Path of War 0.94

Release notes

*** RC Version 0.94 [2013.11.13] ***

SPECIAL WARNING: Due to changes in campaign progress save, it may be possible that some already played campaign maps appear now locked. We apologize for the inconvenience.

What's new?

NEW FEATURES:

* 4 new missions introducing railroads

* 4 new battles

* added the possibility to load external maps generated by the map editor

* increased speed of units' movement over road and railroad

* new map directive STARTING_PRODUCTION allowing maps where the players spend an initial amount of production to build up their starting army

* added youtube video tutorial button

* added option to make the game run in fullscreen (expect some bugs)

UNDER THE HOOD CHANGES:

* game window at start-up centred to the display

* increased max map dimension to 30x30

* added AI values to tiles

* optimized render functions for paths, bridge, river crossing

* added management of null moves

* detached rulebook graphic library

* modified some icons

* modified sequence of texture creation and texture loading

* (developer only) preparations for introduction of new units with different movement and combat rules

* (developer only) possibility to test special rolls in combat

BUGS STOMPED:

* phase titles being shown more than once

* wrong texture rotation for railroad and road forks

* access violation after special roll "all-1"

* access violation after special roll "all-6"

* turn counter not being reset to 1 when mission repeated

* error in mission sequence (mission 34 was missing)

* units which had only merge/split moves (because "blocked" by friendly units) were not selectable

* wrong caption in railroad reference

* optimized code

* eliminated some unused variables

* not initialized reinforcements

* not initialized textures in fullscreen

* memory not freed for victory and defeat music

* memory not freed for map loading

* verified possible null pointer

* verified possible null pointer to current player

* production zones "3" were not coloured in map layers help

PREVIOUS WARNINGS:

* version 0.92 introduced an alternative combat mode called ("'videogamer'"); you can disable it in options if you prefer to keep playing in board game mode

* version 0.91 introduced antialiasing. If you encounter problems after enabling antialiasing, check the 0.91 changelog

First appearance: Wed Nov 13 15:26:44 CET 2013 - | - Last modified: Wed Nov 13 15:34:05 CET 2013