Just a quick, light update this week. I’ve been a bit super-busy getting the final level and ending in ship shape. Not sure if that will be ready for next update or not -- it depends on how fast I can get the current optimization project I’m working on completed. Anyways, for now, enjoy this miscellaneous smattering of fixes.
The latest fortnight discussion actually relates to the game’s final level: Getting Yourself Elected Mayor
Alpha 57
Graphics
- Lighting adjustments on a number of different levels
- Screen shakes no longer occur when their origin point is way offscreen
- Fix for particle effects from bullets remaining large after player returns from Giant status
- NPCs who start the game swimming will appear nude
- Changed textures for “Bars” sprites so they appear more visible in dark areas
UI / Controls
- Fix for player being sent back to incorrect menu if they join an internet game when player capacity has just been reached
- Potential fix for camera occasionally following someone other than the player after an arrest occurs
- Attempted fix for question marks appearing permanently over people’s heads
- If the player is holding up or down when they enter the main menu, the selection will stay still until they release the analog stick and move it again
Playfield Objects
- Fix for Computers and other objects not being considered “non-functional” after falling into holes
- Fix for broken object sprites appearing above water with no floating animation after Wrestler throws them in
Items
- Investment Banker starts the game with Cigarette Lighter
- Fix for NPCs hidden in Bushes being immune to throwable items
- Fix for Werewolf attempting to use First Aid Kit while in Werewolf form when quick-health button was pressed
- Fix for Hologram taking damage from certain environmental hazards
Status Effects / Traits / Special Abilities
- Fix for NPC Shapeshifter popping out of people who the player had already possessed
- Computer Illiterate cancels out Laptop on custom characters
- Giant status lasts 15 seconds instead of 20
Big Quests
- For Comedian, Wrestler and Vampire quests, rioters are no longer included when game determines the quest
- When purchasing items from people using Art of the Deal, these items will cost less when the item is needed for a Big Quest so that a profit can actually be made when selling the item
Level Generation
- Fix for one of the Hotels being internally classified as a Dance Club
- Fix for cases of NPCs spawning behind Trash Cans and getting stuck
- Fixed an incorrectly aligned “Private Club” floor
- Fix for an area of one of the Bathhouses being considered a prison when it was not
Artificial Intelligence
- Fix for NPCs not jumping out of Manholes in Downtown
- Fix for Jock in Arena becoming Friendly toward the player upon talking to them
- Fix for instances where Cops could become Hostile on a “first offense” of breaking something
- Fix for guards becoming Hostile toward patrons of buildings with Bouncers if they opened the front door while exiting
- Player cannot borrow money from people in Uptown levels, since there wouldn’t be time before the end of the game for Assassins to seek retribution
- No longer possible to offer Office Drones things (this was a remnant of the on-hold investment system)
- Fix for NPCs who were initially swimming not going back to their swimming pool after being possessed and depossessed by a Shapeshifter
- Fix for Cannibals sometimes standing still and appearing to not have a goal
- Fix for door guards becoming Hostile when you open doors while out of their line of sight
Text
- Fix for text still indicating that the Assassin would lose 2 seconds of Camouflage when backstabbing
- Fixed typo in Exploding Bodies description
Multiplayer
- Fix for several multiplayer connectivity issues
Other
- Added proper track number metadata to soundtrack files
- Updated NAT Traversal plugin to version 1.61 from something really old
Internal
- Work on final level, ending, and other related things…