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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0028613 | Heart Of The Machine | Bug - Gameplay | Jun 3, 2024 12:35 pm | Jun 3, 2024 6:00 pm | |
| Reporter | Darloth | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.534 Trailer Bits | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.535 A Horrifying Idea | ||||
| Summary | 0028613: Bulk Combat squad not targetting hostile within range | ||||
| Description | If you load the provided save, there's exactly one Bulk PMC Imposter squad, set to Deter and Defend. Looking at the list of enemy attacks that turn, a single squad of enemy PMC Trooper is firing at a Large Wind Generator. The PMC Troopers are within the (boosted by stance) range of the Bulk PMC Imposter squad, but they are not being targetted. If you move the PMC Imposters closer (so that they are within the range they would have in Seek and Destroy stance, but without actually selecting that stance) they will target those enemies on this turn. If you then move them further away again, they stop targetting. Conclusion: They are not using their full buffed attack range to actually target enemies in, and they should do so. | ||||
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* Completely re-coded a large part of the targeting system, specifically so that it now is not limited by distance in quite the same way as before. Certain other things are still using cellular chunking in order to maintain performance, but the targeting system maintains performance in a different fashion. ** Tested this with 2500 units all fighting each other, and the performance does take a hit, but it's on a background thread, and only about four times slower in this extreme scenario, while giving better results, and still being under half a second on my test machine. ** In general, the expectation is that on most modern machines, in more common scenarios, this will be effectively the same perceived speed for players. There are a couple of further hand-optimizations I could put in place if I ever need to, but it's already highly optimized, so it doesn't seem warranted right now. *** Please bear in mind that when I am talking about speed here, none of this affects the turn-time changeover, or the framerate. This is all "time for all units who want one to acquire their target," on a background thread, and in the worst-case scenario I tested it was averaging 170ms. More common scenarios were more like 20ms, up from 10ms in prior builds. ** In general, this fixes the issue with the player units with very long ranges being unable to acquire a target, and in some cases this seems to beat the new "echo" targeting that was otherwise required. In other cases, for some reason the echo is still required. That part is really a mystery, but whatever. ** In general, I went ahead and further updated the targeting logic so that, if the player has not requested to go to the next turn, and nothing else has requested a fresh targeting pass, it will still request a targeting refresh every 1 seconds. This is all on the background threads, and it was just otherwise able to get too stale for various unknown reasons. Since the targeting is on a deterministic seed, this doesn't cause any thrashing around, but does cause it to correct itself if it was missing data the first time around. Or the second time. Etc. *** The average targeting time for my test cases are still under 15ms most of the time, so this is really a tiny load in the average game, and the increase in correctness is dramatic. ** Thanks to Darloth for reporting this rabbit hole. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Jun 3, 2024 12:35 pm | Darloth | New Issue | |
| Jun 3, 2024 12:35 pm | Darloth | File Added: Bulk squad not shooting at something in range.save | |
| Jun 3, 2024 6:00 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Jun 3, 2024 6:00 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => resolved |
| Jun 3, 2024 6:00 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Jun 3, 2024 6:00 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => 0.535 A Horrifying Idea |
| Jun 3, 2024 6:00 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0068975 |
