Usurper Reborn 1.0.6 - Typing Fix
One fix, and it is the one I have been chasing since the online server opened. When a chat message, a tell, or a world event landed while you were in the middle of typing, it would wipe out what you had typed. Every time I fixed it for one way of connecting it broke for another.
This time I stopped guessing. I built a test rig that connects to the server every way the game supports, types half a line, sends a message from a second account, and records exactly what shows up on the screen. It turned out there were four different problems, one per kind of connection.
What you will notice
- Browser players: you can now see what you type in game. You could not before. That was not a display glitch on your end, the server simply never sent your keystrokes back.
- SSH players: a message arriving mid-line no longer erases your text and then submits it invisibly.
- Mudlet, TinTin++, telnet: after a message the real prompt comes back, not a blank line or "Your choice:".
- Steam and desktop client: a message goes on its own line and your half-typed text is shown again underneath the prompt.
- Screen readers: no more erase codes in the stream.
- SyncTerm, NetRunner and other BBS terminals: the server was throwing away your terminal type, so you were getting the wrong box-drawing characters. Fixed while testing this release. If your box art was garbage before, try again.