I was avoiding talking about COVID-19 because the mediasphere is already oversaturated with it, but unfortunately this game got impacted by it too. Due to the lockdown in Russia, I got trapped in another apartment with a laptop which can barely run the game. There are 3 other people living in the same room, which means I can't work on the game at night anymore, and that is a loss of more than 12 hours of valuable time every day ːsteamboredː
This resulted in a dramatic decrease in my productivity, hence why updates in the last week were so small. These updates might've also been rough and untested because of my inability to playtest the game on this laptop.
Anyway, here's what I managed to do in the past week:
Patch Notes
early access build 4897651 (14.04.2020) changes:
- targeting system no longer selects dead players
- birthday cake and bunny ears are no longer purchasable
- music no longer suddenly starts playing if you have it muted outside menu
early access build 4914600 (18.04.2020) changes:
- fixed ui not responding if you try to update your workshop map
- the game now automatically recovers map files if they get corrupted
- your own maps no longer conflict with other maps
early access build 4916777 (19.04.2020) changes:
- map loading issues should now be gone once and for all
early access build 4926356 (21.04.2020) changes:
- network usage optimizations
early access build 4936859 (23.04.2020) changes:
- new limited item
- next map setting now takes effect only after match ends
early access build 4951138 (27.04.2020) changes:
- server maintenance preparations
early access build 4968295 (01.05.2020) changes:
- yankee wit no brim is no longer purchasable
- when level progression gets disabled, the game now tells you specific reason
- modding bugfixes modding api:
- PlayerData class new content: virtual bool OnReceivePoints(ref int amount, ref string reason)
early access build 4980849 (04.05.2020) changes:
- miscellaneous error fixes
- small network usage optimizations
early access build 5071750 (24.05.2020) changes:
- removed HORIZONTAL - Everywhere and HORIZONTAL - Game0ver
- you now get 10 points for doing a clinch break
- network optimizations
- patched an exploit
- security improvements