v58 Update
This update was mostly about making changes from some prominent issues I noticed from the recent Rainbow Cup tournament casts, including:
- On Dark Liver its ACU ignored lots of reclaim by it to advance on a land factory relatively far away. Meanwhile there was very noticeable stuttering when running the replay at increased speed
- On Carrius it started a T3 pgen with almost no mass income and while mass stalling, and paused a land factory with a T3 mobile artillery 99% complete
- On Air wars it was slow getting a transport and then sent it to the other side of the map
- On Exo 50-T testing ground it eventually got a soulripper and suicided it into the enemy base when it didnt have air control
- On Citadel M27 built a massive army of inties (more than 100) which often suffered heavy casualties when traveling over enemy flak
- On one of the replays the casters commented on lack of variety in M27's taunts
I've also made some refinements to some other aspects noticed from pre-release testing replays.
Changes made
- 10 bug fixes, including one with transports causing them to try and target the furthest plateau from them instead of the closest (per the air wars replay)
34 misc changes, including: - ACU adjustments to make it more likely to run from large threats and reclaim in preference to attacking out of range units
- Increased taunt variety
- Ecoing enhancements, including assisting mex upgrades, not pausing near-complete factories, and having a basic mass limit before starting a T3 factory upgrade
- Added caps on certain units (inties, gattling bots, hoplites)
- Reduced pathing limit from 1024x1024 to 512x512 to improve stuttering at faster game speeds
- Various adjustments to plateau logic so transports are built sooner and prioroitise nearby plateaus, while factories built at those plateaus should build units even if M27 is trying to eco
- Adjustments to naval bombardment logic (so e.g. Aeon missile ships shouldnt waste their time firing at moving T1 tanks when the enemy base is nearby)
Acknowledgements
- Fearghal for organising the Rainbow Cup tournament, and the casting team for providing an entertaining stream of it (in particular Endranii, Spikey Noob and Swokoll who casted M27's games)