Hey everyone,
Big update! Lots of changes in this one - let's get into it:
Gameplay
Stop settled parts freezing in mid-air over a razed lot (#617)
Warm the shaders behind the train screen, and cache the rest of the hot-path loads (#589) (#592)
Make Explosive Expert do the thing it says on the tin (#581) (#586)
Always give back the train's ride lock on level load (#562, #564) (#574)
Swap NPC alerts, pain and breathing to the new voice actor packs (#569) (#572)
Fire & Destruction
Spread a razed building's ash over the ground it covered (#595 Part 2) (#622)
[fire/world] Fire could not bring a building down properly: the monitor deleted it too fast (#404) (#616)
[art/debug] Make the smoke column continuous, and fix the framing bug that made every review shot 2.28x too far (#614)
Soften smoke puffs and take the building fire column to ~4x building height (#613)
Make smoke a rising column: tight at the fire, billowing as it climbs (#612)
[world/debug] Stop the legacy 30% unweld pre-empting #403's collapse, and build a fixed-camera burn review harness (#611)
[art/perf] Volumetric near-field fire (#602) - fixes the blowout outright, costs 2.2x, off by default (#610)
[perf/debug] Pace fire-plume construction across frames, and make the benchmark repeatable (#606) (#608)
Share the three per-fire resources that were rebuilt for every burning object (#605)
Regrade the two towns whose frames failed the fire invariant, and make the gate able to notice (#416) (#603)
[world/art/debug] Make a razed lot read as one, fade parts into ash, and localise the close-range blowout (#595, #594, #416) (#600)
[perf/chaos/art] Localize the multi-second stall, make kinematic chaos events hit things, and soften the smoke (#597)
Build the destruction FX pools during loading, not on the first break (#589) (#591)
[art/perf] Fix the locomotive smoke, and warm the rest of the hot-path loads (#589) (#590)
Make the #513 spawn anchor an instrument that can actually fire (#513) (#584)
Tumbleweeds pile up, take a shove, and lay fire behind them (#559) (#582)
Cut the pale heat haze to about a third of its height (#567) (#575)
Combat & Weapons
[perf/npc/world] Uncensor the frame metric, fix the bark spam, and make the benchmark measure what it claims (#596)
Pin the barrel chain against the blast curve (#560 follow-up) (#585)
Give explosives distinct roles instead of one bigger boom (#560) (#580)
Attenuate blasts through geometry, and fix two live blast bugs (#566) (#576)
World & Environment
Stop the spawn-anchor diagnostic blaming a position write (#513) (#624)
[art/loot] Stop loot orbiting the building origin, and soot painting dark slabs (#623)
Anchor building foundations so a blast cannot throw them (#609)
[art/npc/world/debug] Fix facades at the source, bone-parent hats, portal Dust Creek, and add two isolation harnesses (#598)
Bug Fixes
[perf/world/debug] Fix four freed-object throws in the collapse sweep, and measure the vantage the benchmark was hiding (#604)
Make the debug-scene readout legible, the panel was fading its own text (#599)
Fix the Windows-illegal tracked paths that corrupt the index for saves, restore lost file (#573)
Raise demo money cap $500 -> $5,000 (#571)
Performance
Make the frame audit a controlled experiment, and fix the metric that made every #594 ablation unreadable (#601)
Look at an actual frame from new godotwright playtesting harness, for the first time (#416) (#587)
Thanks for playing Tumblefire and for all the feedback - it genuinely shapes where this game goes next. If you run into anything weird, drop us a line in the community hub or on Discord. We read everything.
-- David McHale (HeartCoded) & the Lost Rabbit Digital team
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