Greetings!
For this patch, our focus has been on bug fixes, tuning the clear animation, and laying down the foundation for a tutorial mode and possibly a training mode in the future. We are aiming to get a simple tutorial mode up in the next few weeks to help welcome new players to the game.
Changes
Single Player and Versus P1 controls have been merged. The original scheme has become cumbersome, and especially with the conflict checking between Single Player and Versus P1 controls.
The original intent was to try to address the scenario where a player has a keyboard setup that uses the whole keyboard, but would likely use only a portion of the keyboard if it were to be shared in Versus play. Having separate settings would allow the player to play the two different modes without adjusting controls.
However, the implementation shouldn't have checked for conflicts between controls as mentioned above, and the player shouldn't need to rebind joysticks like what niconico said. So we are going to merge Single Player and Versus P1 controls back into just a Player 1 mapping.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug where the music can momentarily stop in the middle of the game.
- Fixed bug where the music stops when two Rafaels both use Lingering Intermezzo.
- Fixed bug where the indicators for duration-based spells do not disappear if they were ended via an activation of another spell.
- Fixed animation bug where blocks drop incorrectly when a horizontal explosion clears bricks.
- Fixed a bug where the client fails to connect to the server if the username contains the '|' character.
- Partially fixed bug where move descriptions on the Character Select Scene fail to appear if you're playing on the right side in an Online Match.
- Fixed misc. server-related bugs.
Known Issues
- Non-English Steam Names are not showing up since international font isn't supported yet If an opponent leaves an Online Match due to being invited to a Private Match, you may get stuck. Please restart the client if this happens
- The Spaera Client still needs some performance tweaks and can get sluggish over time. If this becomes an issue, please restart the client to fix it for now.
- Panic text sometimes goes behind the board if it shows up during a magic spell.
- There are still some unexpected graphical glitches here and there. We fixed a few of them in this patch, but if you still see glitches old or new, please report them. We'd like to make sure we don't miss any of them!
As always, if new bugs are found, Please report them to the Steam Spaera Discussion Page!