Chris Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 There's a pretty major bug in V20 Experimental 6 where aliens have unlimited grenades, are able to throw them through walls, and use them at every available opportunity. We've spent the day trying to fix it, but we've not had any success so far so we've just rolled back to V20 Experimental 5 so people can play that over the weekend if they want. V20 Experimental 6 will hopefully return on Monday, but we're currently unsure. It's actually quite a complex issue and the grenade spam was a symptom rather than the actual disease. In short, there's an issue in the accuracy code where the AI is not being fed the correct "to hit" information for its shots. This is why they would always use grenades, as it thinks it is unable to hit the enemy with normal weapons - but it also means that if we remove their grenades, they won't attack the player at all. Therefore we can't hotfix it like we planned yesterday. We don't know when this bug will be fixed, nor if it will reveal further bugs when it is fixed - so we'll just carry on working on it and let you guys know when Experimental 6 is ready to be released again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StK Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Ouch.. sounds like a hard one. Best of luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbob Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Will my V20E5 saves come back with the rollback? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 29, 2013 Author Share Posted November 29, 2013 Yes, they will - assuming you've not deleted them from your hard drive in the past 24 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorix58 Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Thanks for the update. Hope the bug fixing goes smoothly/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb1987 Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Thanks for all your great work, we appreciate how difficult it must be sometimes. Best of luck in your bug hunt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avid Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Thanks for the update Chris! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reluxor Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 I had to say they were punching me VERY hard throwing that much of grenades (especially from a closed UFO)... At this point the game seemed very difficult to me... Best luck solving this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janprusak Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 I suggest naming the next build v7, although it in fact being v6. Just for people to know it is not the problematic one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Best of luck, guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarRat Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Chris or Aaron - Any estimate on when 20v7 or hotfix (whatever you're going to call it) for the grenade spam will be released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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