The future of Wasteland

**Nuckle** · 08-26-13, 09:14 PM

Thanks for all the hard work Rev. We look forward to awesome new things to come for this game. We appreciate all that you have done for us.

**GreenGod** · 08-26-13, 09:42 PM

I haven't known you as long as some here but I've been impressed by your hard work on wasteland immensely. It sounds like an exciting project and I look forward to 270km^2 of wastelandy goodness on Altis! Thanks for helping the ARMA 3 servers and community to what they are. Good luck!

**Kill8ox** · 08-27-13, 11:36 AM

Thanx Rev for taking the time to code for this comunity,we all appreciate it!

**Halifax** · 09-03-13, 04:25 PM

Sounds awesome. I look forward to getting back in game...hopefully my RMA'd motherboard arrives before the 12th...

**dreaddman** · 09-13-13, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by AgentRev

Yes, I will keep maintaining the Stratis TPG edition and correct bugs should some arise, but I won't add more functionality to it. If there is heavy demand for a Stratis version with new functionality, it won't be too hard to adapt the Altis code back to Stratis.

Have you been able to get to the Stratis TPG Wasteland adaptations wrt the Full Release? Can't wait for Team Wasteland Altis, but running Stratis on TPG would be great. If possible.

**Viven** · 09-13-13, 05:43 PM

Rev, if I were single, I would gladly have your babies!

**AgentRev** · 09-16-13, 02:41 PM

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to post an update; there has been some delays and we apologize for that. We simply weren't satisfied with the state of the mission on release day, so we have decided to work some more on it before we do a v0.9 pre-release.

I'm sure many of you are aware of the performance issues on Altis. I can't fix the game's threading problems; however, I did find that the lag mostly comes from large numbers of vehicles, so we have decided to reduce the number of vehicle spawns a bit, but as the island is very large, we still need to have many.

After some intense thinking, I managed to come up with a fix that increases the FPS by at least 30%, by getting the game to stop computing immobile vehicles that are further than 2 km from the player. I'm not sure why the game doesn't do this by default, but the mission is now playable at about the same performance as Wasteland Stratis. It may cause minor network syncing bugs with vehicles, but so far it works great. I haven't tested it with high player numbers, but I'm pretty sure the performance increase will still be noticeable.

The biggest feature being worked on is territory capture by KoS; I don't know if it will be ready for the pre-release, but the goal is to get it in by the full v1.0 release. They are also working on a bounty system, money-oriented missions, and reworking the whole UI.

Right now I'm pretty busy with college, so I won't be able to work on it again until next week, but the rest of the team is making the last touches for the pre-release, which hopefully could be ready later this week.

More info in the upcoming days

**Ace22** · 09-16-13, 02:45 PM

Great Rev. Thanks for the update! Sounding like this new version will be badass. Nice play with the fps fix.

**Arch-Angel** · 09-16-13, 04:56 PM

Nice job Rev. I've been hoping that whatever new video card profiles come out would help the FPS, but it sounds like BIS needs to address their threading concerns first. Thankfully I'm patient. Love the scope of Altis enough to wait to see it good.

**Echelon** · 09-16-13, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by AgentRev

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to post an update; there has been some delays and we apologize for that. We simply weren't satisfied with the state of the mission on release day, so we have decided to work some more on it before we do a v0.9 pre-release.

I'm sure many of you are aware of the performance issues on Altis. I can't fix the game's threading problems; however, I did find that the lag mostly comes from large numbers of vehicles, so we have decided to reduce the number of vehicle spawns a bit, but as the island is very large, we still need to have many.

After some intense thinking, I managed to come up with a fix that increases the FPS by at least 30%, by getting the game to stop computing immobile vehicles that are further than 2 km from the player. I'm not sure why the game doesn't do this by default, but the mission is now playable at about the same performance as Wasteland Stratis. It may cause minor network syncing bugs with vehicles, but so far it works great. I haven't tested it with high player numbers, but I'm pretty sure the performance increase will still be noticeable.

The biggest feature being worked on is territory capture by KoS; I don't know if it will be ready for the pre-release, but the goal is to get it in by the full v1.0 release. They are also working on a bounty system, money-oriented missions, and reworking the whole UI.

Right now I'm pretty busy with college, so I won't be able to work on it again until next week, but the rest of the team is making the last touches for the pre-release, which hopefully could be ready later this week.

More info in the upcoming days

Sounds awesome Rev. Can't wait to try it out. Again thank you and the team for all the hard work you guys do.