Skullgirls 2nd Encore News

Small update, small text and too lazy to make a nicely-formatted list:
- Hopefully fixed the menu-movement and "another game" sounds sometimes being played as off-to-one-side instead of centered. :^P
- Made the

-ggposhowinfo

text smaller so it's easier to play with it on.
- Added a missing piece of logging info to that log.
- Updated some values after some more low-ping testing, hopefully this improves low-ping online performance. Maybe it even doesn't break high-ping performance! :^P Let me know, and give me replays (or videos!) with -ggposhowinfo on if there's something weird! Press Start when the weirdness happens to put a mark in the replay file, too. :^)

Title screen build ID 16482

UPDATED at 5:15PM May 1st

Alrighty, I fixed some extra bugs and added one more small improvement:

• Added a person to the credits who got left out of them for the whole eight years.
  WE'RE REALLY SORRY! >.<
  
• Doubled the size of the sprite decompression atlas, which fixes sprite-flickering issues when you have, for example, two Big Band assists, Lenny, and a full Inferno Brigade onscreen at once. I couldn't have done this during the PS3 days, but those days are loooooong gone. :^)
• Update - Fixed sprites if you were using -disablelighting.
  
• Made the longer PS4-style super shadow trails the default on PC. If you don't want 'em, use launch option
  -disableextrasupershadows
  to go back to the old boring version. :^P
  
• Fixed the negative-damage training mode display bug after loading a savestate during a combo.
  
• The IPS display now gets saved along with your savestate in training mode, why not.
  
• Raised the thresholds for green/yellow/red ping times, as well as the updating the recommended-delay-for-ping numbers now that the netcode has been improved. :^)
  
• Update - the camera thing below was kinda annoying in practice, so I both improved it and made it opt-in. Use launch option
  -enablerollbackcamera
  to enable it.
  Improved the camera after rollbacks! Most likely you won't notice, but it does help some. Since this is a 2D fighting game, basically the only thing that we can nicely interpolate to hide jitter is the camera. This does not affect the position of the in-game walls, so it will not cause desyncs, it's only fixing where the screen draws. Here's a video with intentionally cruddy internet and a better explanation: [previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Linux/Mac notes:

• Update - Linux and Mac are now current!
  
• Note to our fellow devs:
  OpenGL Quads have been taken care of. Rejoice!

And a SPECIAL SHOUTOUT to Clumsy, an amazing program that lets you make your internet connection worse in all sorts of useful ways for network debugging. Clumsy has been instrumental in getting this patch to where it got. To. Here's the github.

[h2]If this build has no further problems, it will become the Real Game in a couple of days.[/h2][h3]I will look into what is required to update PS4 and Switch after that, but no promises.[/h3]

Title screen build ID 16424

Thanks to diligent feedback from several players* plus tireless testing help from our Linux maven and a certain yung rat, we're on the home stretch...!

• Hopefully COMPLETELY fixed(!) the weird hitches that some people were getting during online play, especially in low-ping matches. They were due to not properly updating what the FPS-throttling code thought when GGPO told the game to wait for the opponent to catch up, before the match started. I TOLD you I didn't know how to write frameskip code!
• Greatly improved the speed of rollbacks by removing a bunch of things it didn't need to do during a rollback.
  
• Improved the L&G/Showtime/KO screens in online play, rollbacks no longer erase them from existence. :^P
  
• Fixed the 49281263778 ping-time bug, now it shows "---".
  

[h3]If you still experience problems, now you can help me find them![/h3]
I've added the Launch option

-ggposhowinfo

which will do a few things:

• It puts a bunch of obnoxious colored text on the screen during online matches any time anything happens with GGPO syncing or other useful info. So only use this for diagnostics. :^)
  
• If you have replays enabled (using -enablereplays), all that text will get SAVED INTO THE REPLAY FILE when the match ends. That way, if there's a match with a problem and you have this option on, you can just post (or send) the replay file and I can look at it.
  
• If you're in an online match and you press Start, it adds a "player pressed Start" message into the log. (Only for the local player, not the online player.) So if something weird happens, please press Start a few times to mark the spot and make it easier for me to find the problem! Please note that a rollback itself does not qualify as "something weird". :^S

"That's enough, for now..."

Title screen build ID 16343

* As well as irate feedback from several players. :^)

I won't mince words:
[h2]I also fixed the volume options not working properly.[/h2]Seriously. Go play people at high ping. Have them mash during your combos. Fight against Peacock.

[h3]Here is a small amount of text:[/h3]

• Addressed the issue of the game dropping frames after a rollback, which also greatly improves netplay responsiveness and reduces dropped inputs.
  It had nothing to do with rollbacks themselves being slow, and everything to do with me not knowing how to write frameskip code. :^P
• Addressed how sounds are handled during rollbacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  I'm not done! There are still occasional dropped sounds, but this is the lion's share of fixing the problem.
  
• Fixed the problem of weird hitches while playing a long set on Random stages, from the previous build.
  
• Fixed the music restarting when staying on the same stage if there was a rollback to frame zero. :^P
  
• Fixed the fact that some sounds didn't listen to your options volume settings. OOPS.
  

[h3]Linux and MacOS notes:[/h3]

• Good: The sound code also got a big upgrade and is now using Ethan Lee's FAudio library!
  
• Not-as-good: Unfortunately, for platform support reasons 32bit support on MacOS is a thing of the past...so it is no longer possible for us to continue 32bit support for future Mac builds. :^(
  

Title screen build ID 16330

Title screen build ID 16229

It addresses the possible issue of slowing down over longer online sets on Random Stage, and the weird freezing before matches that have good ping.

I'm not sure there's much more I can do to improve the reponsiveness of online play at this point, so please post feedback. High or low ping, both are important!

::yawn:: Goodnight!