BATTLEZONE

Version 1.5.2.22

Released 2014-07-21

This build fixes a major multiplayer bug introduced in the previous build. It also cleans up a lot of long-standing issues with the game's front end (shell), adds optional text colorization to the multiplayer lobby, pre-game, and net escape screens. Finally, it adds a few new Lua script utility functions.

Downloads

Testing Executable and Symbols

All-In-One 1.5.2 Asset Pack (2014-07-21)

Check the main 1.5.2 page for other downloads.

What's New

Multiplayer

• Fixed player teams reverting to AI control when a player left
  • Bug introduced in revision 1759
• TargetCam shows unit first-person view only when mutually allied

Scripting

• Save/Load handles nested tables
  • This previously crashed the game (!)
• Save/Load prints contents to the console window
  • Format is mostly compatible with Lua
  • Useful for diagnosing script save problems
• New ScriptUtils functions
  • GetWeaponClass: returns the ODF name of the weapon in a given slot
  • GetNation: returns the single-character nation code
  • StartSoundEffect: play an arbitrary sound effect
  • StopSoundEffect: stop an arbitrary sound effect

General

• Updated LZO compression library to version 2.08 [Dx]

Shell

• Eliminated flickering/flashing in the shell
  • Multiplayer pre-game lobby benefits the most
• Cleaned up multiplayer shell layout
  • Adjusted rooms, players, and games list box sizes
  • Right-justify numeric values (ping, loss, players, maximum)
• Lobby, pre-game, and net escape screens support chat text colors
  • Feature disabled by default
  • Enable with /colors or /colors on
  • Disable with /nocolors or /colors off
  • List color values with /color
  • Get color value with /color <name>
  • Set color value with /color <name> <r> <g> <b>
  • Save color values to shell.ini with /color save
  • Load color values from shell.ini with /color load
  • There's no engineering like overengineering!
• Remember settings between game sessions
  • System messages on/off
  • Message times on/off
  • Message colors on/off
  • Stored in shell.ini
• Custom cursors are back!
  • Uses the proper mechanism for it instead of setting system cursors

Gameplay

• Fixed Tug deploy animation [Dx]
  • Don't wait for the animation to finish before loading the cargo

Modding

• Mission Version checks custom mission assets listed in a .dep file
  • Asset filenames separated by commas, spaces, tabs, and/or newlines
  • Same general format as check.odf

Stability

• Fixed satellite view crashing when the user entity went away
  • This could happen even if the view had never been opened

Debugging/Logging

• Console window prints warnings in yellow
  • Indicates something unusual but generally safe
  • Repairing geometry normals
  • Missing chunk or ordnance geometry (GEO)
  • Missing files in general (also logged to symlog.txt)
• Console window prints errors in red
  • Indicates something that will cause problems
  • Missing class ODF or class ODF with unknown classLabel
  • Missing game object model (VDF/SDF)
  • Geometry missing texture

Sound

• Fixed looping sounds getting incorrectly discarded if too far away
  • Distance check was being done before the looping flag was set