Build 85

[rob]

Hey there, Brave Testers!!

We just pushed build 85. Changes include:

* Tone down pane colors
* Add lifeforms in cleared regions
* Add smoke (use 'B' to toggle this)
* Wink game objects in and out
* Add new patrol: Brimstone-class Doomvessel

This week Tim continued working on our content-building tool. He made an armada editor, which he then used to create the Brimstone-class Doomvessel. We also renamed the other patrol; it's now the Dreadfang-class Doomvessel.

I darkened the background colors a bit because, hey, they're BACKGROUND colors. Let me know if you still think they are too bright.

The little lifeforms are meant to indicate that a region has been restored to health. They don't have any gameplay value.

Smoke is still a little experimental. I'm pretty sure it impacts performance for a number of people, and I'm not sure the little vector squares are what it should look like. Although Tim recommends letting people find items that change the smoke into tiny diamonds or hearts or skulls...

The winking is something I've wanted to do for a while, to emphasize that the Grid is a weird place, where things don't really exist until you get next to them. Performance impact should be negligible except for those using the software renderer.

Thank so much for your help testing Grid 12! Please post comments below.

Rob & Tim
Jetbolt Games

[Jufda]

Background colours seem to be better, but they could be even less visible.
Lifeforms look like algaes.
Smoke looks more like bubbling (water boiling)
Zoom needs some fixing. The closest zoom isn't really useful, just like the most far zoom. Between closest and the third closest zoom levels there should be more steps.

[gatler]

Teleporting to origin and dieing simultaneously causes logging errors. Prevents you from respawning and relogging.


"Error: Already logged in"

Edit: actually anytime you die causes account in use.

[realm]

This is just a copy/ paste from the other thread

Hey guys I'm new here. Just snagged a key from a friend. This is happening to me multiple times. I still haven't connected to the game yet. Usually it says account in use but now it's saying "Driver: DirectX9 (Baseline Constrained) And the screen is frozen with the green dot. The music is still allowed to be muted and such just nothing is happening on the screen. Also I have my friends playing it at the moment so I know it's not server related. Let's see, I am also playing on the flash projector using this link. h t t p: //grid12.com/TankClient .swf
I also have tried to login and try through the website but to no avail it just gives me a black screen, or the common account in use orange message. Anyways I just thought I would report it.
One more thing I am allowed to type in just dot characters down in where the chatbox would be at. Just another bug I would like to report. Thank you for reading

[tarbomb]

All my accounts are giving me "Error: already logged in" errors. This has been happening to a lot of people on the IRC as well; access to the game is erratic at best and impossible at worst. It also seems that even for an already logged in player, death can trigger the error as well.

[Kelsoo]

Feb 6, 2014 21:23:46 GMT -5 tarbomb said:

All my accounts are giving me "Error: already logged in" errors. This has been happening to a lot of people on the IRC as well; access to the game is erratic at best and impossible at worst. It also seems that even for an already logged in player, death can trigger the error as well.

tarbomb gatler Jufda and anyone else experiencing this issue.

If you two are using chrome visit your plug-ins (chrome://plugins) and try enabling PepperFlash then log on, it has worked everytime for me. Make sure you turn it back off after logging back in, as keeping it on give worse performance typically by around 10 to 25 frames and adds a significant amount of rubberbanding and other lag related issues. Make sure when you enable the other flash player after turning off Pepper.

Edit: This worked for me the first time, as of now the game will not play without PepperFlash, an issue I have never had before, it is giving me the green circle error.

[Jufda]

Now I cannot play even after refreshing. Just the same "Already logged in."


Private browsing works though (maybe clearing cache + cookies would too).

[drcain]

this is all i see when i try to log on

[drcain]

now if i try to play at the bottom it says "driver : software hw_disabled=userDisabled (Baseline constrained)

[rob]

I've added some code to the server which will help me track down the already logged in error. Try to play again please!

[fsm]

Doesn't look like it worked. I just got the already logged in error.

[realm]

Just slept on the game and tried again. Same thing is happening. No account in use but the frozen screen where it just shows stats and (baseline constrained) text.

*Otherwise known as the green circle error?

[rob]

Ok try now....

[drcain]

whatever u did rob worked like a charm bro, able to run the game just fine now

[serseth]

So I the game finally decided to work on my computer, so far so good, i am loving it, running on winborgXP on a flash projector