Current Patch Notes - March 31st 2010

[cydereal]

Current Patch

Co-Op Survival, your long-time community request, is a reality! Enjoy it! Also, big thanks to the participants in our first community-sourced map event. The winning submissions by Shentrax were fantastic, and have made their way into the game!

July 7th, 2010

Added Survival Co-op multiplayer mode.
Added two Survival Co-op maps: Medusa and Candlelight, from designs submitted by community member Shentrax.
Added gamepad navigation of menus.
Added screenshot key to bindable controls.
Fixed crash from corrupted configuration save data.
Fixed crash from corrupted Cloud save data.
Fixed clients failing to time out when joining a lobby that closed.


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Old Patches

April 23rd, 2010
Another survival fix, along with an added ability to view crash logs to share.


Added option to view crash report text.
Fixed survival mode being beatable after an hour.


April 16th, 2010
Sol Survivor 1.3 + 1.4 Combined Patch


Improved detection of Windows Media Player and alternate audio engine.
Fixed Survival balance bug.
Added colorblind mode for health bars.
Fixed host name appearing as game name.
Fixed officer randomization persistence.
Fixed tooltips consuming memory when game is minimized.
Added six new multiplayer maps (two Wars and four Co-Op).
Added bindable controls.
Added option to zoom to the cursor.
Added option to clip the cursor to the game area when fullscreen.
Added kicking and spot swapping on multiplayer lobbies.
Improved lobby behavior when mutliplayer games end.
Muted sounds when out of focus or minimized.
Prevented survival balance from flattening out after an hour.





March 31st, 2010
Sol Survivor 1.2

Fixed crash bug when attempting to upgrade silos.
Fixed rendering artifacts from forced driver MSAA on NVIDIA cards.
Fixed invisible terrain on Shader Model 2.0 hardware.
Fixed text chat on international keyboards.
Fixed unsupported hardware crashing instead of displaying a message window.
Fixed prebuilt turrets not counting in player records, blocking Equal Opportunity Constructor.
Added fallback music engine for systems that do not have Windows Media Player.
Added Co-Op Campaign multiplayer mode.
Added promotion message archive, viewable by clicking rank on main menu.
Tweaked radiation and railgun turret damage.
Tweaked difficulty on some Versus and Co-Op maps.



Patch: March 16th 2010
Sol Survivor 1.1
Fix is in, less than 24 hours post-release. Should fix the bulk of the bugs. Thanks to all of you for detailed crash reports, it made the all-nighter easier!


Fixed non-US English font characters resulting in crash.
Fixed survival leaderboards failing to show scores and crashing.
Fixed using Xbox controller in some menus crashing.
Fixed playing music for the first time causing a crash in rare instances.
Fixed crash when playing a game after finishing a co-op game.
Fixed tutorial 2 flyby camera crash bug.
Fixed viewing credits in game from the options screen.
Fixed viewing an encyclopedia entry while loading for the next level.
Fixed rare tornado and laser support audio crash bugs.
Fixed invalid and missing multiplayer level descriptions.
Fixed a crash when a turret received a critical strike just as the level was restarting.
Removed developer hotkeys for disabling the HUD.

[damaged]

Nice work, thanks. :)`

[acam]

wow less than 24 hours! You rock! I remember posting something about 24 hours and someone said it had never been done, but you proved it can be if a dev team is committed! I take my hat off to you good sirs. ( actually can't test it on my comp for another day cuz I moved but I will assume it works)

[Masterlatvia]

The development team is still working tirelessly on addition bug fixes as they come in. Please keep checking back for updates. Also, keep an eye out for new Steam News postings concerning the latest updates. We will be including change logs as patches are released. Thanks everyone!

[Whist]

This patch made me eat my own words posted about 10 hours prior to the update release.

[Nekomancer]

March 31st 2010

Updates to Sol Survivor have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Bugs fixed:
Fixed crash bug when attempting to upgrade silos.
Fixed rendering artifacts from forced driver MSAA on NVIDIA cards.
Fixed invisible terrain on Shader Model 2.0 hardware.
Fixed text chat on international keyboards.
Fixed unsupported hardware crashing instead of displaying a message window.
Fixed survival balance causing bosses to come in too early.
Fixed prebuilt turrets not counting in player records, blocking Equal Opportunity Constructor.
Added fallback music engine for systems that do not have Windows Media Player.

Enhancements:
Added Co-Op Campaign multiplayer mode.
Added promotion message archive, viewable by clicking rank on main menu.
Tweaked radiation and railgun turret damage.
Tweaked difficulty on some Versus and Co-Op maps.

[Masterlatvia]

March 31st 2010

Updates to Sol Survivor have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Bugs fixed:
Fixed crash bug when attempting to upgrade silos.
Fixed rendering artifacts from forced driver MSAA on NVIDIA cards.
Fixed invisible terrain on Shader Model 2.0 hardware.
Fixed text chat on international keyboards.
Fixed unsupported hardware crashing instead of displaying a message window.
Fixed survival balance causing bosses to come in too early.
Fixed prebuilt turrets not counting in player records, blocking Equal Opportunity Constructor.
Added fallback music engine for systems that do not have Windows Media Player.

Enhancements:
Added Co-Op Campaign multiplayer mode.
Added promotion message archive, viewable by clicking rank on main menu.
Tweaked radiation and railgun turret damage.
Tweaked difficulty on some Versus and Co-Op maps.

That is correct. The patch is being distributed as I type this. At some point soon, we will be posting a list of tentative items, content and fixes to be patched in our next update. Keep checking back in.

[cydereal]

Patch is out. Notes are up. Tonight, co-op campaign creeps dine in hell. :)

[wsxdrfv]

After patched, it still doesn't even start. When I click steam sol survivor's icon, appear red icon in middle of monitor and then .... cadenza screen and then just stop working and window's background again.

[Matrix1O1]

Thanks for the patch, and the demo has been patched too! :) Nice move (I only have the demo for the moment -see just below why-).

So... it looks like we still can't remap controls and the international keyboard moving issue is still present (the WASD not behaving as expected on non English keyboard).
Too bad 'cause you're basically alienating all non UK/US keyboard users here (read potential customers ;)).

Programming is not always easy for sure, but I really hope that this non-WASD keyboard (or control remap) will now go top in your priority for the next patch.
Most of strangers like me are waiting for this I guess.

[Nekomancer]

Bindable keys will be in the next patch. And i disagree about the international keyboards. My german QWERTZ keyboard layout now works as intended, only the Umlaute (äöü) don't work, instead i just get ?. Maybe the font does not support such letters. Not that big of an issue.

Don't worry, you'll see bindable keys soon enough. And if you are colorblind, they'll add an option for that too with the next patch.

[cydereal]

Programming is not always easy for sure, but I really hope that this non-WASD keyboard (or control remap) will now go top in your priority for the next patch.
Most of strangers like me are waiting for this I guess.

This is a change going directly into our next patch as highest priority. I can't give an exact date, but it will be quick. :)

[StarShadow]

Tonight, co-op campaign creeps dine in hell ...

As was also true of the Spartans!

[OJ191]

Very good work; I am amazed at the level of support from Cadenza.

[Exaltedlegions]

Very good work; I am amazed at the level of support from you people.

What do you mean you people? (haha jk)

[jsk68]

Nice since you guys support your work so well, I'll be buying this tonight. congrats on the game launch and I hope sales are good!

[seq]

Thanks for the patch and support guys. I haven't really figured out how to get the Equal Opportunity Constructor achievement though, I'm still stuck at 63/64 after the patch (and yes, I've confirmed that I got the patch, I saw it getting installed).

[ColdEquation]

To claim your rightfully earned Equal Opportunity Constructor achievement, you only need jump into a Wars game, where the escalation turret will drop in and count for the final point.

[Worm Shoes]

Cool!

Can I ask, when you say....



Tweaked radiation and railgun turret damage.



In which direction have you tweaked it? Are the rad and rail towers weaker now or? :confused:

[seq]

To claim your rightfully earned Equal Opportunity Constructor achievement /.../Ah, okay. I was thinking that I maybe had to do something like that… So I guess I should've tried that before posting. Thanks!

[frickenmoron]

Cool!

Can I ask, when you say....



In which direction have you tweaked it? Are the rad and rail towers weaker now or? :confused:

Railguns have been tweaked up a bit damage wise.

[Worm Shoes]

Oh really? Nice!

I've neglected the Railguns actually :( Think tonight I will give them a go :p

Thanks dude!

lol you are definitely the most helpful poster I have ever come across ;)

[cydereal]

Railguns were not previously receiving the appropriate damage bonus to mechanical creeps. Now that they are properly classified, they should do more damage to the creeps they're designed to kill! :)

[jeanius]

In what way were radiation towers tweaked?

[ColdEquation]

Radiation turrets now have a stronger damage multiplication effect, making them better when grouped with other turrets.

[MasterOfTheTide]

When is the 1.3 patch due out ?

[Jani666]

Very good question!

[MasterOfTheTide]

I thought the 1.3 was submitted to steam over a week ago? What the turd muffins is going on? Also what is the ETA on coop survivor and some more maps?

I just bought the game for a buddy to help support you guys more and he absolutely loves the game.

[rocketeer8015]

Is the fix to survival ever going to hit the steam version? Id be willing to buy the game again from some other service but it wouldnt make me happy.

[ColdEquation]

The 1.3 patch with the survival fix will go live with 1.4, which is in testing now. We've been preparing some new multiplayer maps in the mean time, so this minor hiccup hasn't set back the other content we had planned - it will just be more at once.

[MasterOfTheTide]

I hope there are some more cooperative maps that we get to build together as those are the best! Just had another buddy get this game and we had a 4 player Sol Survival night!

Would love to see 4 player coop survivor to take it to the max!

[cydereal]

I hope there are some more cooperative maps that we get to build together as those are the best! Just had another buddy get this game and we had a 4 player Sol Survival night!

Would love to see 4 player coop survivor to take it to the max!

Sir, there are FOUR co-op maps where you get to build together.

There's a map in there that we've added as a pretty difficult challenge too. It was rolling us pretty hard on Intense.

Get to it! :)

[cydereal]

First post edited with current patch notes! Enjoy 1.4 everyone!

[cydereal]

Patch to fix survival is out! Thanks folks! :)

[deanjones145]

any new maps in the pipeline?

we have a nice three player combo and seem to finish alot of intense maps :P