Cruiser Command v0.93g

[RaptorXI]

Oh my

 

[Valcrist77]

I tested crew combat a bit more (0.92), and indeed I wasn't able to reproduce the floor turrets' projectiles lack of player collision. I did see the AI get mostly disabled upon healing (unless shot at again, but it then gets healed and therefore disabled again).

One of the games we loaded up on mmh ended up with everyone having major performance lag, with all players dropping down to sub 10 fps immediately after the game started. Unfortunately, I did not have replays set to always save, just a one time instance of some sorta of leak upon game initialization. I'll post if I see anything else.

@UberPWN - we don't have anything organized, we just pub Cruiser Command sometimes if we feel like some nostalgia on mmh. I think if you want to reliably get any sorta game going, you'll have to rustle people up in the Clan ENT channel on Europe. It seems that's where the biggest general player base is, aside from random friend groups who still play Warcraft III.

 

[TKF]

0.92c by TKF Increased the cruiser shield regen rate with 25% Cereberus Shield quick regen will now also depend on shield power levels Changed the damage stats and costs of some missiles/mines Nerfed Obliterator mine damage for some balancing If service robot cannot repair, it should resume its default task Changed one of the engineers specials from power to tazer specialist The default power adjustment is now set to 10gw by default The cruiser upgrades info tab on access console also shows stored minerals Laser blast from fighters do now also disable internal sensors Armament robots on team 2 do now drain 5gw instead of 10gw (bugfix) Fixed afk return bug which accidentally gave fighter miner abilties Fixed a few bugs with Service robot, less chance for it to stop up totally Fixed a bug that caused a certain dummy to be visible on minimap Fixed another bug which gave Fighter miner skills Fixed a bug with cruiser mining console which should now work

(This version is now also directly uploaded on makemehost.com, if you are using this hostbot service.)

I've fixed the bugs I found, also should hopefully elimated the mining skill bug which accidentally occured in the fighter. There might be more but I fill fix them in future bugfixes.

Also changed some things, like the shield console had a regen value of 8 shield points regardless of power, now its set to 1 shield point pr 20gw shield when its quickly regenerating. Also pumping shield regenerate twice the speed than before, but also drain twice as much power. I forgot to write in the change log, but the core drain damage is 25% less.

 

[Sgt.Pierce]

Whoa! This really improves more in time! I still love this map hehehe

 

[TKF]

0.92d by TKF Removed the autopilot ability from miner due to bugs (afk bug) Corrected the hangar visuals in tutorial to match with cruiser Optimized Cruiser Energy system, should increase game performance a bit Power failure will more quickly reduce the power spent now Attempted to fix the Vessel swap bug (need more test for confirming it) Improved the Combat AI Leavers will now become AI automatically, instead of just dying Boarding Computer AI will now return to home cruiser if health is low and heal The Computer AI should now be able to arm itself with better crew weapons if available If AI is set to combat and missile loader AI, it will join teleport assaults Fixed a bug with TX sniper rifle which made it do minimal damage only Fixed another AI healing bug, it should work now Fixed a power setting bug which allowed -5gw energy usage in any category Fixed another AI bug

This version do need testing, because I made changes which I cannot test alone (For example leaver AI).
Some players might not like it, so this is a test features for a few version, then I will consider if it's going to be permanent. If there is some bugs related to this when a player leaves, I'll fix it as soon as possible. Leaver AI is a experimental feature for now.

Known Bugs (That I know of):
Vessel swap: However I couldn't reproduce the vessel swap bug, which is a known problem. I've studied the system closely, everything is as it should, so something is glitching for some odd reason there. I will try to focus on bugfixing on future versions to make this more stable. [X] - Not found

Missile loading: I may also redesign the missile loading system, because it sometimes glitches. It's very easy for players to drop items, but I may add an ability for that in the future. That is in my todo list atm. [V] - Made a fix for it in 0.92e

Autoloader Boxes: Same as above [V]

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Known Problems:
Game performance: [-] - This problem takes forever to solve, its takes weeks to deal with this and I may not have the time to deal with it.


Edit:

I'm working on optimizing some triggers which fires rapidly and cleaning out asteroid systems, which might be one of the main causes of laggs. In the tests, it seems to be caused by different systems....

0.92e by TKF Redesigned the missile loading system, you now click on the missile to load it Made internal missile fire look more realistic now with much higher speed Failsafed the autoloader boxes missile loading system, also armament robot Cleaning up tons of unnecesary conditions in the asteroid systems Optimized cruiser reverse system (caused some lagg) Optimized vessel movement system (caused lagg) Some script optimization to reduce the game lagg Fixed a fatal bug with crew missile loader AI, which made it fail totally Fixed a bug that caused computer player to be removed suddenly off the game

Not sure how much performance is increased, but only slightly so far. In case you are used to drop your missiles in the missile bay, that old system is also in place since it doesn't conflict with the new improved missile loading system.

I tried a test game, but I need feedback about the ingame laggs and stuff on this version which should be more stable now.

Edit:

0.92f by TKF Cruiser Reverse Max speed limit raised from 35% to 50% Increased the speed bonus with the Cruisers Boost Engine ability Fixed the selection circles of asteroids Fixed a bug with cruiser turret burst laser which made them stop Fixed a bug that made a destroyed mining station create some ore after destruction Fixed a bug with sensor node and mining station launch not showing up for captain Minor bugfixes

More bugfixes...

 

[TKF]

Sorry for slow update, playing The Chosen Ones was taking all my time.


Game performance is poor in 0.92f but playable and stable version, (though I haven't found the unknown source of fatal error problem yet,) so I decided to develop more features into the map.

Coming soon... 0.93 Vessel Interior

Yeah, I know it looks like a bee, terraining isn't my strongest skill. I'm going to keep the same interior on both vessel types to keep it as simple as possible. As for having 2 consoles I haven't decided what features the consoles inside the vessel should have.... The front gives you back the control back to space, the other one might have power regulating features, but I'm not sure yet.

So far made it only possible with the possibility of your crew member actually carry gear for the vessel. For instance reloading you fighter for example. If you don't wanna use any slots on your miner, the crew member can for instance carry mines which the miner can use and use it when the situation change, thus keeping the vessel slots available for mining.

As for boarding into vessel itself, I'm not sure yet it will be extremely complex but relevant tactic.


EDIT: Several hours of editing. I uncovered a lot of bugs regarding vessels, so I may once and for all perhaps eliminated swap bug and also did uncover the shield bug, its just a multiboard display bug after all. Also has tested this a lot and there is still bugs I must clean out, maybe a few days this is done. For the new version players might actually board enemy vessels and that's a complicated thing since the system originally was made only to enter the other cruiser, a lot of rework....

 

[Fingolfin]

If you want help increasing missile performance, i can have a look at it. I have made tons of missile systems, and know all the perks.

 

[TKF]

New feature in 0.93

Its a little different from current, but quite similar

0.93 by TKF Added Interior to vessels Vessel Interior features Main Console and Power Console Power Console features many abilties for the vessel Crew member can add items to vessel from vessel interior Added EMP mines for miner (Requires Energy weapon console) Added Plasma shots for fighter (Requires Energy weapon console) Added all crew qualifications into a common ability (spellbook) Optimized the Teleport System Fighter no longer loses laser cannon if tech is available Increased AI repair matrix outtake from 3 to 4 Reduced hull repair matrix junk repair from 0.7% to 0.5% Added text message when using -rec command to call back AI miners Internal missile doors should now always close properly Updated some tutorial details such as vessel interioir Fixed a bug that caused the fighter to have 2 fighter laser abilities Fixed a bug with the internal missile doors not opening when they should Fixed a bug that made the cruiser go negative speed at start Fixed a bug that caused vessel with shields sometimes immune to damage Fixed several vessel related bugs Fixed vessel shield multiboard display bug Minor fixes

New version released, I'm bit busy lately so a bit little time to work on the map.

Also added escape pods inside the vessel interior when you step on the telepad, so if the vessel is boarded, the player shouldn't able to type -eject, also if the ship is boarded with intruders on board and the vessel just docks, the intruders should follow along inside the cruiser (hopefully), but that part I cannot test alone, so I hope that part works. The rest should be working.

So if the vessel dies with people on board, they die. Escape pod only applies to pilot. Teleport emergency recall should also recall crew members on vessels too.

As for the other console inside vessel I will only give the detailed description here as it was too much to add to the changelog.


Here is a list of abilities of the 2 consoles inside a vessel.

Vessel Main Console Instantly resumes control of vessel Vessel Power Console Add to Cargo Remove from Cargo Increase shield power by 5gw (max is 25gw, 30gw with shield item) Decrease shield power by 5gw Boost shield by 2000 (only 400 if it was offline), cost 2000gw Drain Shields by 2000, gives 1500gw Charge up Plasma Shots (Fighter Only, requires energy weapon console) Charge up EMP mines (Miner Only, requires energy weapon console) Vessel Hull repair (Requires replicator console)

Removing current 0.93 version, actually firing missiles and mining did not work in that version. So I rolled back to more stable 0.92f for now.

I don't know why everything works in the unprotected version, while the protected version nothing works. I will try to figure it out. That doesn't make any sense.

Edit:
Releasing 0.93b

0.93b Pilot can board other vessels, if teleporter is built Reduced the damage to crew caused by merculite missile The "-eject" command should now work even if you look inside vessel The "-cam" command should now include vessel interior Mining should work now again Boarding enemy vessel and using its power console no longer alters your own vessel Pressing esc inside vessel will reset to space view if pilot stays near console Fixed a bug with captains will ability which made the corpse vanish Fixed a fatal bug which totally disabled missile firing (after map testing) Fixed a bug that didn't selfdestruct a vessel if onboard escape pods were used Fixed camera view inside vessels, the cam debugger should fix it now

Everything should be fine, I don't understand why mining didn't work in 0.93. Worked fine in singleplayer. I disabled by accident missile firing so I forgot to turn it on when testing. Hopefully the essential stuff is working again.

 

[emrys]

hey great map! while playing me and my friends had a hard time boarding each others ships it would make all our skills disappear, some times we couldn't move at all. Also it would be cool to have something else for the fighters to attack maybe alien ships to attack as a spawned enemy.

 

[TKF]

hey great map! while playing me and my friends had a hard time boarding each others ships it would make all our skills disappear, some times we couldn't move at all. Also it would be cool to have something else for the fighters to attack maybe alien ships to attack as a spawned enemy.

I will look deeper into that and see what's wrong and release a bugfix soon. The bug which make you still move while semi paused sort of is a bug which I haven't solved yet. If you select something else, and reselect yourself after port all skills usually reappear.

Also knowing in more detail when these instances happen would be appreciated. I don't get it clearly when you define "ships".

I have to resolve those bugs before considering new features which is quite time consuming. Just making the vessel interiors and all its features took me weeks with testing.

 

[emrys]

very understandable, the bugs happened when we would enter the enemy cruiser from either the small fighter ship or transporter. we would move a few steps then either our skills would be gone or we couldn't move our characters. once boarded a few times we would be stuck on enemy cruiser ( not able to exit at all ) or we would die and the screen goes red and were stuck dead and the captain cant find a body to raise. most of the bugs we found were when we entered the enemy cruiser. do u need any more details?

 

[emrys]

also I'm sorry I don't mean to put anymore work on u the map is great and fun to play. the extra feature isn't need just thought id put it out there in case u wanted ideas on things to add if u were still working on making it better.

 

[Dreadnought101]

Created account to thank you for fun times with this map

Though i have moved on to Starcraft 2 now, i heard that the creator of that 'Cruiser Command' is now creating a standalone version as well

 

[TKF]

Was without internet for over a week while internet modem was dead. Just got new one and could finally upload this version.

0.93c by TKF Added custom experience gain for crew members, which allows them to level Added ability selection for crew members to pick their special ability (6 abilties) Added Survival Instinct and Stim Pack as new selectable abilities Added a new vote mode, No miner mode (gradual income every 5 sec) Teleporter beam is now a 2 way teleporter, which also teleports projectiles When crew members arms, it should no longer drop its weapon if full Renamed rush mode to accelerated start Disabled a boarding debugger system which didn't work and probably bugged everything Rocket Launcer missile do now have correct range Fixed some teleport related bugs Fixed a bug which didn't respawn vessel when using escape pod from cruiser Fixed a bug that caused the enemy vessel you boarded to die upon using escape pod Fixed some minor bugs

I couldn't reproduce the teleport bugs from cruiser to enemy cruiser and vessel to cruiser, so I didn't find the cause of it. If all abilities disappear, select something else, then reselect the marine again. It's some sort of selection bug.

The teleporter beam is now a 2 way teleporter, you can shoot all you want through the teleport beam.

In this version, you can pick your special ability for your crew member and level it up. If you like using repair ability, you can pick it now as any other players now. Also you will gain experience points as you do different activities, especially in boarding combat. The xp is hidden, and will from time to time display over your crew member how much you got and how much you need for next level.

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0.93d by TKF Hiding Cruiser in asteroid field now reduces chance for being found Added syntesize ability, mainly for engineers Rebalanced stim pack ability so its weaker at lv1, but stronger at lv3 When learning 3rd ability, sprint ability moves to qualification spellbook When learning 4th ability, drop all ability moves to qualification spellbook Fixed a cam bug when using escape pod from vessel interior Fixed a bug with sensor console which showed enemy miners Fixed a requirement bug on survival ability Fixed a bug that gave pilot qualification when dropping grenades Fixed some minor boarding related bugs

A bugfix update mostly.

 

[Velrog]

Hi TKF. Listen, i noticed some bugs. When i deploy a mining station, i lose the silo from which i deployed it, the inner door remains closed as if something is loaded when the silo itself is actually empty; the engine upgrade for the BC doesn't take effect even though i maxed it out; the game crashes when i use the Energy Torpedo weapon; when i overboost the Cruiser Engines they get bugged and the cruiser max speed remains at 150m/s. So far that's all i've found. All bugs came to my attention in multiplayer.

 

[TKF]

Hi TKF. Listen, i noticed some bugs. When i deploy a mining station, i lose the silo from which i deployed it, the inner door remains closed as if something is loaded when the silo itself is actually empty; the engine upgrade for the BC doesn't take effect even though i maxed it out; the game crashes when i use the Energy Torpedo weapon; when i overboost the Cruiser Engines they get bugged and the cruiser max speed remains at 150m/s. So far that's all i've found. All bugs came to my attention in multiplayer.

The speed limit is 250ms for 3 upgrades, at least when I tested it at team 1 cruiser. However I will fix the bug which forces engines settings to 60gw even if it was higher set. I will release a bugfix in a few days.

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New bugfix version

0.93e by TKF Improved pilot ace ability Removed the 50 hp bonus when a player leaves Energy torpedo will no longer trigger hull damage events Energy torpedo no longer ignore shield resistance Energy torpedo will cause 2% core damage now on hull impact Fixed a asteroid bug which miscalculated push angle Fixed a bug with engine turbo speed Fixed a silo closing bug with launching mining station

If other weapons trigger fatal error, let me know. Also energy torpedo is a non-hull damaging weapon, so I removed it from creating fires and damage events when it hits enemy cruiser.

Also added flare ability to vessels, forgot to add that to changelog, but it requires Pilot ace lv2.

 

[Times]

Thanks for the updates, TFK.
It's really nice the map is being updated!

 

[TKF]

Added a new video on frontpage

By Vidya Only (Youtube) - Shows the gameplay from start of Cruiser Command 0.93e version

0.93f by TKF Survey scanner for miners is now available from start Duration of survey scanner reduced from 10 to 8 seconds pr level Increased the default starting mercoxium count to 18 from 10 Picking ores less than 100 should now stack together Added a service robot reset trigger, in case it stops up Chanced the cost of fusion core upgrade to 25 vel/25 omb/6 merc Chanced the cost of vessel core upgrade to 10 vel/15 omb/4 merc Chanced the cost of merculite missile to 15 vel/15 omb/20 merc Reduced Obliterator hull damage from 12% to 10% Fixed a bug that removed promotional abilities when boarding Fixed a misplaced camera bug when using fighters board ability Fixed a fighter boarding bug that made you die using this ability Fixed a leaver bug that made the crew AI stay in perma paused state Fixed a energy transfer bug on team 2 right hangar Fixed a carbonite deflection bug which didn't reflect missiles

Yet another bugfix version. I found the culprit vessel boarding bug finally. Also fixed a bug with carbonite deflector not deflecting missiles as it should. And some other bugs.

 

[nhs325]

Some how this map reminds me of FTL,
really good map, btw.

 

[clockwork2]

This map was here BEFORE FTL rookie. Having said that, yes it is *Smiles*.
In any case glad to see your still working on the WC3 version. Your SC2 version is pretty sweet too.

 

[oscarylios]

Stuck after boarding

I tried to board an enemy cruiser and I got stuck, unable to select myself or anything

 

[TKF]

I tried to board an enemy cruiser and I got stuck, unable to select myself or anything

Thanks for attaching the replay, I found out exactly why the bug occurred. The selection wasn't enabled for that player for some reason. I've added a debugger that after 4 seconds will enforce that. I've found some other minor bugs, so I decide to release another bugfix release since fight boarding hangup is quite severe bug.

0.93g by TKF Added a debugger for power consoles that get moved out of vessels Fixed a fatal permanent selection bug that didn't allow you to select anything Fixed a bug that caused carbonite deflector to deflect yamato shot Fixed a bug with vessel energy production Fixed a fatal bug that ended the game if leaver occurred with computer players

 

[clockwork2]

TKF you are awesome.

 

[Garfield1337]

TKF you are awesome.

What he said.

 

[Hazop / Sarven]

good work I like how you added AI keep up the good work chap

 

[JC Helas]

I like this game very. but the ai make game lag, also in game, lately the ai stop picking ore.

 

[useminename]

Oh, this is still alive, good to know that TKF

 

[oscarylios]

I forgot to mention. Imagine a 1v1 situation, and one dies, the game will still take as the whole cruiser crew was wiped out even if he had revive and revives shortly after dying, the core self-destructs anyway.

 

[ThaiCat]

So after 3 years since you "will not abandon it again" there are no updates exept fixing bugs with boarding. Well done, TKF. I am fully satisfied.

 

[UberPWN]

Anyone is still playing cc? I would love to join some group of players...

 

[Times]

I'm 99% sure that more people would play if this map was constantly hosted, something like autohosting, because someday I hosted it, was empty for nearly 2hrs then it got full housed in less than 5mins. Inviting some friends and having the lobby +3 also helps quite a lot.

 

[grimgrents]

24 player version when?

 

[TheWarchief]

I'd really love to try my hand at continuing the development of this game, including possibly making it a 20-player, 4-team (4 cruisers) map. However, I'd need the unprotected map files. I swear I am not trying to steal the map or anything like that but TKF, if you could provide the unprotected map, that'd be really great.

 

[Guyver]

Hi Guys. Our Cruiser Command Discord would like to create a 24 player version of the map and continue development on that version. If anyone has the map files we would also be really happy if we could get them.

 

[Lt. Col. Noob]

24 player version when?

Hi, how do you guys play... Through LAN or any online means.

 

[Guyver]

Hi, how do you guys play... Through LAN or any online means.

We play online. But we need those files in order to be able to work on the game

 

[ForgottenOne]

Hi TKF, thanks for an awesome map.
I"d like to translate this map into Korean.
If you dont mind, would you send me the unprotected version of this map?


I know you"re not too active these days... but I really want to enjoy this map in Korean. I swear I won"t steal any of your work.