Aloha!
Ya'll loved the last content update, but it was time to do some quick quality of life work on the game to polish up the small details
Swap Weapons In Game
Y'all asked, I delivered.
Hot tip: use /die in chat to respawn and quickly change weapons
Player Chat Bubbles
I thought this would be a funny idea for comedic value/ memes. Anything you type in the chat will now display above your head in a little bubble
Streamlined UI and User Experience
Most of my work this update has actually been around streamlining the process for new players (so you guys can get more full lobbies)
- Removed the in-game tutorial
- The reason for this is because 99% of the people who download Paint Warfare already know how to play an FPS game and want to jump straight into a game as quickly as possible instead of enduring a 10 minute tutorial
- Instead I'm favouring a quicker learn-as-you-go approach, teaching new players abilities, sliding, sprinting and climbing through relevant tooltips as you play the game. We'll see how this goes!
- Made the initial menus a breeze
- The system language is now automatically detected and the game is set to that language (but there still will be a language selector)
- Simplified initial menus & improved their design
- The nickname of new players now defaults to their Steam nickname
- All of the menu buttons are now available immediately to new members— originally I didn't want to overwhelm new players with a load of menus, so I hid stuff like the global leaderboard, quit button (lmao) and shop, but it confused new players more than it helped
Stuff that affects you
- Better button SFX
- 300% faster startup time
- Improvements to various UIs and menus
- Better map loading splash screens
Other
- If you had issues with your game (like it being stuck on rank 1 ½, 1,500 coins, not joining games etc.) this is now fixed
- Point capture SFX
- Reworked the /help command
- Side ingame HUD for equipped weapons
- Icons to display more info on Abilities in the armoury
- New icon for weapons that support an alt fire in the armoury
- Buffed the AK
- The Bubble grenade will no longer show up in gun game
- Optimised the bubble grenade significantly — now runs 400% faster
- New screen effect when frozen by freeze gun
- The death first person spectation of players in Hunger Games now also goes up and down as they look up and down
- New systems to prevent corrupted save files
- Patched some out of map exploits