Version 1.2.14.1
Fixed a crash when playing conquest multiplayer via LAN.
Fixed a crash when playing conquest multiplayer via LAN.
Airships: Conquer the Skies
- Released
- Aug 16, 2018
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Water!
Experienced players of the game will know that when you intercept an enemy fleet above water, a strange thing happens: an island suddenly appears underneath the warring airships during combat mode. Well, no more! I have finally added bodies of water to Airships combat. Now, to be
Original postExperienced players of the game will know that when you intercept an enemy fleet above water, a strange thing happens: an island suddenly appears underneath the warring airships during combat mode.
Well, no more! I have finally added bodies of water to Airships combat. Now, to be very clear, this is just water, it's not sea-going ships, and there's no plan to add sea-going ships.
So what does this mean?
Intercepts above water now happen in an ocean combat map, where there's no land at all. Airships are not built to be watertight at all, so modules that go below water become disabled and lose resources. You can see which modules are disabled by submersion by the little water drop icon shown in the top left.
Crew also can't swim, so any crew that are in completely submerged tiles begin drowning and will die after a few seconds. Same goes for boarders that fall into the water.
Apart from ocean areas, there are now also coastal areas that you'll encounter when fighting on, well, the coast, and lakes and oases.
And various background sea creatures!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this update.
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Version 1.2.13.1 - Hotfix
Fixed a crash bug in LAN conquest games introduced in the last version. Sorry about that.
Original postFixed a crash bug in LAN conquest games introduced in the last version. Sorry about that.
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Version 1.2.13
Changes, New Features and Balancing Newly started or resumed multiplayer conquest games are now paused so you can have a look around before time starts ticking. Option to allow multiplayer conquest to be paused by any one player. Sponson clip increased from 1 to 2, and light spon
Original postChanges, New Features and Balancing
- Newly started or resumed multiplayer conquest games are now paused so you can have a look around before time starts ticking.
- Option to allow multiplayer conquest to be paused by any one player.
- Sponson clip increased from 1 to 2, and light sponson clip from 3 to 4.
Fixes
- AI should no longer repeatedly build and scrap universities.
- Fixed yet another pathing issue on Arch Linux. Advice for modders and fleet creators: only use letters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, and _ in ship names to be safe.
- Background landscape in monster nests now always matches foreground landscape.
- Fixed layout of multiple exclusive technologies in zoomed-out research screen.
- Peace movement event in H&V now goes away if the war ends.
- Fixed missing cultist sniper message.
- Fixed German text layout issues.
- New charges like triangle now display correctly in the decals list in the ship editor.
Modding
- Boolean Bonusables now support cases.
- Decals now have emitters that work the same as module emitters.
There is also now a new wiki for the game. There isn't a lot of information on there yet, but there's some useful modding guides and a collection of lore, and with your help, it can grow as a resource.
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Version 1.2.12.1 HOTFIX
Fixed a bug that made the game crash from ultimatums. Really sorry about that! It should work again now.
Original postFixed a bug that made the game crash from ultimatums. Really sorry about that! It should work again now.
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Version 1.2.12: Heraldry, Fixes, Modding
New Stuff Four new geometric heraldic charges: Mascle, Rustre, Triangle, and Fret The Fret charge gives you trade income from defensive pacts and alliances. Two new heraldry layouts: Counterchanged per Fess and Counterchanged Quarterly Fixes and Changes The book charge now gives
Original postNew Stuff
- Four new geometric heraldic charges: Mascle, Rustre, Triangle, and Fret
- The Fret charge gives you trade income from defensive pacts and alliances.
- Two new heraldry layouts: Counterchanged per Fess and Counterchanged Quarterly
Fixes and Changes
- The book charge now gives you the technology for universities or one of its prerequisites.
- Income loss from monster nests is now calculated properly.
- Slightly improved world map drawing performance
- Ships properly show resource status icons again.
- Some German translation fixes
Modding
- Flying CrewTypes now have a dieOnEmptyAmmo boolean flag that lets them self-destruct.
- ModuleTypes now have a drawExternalsBelowEverything boolean flag to draw their external appearances first, below everything else.
- If you have modding tools enabled, choices in incidents now have tooltips that explain why they are disabled. See also the new wiki for documentation on modding incidents.
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Version 1.2.11
New Stuff You can now paint legs, wheels, tentacles, guided missile launcher domes, and almost all weapon barrels. Four new ship design sets for Worm Cultist empires. New weapon: Bombardment Turret: Rapidly fires heavy bombard shots but with a restricted downwards firing arc. New
Original postNew Stuff
- You can now paint legs, wheels, tentacles, guided missile launcher domes, and almost all weapon barrels.
- Four new ship design sets for Worm Cultist empires.
- New weapon: Bombardment Turret: Rapidly fires heavy bombard shots but with a restricted downwards firing arc.
- New module: Stilt Legs: Very tall legs.
- New mechanic: Flammability: Weapons can have an increased chance of setting things on fire when they hit.
- New mechanic: Sniping: Weapons can have an additional chance to inflict damage on enemy crew if they hit a tile containing crew that has 0 armour left.
- There is a new wiki, hosted on Miraheze, which should hopefully be free of ads and spam. Do have a look at it and contribute. It also has new lore snippets!
Fixes
- AI no longer places ships out of the reserve on top of existing ships.
- Some crash and performance fixes.
- Boarders now less likely to get stuck on narrow bits of geometry.
Balancing
- Heavy Bombard: Maximum up-range increased from 28m to 71m. Fire arc increased from 80 to 100 degrees. Piercing damage increased from 26 to 32. Accuracy multiplier vs airships increased from 0.7x to 0.75x.
- Ballista: Accuracy multiplier vs airships increased from 0.7x to 0.75x.
- Mortar: Maximum up-range increased from 14m to 43m. Accuracy multiplier vs airships increased from 0.5x to 0.75x. Accuracy multiplier when fired from airships increased from 0.7x to 0.75x.
- Trebuchet: Maximum up-range increased from 7m to 28m. Accuracy multiplier vs airships increased from 0.5x to 0.75x. Accuracy multiplier when fired from airships increased from 0.7x to 0.75x. Piercing splash radius increased from 5 to 6.5m.
- Cannon: Clip size increased from 1 to 2.
- Flamethrower: Reduced blast damage from 8 to 6. Now 8x as likely to set things on fire.
- Giant Flamethrower: Now 8x as likely to set things on fire.
- Rifle: 50% chance to snipe enemy crew, rising to 75% with the Lightweight Rounds technology.
- Grapeshot cannons: Piercing damage 14 -> 11, Number of shots 14 -> 16, New: 40% chance of hitting crew
- Reduced normal crew damage from blast splash damage somewhat.
- Worm Cultist empires are now 12x more likely to spawn.
- Revolutionary empires are now 6x more likely to spawn.
Modding
- Flammability and sniping mechanics are also available for crew weapons using the same fields.
- You can now specify the victory and defeat screen images for various situations, see EmpireStat.
- You can now specify the background color of the strategic screen by changing the DESK color in GUISettings/colors.json.
- Added directSplashRadius to ModuleType and availableFor to ArmourType.
- The fleet editor now deals correctly with cultist fleet research sequences.
- Ground troops can now shoot troops to their right.
- You can now mod IncidentTypes into the game without having H&V - see the wiki page for some documentation.
- CityUpgradeType now has a "givesTech" field.
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Version 1.2.10.1
The inevitable hotfix the day after a major feature release. Fixes a crash caused by a spy action trying to create a new empire.
Original postThe inevitable hotfix the day after a major feature release. Fixes a crash caused by a spy action trying to create a new empire.
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Empire Co-Op & PvP Fest
Airships: Conquer the Skies is part of the PvP Games Fest this week. To celebrate, I've been working on a new feature that uh exactly isn't PvP: a new co-op mode for conquest! In this new mode, Empire Co-op, multiple players can control the same empire. They can all give orders s
Original postAirships: Conquer the Skies is part of the PvP Games Fest this week. To celebrate, I've been working on a new feature that uh exactly isn't PvP: a new co-op mode for conquest!
In this new mode, Empire Co-op, multiple players can control the same empire. They can all give orders simultaneously, even using direct control mode on different ships during combat. You can set up this mode in the multiplayer lobby by having multiple players join the same empire.
And of course there is plenty of PvP to be had: quick matches between airship fleets as well as long strategic campaigns. Head over to the Discord to find like-minded individuals to fight against.
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Version 1.2.9.6
Fixed another bug relating to loading ships from mods. Your mod list settings may have changed due to this.
Original postFixed another bug relating to loading ships from mods. Your mod list settings may have changed due to this.
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Version 1.2.9.4
After several months of poking away at things, here's a large bugfix update, plus some new features for modders: Changes / Features Unilaterally cancelling receiving tribute now costs you reputation. Per-ship AI control button. Removed Vlambeer Mode in the settings because I need
Original postAfter several months of poking away at things, here's a large bugfix update, plus some new features for modders:
Changes / Features
- Unilaterally cancelling receiving tribute now costs you reputation.
- Per-ship AI control button.
- Removed Vlambeer Mode in the settings because I needed the vertical space.
Fixes
- Diplomacy desync fix.
- Fixed tentacle stat display bug.
- Boarders stay ready in their quarters rather than doubling up as guards.
- Prettier em dashes, making the game ready for the Exciting AI Future.
- Slightly faster tentacle performance.
- Better scroll bar and chat performance.
- Provoking an age of unrest from the industrial revolution now triggers the OutrageOverFlowException achievement.
- Better tech screen layouting.
- No longer showing that background parchment with the spider on when you're in arachnophobia mode.
- No longer showing pointless AI control button during replays.
- Medals for the recently introduced new charges now have names.
- Removed some cyrillic letters from ship files that were causing crashes on Arch Linux.
For Modders
- Data loading now deals with removes properly. You can remove things with dependencies as long as you also remove the dependencies.
- Better targeting logic for non-flying crew shooting at ships.
- Added numShots parameter for CrewType.
- Resource regen for modules using ammoRegenerationEvery, repairRegenerationEvery, coalRegenerationEvery, amd waterRegenerationEvery to specify regenerating one resource unit every x milliseconds.
- Added requiresNoCoast flag to make a city upgrade only available to non-coastal cities.
- New ConstructionName system replacing the old naming system for airships, landships, and buildings. Names can now be modded, and can be tied to specific AI personalities and heraldic charges.
Edit: Version 1.2.9.4 caused a bunch of mods to stop working. I've now released version 1.2.9.5 which should fix this problem.
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Version 1.2.9.3
Fixed a major cause of desyncs! Game setup now remembers hero and incident settings. Guardian sprites summoned by heroes now go home again after a while. You no longer get incidents that can spawn heroes when heroes are turned off. Saved games that use Cataclystic Expansion are n
Original post- Fixed a major cause of desyncs!
- Game setup now remembers hero and incident settings.
- Guardian sprites summoned by heroes now go home again after a while.
- You no longer get incidents that can spawn heroes when heroes are turned off.
- Saved games that use Cataclystic Expansion are now loadable. (I made the game ignore the bit of bad data in the expansion that was causing the problem.)
- Surplus guards now distribute themselves across all modules that need guarding, rather than sitting in their barracks.
- Increased mechanical tentacle length by 40%.
- Modding: ground troops set to shoot airships now do so consistently.
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Version 1.2.9.2
Axe heraldic charge now works.
Original postAxe heraldic charge now works.
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Version 1.2.9.1
Crash hotfix patch.
Original postCrash hotfix patch.
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Version 1.2.9 - New Heraldry, Boarding & Hero Fixes
Boarding Ongoing boarding combats are now auto-resolved when one side leaves/surrenders a combat. You are warned when you are likely to lose ships this way. Also, Waspkiller Marines have -45% fire rate and the Martial Caste tech now increases Guard HP by 60%. Heroes I fixed a bug
Original postBoarding
Ongoing boarding combats are now auto-resolved when one side leaves/surrenders a combat. You are warned when you are likely to lose ships this way.
Also, Waspkiller Marines have -45% fire rate and the Martial Caste tech now increases Guard HP by 60%.
Heroes
I fixed a bug where some heroes wouldn't be triggered to appear. So now a bunch of rare heroes should be more frequent, and two will finally turn up at all! So you (accidentally) get two new heroes with this update. Also, Dame Laura now retains her Reconstruction ability after upgrading.New Heraldic Charges
Added 11 new heraldic charges:
Axe: -30% Airship maintenance, no local defence budget
Bridge: +80% Resupply speed
Castle: -20% Building cost, double local defence budget
Effigy: Quadruple chance for enemy ships to catch fire
Grappling Hook: +60% Grenadier HP, grenadier tech
Hammer: +75% Steel armour HP
Heart: -15 Unrest in all towns and cities
Lighthouse: +40% Accuracy
Pillar: Double unrest reduction from high reputation
Scythe: No unrest from brutal takeovers
Winged Wheel: -30% Landship cost, double landship map speed
Steam Rich Presence
Finally, the game now also shows your current activity to your friends on Steam. You can also turn that off in the settings if you need to for some reason.
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Airships x Forts Bundle!
I am very pleased to announce that the two premier side-view killing machine construction games on Steam have teamed up for a bundle! The Forts and Airships communities have been sufficiently entwined for years such that there's an entire long-running Forts mod called Fortships:
Original postI am very pleased to announce that the two premier side-view killing machine construction games on Steam have teamed up for a bundle!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/59685/Forts_x_Airships_Conquer_the_Skies/
The Forts and Airships communities have been sufficiently entwined for years such that there's an entire long-running Forts mod called Fortships: Conquer the Skies. We got to talking via the medium of digital video communications (probably a kind of sorcery created by worm eye cultists) and have agreed to combine forces.
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Version 1.2.8.2
Fixed a desync bug.
Original postFixed a desync bug.
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1.2.8.1 Bugfix
Fixed a crash when looking at the settings tab on a loaded game.
Original postFixed a crash when looking at the settings tab on a loaded game.
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Version 1.2.8
Transferring money in diplomacy now has a stronger effect on the AI, but the AI is much less willing to give you money. When making a diplomatic offer, the AI will check if it's willing to give you some money along with it, and automatically add the money. So you no longer have t
Original postTransferring money in diplomacy now has a stronger effect on the AI, but the AI is much less willing to give you money.
When making a diplomatic offer, the AI will check if it's willing to give you some money along with it, and automatically add the money. So you no longer have to edit each diplomatic offer to make sure you get that extra bit of money.
If your reputation is very low, the AI is less interested in getting tribute from you, as it doesn't believe you'll honour the deal. The same applies to a lesser degree to trade and research treaties.
You can now save medal designs in a persistent medal library:
You can now set the map generation seed in single and multiplayer conquest games. Newly created games now also show in the settings tab what seed was used. This means that if you find a nice-looking map, you can reuse it. Make sure to use the same settings for map size, land coverage, monsters, etc.
Finally: Bees, aerial dragoons, and other flying boarders will now pick a new target to board when their original target is no longer available. And the moon disk now takes less damage from ramming but has fewer HP overall.
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Version 1.2.7.9
Fixed a crash caused by looking at a map overlay from the perspective of an empire that disappears. Added more logging for diagnosing desyncs.
Original post- Fixed a crash caused by looking at a map overlay from the perspective of an empire that disappears.
- Added more logging for diagnosing desyncs.