Build 954 - New TDM Maps, Waterfalls, And More!

Lots of things this time around, a few big, a few small, all good!

Popping the wheels of siege engines:

We’ve all had someone drive our siege engine when they shouldn’t have. You can now completely and permanently immobilise siege using the new immobilise button, netting you some stylish chocks and a much more stable engine that is less prone to “that guy” ruining your siege.



Packing catapults up has been removed to make way for this feature, which conveniently fixes all of the bugs around packing catapults, most notably the infinite ammo and repair :^)

Waterfalls now look quite a bit nicer

Simple change, but exposed edges of water now have some nice animations instead of being blocky blue nothingness. This makes floods look that much more impressive, and makes a few maps with endless waterfalls even cooler.



Mods less “Hidden”:

It’s long been an issue that modded servers have been hidden from the public eye at large - the modded server button has been changed to “Non-Vanilla”, and a pop-up about what modded servers are has been added. This is a temporary measure until we have access in-game to how long a player’s account has existed (requires some changes to how things are stored) - once we have that, we’ll make the vanilla only button turn itself off after a few days, but this should help with visibility.

New Crash Reporter:

Crashes should be caught by the crash reporter again (on windows), which should help with fixing any crashes people are experiencing. Unfortunately, the crash reporter is not available on linux and OSX, but over 80% of the playerbase uses windows, so a lot of crashes will be contributed.

Much-needed new TDM maps:



The Cauldron by Geti



Cramped Castle by Geti



Bleak Arena by Geti



MonsteriTDM1 by Monsteri



MonsteriTDM2 by Monsteri



LavalordTDM1 by Lavalord

A lot of the older maps have also been retouched, all in all they should be significantly more conducive to some longer play, so be sure to give your nearest TDM server some love!

Full changelog:

[fixed] held non-constructed blocks protecting builder
[modified] ignore damage actually ignores all damage now
[removed] all old generator files to avoid confusion (+ they dont work)
[modified] updated existing tdm maps
[added] tdm map from extra/ , The Couldron
[added] Bleak Arena map
[added] Cramped Castle map
[added] MonsteriTDM1 and 2 maps (gratz)
[added] upgrade to CrashRpt 1402
[added] 30 sec video recording of crashes (run debug.bat on Windows)
[added] jackitch and contrary heads, congrats!
[modified] renamed 'modded' button to Non-Vanilla
[added] popup informing about non-vanilla disabled
[modified] Monsteri boat balance changes - longboat costs less for early rushing, warboat only costs (lots of) coin
[added] LavalordTDM1 map
[fixed] sounds still being calculated and played when volume is set to zero
[fixed] loadmap looking for strange files (should work more or less as expected now)
[modified] made it clear that loadbitmap shouldn't be used any more
[modified] water has nicer edge appearance now, imroves flooding and "waterfalls"
[added] pop wheels off catapult or ballista once it's in place
[removed] packing catapult into crate
[fixed] joining with scripts from previous server


Have fun!

Max/Geti & MM

Original DevBlog post.

 

So much cool stuff! Great work guys! The immobilize feature is awsome.

 

https://forum.kag2d.com/threads/brakes-and-you-a-story-that-never-existed.16723/#post-245729



Nice maps btw @Monsteri.

Same goes you to you geti and lavalord.

 

turns out you can just immobilize a cata and then if an enemy mounts it he cant move it around to shoot in your direction

rip offense, welcome to kag alpha defensive catapults bullshit

edit: still no rtdm #bringbackrtdm

 

Actually offense with catapults will be significantly easier, as archers won't be able to shoot them back anymore.

Though it'd be nice if you could turn around with mouse cursor.

 

By the way. The way you guys animated the wheels to just pop off and roll away is super hilarious.

 

If I may ask, because I am not sure, are the non-vanilla servers show by default now or not ? I wanna add some maps to my servers but I am afraid no one is gonna see them after that.

 

Does the waterfall have to be 4 thick or can it be smaller/bigger?

 

The Catapults in my opinion need a sort of pivot system, where once locked into place the top half, the Catapult half of it, will rotate (or turn if you will) back and forth between left and right either by mouse movement or some other movement. This way even when they lock in place they can aim it anyway that they wish.

Here's a crappy picture example that I did.



Secondly, can we expect a weather system in the near future, where, for an example, say the map is raining and it can eventually flood the map (based on how bad the rain can get, based on the settings?)

 

Noooooooooooooooo!

I can't shoot catapults and ballistas off towers anymore!

 

I wonder what the like:post ratio of the DevBlogger bot is... Might almost be as good as Kouji's!

 

Then they should have it where it can be unlocked from it's place after it's hit so many times. Say it's lock is just wood holding the wheels in place, and only the enemy can break it, so it can't be griefed, and so then after so many arrow hits, the wooden blocks break, and it will allow it to then be moved and more blocks must be created to lock it into place again.

This way it'll be balanced and keep people doing stuff for Catapults rather than just sitting them right out of the range of the Archers and still being able to defend/attack.

 

I disagree, because Cata's already have health.

 

What if a locked cata can't be rotated? That'd be nice, because then even if enemies take it they can't just whip it around and start killing my allies!

 

If they do, then just alter the health of the Catapult to be connected into the wooden blocks. Say when you lock it into place it halves the life of the Catapult and places half of it's life into the block holding it into place?

Don't lock it, full life, lock it, break block, then you'll have half the life. This way it evens it out.

 

But are there kiwis?

 

Soooo, if you capture a catapult that is anchored and facing your base, you're screwing yourself over, because you can't destroy it or move it, and the enemy can just waltz right over and retake it.

Problems.