Update 17/10/18: This patch is now live for everyone.
The newly formed studio, Planetary Annihilation Inc, has pushed out their first upgrade for the strategy game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS.
For those not clued up, Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is now being run by a dedicated studio that are going to give it a new life with continued support and plenty of updates. The original Planetary Annihilation is no longer available to buy, with a permanent discount to upgrade to TITANS.
This new "PTE" (public test environment) build is available to opt-in on Steam with no password required. Their aim is to focus on "speed and stability" before upgrading the main tech behind the game. With that in mind they've fixed some server-side crash issues, adjusted some balance issues along with some interesting AI changes. The AI, for example, will look to engage in more fights it thinks it can win as well as being better at gathering and using intel.
There's plenty more multi-threading for servers, improved crash reporting for all platforms, a number of adjustments to improve performance and so on. Overall, it might not sound like a big deal, but it's a good step forward. You can see the full changes here.
I've given the beta version a test for a few hours and it does seem to work fine. Really happy to see the game continue to live on, as it really is quite good. I actually forgot just how much I enjoy this game, watching hundreds on units travel across a world destroying everything in their path.
You can pick up Planetary Annihilation: TITANS on Humble Store and Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
And all support tells me is to use the proprietary drivers. :/
Quoting: unduJust tried it, in-game UI is still garbled on Mesa's AMD drivers.They use Coherent UI and as I understand it they're quite outdated on that too, I imagine later versions might work better which is something they said previously they plan to update. Hopefully that will help. There is a launch command somewhere you can use that does give it a temporary fix, can't remember it at the moment though sorry!
And all support tells me is to use the proprietary drivers. :/
aaronfranke Oct 17, 2018
oldrocker99 Oct 17, 2018
definitely are still taking care of their customers.
Quoting: unduJust tried it, in-game UI is still garbled on Mesa's AMD drivers.
And all support tells me is to use the proprietary drivers. :/
I tried PA (non-titans) a few days back (with Mesa), everything was garbage in-game,but the UI was working fine in the main menu.
The old fix was adding --software-ui to the launch options. it might be worth it to try spoofing another GPU brand as well (maybe there are some unneeded workarounds for Mesa that cause issues, it wouldn't be the first time).
- Improved AI neural data merging
- Fixed bug preventing the AI from attacking when it should have been
- Adjusted AI aggressiveness
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