A Gentlemen's Dispute News

[h2]Another update has arrived![/h2]


[h2]Major Changes[/h2]
- Fire has been reworked, directly applying fire to enemies with a molotov or flamethrower will cause them to run around for a few seconds.
- Water now puts out fire status
- Public lobbies will now always use a dedicated server

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
- The nuke explosion radius has been increased significantly
- Daredevil now stacks, causing you to be launched further out of cannons
- Temporarily disabled teleporter on Metro, will be restored and improved in a future update


[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed naming of Extra Fitness perk to be accurate
- Fixed issue where invisible oil would stick around between rounds
- Added extrapolation of player and physics objects to improve smoothness when network conditions degrade
- Fixed HDR bug on mac and windows that caused menu and win screens to be gray and caused post processing to appear washed out
- Fixed issue where item spawns could occasionally spawn above the ground
- Fixed issue where occasionally players couldn't customize on the lobby screen
- Improved usability of menus on gamepad

Plus various performance improvements across the game.

As always, please feel free to provide feedback in the comments of this post, in the community hub, or in our Discord! (https://discord.gg/PTvpYGmtGK)

Happy Disputing!

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

- Changed Hot Hands to function more similarly to Bad Influence, having a chance to activate instead of always activating.

[h2]Major Bugfixes[/h2]

- Addressed issue where the character controller would occasionally run multiple times per tick, causing players to move much faster than they should.

[h2]Changes to Hosting[/h2]

With all of the new players who joined during next fest, our server hosting costs were starting to get out of control. We've done a ton of optimization on both the client and server to mitigate this.

In the process of optimizing the game to reduce our server costs, we noticed that hosting without a dedicated server (using Steam Networking to host on a player's machine) is now often a better experience than using a dedicated server, especially in later rounds when you the game gets really chaotic.

By default the hosting will now run the server locally, but you can still choose to use a dedicated server in the host settings menu.

In general, you will have a better experience hosting yourself (without a dedicated server) if you have a reliable internet connection and a decently powerful PC, especially if the people you are playing with are in the same region.


[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

We are aware of some rendering issues related to Auto HDR and Apple Silicon machines, usually manifesting as everything being gray or washed out. We are working on addressing those as soon as possible.

First, we wanted to give a huge thank you to all of the new players who joined us over Next Fest.
We hope you stick with us as we continue to improve the game and continue prepare the full version!

We have a ton of interesting things planned for the full version of A Gentlemen's Dispute, from tons of new content to new modes and ways to play, and in the future even mods and workshop support. And of course, lots of polish and fixes.

We plan to keep the demo up throughout production of the full version. The full version will be a simple one-time purchase with no microtransactions.

If you are interested in becoming a playtester for future versions of the game, or just want to give suggestions, please feel free to join our discord! https://discord.gg/PTvpYGmtGK


We have a large patch for you today with some general improvements and many bug fixes.

Misc:

- Can no longer use items while standing up from damage
- Added invert vertical look setting
- Improved performance of fire and oil splatters
- Added reset all and back button to game customization
- Game customization settings are no longer saved between sessions (we're working on a rework of the game customization UI, for now we found the saving to be too confusing)
- Fixed player customization controls for gamepad
- Reduced size of cannon collision hitbox (for getting put in the cannon)
- Improved scaling of Trapper perk
- Changed wording of Double Down perk to be clearer

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed issue where using items and leaping at the same time could cause you to could lose your item
- Fixed freeze grenade not interrupting item usage
- Fixed oil barrel getting stuck occasionally
- Fixed issue where players could get multiple perks in a single perk selection round
- Fixed cannon movement sound looping under certain conditions
- Fixed teleporting issue when players took damage immediately after standing up
- Fixed issue where game customization settings could be reset when other players joined mid session
- Addressed several memory leaks
- Fixed issue where the use button could be used to mash in addition to the jump button, overriding the mash limit
- Fixed major performance issues with destruction, blowing up the map should be much smoother
- Fixed size of cannon movement collider so that it is no longer possible to glitch out of the map. There may be be some areas we missed where it is still possible, we are working on further improvements

Happy Disputing!

The Devs here at Blast Furnace Games will be running a stream of us playing the game for the duration of Next Fest!

Feel free to hop in and watch or try the demo our yourself with a couple of friends!

- Fixed bug preventing swapping between input devices in online mode
- Fixed bug causing burn effect to be invisible while ragdolled
- Fixed bug causing server to never timeout broken connections
- Fixed bug causing ragdolls to clip through walls if damage was dealt at the exact moment a player rolled out of a leap


We've also added the ability for the host to kick players from the leaderboard.

Happy Disputing!