Slitherine

WooHoooo . thanks for all your work Dan , good news !

Good news, Thanks.

Thank you, sir! Sounds like something even Hercules would have failed at! **Suck computer dust, Rock!**

Thank you Dan. Appreciate all the work you are putting in.
Dave

Many thanks, I'm very much looking forward to this!

Hello guys,

A short update with some good and some bad news.

The bad news is that the v964 beta build is not ready yet, and I can't finish everything still needed (and including some decent amount of testing) for it today.

The good news is that, finally (thank's God!), the file formats (editor battle groups, scenario army lists, DAG army list templates and DAG army lists) modifications are done (including the all FoG(RB) data validation, cooking of the new bundles, updates to the associated file lists and a lot of testing). And the work on updating the MP game flow and MP communications protocol has already started, and needs to be completely finished and tested for the beta build.

The beta build will probably be ready by Tuesday/Wednesday, if nothing critical appears. And as the SP gameflow was updated for both scenario and DAG games a while ago, the probability for something critical appearing in this is really really low.

Please excuse me for this small delay,
dan

It's been a while since we actually 'beta'd.'

I don't think I have my original beta serial code (change of computers at least once, if not twice). Can we have those reissued for this new build?

Dan T.

Thanks Dan , no problems
Keep up the good work .
Ian

cothyso wrote:Hello guys,


The beta build will probably be ready by Tuesday/Wednesday, if nothing critical appears. And as the SP gameflow was updated for both scenario and DAG games a while ago, the probability for something critical appearing in this is really really low.

Please excuse me for this small delay,
dan

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Still working on it. Late this night, or more probably tomorrow afternoon/evening.

Thank you for info, looking forward for it .

Can I still download the old beta?

I got an error message. The local client is too old please update the game. What does this mean?
Cheer's guys.

It means that the old open beta client is completely obsolete at this point, and a new one is needed. The next one will be revision 964, which is FoG(U) v2.0.00 (due to an almost complete overhaul of project's whole code-base).

Unfortunately, the release of this new client took much longer than anticipated. Everything needs to be in order for it, as it will be the gold candidate and only major critical bugs will be fixed for it before the game's release. Several release dates were presented by me, but we've failed to meet them as more unexpected things were popping out, and needed laborious solving and testing.

At this moment, the last one was for the last weekend, but yet I am still working (during the last month my work hours mounted up to around 90 work hours/week, which is more than 200%, and no matter how dedicate I am, I physically can't work more than this) on finishing the MP game-flow and client-server communication updates needed for it. It can be any-day, but I won't advance another date until I will already have the beta client packed and uploaded on the server, as these not-meet-new-beta-release-dates already did a lot of harm (first of all to myself, as I am completely embarrassed because of them at this point).

Thank you for your patience and understanding,
dan

Hello Cothyso,
i"m not your father or Boss but working 90 hours per week seems not to be a good idea . Maybe a Holiday instead is a better solution.
For the Moment we have a good working fog and your healt is more important than this game.

Thank you very much for your reply Dan. I only wish I had seen this topic before. The efforts you are putting in fantastic thanks for all your hard work.
Frank

Thank you for all your hard wok.

I do have one question though... so I don't get my hopes up.

When this is released it will have no improvements done to the AI, am I correct in this?

The initial FoG(U) release will have, as it was announced right from the beginning, only a basic AI.