Devlog KAG Build 2146 - Siege Changes, Fixes and Improvements for Modding

Hey Folks!

Largely a fix-heavy build this time, but a few community-requested look and functionality changes as well:

• Top border of the map is semi-transparent for any maps with an open sky - this helps you see projectiles that have left the map vertically so they are less surprising when they re-enter the map.
• Siege firing can be cancelled by right-clicking
• Catapult has some cooldown time after firing
• Bindings for controlling minimap colours for custom tiles in mods

The main fixes are:

• Dirt "camping" vulnerability fixed on PressureCooker map
• Sync for chest open/closed on join
• Fall damage "eating" spike damage
• Knight attacking near doors behaviour changed (see this thread for details - feedback and suggestions for further development are welcome)

The Official Modded Server has also been updated with a new mod (The Waste Kind) with another coming "soon" (Zombie Fortress Plus), and the rotation time has been upped to every 3 hours. We'll be getting modded servers up in other regions over the next month or so, but we want to get the USA server rock solid and make sure the mod list is fun and suitable before going through the pain of setting up another 2 of them!

The current mod list is as follows:

• The Waste Kind
  
• Attack and Defence
  
• Custom Heads CTF
  
• Shiprekt
  
• Laser Wars

We're still very keen for feedback on the modded server - what you love, what you hate about it.

Have Fun!

Max

Full Changelog:

Code:

Game Changes:
[fixed?] warning and potential crash in console cmd /kick
[added] engine-side functionality and script bindings for
    CMap::SetBorderColourLeft
    CMap::SetBorderColourRight
    CMap::SetBorderColourTop
    CMap::SetBorderColourBottom
    CMap::SetBorderFadeWidth
[added] semitransparent sky border using new map border binds
[added] borders set semitransparent only when there's a clear sky,
    to prevent the appearance of "floating" edges
[added] minimap colour calculation bindings
    can be overridden just for tiles >255 or for all tiles
    has fallback for (simple) no script case
[fixed] knight attacks around very-close doors
    can still be blocked potentially more than they should
        but not by much/only compared to tiles
    needs lots of feedback
[fixed] pressurecooker dirt camping vulnerability
[added] properly scaled vehicle cooldown bar
    vehicle.max_cooldown_time for anything implementing
    the custom firing methods + using vehicle gui
[fixed] catapult ignoring cooldown
[added] can right-click (action2) to cancel vehicle shot charge
    and incur half-second cooldown
[added] sync for chest open/closed on join
[fixed] fall damage "eating" spike damage
    (colliding with terrain took away the velocity before
     the spikes could read it)
[added] tdm has tdm_vars.cfg control for mapcycle scramble or
    not - defaults to letting autoconfig decide if missing from cfg,
    but value in default config is 1
[added] setdamagetocarrier.as to food/heart/boulder to fix achievements
[modified] made yagger/makmoud head invisible
[modified] file send chunk size reduced to decrease load on running
    modded game when someone's joining (todo: consider autoconfig var for it)


Official Modded Server Changes:
[updated] mod server config with some new tweaks, still waiting on
    working tcpr bridge as part of the gshost api but it's more or
    less ready to be plugged in.
[added] waste kind to official modded server + changed cycle time to 3hr

 

Thanks for the typo fix; was writing it in a hurry cause it took less time to build than usual :D

 

Why?

I love the update. Thanks devs!

 

Just pushed small hotfix to the build fixing some build specific stuff on linux. Also now you should be able to run KAG on linux without library problems. Just use rungame.sh

Code:

cd <your_path_to_kag>
./rungame.sh <any_parameters_you_want>

Steam is now using that as well so this should fix issues with KAG on linux run via Steam as well.
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 x64

 

I don't think it's meant to be like that, Monkey...

 

Hmm, I'd think it isn't supposed to look like that, because:

 

Screenshots please for any and all visual issues, thanks.

As others have said, that's not meant to happen. I'll look into what's causing it soon (I'm not meant to be on KAG next week but I'll spend an hour or so) - could be that it doesn't detect properly on the client for some reason.

At their request, they wanted to be the headless horsemen again I think.

 

Something with the update has broken how the server crashes. Before the server would just close if it crashed, now it freezes.

I'l upload logs + crash dumps

EDIT: Dump files can't have an extension on it

Dump file link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhiyqzxsofmq4tz/KAG.exe.1708.dmp?dl=0

 

From the exe extension I kind of assume you're one of the guys hosting on windows? You're aware this isn't supported, right? Sounds like the crash reporter is catching the crash and stopping things from closing to me.

However: looks like maybe an issue with sending mod files? I can try increasing the file chunk size again, it was brought down this build to reduce the toll it takes on the game sending 64k chunks every frame, but maybe it was so big to prevent some issue like this? I'll run it by MM and see what he thinks.

About the dump: I've literally never got crash dump restoring working on windows so as helpful as they "should" be, it doesn't net me much.