Beat Hazard 3 News

Hi all,

This version has fixes for Steam Deck (I'm trying to get the full green tick!)

- Steam keyboard now appears for text entry. (Caps not working for some reason)
- Added Steam Deck controller icons
- You can now go back to the Start screen from the main menu. (To change controller)

- PS5 controller setup added as default
- Customised the UE4 crash reporter.

Cheers,
Steve.

Hi all,

This is a quick fix for using the game pad on the 'Preferred music service' screen.

Cheers,
Steve.

Hi,

This update contains 2 big code changes. If they work fine, you should notice little difference.

1: Altered the sign in order so the game get the time from the internet right at the start. If this fails, it will use your system time. If your system time is wrong, then there will be an error when the game tries to talk to AWS. This error should now be properly shown on screen instead of just crashing (as was the case before)

2: Artists positions in galaxies are now calculated based on their MD5 hash. Previously, I used deterministic random numbers. However, this fails spectacularly if your galaxy differs slightly from the original. (I never figured out why this happened, I suspect some rounding error somewhere)

The upshot is now the galaxies should be the same for everyone. Unfortunately, I've had to completely reset all galaxies for this change.

It does mean now that a galaxy with local tracks can now handle new music being scanned in. It will just get added to your galaxy.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems.

Cheers,
Steve.

v0.307 Update

- Altered login order. Game now checks the internet time right at the start. If this can't be used, the game will use the system time. If the system time is wrong, it will flag an error. Current time is needed for AWS calls.

- Added a lot of debug messages to help investigate issues with challenge ship awards.

Cheers,
Steve.

Galaxy crash should now be fixed.
Sorry about that!

Cheers,
Steve.