EDIT FOR MAC USERS: There was an issue with players not being able to run the game on High Sierra, so I reverted the Mac version back to Alpha 40c for now. Sorry about that, I'm looking into the issue right now. Please check out this thread for the current status and how you can help. -------- A relatively light update for you, due to my being on vacation for most of the past two weeks! Unless you play multiplayer a bunch on the client side, in which case you'll like this update a lot (see "Big Stuff" below). The next update (January 11) will be fairly light as well, as I'll be putting most of my energies into "Level 5 - Uptown" development. The first version of this will most likely be released on January 25. Speaking of which, there's no new Fortnight Discussion this week -- I'd rather people just keep contributing to last week's Level 5 discussion, since there's still plenty of room for suggestions.

Alpha 41

• Major improvement in performance on multiplayer clients. Please let me know if this has negative side effects on your connection, causes disconnects where this did not occur before, etc.

• People can now be knocked through Glass Walls, with the exception of the ones surrounding the arena, specifically during the battle. It’s a bit of a hack. In the process, fixed issue with people getting knocked through the Glass during arena battles without it breaking.

• Fix for Vendor Stand not having correct shadow
• Fix for white squares sometimes appearing for a split second in place of state indicators above characters’ heads

• Potential fix for issue with items sometimes not appearing properly in inventory unless in interfaces for Sell-O-Matic, Clone Machine etc.
• Fix for character creation menu not showing the character’s name at the right side of the screen when first creating the character
• Fix for issue where a player in Home Base would open the Character Creation screen or the Mysterious Elevator menu, and other players’ personal menus would not close
• Fix for issue with Trackpad Mode where the player would sometimes aim toward the mouse’s position
• Fix for player not being able to interact with Zombie immediately if Zombie resurrected while player was within range

• Fix for doors sometimes not opening and closing properly on multiplayer client when they are opened and closed by NPCs
• Fix for players on multiplayer client not stopping their interactions with doors when an NPC opens the door

• Fix for Cocktails from Bartender sometimes having negative effects
• Fix for Hypnotizer not working properly on NPCs who are Hostile

• Fix for issue where quest-related NPCs would become hostile toward custom characters who were Zombified but did not have Fair Game
• Fix for multiplayer client being able to talk to Zombies that have turned in the current level when they should not have the ability to understand each other
• Fixed issue where “Chaaaarge” ability could sometimes result in the player charging into an object infinitely without being knocked to the ground
• Fix for players not being able to Enslave anyone when they have the Antisocial trait

• Death sound effect does not play when NPCs are knocked into holes
• Fix for Security Camera rotating sound effect not playing on multiplayer client

• Fix for kills counting twice for XP and stats when a dead body is knocked into a hole

• Fix for NPCs not always having correct initial relationships to multiplayer client players
• Fix for NPCs not always responding to noises properly, particularly knocks on doors and windows

• Fix for multiplayer client sometimes being able to interact with NPCs who had moved out of range
• Fix for host player in multiplayer games being able to press End Game and gib themselves after dying

• Unity engine updated from 2017.2.1 to 2017.3

• Updated Rewired plugin from 1.1.8.3 to 1.1.9.0

Alpha 41b