PTE Build 82821-pte is up now!

Wanted to give an update.

Current items we are working on for this PTE:

• Reconnect crash
• Crash with larger games (any additional info on reproing this would be great as we are still trying in house)
• Linux crash

We'll follow up on these afterwards:

• Missing replays
• GW social bar issues
• Polish to saving in GW

A lot of the other issues are fixed, many called out in previous posts in this thread, so won't mention all of those until we do build notes.

unicorns?

What about:

Automatic File Names Date-Time Format .... so you do not have to enter names you do not remember later ....

Defeated the 2x AI with lots of rewinds. First attack on second got hit by a nasty air strike, so I backed up and turned around to wait for more AA reinforcements. (Still after defeat of first AI.) Beat second, and game did not end.

Similar thing happened later against three AI. Don't recall the exact situation, but I defeated the two minions, then used rewinds fighting papa bear. At the end I had the planet swarming in units, orbital radar up and fully powered, with no enemy units in sight. Only one AI was shown as defeated in the player panel.

...And it reproduces in the lab as well. You probably can't see the rewind (though I thought I saw a lighting change) but did it in replay 10658694187831450863. I had a second one with mods off, but that either didn't record or hadn't appeared yet. Both had a server disconnect (crash?) as soon as I surrendered to end the game. I noticed that previously dead player's status didn't change back to alive until the second commander was killed.

The size_t(-1) thing is true, but the reason it is Linux-specific is because there was some code written that did not properly handle Linux paths, and so it passes in an invalid path (like e.g.
/home/jorgen/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/home/jorgen/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/3712319250841486317_replay.par.info.json.) The code did not check for an error opening the file, and then tried to read it into a std::vector, with size equal to what file.tellg() returns (file opened with std::ios_base::ate flag.) When the file failed to open, it returns -1.

I have a repro, and a fix, locally -- both @sorian's fix to not crash when we can't open the file (since that could happen for other reasons), and to properly handle the Linux paths. I'll get it out ASAP.

For the issue where the action bar does not show factory build stance orders the unit specs passed to the action bar scene are incorrect with canBuild: 0 for the factory.

Sometimes an F5 will fix but not always and may require multiple refreshes or a restart.

Confirmed with no mods.

Code:

model.unitSpecs()['/pa/units/land/vehicle_factory/vehicle_factory.json.player']

Object {consumption: Object, commands: Array[8], production: Object, build: Array[5], structure: true…}
build: Array[5]
canBuild: 0
commands: Array[8]
consumption: Object
name: "!LOC(units:vehicle_factory.message):Vehicle Factory"
production: Object
structure: true
__proto__: Object

They are correct in the live game scene:

Code:

model.unitSpecs['/pa/units/land/vehicle_factory/vehicle_factory.json.player']

Object {consumption: Object, commands: Array[8], production: Object, build: Array[5], structure: true…}
build: Array[5]
buildGroup: "factory"
buildIcon: "img/build_bar/units/vehicle_factory.png"
buildIndex: 14
canBuild: 1
commands: Array[8]
consumption: Object
id: "/pa/units/land/vehicle_factory/vehicle_factory.json.player"
name: "!LOC(units:vehicle_factory.message):Vehicle Factory"
production: Object
structure: true
__proto__: Object

updated OP
82772-pte - 6/8/15
Galactic War
-Removed the factory wait time on relentless AI difficulty

Bugfix/Polish
-Even more perf improvements
-Fix the crash on reconnect issue
-Fixed the crash on startup on Linux when you have local replays
-Fixed the issue where some players failed to load in on large games
-Fixed issue where factory build mode icon would show up as an attack icon
-Fixed an issue where player was unable to select Red as their secondary color
-Enable custom commanders Imperial_stelarch and Quad_spartandano (may not be available in actual PTE)

Nice

BEST PTE EVER

Something I noticed: if you select a unit, then hover the cursor near that unit but not quite on it, you will see an attack cursor. If you right click, nothing happens though.

BTW, out of curiosity, HTF did this even happen?

That makes that bug even better! Red broke everything!

I think we killed one of the PTE servers with the first game of 5,000+ units and a sim speed of 2.

• one person reported actions missing for factories so not fully fixed
• still seeing long delays when commanders die and game over
• system sharing mod tabs are broken in load planet

The long delay when commanders die is one of the ugliest ATM I think. Smashing a planet will bug out the animation with the delay. Same goes for lasering and all. Pretty anti-climatic.

Had a game where I killed the last commander, and after seconds of stalling all units teleported and the victory screen came in. No epic explosions anywhere :3

Exactly that.

Both yesterday... long game and early game. I'll find lobbyIds and check replays.

Will also host some more games soon.

This 0nly happens when the game is over as a result. Eliminating a player in an FFA doesn't result in a spike from what I've seen.