Like the title says, this build has a bunch of new additions to the Downtown level, including a first pass at an Arena. I’ll likely do more with that later, it’s a little on the bare-bones side at the moment. Anyways, the changelog should speak for itself! As usual, let me know what you think of the new stuff in this thread.
This week’s Fortnight Discussion: Disasters! Streets of Rogue needs more of them. But… what?
Alpha 36
New Stuff
Levels
- Game is now playable through 4-2
Music
- New Track “Floor 4-2 Groove is in the Blood-Pumping Organ of an Animate Being”, also added to soundtrack owners’ libraries
Building Types
- Mall
- Arena
- Music Hall
- Movie Theater
Objects
- New blue laser emitter type that acts as a Metal Detector (actually it detects any weapon in your inventory)
- Movie Screen
- New Conveyor Belt type for Malls with slightly different functionality
Traits
- Added trait “Upper-Crusty”
Everything Else
Localization
- Many Spanish translation fixes
Characters
- Initial scripting for Arena fights implemented
- Classes within Malls have the ability to sell the player things that they previously did not
- Bouncer gives the player the ability to drop their weapons in front of Metal Detector Laser Emitters
- Comedians can tell jokes to Music Hall patrons
- Thief can pop out of Manholes and pickpocket the player. Other characters may pop out as well...
Graphics
- Fix for “Falling into hole” animation of multiplayer clients not playing properly for host
- Fix for players appearing to float permanently if they died in a body of water and returned as a ghost
- Fix for Supercops, cloned NPCs, etc. not displaying particle effect or sound effect when spawned on multiplayer client
- Glass walls are slightly more transparent
UI / Controls
- Fix for instances on multiplayer client where optional mission objectives would not be indicated on the minimap
- Fix for the mouse collider box attached to NPCs hidden in objects like Bushes sometimes blocking the object, despite the NPC being invisible
- Fix for player not being able to hide “combine” target after right-clicking a Combine item in the toolbar while the inventory was closed
Playfield Objects
- Fix for being able to knock on certain doors where this should not have been possible
- Fix for Manholes sometimes appearing on top of people rather than beneath them
- Fix for Hole not always appearing on multiplayer client when Well is destroyed
- Crushers shouldn’t go through walls as much, if at all
- Fix for multiplayer client not being able to make offering from Altar
Items
- When players are mugged by Mobsters, they can get their money and items back by killing the Mobster
Status Effects / Traits / Special Abilities
- Players can now pickpocket other players in online games
Gameplay
- Fix for player not being able to teleport while swimming in Canals
Level Generation
- Minor fixes to placement of certain outdoor walls
Missions
- Fix for instances where multiplayer missions could not be completed from the multiplayer client
Mutators
- Supercop, Mobster and Upper-Cruster can no longer appear on “New Character Every Level”
Artificial Intelligence
- People are now capable of sitting in chairs
- People have the ability to “own” an entire building where different rooms have different owners as well -- such as the owner of a Hotel
- People are better at getting their bearings in regards to pathfinding after being knocked back
- Fix for NPCs not always being able to see multiplayer clients when host was not in the vicinity
- Fix for NPCs in certain buildings getting hostile toward the player upon seeing them when the rest of the building would only become Annoyed
- Fix for people hidden in objects like Bushes becoming visible when Ghost players bump into them
- Mobsters no longer ask players who Can’t Speak English for money
Engine
- Updated Unity engine from 2017.1.0p2 to 2017.2.0f3
Other
- Updated 2D Toolkit plugin from 2.5.8.5 to 2.5.8.7
- Updated Rewired plugin from 1.1.7.5 to 1.1.7.8
Internal
- Bunch of physics modifications to keep things running smoothly on the new version of Unity
- Some multiplayer modifications for the new version of Unity
- Extra multiplayer cleanup, got rid of a bunch of internal errors
Alpha 36b
- Fix for Turrets not shooting in the correct direction
- Fix for NPCs not getting angry when you chloroform their friends
- NPCs are slightly more reactive to the player hitting their friends
- Thieves who pop out of Manholes are considered Guilty
- Fix for people standing next to chairs as their default goal instead of sitting in them if you kill the Comedian they were listening to
- Fix for not always having to chloroform people from behind when they are sitting in chairs
- Fixed some AI pathing issues in the Arena
- Thief no longer steals heavy weapons from players, since they tended to use them on the player immediately, which felt kind of cheap
- Real fix for Mobsters mugging people with Can’t Speak English
- Fix for players not being able to teleport after killing the mobster trying to mug them and remaining in their vicinity
- No longer possible for NPCs to close automatic Arena doors
- Guards no longer investigate noises heard in the Arena
- Adjustments to which weapons the Metal Detector will detect
Alpha 36c
- Fix for NPCs remaining in sitting position if they are killed while sitting in a chair
- Fix for Shapeshifter not being able to Possess NPCs who are sitting
- Fix for NPCs not sitting if they were Possessed and then Unpossessed and returned to their seats
- If player Possesses an NPC who was listening to Comedian, the possessed character will not laugh at the Comedian’s jokes while under player control
- NPCs will not laugh at jokes of they are Dizzy or Frozen
- Fix for City Park areas of Downtown being considered an Indoor location, preventing teleportation
- Fix for shadows appearing underneath Invisible NPCs if they jumped out of water
- Fix for Overpowered text appearing when it should not have, and vice versa