Saving/Loading, Upcoming content drop, and Dynamic Campaign Delayed
Saving/Loading - What you should know!
Saving and Loading will be going to the release build later this month! It will remain in the public beta branch for a little while longer while we continue to make sure some bigger changes are worked out. With this, we've also added a new in-game bug reporting system that can be accessed within a mission by hitting ESC -> send debug report. This will automatically generate the following info and be sent to us for debugging:
- A new autosave is trigged and save into your save folder (%appdata%->LocalLow->Triassic Games), which we get a copy of.
- Both game logs (lets us check for null refs, or otherwise) and the event logs (allows us to see missiles hit chance, engagement orders, etc.).
- a copy of the mission file (to help debug more specific mission related errors).
- Basic system specs (OS, hardware, driver info)
All of the information above will greatly improve our ability to reproduce some of the errors that have been harder for us to track down with what information has been normally shared. If you run into issues in-game, we HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU USE THE IN-GAME REPORTING. If there is an issue that you CANNOT send via that tool, please resume reporting through either the Microprose discord (link here) or via the steam forums for your respective game branch.
Dynamic Campaign is delayed!
The Triassic Team will be delaying Dynamic Campaign testing from it's Q2 release window to continue work on the base game. With this delay, this will afford us more time to gather the team around various improvements like the AI behaviors, Aircraft micromanagement QOL, and other features to improve the overall base gameplay. If we continue to work on Dynamic Campaign currently, it will only come back to bite us even if we make the dynamic campaign on time due to the base game systems being less polished.
Tac View integration testing!
While we know there is a demand for a replay system, we will be implementing Tac View with Sea Power in the near future! Not only do we think this will be used to help analyze post battle actions, but could even help us with debugging due to the fact we won't have to create an entire new system to work on. We are excited to start experimenting with this idea internally first, before rolling it out to Beta later on!
What's next Triassic Games?
With saving and loading coming soon, we will be focusing on delivering our next content drop this month! This will include JMSDF Units (and some bonus units for other nations through in too!), Mission Editor Improvements, further performance optimizations, and more! We've been hard at work in the background working on improving our autogen tech as well, as we are making plans to try and expand it's functionality to allow for more objects to be added to it. Our first experiments will be with trees, and if it goes well, there is potential it could be expanded to underwater boulders, ice caps/shelves, and smaller objects. Triassic Games is still very much aware of the AI improvement goals, but our limited bandwidth forces us to focus on one to two core issues at a time. We thank you for your patience with us as we work!
New window type (freestyle window with XAML editing)! -Beta Branch-
The Free Content Window is a new UI Window that you can create with a Trigger. This window is empty by default and you are able to provide content for it in the same way that you can for Mission Briefings, by specifying an Assets directory (for things like images) and an XML file which defines the content. See here https://www.noesisengine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3610 for a handy UI tool that you can use to help create these. The Free Content Window has two additional features built in. These are "Commands", which you can use to interact back with the game world from the UI. The first is the OpenFileCommand which allows you to switch the content of the window to that defined in a new XML file, you specify the file through the CommandParameter of UI Elements like buttons. The second is the ExecuteTriggerCommand which allows you to cause a trigger to be executed on a button push. These are referenced via the Trigger Name and again defined in the CommandParameter field of a UI element.
Bonus Units for April! (Sneak Peak)
While you all have seen some photos thus far about the JMSDF units, we also will be including some new land units for this months content drop! (Units depicted: M51 Skysweeper, M110 arty, MLRS, Type 60, Type 81, Straight Flush)
Closing Words
Hello everyone, Zelos here again! Just want to of course continue to thank everyone in our community for the feedback, awesome screenshots, videos, and memes you all create! Going forward, we will be updating our roadmap media to be more accurate to reflect these changes that we mentioned above.
Community Showcase!
Our favorite screenshots!
MPS Discord - Cadia9529
MPS Discord - nuclearstonk
MPS discord - allhacknoskill
SP Reddit - X3asYG
Our favorite mod from the workshop!
Check out this awesome mission by Pax featuring Air superiority, coastal bombardment, long range confrontation, convoy escort!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3440001215