Battleships Forever Info | 0.90d released 14 Apr

Natch · Post by **Natch** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:52 am

We can run the game on Wine? I have a feeling that ain't a typo, but it looks funny.

Post by **th15** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:58 am

Wine is a windows emulator for Linux (and Max OS too I think).

Post by **Arcalane** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:28 am

As I recall, the full name is "WINE Is Not an Emulator".

M123 · Post by **M123** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:55 am

Major problems downloading.

I get a 404 error with the primary exe.

The exe mirror has some sort of corruption error -quote- "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the setup files"

Attempting the zip now.

EDIT: The primary zip worked, not sure if the mirror does though.

Captain Trek · Post by **Captain Trek** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:35 am

Is it just me, or do none of the ships animate their dodads in this version?

EDIT: Now I can't get into the game at all...

ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: Game Start
for object GUI_MainTitle:

Error defining an external function.

Seems we still need a seperate Vista installer after all...

Post by **th15** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:50 pm

Trek: That particular error seems to be related to computer hibernation. Try uninstalling the game, restart the computer fully then re-install.

M123: I'll check the links.

Himura.Kenshin · Post by **Himura.Kenshin** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:20 am

Captain Trek wrote:Is it just me, or do none of the ships animate their dodads in this version?

EDIT: Now I can't get into the game at all...

ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: Game Start
for object GUI_MainTitle:

Error defining an external function.
Seems we still need a seperate Vista installer after all...

Argh, thats what happened to me. You need to do what th15 said: restart and redownload.

M123 · Post by **M123** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:32 am

Two small problems with the new shipmaker:

Why the hell did you reintroduce left-click-move on the core piece?!

The 'glow' around selected sections has been removed... why?

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:20 am

There does seem to be an odd bug involving mirrored sections and oddities with pieces not being selected properly, yes.

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:35 pm

M123 wrote:Why the hell did you reintroduce left-click-move on the core piece?!

Umm.. yeah. I hate it :p

Post by **th15** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:53 pm

Arg that was unintentional. Oh well, you'll have to use the old version (I'll put it up somewhere) or wait for 3.0.

Post by **th15** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:21 am

Sneak peek into the progress on the next version:

NOT RELEASED
v0.83
-Support for custom ship doodads
-Increased screenshot limit
-Fixed bug that occurred when you chose not to upload your score when playing skirmish
-Fixed possible bug with Impeders
-Fixed custom music overlapping in Sandbox
-If you started the game with music volume at 0, you no longer need to restart the game to increase the music volume
-Custom music now changes volume appropriatelly
-Fixed custom weapon hp values not working
-Fixed hold fire mode for Shock beamers
-Fixed ship damage display going out of whack when you zoomed in in non-surfaced mode
-Fixed interceptors not toggling to offensive mode properly
-Fixed Sandbox now showing the right size
-Fixed bug in Graveyard
-Removed the limits on zoom distance
-Fixed a bug that caused the number of turrets on a ship to be counted wrongly, causing ships with 1 turret to kamikaze
-Fixed bug that occured if you started the game with music volume on 0 and the game tried to change music
-Increased Impeder effect visibility a little
-Tweaked stun effect slightly so it doesn't produce unsightly circles
-Tweaked the effective size of option buttons so you can click on the text to change them
-Added labels for the different colour types in the colour selection run that comes up the first time you run the game.
-Added some detail to some sections, thanks goes to Aaron!
-Doodads work in the fleet selection menu
-Fixed an overlapping music bug in Graveyard
-Module icon energy indicators now change colour slightly when the module has enough energy to be activated.
-Fixed a bug that involved shift-clicking module icons
-Fixed PointBeams being used offensively
-Grinder wave 12 tweaked
-Impeder range decreased slightly
-Fixed some bugs with the music system
-Tweaked main menu background ship spawn locations
-Decreased Point Maser damage to 1.5
-Game now shows text when a screenshot is taken
-Added rotation support for doodads
-Fixed Dieterling sprite, thanks Arcalane and Tormak for making it very clear
-Took out the requirement to complete missions to have access to ships in Skirmish
-Fixed display of message text when zoomed in
-Added gradient effect on ship graphics

And a little picture to illustrate how the gradients affect the ships.

Crazykenny · Post by **Crazykenny** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:51 am

Looks mighty nice. Are the pieces precoloured like that?

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:50 am

What's with the gradient? Distance to core or something?

I hope it's toggleable.

scout1 · Post by **scout1** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:32 pm

th15 wrote:Sneak peek into the progress on the next version:

NOT RELEASED
v0.83
-Fixed bug in Graveyard

Does this mean campaign will be fully playable?