MMORPG Tycoon 2

• Most notable was that text rendering was failing on many models of AMD graphic cards, as well as many (most?) models of Mac, and also on the Steam Deck.
  
  
• Road rendering was somewhat broken, with roads appearing extremely pixelated, when compared against earlier builds of the game.
  

• Adds a "Bug Report" feature to the main game menu. Submitting a bug report automatically handles all of our standard data gathering when bugs are reported; it sends us (anonymous) information about your computer specs, your game log, the current game state, as well as a screenshot.
  
• Revised game menu to make its behaviour more intuitive.
  
• The major quality-of-life change: Made the game's "pause" border a soothing matte red instead of an eye-searing glowing electric orange. (I honestly don't know what I must have been thinking when I first set that up)
  
• Implemented double-click-dragging within text edit widgets, to drag and select by words.
  
• Fixed incorrect collisions vs. road intersections when placing scenery objects.
  
• Fixed the placement of player names for very large character models.
  

New stuff:

• New "Festival" buildings and scenery!

  This adds a new category of "scenery buildings", which don't actually sell anything, but can help boost an area's "Beauty" statistic in the same way that regular scenery does.
  

• Sell trinkets to your subscribers, using the new Trinket Shop building!

  Subscribers love buying trinkets (for some reason?) They don't actually do anything, but they help fulfill your subscribers' psychological need to "get loot" in a safe way, and they give them something to talk about in social circles, too! Subscribers may purchase up to one trinket per day. You can see how many trinkets a player has on the 'Inventory' tab of their information window.
  

• Vendor trash?

  In addition to normal loot and gold, dead monsters now also drop "vendor trash" - basically worthless items that clog up a player's inventory. Players can sell vendor trash to shops for 1/10 a gold each (rounding down). You can see how much vendor trash a player is carrying also on the 'Inventory' tab of their information window.
  

• Jester?

  How have we gone so long in early access without ever making a jester model available? This was a terrible oversight on my behalf but we're fixing that problem now!
  

Changes:

• Weapon Item Levels

  Previously, player weapons were categorized as either "not good" or "acceptable", and when a player out-leveled their weapon, they would have to buy a new one. Now, weapons have levels the same way that players do. As a general rule, weapon levels are about ten times the matching character level. So a level 1 character would generally use an item level 10 weapon, but may buy a slightly better one so they don't have to upgrade it as often. Item level shows up as "ilvl" in the player information window.
  

• How much have I earned from that subscriber?

  We now track how much real-world money you have earned from each subscriber, and you can see that information on the new "Money" tab in the subscriber information window. (caveat: we weren't tracking this data before this build, so your older subscribers will be starting from '0'; sorry about that!)
  

Miscellaneous Fixes:

• Fixed "focus" behaviour when invoked on a monster zone.
  
• Fixed a crash bug during load if you had saved a string longer than 1kb in length (typically these were lore descriptions of things, or else ability tooltip messages)
  
• Big improvements to the UI for dragging the "precise" movement mode axis widgets, especially for objects which are above the camera.
  
• Vastly improved "precise" rotation mode when rotating objects which are close to the camera.
  
• Fixed cursor collision tests vs. vehicle routes; makes it much easier to use the 'destroy' tool on vehicle routes, rather than having to destroy the depots!
  
• Big big fixes to wall placement, especially for short walls.
  
• Fixed various text editing issues, particularly the widget getting confused if you inserted a carriage return after a word wrap had happened.
  
• Fixed absurd extra CPU usage while the mouse hovered over an editable text box on a sharable character prefab card.
  

New stuff:

• Adds a full new line of "Sturdy" buildings!

  Does one of your game's groups build its buildings out of particularly robust stone and metal? Try using the "Sturdy" building set! Guaranteed to look as if they're heavier and more robust than other, lesser buildings! Contains a full set of standard functional buildings, plus a teleporter, plus a robust modular building set!
  

• Adds more than a dozen new scenery models for decorating your worlds!

  From sarcophagi to spider webs, we've got you covered! (and there's even a very rickety new tower, for those who aren't fans of "sturdy" buildings)
  

• Adds six new types of wall!

  Perfect for railroading your players into going where you want them to go!
  

Changes:

• Improved Drag&Drop support on Windows!

  Character prefab cards can now be dragged directly into the Character Prefab interface from most other applications, without needing to save them to disk first! (Discord, etc)
  

• Character prefab cards now get exported at screen scale

  This makes character prefab cards much less likely to be re-encoded when shared on Twitter (as re-encoding the images destroys the embedded prefab data inside them)
  

Miscellaneous Fixes:

• Fixed a crash bug when importing a character prefab if it was using custom icons for its abilities and you didn't have those icons on your computer.
  
• Fixed a crash bug if you opened the prefab list, alt-tabbed into Explorer and deleted one of your prefab files and then returned to the game and tried to import that deleted file before the game managed to refresh its file list. ("Doctor, it hurts when I do this")
  
• Fixed the character prefabs list showing ten lines each saying "unset" instead of filenames, if have no character prefab cards saved.
  
• Fixes random speeds being applied to the first five NPC Classes created in a new game.
  

New in this build:

• Character cards!

  In the Design interface, every player class, NPC class, and monster class now gets a "character card" where you can write any descriptions or notes or lore you like, and you can export an image of that character card.
  
  Those images can then be shared with other players via any image hosting service; drop one of those files into your prefabs folder and you'll be able to import those characters into your game, complete with their name, model, combat abilities, and lore. As long as the host doesn't resize the image or perform a lossy re-encoding, they should retain all the data needed to import the characters into a new game!
  
  We hope you enjoy this new sharing feature, and to encourage people to try it out we're holding a costume design contest in our Discord community. See below for more details on that!
  

Other Changes

• Vastly improved the behaviour of wall placement tools, especially when
  connecting small walls to big walls (and especially ice walls).
  
  
• Redid the layout of the player info box, to make it smaller and easier to
  find stuff inside.
  

Fixes

• ScenePanes now obey the UIScale option. (Previously, if you had a high UIScale value, you could wind up with very chunky low-resolution 3D scenes inside UI windows because they had guessed their on-screen size incorrectly)
  
  
• Fixed the pathing behaviour of players as they exit the default starting point.
  
  
• Fixed launcher images in the desktop interface sometimes being saved as flat black images instead of as game screenshots.
  
  
• Fixed cursor placement within vertically-centered (or bottom-justified) text edit boxes.
  
  
• Fixed the rendering of anti-aliased ScenePanes (technical details: they should have been set to composite using premultiplied alpha, but were actually using normal compositing, which often resulted in half-pixel-wide black outlines around objects)
  
  
• Fixed texture animations in combat abilities, which were playing frames in the wrong order (and have been for months and nobody --including me-- noticed and mentioned it, and I am
• *so cross** about that!)
  
  
• Fixes tint on newly joined subscribers. (Previously they rezzed into the world as pure white characters, as if they were ghosts. Now fixed!)
  
  
• Fixed a few very small memory leaks.
  

Hi folks! Today we're announcing our Spooky Monster contest! With the new character import/export features in the latest update, and the Halloween season right around the corner, we wanted to encourage your creativity!

Head over to our Discord for more details on how to participate and maybe be crowned Monster Maker Champion 2022!