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Post by rob on Mar 13, 2013 13:12:04 GMT -5
Greetings Brave Testers,
Not a whole lot of big changes this week, but if all goes well we plan to start issuing invite codes today.
* Add health bars (enable/disable them with 'J') * Add Fury triggers: Micronova, Differential Grav Mine, Chronoton Hyperboost, Mass-Energy Transform * Add Wildfire triggers: Mass Projection, Positive Target Lock, Dimensional Shift, Plasma Injection * Fix bug giving Wildfire infinite lightning targets * Add more info to region tooltips including personal stats * Fix bug that was causing hangs in login/register screen * Preserve HP & cooldowns, and deplete shields, on tank change * Restrict /leave and /tutorial to tutorial and overworld respectively * Fix turret spin bug, I hope * Require that all /choosename names be alphanumeric * Add cooldown on /choosename * Add /help command * Update title screen to reflect closed alpha status
We are getting close to done with the trigger work. We've decided to shelve Cobra, Scorpion, Pegasus and Peacekeeper until they can have a thorough redesign. Only Viking and Valkyrie remain.
Health bars may have performance problems. We'd appreciate it if you could report whether you have different frame rates with health bars on and off.
Next week we plan to revamp how tank classes are unlocked -- they'll be bought with VPs instead of unlocked with gridshard deposits.
I also started giving out invite codes. Bug Tarbomb and/or Linkshot if you want one.
Please post bug reports and other issues with 42 in this thread. Thanks for helping!
Rob
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Post by frogboffin on Mar 13, 2013 13:18:06 GMT -5
Bug - Lense Stuck in the 4th slot.
Started with 3 lenses, then gained 2 of the same lens from one enemy, after receiving the reward, the 4th lens was still there.
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Post by hypevosa on Mar 13, 2013 13:50:00 GMT -5
Trying to get in, says I need to reload my browser D: I guess I'll go find and manually delete whatever cookies grid stored on my laptop so it has to get the new ones?
EDIT: just to note, I have reloaded my browser, it does not fix the problem.
EDIT2: that's going to be a problem, honestly don't know where to go or what to do, I have general inklings but no specifics.
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randomg
Courageous Tester
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Post by randomg on Mar 13, 2013 13:53:00 GMT -5
hype i just started an incognito tab. you probably do need to go delete the cookie manually.
Also, enemy tooltips still appear, covering player HP bar. Maybe put an 'enemy info' panel at the bottom of the screen that displays the data of the monster you're moused over?
Enemy HP bars are a plus.
Wildfire triggers are cool, but the shotgun is a bit underwhelming.
Overall build is great. Can we expect to find some access codes in our inboxes, or will they all be distributed via Linkshot/Tar?
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Post by tim on Mar 13, 2013 13:59:24 GMT -5
Trying to get in, says I need to reload my browser D: I guess I'll go find and manually delete whatever cookies grid stored on my laptop so it has to get the new ones? EDIT: just to note, I have reloaded my browser, it does not fix the problem. EDIT2: that's going to be a problem, honestly don't know where to go or what to do, I have general inklings but no specifics. If the client still says Build 41, you haven't reloaded enough. Try a force reload, using Ctrl+Shift+R
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Post by hypevosa on Mar 13, 2013 14:00:48 GMT -5
lol reloaded 5 times to fix it, thanks - it's a bit odd though.
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Post by hypevosa on Mar 13, 2013 14:06:56 GMT -5
I've noticed no significant framerate slowing due to HP pips, it just slows when it normally does for me when there's massive amounts of dudes or bullets.
On that note, can we up the damage of the hurricane a bit and maybe give it an extra lock on for normal attacks? It honestly feels utterly useless by comparison to the wildfire, fun as its attack style is.
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Post by rob on Mar 13, 2013 14:14:43 GMT -5
EDIT: just to note, I have reloaded my browser, it does not fix the problem. With Chrome, it gets me the latest version the third time I hit F5. What browser are you using?
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Post by hypevosa on Mar 13, 2013 14:15:49 GMT -5
Leaving tutorial still resets all my cooldowns, hp, and shields to full. rob - after doing thrice in a row it worked for chrome, no more problems, just here reporting bugs.
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Post by rob on Mar 13, 2013 14:18:36 GMT -5
Can we expect to find some access codes in our inboxes, or will they all be distributed via Linkshot/Tar? I gave 5 codes to Linkshot and Tarbomb. I'll give out some more later this week. To see if you have any, type /codes in ingame chat.
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Post by hypevosa on Mar 13, 2013 14:28:19 GMT -5
My moderately upgraded trailblazer and a silver are getting out to about the same distance in grid before having to teleport back home. I tested this by using their abilities at opportune moments.
This means that the silver is actually a better tank for exploration because it has the trailblazer's boosted speed outright, and it has the ability to clear small spaces using nuke and main guns allowing it to effectively explore forever with a careful pilot, while a trailblazer has to look for watch towers to circle and avoid damage while shields recharge.
In light of this, I'd like to request that the trailblazer receive a speed boost equal to that of the silver - which is actually a great tank for a starting player due to its abilities, and nerfing the silver would decrease enjoyment of new players.
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Post by quicklite on Mar 13, 2013 15:47:37 GMT -5
Sweet! Build looks awesome, and...invite codes! I just hope that either link or tarbomb have any to spare given the overwhelming amount of pms they're gonna get ._.
Well, there's always the next wave of codes if I miss out here, anyway ^^.
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Post by tarbomb on Mar 13, 2013 16:13:07 GMT -5
First off: Don't PM me asking for invite codes.I've already given all of them away. Okay, a few impressions: Health bars are great and should be on by default. They don't cause any lag on my machine, but they don't seem to update often enough - often I'll land a few solid blows on an enemy and the HP bar will stay constant, before dropping a bit a half-second or so later. Also, now that everyone has HP bars, I think that the big red ones are no longer necessary (if someone disables HP bars, keep the green one on top for his own tank, since it matches the style of the game better). Fury triggers are great, but the bomb could use a buff. 50 damage (in my tests) isn't enough to kill anything in the game, and coupled with the slow recharge of the ability it's damn-nigh useless. 100 damage, please! Wildfire triggers are enough to make an oft-overlooked tank into one of my favorites. The narrow-beam shotgun is terrifically fun to aim (hint: if you're redesigning the cobra, substituting the scatterblast for the narrow-cone shotgun would be nice.) It's so good, in fact, that IMHO it renders hurricane mostly useless (and hurricane needs a bit of a buff anyway). Tooltips are useful, but inability to see stats on the origin region is still annoying. Edit: seems like it's possible to see stats on origin region, but it's a pain since the city of origin always sits on top of the region icon, so unless you get your mouse pointer exactly right, you'll only see the stats for origin city. I've begun distributing invite codes. Edit: You can build buildings on top of enemies. Or actually, underneath them.
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Post by hisacred on Mar 13, 2013 19:10:20 GMT -5
Invite Codes nao pls, I have no games to play, Realm is broken, and this is the only thing that loos promising.
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kable
Very Brave Tester
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Post by kable on Mar 13, 2013 19:50:28 GMT -5
I keep getting this often, it's somewhat disruptive to gameplay. It pops up randomly and keeps me out for about a minute at a time.
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