Patch 1.00.11 file

Universal Combat: A World Apart by 3000 AD - retail v1.00.11 patch

v1.00.11 (01-09-06)

GENERAL

1. Implemented a new licensed audio engine (FMOD Ex)

This audio system is vastly more advanced than our aging in-house legacy DirectSound based system and represents a significant performance boost and overall audio enhancement. We had planned to adopt this audio engine for use in our 2006 and beyond PC and XBox360 titles but decided to implement it into the already released UCAWA as well.

This new implementation requires that your audio card have at least 32 hardware channels. This is the standard for most audio cards, including on-board audio. If you don't get any sound, this means that your card does not meet with these specifications and thus hardware mixing cannot be used. In this case, use the /x command line option to force the use of software mixing.

You can also use the /x parameter to solve buggy audio driver issues.

NOTE: if you are using an Audigy sound board set to 5.1 speakers and don't get any audio when you first startup the game, change your speaker setup to something else (e.g. 4.1), then change it back to 5.1 and save it. This seems to solve that problem with some SoundBlaster drivers. This might work for other audio drivers as well.

A sample massive battle saved game is included for quick testing of this improvement. Just restore and play it with the invincibility cheat on (or you will probably die).

2. Made several audio playback tweaks and revisions to better suit the new audio engine. e.g. better sound attenuation, more channel mixing etc.
3. Added ability to toggle hyperspace transition FX via Config.
4. More tweaks to turret optimizations from 1.00.05 because the turrets on some crafts (e.g. Megaron), were still not firing as often as they should.

v1.00.10 (11-22-05)

GENERAL

1. When a towed object's state (beached/disabled/sos etc) is cleared and an object is towed to space, the flag is no longer reset as this has a side effect of also causing the A/P to cancel any pending orientation maneuvering.
2. Giving the FLY-TO command when the CC is under A/P AI control will now perform the action, regardless of the target type. Previously it would ignore the command if the target could not be attacked (e.g. disabled, SOS etc) because attacking that type of target is against the Rules Of Engagement.
3. The tutorial script now uses the Megaron carrier in order to remain consistent with the tutorial text.
4. The PLV is no longer populated by all personnel defined in a mission script (which may include hostile persons).
5. Units ordered to ESCORT the player are automatically added to the priority list (and hence also the PLV) if not already present.
6. Implemented joystick controls support for vehicles when the joystick controller is selected in CONFIG.

The vehicle can still be controlled by the keyboard when the stick is the selected controller. The keyboard commands then override the stick.

The throttle/number keys have no effect on the vehicle speed. As in the other craft, the speed is dependant on how long a key is pressed/stick pushed fwd/back etc. When the stick is in the centre (released), the craft maintains its previous speed (there may be some bleed of speed) in the same manner as when the keyboard is used.

Stick x-axis (L/R) functions similarly to keyboard Q/E. In weapons mode the axis sets the currently selected turret yaw position, unless the joystick has a twist axis, which then takes precedence.

Stick y-axis (forward/back) functions similarly to keyboard W/S except that there is a fairly wide low-sensitivity zone near the centre that allows for more precise maneuvering at low speed.

Stick twist axis controls the selected weapon turret yaw at all times if present. The joystick throttle controls the pitch.

In WEAPONS mode, the throttle (if present) and stick Y both control the turret pitch (the effects are added together). In CONTROL mode the throttle (if present) sets the turret pitch alone Control/Weapons mode is indicated in the velocity tab (ie where the VTOL, A/P, H/S etc are located).

7. FIXED: Sometimes the weather particle effects (snow & rain) were not cleared between IA scenarios.

v1.00.09 (10-31-05)

GENERAL

1. Released a new full demo based on this build.
2. Player personnel escorts are now set to HALT if the player uses an asset. When the player re-deploys from the asset, all prior player escorts that are still in HALT state are re-assigned to escort the player.
3. FIXED: The NPC naval units were incorrectly 'bobbing' on water because they were attempting to perform maneuvers (turn towards targets) and this should not be possible unless the craft is moving forward (or backward).
4. FIXED: Docking with some assets (e.g. SAM units) was listing incorrect missile loadouts for re-arming them. e.g. a TSX-1 unit uses TSX-1 missiles, instead of the standard missiles (e.g. Radix, Ralix etc)

v1.00.08 (10-18-05)

GENERAL

1. Exported additional localization strings to LANGUAGE.LNG
2. FIXED: Some missing asset (e.g. TSX1 sam unit) images would cause a crash if you docked at a planetary starbase with such an asset and clicked on the CRAFT button in Logistix.

MULTIPLAYER

1. The static displayed when a cloaked ship is detected, is now rendered in the VDD like it is in single player.

v1.00.07 (10-02-05)

GENERAL

1. FIXED: A missing value in the world script caused rings to not be rendered on planets (e.g. Jupiter)
2. FIXED: Graphics rendering anomaly in the dynamic cloud layer (see from space) on planets with rings.
3. When character models are preloaded, a status message during the load is now displayed. Also, if both options of loading models and character models are enabled in Config, then character models are only loaded once.

MULTIPLAYER

1. FIXED: The server wasn't correctly setting the hyperjump timer status for regions which weren't being observed. This caused ships in those regions to be stuck in hyperspace because the anomaly wasn't being updated.

v1.00.06 (09-16-05)

GENERAL

1. FIXED: The external hyperspace jump fx wasn't working correctly.

v1.00.05 (09-10-05)

GENERAL

1. FIXED: The collision detect optimizations in 1.00.03 were so fast that on some ships (e.g. Violon) which have turret vectors in optimal locations, they weren't firing correctly.

MULTIPLAYER

1. The graphics server can now run on remote servers which do not have PS 1.1. This is a serious hack and is not supported. If it doesn't work, stick with the console server or make sure that your remote server has PS 1.1 (which is the minimum requirement for the game)

v1.00.04 (09-07-05)

GENERAL

1. FIXED: When an auto-generation pass occured, intruders would randomly be generated and transported to the CC. Sometimes during this pass, a CTD would occur depending on the number of intruders currently on-board the CC.
2. FIXED: If you docked as an SFM with a shuttle asset and selected the CARGO button, the game would CTD due to special handling required for this career which was previously not allowed to have an asset.

MULTIPLAYER

1. FIXED: An INI file was out of synch, causing some multiplayer planetary terrain locations to not be located.

v1.00.03 (08-28-05)

GENERAL

1. Performance improvement revisions to planetary terrain rendering.
2. Performance improvement revisions to skeletal character model collision detect.
3. Performance improvement revisions to global collision detect.
4. Revision to planetary terrain site textures. No longer rendered as Black at high altitudes.
5. FIXED: If you set a planet as a jump target (SHIFT+9), then saved the game while in HJ transit, when the game was restored, the game would crash when the craft emerges from HJ and about to enter the planet because the planet data may not be stored in the saved game.
6. FIXED: NPC crafts emerging from planet to space in a region with more than one planet/moon, would randomly emerge outside the wrong planet/moon they egressed.
7. FIXED: The ASSETS.INI table was out of synch when the ITEMS.INI was updated with new additions. This caused player controlled threat assets (SAMs etc) to fire the incorrect ordnance.

MULTIPLAYER

1. FIXED: Requesting a tow ship would sometimes select a station in the single player galaxy.

v1.00.02 (08-16-05)

GENERAL

1. FIXED: The ASSETS.INI table was out of synch when the ITEMS.INI was updated with new additions. This caused a shield and reactor upgrade to be listed incorrectly in LOGISTIX.