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Starting on Saturday, September 26, through October 26, an official Map Competition is live! Show off your map-making skills around a specific theme for a chance to win Steam Digital Gift Cards for the top 3 creators. Read on for all the guidelines, rules, and submission details!
The map competition is over. Thanks to everyone who participated and Tomebinder for judging the maps! If you are one of the top three, make sure to accept the friend request from JNI-Games to receive your rewards, which will take up to three days after accepting the request. Belo
Starting today through September 7, an official Map Competition is live! Show off your map-making skills around a specific theme for a chance to win Steam Digital Gift Cards for the top 3 creators. Read on for all the guidelines, rules, and submission details! Start: Now End: Sep
Increased vertex limits Maximum vertex limits have been increased for nearly all custom item types. For most items, the previous maximum is now the recommended limit. Staying within this recommendation is strongly advised to avoid performance issues. Models exceeding the recommen
Multiple Middle Equipment Items Multiple middle equipment items can now be selected for each unit! Script Editor Improvements The scripting editor received the following quality-of-life improvements: Available hotkeys/actions are now displayed Added a close button to the search p
Vulkan support The game now supports the Vulkan graphics API on Windows. This implementation is currently considered experimental , but depending on the map and hardware it can provide significant performance improvements , especially in more demanding battles. Vulkan can be enab
Merged material editing There is a new button in the toolbar of the custom unit creator to improve material editing. Materials from all items of the unit are displayed as a single list and matching materials can be edited as a single entry, preventing you from having to copy past
Custom support creator There is a new custom support equipment creator which allows you to create many new items like ammokits , medkits , shield and heal fields , glowsticks and airdrop flares ! Editor hover and placement effect Objects are now highlighted when hovered in the ba
Fixed input issues related to the camera and other systems when text fields were focused but not being edited Fixed item generation errors for custom clothing items with non-adjustable materials and arm/leg presets Fixed incorrect behavior of the "replace unit" scripting nodes wh
Object tag system There is a new scripting tag system for reference objects. It works similar to the unit tags, but instead uses reference objects as input and outputs. Tags can be added when selecting an object in the battle editor or by using the AddTag node in scripts. Please
New content Added split pants that feature 2 colors similar to the split shirt Scripting features Added 50+ nodes to input and modify equipment settings of custom units to create modified custom units in scripts Right clicking a quick input now displays a context menu to delete i
New camo content There are new clothing items with 4 and 5 color camo patterns. These patterns are available for all the existing camo clothing in normal and medium pattern size. Custom Ground Vehicles Custom ground vehicles are finally here! You can find the editor right next to
New content Added camo shorts (default and medium pattern) and open variants of the A6 and MSK1 helmets Material settings for equipment The materials of placed equipment items can now be adjusted in the battle editor. Custom units in ground vehicles The units in ground vehicles c
Blur vignette screen effect scripting node The new scripting node combines blur and vignette to blur the screen from the corners to simulate various effects. Arithmetic expressions in numberic inputs Simple arithmetic expressions can now be entered in almost any numeric text inpu
Blur screen effect scripting node The new scripting node can be used to blur the screen to simulate various effects. Unit impact animations Units will now react to bullet/melee impacts. The strength of the effect depends on the bullet damage, hit armor and body part, melee weapon
Content Added sweatpants item Added a version of the shield backpack without shield The red modular metal building set is now called "Rusted" Custom clothing items Custom gloves, shoes, body and leg clothing can now be created in the game and shared with others on the steam works
Content Added 4 variants of a two colored shirt Elf ears will now share the color of the unit's body paint Scripting improvements Added a tool to search and jump to node instances in scripts in the scripting view New nodes Trigger/ RandomPosInside to get a random position within
The map competition is over. Thanks to everyone who participated and Tomebinder for judging the maps! He also played some of the maps on stream while judging them, so make sure to check it out if you are interested: Some really nice maps have emerged from this competition and the
Patch Notes A Labor of Love Since 2017 I started AW3 as a solo project in early 2017. What was originally planned to be a spin-off with modern content for the game Ancient Warfare 2, quickly evolved into a full rewrite of the game with mixed content from different eras and more c
Starting today and running until February 25, there will be an official map competition! You can create a map based on a certain theme and the top 3 map creators receive cash prizes. You can find all you need to know below. Start: Now End: February 25 2023, 23:59 UTC Theme: Beyon