Devlog KAG Build 2416 - Many Fixes, Improved Performance, New Emotes Can be Bound

A small "rolling" release on last build, fixing a few regressions and a small collection of fairly long-standing minor bugs. Nothing huge, but should set us up with a more clean slate for the next build.


The hero on their way to save the princess thinking about which of these bandits to shoot first

Added:

• Entities that are inside an inventory no longer have the option to collide, which should improve performance on maps (and modded servers) with lots of blobs lying idle in storages. We feel that this is the expected behaviour anyway, but any modders affected by this please get in touch ASAP.
• New emotes work from the emote bindings config file, and emotes can be input there by name instead of by number (check EmotesCommon.as for the names). The emoticons have also been slightly reworked based on community feedback, though there's still a bit more work to do there! Note: they are not yet added to the emote menu because of an unresolved issue with the menu growing too large with so many emotes. We'll be looking at a few options soon.

Fixed:

• TDM map loading issues introduced by the map loading optimisations last build - no more missing chests or spikes, sorry about that folks!
• Unreliable crash on exceptionally small maps with minimaps turned on.
• Forever-broken emote menu if it was left open upon nextmap. This one had been in game since at least classic days, possibly as long as the emote menu has been around. Good to see it laid to rest.
• Map borders on "cave" TDM maps was incorrectly semi-transparent, which led to a strange seam at the top of the map. The semi-transparent border is still there for open-topped maps.

There are also a few under-the-hood networking optimisations, and we'll be investigating more soon.

Have Fun!
Max

Full changelog:

Code:

[added] blobs inside an inventory skip their scripted doesCollideWithBlob checks and don't collide
[fixed] leak in minimap code + optimised minimap update on nextmap
[fixed] crash with small maps with the minimap on
[fixed] broken emoticon menu on nextmap if it was open
[added] g_forceresolution to deal with bad resolution detection (thanks asu)
[fixed] fade area above map on "closed"/"cave" maps was incorrectly transparent
[fixed] chests and spikes stopped loading from maps  (thanks asu)
[added] emote names for custom bindings + new emotes "work"
[modified] some mote emote changes based on feedback - still work to do though!

 

There's issues with the tile change batching code so I'm reverting it for now and will get to the bottom of it with asu tomorrow. Sorry for the disruption!

E: fixed and tested for a game of CTF, seems like it works again!

 

Or perhaps another emote wheel inside the existing emote wheel.

 

I don’t think it would be harsh to the eye. I feel like it would be more intuitive than the other suggestions.

 

Don't think about it too much, especially not with the head that I'm wearing there

I feel like a 2 wheel solution could work as long as there's enough separation between the two "layers". Will need to prototype a few things. I'm honestly more in favour of a big grid as that'd be significantly more space efficient but I understand that people like the radial menu so we'll probably have to stick with that.

 

I now like the emotes since the modifications, but I still don't understand what 'raised' is meant to be used for. We've already got

 

It was originally going to be a replacement, but there was too much backlash so I kept both. I kind of like the subtle difference between them.

 

Same reason you can no longer join sandbox and then fly online - the cache is unloaded between all games. The persistent cache system caused too many issues.

We may develop workarounds to reduce load time without introducing the previous vulnerabilities in the future, but it is not a priority.