PTE build 78071 now up

Play @cmdrflop on Forge and tell me again no one uses Combat Fabs XD

Seriously... on a map with choke points, Combat Fab + Walls = Win

Suggestion: do not show factories as idle if set to "no energy".
Suggestion: do not show 10 group buttons, nobody uses 10 groups (or?), maybe 6 - use the new space to move the select all bar down or show the idle information there.

PS: great enhancements!

Why are the AI still doing this with the commanders

Dude! You're alive! Long time no see.

Need to test mines more, but still think in the current form they reduce rather than expand the number of viable strategies. Already quite a few ideas in this thread as to how you could keep them invisible to most units but not force you into a specific strategy, so perhaps some of those should be tested before this goes live.

Yes i'm alive, just haven't played much Pa lately. Had some important finals but those went well so there's that. Might play some games this Sunday

To be completely honest I forget. Not used to this patch. But I know they are strong. Especially on the smaller maps. Problem is though you are hurt more for getting into bad confrontations. So that could be really costly, say you blindly fight 10 ants behind a wall with 2 infernos and 10 ants. You will lose with the fabber there and also be down 60m for the whole time. So yeah awareness is really needed for this type of play.

Just wanted to chime in on the love that's going down for the UI changes. Nice one Uber, clever stuff.

Why yes, it is in fact the greatest mod ever created


The issue for me is for each of those people who have made use of it, there are probably hundreds that don't know about PA mods at all.

then the bad feeling of having that very visible idle icon will make you remember not to do that again.

Lol you didn't actually *read* that link did you

It's not the mod on PAMM...

Basically the guy has identified that the problem with the brightness on AMD cards is *a result of a setting in windows* and is as easy to fix as changing an option. No mods required

Well you linked the post that mentioons the pamm mod, not the post that explains the settings.

Oh lol, I was referring to the thread Appologies @nixtempestas Read the OP of that thread

ah, was kinda wondering lol

Sadly that didn't help on my card (7850). I can lower overall brightness of course but then nights become too dark.

Hopefully Uber can get some help from AMD to solve this. Whether people can fix it in CCC or use the mod, it's still not nearly visible enough to effect more than us forum goers.

I don't agree with this change. Please don't make the editor more restrictive than it already is. Can't you give the user a warning instead, like you do with the water coverage parameter? I like to make and play on systems that aren't all the same. Not all maps need to be suitable for competitive play.
If you want the ratio between the effective range of the umbrella and the anchor to stay the same on all planets then one solution is to change the targeting volumes to hemispheres with fixed radii. (At the moment they seem to be unbounded cones or something?

Spoiler: Diagram

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I agree that land units floating above craters was excessively stupid, but this isn't really a fix. Is there any work going in to make craters work properly? At least, I see no reason why naval units shouldn't be able to navigate them(esp. if air units can).

Sounds about right - which to me boils down to 'extra micro'. Which I do not want!

This is not completely fixed. For example scrolling the chatwindows of the uberbar on top of the live_game still scrolls the camera. Probably because the camera scroll is handled directly and not by coherent. I guess it should only scroll as long as live_game or one of its children scenes have the focus.

D: minimum planet radius is now 250? But I love 100 radius planets...
Seriously though this looks like a very promising PTE. I love all these changes, especially because planet smashing is getting worked on.

Did you guys fix the bug where nothing interplanetary (nukes, unit cannon fire, orbital fabbers, etc) can get to a planet that is being smashed? This is a really annoying glitch and it kind of ruins gameplay. Especially when you know the halleys can be destroyed because of inadequate protection.

I don't think the latter thing is a bug, because it worked before, and stuff that was launched at a planet before it started moving still arrives. Probably an intentional change, to make it so you have to destroy the Halleys before they're finished building. It's not like you don't have ample time.

Damn, that's too big.

Probably to fix the issue with anchors overshooting things.

Might be temporary?