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playtest-20140927

General Improvements (all mods):

• Fixed actors remaining in control groups after they have been captured. [#5991]
• Fixed issues that occur when aircraft are outside the map borders. [#5993]
• Fixed map-placed structures being unsellable. [#6014]
• Fixed buildings being selected when drag-selecting an MCV. [#6052]
• Fixed a glitch that prevented the AI from repairing buildings damaged by support powers. [#6085]
• Fixed Obelisks and Tesla Coils not looking for new targets when the current one goes out of range. [#6127]
• Fixed a glitch that caused idle overlays to display during actor transformations. [#6151]
• Fixed a server glitch that could kick all players when starting a game. [#6271]
• Fixed units killed when surrendering counting towards end game statistics. [#6274]
• Fixed laser zaps being visible under the fog. [#6304]
• Fixed a shroud glitch when the clear and reset shroud cheats were used repeatedly. [#6310]
• Fixed cloaked APCs remaining hidden when they unload passengers. [#6358]
• Fixed several glitches with unit selection for observers. [#6426]
• Fixed issues with paradropped crates landing on units that cannot collect them. [#6437]
• Fixed the beacon placement mode not canceling when right-clicking. [#6506]
• Fixed beacons not being removed when support aircraft have been shot down. [#6505]
• Fixed craters and scorch marks being rendered above resources. [#6323]
• Fixed background color of FMV player. [#6220]
• Fixed the AI using support powers on cloaked units that it can't see. [#6488]
• Fixed crashes that occurred on maps with a very small cordon. [#6334, #6548, #6550]
• Improved in-game menus. [#6059, #6335, #6360]
• Added a flashing effect to actors before they are demolished by C4. [#5904]
• Added notifications when the lobby options are changed. [#6108, #6217, #6446]
• Added configuration settings for the build palette hotkeys. [#6129]
• Added tab completion for player names and console commands. [#6281, #6347]
• Added weapon reload times decreasing and weapon accuracy increasing with rising experience/veterancy. [#6079, #6344, #6510]
• Added checks to prevent players from selecting colors that are too similar to other players or the terrain. [#6239, #6512]
• Added a debug option to show the amount of damage received by actors during attacks. [#6388]
• Added support for pasting text into input fields. [#6441]
• Added a setting to also zoom the mouse cursor when pixel doubling is enabled. [#6266]
• Changed replay maximum playback speed. [#5850]
• Changed the download dialog to scale units of measurement. [#6399]
• Changed the default lobby text focus to the chat text field. [#6053]
• Removed ability to install music while a game is in progress to prevent players getting kicked during installation. [#6150, #6522]
• Removed the ability to record games started from the single-player mission menu to avoid spoilers and crashes due to desyncs. [#6210]

Red Alert

• Fixed boats being built at the submarine pen instead of the shipyard and vice versa. [#6035]
• Fixed cloaked units getting detected by chronosphere or iron curtain cursors [#6074]
• Fixed MAD tanks misbehaving with multiple deploy orders [#6094]
• Fixed aircraft flight separation. [#6087]
• Fixed planes taking off on their own when ordered to return to base using hotkeys. [#6160]
• Fixed an exploit where minelayer preview overlays would reveal enemy units under fog. [#6309]
• Fixed the unread news button blinking in a too subtle color. [#6279]
• Fixed a shore line tile having a bogus river terrain definition thus breaking landing crafts. [#6351]
• Fixed only turrets of tanks being drawn on top of the landing craft during unload. [#6428]
• Added a new sidebar [#5972, #6543]
• Added Soviet kennel for training dogs. [#6070]
• Added infantry crushing to the Light Tank, APC, and both Minelayers. [#6123]
• Added tech level prerequisites to certain crates. [#6189]
• Added spy ability: infiltrate power plant to disable power for 30 seconds. [#6202]
• Added chinooks to the desert shellmap. Watch out for something special on Halloween! [#6378]
• Added updated versions of the maps Blitzkrieg and Poland raid. [#6477]
• Added desert and snow variants for the gem mine. [#6477]
• Added cloak detection to all defensive buildings. [#6414]
• Changed planes/helicopters to build from the same production queue. [#6035]
• Players will now lose when they only have support buildings left on the map. [#6414]
• Changed price (and build time) of Yak and Hind from $1000 to $1350. [#6414]
• Changed Longbow hit points from 150 to 120. [#6414]
• Changed Hind hit points from 150 to 100. [#6414]
• Changed projectile speed of AA gun so it misses less often. [#6414]
• Removed Tanya's ability to plant C4 on vehicles. [#6414]
• Removed the ability to add bots to the "Poland Raid" and "Burlesca" maps, where they can have serious performance issues. [#6215]
• Changed defense queue production bar from sky blue to grey. [#6557]

Tiberian Dawn:

• Fixed a map glitch in Sea & Cake. [#6088]
• Fixed Apache's guns being blocked by walls. [#6194]
• Fixed a crash in single-player missions when a visceroid was spawned. [#6306]
• Fixed duplicated click sounds when selecting production tabs. [#6321]
• Added mission objectives to single-player missions. [#6284, #6324, #6325, #6326, #6327, #6328]
• Added statistics window, which will become available once a game has ended. [#6397]
• Added a "Civilian building captured" EVA notification. [#6451]
• Changed Flame Tank balance. [#6009]
• Changed Stealth Tank balance. [#6010]
• Changed damage within the hit area for Ion Cannon. [#5941]
• Changed the advanced power plant's footprint to match the original game. [#6230]
• Players will now lose when they only have support buildings left on the map. [#6414]

Dune 2000:

• Fixed some broken tiles, added another original map. [#6026]
• Fixed Atreides barracks build animation. [#6042]
• Fixed errors in infantry animations. [#6331, #6371, #6418]
• Added a new Arrakis logo for load screen and mod chooser. [#6091]
• Added tech level prerequisites to certain crates. [#6189]
• Added support for capturable technology. [#5891]
• Changed AI unit composition. [#6007]
• Changed ornithopter airstrike. [#6315]
• Changed building footprints for the Palace and Starport. [#6244]

Engine / Modding:

• Fixed breaking the select actor hotkeys when the shroud was disabled. [#6098]
• Fixed reporting of wav audio track length. [#6089]
• Fixed compilation errors when using Mono 3.6. [#6313]
• Fixed infantry not unloading into proper subcells. [#6208]
• Fixed missing debug symbols when compiling with an IDE under Unix. [#6392]
• Fixed an OpenAL related crash on Windows 8.1 64-bit edition. [#6513]
• Fixed a crash when using curly braces in player names [#6526]
• Improved compression of all loose SHPs. [#5997]
• Improved configurability of infantry sequences. [#5973, #6396]
• Improved configurability of explosion effects. [#5937]
• Improved support for units dropping crates on death [#6152]
• Improved performance. [#5851, #5853, #5985]
• Improved the new Lua API. [#6059, #6188, #6201]
• Improved trait documentation. [#5999]
• Improved error messages when asset-download connections fail. [#6489]
• Added more flexibility to Missile logic. [#6471]
• Added much more flexibility to crate rewards. [#5921]
• Added support for an actor upgrade system to allow purchasing unit and building upgrades. [#6110, #6474]
• Added support for selling non-building actors. [#6065]
• Added support for IMA ADPCM audio. [#6173]
• Added support for the C&C Generals .big package format. [#6255]
• Added BuildAtProductionType parameter to restrict production to a specific factory. [#6035]
• Added MaxSpread parameter to warheads for more control over maximum area of damage. [#5941]
• Added ClonesProducedUnits trait that implements the RA2 cloning vat logic. [#5910]
• Added a MovesToShroud property to Mobile, Helicopter, and Plane to prevent move orders into the shroud. [#6022]
• Added a dedicated Power trait for specifying power usage / generation. [#6133]
• Added support for custom warhead types. [#6030]
• Added support for configurable infantry sub-cells in mod.yaml. [#6100]
• Added smarter and more configurable decisions on where the AI should place support powers. [#5867]
• Added diplomatic stance checks to weapons and warheads to control friendly fire. [#6162]
• Replaced RemoveImmediately trait with RemoveOnConditions, which can optionally also remove actors after a delay and/or when prerequisites are met. [#6109]
• Changed weapon versus definitions to use integer percentages (50 instead of 50%). [#6265]
• Renamed InfDeath attributes to DeathTypes. [#6372]
• Moved SellSounds from Building to Sellable. [#6362]
• Removed special case RenderInfantryProne and RenderInfantryPanic. RenderInfantry now provides the required functionality. [#6224]

Utility and Packaging

• Fixed a crash when importing legacy maps. [#6143]
• Improved the OSX application package. [#6300, #6307, #6438, #6452]

release-20140722

General Improvements (all mods):

• Fixed a crash caused by missiles leaving the map boundaries. [#5687]
• Fixed a crash when salvaging husks or capturing buildings that have just been destroyed. [#5801]
• Fixed a rare crash when connecting to a server with a custom map. [#5890]
• Fixed a regression where lobby tooltips were not shown. [#5680]
• Fixed C4 cursor showing for walls under fog. [#5579]
• Fixed attack cursors showing for buildings hidden under shroud. [#5989]
• Fixed resources (tiberium, ore) growing beneath building bibs. [#5807]
• Fixed mission description scroll bar being out-of-bounds. [#5667]
• Fixed the replay filter dropdown height. [#5646]
• Fixed repair wrench overlay not pausing when the repair pauses. [#5539]
• Fixed target line color for RallyPoint which is an AttackMove. [#5470]
• Fixed cloaked actors under fog showing a tooltip to the enemy. [#5627]
• Fixed in-game news not updating in all mods. [#5860]
• Fixed news parsing crashing the game. [#5860]
• Added tech levels (configurable in the lobby options). [#5833, #5898, #5901]
• Added a setting to lock the mouse cursor inside the game window. [#5590, #5597]
• Added filter as you type for file names in the asset browser. [#5813]
• Added repair bonus for multiple players. [#5768]
• Added a developer hotkey for reloading the UI artwork. [#5550]
• Added an /all commandline cheat to enable every single developer cheat at once. [#5631]
• Added a dialog asking for a restart when setting changes require it. [#5600]
• Improved harvesters to leak resources onto the ground when they are destroyed. [#5305]
• Improved scroll-panel scrolling. [#5628]
• Improved commandline cheats to be always available in skirmishes and missions. [#5631]

Red Alert:

• Fixed capturing enemy buildings not unlocking new build options. [#5759]
• Fixed pillboxes not ejecting their garrisoned infantry when sold. [#5696]
• Fixed paratroopers that land on water or cliffs not dying. [#5695]
• Fixed a glitch where damaged walls could become invisible. [#5835]
• Fixed the sonar pulse ability (unlocked by infiltrating a submarine pen with a spy). [#5698]
• Fixed inconsistently colored aircraft production tabs. [#5926]
• Fixed gem mine palette on desert maps. [#5987]
• Fixed aircraft flying outside the map becoming unselectable. [#5967]
• Added back the Fort Lonestar minigame that was removed in the last release. [#5469]
• Added rally points to airfields to take off and unblock after plane construction. [#5470]
• Added SHIFT + unit hotkey to queue 5 units. [#5763]
• Added a faster chinook helicopter landing speed and removed the forced turn. [#5834]
• Added support for downloading the game music files. [#5304]
• Added beacon posters for the spy plane, paratroopers, and parabombs. [#5854]
• Added explosion radius to large oil derricks. [#5930]
• Removed the flare from paratroopers and parabombs. [#5854]
• Removed the ability for Snipers to garrison churches. [#5742]
• Improved minelayers now also support the original right-click order to lay a single mine. [#5697]
• Improved the build palette icon ordering [#5944]

Tiberian Dawn:

• Fixed a crash if a production structure was destroyed while mousing-over the production palette. [#5798]
• Fixed capturing enemy buildings not unlocking new build options. [#5759]
• Fixed visual offsets for the Blossom Tree. [#5792]
• Fixed a glitch where damaged walls could become invisible. [#5835]
• Added support for downloading the game music files. [#5304]
• Added a community-contributed jungle tileset. [#5330]
• Improved the blue tiberium artwork. [#5808]
• Improved the chinook landing behaviour. [#5834]

Dune 2000:

• Fixed the incorrect prone-firing animation for the Sardaukar unit. [#5818]
• Fixed the concrete placement indicator for cells containing units. [#5911]
• Added starting unit options. [#5732, #5733]
• Added SHIFT + unit hotkey to queue 5 units. [#5763]
• Added a veterancy levelup rank crate. [#5779]
• Added a new map Mount Idaho [#5805]
• Changed ramps to be infantry only like in the original. [#5932]
• Improved the shellmap. [#5804]

Engine:

• Fixed a crash when loading game assets. [#5509]
• Fixed a crash when parsing certain OpenGL version strings. [#5596]
• Fixed replay corruption when the game closes unexpectedly. [#5735]
• Added a new option ReadyTextStyle (Solid, AlternatingColor or Blinking) to BuildPalette. [#5517]
• Added support for weapon warheads that spawn resources on the ground. [#5305]
• Added support for weapon warheads to define custom prone-damage modifiers. [#5824]
• Added a timeout to automatically clean up UPnP forwarded ports. [#5649]
• Added a shadow setting to missile projectiles. [#5828]
• Improved map chooser preview generation speed. [#5503, #5505]
• Improved performance and memory usage. [#5401, #5405, #5406, #5463, #5484, #5567, #5541, #5504, #5540, #5601, #5602, #5616, #5635, #5679, #5712, #5751]
• Improved strictness of resource cleanup. [#5410]
• Removed the SpyPlanePower trait (spy planes can be implemented using AirstrikePower). [#5854]
• Added a WithBarrel trait for non-Voxel barrels in SHP format. [#6283]
• ProductionBar colors are now configurable via MiniYAML rules. [#6557]

Map Editor and OpenRA.Utility:

• Added a utility command for extracting translatable UI strings. [#5152]
• Improved output compression of the png -> shp converter. [#5781]

Build system and packages:

• Fixed a crash when using the Visual Studio debugger. [#5731]
• Added additional lint passes to check for common map errors. [#5706, #5769, #5794]

Changes from earlier releases can be found on the Historical Changelogs page.