Spring RTS Engine

new version out! same link as before 2020/01/23 ------------------ NOTES v1.27 ---------------------- --- Balance / Mechanics - slightly increased cost of units that have relatively short range weapons with relatively low projectile velocity (they're likely to shoot over each other and still hit the...

food for thought (or for talk): - "some succeed in bringing contributors while others disappear". What is "success"? How much does it really correlate with number of contributors? Projects may have few users and lots of contributors or with few contributors and lots of users, or few of both, and eac...

new version out! same link as before 2020/01/12 ------------------ NOTES v1.26 ---------------------- --- Balance / Mechanics - reduced range of SPHERE "Gaunt" from 680 to 670 - increased the range of level1 missile units to 680 (this is to ensure they outrange Gaunts and counter them properly due t...

new version out! here Also available through the "metalfactions:stable" rapid tag, and by joining the nebula game rooms on the official server. Stuff happening... https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=10962 2020/01/10 ------------------ NOTES v1.25 ---------------------- --- New...

new version out!

same link as before


2019/12/28 ------------------ NOTES v1.24 ----------------------

- fixed chat type button overlapping the players list when spectators are present

- removed debug messages indicating that AI start position was selected successfully

new version out! same link as before 2019/12/25 ------------------ NOTES v1.23 ---------------------- --- Balance / Mechanics - on team games, players are no longer set to "dead" even if they lost all units as long as allies are still standing (this is to allow the other teammates to give a them a c...

some options:
- temporarily banning the autohost accounts until the issue is fixed
- restoring the engine versions so people can download them again

what are the legacy lobbies that will get deprecated?

and is there updated documentation on what lobby clients need to do to interact with the server?

new version out! same link as before 2019/12/08 ------------------ NOTES v1.22 ---------------------- --- Balance / Mechanics - modified SPHERE "Magnetar" : . increased damage, area of effect and pull strength of the aura, but increased cost by 20% . the pull aura is now much more effective at catch...

it'd be interesting to have this.

Shouldn't be enabled by default it the performance cost is significant, though.

new version out with fixes to game-breaking bugs on the previous version


same link as before


2019/11/18 ------------------ NOTES v1.21 ----------------------

- fixed two bugs with the previous version
(one would trigger auto-resign and the other would mess with the damage and cloak handler)

new version out! here Also available through the "metalfactions:stable" rapid tag, and by joining the nebula game rooms on the official server. AVEN Scopers scouting a hill where an enemy SPHERE commander landed and is doing nasty stuff... https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=1...

The movedef your unit is using might need a higher "slopemod"
(https://springrts.com/wiki/Movedefs.lua)

The "allowGroundUnitGravity" game rule might need to be disabled
(https://springrts.com/wiki/Modrules.lua)

new version out with buff to t2 factories and nerf to commanders. same link as before 2019/10/31 ------------------ NOTES v1.19 ---------------------- --- Balance / Mechanics - standardized level2 unit production factories to have 4500 HP and cost about 20% less (about 1550m) - increased cost of upg...

new version out with some improvements to balance and a few bugs fixed. same link as before 2019/10/30 ------------------ NOTES v1.18 ---------------------- --- Engine - changed the recommended engine from "104.0.1-1404-g47794d1 maintenance" to "104.0.1-1429-g1add37c maintenance" or later (lobby cli...

https://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_Socket I'm wondering if lua sockets could be used to have dynamic content in games through gadgets, namely: 1 - allowing players to build custom units through an external website, then, when the game starts, luasocket communication being used to get info about each pla...

having a single feature archive would have made fixing this easier, but lobbies had trouble handling dependencies (they wouldn't sort them automatically) and a safe way to tune the features to each map is include them in and tweak them instead of using the package. Imo we should avoid breaking backw...

Icy Crater! (version v1) In-game screenshot https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=10911 Minimap https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=10912 SPRINGFILES LINK Fight around an ice-filled crater. 12x12 East vs West or NW vs SE recommended. 2-8 players

new version out with some improvements to balance, sounds and UI. same link as before 2019/10/06 ------------------ NOTES v1.17 ---------------------- --- Balance / Mechanics - about 2% cost reduction in units with bursty L damage weapons and relatively low dmg/s, namely light missile launchers (as ...

new version out! here Also available through the "metalfactions:stable" rapid tag, and by joining the nebula game rooms on the official server. https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=10896 2019/09/24 ------------------ NOTES v1.16 ---------------------- --- Engine - changed the r...