[265] Builder Discussion

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Code:

Changes 228-262:

- Changed workshop building to an UPGRADE MECHANISM using USE KEY [E].

- new Swordfight map

- fixed some collision bugs

- fixed tents spawning underground

- map format changed to .KAG

- \loadmap \savemap - loads\saves .KAG files

- \loadbitmap NAME - loads PNG map format from Maps/

- packet compression is back on

- arrows stick to bodies

- fixed rules time counter and display

- changed to larger font for catapult health and blocks menu resources display

- builder rectangle cursor doesn't appear if not buildable and not diggable

- fixed ping times in server browser

- fixed favorites in server browser

- fixed server browser password prompt display

- fixed sort types list box

- fixed most bottom blocks on map indestructible bug

- added speedhack detection and prevention

- units are decreased on spawn not death

- Mac: fixed ingame web browser

- Mac: fixed screen options not saving

- Mac: changed team chat switch to Ctrl

- Mac: improve graphic performance on

- Mac: fixed game crashing when window larger than desktop

- fixed authentication mix up when two players from same host connect

- improved network code - slightly lower pings

- added server check for knight slashing

- slash takes 5% longer

- sv_compression variable works again

- fixed throw sound being played if trying to drop materials during warmup

- fixed client crash on map restart

- fixed trying to connect to full server

- units aren't decreased in build time

- added \nextmap command (\restartmap works as it should now)

- Mac: fixed clipboard pasting Cmd+V

- Mac: fixed mouse button / shield problem

- fixed head config hack

- fixed bomb killing teammates

- improved offscreen objects netcode

- autoupdate can be canceled with ESC

- new linux dedicated executable works w/o batch file "./KAGdedi"

Changes 262-263:

- fixed kick and swap menus not scrolling

- arrows don’t stick to shields

- fixed unpredictable bomb throwing on high ping

- fixed unit_count=0 in gamemode.cfg (one life for all)

- fixed warmup counter display

- fixed quarters not healing if something in front of it

Changes 265:

- fixed native resolution in fullscreen broken

- fixed map collisions (not climbing, corner jumping etc.)

- chat console is disabled if no players

- unit counters changed to minimalistic numbers

- chat moved to top

- gamemode descriptions support line break (new CTF description)

- chat box position, transparency improvements

- chat box only displays under 140 chars

- fixed help texts not appearing during build time

- fixed not being able to build sometimes at some spots

- fixed buying bomb by spamming with left over coins

- fixed massive gold appearing under tent in older generator scripts

- fixed hole in map generator causing tower

- added flat map with hole in middle to deafult map cycle

- fixed 2 players from the same IP being authenticated wrong on master server

- Mac: fixed space appearing after pressing shift in chat

 

Due to a recent update, [265] you can now climb on notches again, so never mind. =S

Well, since Notch climbing has been "Nerfed" I recommend to everyone to use a combination of bridges/ladders for climbing up your tower. Maybe in a few more builds notch climbing will come back but for now it is significantly slower than bridges.

Notch climbing is usually achieved with a tower like this:

I recommend using this now that Notches have been "Nerfed":

borrowed screenshots from Kouji's Optimizing the Standard thread.

 

Yeah, because vertically aligned doors don't all activate at once like they used to (which I think they should, as they are more flexible for constructions that way), but instead open individually. This means that when you clamber up to a door, only one segment might open, and the game will think you are trying to notch jump, and push you away.

Anyway, on the topic of building strategies:
With the new workshops providing foreground sprites (which look lovely), I've found that it's best to arrange your bomb workshops and quarters like this:

If you do so, it's possible for all classes to be completely hidden. This allows you to be heal and buy bombs whilst invisible, and if you hold the down key, enemies will walk right through you. The quarters alone also provide complete cover for archers if they lay prone.

 

>Builder who can kill a knight just by standing above the knight on a ladder and mashing rmb.
Wait, what?

 

its so satisfying to hammer someone to death. funny thing: it still says sword

 

Sometimes is "slew with his sword", sometimes "hammered to death" . Odd.

 

I have a very neat little trick of position for enemy knights I use where they can't hit me. I slew 5 knights furiously stabbing at me until they figured out they need to slash to hit me at the angle I was at. Then I was toast.

I love when archer forget builders can kill them, I'm laddering up a wall and spring onto an archer and hammer him to death put stone over the doors and hit 5.