Playtest 20130823 news

Thanks for testing and the many bug reports. We squashed as many as we could.

Changelog

Engine

• Made buildings being captured flash the colour of the captor's owner.
• Fixed a rare crash in the color picker.
• Simplified the logic around cloak crates.
• Introduced per-player cloak detection.
• Fixed units chasing cloaked units around the map.
• Fixed observer stats displaying the wrong production icons.
• Fixed division through zero in moveFractionTotal.
• Don't display GPS dots for dead actors which crashes the game.
• Remove hardcoded alpha-blend from Cg shaders.
• Renovated the Diplomacy panel (shows teams and got scrollbars):

Red Alert

• Fixed the map Bomber John.
• Fixed sonar pulse and parachute bombs icons crashing the game.

Command & Conquer

• Added the missile launch woosh sound effect.
• Fixed "Nuke Launched" EVA announcement
• Set up "Enemy Planes Approaching" and "Nuke Detected" EVA announcements
• Fixed C17 icon crashing the game.

Dune 2000

• Fixed building placement square overlay offsets.
• Fixed unbuildable Atreides units in the Dune 2000 tech tree
• Added the original muzzle flashes. Thanks to reaperrr!
• Fixed AI not teching up properly
• Fixed selection boxes for silo and starport.

Tiberian Sun

Still unreleased. Thanks to reaperrr again:

• Added support for nearly all explosions so we don't crash when something gets destroyed.
• Enabled mammoth tank voxel barrel.
• Added rotor to Harpy that was missing in the original due to engine limitations.
• Added two bonus soundtracks: Stomp and Initiate.
• Fixed the attack cursor.