SpaceCraft Brawl news & patch notes

UPDATES

Weapons

• Added new weapon: Shockwave Blaster. This weapon can be used to push spacecrafts and redirect projectiles.

BUG FIXES

General

• Attempt at fixing rare grappling hook error when client joins game in progress.
• Fixed client error when connecting to a game in progress, and server calls for a weapon projectile to be destroyed before projectile manager is set up properly.
• Fixed loading screen not being displayed when returning to multiplayer lobby from in-game.

UPDATES

General

• Cooldown bars in the active weapons bar UI will change color when the weapon is able to fire on the target.
• Players can now choose between opening the spacecraft selector, or instantly respawn with their selected spacecraft when their spacecraft is destroyed and is about to respawn. This can be changed in the spacecraft selector at any time.
• Added "This spacecraft is active" text in the spacecraft selector when active ship is selected.
• An UI icon reminding new players that they can self-destruct will appear when losing thrusters or weapons. This can be disabled in the options menu.
• Active weapons bar UI is now placed in the center of the screen by default. It can be moved to the right side corner in the options menu.

Weapons

• Deployed mines take more damage from missile launcher explosions, making them easier to destroy.
• Mines hit by ION Cannon explosion will be deactivated and restart their activation timer.
• Visual effect when grappling hook projectile is released or unable to attach to something.
• Improved visual of burst laser projectile.

Server Browser

• When cursor is over a server entry in the server list, it will display a warning if the server is running an older or newer version of the game.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed client error when joining a game in progress trying to set a ship variable.
• Removed trying to sort maps and ships containing numbers correctly, as this would cause an error if the numbers were too large.
• Fixed active weapons bar not updating correctly when ship get split into multiple bodies.
• Fixed client error when joining a game in progress that is in overtime.
• Fixed text chat being hidden behind the scoreboard when the game ends.
• Fixed rare error that could occur when canceling connecting to a server while in the server browser.
• Attempt at fixing client error when losing connection to host.
• Attempt at fixing host getting an error trying to communicate with a client that has lost connection.
• Fixed rare error caused by minimap attempting to follow nothing.
• Fixed client error connecting to a game in progress, trying to start weapon charging visuals before fully loaded.
• Fixed a bug where buttons that are set to inactive are highlighted when set to active again.
• Attempt at fixing host crashing when client leaves right before starting the game.

BUG FIXES

General

• Attempt at fixing clients crashing when connecting to a game in progress, due to grappling hook projectile not finding its target.
• Attempt at fixing host crashing when a player connects in the middle of changing from multiplayer lobby to in-game scene.
• Attempt at fixing client error when a player activates self-destruct at the same time as his reactor is being destroyed.
• Attempt at fixing client crashing while connecting to a game in progress, and receiving a ship update while in loading screen.
• Attempt at fixing host crashing when a player reconnects, and his previous ship has not been destroyed yet.
• Fixed client error when a ship body had id 0. This happened when a ship had a block in building grid 0,0.
• Fixed player name plates not updating position after game ended.
• Fixed client error when joining a game in progress while another player is capturing a power-up area.
• Fixed client error when joining a game in progress while another player activated self-destruct.
• Fixed client error when joining a game in progress that has just ended.
• Fixed server list generating a server object for every server player has been banned from, every refresh.
• Fixed error when updating grappling hook projectile state when weapon just got destroyed.
• Fixed grappling hook audio not being affected by distance from the camera.

• Some minor bug fixes and removal of unused UI that isn't worth listing.
• Fixed map and ship file sorting.
• Attempt at fixing clients sometimes crashing when host cancel game countdown.

UPDATES

Ships

• Increased default self destruct explosion damage and radius.
• Increased default thruster power.

Weapons

• Balanced the default number of starting weapons.

Multiplayer Lobby

• Host can now force start a game by pressing the start button for 3 seconds.

Ship Builder

• Reworked some ship building rules. Instead of having separate limits for how many weapons and shield generators can be placed, these are now combined to a "systems placed" limit. It is now up to the player to balance how many weapons or shields they want on their spacecrafts.
• Reduced the max allowed number of thrusters placed on a spacecraft to 24.

Map Editor

• Rotation buttons now rotate object by 22.5 degrees instead of 45.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed cursor leaving game window.
• Fixed loading screen being layered on top of feedback window.
• All ship files should now run a check when loaded for the first time, to see if they follow the ship building rules.

Weapons

• Fixed powerup weapons sometimes not changing out after being used.

Ship Builder

• Fixed ships marked for combat not displaying the warning icon if ship does not follow building rules.

Map Editor

• Fixed redirectors not displaying the correct direction when flipped.
• Fixed camera moving around when typing in map name, when using keys bound to camera movement.

Options

• Fixed so player can bind any action to mouse buttons.

• Fixed spacecraft building grid sometimes not registering mouse buttons being released.
• Fixed error occurring when pressing layer buttons while map simulation is running in the map editor.
• Fixed error when joining a game in progress if any grappling hook projectiles were active.
• Fixed a bunch of visual stuff not supporting ultra-wide monitor resolutions.

• Fixed grappling hook being able to fire multiple projectiles at the same time.
• Fixed player names not being set on clients.
• Fixed ion cannon projectiles not any code for when colliding with mine deployer mines.
• Fixed error caused by player input maps not changing when entering certain scenes.

UPDATES

General

• Added a tutorial.
• Added a feedback form to easily report bugs or give feedback.
• Cleaned up a bunch of UI stuff.
• Reworked some player input scripts to make it more flexible.
• Updated Mirror and Steamworks.Net.

Weapons

• Placing cursor over a weapon in the spacecraft and weapon selecter will now display a short weapon description.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed team selecter not closing when game ends.
• Fixed spawn area ship colliders.
• Fixed an error sometimes occuring in the main menu.
• Fixed other players aiming cursors being able to display UI on weapon blocks and shield generator blocks.
• Fixed button for copying another players spacecraft not being displayed in the spacecraft and weapon selecter.
• Fixed button for respawning with another players spacecraft not being displayed in the scoreboard.
• Fixed scoreboard not displaying overtime time.
• Fixed an issue where the player aiming cursor would not register as being inside weapon aiming cones.
• Fixed weapon block and shield generator blocks UI not being displayed after disconnecting and joining another game.
• Added a wait time to host being able to return from in-game to lobby. This might prevent slow loaders from getting error when host change scene too fast.
• Fixed some text not being translated when changing language.

Weapons

• Grappling hooks should now properly release when activating self destruct.
• Fixed some grappling hook issues caused by duplicated grappling hook scripts.

Ship Builder

• Fixed an error occuring when spam clicking selecting/deselecting spacecraft for combat.
• Fixed movement stats info window sometimes not fading out when cursor leaves stats area.
• Spacecrafts should now be previewed when cursor enters spacecraft button, instead of having to click and select spacecraft.

Ship Testing

• Fixed equip weapon icon not being displayed.

Map Editor

• Fixed spawn area ship not being selectable.

UPDATES

General

• Reworked a big portion of the weapon system to make it easier to add new weapons.

Weapons

• Added new weapon/gadget: Grappling hook
• Added new weapon: HE Mine deployer
• Added new weapon: ION Mine deployer

Multiplayer Lobby

• Added some new settings for ships and powerups.
• Added weapon settings for new weapons.

Options

• Added new keybind: 'Release grappling hooks'.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed minimap sometimes causing error when exiting a match.
• Fixed weird bug caused by aiming cursor that prevented players from firing.
• Fixed explosions not getting destroyed on clients.
• Fixed Active Weapons Bar UI being displayed before ship or weapon has been selected in multiplayer game.
• Fixed disabling friendly fire not working.
• Fixed visual effect on terrain from lasers not working correctly.
• Fixed clients not reveiving message that game has ended from server.
• Fixed minimap being displayed while loading screen is active.
• Fixed text chat window not being repositioned when going from multiplayer lobby to in-game, when the player is typing.
• Fixed bug causing minimap to sometimes not display anything.

Game modes

• Fixed capture points somtimes displaying wrong team as capturing point.

Ships

• Fixed shield generator shield not resetting the 'broken' state when fetched from pool.
• Fixed player nameplates lagging behind ship.

Ship Testing

• Fixed active weapons bar UI not being displayed when entering test ship scene.

Map Editor

• Fixed error caused by background manager.

UPDATES

General

• New spacecraft file system. Players can now store thousands of spacecrafts instead of just 20. Each spacecraft is saved as its own file on the system.
• When browsing other players spacecrafts in a game, player can click a 'copy' button to save the spacecrafts to their system.
• Added minimap! Players can zoom in/out and open map to fullscreen.
• Replaced in-game camera system.

Ships

• Added spacecraft radars to detect enemy spacecrafts within its range and display them on minimap.

Multiplayer Lobby

• Added server settings to set spacecraft radar mode and radar range.

Ship Builder

• New spacecraft selection system. Players can mark up to 20 spacecrafts as selected for combat.

Map Editor

• Player can now change some settings on multiple map obejcts at the same time.
• Added "Map editor layer" setting for map objects. This allows for grouping and selecting multiple map objects with just a click.

Options

• Added "Map and minimap" section with some settings to control size and opacity of stuff displayed in minimap.
• Added "Game overview panel UI" section with settings to control size and opacity.
• Added "Compass UI" section with settings to control size and opacity.
• Added "Weapon activation panel UI" section with settings to control size and opacity.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed clients trying to control players that does not belong to them.
• Fixed game crashing when hosting a game fails due to the steam network being down.

Game modes

• Fixed games never ending if no capture points have been captured when the match time runs out. It will now end in a draw.

Ships

• Fixed shield generators still having a collider for a couple of seconds when destroyed by self destruct or reactor exploding.
• Fixed shield generators sometimes playing breaking audio when already broken.
• Fixed aiming cone jittering when rotating spacecraft.

Multiplayer Lobby

• Fixed rare error when checking if all players are ready to begin game.

Map Editor

• Fixed spawn area shields not changing color when changing its team number.

Server Browser

• Fixed a crash caused by some bad code in a button.

UPDATES

General

• Added more linear and angular drag on players main spacecraft body. This will make it easier to slow down or fully stop moving.
• Did the tedious task of replacing Facepunch.Steamworks with raw Steamworks.Net code. This is mostly to make data sent from clients more trustworthy, and to make adding and editing anything steam related more flexible.
• Added a few steam achievements, mostly just to test it.
• Reworked the player banning system. You can only ban a limited number of players from joining your servers. Banned players will not see your servers in the server list. You will get a warning in the text chat if your ban-list is full. You can reset your ban-list in the options menu.
• Added button to view user steam profile when right-clicking a player.
• Added button to add user as friend when right-clicking a player.

Game modes

• Capture the point: players can now capture points when contested, at reduced speeds.

Multiplayer Lobby

• Added button to display friend list and easily invite friends to lobby.

Options

• Added button to unban all players.
• Added button to unmute all players.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed some ship blocks getting destroyed instead of being set inactive and put back in pool.
• Fixed some ship blocks density being set incorrectly.
• Fixed ship bodies being affected by black hole bomb pull while spawning.
• Fixed ship bodies not being damaged by black hole bomb if entering it from a spawn point.
• Fixed map name not being displayed in screen message when confirming saving or deletion of map.
• Fixed scrolling not working properly in map selecter, ship selecter, text chat, and map editor inventory.
• Esc button will now properly close most windows/popups.

Multiplayer Lobby

• Fixed kicking players not working.
• Fixed unbanning players while in someone elses game not working.
• Fixed host always getting put in the spectator team when creating a game.
• Fixed displayed player pings being incorrect.