Build 40

[rob]

Hi everyone,

Tim and I just pushed build 40. Changes include:

* Define 5 facility trees, each with its own color
* Randomly choose 4 facility trees per town (duplicates allowed)
* Cap facility bonuses at max of 10x and min of .1x
* Fix building deposit rate bug
* Add ability to change account password
* Support flyer vs nonflyer and vehicle vs structure as facility effect categories
* Add triangular ("trilateral") enemy category and icon
* Add new large trilateral fortress: Delta Refinery
* Add triggers for Corsair: shield omnicharge (front shield invincible), (long, skinny) shotgun, gamma blast (removes 1/3rd of hp), repair burst (self and allies)

Tim spent a lot of time on the password stuff, which wasn't fun but was needed before we open up the game to more people. We are hoping to get an invite code system in place soon so that we'll all be able to invite others to play freely without worrying about undesirables hacking the game in its current fragile state. At that point we'll all be free to talk openly about the game as well.

There are currently 5 facility trees but only the orange one (top and bottom in Origin) has had much effort put into its design. The others are mostly cut/paste of the previous tree. I hope to work on the other trees a bit soon. I'd eventually like each tree to have a "personality"; currently the orange tree mostly affects small, square things, but this info isn't available to players anywhere.

Much work remains to tune the facility system so that bonuses don't run away and take the challenge of the game with them. Also, I'd like some facilities to affect others ("build this facility to get 10% off the price of other facilities in this town"). And we still need client-affecting facility effects such as hit points, damage and rate of fire.

As always, please report bugs and issues here. Thanks for playing!

Rob

[hypevosa]

It's cool to log-in 4 minutes after an update. I'd test for a long time if I didn't have school stuff to do for a while, but I'll let you know if anything happens my half hour I can play.

[hypevosa]

is there any way we could decrease the number of minions in the game or the number of projectiles? I just lost all my seps to lag when I engaged the hurricane's ability to hit all enemies and there were 2 fortresses stacked next to one another.... >_>

[linkshot]

There's no confirmation when changing password. You just get sent to the main menu on success.

[tarbomb]

Change password doesn't work well right now.

Here's what the screen looks like right now.



There are four problems with functionality right now, two of them - (1) and (2) - major:

1) The "repeat password" field does nothing right now. Nothing. I can leave it blank, fill it with random text, etc, etc, and the password will still be changed.

2) There are no restrictions on the new password. I can actually leave the field blank, and it will actually change the password to the empty string, allowing me to log on by punching my email into the login box and clicking "log in".

3) I assume you want the user to retype the new password, not the old password. If that's the case, the "repeat password" field should be below the "new password" field.

4) As Linkshot said, there's no confirmation of password change once it happens. You just get sent back to the main screen.

[tarbomb]

Graphical glitch: friendly tanks sometimes appear to be on top of enemies.

This is kind of the case in the screenshot below. A few moments before I took the screenshot, FSM seemed to be literally on top of the drill station, but moving smoothly with no lag.

[vkm]

Also experiencing lag, its like bouncy and its not my computer bc yesterday there was no lag:)
Framerate is good but it is bouncy.

[fsm]

Delta Refinery looks kind of cool


I expect we will be going after them like we do drills.

Though maybe they should be more common. Ive only seen 1 so far.

[rob]

I put in a possible hotfix to the massive loot duplication bug. It looked like Wolverine DoT was killing enemies multiple times. Let me know if you still see this.

[tarbomb]

Bug seems to be fixed. I'm no longer getting multiple lenses from enemies, and drops have seemingly returned to normal.

On corsair triggers: I'm not really sure how useful the gamma blast would be on what is little more than a newbie tank at the moment (notice that its rear shields are horrendous, meaning it really can't get close to anything safely except possibly delta refineries at the moment since it has no defense against swarms of minions). It doesn't do much damage on minions (and its guns aren't great against them either), and on big bosses a fury or wolverine has little trouble doing more damage in an attack run by virtue of higher gun dps and multiple guns, which means that a single minion doesn't screw up my auto-target.

Delta refineries are terrific! They're my favorite enemy so far in Grid, and my only complaint is that there aren't enough of them around. High DPS means lots of excitement and challenge, and loot to match. Now the single-target tanks have a use again.

Also, since it's technically not one enemy but rather a group of them, you can actually teleport right into the complex for a good bit of fun. You quickly get "squeezed" out, but getting a few furies and having them literally sit on the refineries for a short while is hilarious.

[remm]

I had some serious lag.

So I recorded myself and uploaded. (don't worry, it's unlisted and doesn't mention grid)
youtu.be/JAkg8rfakAc

On average I get about half a second delay between getting hit and taking damage, but that's just over the top.

[cryophile]

Woah, your RAM usage is... 663?!

[rob]

Remm,

Are you seeing this lag all the time or did it just happen once?

[remm]

That was the first time I had ever had it like that.

The normal maximum for lag is usually no more than half a second between getting hit and losing damage, and it would never freeze up.