May 12th Beta Changelog

[CaptRanger]

Thanks, Yosh/TWI... on a side note, is there any discussion of changing or tweaking the tank AI gunners? Would love to have tanks back on normal servers, but no one wants to put them on with the AI the way it is.

[tixhal]

the new font is cool, it doesn't become too blurry with the new 12.4 cat mlaa

congratulations to tripwire on their efforts, i sure hope their hard work will be rewarded with hordes of new (and returning old) players!
i will definitely try to convince as many friends as possible to check out the free weekend. i already told those who already bought it, but haven't been playing for a while, about the great improvements in the beta.

[Ossius]

Tweaks to font include team colors?

[Nezzer]

Originally Posted by Ossius

Tweaks to font include team colors?

[Ossius]

I don't understand why it hasn't been put in place, currently I have no idea which team is talking and you can't read white on snow maps. I've wanted this since day one, anyone without a mic is basically ignored because you can't see chat.

[Frostedfire]

Originally Posted by Ossius

turns out phoney computer had a taser....

[Eisprinzessin]

Originally Posted by tixhal

the new font is cool

I just see the font of the menue. OK, this font is cool. Thats everything what i can see. Tried 3 times to connect, and crashed 3 times back to desktop.

Not possible to join the server (classic). Anyone else has this prob?

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Originally Posted by Eisprinzessin

I just see the font of the menue. OK, this font is cool. Thats everything what i can see. Tried 3 times to connect, and crashed 3 times back to desktop.

Not possible to join the server (classic). Anyone else has this prob?

Yup, see above ^^^

[Icey_Pain]

Originally Posted by Eisprinzessin

I just see the font of the menue. OK, this font is cool. Thats everything what i can see. Tried 3 times to connect, and crashed 3 times back to desktop.

Not possible to join the server (classic). Anyone else has this prob?

While I don't get the crash back to desktop, the game seems to hang indefinitely without ever joining the server.

Edit: The second attempt, I did get a CTD.

[Eisprinzessin]

OK, thanks. The realism works fine but is not in interesst for me

[ButchCassidy]

The new update has improved the overall gameplay massively along with pings and performance.

Congrats TWI this looking really good

[=GG= Mr Moe]

So some players connect without crashing?

[RO_fan]

Originally Posted by =GG= Mr Moe

So some players connect without crashing?

Try to delete your beta config files, this worked for me (no more crashes when connecting to the classic server).

[ButchCassidy]

Originally Posted by =GG= Mr Moe

So some players connect without crashing?

Yes there are appx a dozen players on the server as I type this now..

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Originally Posted by RO_fan

Try to delete your beta config files, this worked for me (no more crashes when connecting to the classic server).

Yup, that did it. Forgot to try it since it didn't work the last time there was a problem

[Mormegil]

Originally Posted by CaptRanger

Thanks, Yosh/TWI... on a side note, is there any discussion of changing or tweaking the tank AI gunners? Would love to have tanks back on normal servers, but no one wants to put them on with the AI the way it is.

You might want to read the May 10th build changelog:

Originally Posted by Yoshiro

Gameplay - Vehicle Functionality & AI

• Completely new AI configurability system with robust configurability including webadmin options. The system includes all new tank AI functionality with "player ordered AI gunnery only" as the default setup. With this new system, Tank AI will do nothing if the human player is in a tank, unless the human player orders the AI to do something. For example, if the human player orders the AI to attack an enemy, the AI will use the hull MG and the main cannon to attack the enemy for a short time. Then after a short time the AI will stop firing. In addition to this new default functionality the server admin can also run in several different configurations including turning off all vehicle AI gunnery, selecting full autonomous AI gunner, selecting player ordered gunnery only (the default), or individually turn off/on AI gunner for the hull mg and tank cannon. We highly recommend all admins try out the new player ordered AI gunnery system as it is a vast improvement over the original system.
• Fixed bugs that were causing the vehicle AI to be 100% accurate with their aimed shots when a human player was in the tank. This was the root of most of the problems with tank AI being way too hardcore and good.
• Completely revised AI gunnery model. This system has been tuned to be very forgiving and to not quite play as well as a human player would. With that said it will also be useful enough for players to want to use the system, but without completely destroying human players unrealistically like it was before. This system includes functionality that makes the AI less accurate based on many factors such as distance from the tank, movement state of the enemy (walking, sprinting, etc), as well as making the tank AI much less accurate if the tank is moving. Some elements of this system were already in the codebase, but not functioning due to a bug.
• Added some tank AI configuration elements based off of Ducky's Tank AI mutator
• You can now rotate the turret of the Panzer IV from the commander cuppola position by looking in a direction and pressing the fire button (you could already do it from the interior gunner position of the Panzer IV and the gunner/commander position of the T34)

[Spindle]

What's with the "Game of the Year Edition"?

[Frostedfire]

Originally Posted by Spindle

What's with the "Game of the Year Edition"?

market trolling, everyone makes one of these, usually means it's a "complete" version . It did pick up that award from pcgamer though....

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Don't know what it was, but the last round I played on Mamayev I must have gotten stuck on all sorts of different terrain and had to suicide at least 3 or 4 times. Luckily (if you can say that) I was killed by the enemy the other times.

[Spindle]

Originally Posted by Frostedfire

market trolling, everyone makes one of these, usually means it's a "complete" version . It did pick up that award from pcgamer though....

Yeah, but what's the difference between this 'edition' and the previous one?
Usually they use the 'GOTY edition' when there's DLC included, etc.