Work on the single player combat has been moving along at a slow but steady pace. The basic pieces are in place and are now working well enough that they need more eyes to further refine and balance the game.
The latest build of FTF has been pushed up to the “Beta Testers” branch. No password is needed and can be tested by everyone!
The build includes one single player combat based challenge. More combat levels will follow once the bugs have been fixed.
The new build will also self report statistics for a multiplayer disconnect. Resolving or reducing the disconnects will be the next goal after the combat bits are dialed, but getting more data on the disconnects is crucial to solving the problem
Switching branches is easy!
To switch back repeat the steps, but choose “none” to opt out of the beta.
Many scripts have been adapted from multiplayer to allow both single and multiplayer. This may cause some issues in multiplayer that would be unacceptable for a main branch release.
There are a few known issues...