Developer News - April 2024

Hey!

Its been another month and time for an update from the developer - aka me :)

In case you missed it, Public Multiplayer Beta is open!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1079260/view/6242613536165636826

Overall the main focus is still multiplayer obviously, however, there are a lot of things that indirectly needed for multiplayer to be a success.
Shells and Mortars is one of them as the current mod from Panini is not going to work in multiplayer at this point due to some technical challenges.

[h2]Shells & Mortars - Now Ready On Multiplayer-Beta![/h2]
Yes, you can now try out the first draft of the new native Shells & Mortar on multiplayer-beta branch!

It is still not done, but it's close. At least its good enough for you guys to play around with. I really didn't intended to have so long time between updates, so now it's out and I'm just gonna update it from here!

So go ahead and give it a try :)


I have added a tiny bit of mortars and shells in the game, so you have something to test with. These shells don't have the most amazing effects, they are there as placeholders, until I have time to make better ones.
However, they work as shells and mortars work in the game and that's what is important to get tested now.

[h2]Mod Tools still in closed beta[/h2]
One of the reason this have taken a while is because I have been so stupid to support mods ;) . This adds to the complexity like a lot, as I need to make it in a way that make sense for modders and is easy to explain. Or at least as easy as it can be.
I'm a big fan of keeping things as simple as possible, the problem is that that the simplest solution is often the hardest to come up with.

However, I think we are closing in. When that said, the Mod Tools for multiplayer, including Shells and Mortar, is still only in closed beta, so only a few have access to it.
The reason is that it's still changing a lot and it will simply take all my time if I should communicate with too many mod creators when things change.

However, fear not and stay tuned modders out there - it will eventually come out and I will do video tutorials about all this new stuff.

When that said, Mr. FireworksFactory (aka Amnestey) and always-sys-guanaco is funny enough some of the few modders that have access to the closed beta Mod Tools - so keep an eye on the workshop - maybe they drop something new there in the near future. Who knows.



[h2]Change log[/h2]

## [v2024.4.4] (2024-4-18)

### Added
- Native Shell & Mortar support! This is the first public beta release of this. I still have a lot of things I wanna tweak and improve, but I also want it out so you guys can try it out and give feedback. This version contains a very small number of shells and mortars, as I just added a few quickly so you had something to test it with. Soon, I'm sure some of the modders in the closed beta of the mod tools will put some more in the workshop that you can try out

This is all for now - need to get back to work on the next update :)

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