SIX MONTH OLD BUG! SQUASHED!

Before getting into new features I just want to take a minute and... unwind. There was a bug affecting track generation in the game for the past 6 months. It didn't happen often, but when it did happen it was completely unknown as to how and WHY. Sometimes, the procedural level generator would just decide to... generate a different level instead of the one it's supposed to. Well I finally figured out why, and fixed it! You can read all about it here if you like (it's pretty detailed and I wanted an excuse to plug my Patreon every now and again).

NEW SONG!

A member of the community generously donated a song for Vecter called space cocaine and through a poll on the Vecter Discord server it was voted to be added to the base game.
However, this song is a bit more explicit in nature and I know there are some really young Vecter players out there as people have sent me messages to tell me how much their young daughter / cousin / brother enjoy this game. So, in the interest of keeping Vecter safe for everyone there is now a "Enable Explicit Content" option in the options menu that you need to turn on if you want to listen to the new song.

NEW CAMERA

I've added a new camera view to the game (The 5th one now) which is also the default camera for new players. It's a little more dynamic and gives a better sense of speed and movement for the player. You can see it in action in this video where I'm stalking someone else in Top Dog to watch them as they play. Creepy [previewyoutube=O9oxs-d3am0;full][/previewyoutube]

Now, onto the change log!

- You can now navigate in the colour picker menu between the different elements using PageUp / PageDown on your keyboard when you don't have the element list selected - The song Space Cocaine, generously donated by @The Blue Devil 2.0 has been added to the game as an Explicit song due to its more mature content - A toggle in the options menu called "Enable Explicit Content" has been added. Space Cocaine will only be available if you turn this toggle one. Very young children play this game so it's best to have it this way. This toggle right now basically will not load any song that has the word "explicit" in its filename - Guns have been made significantly more useful... Still will melt your score tho' - New camera mode added and has been set as the default for the new players. For the rest of you, just press C till you get to it, or press 5. Whatever works for you - Game no longer clears ram every 10 minutes when someone picks up an extra life, it will now clean its RAM only if it reaches more than 2GB of allocated memory, or when a new run starts. This is an attempt to combat an issue reported by @Eva Ryan where the game would freeze sometimes when picking up an extra life - Increased minimum system requirements in Steam from 2GB or RAM to 4GB of RAM because I didn't realize that Windows 10 64bit, by default, requires 2GB or RAM just so it itself can run, thus leaving no extra RAM for the game. Sad but true - Option menu slider and navigation sensitivity increased when holding down a direction key (I.E. it cycles through the options faster when you hold down a button, and it increases / decreases volume, bloom intesity, etc faster) - Main menu elements are no longer drawn on top of the options menu because the main menu is no longer drawn at all when the options menu is visible - Tutorial text no longer overlays on top of Play Youtube prompt in the options menu - Tutorial text will now update in real time to reflect which dash mode you selected - Fixed a bug in casual where max speed could never be achieved - Fixed level generation so it no longer creates different levels SOMETIMES - Fixed a bug where if the game would go in offline mode for any reason it would never go online again.

[ 2020-11-27 07:15:58 CET ] [ Original post ]