Devlog KAG Build 2248 - Heads Pack, Community Fixes, Script Textures and Personal News!

Hey Folks,

Long time coming on this build, we know! It should be out on all platforms within the next half-hour.

This build contains a boatload of changes, ranging from small things like maps and bug fixes to entirely new modding possibilities and the first ever head pack for KAG! There might be some weirdness associated with such a big patch as a lot of things have changed code-wise, please let us know about them ASAP.

About the heads pack, "Flags of the World":
There's over 120 heads, over 60 for each gender, and we're keen to hear what you think. The pack is available through steam and is just a drop-down in the heads menu. Here's a look at all the heads. If you're interested in buying but your country is missing, please get in touch with support and we'll see what we can do.

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MM will be managing the release of the heads pack shortly, which will be available through steam over here. It should "just work" in-game once it's out, but please get in touch if you have trouble!

We'll be looking at non-steam options for purchase if there's interest, let us know in the thread.

Other changes:

• There are a few map changes for CTF from the community.
• Siege engines and boats in crates can't be opened right at the top of the map, which prevents them glitching off towers and wasting coins, and (slightly) discourages sky-siege.
• The materials code has been re-implemented by Fuzzle, with changes to decay rates and sprites, and much-simplified code. He'll be taking feedback in the build thread, we're happy to iterate on these changes.
• The first round of community-sourced pull requests from github have been integrated with the game. Thanks so much to those that got behind this. We'll be extending and improving the handling of this in the future.
• There are a few changes intended more for modders as well - there is now access to textures via scripts, and this is used for the pixel offsets and team recolouring in-game. This allows modders to add things like new team colours for role-play mods, procedurally combine textures, and much more. The API can be extended if need be, and we're considering re-implementing a few of the now-script-side features engine-side for performance reasons (the script-side implementations would still work, but there'd be a high-performance C++ implementation available)

Bonus News:

I normally try to keep my personal and business life separate, but this one is worth sharing. This dev cycle has been a little extra taxing on me as I've had to fit working on KAG around wedding planning! This weekend I married my loving partner of 10 years, amidst family and friends - as you can imagine, I'm overjoyed! Here's a photo of me and my new wife!

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I'll be gone until early July on my honeymoon - @MM, @Furai and @jrgp are the ones to get in touch with over the next few weeks if anything goes awry - and the normal support channels should work. I'll keep an eye on the thread, but I won't have a development machine with me for a while. Normal development should resume when I'm back. Thanks for understanding!

Max

Code:

Full Changelog:

Script Textures:
[added] script-side control of textures
[added] script-side pixel offsets (working around engine bugs)
[added] working palette swap script
[added] precache system for runner textures and offsets

Heads Pack:
[added] heads pack popup
[added] Flags of the World pack with 122 heads (61 for each gender)

Maps:
[removed] Fellere_FourRivers from map rotation
[updated] potatobird_sharkromance and punk123_antqueen maps
[modified] mcrifel_steppes new version
[added] punk123_toothgrinderx map

Pull Requests:
[fixed] [fuzzle] arrows at (0,0)
[fixed] [fuzzle] mines on join
[fixed] [fuzzle] strange seed behaviour
[fixed] [GoldenGuy] respawn timer in sandbox
[fixed] [calvinloveland] typos

Miscellaneous:
[modified] cannot open crate with siege/boat in top 5 tiles of map
[added] fuzzle material changes
[fixed] broken trade menu from materials rework
[dev] avoiding overflow on knocked
[fixed] receiver reading outside bounds could crash map
[added] fuzzle fixes for block placement on own actor
[updated] engine with async minimap stuff (minimap updated more often + in background)
[added] yagger/makmoud98 head is male trader
[modified] afk kick after 2min30 now

 

How much will it cost? I'm honestly willing to pay anything for them.

 

We're aware of the pixel offset spam in server logs - it doesn't seem to cause issues so rather than issue another build I'm going to leave it for the moment and leave instructions for how to fix it for the other guys. Should be out soon enough.

At least it ends quickly!

It's 2 bucks for the lot of them, we're just testing the waters.

Thanks!

 

is that a joke or serious because you should be running KAG at 30fps just fine w/o overclocking, especially with that CPU