In response to player feedback, Bohemia Interactive has released a new update for Carrier Command: Gaea Mission on Windows PC. Patch 1.03 aims to address a number of issues, including those related to the pathfinding of ground units.

Verified Player Id

Player id was not enough reliable in the past and was vulnerable to hackers that could use fake player id instead. The new Secure id system adds additional signature to player ids to ensure this is no longer possible. The entire system was designed to be invisible to the players and does not require any form of direct user interactions, these signatures are generated automatically as needed. As this is quite major change, we need to roll up this system gradually. We ask server admins for help in order to make the transition as smooth as possible. Initially, we suggest to use only basic (optional) level of Secure Id on all servers, that is going to ensure certificates are assigned to majority of existing multiplayer audience and possible errors are found.

Community has always played a major role in our game development. Our games were always open by the nature, easy to modify and extend. This time we have decided to perform an experiment and to take one little step further: we are trying to open the development process a bit.

The story

Recently we were looking for a memory profiler. We have evaluated several commercial tools, but we were not satisfied with any of them, as they were unable to provide meaningful results for our games, or they have degraded the performance of the game too much. An idea was born recently that with the allocator already being external to the game, it should be possible to replace the allocator with something which will monitor the allocations, while passing the real work to the allocator.