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Brad's unofficial, private builds of FE

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Before I check in my code, I try to do a lot of testing.  Sometimes my changes get thrown out  because they may cause incompatibility.  

But if anyone is interested in playing with my personal builds which try things like new AI techniques, performance improvements but also probably some bugs, post here.

DISCLAIMER:

This is an unofficial build. This is built on my personal machine at home. Do not report "bugs" anywhere but in this thread. 

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Build:

v1.0Frog

What's in it:

+ Crash fixes

+ AI more careful about going on difficult quests 

+ AI more likely to use strategic offensive spells (untested)

+ Significant performance boosts late game (but untested, may blow up your video card and harm pets)

+ Improved base frame rate on test system from 22fps to 45fps in a late game scenario.

Here's the link:

UPDATE 5: 11/2/12 - 1.004 beta build

*** 11.2.12 - BETA update available for forum users https://forums.elementalgame.com/435790 ***

If you are using the "unofficial" builds, please see the note in the post about the beta on reverting the main EXE to 1.00 before patching. You do not need to reinstall completely.

 

 


 

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Reply #76 from Elemental Forums Top

Frog - I've noticed that one of the most significant drops in FPS on the animated strategic map actually occurs while the MainUI_Bottom_Container is up in the bottom left corner of the screen, as something is selected.  I'm guessing this is due to the window's transparency.

Reply #77 from Elemental Forums Top

is this the same build that will be in tomorrow's patch?  trying to decide if i should download now or just wait till tomorrow.

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Reply #78 from Elemental Forums Top

Bunny build. Create new game. Save. Load. Click to portrait of sovereign in left-bottom corner. Crash.

 

Reply #79 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 76
The bunny update is now up.

Should fix the instability. Thanks for running the Puppy build. Was able to find the cause of the crash (same bug every time).

Sounds like we have a naming convention going on (cute animals). I'll throw forth the following names for future builds:

*Kitty

*Ducky

*Piggy

*Chicky

*Cubby

*Fishy

and for future, really big/important releases:

*Pony

*Froggy

Reply #80 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Lord, reply 80

Quoting Frogboy, reply 76The bunny update is now up.

Should fix the instability. Thanks for running the Puppy build. Was able to find the cause of the crash (same bug every time).


Sounds like we have a naming convention going on (cute animals). I'll throw forth the following names for future builds:

*Kitty

*Ducky

*Piggy

*Chicky

*Cubby

*Fishy

and for future, really big/important releases:

*Pony

*Froggy

just don't use alliterative adjectives, or you might get sued by Canonical.   ^_^

Reply #81 from Elemental Forums Top

dont forget:

 island doggie

island puppy

and for a really important one

tyrannosaurusspacehamster

Reply #82 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting harmonius_, reply 78
Bunny build. Create new game. Save. Load. Click to portrait of sovereign in left-bottom corner. Crash.

 

You rock! Checking it out now. Got yur log here.

Reply #83 from Elemental Forums Top

Kitten build is now up.  This build has all the EXE changes that have been checked in by the team plus my AI changes plus the perf changes I've been working on. It also should take care of the duplicate call to deleteallchildren (the cause of the crash). 

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8051911/FE-10312012-kitten-a.zip 

 

 

Reply #84 from Elemental Forums Top

i will say that vanilla kitten is smoother in the hour i've spent with it (that sounds so wrong :meow: ).  i will try kitten-a.

Reply #85 from Stardock Forums Top

Also, with the previous build I had some spell weirdness :

-Storm and Flame wave did zilch damage

-And once a group of Darklings shamans kept casting "Coal stones" and slaughtered my group in a couple rounds !

 

Reply #86 from Elemental Forums Top

Storm doing zilch, I think it's a visual issue.  It looks like it does 0 damage or misses, but usually one unit (which is sometimes different than what was shown to be targeted) takes the damage.

 

I suspect this issue is also with 1.00 vanilla.

Reply #87 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Alstein, reply 87
Storm doing zilch, I think it's a visual issue.  It looks like it does 0 damage or misses, but usually one unit (which is sometimes different than what was shown to be targeted) takes the damage.

 

I suspect this issue is also with 1.00 vanilla.

 

Nope, it did work for me in 1.00, and now it does NOT do any damage.

 

Reply #88 from Elemental Forums Top

for me kitten is much more stable when reloading without exiting, kitten-a always hangs when I try that.

Reply #90 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks, otteje.

The team has checked in a fix for that it appears.  The ninja build is now available.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8051911/FE-11112.zip 

Make sure you have mods turned off when you're trying these.

Reply #91 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 91
Thanks, otteje.

The team has checked in a fix for that it appears.  The ninja build is now available.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8051911/FE-11112.zip 

Make sure you have mods turned off when you're trying these.

 

This "Hamster" :) Build works fine, thank you.

Reply #92 from Elemental Forums Top

Just had a crash. I just finished a battle with a butcherman (but in this game session I reloaded the game a few times). Here is the zip file.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/75549875/Fallen%20Enchantress/FallenEnchantress1_00hamster-2012-11-01T12-08-51_952.zip

Reply #93 from Elemental Forums Top

Another possible bug- unsure if this is related to Hamster build or just a 1.0 bug

 

Ceresa was able to raze a city of mine immediately after capturing- I believe there's supposed to be a 5 turn rule on razing cities you just captured.

 

I had just captured one of her cities, does that counter the rule somehow?

 

 

 

Reply #94 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Alstein, reply 94
Another possible bug- unsure if this is related to Hamster build or just a 1.0 bug

 

Ceresa was able to raze a city of mine immediately after capturing- I believe there's supposed to be a 5 turn rule on razing cities you just captured.

 

I had just captured one of her cities, does that counter the rule somehow?

 

 

 

That's a bug that has been around awhile... SD, please fix it!

Reply #95 from Elemental Forums Top

What difficulty are you playing on. Maybe it is one of the ways an AI can cheat on the higher difficulties.

Reply #96 from Elemental Forums Top

Throwing knives are great for bandits, but why don't they throw them when they are immediately in range. There is a time to wait and use the defense, but there is also a time to use attack. Are they just waiting for the right moment to strike with these when the defense is down (which is good), or are they just not programmed to use them with a movement.

Reply #97 from Elemental Forums Top


I'm not sure if this is intended but I noticed that this army stack is not specifically on a square, but shares 4 squares...

Reply #98 from Elemental Forums Top

Brad, I'll fire Hamster up on my WinXP machine... that should cause some issues.

Reply #99 from Elemental Forums Top


ninja isn't one of teh suggested cute names, what happened froggy?

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Reply #100 from Elemental Forums Top

Another crash with Hamster. Here is the zip file

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/75549875/Fallen%20Enchantress/FallenEnchantress1_00hamster-2012-11-01T23-17-31_538.zip

Last thing I did was move into kraxis territory. the next turn he was probably going to kick me out. It might have been an autosave causing the problem (not sure)