Planetary Annihilation Community Mods Release Notes

File:Titans-icon.png Planetary Annihilation Community Mods Release Notes

File:Gold-rank-icon.png Community Mods in game mod manager

No external application required.

• added community mods in game mod manager to start menu
• added auto updating of mods
• replaces PAMM (PA Mod Manager) external application

File:Gold-rank-icon.png Custom Server support

No mods required.

• added game server browser support for hosting, joining and spectating custom server games
• added game invite support for custom servers
• added game configuration in new game support for custom servers
• added reconnect support for custom servers to start menu
• custom servers now advertise max players and max spectators

File:Gold-rank-icon.png Servers

Applies to Uber and custom servers:

• added metalClusters, metalDensity, landing_zones_count, metal_spots_count and planetCSG_count to game beacons and system info
• added support for 32 colours (based on burntcustard 32 colour table)
• added support for custom commanders
• added support for selecting of AI commander
• added server mod identifiers to game beacons
• added support for custom servers to advertise max players and max spectators in game config beacons
• added --max-players and --max-spectators command line options
• added --server-password command line options for custom servers

File:Gold-rank-icon.png Modding

general

• added game info to session, connect_to_game and various scenes:
  • serverType / game_server_type (local|uber|custom)
  • serverSetup / game_server_setup (game|replay|loadsave)
  • gameType / game_type (Galactic War|Ladder1v1|FFA|TeamArmies)
  • gameModIdentifiers / game_mod_identifiers (work in progress)
• deprecated joinLocalServer / join_local_server in preference to isLocalGame / is_local_game
• changed isLocalGame to use the same is_local_game session key everywhere
• updated to latest knockoutjs 3.4

new game

• added support for model.send_message('set_ai_commander', {id: model.playerId(), commander: commanderSpecString});

live game

• exposed listen_to_spectators in GameOptionModel
• fixed lobbyId not set

uberbar

• updated to latest strophe

File:Gold-rank-icon.png Polish

game server brwoser

• added saving of game server browser filters with reset filters button

galatic war

• changed default save name to include time

live game

• changed default save name to include time
• changed global spectator chat default to team chat

uberbar

• added searching by display name
• added lobby status to game invites
• added cancelling of game invites if full or inviter leaves lobby
• improved reconnect handling

File:Platinum-rank-icon.png Fixes

uberbar

• fixed display names not updating
• fixed buy missing content dialog description when a classic player is invited to a titans game
• fixed a long standing issue where a network / data issue or reloading the uberbar reset the user tag map and killed friends list
• fixed the ubernet extender to not lose data or use bad data from playfab or local storage
• fixed the ubernet extender to correctly check previous and not update on refresh
• fixed long standing issue with large user tag and id to interaction time maps (based on optimise user tag map)
• fixed a long standing issue where idToJabberPresenceTypeMap and idToJabberPresenceStatusMap were not written to session storage
• fixed long standing issue where searches of existing friends add duplicates to friends list
• fixed invites to private games
• fixed long standing issue where previously accepted game invite fails then later invite from same person teleports you into new game without confirmation

new game

• fixed game password lost after refresh, selecting system, settings, etc

live game

• fixed alt-tab back to PA then backspace with chat window open triggering window back then reload or connecting to server