{"id":797,"date":"2011-02-05T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2011-02-05T03:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T02:15:13","slug":"more-polish-igor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"More polish, Igor!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to all you lovely beta testing user types, we’ve recorded and squished no less than 13 bugs in Revenge of the Titans<\/a>, and tweaked the balance just a teeny bit. The freshly-baked result is v1.80.1<\/strong>, available at the usual locations – install over the top of the old one. As usual Jeffrey will be taking care of the Humble Bundle versions, however, it takes 2 hours for the files to upload to his server, so there will be a little wait for you. I’ll update the server notification message when Jeffrey confirms it’s all uploaded (that’s the thing that tells you there’s a new version available on the title screen)<\/p>\n

Unfortunately due to a bit of an oversight, er, once again it’s possible that you might lose your progress, but only if you’re on Windows. But wait! There is a remedy. You know how there’s this revenge_of_the_titans_1.80 directory in your user home folder, in which lies all your saved games and prefs and such? Well, just rename that folder, prepending its name with a single period “.” character. Then all will be well.<\/p>\n

Here’s what’s fixed, new and notable:<\/p>\n

Bugs Fixed<\/h4>\n
    \n
  • Fixed: survival crash when only completed Earth missions after 40 minutes<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: functions keys keyboard shortcuts now work<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: crash when > 9 powerups<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: Linux shellscript saved logs in two slightly different locations<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: powerup numbers sometimes out of sync with button enabledness<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: multibarrel technology description<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: tangleweb shouldn’t slow down flying gidrahs, gidlets, or wraiths<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: gidlet spawned on tangleweb got stuck and couldn’t move<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: hover effects not being removed when right-clicking to pick up build mode<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: building effects now hidden when can’t build because hovering over other UI elements<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: couldn’t click when hovering over top HUD element<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: missing dot in settings folder name on Windows<\/li>\n
  • Fixed: exploding gidrahs not going off<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    New Features and Enhancements<\/h4>\n
      \n
    • Option to not degrade difficulty when level restarted (for hardcore perfectionists only!)<\/li>\n
    • Lasers either target ground or air targets but not both at the same time<\/li>\n
    • Lasers targeting air targets only hit air targets but can fire over mountains etc.<\/li>\n
    • Battle postmortem in mission failed screen tries to offer a few hints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Balance<\/h4>\n
        \n
      • Slightly easier Earth levels, slightly harder later levels<\/li>\n
      • Survival mode slightly harder<\/li>\n
      • Special offer on Decoys! Now only $1500!<\/li>\n
      • Your inventory of powerups now contributes to the overall difficulty of a level. Hoard them at your peril!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Internal<\/h4>\n
          \n
        • Refactored powerups cycling code so it’s saved in metastate<\/li>\n
        • Included MSVCR90.dll in Windows build; seems that OpenAL-Soft requires it and it isn’t present on some systems<\/li>\n
        • New internal version number invalidates all slots (and hence, progress)<\/li>\n
        • Replaced StringBuffers with StringBuilders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Sorry these blog posts are so boring these days! Hopefully I won’t have to do any more emergency fixy things in the near future and I’ll be able to do a bunch of more enlightened and interesting bits of wisdom, like a postmortem, musings on the Humble Indie Bundle, how much money we earn, and what the next game’s going to be. You’d all like that, yes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Thanks to all you lovely beta testing user types, we’ve recorded and squished no less than 13 bugs in Revenge of the Titans, and tweaked the balance just a teeny bit. The freshly-baked result is v1.80.1, available at the usual locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}