Please Test RS1.6

[Squid]

OK, we've been working on an upgrade to RS1.5 to drop as a surprise on our users, and it has been completed, now I need people to test it out and make sure that there's nothing wrong with the install. So if everyone on the beta team can download this and install it onto a fresh vanilla install (i.e. no rs1.5c) and test it over the next two days it would be appreciated.

Report any errors or bugs that you find in this thread please.

That's a huge list of changes, here are the ones I remember and the ones that dvk has said were in the stuff he gave me:

• Upgraded environment (RS2 is to this as this is to RS1.5)
• Lowered base farming levels to lower growth rates
• Adjustments to cavalry so cavalry armies do better in auto-resolve
• Tweaked economy to reduce money
• Added a senate provincial campaign
• Made revolts 'slightly' less likely
• Updated the menu screen so there's no crashes from selecting the Prologue Campaign
• Added all BI buildings to the battle map
• Fixed all known bugs/ctds
• Made spartans available to all factions similar to the other city hoplites
• Fixed unit recruitment to remove all (or at least most) duplicate units and missing units
• SoR greek general models/textures
• gennosuke's trees
• new win conditions by apple

Roma Surrectum 1.6.exe

[Caius Antonius]

Cool beans.

Gonna be hard to get back to RS I though

[Benz282]

^^ I know, right? lol.

(downloading)

[apple]

Great job squid!

[Benz282]

Any specific factions/campaigns you want tested?

Ok, a few problems with Senate provincial.

1 - Rome is not allied with the SPQR.
2 - Rome spawns on the map with a fleet near Rome's port, even though they do not own it anymore.
3 - Rome's capital is Neapolis? Why not Capua or Arretium?
4 - Rome's Faction Overview panel is very cluttered...lol.
5 - Syracuse and Epirus are part of the Roman Senate. Epirus is "outlawed" at the start, as well.
6 - Lol...so I sent my diplomat and allied myself with the Senate. 3 messages popped up. The first canceled the mission to take Apollonia from Epirus. The 2nd declared me an outlaw of the Roman Senate. The third was a declaration of war from Syracuse. I am still allied with the Senate, and both Syracuse and I are "respected" in the Senate scroll (meaning, not outlawed).
7 - Next turn, the Senate declared war on Syracuse.
8 - Mysterious "Snow Circles" during winter turn:

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9 - I got a Senate mission to have "Peace Talks" with the Gallic Tribes, even though we are not at war. Their tab in the Senate section says "Our wars with this faction are not progressing satisfactorily."
10 - Principes and Triari both have "very good stamina", but the Hastati do not, despite being the youngest and most lightly armored of the bunch.
11 - The new "upgraded" environment is very nice. I like it. Not so much as I like the RS2 environment, but RS1.5 always had a more epic/cinematic feel to it, and this environment compliments that.
12 - Have the Triarii always had green spear-heads?
13 - SPQR declares peace with Epirus. Epirus accepted back into the Roman Republic.
14 - "Pheoni Archer" = "Poeni Archer" or "Phoenician Archer"?
15 - I can't seem to move my siege equipment during deployment phase when assaulting a city. This is a problem I've experienced in RS2 as well.

[Squid]

Any specific factions/campaigns you want tested?

Ok, a few problems with Senate provincial.

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Ideally I'd like all faction covered by someone if just briefly.

[HMonk]

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[apple]

Click this to CTD!! should be renamed in the senate camp as it works there.

[Benz282]

I found this very ironic

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[dvk901]

If the Senate campaign becomes too much of a hassle I would say just can it. It isn't that important to both with over much.

[HMonk]

If the Senate campaign becomes too much of a hassle I would say just can it. It isn't that important to both with over much.

I agree,the senate campaign is not something I overly care about that much anyway.

[Arnspac]

Has there been an update to the 1.6 ?????

Found green in winter and snow in summer around map, BUT, like the dummy I am ,I was hitting the video hotkey and taxed out my folder. If you need full map shots let me know.

Also a forum member was asking why no roads showing at / or around Aventicum.

[HMonk]

Has there been an update to the 1.6 ?????

Found green in winter and snow in summer around map, BUT, like the dummy I am ,I was hitting the video hotkey and taxed out my folder. If you need full map shots let me know.

Also a forum member was asking why no roads showing at / or around Aventicum.

Don't think theirs is any other updates other than the map update for 1.6
I haven't seen anymore winter/snow problems after the map update, at least not yet.

[cherryfunk]

Found green in winter and snow in summer around map, BUT, like the dummy I am ,I was hitting the video hotkey and taxed out my folder. If you need full map shots let me know

Where was it?

[Arnspac]

Where was it?

Here are 9

http://img199.imageshack.us/gal.php?...0061927403.png

[Iaius Statius Laurentius]

I agree,the senate campaign is not something I overly care about that much anyway.

Are these problems occuring with the BI or ALX exe? It may be that outlawing does not work properly on those exes. I've had occasion issues with the Senate whilst running vanilla on BI.

[Herr Lindstrom]

Damn it just right when I was getting into crushing Boii skulls... I'll download tomarrow as I still have a few unsettled disputes with the back stabbers *turns around and beats on a Boii general*

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

ok i have downloaded 1.6, and i will test the out of the romans, but i dont know if i can even remember what 1.5c was like,

Question : does this mean RS II is gonna take a lot longer before release, is that why were doing a 1.6 ?

[Ketchup]

@Legionary, not really. It's just gonna act as a teaser for RS2 and give the fans something to enjoy while we finish the big one up.

[Arnspac]

Running a Dacian campaign and about 20 years in with no major snafu's.
Will check in later or if something goofy happens.