It took way too long to get here, but it's finally here!
The big stuff, details below:
- A beautiful new venue: Teien 庭園, with silhouette rendered randomized shoji screens!
- Vastly improved gamepad support for up to 98.9% of controllers (according to Steam's numbers), including fightstick support, for which everybody has been clamoring.
Teien
Teien is set in a beautiful Japanese garden in the early evening, and was inspired by my visit to the Ginkakuji temple in Kyoto. Sliding shoji screens provide cover, and randomize between 8 different layouts on game start, but beware, your silhouette can give away a lot of information to the Sniper!
You can manually set the shoji layout in practice games so you can, well, practice. High- and low-lights don't show on the silhouettes, but if you target a guest you can see if they are lit. Of course, the Sniper can shoot through the shoji. Please ignore the huge and glaring bug that the guests are wearing shoes in the temple; the fix for that bug will have to wait for the outfits feature.
Teien is actually the first in a series of three venues exploring the theme of "occlusion", each in a radically different way...
Gamepads
I'm going to have to write more details about this later in addition to what's below in the release notes, but almost any gamepad should work well with SpyParty now on Windows standalone, Steam, and MacOS. I will just leave this image right here...
Oops, I didn't have the fightstick in the pic, oh well.
Oh, and the gamepads are all auto-detected and the correct button glyphs are rendered in the UI (including Switch Pro regular and flipped buttons support).
Enjoy, and let me know if there are bugs or comments here in the Steam forums or on the SpyParty discord!
Thanks,
Chris
v0.1.6370.0:
- gamepad support greatly improved
- not sure I should have spent so much time on this, but hey, now it's pretty cool
- covering upwards of 98.9% of controller usage according to recent steam usage data post
- 360/xbone/ps4/ps3/ps2/switchpro/dinput all autodetected and supported well, including with correct button glyphs
- will need to write more detail about this later, including
- documenting all the new settings
- documenting custom layouts and how to make them, how to figure out what your controller is sending
- tutorial on getting some of the more difficult controllers working on windows, steam, and macos
- fixes and features
- right stick (camera) scaling settings, helps with steam controller too
- make a gamepad disable layout if you've got a weird accelerometer or something
- custom layouts for unknown gamepads
- autodetect or manual gamepad button glyphs
- keep deadzone, layout, fightstick, flipped buttons, camera params, and button glyphs per gamepad instance in settings prop
- nest keyboard remaps into keys prop in controls and add to print controls
- fightstick mode...no, I have no idea why I did this either.
- got button displaying in tutorial help instead of "Press X", still some places in UI with 360 button names
- not sure I should have spent so much time on this, but hey, now it's pretty cool
- misc fixes
- prevent some crashes
- mirror custom quickplays correctly
- handle mirror custom when one player has a qpg prop but not the other
- fixed "arms too short to reach book" bug
- don't show display name if same as username in stats
- don't count /steam in test for whether mostly unicode
- use case preserved string for command completion leaves
- when eating characters don't tolower, hopefully fixing capslock bug
- case insensitive sort in lobby names
- don't hittest books when safety is off
- don't crash if over header in replays and ctrl-
- bail to main menu on failed steam login so we don't loop endlessly
- robustify steamlogin on reconnect errors
- tune HL and LL outlines and colors a bit
- finally figured out repro for pax setup gamepad listbox crash, and fixed it
- fix code page and utf8 bugs with windows usernames and directories with fancy characters
- fix winxp issues by dynaloading vista-only function call, so winxp minspec is correct again
- minor features
- display steam id in /who
- log window size in /fps
- have helper write dump file name to log on close
- log params --logflush and --lognogzip to make printing logs work on startup crashes
- replay header v6 with venue variant int
- don't display lobby list if redirecting to single new server
- listbox scrollbar and mousewheel support, now I can have giant lists of things yay
- add view last replay to match menu...some would say this isn't minor...
- display in replay summary box if simplified game rules
- game setup screen stuff for keyboard/gamepad usability
- better keyboard/gamepad navigation of spy game setup screen, don't need to know about shoulder buttons/tab
- better portraits drag behavior with cancel and layers
- dossier info circle now a '?' instead of an 'i', which was actually a shortcut for /reply
- expand venue preview on non-mouse focus for keyboard/gamepad for visibility
- pop level icon listbox on nonmouse focus
- now can mouse over venue preview to get info circle
- content
- fixing walking bug arm starting positions on group 4 characters
- tune pathing edges in Moderne
- change Terrace modes to 3 mins
- add 30 seconds to Moderne quickplays
- fix Veranda clock mesh flipped normal allowing you to see statues through the window
- fixed the alpha sorting chracter highlight bug on veranda, garden, and courtyard
- gamepad button glyphs, add arrows to ps4 options and share buttons since they're impossible to tell apart