I’ve added a bunch of new Big Quests this week -- 9 to be exact. Still no awards for actually completing them, that’s coming later! I also made some important performance improvements. Next update (or possibly updates?) will be on the light side, as I’ll be spending most of my time working on the game’s post-Uptown “final encounter”. It might be awhile before that's actually ready for people to play, but hopefully it'll be worth it! This week's Fortnight Discussion: Most ridiculous thing that's happened to you in the game?

Alpha 51

• Bartender - Serve drinks to 3 different people
• Gorilla - Rescue all gorillas. Likelihood of finding captive Gorillas in levels is increased when playing as Gorilla
• Thief - Rob all Chests and Safes
• Wrestler - Ask a certain person to fight, and win without cheating or using projectile and throwable weapons
• Jock - Destroy every object of a certain type
• Comedian - Tell jokes to a percentage of people
• Slavemaster - Enslave someone of a certain class and bring them to the entrance
• Soldier - Destroy all Generators
• Cannibal - Eat a person of a particular class
• Fix for Investment Banker’s quest not being completeable
• Fix for Big Quest status not loading correctly for clients who quit and rejoin the game
• Fix for Big Quest status for multiplayer clients sometimes saying “Failed” when it was meant to say “Wait for Next Game”
• Fix for Big Quest district status for multiplayer clients sometimes saying “Wait for Next Area” at incorrect times
• “Wait for Next Area” now reads “Wait for Next District”
• Big Quest required totals for Doctor and Cop take Quick Game into account
• Fix for Gangsters not being counted properly in online multiplayer mode if only the client is playing as a gangster
• Fix for orange arrows appearing for players in online games who were not doing that particular Big Quest
• Only need to Zombify 30% of a level instead of 40% for Zombie Big Quest
• Missions screen displays number of people that must be Zombified instead of a percentage
• People who are Zombified and then die count toward your total
• Big Quest map markers no longer appear on the minimap, only on the missions screen
• Big Quest map markers only appear on the map once discovered
• Big quest map markers appear smaller than before

• Fixed an issue that was causing music clips to eat up an ungodly amount of RAM
• Performance improvements to lighting engine
• Improved frame rate during load times, meaning that the game won’t try to load as much stuff all at once within a single frame. This could potentially help with issues where some players may crash between levels
• The game boots up more quickly
• AI work is distributed more evenly amongst frames to avoid CPU spikes
• Fixed monstrously inefficient “show NPC names” code from when you hold space bar
• Other various performance improvements

• Fix for Character Select not appearing properly under certain circumstances when using a custom character

• Fix for rare cases of the Quick Escape Teleporter freezing the game if it couldn’t find an appropriate position for the player to teleport

• Fix for screen remaining black at the start of the new game following the failure of a “Find Bombs” mission
• Butler Bots spawn a bit earlier during War Zone
• NPCs who are normally spawned outdoors are no longer spawned during War Zone
• Ooze expands faster than before

• Fix for mutators not loading properly when loading saved games

• Potential fix for freeze at 87%
• Fix for odd pathfinding in one of the Arcade buildings

• Cops will not attack the player if the player attacks enemies who pop out of manholes

• Chinese translations for some of the newer text have been added
• Fix for “Remove Disaster” unlocks not appearing properly in multiplayer chat
• Descriptions for Longer Status Effects and Shorter Status Effects are more specific

• Fix for clients who quit and rejoin the game losing their level and skill points, and a couple of other stats

• Unity Analytics disabled

Alpha 51b (May 18)

• Fix for levels sometimes hanging at 50% loaded
• Fix for AI sometimes updating at the wrong speed
• Fix for Item Teleporter menu causing the game to go into slow motion in multiplayer mode
• Fix for Cannibal’s Big Quest sometimes assigning the player to eat Gorillas, which is not possible because they are not humans, and that would not be very Cannibal-like
• Fix for NPCs who start in gas-filled buildings not always having Gas Mask
• A few small performance fixes

Alpha 51c (May 19)

• Fix for multiplayer lobby sometimes displaying Mutator names incorrectly
• Fix for Shopkeeper being able to buy the same item from NPCs multiple times when playing as multiplayer client
• Fix for NPCs taking up a slot in the player’s party after exiting the level through the level entrance
• Slavemaster can no longer receive Big Quest to enslave a Slave
• If the Slavemaster escorts an NPC to the level entrance to complete their Big Quest, the NPC will drop their important items (such as keys) before exiting the level
• Fix for Slave helmet exploding after the player brings a Slave to the entrance, has them ostensibly exit the level, and moves far enough away
• Fix for Movie Screen sometimes having the wrong sprites
• Fix for Cop’s Big Quest not being completeable
• Fix for Comedian Big Quest sometimes only requiring you to entertain 1 person
• Fix for Zombie Big Quest sometimes only requiring you to zombify 1 person
• Wrestler can no longer receive Big Quest to fight a Cop during Lockdown, since Cops are always initially hostile in this case
• If you rescue a Gorilla from a prison and you already have a full party, they will not join your party
• Fix for Flame Grates at the end of factory conveyor belts not always having fire
• Fix for Fire only doing 1 damage
• Larger Chair has been renamed to “Armchair” and larger Table has been renamed “Big Table” to avoid confusion with smaller varieties in Jock’s Big Quest
• When completing a level, skill points awarded for Big Quests are displayed before other types of points at the top-left of the screen
• Added some pitch shifting for one of the melee hit sounds (not sure why it was missing…)
• Small performance fixes