After a year or so of being broken, jetbolt.com is up again. Our private alpha testers for Grid12 mostly use the forums to interact. But now that I've fixed the one-character typo in our A record, we can start using this site again.
Changelist for build 53 of Grid12:
- Coin Indicator no longer updates until poof hits
- Replaced buttons in various dialogues with new, shinier buttons.
- Make Convoys travel town-to-town
- Added a new Convoy: Flux Barge.
- Adjusted speeds of older convoys
- Adjusted Convoy drop tables.
- Moved Crystals to be behind Long-Term Storage when it is open.
Changelist for build 51 of Grid12:
- Add coins
- Reduce Spectre's Rotational Overcharge rate of fire bonus from 300% to 100%
- Subtract 12 hours from short term storage time remaining at death
- Show max prism level and count on folded up prism display
- Add six new augment item types
- Eliminate protomod drops
- Add new triggers for Valkyrie: Quasonic Fire, Petacharge Reservoir, Ionic Flame Ejection, Stasis Web
Changelist for build 49 of Grid12:
- Buff Valkyrie, Spectre, Hurricane; nerf Fury, Wildfire, Avenger
- Have convoys properly recover from immobilization
- Support multimember convoys
- Add flanker and more tankers to antimatter convoy
- Add baryon transport convoy
- Start and end convoys a little bit off the map
- Don't start a convoy immediately on game start
- Fix bug where the presence of multiple players could lead to multiple loot drops
- Improve server performance a little
- Cap Corsair gamma blast to 1500 hp of damage
- Fix "can't log in bug" which happened on 1 in 16 accounts
- Eliminate the pause to paint enemy icons on zoom out
- Implement long-term storage of items (2 slots per account)
- Allow protomods to be "used" to create a fireworks display
- Make z and ESC teleport you to Origin, not the closest town
- Have GCTs toss a bomb every 3 seconds at the closest player
- Upgrade GCT minion bombs
- Make enemy AoE explosions match the actual explosion radius (GCT, Watchtower)
Changelist for build 48 of Grid12:
- Save items (eg. protomodules) in the database for up to 24 hours
- Add per-item popup menu with delete option
- Make each level of protomodule twice as rare as the level below it
- Reduce small fort protomod drop rate to 25%
- Add enemy convoy: antimatter tanker
- Revamp prism indicator
- Try some different colors for trigger buttons
- Lengthen chat fadeout time to 12.5 seconds
- Fix bug where new enemy icons were not displayed until after a zoom
- Fix bug where clicking an affordable but unpurchased tank outside of a town seemed to buy the tank
- Fix typos in Phantom and Hornet trigger tooltips
- Fix tank rendering in the tank menu
- Spawn up to four supertanks at each cross building
Changelist for build 47 of Grid12:
- Improve resource (texture, memory) reclamation, especially at death
- Improve framerate by putting all lasers in a single nd2d cloud
- Add first type of item: protomodules
- Start on short-term item storage (no actual saving, just display)
- Add glassy background to chatbox & text input box
- Fade out chatbox after a period of idleness (pgdn to show it again)
- Make tank stop on menu open (we may undo this eventually)
- Revamp trigger UI to match item/protomodule UI style
Changelist for build 46 of Grid12:
- Use batches to speed up vehicle drawing
- Don't draw enemy icons of far-away regions
- Use static per-region enemy icon textures when zoomed way out
- Don't draw the world when zoomed way out
- Have Drill Station drop only one big prism
- Buff Predator's main gun damage and shields
- Nerf Avenger main turret overdrive (rotation rate and cooldown)
- Buff Phantom damage and shields
- Remove "external poofs" when others pick up prisms