Desyncronization Improvements and Gameplay balances

Spellmasons Update v1.8.0

I have high-hopes for the desync fixes in this build. I think it will resolve many of the desyncs that people have been encountering. Please continue to report any desync issues that you encounter in our Discord channel - the reports so far have been monumentally helpful in uncovering these issues. I have still detected a few minor desync issues but as of this update I, personally, have not found any remaining major issues.

Thank you to everyone who messaged on Discord to report issues and thank you all for your support!

Changes in v1.8.0:

• gameplay balance: Dark Summoners so they start with 40 mana out of 60 so it takes them one turn before they can cast and make them regen mana slower. Thanks to Sander and Shurimoo for the suggestions

• gameplay balance: Dark Summoner summons Dark Priests and Mana Vampires instead of more summoners to prevent overpopulation from crashing the game

• Translations (i18n): Add Japanese and French and Korean

  • Thanks to Cie, Skornett and Vedmin_Studen for the translations!

• refactor: Scrolls Scrolls still trigger the "pick upgrade" screen, but they will no longer disappear after a number of turns have passed. This should resolve numerous issues encountered with scrolls.

• fix: desync: Update lastUnitId when loading Player

• fix: Extra desync protection, send lastUnitId along with SYNC_PLAYERS message When lastUnitId is out of sync it opens the possibility of a desync where there can be multiple units that share the same ID which can result in different results on different clients if one client has the shared id bug and another client does not.

• fix: Killing ally player allows scroll to drop Scrolls will only drop when killing enemies now

• fix: menu: Fix blank mods screen

• fix: Bug where freezing yourself would result in you missing 2 turns instead of one because your turn got ended before the modifier got added to your unit which meant when the onEndTurnEvent fn ran, there was no freeze modifier to remove and so it didn't get removed until the next turn.

• npm: @websocketpie/client@1.0.0 Upgrade wsPie client so that it doesn't handle client messages immediately by default. Client messages will bounce off the server before being handled to alleviate desync issues

• optimize: Throttle PLAYER_THINKING messages Prevent messages from sending with no cardIds (unless it's clearing a previous thought) Before this change the server was being inundated with messages because every client was sending a player_thinking message on every mouse move

• UX: Give players immediate feedback if they send SPAWN_PLAYER while other messages are still processing

• UI: Fix updating unit health and mana bars at the start of player turns and after ending player turns. This is triggered manually so that the player doesn't have to move their mouse to get the updated prediction UI