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Update 4.0.141 - Translation Center, Rated Games Restricted, Arabic/Hebrew Input & Rendering, misc. Fixes

Latest Update:

  • Balancing: only map scenarios marked as "Balanced" can be used to create (a) rated or (b) gambling games.
  • Balancing for "Capture the Flag" & "Offense/Defense" goals: those modes default to unbalanced and cannot be used in rated/gambling-type games anymore (too much abuse!).
  • Balancing/Modding: all map scenarios default to unbalanced! Please re-upload your map with the corresponding balanced scenarios marked as "Balanced"! They will be not able to be used for rated/gambling games otherwise.
  • Translation Center: the game has now a translation center build in :-D If you want to help, please open the translation center & provide translations for your native language. You'll get coins for accepted translations :-D
  • Arabic/Hebrew Rendering & Text Input: I did an overhaul over the bidirectional rendering engine. It should work a lot better. Please report problems - Thanks :-D
  • Bidirectional Cursor Input: to support Arabic & Hebrew text input, the input cursor is now bi-directional (can be turned off).
  • Banned Users/Games: banned users cannot create games anymore (join will still work).
  • GUI Performance: improved performance where lots of items out of view were still rendered (send to GPU). They are now not rendered.
  • GUI Scrolling: scrolling was slowing down rendering (fixed a bug that did a re-layout every frame during scroll-moving).
  • GUI/Awards: clicking on the awards now brings the tooltip also (e.g. useful if you are on a touch-screen!).
  • Steam: now shows "rich presence" & players can join someone's game directly without invite (advertised in Steam-chat!) :-D
  • Steam/Language Default: is now the game's default language (ignoring the system setting).
  • Steam Backend: changed to Steamworks4J 1.6.1 (was old PuppyGames library previously)
  • Moderating (Admin ONLY): looking at an account now always queries the database for the latest information (reseting the cache). If a user is e.g. "banned" it will now show!
  • Translation Updated - Polish: thanks :-D
  • Bugfix Saving As...: saving maps or exporting shapes didn't allow to select a file name anymore.
  • Bugfix GUI: Toast-messages such as "Downloads Finished" are now properly displayed above everything incl. popups (so they are visible).
  • Bugfix Purchasing (Steam): purchases would only work the 1. time & then get stuck with the "purchasing..." overlay.
  • Bugfix Crashes: local awards list not matching with obtained awards.