engineers, Commandos, Mobile SAM, Civs, and Medics will cause this to happen.

[Major Kusanagi Motoko]

Fantastic impressions on the 2018_09_23 release.

Thanks to every developers continuous n dedicated contribution OpenRA has now its long awaited Authentication System, Playernames will show up if you hover over the in-game server list (which lets you know who is playing atm in on which game & mod, which is great! if you are looking to find a certain player/group of players),
also you can check the server list again while staying in lobby.

The Games-section on https://www.openra.net/games/ also provides more information on the games being played with new beautiful looks.

Last but not least, the current balance improvements also seem to be a promising part in further increasing competitive and exciting experiences for this amazingly implemented RTS classic.

You guys always do a great job, but this time its really so much n special,
great thanks for your work !

Major Kusanagi

[YuriMolina]

When the time vortex singularity will be implemented? and a bigger ultimate weapon, like a thermo nuclear bomb? XD

[Mr Cloudy]

I love everything, and I don't want to come across as rude I understand there's a lot of hard work put into this, and I love the game to bits, but that said, the ref sell change is not something I'm happy about, tbh I think it's terrible and quite honestly I don't see any point in it what so ever, all this is doing is streamlining a build, (or making less openers for the start of the game) the scaling is much better with a double ref into a pp anyway, 3 refs for 5 harvesters is much better, and you can make a lot more infantry before you get out the 4th harvester if you know your macro game in 1v1s, and the other thing was no one was moaning about the double ref sell build anyway...

[Sleipnir]

See #15240 for the discussion motivating that change.

[Mr Cloudy]

well that thread has been closed, and what I have read, does not answer my question about making the game more streamlined.

[lawANDorder]

The issue has been closed bc it got fixed in the pr referenced at the bottom, that is just how github works. You can still comment on it. I think netnazgul wrote a good comment about it here viewtopic.php?f=82&t=20641#p308733.

[Sleipnir]

The release shipped with a bug that prevents servers from notifying the master server that they have started - this makes servers show up in the list as "Waiting" for three minutes after they start.

A hotfix is available for server hosts, and the so far the "EU Official" and "Trolling allowed" / "Trolling prohibited" servers have been updated.

[WhoCares]

Thank a lot for that, that "bug" created a lot of frustration. Even more for people who have few time to play/spectate and feel that they always miss the good lobbies/games. "Come on, not again ..."

[BattleBear]

I found an interesting but potentially game breaking bug (especially for larger multiplayer games). I was playing a 3v3 on Isle of Man 1.5 when at somepoint all my heli's started to be produces instantly. Things to note:

- Debug mode was disabled!
- Other units/buildings still had their normal build time.
- Build time of heli's was 0 seconds.
- Could only build a heli if the cost of the heli was in the bank. (ie. if I had 2000 in de bank, 1 longbow would be build, If i had anything less it wouldn't start building)
- The hind, chinook and longbow all had their buildtime reduced to 0 seconds.
- Other players didn't have the issue.

I did not test:
- Selling and rebuilding helipads
- Can't figure out how to reproduce the issue.

Replay: https://www.gamereplays.org/openra/repl ... &id=333227

[Sleipnir]

The map used in your replay has been modified with custom rules that make aircraft build instantly if you have 6 or more helipads. It looks like you accidentally stumbled on somebody elses attempt to cheat. I have disabled API access for that map so that others won't be able to download it.

Remember to keep an eye out for the "This map contains custom rules. Game experience may change" warning in the lobby, and pick a different map if you are expecting the standard gameplay.

[BattleBear]

Thanks for clearing it up, you can remove my post if need be. Also I see that message in pretty much every lobby so i've grown to ignore it.. Should know better I know but they rarely actually change something meaningfull haha!

[avalach21]

"Trolling allowed" / "Trolling prohibited"

lol! who owns these servers?? always makes me chuckle

[KOYK_GR]

"It looks like you accidentally stumbled on somebody elses attempt to cheat."

Sleipnir please next time before you start accusing me because of your biased opinion you probably have against me, just think that there are more polite ways to do so. Like talk about it first and then reach a conclusion. There is no need to go and ruin some ones reputation cold blooded.

If any one cares to know about that map or why I have uploaded it OR why I dont consider it a cheat map, I can explain if you want.

[Sleipnir]

Are you claiming to be the person who uploaded that map? I made a specific point of not accusing anybody by name and not linking to the problematic version of the map in question.