Hi All,
Grab your pickaxes and digging spells! We've got big performance optimisations in this V3.2.2 patch, and as a result all areas of the game should be smoother and sleeker to play!
Changelog:
- Greatly optimised entity lookups for pathfinding, targeting and movement. Tiles now keep track of what entities reside on them.
- Initial level load times heavily improved.
- Pickaxes/digging spell stutter reduced from 500ms worst case to < 1ms. Miners rejoice!
- Improved frame-rate limiter to a higher performance counter for smoother fps.
- Added option to disable multithreaded Steam multiplayer networking. Fixes stutter/lag issue that Linux/OSX users were reporting! If Steam lobbies perform worse then direct-ip, turning this off may improve performance. Many thanks to Exezin for helping solve this issue on our GitHub page
- Added tooltips to options in the 'misc' settings menu for clarity.
- Added setting in the 'audio' section to mute music and sounds when the Barony window is not in focus.
- Added setting under 'video' to show skill values (trading, magic, leadership etc) as numbers (20 / 100) rather than tiers (master, novice).
- Boulders now properly destroy furniture as they roll through them rather than clipping through.
- Added notification on enabling /brawlermode to show if the achievement is active or the current run requires a reset.
- Fixed boulder traps spawning on top of entities they shouldn't (again!). Traps will be removed if they generate above a chest/door or other collidable object.
- Fixed camera turn up/left/down/right getting rebound if bound to the previous default keybinds of q,e,z,c.
- Fixed minotaur/hunger icons being blocked when HP/MP bars were set to a higher UI scale.
- Fixed furniture displaying incorrect 'ghost' HP boxes when switching targets from a monster.
- Fixed crash for Linux/OSX when attempting to open the Steam Workshop or Custom Content menu options.
- Fixed Steam in-game leaderboard scrolling for categories with more than 15 entries.
- Fixed score window monster kill text spilling outside the window.
As usual the feedback/bug report thread is here to submit your comments.
And finally if you haven't joined our official Barony discord, you can join via this link to chat and start up some multiplayer lobbies! http://discord.gg/Eg2r5fE
Cheers,
Ben