Level 4 is finally here! Well, partially! As of right now, Downtown is still very much in development. Actually, none of the game’s levels are really “finished” by any stretch, but Downtown especially! A bunch of the new Downtown content that I’ve been working on isn’t ready for public consumption yet, so I’ll be pushing out more of this content over the next couple of updates. You can play through 4-1 right now to get a little taste of what’s in store. Expect it to become more fleshed out and varied from the other levels in the weeks to come. Let me know what you think of the new stuff in this thread.
This week’s Fortnight Discussion: Altars and Sacrifices. A roguelike staple, Altars have just recently made their way into Streets of Rogue. But… how should they actually work??
Alpha 35
New Stuff
Levels
- Game is now playable through 4-1
Art
- Lots of new wall and floor art for Downtown levels
Music
- New Track “Floor 4-1 Hit Me With Your Best Rock”. The mp3 has been added to soundtrack owners’ libraries. More tracks will be coming when 4-2 and 4-3 are added.
Achievements
- Unlock Elevator Access - Downtown
- Downtown Diva (you can’t actually achieve this yet, since it requires you to complete Level 4-3 which does not currently exist)
Non-Playable Characters
- Supercop
- Upper-Cruster
- Mobster
Environments
- Canals
- Dance Club
- Church
- Hotel
- City Park
Objects
- Police Box
- Alarm Button
- Train
- Speaker
- Turntables
- Altar
- Manhole
- Metal Detector
Everything Else
Performance
- Bunch of improvements (yep, I’m still at it)
Graphics
- Fix for weapons not appearing in the player’s hands when a saved game is loaded (only fixed for games saved in Alpha 35)
- Potential fix for pink sprite appearing in place of crushers
- Fix for Taser bullets sometimes appearing the wrong color
- Yet another attempted fix for generators not always disappearing after exploding
- Attempted fix for people sometimes appearing weird on multiplayer client
- Fix for frozen people (from Freeze Ray) playing walk animation sometimes
UI / Controls
- Fix for local coop players’ UI sometimes appearing at the wrong zoom level
- Fix for people not always being tracked properly on the minimap on multiplayer client
Playfield Objects
- Fix for multiplayer clients not causing Fire Hydrants to spray on the first hit
Items
- Fix for Haterator not working properly
- Fix for Ammo Stealer not removing a person’s ammo when used from the multiplayer client
Sound
- Sounds from a level can no longer play after the level has ended and the screen has faded out
Gameplay
- People should fly through walls without breaking them less often
Mutators
- Fix for people and objects not being visible in Rogue Vision after accepting a mission
Other
- Updated Rewired plugin from 1.1.5.3 to 1.1.7.5
Alpha 35b (10/6/17)
- Fix for local coop interface elements appearing at the wrong size (or not at all) on certain resolutions.
- Fix for "Ghost Bullets"
- Supercops now begin with 2 weapons
- Fix for Supercop not initially equipping weapons when Auto-Equip was turned off in settings
- Fix for Flamethrower and Water particle effects sometimes appearing improperly
- Fix for Fire Hydrant sometimes appearing at the wrong angle on multiplayer client
- Fix for multiplayer clients sometimes being able to shoot corpses
- Fix for mission screen items not being visible if Player 2 opened the screen before Player 1
- Killer Robot can no longer be zombified
- Can no longer command your followers to attack Police Box (it’s mostly indestructible)
Alpha 35c (10/7/17)
- Fix for Downtown levels occasionally getting stuck at 87% loading
- Fix for start and end points in Downtown not always appearing at the northmost and southmost points on the map
- Fix for areas of Downtown sometimes being inaccessible and surrounded by walls
- Fix for Shotgun bullets appearing too bright
- Fix for camera not following target when player aims with thrown items using the gamepad
- Fix for Crushers leaving behind their shadows when reverting into walls
- Fix for Shunk people being killed by walking into dead people
- Fix for toolbar slot numbers not always updating properly when ammo or durability is depleted
- Fix for objects thrown by Wrestler not adding to Destruction stat
- Fix for objects sometimes leaving behind a white sprite after being picked up by Wrestler
Alpha 35d (10/10/17)
- Another fix for Ghost Bullets in multiplayer games (hopefully a better one this time)
- Fix for mission markers not always appearing for multiplayer clients upon starting new maps
- Fix for followers sometimes refusing to exit buildings where the door was locked but opened
Alpha 35e (10/11/17)
- Fix for Ghost Bullets in multiplayer games for players who have turned lighting completely off.