v77 Update (RC update)
Update based on the first weekend of the Rainbow Cup, featuring 43 fixes tweaks and new features. A full list of changes is included in the devlog, and I've summarised the potentially more impactful ones below.
A caveat for people taking part in the Rainbow cup - although I would hope that M28 reflects the below changes in-game, as with any update there's the risk of bugs and no guarantee M28's behaviour will work as expected.
Summary of changes
- Fixed a bug that was preventing M28 building multiple T3 arti or game-enders on the Noro map; made it more likely to get a game-ender where an enemy base is outside the range of T3 arti
- 9 adjustments to nuke targeting, including taking into account reclaim damage, fixing an issue that meant it would often cancel nuke launch orders, and increasing the damage required to launch a missile (so it should no longer target a single T3 mex with a nuke)
- Introduced logic for the Aeon missile ship, and made some adjustments on how much navy is built on very small ponds (like Tabula Rasa)
- Slight improvement in how MAA are prioritised for production if M28 has a land experimental without MAA support
- Transports should drop early if under air attack
- If a player loses mexes near their base (but still has production facilities intact) and M28 builds on them, M28 should gift the mexes back to the player
- Added new logic for M28 engineers to assist a teammate's nearby T3 arti or gameender or battleship
- M28 will occasionally consider gifting its asfs to a teammate (if that teammate has a significantly stronger air force)
Acknowledgements
- Fearghal – Organising and funding the Rainbow cup (which provided the source for most of this version’s changes)
- Farms – screenshot of replay where M28 wasn’t starting a T3 land fac upgrade despite having more than 200 mass income; Noting how M28 rebuilt Farms' mexes (presumably when they got destroyed) preventing Farms from making use of them.
- FTX – suggestions on when to go gameender instead of T3 arti, and how much value to try and get from a nuke missile
- sparky222b – Replay crash report