MMORPG Tycoon 2 News

New in this build:

• Fixed parties sometimes getting stuck in 'Forming up' state (which was more common on fast time speeds).
  
• Fixed monsters sometimes becoming unkillably undead. (I'm not sure how this happened and nobody's ever reported it to me, but I once saw a monster that had zero health remaining but was still alive and killing one player after another.. so I put in some fixes to prevent monsters from getting into that 'undead' state!)
  
• Added the concept of "basic attacks" to the game, where a basic attack is any attack which has no cost. The game will now generate a warning if a player/npc/monster class has no level 1 basic attacks (since that class may not be able to engage in combat at all)
  
• Fixed user-provided music tracks always playing at 100% volume when automatically triggered by the game.
  
• Fixed text layout of the intro sequence's "login" window for certain localisations.
  
• Fixed several bugs in the 'Features' tab of the Design window, so that Parties and PvP can correctly be enabled when you own the techs, even if you haven't unlocked both of them.
  
• Fixed a whole bunch of issues around dragging ability prefabs into and out of the prefabs window.
  

-T

Hi folks! This is just a small hotfix patch for a few issues present in the recent sound update.

Most notably:

• Fixes a crash bug if more than just a few custom music tracks were added to the game.
  
• Fixes the ambient music player completely ignoring which tracks had been enabled and disabled within the UI, when picking a music track to play.
  
• Fixed a potential lockup if every music track but one was disabled, and that one remaining track could not be played for some reason (for example, for being an invalid file).
  

It also has a number of minor unrelated bug fixes and updated localisation data!

Big thanks to everyone who reported those issues!

-T

Hi folks! We discussed for a long time whether this should be consider a full update or a small update and in the end I decided to call it a small update because I honestly have no idea how you'd make branding images for an update that's all about sound!

New in this build:

• Lots of sound updates! We've added an initial pass of tool sounds to almost every interactive tool in the game, and have categorised sounds into several different groups which can now all have their volumes set separately, in the 'options' window.
  
• Ambient music tracks; every so often, the game will now sometimes play an ambient music track when the camera is brought down into a populated region. If you wish, you can add your own music tracks to this system by dropping audio files into a particular directory (the game will tell you where, in the "Ambient Music Tracks" interface in the audio options). We're expecting to add more tracks to the built-in list in the future!
  
• Adjusted sound volume slider ranges, to make the full range of the volume sliders more useful.
  
• Fixes a couple of situations which could result in players getting stuck forever while waiting for a PvP opponent to arrive, if that opponent changed their mind and decided to go do something else before arriving. (this would most commonly happen if they got attacked on the way to the PvP duel)
  
• Improves the layout of the "Features" page of the Design window to make it much more obvious when features aren't available, and to explain what must be done to unlock them.
  
• The game now notices if Steam tells us to quit, and acts as if the player had requested to quit. This performs an autosave and then quits.
  
• Disabled some spammy log messages which accidentally got included in the last update.
  
• In the 'intro' animation, the game now uses your Steam display name as the pretend 'login' name, instead of the hardcoded string 'admin'. (this is the first step toward some future plans)
  
• Fixed save file submission to be more robust and handle large save files much more reliably! (previously, large save files were often being silently discarded by the server; that shouldn't happen any more!)
  

Thanks for your patience and feedback, everyone! We're going to have a content update coming really soon, and then hopefully the dungeons feature update won't be too far beyond that!

Also, there'll likely be an interim update just to get an updated copy of FMOD into the game, just as soon as they release their 2.02.06 version, which is supposed to fix a few audio issues that a small number of players have reported. I'm crossing my fingers over that one, and hopefully I'll be back with another set of patch notes really soon!

-T

New in this build:

• Fixes weapon models not being drawn (this bug was introduced in 0.18.85); the simulation was still working as intended; it was just that players who were carrying weapons didn't have those weapons actually visible in their hands.
  
• Fixes a possible crash bug when placing teleporters very close to each other.
  
• Migrated all of our image saving/loading from using SDL_Image to using stb_image (and stb_image_write). This turns out to be simpler, faster, and easier, and also removes one of our more troublesome dependencies. Also fixes a Mac bug where game thumbnails weren't successfully being saved by SDL_Image!
  
• Worked around a "freeze on exit" issue which (to my knowledge) only affected the Steam Deck.
  

Hopefully this was the last of the rendering bugs I accidentally introduced in 0.18.85; apologies for the inconvenience! Assuming no more show-stoppers, the next update should be a small content update, and then after that, dungeons!

Thanks so much for your patience and for your bug reports! I'm super embarrassed that those rendering bugs slipped into the 'default' branch!
-T

Hi everyone! This is a hotfix for an important bug that accidentally got introduced yesterday in 0.18.86, which resulted in NPC badges not being displayed, which made it harder to visually identify NPCs such as guards and quest-givers.

That's now fixed! Apologies for the inconvenience!

Will talk again soon with a proper content update!

-T