N++ News

We've been hard at work bringing N++ to Mac over the last little while, but here's an update to bring some new features and fix some issues for the spooky season!

CHANGELIST:
New feature: Headbands!
There's now a selection of headbands you can unlock in the game. You can change headbands in the LSHIFT Colour/Music menu

New feature: Ninja colours!
You can customise the colour of your ninja and headbands in the LSHIFT Colour/Music menu.
Other players can change their colours (when one isn't taken) using their 'suicide' key in the Episode Grid menu, or RB/LB on controllers
There's even some funlockable additional colour options that are very confusing.

New feature: Halloween colours!
There's a couple new colours to play under in the LSHIFT Colour/Music menu. Use them quick, they won't be back until next October!


Bugfixes:
Fixed some audio issues with the chaser drone and dead ninjas
The timers in Profile screen tick correctly now
The Left Stick on a controller can be used to navigate menus now
Sometimes more than 4 players would enter the world. Now they don't
Fixed a whackload of issues with the Editor. Like, a whackload.
Some of the secret challenges in the secret levels have changed

This one's mainly a level update, to fix some issues reported by the community

Changelist:
* Changes to several levels to remove enemies, change names etc.
* The 'reset episode' function works again
* The pause menu can be opened when dead (no more restarting the level when what you really wanted to do was ragequit)
* Some changes to try to fix some instances of progress getting corrupted.


We're continuing to try to get the to bottom of some of the reports of corrupted save games. If this has happened to you please add your report and/or save file to the bug tracker at https://acromiongames.assembla.com/spaces/nplusplus/support/tickets

-Tatham

After a very busy couple of weeks with Mare and Raigan travelling to Japan and Tatham going and getting married, we're back on the update train!

Here's what's changed:
* Some improvements to error logging for better debugging of some sneaky errors
* Keep the Side Menus open when using up/down keys on them if opened by a mouseover
* Fixed a missing button in the Editor
* Fixed issues and crashes caused by the Timerbar funlocks not saving/loading correctly or displaying in-menu correctly
* Backup the last good savegame as 'nprofile-old' and load it if the main save get corrupted somehow
* Reset Defaults in the Controls Menu works with Keyboard/Controller and not just mouse
* Ignore in-game key bindings if they conflict with the menu controls (for real this time!) and don't clear Editor controls when rebinding in-game keys.
* Able to search again in the Episode Grid after a successful search
* Episode Grid keys are ignored while entering search query
* Can select regions with Controller in the Editor
* Show the corners of the Social/Preferences menu when they're hidden but actually available
* Some palette changes for the Profile screen

Stay tuned, there'll be more fixes next week!

We've been hearing some reports of people playing around with the game DLLs to access some cheats, so this is a minor update to address that. It should also fix the text for the multiplayer login prompts to return them to F2-F4.

This update also supports a --profilePath command line parameter that can be used to override the default profile path (My Documents/Metanet/N++)
Add it to the 'Startup Parameters' for the application in its Properties under Steam like this:
--profilePath="C:\my\preferred\folder\to\store\N++\saves"

The second update is here. We're still polishing up the input/editor fixes we've been working on and they'll be ready to release soon, but in the meantime here's a few more changes we've got for you:

* Use the Local App Data folder as a backup if My Documents isn't available (should fix some crashes on startup)
* ignore in-game key bindings if they conflict with the menu binding defaults (Up arrow can safely be bound to jump now)
* removed the vars system which some people were using to cheat levels
* searching for User Levels should be working again (pending a server update)

As always, if you notice any issues please report them at https://acromiongames.assembla.com/spaces/nplusplus/support/tickets and thank you for helping us make N++ better!