Well it's been a little while, I took a well deserved break after the whole demo fiasco, but now I'm back with another update!
So what's new?
- Added health crates that will occasionally spawn around the map, similar to Worms, that will heal your tank for 25% of it's total base health. Tank health can now exceed the base maximum with these crates. Crates can also be shot and destroyed.
- Added projectile portals that will teleport any projectile that enters it to another portal of the same colour. Doesn't work on tanks (yet).
- Added more parallax backgrounds to the map editor
- Added the knockback shell, which will push tanks away from it when it lands. Has a 5 minute cooldown by default because it can be quite OP on maps with lots of areas to fall off.
- Reworked how projectiles are handled. Previously, they were all client side, which saved on networking costs, but also meant sometimes players would see two different things. Now, they're all synchronised over the network, but this might result in choppier movement. But hey, at least it'll be accurate.
- Fixed the captain assignment bug, no idea how the previous update has been out for so long and I only just discovered it recently. My bad.
So yeah, those are the new changes. But I'm back on the grind again, so expect more regular updates from now on. The next update will be improving the current tank station artwork, which will take a couple of weeks as I'm working with an artist instead of winging it myself, so stay tuned!
Finn