DEFCON Patch v1.42

DEFCON Patch v1.42

This will update your version of DEFCON to v1.42. This is not needed if you have the Steam release of the game.

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v1.42

3rd May 2007

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- Fixed bugs in 1.4:

-some serious performance problems related to fleet activity

-Bugs with City Assignment (negative city populations etc)

-Radar not working properly in the pacific (over the seam)

-Placing a unit over the seam sometimes caused ships to vanish

-Nuke queue counter was often wrong

-Word wrapping in the chat window could go very wrong with long strings

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v1.4

12th April 2007

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- Cross platform compatability

PC/Mac/Linux versions are now network compatible with each other

- AmBX support added (PC only, requires amBX hardware of course)

- City Populations game option added

Default : as before

Equalised : all cities have the same population

Random : all cities have random populations

TotallyRandom : same as Random, and random cities are chosen

instead of the major world cities

- Bug fixes and improvements:

- Very rarely a plane could crash over a ground target and effectively

nuke it, causing population death or building destruction

- Mods no longer disappear from list when deactivated

- "Can't place here" circles now show when territory display is on

- Can no longer set blank or overlong player name

- Word wrapping algorithm improved (most obvious in the chat window)

- The game start countdown will now abort if a player leaves

- Attempting to set a very long username no longer crashes DEFCON

- Removed unused "Level 8" button in Tutorial interface

- Users can no longer join incompatible games, even if they really try

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v1.3

8th January 2007

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- New White Board system

Allies can now share a battle plan directly drawn on the world map.

- Additional option to change the player name directly from the option menu

- In the lobby, the last game name is now remembered

- Various minor improvements and fixes

-Restart Ambience and Music (if in a game) when applying a mod.

-Fix the crash when applying a mod removing sounds.

-It's now impossible to start a game with a empty name.

-Fix start up crash involving missing game name in game-history.txt.

-Don't advertise a new version on the main interface if the current version

is higher than the latest version advertised by the meta server.

-The version update link on the main interface is no more opened when

clicked if there is a menu over it.

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v1.2

12th December 2006

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- New MOD support system

Mods can be loaded and unloaded in-game from a new MODs window.

Mod authors can provide details on their MOD : a screenshot and a data

file, which will be shown in the MODs window when the mod is selected.

MODs can be made to give Defcon a complete graphical makeover, eg making

the entire game look like it's set in space. Or they can be entirely new

maps - eg Defcon played out over a map of Australia, with new territories

and cities to match.

There are two types of MOD:

Critical MOD : required by all players connecting, eg a new Map

Non critical MOD : graphical/audio only mod

When joining a game server any Critical mods that are required will be

activated. If those mods are not installed you will not be able to join.

The Server Browser now has a new column to show what MODs are running.

Servers that are running MODs you do NOT have installed will now show up

yellow in the Server Browser (as opposed to Red which signifies they are

running an incompatible version)

- Additional minor MOD support

Image "data/graphics/explosion.bmp" is now only used by Explosions.

Previously it was used to render population and radiation, making it

impossible to mod explosion graphics without modding those too.

- New preferences option : RenderNodes

Very usefull for people making new maps for Defcon.

Set this option to 1 (by editing your preferences.txt file) to render the

Nodes used in-game. Red = AI Target, Green = AI Placement, White = Travel

The white lines represent the possible routes ships can sail along.

If you have a team selected the Red AI Target markers will fill to indicate

a sensible target within striking range of any enemy.

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v1.1

18th October 2006

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- Improvements to the Server Browser Window

The number of players in any game is now rendered visually:

Bright green box = human player

Dull green box = CPU player

Grey box = open slot

This makes it much easier to see at a glance which games are interesting

The Server browser no longer displays the version column (eg Defcon v1.0)

The Server browser now displays the Game Mode in its own column

The Server browser will remember which servers you have joined recently.

They will be drawn highlighted in your list, so you can see them at a

glance. The browser will store the previous 10 connected servers, and

will also save the list and reload automatically when restarting.

Note: Does not save your own game servers that you connected to

- Makes it easier to see which games are not worth trying again

- Makes it easier to rejoin a game you got disconnected from

Can now filter the list :

All Games

Games In Lobby only

Games In Progress only

Recently joined Servers only

LAN Games only

In addition, you can choose to filter out less desirable server types:

Hide single player games (games in progress with just 1 human player)

Hide demo games (games created by a demo user, 2 players max)

Hide default named games (ie games with the name 'New Game Server')

(Click on the Filters button to access these options)

You can sort the server list by clicking on the column headings

Sort by name (alphabetically)

Sort by Game Mode

Sort by Game Time

Sort by Num spectators

Sort by Num players (sorts by num human players)

Click once to sort by that column

Click again to sort backwards by that column

Click again to return to default sorting

The 'Server Details' window (opened by right clicking on a server) now

includes a button to Join the server you are observing.

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v1.0

25th September 2006

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Initial release