@JuliusBorisovBeamdog

Server availability is near 100%, whereas it was about 65-80% only a few weeks ago. Great job!

During games lag during noncom has dramatically improved as well. Only 1-2 minor incidents vs many periods of non-responsiveness a few weeks ago.

Still there are a few game crash issues, but the game self-recovers and reloads quickly, and data is not lost, so this isn’t a huge problem.

Allies remain at a fair disadvantage in both versions. A bid mechanic should be implemented to offset this.

The tracing lines are problematic because they tend to cover up units that have not yet be committed. When there are more than 5 transports, this problem is exacerbated.

Axis planes that are on carriers in the central med SZ look as if they are landed on Sicily and are not as apparent on the accompanying carrier as in other situations/zones.

I can watch games live, the game should allow casualty selection when I’m watching live.

@Striker I like Global the best, possibly among all wargames. But 42.2 has a faster, chesslike appeal.

I try to play 5 games at once and very quickly, which improves my skills but also leaves plenty of room for me to make mistakes…like speed chess at the renfest where 1 member of the KC chess club takes on 15 all-comers at one time, one move after the next then back to the first game…

Hello! This is a know situation, mentioned even in the AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/b65dzh/were_beamdog_developers_of_axis_allies_online_ama/eji7z5r/

The bug fixes are super appreciated. I can get through my 8 active games in ~20 minutes now Vs. ~2 hours before. Having the LHTR as an alternative setup is fantastic as well!

@taamvan Whoops. I was at work when this was all going down. Sorry I missed the boat.

Agree with Black_Elk though. I’ve been playing all my games on a PBEM-basis. I just don’t have 3-4 continuous hours of free time to sit down and play out a full game live these days. Best I can manage is like 1-3 moves (countries, not full rounds) per game I’m in a day.

@DoManMacgee

Yeah there are some funky dice results. Worst one is they exacerbate the RNG problems by doing a multiplier–so in one battle they rolled 1,2,4,4,5,6 but the x6 marker fell on the 1 and 2, giving them 12/18 hits on 18 '2’s. Disappointing given how hard it would be to roll 1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,4,4,4,5,6.

Some of the players are plenty good, its not really a good idea to let noobs on your team its better just to play the whole dang team yourself.

Still some problems with lag but already seeing improvement.

@taamvan

We don’t have any quick solution for that particular bit of lag at the moment. We have plans for a replay system so you can more easily see what happened when it wasn’t your turn. Yes, we agree and have some redesigns in process for the cards, with one of the goals being to make who’s who more clear to the player. Indeed, unit arrows are confusing. We have some plans to revise these. Bombers and fighters - we have a bug in the system that bombers should be clearly larger than fighters, but overall the design is based on the pieces from the board game. We have a few open tickets in the backlog for unit crowding leading to cases where you can’t see stack numbers. We still need to design an elegant solution and run another unit placement pass . Yay, thank you! :slightly_smiling_face:

@DoManMacgee said in Day 2 Feedback (Post Hotfix):

I did start a multiplayer game last night, and that all works fine. Dice roll a bit slowly compared to offline play, but that’s probably because the online mode uses dice servers or some sort of anti-cheat mechanism.

Perhaps the dice servers are why, but regularly I have issues where it takes 10-15 seconds to move units because of the absurd lag. Move inf, wait 10 secs, move inf, wait 10 secs, repeat. It seems like quitting the game and restarting helps and this is actually quicker than waiting when you have a lot of moves.

Lag is a major issue IMO, even today (8/2)

Also, check out this interview with Trent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSzN37SNGEo&feature=youtu.be

See you in the game!

@CrazyIvan My speculation is that the more the game sells the more likely the possibilities for the future. Mac Store? Windows Store? Why not? (Again, pure speculation about the long term).

@CrazyIvan said in Axis & Allies Online Screenshots and Steam Page:

Ok, so it looks like the featured map is something I have never played on, from whatever version that is, but my question is, as this is a computer game, are all other maps/rules included?

It’ll be an adaption of 1942 second edtion only.

And concerning Steam see https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/33022/technical-question-aao-and-steam/

@Ichabod Look again. There are two views: the zoomed out view and the zoomed in view.

The zoomed out view has the chits and the zoomed in view has the 3D pieces.

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog That’s similar enough to what was done in AAC, the “Russia can’t attack on their first turn” rule. Basically, it gave Germany a turn to get their valuable Tanks and their irreplaceable FTR out of their indefensible positions in Russia. This change gives Germany a stronger initial force, which snowballs, as it takes Russia/UK longer to kill Germany, which in turn gives Japan more time to gobble up IPCs on their side of the map.

For 42SE, giving the Allies a turn to not die saves:

The USSR IC in Karelia, which means it could be a feasible point to hold for a few rounds.

The entire UK Fleet, which speeds up the UK/US’s deployment to Europe/Russia/Africa.

The US Atlantic Fleet, as some German openings favor sending a sub or two after the US East Coast on G1.

The US Pacific Fleet, as no J1 attack on it is possible.

The US FTR in China, which can be redeployed to either help the Soviets or link up with the Pacific Fleet.

Great idea. Hope to see it implemented in-game.

Tons of great questions and answers in there. Thanks @JuliusBorisovBeamdog!

Yeah it looks clean. I like it

@Gargantua said in My Body Is Ready:
I would encourage the dev team to code a general profile setting AND an option during NCM to custom set OOL (order of loss) for any given territory, outside of the basic parameters.

quoting myself for Djensen’s benefit :)

And my intent was as others have noted. NOT a mandatory prompt, a right click on a territory or SZ during NCM, OR it could a prompt just AFTER placement which could have a SKIP option. And the information will be SECRET. The attacker will not know their opponents OOL intentions.

Another thing regarding balance, unless you have three turns off really bad rolls, Japan can take India on turn 3 and there’s not much UK and US can do about it. Scenario was in a tournament, using LHTR setup, a bid of 11 or 12 to Allies, and sunk or severely damaged the fleet in SZ 37. I was even warned almost exactly how it would go down and I still couldn’t stop it.

It’s hard to stop roughly 12 ground units, 2-3 fighters, 4 bombers, and a battleship bombardment. (I think those numbers are about right, might be more).

Sorry, the post Panther alluded to is the one I was thinking of. I can’t believe so much time has gone by since then. My bad.