Devlog KAG Build 2019 - Getting the Ball Rolling Again

No the problem is that you CAN'T do it now

 

The longer stun is to also make "taking" tunnels more powerful. Tunnel traps at home indeed work at 100% efficiency (though you can still cause havoc going through with a lit keg) but now if you get access to a tunnel room you can fairly easily kill attackers that come through. Honestly, I know stuns are never going to be popular but they're important for pacing.

Not without having 2 separate entries for them, in the current shop code. It's not a rabbit hole I feel like going down, honestly. Builders are basically always rich anyway. I understand that you get free wood and can stockpile sponges but

Next update (other than fixes for this build) is likely to be the APIClient change. After that, we'll see.

Please whenever you're talking about clantags include context - I assume here that you mean on the scoreboard, but its not clear :) there's 3 cases where clantags were rendered that changed.

I'm not sure about this. The hovermessages form visual clutter and obscure the screen, and while "most of the time" It wouldn't matter, the times when they block something would be guaranteed to be pretty salty. What are other folk's thoughts?


Agree with norill about the drill - what exactly is "broken" about the drill hitboxes?

 

Sorry I misread it before. I'm not sure if it was an intentional change but it should be added back again.

Yes, I'm referring to the scoreboard. If you make the spacing smaller and align the clan tags to the right as @Potatobird suggested I think it would look better.

 

on clantags in scoreboard:
5 chars:

3 chars:

No tag:


This is the same distance, but right-aligned - as you can see this distance is more or less required to fit the maximum clantag length.
We could drop the alignment, but I think that loses some of the clarity... Remember the point of this change was to make it more clear that the tag is separate. Who'd be in favour of that? (the killfeed is already unaligned, so it'd be consistent at least, I guess)

 

The grey colour makes it clear that it's a clan tag rather than part of your name. If you drop the alignment people will still be able to distinguish between the clan tag and name. The only downside is that it may look unclear, as you said before.
I think removing the alignment would still look better because there wont be a huge space if someone doesn't have a clan tag.

 

The flowers thing is fixed next build (though you do have to stand on top of them) - the builder code was changed to require overlaps for static, non-collidable blobs - however, it turns out there are a lot of those that it'd be nice to be able to hit from a bit further away. I'll look into a better solution for this today.

E: Last hour or so:

• Fixed attacking spikes (also overrides targetting same-tile backwall which was a common frustration - it's not perfect but it's the builder code so what do you expect)
• Fixed attacking trees from a little further away (heard some gripes in-game so gave them the same treatment as spikes) (doesn't apply to bushes or flowers or anything like that since they are definitely not priority)
  
• Un-aligned names on the scoreboard (we'll see what people think)

 

CTF restart is too long but TDM restart is perfect.

 

All that said I'm happy to drop it to 20 seconds from 25 next build to see how it goes :)

This particular case I think is fixed next build - it also helps with those 1-tile gap glitches but we'll see if it messes anything else up :) Thanks for the repro image.

I addressed this above, better than before next build

 

Not sure what you're talking about so I'll let him answer.

I've already removed the alignment completely so there's no empty space between the left border and the clantag+name. The clantag is in a different colour still.

I wouldn't be comfortable changing the order of clantag and name unless I could change it everywhere (chat included, or remove it from chat).

 

missed this for 2020, it'll be in whatever comes next