Greetings, warriors!
A small, but nonetheless important update before we fully shift our focus towards the development of 1.58.2.
Highlights:
• Lobby Networking Optimized
The P2P joining code has been rewritten from scratch. We have sorted out a number of hangups related to lobby joining/hosting in Steam Multiplayer. Joining flow overall should now be smoother.
• Native Map Transfer is back!
It had been broken for the longest time, but no more! Now you can quickly and reliably share custom BR maps with other players in-game without the need to rely on other 3rd party sharing methods. Now at high speeds too!
• AI Profiles made more comprehensive
We redesigned the profiles a bit. In the initial version of this design, you will see the new difficulty tags near each AI profile, so our players have a better understanding of who they deal with. :)
Full Changelog:
- Rewritten all joining code to cover more P2P issues and address more scenarios.
- Lobby will now tell the name of players attempting to join.
- Fixed the native map transfer feature.
- Moving boulders won't be valid attackable targets anymore.
- Boulders will now stop early at low speeds instead of endlessly moving.
- High end AI profiles may use boulders now.
- High end AI profiles may dodge rolling boulders.
- Restored AI escape functionality that allowed them to run to other rice fields when they couldn't defend their own base (Skirmish only).
- Enemy BGs like Unclean's Death Sentry will trigger combat alerts if they harm players' units.
- Fixed units casting spells (geishas, druidesses, etc..) to targets at ranges longer than expected.
- Fixed a bug that made players see the "invalid target" cursor when hovering over hostless trained horse while having both unmounted and mounted units in the same selection.
- Fixed missile and hybrid units looping reloading animations quickly.
- Fixed a bug where siege units would run into melee when player commanded to attack to a unit behind a friendly building.
- Fixed a bug where AI units swapped targets endlessly when trying to engage watchtowers.
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