Difference between revisions of "Older Changes"

0.8.16 (released 20051204)

Gameplay improvements

• Exploration flag now allows the player to choose between basic explorers and upgraded ones that can attack ground
• Explorer damage against buildings is now constant, rather than being proportional to the number of squares the explorer's pulse hits.
• The "inn bug" has been fixed: vast numbers of workers could previously be trapped by almost-full inns.
• The Campaign has been slightly improved
• The game now admits it when you win by prestige
• New AI: Nicowar (still unstable, for testing only for now)

General improvements

• It is now possible to send IRC command from within the game by typing //CMD Argument (single / send YOG commands). In the chat room, of course, a single / works for both YOG and IRC.
• PNG's sizes reduced by pngcrush
• Several crash bugs fixed
• The output of the game is now much quieter
• Changed YOG metaserver address to yog.globulation2.org
• Changed YOG IRC server address to irc.globulation2.org
• IRC module now responds to IRC Pings
• Use a free sans serif font from dejavu (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net)

0.8.15 (released 20050515)

• Free units only go to heal if they are more than 10% damaged
• Unit heal speed depends on their damages
• Explorer now have magic attack. Air first then ground with school level 3 upgrade
• Shift-v toggle voice chat on/off
• Graphic info are displayed in game option menu
• Gameplay tuning
• Map can't be saved in editor bug fixed
• GL display in 16bpp fixed
• Improved configure for OS X build
• Minor bug fixed

0.8.14 (released 20050424)

• Warriors have experience which improves their attack strength
• Workers loose HP when clearing ressources
• Fruits reduce the armor of warriors
• Config files now support inheritance
• Several minor gameplay parameters tuning

0.8.13 (released 20050416)

• New GL backend
• Map are now gzipped for transfer through Internet
• Bugfix for YOG

0.8.12 (released 20050213)

• History in game
• Fixed areas crash
• Several minor bug fixed

0.8.11 (released 20050116)

• Voice over IP
• Forbidden area
• Several bug fix

0.8.10 (released 20041229)

• Settings for custom/default cursors
• YOG shows IRC users
• Campaign support
• Test campaign
• Warrior behaviour improved
• Network connection/join/map download bugs fixed
• Areas fixed in network game
• Several small bugs fixed, typo upgrade and memory trash removed

0.8.9 (released 20041008)

• New cursors
• New musics
• Fix in guard and forbidden areas
• Bugs fix

0.8.8 (released 20040912)

• Improved OpenGL backend, more usable, full double buffering support in GUI
• New graphics
• New musics
• New gradient subsystem, much faster on big maps
• New load/save (serialization) structure
• IRC client that connects to #glob2 on freenode while on YOG
• New eyes-candy effects on GUI
• AINumbi fixed
• AICAstor fixed
• Lots of bugs fixed

0.8.7 (released 20040808)

• New OpenGL backend based on glSDL. Still experimental, but much faster then software version in big resolutions
• Major structural cleanup and implementation fix in libgag, config files and sprites
• Several eye-candy effects added
• Lots of new graphics
• Lots of bugs and network desyncronisation fixed

0.8.6 (released 20040609)

• New AI (AICastor), which is much better
• Forbidden area can now be drawn
• Building can be put over units and units make room
• GUI updates in game
• Tons of bugs fixed

0.8.5 (released 20040330)

• Fixed pathfinding
• Fixed network desynchronisation
• Map editor can delete flags
• The player can choose which ressources are cleared in a clearing flag
• Clearing flags don't request units when there is no ressource inside
• Lots of minor nug fixed

0.8.4 (released 20040320)

• Version number and alpha number synced (alphaN is 0.8.N)
• Network layer rewritten
• YOG much improved, now users can have login and password
• Lots of bugs fixed and minor features added
• SGSL (Script) much improved, lots of fix in it
• The GUI is now nice at all resolutions

0.8.2 (released 20040208)

• Pathfinding fixed.
• TextArea overflow fixed.

0.8.1 (released 20040208)

• Unit state machine bug fixed.
• Multiple minor bugs fixed.
• Lots of new graphics added.
• Configure improved.

0.8.0 (released 20040201)

• The music doesn't work correctly on Little-Endian. If you wanna help, take a look at src/SoundMixer.cpp, patch welcome.
• The GUI is not nice when resizing.
• When resizing down on X11, sometimes X kills glob2.
• The tutorial is not finished yet.