Devlog KAG KAG Build 1741 – Mines and Coins

Hey everyone,

A smallish build this time, just adjusting a few changes that made it in last time without proper testing. There’s been quite a bit of work done behind the scenes on new menus, but they aren’t quite ready yet.

Coins per have been adjusted – the amount paid is now 10 coins for a kill, and 5 coins per heart of damage inflicted. This is a big increase on last build’s unexpected economy adjustment, and should ensure everyone can afford bombs, special arrows and all those fun things.

Mine timer has been reduced to 1.5 seconds but only ticks while the mine is on the ground, or in water. This means no tower-tossing mines into a battlefield for free kills, but should make it easier to set up mines on the front line in most other cases.



You may still have to be sneaky with your mines, but it’s not 3 seconds wait any more, and you should be able to afford them!

A few crashes have also been fixed, but many OSX issues are still there I’m afraid.

Full Changelog:
[modified] high dpi scaling disabled - a different solution will be looked into
[modified] re introduced coins on kill (10). coins per damage changed to 5.
[modified] mine only ticks while isOnGround() or isInWater() and reduced priming time to 1.5 seconds
[modified] ctf interface to have an extra null check.
[script][added] bool CHUD::hasCursor()
[added] file checking and exception handling to the news reader to help with osx crashes
[added] file matcher uses its own seeded RNG (not possible to set seed now but gives better distribution anyway)
[fixed] possible crash when pasting data
[dev] debug for keypress in osx
[dev] fixed shader not found spam for failed to compile shaders (just report error once and still add shader, keep shader off)
[script][added] DrawIcon with scaleX and scaleY params
[modified] filtermodded to "dont care" by default
[modified] gender is psuedo-randomly assigned at game initialisation time

Have fun!

Max

Original: http://thd.vg/kag-build-1741-mines-and-coins

Forum Addendum: as with the TR build, this has been posted as the build is going out. Not all builds have completed yet and it'll take a bit of time to propagate through to steam as well.

 

Yep, or just put them on a door and open it. I think @ParaLogia has a vid somewhere.

 

I don't know how long it's been like this, but I've noticed since last build that people don't show the chat emote when they're typing anymore.

Was this intentional? It's difficult to tell the difference between chatters and afkers without it.

--- Double Post Merged, Jan 22, 2016, Original Post Date: Jan 22, 2016 ---

Oh yea here's 2 different methods:

Spoiler: Open for Videos

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG6CsyvCvlo

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kiLXbW3emA

 

Potentially, though since there's no accumulated changes pushing out a new build is relatively painless if its in the next week or so. Lucas might also just put them on the official servers manually. It'll get done soon. I'm not looking forward to playing 4 rivers again though tbh, haha.

 

You can also combo the door trick into this method. You have to wait for it to deploy first, of course, unlike in the gif

Coins seem to be back in a good place after playing some!

Just a nice lil' pleasant update :)

 

@bru-jaz thanks for the report on the mines getting "jammed", will be fixed next build. Might be doing a small one with just the mapcycle updates and a fix for the mines. Not sure about the scroll cause the last time I played TTH is not in recent memory, tbh :/

@Potatobird the door trick into tramp-mine sounds cool and brutal, haha!

 

The quip about recent memory is just my way of saying I never play TTH so if theres issues there I'm pretty highly likely to miss them.

The Mounted Bow scroll/tech does indeed just upgrade war boats, IIRC MM didn't like that you could use mounted bows for camping, and they were problematic with the building code. It is indeed something that should be adjusted to account for the current behaviour.

 

The achievements are for testers only i think, but i'm unsure of when we will get to know them, or get to see how they work/what they do,

 

Achievements are coming thanks to @norill - bug him for details on when. You can read the achievement suggestions thread for what they are likely to be. They dont do anything other than being achievements, ie crap for ADHD kids to collect/guides to experiencing everything KAG has to offer.