Playtest 20130427 news

Changelog

• Fixed scripted mission AI not attacking because it's shroud was not revealed.
• Removed duplicate e8.shp.
• Added documentation for the hidden Dune II SHP converter (Utility).
• Fixed harvesters not undocking when refinery is destroyed.
• Added new Colorpicker with graphical mixer as well as new ping and admin indicators:

• Changed surrender button will now give access to the complete spectator mode including the extensive stats screen (big underlying code cleanup).
• Fixed mechanic now gets a wrench cursor icon instead of red-cross.
• Fixed random crash when fonts were not initialized on loadscreens.
• Fixed Dune 2000 mod installation on Windows.
• Fixed random crashes when creating replay files.
• Removed dynamic order lag as it caused more problems in multi-player than expected.
• Changed use Ping/Pong orders instead of ICMP round trip time for a more realistic assessment.
• Added new spawn tooltip showing team/faction to Red Alert and Dune 2000 mod (was Tiberian Dawn exclusive)
• Removed obsolete Random Map button from d2k lobby.
• Removed the ALT modifier for buildings hotkeys and adjusted the keybindings and build palette order to compensate.
• Added missing target line and flash for demo-truck attacks.
• Changed C&C tanks rate of fire has been increased.
• Added you can now type make version on Mac/Linux to set the version string after fetching the source code from GitHub using git.
• Fixed auto-updating the pause state when F9 was pressed and the settings menu is being opened (was wonky).
• Fixed crash when pinging the incoming client failed.

Upcoming

We are kinda in feature freeze to get a stable release soon with no new unexpected changes (aka bugs), but anyway you can vote at the ModDB images section for a new RA main menu layout.