Playtest-III-20240427

Bugs Fixed:

• Generic:
  
  
  • Low-priority alt selection is bugged and did not work for Engineers and Harvesters
    
  • When capturing the opposing faction's war factories, you could not build their MCVs.
  
  
• Nod:
  
  
  • The Hatred Emitter from Lightbringer could affect air units
    
  • When killing Holograms, your units could gain XP
  
  
• Scrin:
  
  
  • Hover Tank could shoot over walls, which they should not

Visuals and Tooltips:

• GDI:
  
  
  • Added new production icon for Amphibious APC
    
  • Added new production icon for Mammoth Tank
  
  
• Nod:
  
  
  • Fixed: Flames on impact have a wrong color palette for Purifying Flames
  
  
• Mutants:
  
  
  • Rockets on top of the Lynx Tank are bigger now

Sounds:

• Generic:
  
  
  • Added a crushing sound to Tree
    
  • Added a sound for entering and exiting transports
  
  
• Mutants:
  
  
  • Fixed: Fiend's impact sound is global
    
  • Fixed: Falcon's attack sound is too loud
  
  
• C.A.B.A.L.:
  
  
  • Fixed: Reclaimer's attack sound is global
    
  • Added a new attack sound for Scrin Husk

Gameplay:

• Generic:
  
  
  • Veterancy:
    
    
    • Heroic selfhealing speed buffed from 75 to 50
      
    • PercentageStep heal from 2% to 3%
    
    
  • Tiberium:
    
    
    • Lifeforms able to heal on Tiberium now heal up faster
      
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
    
    
  • Permanent Selfheal:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks and includes assets like Epics
    
    
  • Hospital:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
      
    • PercentageStep heal from 1% to 3%
    
    
  • Machineshop:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
    
    
  • Barracks:
    
    
    • Heal radius from 5c0 to 6c0
      
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
      
    • PercentageStep heal from 1% to 3%
    
    
  • Engineer:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 6
      
    • HP from 95 to 100
      
    • Movement speed from 45 to 60
    
    
  • Vehicles:
    
    
    • Upon hitting 25% of HP (red HP bar), they will now lose 25% of their movement speed
      
    • Vision radius of most non-artillery vehicles is from 6 to 8
      
    • Artillery class vehicles vision radius from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Epics:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 10
    
    
  • Aircraft:
    
    
    • Vision radius of most aircraft assets from 9 to 10
      
    • Fighter class aircraft vision radius from 10 to 12
    
    
  • Construction Yard:
    
    
    • Selling it will only grant 1 engineer now
    
    
  • Harvester:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 8
    
    
  • MCV:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 6
      
    • Speed from 60 to 75
    
    
  • Weapons:
    
    
    • RifleWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Defense Armor from 5% to 15%
        
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 3% to 5%
      
      
    • ArtilleryWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 75%
        
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 35% to 50%
        
        
        • Affects units like Juggernauts, Specters, etc.
      
      
    • BombWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 75%
        
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 20% to 35%
        
        
        • Affects units like Orca Bombers, Demo Bikes, etc.
      
      
    • AcidWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 15% to 35%
        
        
        • Affects Corruptors and Ichor Waste Turrets
      
      
    • Proned Infantry:
      
      
      • Damage dealt from melee weapons from 100% to 70%
        
      • Sonic Emitter weapons from 50% to 70%
        
      • Bike explosion from 50% to 70%
        
      • Mine explosion from 50% to 70%
        
      • Abductor weapon from 100% to 70%
        
      • Cyborg Commando weapon from 350% to 70%. No typo, by the way. It actually dealt that much damage vs. prone targets
        
      • Wasp weapon from 70% to 50%
        
      • Stormrider weapon from 70% to 50%
  
  
• GDI:
  
  
  • Firestorm Generator:
    
    
    • Cost from $1000 to $1500
      
    • Build speed from 20 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Sonic Emitter:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 10
    
    
  • Medic:
    
    
    • Vision Radius from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Disc Thrower:
    
    
    • Weapon Type changed from ArtilleryWarhead to BombWarhead
      
    • Damage vs:
      
      
      • Light Armor from 50% to 75%
        
      • Heavy Armor from 35% to 50%
        
      • Concrete Armor from 15% to 35%
    
    
  • Jump Jet:
    
    
    • Weapon Type changed from ArtilleryWarhead to BombWarhead
      
    • Damage vs:
      
      
      • Building Armor from 80% to 100%
        
      • Light Armor from 50% to 75%
    
    
  • Eagle Guard:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
      
    • Cost from $900 to $700
    
    
  • JJ Commando:
    
    
    • Damage vs:
      
      
      • Buildings from 10% to 100%. This weapon does not attack buildings, but it was adjusted for consistency reasons
        
      • Defences from 10% to 100%. This weapon does not attack defences, but it was adjusted for consistency reasons
        
      • Light Armor damage unchanged (100%)
        
      • Heavy Armor from 80% to 100%
        
      • Aircraft from 50% to 100%. Can only attack landed aircraft
        
      • Concrete Armor from 5% to 35%
    
    
  • Wolverine:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 10 to 15 seconds
    
    
  • Titan:
    
    
    • Build time from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Amphibious APC:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 15 to 20 seconds
      
    • Attackspeed buffed from 40 to 30
      
    • Attack range of ground weapon from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Mammoth Tank:
    
    
    • Selfheal, up to 50% speed, buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
    
    
  • Orca Fighter:
    
    
    • Cost from $1500 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Orca Bomber:
    
    
    • Damage vs Light Armor from 80% to 75%
      
    • Damage vs Heavy Armor from 60% to 50%
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 45 seconds
  
  
• Nod:
  
  
  • Obelisk of Light:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 9 to 10
    
    
  • Black Hand Trooper:
    
    
    • Damage from 24 to 25
      
    • Hologram Militant speed from 60 to 75
      
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Buggy BHT:
    
    
    • Burst from 4 to 5
      
    • Burst Delay lowered from 5 to 3
    
    
  • Attack Bike:
    
    
    • Attack speed buff from 70 to 50
    
    
  • Demo Bike:
    
    
    • Damage vs Heavy Armor from 35% to 50%
      
    • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 15% to 35%
      
    • Build time from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Specter:
    
    
    • Cost from $1400 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Harpy:
    
    
    • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 100%
      
    • Cost from $1500 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Banshee:
    
    
    • Cost from $1750 to $1500
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 35 seconds
    
    
  • Paladin Cruiser:
    
    
    • Cost from $2500 to $2000
      
    • HP from 450 to 400
    
    
  • Explosive Mixtures have been removed
    
  • Added new upgrade: Cardinals Emerge
    
    
    • Takes 45 seconds to research
      
    • Costs $1000
      
    • Ability:
      
      
      • Calls in 3 Cardinals via Subterranean APCs
        
      • Cooldown of 4:00
        
      • Costs $1500
        
      • Hooked to the Radar
        
      • Ability disabled when Radar is destroyed/depowered
    
    
  • Cardinals:
    
    
    • Cardinals consecrate their fellow brethren, which increases their firepower by 30%
      
    • Cardinals are only crushable by Epics
      
    • Value: $400
      
    • Speed: 75
      
    • 250 HP
      
    • They take up one cell on the battlefield
  
  
• Mutants:
  
  
  • Skirmisher:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Flak Station:
    
    
    • HP from 400 to 600
    
    
  • Battle Bus:
    
    
    • HP from 250 to 400
      
    • Cost from $700 to $900
    
    
  • Tunnel Network:
    
    
    • Now works like a superweapon:
      
      
      • Tunnel Network is revealed on the map. The tunnels themselves are not revealed
        
      • Ability has a global cooldown
        
      • It no longer costs money to cast
      
      
    • Increased buildup time of tunnels before they can be used. 5-second delay
      
    • Cargo size from 15 to 10
    
    
  • Tyrant:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 7 to 6
      
    • Damage vs Infantry buffed from 50% to 100%
      
    • Buildtime from 20 to 15 seconds
    
    
  • Carnotaurus:
    
    
    • ArmorType changed from Light to Heavy
    
    
  • Ravager:
    
    
    • Spread from 0c090 to 0c200
      
    • Ravagers deal splash damage now
    
    
  • Weasaurus Lord:
    
    
    • Melee weapon Spread from 0c090 to 0c256. Ravagers deal splash damage now. Same with Mini Weasaurus
    
    
  • Gargoyle:
    
    
    • Cost from $1500 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Queen:
    
    
    • Cost from $1200 to $1100
    
    
  • Falcon:
    
    
    • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 100%
      
    • Cost from $2500 to $2000
    
    
  • Tiberium Infusion:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
  
  
• C.A.B.A.L.:
  
  
  • Eye of C.A.B.A.L.:
    
    
    • HP from 750 to 500
    
    
  • Iron Saviour:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 6
    
    
  • Cyborg:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 8 to 10 seconds
    
    
  • Gladiator:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Abductor:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 30 to 25 seconds
    
    
  • Cyborg Commando:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 10
    
    
  • Centurion:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Drone Hosts:
    
    
    • Self-repair speed buffed from 150 to 50 ticks
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 45 seconds
    
    
  • Minotaurs:
    
    
    • Self-repair speed buffed from 150 to 50 ticks
      
    • Buildtime from 45 to 50 seconds
    
    
  • Wasp:
    
    
    • Cost from $1600 to $1400
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 35 seconds
    
    
  • Basilisk:
    
    
    • Cost from $1750 to $2000
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 50 seconds
      
    • HP from 450 to 500
    
    
  • Devourers:
    
    
    • Self-repair speed buffed from 150 to 50 ticks
      
    • Cost from $2000 to $2500
      
    • Buildtime from 45 to 55 seconds
      
    • HP from 1500 to 2000
  
  
• Scrin:
  
  
  • Scrin Host Station:
    
    
    • Speed from 60 to 75
    
    
  • Wormhole Generator
    
  • Can now teleport enemy units onto terrain to kill them. Either sink them into water or teleport them onto cliffs
  
  
• Wrath of Creator:
  
  
  • Spread from 300 to 512
  
  
• Shield Generator:
  
  
  • HP from 400 to 600
  
  
• Pulsar Tower:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 8 to 10
  
  
• Razorshark:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 5 to 6
    
  • Damage vs Light Armor from 30% to 40%
  
  
• Colossus:
  
  
  • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
  
  
• Hover Tank:
  
  
  • Cost from $800 to $900
  
  
• Guardian:
  
  
  • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
  
  
• Stormrider:
  
  
  • Cost from $750 to $600
  
  
• Destroyer:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 7 to 8
  
  
• Assault Carrier:
  
  
  • Cost from $3000 to $2500
  
  
• Battle Cruiser:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 11 to 12

Maps Changes:

• Updated the following maps:
  
  
  • Industrial Strength

Version 2.5.10 (minor release), 2024/05/06
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• Updated Phobos library to latest develop snapshot + my features with lots of bugfixes.
  
• Bug: Allied Mirage tanks could be invisible when blinking.
  
• Fixed 1 AI Team that produced crashes.
  
• Adjusted some YR and Yuri Resurgence AI team's probabilities.
  
• Yuri Resurgence mission 1: Tweaked some AI teams.
  
• Yuri Resurgence mission 6: Triggered the end-game credits when the mission was completed.
  
• Yuri Resurgence mission 7: It was set as the end of the campaign (the credits window).
  
• Fixed some script bugs in Yuri Resurgence mission 8 that made the game impossible to play.
  
• RA2 Allied mission 1: Soviets could build units that shouldn't be available.
  
• RA2 Soviet mission 11: Fallout, AI didn't fire Nukes.
  
• Soviet V3 Launcher missile spawn rate from 370 to 250.
  
• Soviet Dreadnought missiles spawn rate from 80 to 180.
  
• Nod Talon Submarine missiles spawn rate from 100 to 190.
  
• Yuri Boomer Submarine missiles spawn rate from 80 to 200.
  
• Secret Lab's Double V3 Launcher missiles spawn rate from 400 to 350.
  
• Fix: Sometimes, AI Engineers get stuck inside buildings.
  
• No more spilled resources when a harvester or refinery is destroyed in an RA2/YR mission.

Version 2.5.9 (hotfix release), 2024/04/15
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• Updated the Syringe.exe file to the latest official version.
  
• Merged the latest Phobos development branch.
  
• Fixed bug in the new AI teams selection that reduced the number of possible selectable Teams.
  
• Fixed crash (and a desync) in the Nod Reaper weapon.
  
• Updated DDrawCompat (by narzoul) to v0.5.1
  
• Disabled (temporally) the napalm support power. I think it causes rare crashes in the long term.
  
• Replaced (temporally) the Spy plane support power with a Reveal Area. I think it causes rare crashes in the long term.
  
• Nuclear radiation damage against Soviet Heavy Tesla Trooper reduced from 100% to 4%.
  
• Soviet Desolator damage against Soviet Heavy Tesla Trooper reduced from 100% to 12%.
  
• Yuri Psychic Tower strength from 350 to 425.
  
• Yuri Psychic Tower weapon rate of fire from 90 (6 seconds) to 85 (~5.66 seconds).
  
• Added a steam animation in the Nuclear Reactor.
  
• Replaced Magnetron weapons with a modified version of the original game weapons.
  
• Fixed crash related to an incomplete AI script action.

Changes (2024-05-06):
- Updates to Phobos trigger events & actions and script actions in FAData.ini.

This (possibly last) GIMP 2 stable release brings much-requested backports from GTK3, including improved support for tablets on Windows. A number of bug fixes and minor improvements are also included in this release.


New features and improvements

Improved support for tablets on Windows

Before this release, GIMP only supported connecting tablets on Windows through WinTab drivers rather than the newer Windows Ink drivers. Because of this, we received a number of reports about tablets having issues with unresponsive buttons, incorrect pressure sensitivity, lagging brush movement, and mid-stroke position changes.  

These problems were due to a limitation of GTK2, as support for Windows Ink was implemented in GTK3 by long-time contributor Luca Bacci. For this release, Luca was gracious enough to backport this support to GTK2. You can now switch between WinTab and Windows Ink drivers (if supported by your computer) in the Preferences dialog under the Input Device settings.



Windows Pointer Input API can now be changed - GIMP 2.10.38


Backports of other GTK3 features

Luca also contributed a number of other features from GTK3 to GTK2. Some of the backported improvements include updating the size of the Print Dialog so buttons are not cut off, fixing issues with pop-up dialogs appearing behind the previous ones, and several fixes to keyboard input.

These improvements are primarily for Windows and are already included in the 2.99 development release. However, we are very happy that these quality-of-life improvements are now available in this stable release of GIMP 2.10!

Bugfixes

Recent crashes

Two commonly reported crashes have now been corrected.
A change in GLib 2.80 exposed a bug in our closing process and caused a crash on the exit. Luca Bacci once again devised a fix for both 2.10.38 and the upcoming 3.0 release candidate. Another crash that some users encountered when making very small selections was also fixed.

Other fixes

A number of other small bugs were fixed in this release. Among them:

• Indexed PNGs with transparency are now exported with the correct colors
  
• Anders Jonsson fixed the input ranges for several filters, such as Waves and Distort
  
• The title bar customization field now supports UTF-8 characters
  
• Existing image comments no longer “leak” into newly created images

Flame thrower Turbine Hover Miners.

MISTEST 5.7d...

A small fix for scripts using Waypoints above 676 in YR. A crash would occur as it tried to lookup the two letter equivalent, but now a dummy value is returned, which seems to satisfy the rest of the code. As long as none of the Trigger Actions/Events reference them, there should be no issue.

It has been a while since I've last posted a formal update for this mod. Regardless, work on this project has continued even during silence and keeps going relatively strong, and I do have few things to share.

Website
Project Phantom website has been updated with a new layout. Many of the pages are still under construction, and I'll be sure to keep everyone updated when they go live.

Discord
For those who may have missed it, Project Phantom does have an official Discord server that can be used for discussing the modification, receiving updates regarding it first in the line, and eventually, it would hopefully serve as a multiplayer hub as well.

Showcases
A while back, I posted an article about various UI / UX improvements in Project Phantom. Be sure to check it out if you already have not.
There's also a new showcase video showing off some units & buildings in Project Phantom. It can also be viewed on ModDB.



As mentioned prior, development has been going on relatively strong, regardless of occassional pauses and challenges. With that in mind, I have the following announcement to make.

Early access version of Project Phantom will be released during Summer 2024
Exact release date will be made known closer to launch

So what will be in this first release?
Good question. Right now, we are looking at the following set of features.

• Three new factions - Western Coalition, Eurasian Dominion, and Phantom Imperative, with complete arsenals full of new units, buildings, and support powers (albeit many buildings will use graphics that can be deemed as 'placeholders').
• Three 'mercenary factions' - Fist of Titans, Crimson Crown, and Excelsus Group, that have capturable buildings that provide various support powers and units to players who capture them, alongside the classic set of neutral tech buildings including capturable base defenses.
• A large number of new map props and other miscellaneous buildings.
• Three reworked terrain tile theaters, Temperate, Tundra & Desert, with significantly expanded tilesets from the original game, including fully integrated urban tilesets and a basic interior tileset.
• Around 160 standard skirmish/multiplayer maps, some old and some new.
• Island Combat game mode, which is constrained to maps with water-locked islands.
• Scavengers game mode, where you start with a Mobile War Factory and are required to collect powerup crates for units and funds - your factory can reverse-engineer any vehicles found (including technology trucks for aerial vehicles) to unlock them as buyable units.
• One scenario for Hold the Line game mode, where up to 4 players (human or AI) are pitted against waves of AI-controlled enemies that scale based on the number of players in the game, with the objective to protect a critical structure from the said enemies.


A preview of the Crimson Crisis scenario, where players are tasked with protecting an Energy Research Lab against waves of Crimson Crown units.


• Challenges game mode, where two players (human or AI) are pitted against three AI-controlled enemies in specific scenarios that have unique modifiers in play and odds stacked against the players. Initially, the Challenges game mode is going to come with three scenarios, one against each of the factions.


A preview of one of the Challenges, called Thunderhill Challenge, where players are challenged by the nigh-impenetrable defenses of a W.A.R.D research base.


• A single Cooperative mission, testing the waters out, where two Coalition commanders are tasked with eliminating a Dominion mining outpost.


Preview of co-op mission Motherlode, where a small squad of Coalition forces is sent on an infiltration and elimination mission to a Dominion mining base.

• Various quality of life, bugfix, and other engine improvements, courtesy of Ares Expansion DLL and Phobos Engine Extension.
• Full integration with the CnCNet client, allowing easy access to multiplayer games and easy download of mod updates.
• Bundled installation of two map editors, a version of the legacy FinalAlert 2 map editor as well as Rampastring's modern World Altering Editor.
• Installer software with compatibility with all releases of Yuri's Revenge.

I hope to have some more news to share about Project Phantom's development and the upcoming early access release in the near future, but for now, I'm out.

The New version is mainly to hotfix a bad bug in map scripting, but it also contains some other improvements.

• Pavement LAT is now automatically connected to compatible TileSets, such as paved roads, parking lots, and other pavement additions
  
• (YR) Sand LAT is now automatically connected to sand shores
  
• (TS) Added speech selection window for the "Play Speech" trigger action
  
• WAE now checks the map for triggers using the "Discovered by player" and "Limpet attached" events without being attached to any object or team
  
• Changed "Clone of...." prefix to "...(Clone)" suffix when cloning objects
  
• AITriggers are now colored based on their house or side
  
• New AITriggers are now enabled on all difficulties by default
  
• Improved error message given on C# script compilation error
  
• Objects with InvisibleInGame=yes (Tiberium spreaders, light posts, impassable overlay, etc.) and building foundation outlines are no longer rendered when extracting a megamap
  
• (Translation / CJK support) Too long words are now split into multiple lines in event and action descriptions
  
• Fixed a bug where certain trigger actions could malfunction when the type of an already existing trigger action was changed. A check to automatically fix this bug from existing maps has also been added.