MODS & MENUS UPDATE!

It took a while but it's here! Lots of new things to play with now! I wasn't keeping very good change notes for a bunch of stuff related to this patch, so hopefully I remembered all the stuff we changed. Here goes...

Bombernauts Version 0.16.0: The Mods & Menus Update

NEW MENUS AND OPTIONS

• Sick new menus yo! They're way more responsive and functional, and a lot easier to add things to now! They work fine with keyboard and gamepad and even the mouse! Give them a try!

• "Customize Maps" added to the Create Game menu! You can mix and match custom map sets now!

• "Customize Items" added to the Create Game menu! You can control what items show up now!

• "Force Spawn Timer" added to the Advanced Game Settings. How long before you get force spawned!

• "Floaty Bombs" added to Advanced Game Settings. Bombs float on lava! On by default.

• "Smash DamageDamage Buildup" added to Advanced Game Settings. Smash bros style damage percents! Get bombed farther and farther and farther! Off by default.

• "Force Multiplier" added to Advanced Game Settings. GO FLYING

• "Server Script" added to Advanced Game Settings. MODS! See below for more info.

• Passworded lobbies now show up in the lobby list with a lock next to their name. "Filter By Password" was removed.

• Custom Map options enabled for Saturday Special lobbies.

• Saturday Special now chooses randomly each week instead of in a set order

• Quick Play now will give the option (and a warning) to join a heavily customized or saturday special lobby if it can't find one with default settings.

LUA SCRIPTING

• Enabled Server Scripts. Stick a lua script into the custom_game_scripts folder and you can host a lobby with that script.

• Enabled loading server scripts from workshop items. Go! Upload some mods!

• See this forum for mod discussions

• Sub to Saturday Specials for some example scripts

NEW HATS

• Adjusted the cost of a few hats

• Added a bunch of new hats!

• Added a BRAIN SLIME special hat! JOIN THE SLIME ARMY TODAY

• Added a Closurehead special hat for people who own Closure!

• Added a Dev Hat that only me, Sven, and Brandon can have!

• Added a VIP Hat for players who have contributed to Bombernauts development or the Bombernauts community!

• The following players have earned a VIP hat:

  • Hideous, for making a couple of sweet hats

  • Dan Fitzgerald, for making the early access launch trailer

  • Xemsi, for beta testing and bug reports

  • Charlez Metze III, for rendering out a few 3D assets

  • MAN, for his announcer voice

  • pixeldesu, for running the Bombernauts subreddit

  • Hartmunt, for detailed bug reports and consistently hosting lobbies

NEW AND UPDATED BLOCKS

• Added Glass and Metal Glass blocks! See-through blocks so you can stop blocking the camera with your walls!

• Added Metal Springs to the editor

• Added Char Blocks to the editor

• Changed Mud to Tar

• Updated the graphics of a bunch of tiles

• Tweaked the editor UI so everything can fit on lower resolutions better.

MAPS

• Updated Bumpers, ColdPit, Backboard, Blade, BouncePit, DivingPlatform, DunkTanks, Hoops, LeanTo, and Platforms with the new tiles

• Added 3 new neutral maps: GlassPads, GlassHouse, and GlassHole

• The game will now not choose any map that has been selected in the last 20 rounds (previously 12). This is now also enabled when using custom maps.

• When custom maps and default maps are mixed, the game will switch from a 50/50 ratio of custom:default to proportional if you have more custom maps than default maps.

MISC

• Renamed "Powerup Action" control binding to "Taunt"

• Taunt will automatically call "-sing" with the last song you sung. Saved across game sessions.

• Win messages are now randomized

• Tweaked the RNG for powerup selection slightly.

• Robot Colors and Hat settings are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally

• A few other game settings (chat title, pronoun, etc) are now saved on Steam Cloud instead of locally

• Settings that have been moved to Steam Cloud were reset

• Added a new achievement!

BUGFIXES

• Fixed an issue where you would occasionally get clipped off the map

• Fixed being able to stun players who haven't spawned in yet

• Fixed being able to duplicate a slime bomb held while you're a ghost

• Win message font now properly displays all ASCII characters