Alpha 32

Alpha 32 - Performance Enhancements Details Initial Release Date: August 24 2017 Source: Steam Post Link to Release: post Version History ← Previous  Current   Next →   Alpha 31 Alpha 32 Alpha 33

Alpha 32 was an update released on August 24th, 2017. It was a patch that focused on improving game performance.

Performance

• Loads and loads of performance tweaks
• Load times are slightly faster

Graphics

• Fix for players clipping through walls and objects vertically after teleporting while in the water

UI / Controls

• Fix for Traits on Load Character screen not being separated by line
• Fix for players 2, 3 and 4 not having the correct character selected when entering Character Select screen after death while playing as a custom character
• Fix for error if player plays as a custom character, dies, clears the custom character slot, then closes and re-opens the menu

Items

• Fix for Shopkeeper appearing to be equipped with weapons on multiplayer client when he is actually empty-handed

Status Effects / Traits / Special Abilities

• Fix for Bloodlust, Zombify, Camera Shy, Crepe Crusher, Blahd Basher and potentially others not triggering properly sometimes for multiplayer clients past the level where they joined the game
• Unstoppable-Ish cancels out Tank-Like and Skinny Nerdlinger during Character Creation

Sound

• Fix for “jump out of water” sound effect playing if the player teleports while in the water

Tutorial

• Fix for explosions from first laser not hitting the player if he stood in the exact right spot
• Player can now eat the Banana to advance the “quick-use health” part of the tutorial

Internal

• Prep work for Downtown levels
• Prep work for console versions
• Created new Free version of the game
• Created new Show version of the game for PAX

Alpha 32b

• Fix for custom characters sometimes not appearing properly
• Fix for chests and shops sometimes having incorrect items

Alpha 32c

• Fix for Pits not appearing
• Fix for Crusher poles not appearing
• Fix for shadows not appearing
• Fix for player identifiers not appearing in multiplayer modes
• Fix for people not turning blue when frozen

Alpha 32d

• Fixed a small bug that I added shortly before deploying Alpha 32, which ironically might have made performance WORSE than before.

Alpha 32e (August 25)

• Fixed issue from 32d where people would not attack you
• Added new lighting setting “Medium”. With this setting, walls do not cast shadows, which can greatly improve performance while still keeping the aesthetics mostly intact.
• Fix for Killer Plants remaining permanently white after being hit
• For for people briefly looking incorrect after being Depossessed by Shapeshifter
• More performance tweaks

Alpha 32f

• Fix for glitch introduced in 32e where AI would often not attack each other when they are hostile

Alpha 32g (August 26)

• Fix for people not always fighting back against Zombies
• Fix for people not getting angry upon seeing you standing over their friend’s dead body
• Fix for people not walking around in their owned buildings and looking at objects
• Fix for people not being angry at depossessed people who attacked them while possessed
• Fix for people not correctly determining when they should not get angry at a person who attacked them while possessed
• Fix for items not having shadows
• Fix for players 2, 3 and 4 in coop games not being able to use hacking target properly
• Fixed frame drops when people got clustered together

Improved Zombie frame rate issues

Alpha 32h (August 27)

• Fix for weird bugs introduced in 32g