Improved sound multithreading, dialog box scripting, loading bars (v1.32.3.4)

A new update has been released for BlastZone 2! (v1.32.3.4) This makes a few improvements to sound system multithreading, including a new sound event handling system. This fixes many very rare crash issues and rare missed sound events. These issues may have never been seen by most players, and required very specific timing of thread collisions, but have now been addressed.

This update also improves the dialog box scripting system. The effects of this aren’t noticeable when playing the game, but makes it easier to adjust dialog boxes from a development standpoint. Also, loading bars have been completely reworked, improving progress smoothing, rendering performance, and being better designed so more improvements could be made in the future with less effort.

For more details, here are the full release notes for v1.32.3.4:

• Reworked the way sound system events are handled
  -Fixes very rare crash bugs related to audio multithreading
  -Fixes very rare instances of sounds not playing
  
• Updated dialog box script file format
  -Uses slightly less disk space
  -Makes it quicker and easier to change dialog text
  
• Reworked loading bars
  -Improved smoothing of loading bar progress
  -Optimized rendering and multithreading support
  -Applies to the game startup loading bar and the leaderboard score uploading bar
  -Unifies all loading bar logic to prevent bugs and makes it easier to make more improvements in the future
  
• Added antialiasing to the startup loading screen and the leaderboard score uploading bar
  

As usual, to make sure you have the latest update, launch the game and check the lower left corner for “v1.32.3.4” or higher. Enjoy!