Alpha 8.5

[GFX47]

Thanks for your feedback guys.
Releasing 8.5 with a few more fixes.

[Chunkymonkey]

Live on play store now.

[Kanishka]

Haven't received 8.5 here yet. :/

[Kanishka]

Thanks for your feedback guys.
Releasing 8.5 with a few more fixes.

1. Glad to be a part of Gladiabots.
2. Is 8.5 released yet?

[pier4r]

o button for marking all matches as watched

As written in the faq, we need to watch the matches to compute them and verify the result and headless computation is not available yet.

Plus I remembered when you asked "put every new match as new so there is more excitement" (and I agree)

[ConsciouS-0nE]

I do not appear in any leaderboards, maybe ill try to deploy a match.
Its just that the game does not survive for 1min online gameplay.

[pier4r]

Dunno if there should be an alpha 8.5 thread, anyway

- great work for the debugger and written explanations, way more understandable than before (although I checked few of them)
- the health and shield bars are unusual but the 25% subdivision is helpful
- testing maps are great
- I like the new font when it is not caps, seems like trebuchet
- done part of the tutorial. Nice so far.
- nice the stats although the 0.75 of the Mg is not reported
- nice the new seemingly unlimited xp levels and the info in career mode

Should be changed :
- if I don't complete the training I'm annoyed always that is encouraged to finish it. After the 3rd time is enough I think.
- the white background on the nodes in the editor is disturbing. I prefer Gray on black rather than black on gray.

Note :
- I understand we need to report what is not nice but it is sad that all the rest that is awesome is not mentioned.

[pier4r]

Personally hard to accept : the Mg is really fatty.

[pier4r]

The xp levels points to the thread where only 7 are justified.

[Kanishka]

The xp levels points to the thread where only 7 are justified.

Delete the thread!

[pier4r]

Why? It was a lot of effort. Just update it.

[pier4r]

Extra cool : the now after selecting one ai at the next time I see the ai list I don't have to scroll for kilometers like before. (that is : the ai list view is not reset to the top)

[pier4r]

Could be changed: shell casing seen at lowest quality. One that uses the lowest (or the two lower?) quality cannot really care about expended bullets.

[buzzefall]

Positive
+ AI editor speed
+ Fat lines in editor
+ Zoomable editor preview (don't know how I could live without that before)
+ White/Color health and shield bar (I needed some time to get used to it, but I think it's better now then it was before at Alpha 7)
+ Thin Lines for team blue
+ Graphics (awesome)
+ Snap thing in editor
+ Elo and XP visible in career window

Negative
- contrast in AI editor
- 2 step node selector is less intuitive then it was before (even after days with much work on the AI)
- bullet's visibility
- mg legs are shaking (bug)
- new nodes not snapped to the grid
- no connection lines for team red in training mode

Short request if it's I an easy fix
o button for marking all matches as watched
o ingame browser button to go to extern browser
o offline debugging of the last ?20? Matches. When I'm offline in a plane or a train, sometimes I want to debug some complicated lost matches. Would be cool to keep some matches in the cache, so I can watch them again when I'm offline.

In short, alpha 8 don't change the mechanics which is good because imho it's well ballanced. But the graphics and the usability improved a lot. Can't say anything about the tutorials but tooltips helped too

+100500 and want to add some things I'd like to change a bit:
* OCD P(orn)erfection: to make node's sizes uniform to see symmetric grids of algorithms (currently connector has shape different from condition/action node's; and condition/action nodes are sligtly smaller than grid cells)
* "o button for marking all matches as watched" can be alternated to just leaving [NEW] tag near the result of the match ([DRAW], [VICTORY], [DEFEAT]) that will be automatically displayed after match completion

[pier4r]

in "select a target" (while editing a node) the textual tooltip stays always visibile and it takes away visibility of the suggested targets.

[pier4r]

In alpha 7 I could move away the debug window too then stop by at the right moment and move it again in the center of the screen. Now the window seems stuck

[GFX47]

You can resize it.

[pier4r]

True.

[Ritter Runkel]

Plus I remembered when you asked "put every new match as new so there is more excitement" (and I agree)

I know that. And it's fine when you get beaten every four our give matches. But there are some players where i see the name and I know how the match will be. Then this I've could be a pain

Nevermind, cool if it is adjustable but nothing what will annoy me.

[pier4r]

Yes I see but GFX explained that we need to see the match to double check the computation so, in any case is unavoidable like my tournaments.