Build V17.6 Incoming

[Chris]

Just a quick note to say that while it's not here yet, V17.6 will arrive at some point this weekend. It's ready to go and is uploading to various servers at work, but doing so veeeeeerry slooowly so I don't have an ETA.

[Loki]

What about a Mac version? When do we see one of these again?

[Neonpanzer]

Awesome! Cant Wait! Is there some patch notes somewhere that addresses the things updated? Was wondering about the date crash bug, but didnt want this thread to turn into a did you fix or work on this yet thread, so patch notes would be cool if available.

[Chris]

Loki - there's an announcement about the Mac versions in the patch notes for it, that will appear later this weekend with the build. In short, the new version of OSX has broken all compatibility with the current and previous builds of Xenonauts. We're looking at it to see if it's viable to fix up all the errors or if the Mac versions just isn't possible any more. But we'll keep you posted.

Neonpanzer - yes, the date crash should be fixed.

[Übermensch]

Great news as usual Chris! Can you please post the patch notes?

Thank you! Keep up the good work Xeno Dev Team!

edit: ^^ thx!!

Edited February 8, 2013 by Übermensch

[thothkins]

Looking forward to it.

[olaf_spinerfafunzigeld]

Hello Chris

Every time I move cargo from one base to another game crashes... in 17.52

Edited February 8, 2013 by olaf_spinerfafunzigeld

[KATAGARI]

Good news Chris...

Thx all Xenonauts Dev Team..

[WarPigs]

I keep on getting my interceptors blasted out of the sky

[djlogue]

Oooh sweet, I'm probably gonna give desura another blast this time since it is a bit easier on the whole game files stuff. I find sudden hanging while the game loads some animation or some text very annoying, I'm hoping the condensed version will resolve this issue.

[GizmoGomez]

In short, the new version of OSX has broken all compatibility with the current and previous builds of Xenonauts. We're looking at it to see if it's viable to fix up all the errors or if the Mac versions just isn't possible any more.

So Chris, you're saying that it's possible that there won't be a version for OS X at all? What changed in the new version that messed things up so drastically? I've played the Alpha on OS X 10.8 before (a while ago), so is it a recent update to OS X 10.8 that broke it?

[Chris]

Yes, the latest version of OSX changed something that broke an entire class of textures in the game, and now whenever it tries to load one of them it just crashes. We're still looking into it but it's possible we'll have to withdraw the Mac version entirely.

[radiorob]

Hurra!

Will old saves (from v17.52) work with v17.6?

[Chris]

I doubt it. Old saves almost never work with new versions I'm afraid.

[Gorlom]

Yes, the latest version of OSX changed something that broke an entire class of textures in the game, and now whenever it tries to load one of them it just crashes. We're still looking into it but it's possible we'll have to withdraw the Mac version entirely.

Sad to hear that (even if I do not use Mac)

[Loki]

Yes, the latest version of OSX changed something that broke an entire class of textures in the game, and now whenever it tries to load one of them it just crashes. We're still looking into it but it's possible we'll have to withdraw the Mac version entirely.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[djlogue]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ��

Not good, I hope they figure something out for you guys.

[erutan]

Hmm, has anyone tried the new version in Wine? Luckily the game isn't very demanding in resources so running in a VM is fine, but that's still kinda annoying.

[GizmoGomez]

Yeah, if all else fails as far as getting it to work natively, wine could help. Like, an official wineskin wrapper or something. Or even have it preinstalled in the wrapper. I dunno, wish I could help more.

[superpirson]

it works in wineskin gorgeously on my mid 2009 macbook pro. It can be sort of hit and miss with wine on mac at times, but I haven't had any trouble with this game yet. I'm currently running v17.52 + Hotfix and wineskin made it work with no modifications or anything.

[flashman]

thanks for the update, I hope apple have shot you in the foot

[pnk99]

it works in wineskin gorgeously on my mid 2009 macbook pro. It can be sort of hit and miss with wine on mac at times, but I haven't had any trouble with this game yet. I'm currently running v17.52 + Hotfix and wineskin made it work with no modifications or anything.

Ditto. I also was easily able to make it work without any prior experience with Wineskin. There are no issues or bugs that weren't already a problem when I was running it on my PC desktop.

[GizmoGomez]

So, it'll work in wine with a generic wrapper then?

[gileq]

Hi.

Any news about 17.6? I still see nothing new at desura.

[Giovanni]

Hi.

Any news about 17.6? I still see nothing new at desura.

Look in the "Announcments & Progress" forum: there's a post about it.