Version 20230905

Units:

• Increased RevealsShroud range for Cannon, Spear, Sniper, Missile and Parasite to match their weapon range.

Missions/Maps:

• Fixed one Ants Colony being owned by Neutral instead of being owned by Creeps in Sweetness skirmish map.

Misc:

• Updated engine.
• Fixed tiles not visable in the map editor UI menu.
• Fixed colony turrets not changing targets in skirmish mode.
• Fixed wrong order of labels for control groups.
• Resized mission preview images which decreased loading time by about 9-10 seconds.
• Added 2x and 3x version of glyphs artwork for UI.

Version 20230730

Units:

• Fixed Parasite units attacking creep plant units. In fact it's vanilla behavior but it was really annoying hearing all those units shooting plants in larger maps.
• Added custom Production Booster building. It increases unit production in all team colonies by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Firepower Booster building. It increases firepower of all team units by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Tesla Coil Turret. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Scorpions Turret with only one spear gun. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Actived and overhauled Poison Mushroom creep plants.
• Updated Dragonfly artwork. Original sprites have a lot of weird gaps, so it was all painted to fill those gaps.
• Updated custom Bettle Turret artwork. Now it's smaller and it fits nicely 1x1 tile instead of being 2x2.
• Removed Pirate Grenadier Ant Pilot from the map editor.
• Adjusted selectable bounds for custom turrets.
• Moved special debug units to Support Power tab. They are available when debug mode is turned on.
• Fixed creep plant Seed Ball not attacking structures.
• Fixed creep plant Death Lolly not attacking structures.
• Actived scratched-idle shoot animation for Venus Plant.
• Changed Flying Machine's cruise altitude from default 1c256 to 0c128. With this change, Pirate Grenadier Ant Pilot lands faster when Flying Machine is destroyed.

Missions/Maps:

• Added Candy Siege mission by Hooet
• Added Skull mission by Hooet
• Added Puck-Man mission by Hooet
• Added Swarm Assault mission by Hooet
• Added Firepower Boosters mission by Dzierzan
• Added Sunken Snake mission by Hooet.
• Added Maze mission by Hooet.
• Added Powimang mission by Hooet.
• Added Boundary Line mission by Hooet.
• AI will build now light and heavy units in En Garde mission.
• Removed Zoo (Test map). It was redundant.
• Removed "Stick And Stones (alternative)" mission. It was uploaded to OpenRA Resource Center.

Misc:

• Updated ORA engine.
• Added facing interpolation for projectiles. Now projectiles will interpolate up to 64 facings. The original game had this feature.
• Added random colony feature. You can place 'Random Colony' marker on any map and every time you load that specific map, a random colony building will be chosen.
• There was an issue where closing OpenSA game wouldn't close it entirely. It was still running in the background. That issue should be resolved now.
• Changed preview facing for actors in map editor (matches now vanilla map editor).
• All decoration plants can now be placed on any tileset.
• Added more detailed descriptions for decoration and creep plants for map editor.
• Added videos. They were converted to Westwood VQA format.
• Slightly updated custom Ant Holes artwork.
• Added descriptions for custom missions.
• Added missing scorpions AI for campaign. So that means scorpions can be used as 5th real faction in campaign.
• Adjusted mini flags for Skimish lobby dropdown menu.
• Closing animation for custom Ant Holes was playing too fast (only one frame), it was fixed.
• Fixed wrong team color for Beetle Shrapnels in the legacy map importer.
• Popcorn plant weapon is more quiet now (it was multiplied by 8, making it unnecessarily louder).
• Added two extra loading screens.
• Updated selection box and health bar art. It is now more faithful to the original game.
• The actor's icon will change to active state when it's clicked.
• Added missing Handicap traits. So now Handicap feature works correctly for skirmish mode.
• Updated artwork of sidebar and command bar.
• Updated clock animation for production palette. Now it is based on vanilla one.
• Easy and Hard difficulties were updated. Added Very Hard mode. Firepower is increased by 25% in Easy Mode for player and is decreased in Hard Mode by 15% and by 25% in Very Hard Mode.
• Optimized auto pickup colony bit logic for units.
• Objectives should be now revokable. So if a mission starts with no units, objective to kill units is checked, but if an enemy colony builds a unit, the objective is revoked.
• The volume of background ambient sound can be adjusted. No more on and off switch for it.
• Removed obligatory Turret trait from Colony trait.
• Simplified missions' yaml rules.
• Scorpions double spear turret weapon is more quiet now.
• Slighlty updated shroud sprites.

playtest-20230503

Units:

• Fixed Parasite units attacking creep plant units. In fact it's vanilla behavior but it was really annoying hearing all those units shooting plants in larger maps.
• Added custom Production Booster building. It increases unit production in all team colonies by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Firepower Booster building. It increases firepower of all team units by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Tesla Coil turret. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Scorpions turret with only one spear gun. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Updated Dragonfly artwork. Original sprites have a lot of weird gaps, so it was all painted to fill those gaps.
• Updated custom Bettle Turret artwork. Now it's smaller and it fits nicely 1x1 tile instead of being 2x2.
• Removed 'Pirate Grenadier Ant Pilot' from the map editor.
• Adjusted selectable bounds for custom turrets.
• Moved special debug units to Support Power tab. They are available when debug mode is turned on.
• Fixed creep plant Seed Ball not attacking structures.
• Fixed creep plant Death Lolly not attacking structures.

Missions/Maps:

• Added Candy Siege mission by Hooet
• Added Skull mission by Hooet
• Added Puck-Man mission by Hooet
• Added Swarm Assault mission by Hooet
• Added Firepower Boosters mission by Dzierzan
• Added Sunken Snake mission by Hooet.
• Added Maze mission by Hooet.
• Added Powimang mission by Hooet.
• Added Boundary Line mission by Hooet.
• AI will build now light and heavy units in En Garde mission.
• Removed Zoo (Test map). It was redundant.
• Removed "Stick And Stones (alternative)" mission. It was uploaded to OpenRA Resource Center.

Misc:

• Updated ORA engine to "release-20230225".
• Added facing interpolation for projectiles. Now projectiles will interpolate up to 64 facings. The original game had this feature.
• Added random colony feature. You can place 'Random Colony' marker on any map and every time you load that specific map, a random colony building will be chosen.
• There was an issue where closing OpenSA game wouldn't close it entirely. It was still running in the background. That issue should be resolved now.
• Changed preview facing for actors in map editor (matches now vanilla map editor).
• All decoration plants can now be placed on any tileset.
• Added more detailed descriptions for decoration and creep plants for map editor.
• Added videos. They were converted to Westwood VQA format.
• Slightly updated custom Ant Holes artwork.
• Added descriptions for custom missions.
• Added missing scorpions AI for campaign. So that means scorpions can be used as 5th real faction in campaign.
• Adjusted mini flags for Skimish lobby dropdown menu.
• Closing animation for custom Ant Holes was playing too fast (only one frame), it was fixed.
• Fixed wrong team color for Beetle Shrapnels in the legacy map importer.
• Popcorn plant weapon is more quiet now (it was multiplied by 8, making it unnecessarily louder).
• Added two extra loading screens.
• Updated selection box and health bar art. It is now more faithful to the original game.
• The actor's icon will change to active state when it's clicked.
• Added missing Handicap traits. So now Handicap feature works correctly for skirmish mode.
• Updated artwork of sidebar and command bar.
• Updated clock animation for production palette. Now it is based on vanilla one.
• Easy and Hard difficulties were updated. Firepower is increased by 25% in Easy mode for player and by 25% in Hard mode for enemy AI.
• Optimized auto pickup colony bit logic for units.
• Objectives should be now revokable. So if a mission starts with no units, objective to kill units is checked, but if an enemy colony builds a unit, the objective is revoked.
• The volume of background ambient sound can be adjusted. No more on and off switch for it.
• Removed obligatory Turret trait from Colony trait.
• Simplified missions' yaml rules.
• Scorpions double spear turret weapon is more quiet now.

playtest-20230411

Units:

• Fixed Parasite units attacking creep plant units. In fact it's vanilla behavior but it was really annoying hearing all those units shooting plants in larger maps.
• Added custom Production Booster building. It increases unit production in all team colonies by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Firepower Booster building. It increases firepower of all team units by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Tesla Coil turret. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Scorpions turret with only one spear gun. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Updated Dragonfly artwork. Original sprites have a lot of weird gaps, so it was all painted to fill those gaps.
• Updated custom Bettle Turret artwork. Now it's smaller and it fits nicely 1x1 tile instead of being 2x2.
• Removed 'Pirate Grenadier Ant Pilot' from the map editor.
• Adjusted selectable bounds for custom turrets.
• Moved special debug units to Support Power tab. They are available when debug mode is turned on.
• Fixed creep plant Seed Ball not attacking structures.
• Fixed creep plant Death Lolly not attacking structures.

Missions/Maps:

• Added Candy Siege mission by Hooet
• Added Skull mission by Hooet
• Added Puck-Man mission by Hooet
• Added Swarm Assault mission by Hooet
• Added Firepower Boosters mission by Dzierzan
• Added Sunken Snake mission by Hooet.
• AI will build now light and heavy units in En Garde mission.
• Removed Zoo (Test map). It was redundant.
• Removed "Stick And Stones (alternative)" mission. It was uploaded to OpenRA Resource Center.

Misc:

• Updated ORA engine to "release-20230225".
• Added facing interpolation for projectiles. Now projectiles will interpolate up to 64 facings. The original game had this feature.
• Added random colony feature. You can place 'Random Colony' marker on any map and every time you load that specific map, a random colony building will be chosen.
• There was an issue where closing OpenSA game wouldn't close it entirely. It was still running in the background. That issue should be resolved now.
• Changed preview facing for actors in map editor (matches now vanilla map editor).
• All decoration plants can now be placed on any tileset.
• Added more detailed descriptions for decoration and creep plants for map editor.
• Added videos. They were converted to Westwood VQA format.
• Slightly updated custom Ant Holes artwork.
• Added descriptions for custom missions.
• Added missing scorpions AI for campaign. So that means scorpions can be used as 5th real faction in campaign.
• Adjusted mini flags for Skimish lobby dropdown menu.
• Closing animation for custom Ant Holes was playing too fast (only one frame), it was fixed.
• Fixed wrong team color for Beetle Shrapnels in the legacy map importer.
• Popcorn plant weapon is more quiet now (it was multiplied by 8, making it unnecessarily louder).
• Added two extra loading screens.
• For campaign only, infinite production was set to start as soon as you select unit's icon. It can be changed in ".../mods/sa/rules/campaign.yaml" if you don't like this change (I added a small comment how it can be adjusted).
• Updated selection box and health bar art. It is now more faithful to the original game.
• The actor's icon will change to active state when it's clicked.
• Added missing Handicap traits. So now Handicap feature works correctly for skirmish mode.
• Updated artwork of sidebar and command bar.
• Updated clock animation for production palette. Now it is based on vanilla one.
• Easy and Hard difficulties were updated. Firepower is increased by 25% in Easy mode for player and by 25% in Hard mode for enemy AI.

playtest-20221230

Units:

• Fixed Parasite units attacking creep plant units. In fact it's vanilla behavior but they cannot paralyze plants, plus it was really annoying hearing all those units shooting plants in larger maps.
• Added custom Production Booster building. It increases unit production in all team colonies by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Firepower Booster building. It increases firepower of all team units by 10%. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Tesla Coil turret. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Added custom Scorpions turret with only one spear gun. Exclusive to only custom levels.
• Updated Dragonfly artwork. Original sprites have a lot of weird gaps, so it was all painted to fill those gaps.
• Updated custom Bettle Turret artwork. Now it's smaller and it fits nicely 1x1 tile instead of being 2x2.
• Removed Pirate Grenadier Ant Pilot from the map editor.
• Adjusted 'Selectable' boxes for custom turrets.
• Moved special debug units to Support Power tab. They are available when debug mode is on.
• Fixed creep plant Seed Ball not attacking structures.
• Fixed creep plant Death Lolly not attacking structures.

Missions/Maps:

• Added Candy Siege mission by Hooet
• Added Skull mission by Hooet
• Added Puck-Man mission by Hooet
• Added Swarm Assault mission by Hooet
• Added Firepower Boosters mission by Dzierzan
• AI will build now light and heavy units in En Garde mission.
• Removed Zoo (Test map). It was redundant.

Misc:

• Updated engine
• Added facing interpolation for projectiles. Now projectiles will interpolate up to 64 facings. The original game had this feature.
• Added random colony feature. You can place 'Random Colony' marker on any map and every time you load that specific map, a random colony building will be chosen.
• There was an issue where closing OpenSA game wouldn't close it entirely. It was still running in the background. That issue should be resolved now.
• Changed preview facing for actors in map editor (matches now vanilla map editor).
• All decoration plants can now be placed on any tileset.
• Added more detailed descriptions for decoration and creep plants for map editor.
• Added videos. They were converted to Westwood VQA format.
• Slightly updated custom Ant Holes artwork.
• Added descriptions for custom missions (like who made it).
• Added missing scorpions AI for campaign. So that means scorpions can be used as 5th real faction in campaign.
• Adjusted mini flags for Skimish lobby dropdown menu.
• Adjusted production tab art. Now it has progress bar based on the Swarm Assault one.
• Closing animation for custom Ant Holes was playing too fast (only one frame), it was fixed.
• Fixed wrong team color for Beetle Shrapnels in the legacy map importer.
• Popcorn plant weapon is more quiet now (it was multiplied by 8, making it unnecessarily louder).
• Added two extra loading screens.
• For campaign only, infinite production was set to start as soon as you select unit's icon. It can changed in .../mods/sa/rules/campaign.yaml if you don't like this change (I added a small description how it can be changed).
• Updated selection box and health bar art. It is now more faithful to the original game.
• The actor's icon will change to active state when it's clicked.
• Added missing Handicap traits. So now Handicap feature works correctly.

Version 20210523

Units:
I made a re-run range test for all actors to make sure ranges are true to the vanilla experience. Here are results:

• Ant Grenadier: 4 -> 6

• Ant Bazooka: 8 -> 9

• Beetle Ladybug: 4 -> 6

• Beetle Cannon: 12 -> 14

• Scorpion Spear: 16 -> 15

• Spider Sniper: 12 -> 14

• Spider Missile: 16 -> 18

• Wasp Assault: 6 -> 10

• Wasp Sonic: 6 -> 8

• Ant Colony: 10 -> 12

• Spider Colony: 12 -> 13

• Beetle Colony: 10 -> 12

• Wasp Colony: 10 -> 12

• Wasp units can no longer be paralyzed by parasite units. This is a vanilla behavior.

• Ant Grenadier's projectile speed was changed from 230 to 260.

• Ant Grenadier and Ant Bazooka projectile spawn origin was adjusted.

• Colonies won't autotarget other colonies by default.

• Increased Choc Freckles range from 2,5 to 3.

Missions:

• Added "En Garde" custom mission.
• Adjusted "Usual Brawl" custom mission. Colonies and units were changed and rearranged. Basically the mission should be more fair now.
• Adjusted "006) Expand and Destroy" mission by adding 5 additional Ant Soldiers.

Misc:

• An user should be now notified in the menu whenever a new update has been released. Providing the user has this option turned on in options.
• Additional Ant Hole variants have been made by user "MikillRosen (sayedmamdouh)". So now they will match every tileset.
• Background ambient sound can be now muted in options.
• Newly created maps in map editor will be correctly filled with randomly picked ground tiles.
• Maps can be also filled with tiles 'Water', 'Rock' and 'Vegetation' which will be randomly picked as well (Use SHIFT + left mouse click to fill area with chosen tile).

Version-20210327

Missions:

• 081 Frozen mission - probablity chance of producing Parasite wasps was significantly reduced. Added additional Ninja scorpion to player's start army.
• 083 The Gathering mission - slightly adjusted colony placement
• 091 Red Juggernaut - added additional 2 wasp units to the player
• 098 Apocalypse Now - added additional units to the player
• 099 Super Colony - added additional units to the player
• Added "Usual Brawl" custom mission
• Added "Tough Enemies" custom mission

Misc:

• There was a bug where colony bits' "lifetime" parameter was using world tickrate, that means the longer game was running, the longer life time was. It's fixed now.
• Added trait "OwnerLostAction", so in Multiplayer game, if another player loses or surrenders, his/her army will be killed.
• If a Flying Machine is above water tile, the pirate ant won't be spawn when the machine is destroyed.
• AI uses now AttackWander trait instead of Wanders. That means that if AI unit wanders, it will use Attack Move while wandering around.
• Replaced custom trait "Living" with official OpenRA one "TurnOnIdle".
• Trait "ProvidesRadar" was moved to Player actor.
• Decoration plants will be owned by Neutral by default.
• Creep plants and pirates will be owned by Creeps by default.
• When paralyzed, units won't rotate.

Version-20210321

Units:

• Moth's weapon was updated. It's closer to the original game behavior.
• Flying Machine's weapon was updated. It's closer to the original game behavior.
• Fly's weapon was updated. It's closer to the original game behavior.
• Dragonfly's weapon was updated. It's closer to the original game behavior.
• Choc Freckle weapon was updated. It's closer to the original game behavior.
• Popcorn plant weapon was updated. It's closer to the original game behavior.
• Parasite units are not longer able to target another parasite units.

Missions:

• Added 20 new missions. OpenSA has now all 100 original missions!

Misc:

• Engine is based on the latest OpenRA release version.
• Added two additional download mirror links.
• Added 4 new skirmish maps.
• Updated content menu background art.
• Factions now use original mini map colors for single player only
• When a colony produces an actor, the production animation is rendered on the mini map.
• Fixed a glitch where if you lost all your units, but there were also colonies on the map, not controled by the player, you wouldn't lose the battle.
• Fixed wrong faction enemy for mission 008.
• Removed "Neutral" faction from player's enemies for mission 003 and 004.
• Added basic difficulty option which only change activation time for AI (easy - 15 secs, normal - 6 secs, hard - 3 secs).
• Added 3 loading screens.
• Changed menu click sound.
• Wasps are able to fly to water tiles and hover above them.
• Removed two placeholder test maps.
• Updated Gumnut art and added new projectile art for it.
• Updated credits

playtest-20210319

Updated mod.config

playtest-20210317

Fixed lua crash in mission 2