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Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.6 Released!

ProgSys — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:19:13 +0000

Hi folks! We're back with the latest update for Lambda Wars: Beta 2.3.6. This is a pretty minor release that mostly focuses on bug fixing, updating the internal version of Python and some other small improvements to game balance, sound and visuals. You can read the full changelog at the end of this post. This release does not have an incremental patch, so you'll have to download the full EXE or zip file below (approximately 1gb) to install.

Stay tuned though, because as you remember we were Greenlit early this year and we're still moving steadily towards our inaugural release on Steam later this year. More details on that soon!

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.6 FULL EXE (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.6 FULL 7ZIP (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.6 FULL 7ZIP (Lambda Wars)[www.hl2wars.com]

Recruiting a Gameplay UI Designer!
We're still looking for a gameplay UI designer to help us rebuild the interface (menus/lobby first and eventually the ingame interface) in HTML5 via Chromium Embedded Framework. If you're a visual designer adept with CSS and JS and have a knack for UI/UX get in touch via our recruitment forum[hl2wars.com].

Lambda Wars 2.3.6 Changelog

Improvements and Balance:

Reduced Strider's Dark energy cannon damage radius from 200 to 100
Reduced Strider's Dark energy cannon cooldown from 30 to 20 seconds
Reduced black and regular headcrabs HP to 80
Reduced fast headcrabs HP to 60
Unit selection interface: control + left click unit type in hud unit selection will filter selection on that type, while control + right will do the inverse.

Visuals:

Add combine victory and defeat effects

Maps:

UPDATED: hlw_base4 (flora)
UPDATED: hlw_meltdown (flora, various)
UPDATED: hlw_slums (flora)
UPDATED: hlw_synth (various)
UPDATED: hlw_village (flora, various)
UPDATED: hlw_waste (flora, various)
UPDATED: or_base4 (flora)
UPDATED: or_hill (flora)
UPDATED: or_washedaway (flora)

CPU Player:

Rebel CPU Player now collects scrap

Overrun:

Improve cleanup of stuck enemies
Headcrab cannisters are no longer launched between waves
Scaled down bounding box of Headcrab Poison boss to prevent navigation issues on or_trapped

Fixed:

Potentially broken buildings when the client requested a full game update due packet loss
Combine Elite AR2 alt fire ability firing at wrong target due faulty aim code
CPU player placing too many barracks, while not producing any units
CPU player is now always ready in overrun
Incorrect unit navigation when jumping off cliffs/edges (e.g. getting stuck)
Headcrabs flying up to an unreachable location after being spawned from a killed zombie (in particular or_base4)
Overrun game mode endless wave type not working
Overrun game mode waves not progressing
Strider's Dark energy cannon ability not taking resources
Fix fog of war incorrectly revealed around control points in some cases due mismatch between server and client parameters
Tooltips of units and abilities not disappearing on machines with a low framerate
Upgrade energy fields of medic being shared with saboteur and scout, due which they can stay invisible forever
Fortification of control point not removed after becoming neutral due a player being defeated
When a zombie dies "chopped", it would potentially not be removed and become invisible and not solid

Misc:

Add name and description for "Ungarrison All" Ability
Updated Python from 2.7.6 to Python 3.4.1
Updated spanish translation, thanks to JLMCYT

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.5 Released!

ProgSys — Sun, 11 May 2014 15:56:20 +0000

Hey folks, the great 2.3.5 update is here, featuring numerous bugfixes, gameplay improvements, new graphic features and new maps: 8-player FFA hlw_synth and revamped 4v4 hlw_waste, now actually being a wasteland!

Noticeable new features in 2.3.5:

Control point fortification;
Maps now look and play much more lifelike due to interactive flora;
We're also glad to announce that Lambda Wars no longer require to own Half-Life 2: Episode Two. A free installation of Alien Swarm is now enough to play the mod!

And yes, we're advancing to Steam and need reinforcements to reach this milestone:
- Web-based Game UI Designer URGENT (http://www.moddb.com/jobs/web-based-game-ui-designer)
- Announcer/Voice actor (for lines such as "Building under attack" or "Need more requisition")

Get the latest full version or patch here, bug reports and feature suggestions are welcome at our
community forums[lambdawars.com]!

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.4 -> 2.3.5 PATCH 7ZIP (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.5 FULL 7ZIP (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.5 FULL EXE (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.5 FULL 7ZIP (Lambda Wars)[www.hl2wars.com]

Changelog for 2.3.5

Improvements and Balance:
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Control Points can now be fortified, preventing capturing until fortification is destroyed and increases income
Added Rebel Radio Tower detecting cloaked enemies in a radius of 500 and performing
Scan ability (moved from HQ)
Limited number of engineers which can salvage scrap at the same time
Raised population limit from 75 to 100
Added one additional Combine Population upgrade and updated existing population upgrades
Replaced Rebel Engineer smg1 weapon by pistol
Replaced Rebel Veteran weapons by Crossbow
Increased build time Barracks/Garrison to 80 seconds
Increased cooldown time of manhack deploy ability from 20 to 120 seconds
Turrets, barricades and sub-component buildings no longer count as valid main buildings in Annihilation mode for victory conditions
Reduce costs headcrab canister launcher builder from 40 req + 60 pow to 30 req and 40 pow.
Reduce costs of launching headcrab canisters from 50 req + 50 pow to 30 req and 60 pow
Reduce cooldown launching headcrab canisters from 30 to 8 seconds

Visuals:

Replaced sprite based detail props by flora models
Updated unit glow effect (less obtrusive)
Units now get a green tint when detected while cloaked. Additionally the team color glow is enabled again from the enemies point of view and can be targeted by the enemy player.

CPU Player:

Various adjustments in resource management
Added Hard difficulty

Maps:

NEW: hlw_synth (8-player FFA)
UPDATED: hlw_waste (complete revamp & added flora)
UPDATED: sp_radio_tower (flora)
UPDATED: sp_valley (flora)
UPDATED: hlw_forest (flora)
UPDATED: hlw_washedaway (flora)
UPDATED: hlw_mine (flora)
UPDATED: hlw_aurora
REMOVED: hlw_battlemounds

Unit AI & Navigation:

Right clicking a barricade now makes selected units go into cover around the barricade
Improvements in navigation around barricades/mountable turrets

Overrun:

Now defaults to 10 waves to win the game
Increased preparing time between waves
Added button to indicate the player is ready for the next wave (skipping remaining prepare time)
Wave progress bar displaying the number of enemies left to kill
Player now starts with 25 population. Tier 2 increases it with 25 and tier 3 increases it with 50.
Tier 2 upgrade now costs 12 kills and tier 3 upgrade costs 15 kills (both were 20)
During Leap attacks of Antlion and Headcrabs, they no longer collide with units of their same team
Made various costs changes for Overrun. Hunter and Vortigaunt now cost 5 kills instead of 8 kills. AR2 soldier now costs 2 kills.
Added two bosses for Zombies wave mode. They start appearing at wave 7. One is a larger version of the poison zombie, which throws more black headcrabs at once. The other one is a giant black headcrab, which spits acid.
Boss type like units must be killed to progress to the next wave

Fixed:

Enemy fire/tracer/sound effects not visible/played when they shoot at your units from a position hidden in the fog of war
Soldiers holding weapon models incorrectly
Annihilation game mode does not directly ends after destroying the last building (waits until the destruction animation finished playing)
Unable to target Fuel or Explosive barrels using Attack Move ability
Hunter blood effects not stopping after being healed
Engineers not auto-casting "construct" ability after turning on autocast while being near a building needing construction or repairing.
Unit not shooting enemies while being in cover and uncloaking
Units going into cover at incorrect places when returning to idle position.
Weapons of cloaked units were visually not cloaked
Headcrab Cannister launcher still spawning headcrabs for a moment after being destroyed
Single moving units sometimes getting stuck along a wall
CPU difficulty not shown correctly to new players joining the game lobby
Improved behavior of pausing the game in single player (broken because of an Alien Swarm engine bug)

Misc:

No longer required to own Half-Life 2: Episode Two. A free installation of Alien Swarm is now enough to play the mod!
Added partial Spanish translations
User Steam avatar is displayed in the to top left corner of main menu.

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.4 Released!

ProgSys — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:20:29 +0000

Hi folks! Lambda Wars is back with another small update. Beta 2.3.4 is intended mainly to fix a couple of major bugs and add some small balancing changes, so there's not much to see here this time around - but it does resolve the major animation issues in 2.3.3.

We're already hard at work on 2.3.5, which will be a more substantial release with some exciting new features, so stay tuned! In the meantime, you can download Beta 2.3.4 from one of our mirrors below and read on for the full changelog. Note that you can download a patch that updates Beta 2.3.3 to 2.3.4, a 7zip archive for the full 2.3.4 files, or an EXE installer for 2.3.4.

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.3 -> 2.3.4 PATCH 7ZIP (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.4 FULL EXE (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.4 FULL 7ZIP (ModDB)
Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.4 FULL 7ZIP (Lambda Wars)[www.hl2wars.com]

Enjoy, and as always please feel free to stop by our community forums[lambdawars.com] to let us know what you think (as well as report bugs and suggest features)!

Lambda Wars 2.3.4 changes
Improvements and Balance:
* Increased Synth toughness against Slash and Bite (minor antlion/zombie/headcrab attacks), now Hunters make more sense in Overrun
* Added Metal attribute (tougher than Synth) for Dog and future superheavy full-metal units
* Added Crush attribute for Antlion Guard attacks, like Slash but dealing full damage to Synth and Metal
* Damage adjustments of Hunter charge and Strider impale attacks to improve gameplay
* Reduced Strider health from 2500 to 2000
* Increased range Combine Headcrab Canister Launcher from 4000 to 6000
* Combine Headcrab Canister Launcher must now be powered when launcher canisters

Maps:
* UPDATED: hlw_village

Overrun:
* Randomized attack building target of enemies to prevent enemies from attacking the same player all the time on some maps

Fixed:
* Building construction animations not playing correctly
* Auto-construction animation of Combine Power Generator looking laggy/choppy
* Various animations not played when first playing a local game and then joining a multiplayer game
* Late precache of buildings and units occurring after starting a game from the lobby
* Air units (e.g. Manhack, Strider) not moving to their exact waypoints on a route to a goal, causing navigation issues
* Combine Metro Police does not play correct animation when falling (T-pose)

Sandbox:
* Updated the tool bar style

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.3 Released!

ProgSys — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:22:13 +0000

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.3 has been released. This is a minor patch release primarily to address some bugs we noticed in last week's release of 2.3.2, along with a few minor balancing changes.

Get it on Mod DB or on our webpage[hl2wars.com].

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.2 Released!

ProgSys — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:13:15 +0000

The 2.3.2 beta update is out! It adds two new buildings the Combine Headcrab Cannister launcher and a Rebel Barrel Trap and of course many tweaks and bug fixes.

Get it on Mod DB or on our webpage[hl2wars.com].

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.1 Released and Steam Greenlight!

ProgSys — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:45:48 +0000

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.1 is featuring difficulty levels for CPU opponents, new maps hlw_aurora and hlw_slumdolls and several important bugfixes and changes.
Download Lambda Wars 2.3.1 FULL 7z

Also Lambda Wars is on Greenlight so if have not voted yet then please support us by giving a vote.

For more info visit our web page:http://lambdawars.com/

Vote for us for Mod of the Year 2013!

ProgSys — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:01:59 +0000

ModDB just started a new contest for Mod of the Year. Please support us with your vote!

Lambda Wars ModDB page

Lambda Wars Beta 2.3.0 Released!

ProgSys — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:08:05 +0000

Beta 2.3 is now available for download, and it's a big update! The first thing you'll notice is that we have changed the name of the mod to Lambda Wars. This is in preparation for Steam Greenlight - we'll have more details about this later this week, so stay tuned!

The update comes with several new maps, including a new singleplayer map. New improved lighting system, a new unit and many balance changes.

For more info and download please visit Mod DB!

Half-Life 2: Wars Beta 2.2.0 Released!

ProgSys — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:08:43 +0000

The 2.2.0 beta update is out! It adds a new HTML based Main Menu, one Single Player Mission and of course many tweaks and bug fixes.

Download it now on ModDB!

Half-Life 2: Wars Beta 2.1.2 Released!

ProgSys — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:45:19 +0000

Here we are with another Half-Life 2: Wars beta update! This update mostly addresses a number of bugs and balancing issues, but also adds hlw_washedaway to the Overrun game mode.

You can find more at our Website[hl2wars.com].