Venue Special Dailies, and Bugs

• code
  
  
  • now using the red-black tree super de-duper on all daily days, including special venue days and race the sniper, so if you ever see a dupe let me know when and where!
    
  • better bookcase bunching up avoidance without avoiding the entire front of the bookcase
    
  • fix action priority bug for fake bb and delegated bar purloin
    
  • fix flirt to come before bb
    
  • don't change bb priority when it's achieved
    
  • separate out fake and real and put fake last in the priorities finally
    
  • finally fix steam multiple login issue with mismatched ticket names
    
  • VERY IMPORTANT FIX: "specator" -> "spectator" on button
    
  • finally fix obscure but somewhat common crash on displaying dossier on unlock on sniper game setup before spy ready, phew.
    
  
  

Belated Bugfix Build

• code
  
  
  • fix Away, Spectating "build" in /stats to be a little less noisy
    
  • daily challenge should not have dupes for 365 days now
    
  • check for spy and sniper setup complete on spectation load to avoid bad replays in dailies
    
  • lobby state CLOSED allows games but not matches/sets
    
  • fix lobby assert when cached game is evicted before message lands
    
  • fix lobby assert if invited by highest client id and then they disconnect and then our spectation socket closes !?
    
  • if invitations fail to find other client id, fail accepts and handle them somewhat
    
  • email notification on lobby crash
    
  • fix sliding bug, which seems to be caused by error buildup in relative timestamps in packets, track error on server and send corrections to client
    
  • fix replay timeline scrubbing memory leak (and crash?), if fading sound out don't remove from list
    
  • RIP bookmarking in practice sniper menu text
    
  • fix a crash if we're in a replay dir that gets renames but the notification fails to trigger
    
  • add prompt to /say and /emote on room change during typing to avoid spamming lobby, and fix /sayroom and /emoteroom
    
  • make /win more robust, w h, x y w h, or all params
    
  • clear credentials on exit has one-shot and always options, default steam users to one-shot for old versions, have people use one-shot for working around steam bug for now
    
  • record finished http request time from signal thread so we aren't dependent on load times for computing server clock skew
    
  • queue 3 games after end so late joiners can have a chance to watch a game even with delay on
    
  • save replay data as soon as done, don't wait for retire, avoids some quick exit situations that didn't save game correctly
    
  • display next spectation game ready in a slightly less epilepsy inducing typeface
    
  • if /away then default invites to off
    
  • display the "next game has started" thing in casting mode if we've seen the end of the game once
    
  • allow the spy normal action key to fire the sniper rifle
    
  • more asserts to try to catch this portrait crash(es)
    
  • flush log if lose focus
    
  • sort /away folks to bottom of lobby list above finishing folks
    
  • fix bug with replay set results screen missing title
    
  • setting for filtering lobby meta chat messages like join/leave, probably want more stuff under this category
    
  • don't play drink crash twice on canceling waiter purloin
    
  • don't use replay muting in replay/spectation sniping mode, only when viewing the replay as a spectator
    
  
  
  
• content
  
  
  • investigating and fixing offsets in pub and ballroom, this was not a big deal until the Daily Challenge and these old replays started showing up everywhere!
    
  • venue texture and geometry fixes for ballroom, gallery, balcony, high-rise, moderne, library, pub, redwoods, teien, terrace, veranda
    
  • thanks to cleetose for finding all these!!!
    
  • reduce volume a bit on drink crash and statue clank
    
    

Race the Sniper Daily Challenge Mode, and Fixes & Features!

• Sniper Daily Challenge Bugs
  Some small bug fixes, and one huge exploit bug fix that was reported privately by Legorve Genine/steam before anybody else noticed, thanks so much!
  
• Once a week Race the Sniper Daily Challenge Mode
  The normal Daily Challenge consists of all Spy wins or timeouts, so when you play Sniper, you get a "normal" game against the Spy. I added a new mode that activates once a week on Sunday afternoons in the US, or 00:00 GMT Monday morning to be precise, where the replays choosen from the database are all games where the original sniper shoots the Spy, and you have to shoot first to win. It's an experiment, and so far some like it and some don't, give it a try on Sunday/Mondays and see what you think!
  

• daily challenge fixes and features
  
  
  • fix /daily command to print stats without level param, must have param to play daily, like /daily 4 to play level 4's daily (this is how you play more than just your own daily level)
    
  • don't lock out daily on cancel until actually started the first game
    
  • setting for disabling daily results posting to discord
    
  • pop up a screen describing daily and curated set, this is used to tell you if you're on a Race the Sniper day
    
  • fix absolutely wild replay sniper bug discovered by Legorve Genine/steam (see below)
    
  • put the spy green bar on the replays sniper view portraits
  
  

Sniper Daily Challenge and New Curated Replay Sets!

• Sniper Daily Challenge
  Everybody loves daily challenges in games, and the new Sniper Daily Challenge in SpyParty is pretty special. Every day (rolling over at 00:00 GMT, which is 4pm US Pacific), the server generates a new set of eight games for everybody to snipe against. There are different skill levels based on your number of wins, so you'll always get a set of daily games that are challenging but fair. Everone at a given skill level plays the same set, and the results are posted to a channel on the SpyParty Discord (http://discord.gg/spyparty). These games actually come from the giant replays database that you all have been creating just by playing the game. At the time of this writing there are 2.3 million replays being randomized and filtered to create the daily sets. This is a fun way to stay in practice, compare your scores and times with your friends, and you can even play the other skill level dailies with a simple chat command in the lobby.
  
  
• New Curated Replay Sets
  Thanks to the amazing SpyParty community, we have an entire new batch of curated replay sets in the lobby. The previous curated replays were almost all the old art, and were not a great introduction to the game. Players would log into the lobby, click that button, and then all of a sudden be in an old art hellscape and wonder what happened. The games were high quality, but the visuals left something to be desired. We even got bug reports about the graphics being buggy when players went into the lobby. Now, thanks to player mintyrug and others, there's a whole new group of curated replays, so check them out!
  
  
• Lobby Invitations While Spectating
  Finally, when you're waiting in the lobby to play a match, you can now spectate another match or play a curated replay set, but still appear as available to play and get invites. We had this cool spectation system but players couldn't use it when they were idling in the lobby waiting for a match because it meant they couldn't be invited, so that's finally fixed and you can feel free to hang out and watch other games while waiting for a match for yourself.
  

• new curated replay sets
  
  
  • sets are now permuted so you can retry them without accidentally memorizing the order
    
  • results screen on replay sets
    
  • one-shot sniper mode active for replay sets now instead of multi-shot chances
    
  • replay sets browser is now sortable by clicking the headings
  
  
  
• sniper daily challenge
  
  
  • there's a /daily chat command that lets you specify which level challenge you want to play, type /help /daily for more info
    
  • daily challenge results are posted to the discord #daily_challenge channel so you can compare your score and time with your friends
    
  • if you win 8 out of 8 on your daily challenge level, it unlocks a bonus set of 8 more games for that level and day
    
  • lots of ways to get to the daily, including the main menu box, which will tell you how long you have to play today's or wait for tomorrow's, a button in the lobby, and the /daily chat command
    
  • if you have multiple accounts, the main menu daily panel might get out of sync, but just log into the lobby and everything will be updated
    
  • there's UI for confirming whether you really want to quit the daily before you're done, because it will mark that daily as played and you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the next one
  
  
  
• miscellaneous spectation and replay stuff
  
  
  • checkbox on starting spectation to say whether you want to be able to be invited or not
    
  • setting for "one shot" versus "multi shot" spectation sniping mode, do you want multiple bullets?
    
  • you can select multiple replays in your replays directory and choose to snipe them as a permuted set just like a curated replay set or a daily challenge
    
  • there's an optional one-game spectation delay available if you're worried about people spectating your games live, see the /delay command for more information, it makes spectators wait until the game is completely done
    
  • store replay sniper games and wins in player data for later
  
  
  
• minor stuff
  
  
  • SpyParty Competitive League Season 6 game mode prop file is in the list
    
  • changed "In Room" to "Available" in lobby to be more clear
    
  • cleaned up some lobby sorting issues
    
  • disconnect match if spectation connection drops rather than weirdly later
    
  • slightly better invite failed strings
    
  • added redwoods and terrace to menu backgrounds
    
  • documented replays menu keyboard commands in README.txt
    
  • fixed some replays menu keyboard bugs
    
  • fixed bug where motd wouldn't show up for a few frames at start and be ugly
    
  • put up warning if a lot of clock skew with server to avoid bug reports due to wrong time set on client
    
  • fix bug with typing /help /daily eating a character and being annoying
    
  • fix spectators list doesn't disappear with ui toggles
    
  • fix to avoid escaping from settings and triggering spy action
  
  

New Redwoods Venue!

• code
  
  
  • remove book marking, yay - this cleans up a lot of fiddly accidental mouse clicking by the sniper, and is maybe a slight Spy buff, except it'll make high/lowlighting faster for Sniper so maybe it's a slight Sniper buff? who knows
    
  • don't draw update ui if ui is toggled off, just noticed during testing that the spectators list doesn't toggle off, always more bugs
    
  • re-hide microfilm in book has lower priority than inspect
    
  • more events for inspect cancels (player bails) and interrupts (guest picks up)
    
  
  
  
• content
  
  
  • some small fixes to General's rig and walk anim
    
  • Redwoods venue!
    
  • changes since pax for Redwoods
    
    
    • make chair a little less orange sari
      
    • color coded book ends
      
    • moarr treez
      

• fix a couple minor things and make a new error message before some content updates
  

Birthday Bugfix Build

• code
  
  
  • wip on endgame sound effects damping in replays versioned
    
  • fix lobby crash when there's a spectator while draining
    
  • fix rare case where lobby would lose the replay if the cloud save failed
    
  • fix lobby kicking for really long games on veranda
    
  • make Minimal quickplay group flag for only showing available venues
    
  • make new events for cupcakes, new p2pv, this is kinda dumb but oh well
    
  • fix assert bugs introduced with fixing bookshelf fingerprints
  
  
• features
  
  
  • allow "/win w h" as command instead of requiring all the parms
  
  
• content
  
  
  • polishing Ms. O's walk, small tweak to original pickup briefcase anim
    
  • birthday stuff with cupcake and party hats

Lots o' fixes...

• code
  
  
  • big optimizations for longer runtimes with the prof system (this actually was partly due to floating point denormals which is kinda funny if you're a programmer)
    
  • ridiculous mode is just ctrl+shift now
    
  • split breaking glass sound effect into normal and endgame for endgame sound damping
    
  • fix purloin delegate bug, at least vastly reduce the chances of it hitting again
    
  • don't display weirdly broken floating amba personal space timer when the mission isn't selected (revisit this?)
    
  • put "simplified" in the mission display in a few places
    
  • switch practice mode handicapping testing to absolute wins, and save in config, display computed handicap in settings now, remember you can click and drag in the numberspinner to scrub
    
  • also save practice mode quickplay group to config
    
  • fix draw order on mission checkboxes in hud
    
  • use previous replays sort as secondary sort key
    
  • only guests invade amba personal space
    
  • fix sliding accidentally introduced on going to bar
    
  • stop bartender walking if queued guests and current guest bails
    
  • remove UI from dossier preview on ui toggle ctrl-shift-u
    
  • don't crash if venue not in custom qpg
    
  • fix the out-of-convo stop but still in convo bug
    
  • fix issue with amba leaving convo as bug should finish bypassing walking bug time window
    
  • better threaded gamepad detection to avoid hitches, including if spurious notifications which happen with some devices for some reason?
    
  • when making new replay dir, actually put cursor on it when done
    
  • allow non-holding inspects, disabled for now
    
  • add default_missions to qpg props so can do alt balcony modes without surprising people
    
  • fix issue with custom quickplay props overshadowing normal quickplay modes on loading screen, now should display correct name
    
  • more fixes for focus issues on ui transitions
    
  • remove any customized quickplay mapping when switching venues, now you just have to customize every venue, which is less surprising
    
  • fix issue with replay sets hanging if auto next is on
    
  • more button options for replay sniping in results screen (go to replay, continue, next game, menu, etc)
    
  • I think I fixed the bookcase fingerprint thing? also, now takes and returns by civs both smudge, spies be warned
    
  • fix leaving spectation lobby sort bug
    
  • speeling
    
  • replay timeline and playback quality of life changes
    
    
    • ctrl-click in viewport toggles play/pause
      
    • more robust mousewheel and shoulder button event scrolling
      
    • timeline events track timeslider scrubbing
      
    • fix some bugs with timeline not recentering on maximized toggle
      
    • add left/right keyboard event scrolling, and repeat for gamepad and key event/timeline scrolling
      
    • in free cam, if you click on an event in the timeline, it tries to move the camera to that event's noun
    
    
  • use generic game result messages in practice mode because it switches to spy results after sniper shot and the "you were shot" message is wrong
    
  • no more instasip at bar
    
  • don't instasip at statues either
    
  • don't instant check watch, little buffer
    
  • don't detach briefcase if we get interrupted and are blending out, so avoid flying briefcase
    
  • try to fix flying briefcase book raise case
    
  • fix text fringing on 16x multisampling, add 1px border to each glyph
    
  • fix infinite pending delegated purloin bug
    
  • settings for vsync and frame rate limits
    
  • blank screen for spectation sniper buffering...not great but prevents long freeze frame
    
  • settings for separate draw spectator list while playing and spectating
    
  • replay auto play next seperate controls for all games or only live spectation
    
  • fix some spectation ui stuff
    
  • add simple network buffering to correct sniper side stutter if there's a lag spike in play, like with spectation
    
  • log num logical processors
    
  • setting to allow y invert shortcuts (ctrl-y and y/triangle), disabled by default since most people aren't demoing at trade shows

• content
  
  
  • fixing ik weighting on statue anims for devi, dom, danielle, danger to not spaz out while theyre holding statues
    
  • fix ballroom sniper camera and keep backwards compat for replays because I'm a nice guy
    
  • typos in unlocks
    
  • fixed morgans walk so that his right foot doesnt slide
    
  • update quickplay props to latest
    
  • add default_missions for balcony surprises
    
  • aquarium adjust hard colliders to keep people out from the corners behind the curtains
    
  • fix a ton of bookshelf, statue, window, and painting pads to avoid overshoot, almost all venues (pub, aquarium, gallery, library, high-rise, moderne, ballroom, terrace, teien, courtyard)

It's hard to see the Spy doing missions with a Great White Shark in the way!

Aquarium

Handicapping, Unlocks, and Recommended Mode

Unlocks for Missions and Venues