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Lobby 0.8.70
Change log :
Core:
- FreeImage warning are now ignored. They were causing the annoying, but harmless “Application has stop incorrectly, ….. check faforever.exe.log” errors when the lobby was closing.
- Incorrectly downloaded images are correctly replaced with the usual placeholder.
Galactic War:
- Fixed an issue with the reinforcement panel crashing the lobby when units were given.
- Fixed various display bugs.
- The way attacks and defenses are handled is modified:
- When you are launching an attack, you start “charging” it.
- When fully charged, the planet occupation is increased by 5% for your faction.
- A defense will stop the charge.
- Losing a defense make the charge continues. No other malus. (don’t fear defending! Nothing to lose! No fear to recall, nothing bad can happen!)
- Winning a defense stop the charge and give some money to the defender.
- Setting “away” or quitting GW without giving your attack stop it immediately.
- It’s a new mechanism, bugs may (and certainly will) occur. Don’t hesitate to report anything in the forum!
Mod vault:
- The mod vault is now scanning mods in zip files (but you shouldn’t do that).
- The mod vault is now using the cache folder for mod icons.
- Mod icons are downloading in background.
- The sort options in the mod vault are now working.
- The game lister display list of mod more nicely.
- (Untested) Windows XP support for the mod vault. You should update to Seven 🙂
- Fixed an issue when joining games from the chat.
Chat:
- “Quit” messages are now only displayed when the player is actually in that channel.
- Avoid displaying non-downloaded avatars (white square).
- Support for random colored Nicknames. Check Options menu!
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Lobby 0.8.69 – Mod Vault.
Thanks to johnie102 (http://www.faforever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=3845), FAF has now a mod vault. This is an alpha version. These functions should work:
- Listing sim mods used in the “find games”.
- Auto-downloading sim mods when joining (if they are in the vault).
- Uploading mods.
- Managing UI-mods from FAF lobby.
- Filtering mods.
- Adding a comment to a mod.
- Liking a mod.
- The listing of mods is working but not “smart”.
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Lobby 0.8.60
This version include some improvements for the chat :
- When an user disconnects, it doesn’t blink private messages anymore.
- Join/Quit messages are now displayed in black for more readability.
- Custom colors for users is now supported.
- Not directly related to the lobby, but some units in Blackops and Xtreme Wars (Tempest, Czar, Ticklord, teleportation…) are fixed. Also, an old feature that may be unknown by many users : Ctrl + mouse wheel in the chat window allows you to increase/decrease the chat font. Shift allow you to scroll faster. There is currently no interface for tweaking the colors. Special colors can be customized in a theme, using “_res\chat\formatters\special_colors.json” User colors can be customized in a theme, using “_res\client\colors.json” They are simple json strings. For custom users colors, it’s the colors.json file. By default :
{"foe" : "crimson", "friend" : "lightskyblue", "player" : "silver", "server" : "black", "default" : "grey", "self" : "orange", "url" : "cornflowerblue"}
You can do for example do :{"Gyle" : "Gold", "foe" : "crimson", "friend" : "lightskyblue", "player" : "silver", "server" : "black", "default" : "grey", "self" : "orange", "url" : "cornflowerblue"}
Now, Gyle has a magnificent gold color when talking! The colors are standard HTML color tags: http://html-color-codes.info/color-names/ -
Lobby 0.8.59
Change log :
- Replay vault is faster and doesn’t slow down the main server anymore, leaving room for more features.
- The client is now using a proper http header when downloading files.
- Fixed a bug where you see yourself with a sword (“in game lobby”) while you are not (was a local problem – nobody else was seeing it).
- Galactic War “domination” is implemented (when a faction is beaten, the players become slave of the faction who destroyed them).
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Lobby 0.8.30.
This is an update for handling Galactic War Alpha phase. Fix a bug with proxies : http://www.faforever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3862