Minor GPGnet Replay Vault bug

Monday, June 25th, 2007

There’s a small bug I’ve noticed recently in the Replay Vault and I was wondering if it happens to anyone else. It looks like the “Game Type” is frequently being recorded incorrectly. For instance, I just played three 2v2 ranked ladder games tonight, but all three replays are showing up in the Reply [...]

New Cybran exploit in the wild

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Breaking news! While this reporter was playing in the Friday Evening BLITZ tournament, a new exploit seems to be in the wild. Apparantly a Cybran player (who shall remain nameless) managed to upgrade his commander with cloak and stealth in 8 minutes without having the upgrades and without drawing power. How this was done still [...]

Battleships shoot down nukes now

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Multiple players on the official forum have confirmed that battleships now shoot down strategic nuclear missiles. This change was introduced, apparently inadvertently, in the v3254 hotfix patch. As you may already know, battleships have tactical missile defense that they use to shoot down incoming tactical missiles. Somehow, something changed in their targeting, [...]

Official map editor released

Monday, June 11th, 2007

The official map editor has been released, at least in some form (hat-tip to Wuped). To find it, go into “The Vault” on GPGnet (located in the Tools menu), browse to the Download tab, select the Tools list item under “Search For”, and then hit the “Run Search” button in the upper right. [...]

New patch special: Losses count double!

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I bring grim, foreboding news of an awful, terrible, no good bug in the tweaked rank scoring system of the patch. Apparently some losses are now being counted double, as Sir Loui unfortunately reports. For instance, Sir Loui lost a game that was worth 24 ranking points, but 48 points ended up being [...]