Hotfix Build 83796 with Release Build 82834 is live!

Hotfix build 83796 - 7/7/15
- Fix for large number of "Cilantro" errors

Hotfix build 83391 - 6/24/15
Bugfix/polish:
- Fix for a Mac crash in the server browser when there was no network connection
- Better error messages when failing to set up a server on Playfab
- Logs now also include coherent crash dumps, which will improve our ability to track down issues

Hotfix Build 83074 - 6/16/15

Bugfix/Polish
-Fix for unit selection breakdown displaying incorrectly
-Player has the ability to get a random commander instead of a selected favorite
-Changing server name does not unready players
-Allow players to filter replays by type of game
--The current filters are Multiplayer, Versus AI, and Galactic War
-Fixed Galactic War to correctly handle using Chrono Cam to change the outcome of a battle
-Fixed commanders in the armory not clearing their hover style
-Fixed the Armory back button not showing up correctly

Live Build 82834 - 6/9/15

Galactic War Updates:
- Tech Discovery Redesign
--You will now be able to choose one tech from a group of three when you explore a system.
--You will no longer be given techs that you already have as one of the three choices.
--You will now only be given techs that you can use--IE no bot buffs without the ability to build bots.
- Rebalanced chances to discover various techs
- Improved AI difficulty ramping
- Improved system difficulty ramping
- New and improved redesigned boss fights for all factions
- Galactic War now defaults to a system size of Medium instead of Epic
- You now have the option to toggle "Hardcore mode" on and off when starting a new war
--Losing a match in Hardcore Mode will end the active Galactic War, as it did in previous Galactic War iterations.
--Losing a match outside of Hardcore Mode will allow you to load a save from before moving into the hostile system.
- Galactic War now has two neutral stars that always spawn next to the starting point
- The two easier difficulty Galactic Wars now use a different set of possible system templates
--The easier system templates don't go more than a planet and a moon. They also have more metal.
-Exiting from the GW star map takes you back to the main menu
-The in-game menu for a normal GW now contains a surrender option instead of an abandon war button. Hardcore GW will still have the abandon war button.
-Normal AI Difficulty Tuning
-GW star system tuning
-Fix to the Galactic War intro video not playing
-When the player commander is destroyed, all remaining subcommanders will also be destroyed. This only affects GW.
-Removed the factory wait time on relentless AI difficulty

Gameplay changes:
- Units are now setup to allow their wreckage to be pathed through and shot through
- Fix for custom alert behavior (the first custom alert would work, but all the ones after that would fail)
- Added in persistent alerts for special weapons (halleys and lazer).
- Hide special alerts that are triggered while in chronocam
- Updated icons used for special weapons in special alerts
- Major rework for how recon works for blips
- Updates to visuals and layout of celestial/planets panel to closer align w/ new special weapon alert UI
- Resume Anywhere fixes
- Added music cue for the Target Planet scene
- Units flagged as not collidable with projectiles as wreckage will no longer have the attack cursor come up on the client
- The control group and idle unit widgets are hidden when you are spectating. Chronocam will also ignore unit alerts while you are spectating.
- Fix for a case where a unit would stop and lose its nav move
- Mines can now, once again, be shot by projectiles
- Resume from here dialog will now pause the game
- Fix for (selection/control group/idle) type indicators
- Fix for some units failing to attack during an attack move

AI Improvements:
- AI now can now create unit threat data on demand
-- This helps support units that are not included in unit_list.json.
- Deep Space Radar will no longer be seen as an orbital threat by the AI
- Fix for units going in circles
- Fix for a rare (1 in ~1400) AI crash
- Fix for AI crash when a platoon tries to retreat when there are no active AI bases left
- AI should be more diligent about building anti nukes
- Adjusted AI planet landing spot selection
-AI perf improvement
-Reduced the spikiness of AI perf some more

Bugfix/Polish:
Save game changes
1) All saved games are now in one place. This includes GW saves.
2) You no longer go to the GW page to continue an existing GW. That page is only for creating new GWs. Use 'the saved games' page instead.
3) There is now a resume last saved game button from the main menu. It is basically a continue button.
4) You can now change your commander in GW while offline.
5) The 'continue recent game' button will only appear if your most recent saved game is more recent than your last completed game.
- Selecting any menu item will now hide the menu
- Fix to layout of in-game menu in GW and live game, added offline state for uberbar
- Fix a Linux crash we have been seeing
- Fix to anim event bug
- Better error messages and logging when encountering UI crashes to help track down common problems
- Improved offline main menu
-- Hide leaderboards if we can't fetch it.
-- Hide update news if we can't fetch it.
-- Show a placeholder "null message" for YouTube videos if we can't retrieve them.
-- Hide the "show leaderboards" button when you're not signed in (it doesn't work.)
-- Reduce the size of the leaderboard entries when they don't have a "view replay" button on them.
- Added a message box when you can't start a game
-- This shows up if you're not signed in to ubernet and you won't be using an offline server.
- UI more responsive when connecting to a server
- The stats panel will now show the max tick time in parenthesis, along with the average tick time
- Reduced load times of UI, especially the main menu
- Misc layout updates to be more consistent w/ landing page template, removed unused planet UI
- Layout fixes for shared resources indicators
- Updated start menu for displaying last saved
- The paused popup will no longer appear at the same time as the building planets popup
- Fix metal not updating during replays
- Fix the lobby option 'listen to spectators'
- Minor perf improvement for units with auto attacking weapons
- Perf improvement for bomb bots with orders
- Fix inviting users to private games
- Show immediate progress information when accepting uberbar game invite
-Added a button to delete saved games
--Can't delete save games stored on Playfab. You can delete local and galactic war saves
-Deleting the most recent save will clear out the "resume last saved game' button
-Fix for units being able to remove orders flagged as blocking from their order queue
-Fix for a case where units would continuously run into the side of a structure
-Fix for some weird and wacky pathing behavior from units
-Fix for corrupted audio file on anti air
-Fix for weapon prioritization bug
-All the csg transformation keybindings will now behave correctly when the key is held down
-Fix Jig not atrophying if a fabber stops building it
-Fix one-time memory leak after viewing intro video
-Reduced load time of intro video, and reduced memory usage during intro playback
-Remove beta tag on save game in menu
-Better feedback when attempting to reconnect to a game in progress, and when joining a non-LAN game from the server browser
-Don't jump back to the main menu if a server connection attempt from the server browser fails
-- go back to the server browser.
-Better progress indication when everyone has accepted a matchmaking match
-Disabled the main menu button while the game is saving
-Fix to add button for player guide in menu
-Improve load times of UI even further
-Fix the youtube list in the main menu
-Even more perf improvements
-Fix the crash on reconnect issue
- Pathing crash fix
-Enable custom commanders Stelarch and Spartandano

Thanks steam for being unable to login exactly when this update came out. :/

Galactic War Updates:
- Tech Discovery Redesign
--You will now be able to choose one tech from a group of three when you explore a system.
--You will no longer be given techs that you already have as one of the three choices.
--You will now only be given techs that you can use--IE no bot buffs without the ability to build bots.
- Rebalanced chances to discover various techs


I approve this awesomeness.

The patch was too awesome. #nosuchthingascoincidence

What will the impact be on any partially completed single player games?

Wow Uber! I am speechless.

Fantastic thx...

When a planet accidentally hits the wrong planet it was suppose to smash the halley trail will stay in-game the whole time.

>Info found from @@Pieman90

BUG

Assisting seems to be miss behaving e.g.

Build a laser tower tell an air fab to assist the fab that started building it and your see that the air unit will try repairing the builder even though the unit is at full health and it will get stuck and never assist in the building process

Hmmmm I can't seem to enter GW. "Go to war" is greyed out?

http://i.imgur.com/iWv80IF.jpg

Edit: Nvm found the problem. Had to uninstall some GW related mods.

Do we have the option to delete previous GW yet?

Eh, I was hoping for a fairly large redesign of galactic war... Something more like the galactic conquest from starwars battlefront 2... Oh well.

Ah I see. I was too lazy to read all the changes. My bad.
"--Can't delete save games stored on Playfab. You can delete local and galactic war saves"

I think I found a lobby bug! When I try to host a game, but I make myself the spectator, the game becomes invisible if there are no players in it. I was trying to host a modded game. Not sure if that makes a difference.

That's been around for a very long time.

Boop

I played a battle in my current noob GW and I lost (against Normal... don't talk about it), rewound the game to where I dun goofed up and proceeded to destroy Xenosentry... only to return to the war to find that it doesn't think that the battle ever even happened. If it's intentional, it seems a tad silly, so I imagine it's not!