Build 998 - modding fixes & spec cam improvements

This is a maintenance patch, just fixing a few issues.

I couldn’t fix some of the crashes people are experiencing. I need more information that’s why the crash reporter will now provide me with more info on the crashes. So if you get a crash send it and I’ll try to help.

Verra made some nice tweaks to the spectator cam. Shouldn’t cause nausea now :).

This patch fixes a big issue modders were facing. The file matcher in scripts was soft matching wrong files when using mods. These issues should be fixed. To fix it I had to make numerous changes, namely:

- sprites and sounds are not loaded randomly when there’s a couple matches - the best one is picked

- if you want to play random sounds use blob.getSprite().PlayRandomSound(“Pluck”) which will play Pluck01 or Pluck02 or Pluck03

- the file matcher takes the file extension into consideration and searches for the proper extension even if you didn’t provide it

Have fun!
MM

Changes 984-998:

[fixed] soft file-matcher taking similar files from Mods instead of Base

[scripting][modified] sounds and textures aren't loaded randomly with filematcher by default

[scripting][added] Sprite.PlayRandomSound(filename) for loading random sounds

[fixed] crashrpt not attaching logs
[added] last script calls to crashrpt

[fixed] death cam being too sudden and jerky (Verra's updated PlayerCamera.as)

Original DevBlog post.

 

I don't if it's just me but killfeed is broken

 

The spectator camera actually seems even more annoying than before. After every death it zooms all the way in on my corpse, freezes there for 5 of my 9 respawn seconds, then if I zoom out (and only if) it will let me move it around freely. Very annoying.

Edit:

Best. Update. Ever.

 

PlayRandomSound doesn't seem to look through mods for sounds.

 

I don't have this but I have "Fix camera" unchecked at settings.

 

As mentioned earlier, the new death cam is even worse than the previous one. I would really like it to be such:

1. When you die, it just doesn't focus and wait anywhere. Stays where it was the moment you died and then is free to control during your death time.
2. A text is displayed on screen: You have been killed by ...
2. You can see during this time the name of the enemy players when you hover your mouse cursor over them.

 

I think there appealing to a wider audience. You see this is known as a 360 spec cam. You were probably shot in the face by a archer that quickly turned around.

 

I still have a bug where I can not move the camera as a spectator during the time of building Fortunately, that does not occur every time. Mostly it shows up on the map changes when I'm spectating.

Anyway it is not as bad as it was. BTW it would be awesome to see in the next patch that the bug associated with kegs and bedrock is fixed .

 

To be fair, it did that in the last build but without the 5 second frozen camera.

 

I kind of wish for an active kill/death list that keeps it updated, showing all who have died and who caused it.

Right now it's a pain trying to keep looking in the upper, right hand side. I also don't know if you can press home to see a longer list, but during battle, and the over all color scheme of it, it's hard to pick out specific words.

 

I would prefer the K/d list actually show a constant of the last 6 who had died, with no fadeout over time. So if nobody dies for 10 minutes, you can still see who were the last 6 people to die. Useful for those hectic matches where someone gets crushed after griefing a tower or just if you want to see who died 5 seconds ago without it vanishing before you can blink.

 

out of all broken things in kag that could get fixed people want better k/d display


i dont even...

 

Actually no, that was just a thought. What I actually want fixed, in order is...

Respawn timer glitch when switching spawns in ctf/tth/everything
Broken killcam as of this build
Stabbing/Slashing with Keg and Friends
Archer 3 hearts (lol)
Knight Shield Climb fixed
Knight Infinite Wallclimb removed (Though this is almost an "unintended feature" and it's actually fairly balanced IMO)
Admin fixes
Etc.

 

Yeah I knew about the jeepjeep thing, I was just making a funny :P

The problem is that nobody wants a frozen killcam. We want the camera to do exactly these things:

1. Guy snipes us
2. we die and the camera doesn't zoom in or lock, it just stays in the same spot when we die, or pans towards the enemy player 0.50 seconds after we die.
3. This can be interrupted with an arrow press or mouse click allowing us to move the camera around.

Zooming all the way in is awful, makes it even harder than before to see anything.
Freezing is awful, you halved our 9 seconds of freecam strategy time for deciding what we need to do on respawn and limited us to 4-5 seconds.


TBH I was fine with the "killcam" two or three builds ago, before the fancy "gotoenemy" effects. The only thing I wanted improved was the spectator camera, so that it would show names of people on hover/by default in spectator mode, and also the part about following people when you click on them was a great addition too imo.

The killcam though, not really feeling it.