Version 0.53
18 November, 2023
               

Bug fixes

• Unit movement speed corrections
  • Adjusted unit speed calculations to better match the reference vanilla RA2 client
    
  • Infantry should stop for one game tick after each traversed tile
    
  • Infantry should no longer be slowed down when moving over ore
    
  • Vehicles using the hover locomotor should no longer be affected by terrain speed modifiers
    
  • Adjusted movement speed multiplier for vehicles that accelerate when moving over a single tile
  
  
• Adjustments to build speed and unit training speed based on the reference client
  
• Fixed blocking enemy factory and refinery ramps using "Force-Move"
  
• Harvesters should prioritize adjacent tiles with the most ore, breaking ties using a predefined order
  
• Harvesters should pause for a brief time in front of the refinery when returning ore unless micro-ed
  
• Ore patches with a value of 1 should yield no ore
  
• Long map names should no longer break the UI layout

               

               
Features and improvements

• Chat system overhaul
  
  
  • In-game chat IME support
    
  • Improved whisper support (/w and /r commands)
    
  • Easily switch between general chat and whispers with the Tab key
    
  • Whisper or reply by clicking on [user] chat links
    
  • In-game chat is now also available in the diplomatic menu (mobile-friendly)
    
  • Show more game settings in the diplomatic menu (short game, crates, superweapons)
  
  
• Show latency for each player in the diplomatic menu
  
• "Fit Window" option now supports custom resolutions between 800x600 and 1024x768

               

Engine updates

• Map triggers like "Entered by..." should not be sprung by air units
  
• Added support for "Crosses horizontal/vertical line" and "Force end" map triggers
  
• Gracefully handle several cases of buildings with missing image frames
  
• Adjacency checks should be skipped when deploying vehicles into buildings that are not construction yards
  
• Buildings with "UndeploysInto" can now be unpacked even when they have a rally point
  
• Vehicles with "Image" overrides in a map file should no longer crash the game when directly referencing voxel art
  
• "Image" overrides should not be allowed in art.ini for unit types