B836 - Performance improvements & Movement polish

Unfortunate that there's a freeze bug in the launcher, fixing it now even though I really need to get to the shops before they get full on a saturday..

Feel free to blame us or the testers re: combat being janky, the slashes are an oversight and will of course be fixed asap but really should have been picked up in testing.
Getting into the back of a war boat was made easier if I remember correctly, but maybe I don't and MM added some troll mechanics or something.

 

Fixed it, pushing a fix for it now that should at least let everyone play. Should be out within 15 minutes or so, though it'll vary with the platform

Fwiw any undocumented changes are unintended side effects of other changes. For example, we didn't mean to change knight combat at all, but the new movement code actually slows you down to the intended speed rather than some other higher "wrong" speed. This should have been picked up in testing, as i said, but either way it wasn't intended.

 

Done, see below. Blocked it with bedrock as it was the quickest fix.

Pushing another fix for murkshire hills being very often flooded, we're going to have to do something about terrain getting sloughed off like butter at some point but for now the assholes deliberately driving a drill through it can choke on some bedrock. If anyone finds a non-admin way to break bedrock please keep us posted as any ways after this patch are considered bugs to be crushed with extreme prejudice.

The map fix will be out about 2 minutes after the launcher fix. No build number change has been enacted though so old servers will still be interoperable.

Yeah or you could read his post the way it was written and see that he was talking about editing the map file instead of editing the water physics.

Good man, I know it's pretty hard sometimes though :/

It does get impact. Have you not seen how a terraria server freaks the hell out when you unleash a huge amount of water? We don't want to be limited only to small bodies of water, we want a very water heavy map to be just as performant as a desert map. And for that, fluid physics are out. If we ever add them, it'll be after the game is on steam and otherwise finished. It is even lower priority than hats.

We'll be fixing the knight combat issues soon but not in the next hour or so. Hopefully I'll get time for it before a 21st I have to attend tonight.

 

The launcher is crashing because of an offending tweet that had characters it couldn't deal with.

Note: Fixing the launcher only works for those with a game that gets to the patching step. For a temporary fix you can run kag with the option nolauncher and it should fix itself during the update (giving you a working launcher again) but the issue should also fix itself once the twitter feed updates to remove the offending character - getting the fix that would allow it to display it correctly.

Will be fixed once we get time I guess, super annoying though :^)

 

B837 is on its way out, I'm sure I'll hear about any more issues but either way the movement/knight combat stuff is fixed and double slashes have more purpose now. Devblogger will dump a new topic here in a while, but I figured I'd let you guys know by hand.