Widelands Changelog

What's new in Widelands Build 20

• Gameplay:
• New Frisian tribe
• New “Village” starting condition
• New “Barracks” building for recruiting soldiers
• Forester/Ranger now prefers good soil, and is thus more efficient
• Scouts now spend more time near to enemy military sites
• Improved algorithm for promotion and demotion of roads
• Diverse balancing improvements and fixes
• Maps, Tutorials, Campaigns & Scenarios:
• 2 new missions for the Empire campaign
• 2 new missions for the new Frisians tribe
• Tweaked timings in tutorials and scenarios
• Minor fixes to the “Last Bastion” map where a player's expansion could become completely blocked across the sea
• Fixed bug in then“Crossing the Horizon” map where an artifact couldn’t be conquered by a player
• Graphics & User Interface:
• New Zoom feature
• New Ship Statistics window
• In building windows, see how many wares and workers are already on their way
• Update all ware priorities for a building when the Ctrl key is pressed while clicking
• New animation graphics for wheat fields, Barbarian Big Inn and Wood Hardener, Atlantean Smoker and all tribes’ resource indicators
• New menu background graphics
• New graphics for field selectors and field action tabs
• Special field selector for road building mode
• Added new information to in-game Encyclopedia and online scripting reference
• Improved keyboard navigation for tables
• Dropdown menus
• Try to show a basic error message box to the user if the graphics driver will not work with Widelands
• Sounds and Music:
• 6 new music tracks
• Added new sound effects and improved the sound mix
• Never play the same song twice in a row
• Networking & Multiplayer
• Host internet games without opening a port in your router
• When the connection to a client in a multiplayer game is broken, the host can decide to exit or to replace the payer with an AI
• Added support for IPv6
• Increased password security by no longer storing and transmitting it in plain text
• Made debugging desyncs easier
• Scripting:
• Extended the Lua scripting API with new functions and objects
• Added capability to add custom scenario buildings
• Allow writing and loading of campaign data, so that some scenario state can be transferred from one scenario to the next in campaigns
• Allow resetting of teams via Lua during game
• Zoomed Out World Complete World, Zoomed Out
• Saveloading:
• Improved reliability and performance of game and map saving and loading
• Unfortunately, we had to break savegame compatibility in version bzr8747 for an important bug fix in the economy code. So, you will not be able to load your old savegames from Build 19.
• AI:
• The AI now uses a genetic algorithm
• Multiple changes and improvements to the AI logic
• New command line switches --ai_training and --auto_speed to help with AI training
• Internationalization
• Show translation statistics next to the selected language in the Options screen
• Glossary checks for inflected languages and glossary generation with support from the Translate Toolkit.
• Editor
• Animals now have categories
• Display of animals, immovables and resources can now be toggled individually
• New layout for Player menu allows the selection of random tribe
• Improved text layout for the Info tool
• Limited the editor undo function to 500 items to prevent boundless growth of memory use
• Resource Indicators New Resource Indicator Graphics
• Operating System Support:
• Windows: Allow parallel installation of multiple Widelands versions
• Windows: Widelands is now installed into local %appdata%
• Windows: No longer write log output to installation folder
• Mac OS X: Modernized how releases are done
• Compiling: Added support for gcc7 and llvm8.
• Compiling: Support for Glbinding version 3 and Boost version 1.69