AI & Quality of Life Update. — Prime & Load : 1776 News

Performance

- Some crash fixes for both server and client
- Disabled debugging, performance should be significantly improved for all users, especially those with weaker CPUs
- You can no longer use the debug console

Single Player

- New single player menu for setting up offline bot matches
- Bots now support siege mode
- Bots in siege mode will raise/lower ladders and gates
- Bots in siege mode will work in squads, lead by an officer
- Bots in siege mode will use artillery and attack walls

Menu UI Improvements

- There is a new tutorial explaining the menu when first starting the game
- Inviting players to your regiment no longer sends you to the main menu
- Edit highest and lowest rank name-notification UI looks better
- You can set a custom question for your regiment application process
- Can search for regiments in the browser (which now can be viewed by people in regiments)
- When returning to the main menu from a session, you don't need to leave and re-enter the server menu
- A dialog box will appear letting you know when you're attempting to connect to a server
- If you fail to connect to a server, or lose the connection during an existing session, a dialog box will inform you of the problem

Gameplay UI Improvements

- Fixed chat colours
- Chat messages also display the channel, so you don't need to remember what each colour represents
- The scoreboard now scrolls
- Gamma is now applied correctly across cavalry and artillery
- It no longer displays the respawn countdown if you run out of lives or have switched to spectator mode

General Gameplay Improvements

- Gates in siege can now be destroyed
- Dueling is easier and the killfeed tells you who is dueling whom
- Suiciding or switching team when mounted on a horse properly kills you and the horse
- Spectating a player correctly follows them when they mount or dismount a horse
- Added an "automatic" bot mode: this will set the minimum number of players to an amount determined by the map, so smaller maps won't become overcrowded or large maps too empty
- New useable boats in certain maps
- Fixed bots being counted in voting

KNOWN ISSUES:

- There is a tricky to resolve problem with banning players from a server, so this feature is temporarily disabled until we can resolve it

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