1.7 Released

ARMED! 1.7 has passed certification and is now starting to appear in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.  This release was focused mainly on bug fixes...  more specifically on fixing desync bugs in multiplayer.

We're planning on shipping 1.7 for Windows 8 in the next week which will allow cross-platform play.  We have also started work on 1.8 which will introduce new gameplay features and maps.  The iOS beta is still in the works, but has taken a back seat due to some performance optimization and fixes.

Here is the change log for 1.7:

Features

• New animated skybox for Flotilla level.
• Added small vibration when an opponent is found for a ranked game.
• Added Portuguese translations.
• New level select screen art.
• New background art for splash and buy screens.

Improvements

• Added beta testers to the credits page.
• Made tutorial easier to finish. 
• We now automatically pan the camera in the tutorial to better see important locations.
• Updated some translations.
• Combat music now obeys music volume.
• While showing a modal tutorial information boxes, we now consume input to prevent unwanted user-action, also transitioning out hud controls.
• Adjusted the feel of edge scroll.
• Improved creation of paths off of small units like the drone.
• You can no longer accidentally remove a rally path when double tapping a factory.
• Balance improvement... cost of Striker increased from 125 to 150.
• We now slide out the gameplay HUD while a buy/upgrade/special screen is open.
• We now center pivot menus vertically as well as horizontally.
• Screen margins used for touch based zoom/rotate are now equal in size.
• Moved alert notifications to be on top of the hud.
• News feed now shows the "BUY ARMED!" link every third RSS entry.
• Combat alerts now smoothly pan the camera when tapped.
• Bunch of improvements to our internal stress testing system to help find desyncs.
• Animated skies now animate during deployment.
• Most UI and hud elements are now using uncompressed textures resulting in better quality.
• Improved event logging system for better tracking causes of desyncs.
• Tweaked all menu and UI art to be more blue and less aqua.
• We now move the camera position to show the current selectable tiles, selectable units, or unit selection if they are offscreen.

Fixes

• Fixed spacing between rank and name in leaderboard screen.
• Fixed missing tree in Riverted.
• Fixed the layout of custom match screen.
• The time/money hud element no longer flickers when changing to the remote player.
• Fixed a case where the tutorial would get stuck if the user built more than 2 units before the step in which they are told to group them.
• Units standing next to power stations which are capturable will now ALWAYS capture it, previously only occurred if standing on a buildable tile (or pathed directly to the station).
• Hud flickering on group selection issue is now fixed.
• Removed the time/money control from the pause transition.
• Fix for bug that caused the grouping control transition to flicker when tapped.
• Fixing tap to select while in group/temp select mode again.
• Fixing double-tap to trigger buy again.
• Fixed strikers continuing to render their tracer beams after being destroyed.
• Desynch fix for path nodes targeting units, if that target is shared by multiple units.
• Fixed repair to not send damage notification events.
• Fixed case where player could modify the path of an enemy unit.
• Striker now displays the correct icon above it's head while doing it's special.
• Fixed layout bug in Sickhead splash screen.
• Fixed desync caused by not sharing paths on the remote client the same as we do on the local client.
• Fixed desync caused by allowing a path drag operation to modify a path after leaving the deployment phase.
• Fixed a few different tutorial crash bugs.
• Fixed case where if unit path was targeted to itself it would not advance to the next node.
• Fixed crash caused when following a targeted unit.
• Fixed bugs exposed by very bad network connections.

 Thanks for playing ARMED!

Comments

[Terrell NemesisforLife]

This game is pinned to start... Not only do you make a great game, Sickhead keeps updates coming consistently giving the true meaning of professionals to the people... Thanks for the creation...

[Sasha]

Great game! The only problem is waiting,sometime,when I play online player never pass the turn. Not sure if player leaves the game,or paus it,but it just seet there and says "waiting for player turn" :( ...so after 5 min i have to leave,and it is happens a lot.

cheers

Thanks for good game