It took a while but it's here! Lots of new things to play with now! I wasn't keeping very good change notes for a bunch of stuff related to this patch, so hopefully I remembered all the stuff we changed. Here goes...
Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update
NEW MENUS AND OPTIONS
- Sick new menus yo! They're way more responsive and functional, and a lot easier to add things to now! They work fine with keyboard and gamepad and even the mouse! Give them a try!
- "Customize Maps" added to the Create Game menu! You can mix and match custom map sets now!
- "Customize Items" added to the Create Game menu! You can control what items show up now!
- "Force Spawn Timer" added to the Advanced Game Settings. How long before you get force spawned!
- "Floaty Bombs" added to Advanced Game Settings. Bombs float on lava! On by default.
- "
Smash DamageDamage Buildup" added to Advanced Game Settings. Smash bros style damage percents! Get bombed farther and farther and farther! Off by default. - "Force Multiplier" added to Advanced Game Settings. GO FLYING
- "Server Script" added to Advanced Game Settings. MODS! See below for more info.
- Passworded lobbies now show up in the lobby list with a lock next to their name. "Filter By Password" was removed.
- Custom Map options enabled for Saturday Special lobbies.
- Saturday Special now chooses randomly each week instead of in a set order
- Quick Play now will give the option (and a warning) to join a heavily customized or saturday special lobby if it can't find one with default settings.
LUA SCRIPTING
- Enabled Server Scripts. Stick a lua script into the custom_game_scripts folder and you can host a lobby with that script.
- Enabled loading server scripts from workshop items. Go! Upload some mods!
- See this forum for mod discussions
- Sub to Saturday Specials for some example scripts
NEW HATS
- Adjusted the cost of a few hats
- Added a bunch of new hats!
- Added a BRAIN SLIME special hat! JOIN THE SLIME ARMY TODAY
- Added a Closurehead special hat for people who own Closure!
- Added a Dev Hat that only me, Sven, and Brandon can have!
- Added a VIP Hat for players who have contributed to Bombernauts development or the Bombernauts community!
- The following players have earned a VIP hat:
- Hideous, for making a couple of sweet hats
- Dan Fitzgerald, for making the early access launch trailer
- Xemsi, for beta testing and bug reports
- Charlez Metze III, for rendering out a few 3D assets
- MAN, for his announcer voice
- pixeldesu, for running the Bombernauts subreddit
- Hartmunt, for detailed bug reports and consistently hosting lobbies
NEW AND UPDATED BLOCKS
- Added Glass and Metal Glass blocks! See-through blocks so you can stop blocking the camera with your walls!
- Added Metal Springs to the editor
- Added Char Blocks to the editor
- Changed Mud to Tar
- Updated the graphics of a bunch of tiles
- Tweaked the editor UI so everything can fit on lower resolutions better.
MAPS
- Updated Bumpers, ColdPit, Backboard, Blade, BouncePit, DivingPlatform, DunkTanks, Hoops, LeanTo, and Platforms with the new tiles
- Added 3 new neutral maps: GlassPads, GlassHouse, and GlassHole
- The game will now not choose any map that has been selected in the last 20 rounds (previously 12). This is now also enabled when using custom maps.
- When custom maps and default maps are mixed, the game will switch from a 50/50 ratio of custom:default to proportional if you have more custom maps than default maps.
MISC
- Renamed "Powerup Action" control binding to "Taunt"
- Taunt will automatically call "-sing" with the last song you sung. Saved across game sessions.
- Win messages are now randomized
- Tweaked the RNG for powerup selection slightly.
- Robot Colors and Hat settings are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally
- A few other game settings (chat title, pronoun, etc) are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally
- Settings that have been moved to Steam Cloud were reset
- Added a new achievement!
BUGFIXES
- Fixed an issue where you would occasionally get clipped off the map
- Fixed being able to stun players who haven't spawned in yet
- Fixed being able to duplicate a slime bomb held while you're a ghost
- Win message font now properly displays all ASCII characters