GO DUB YOURSELF! — Playtest build 0.8.0
Thanks to everyone who played on Saturday night. Most of this update comes straight from that session.
Online playback fixed
- Everyone now hears every line at the end of a dub. The host was sending recorded lines faster than Steam could carry them, and the overflow was silently thrown away. Lines are now sent at a pace Steam can handle, and Steam's own limits have been raised.
- Recorded lines are about 6× smaller on the wire, so they arrive much faster.
- Playback can't start until every player has every line. An AUDIO SYNC bar shows progress, and a chime plays when everyone's ready.
- If you fall slightly behind the host during playback, the game now catches you up by speeding up a little instead of skipping.
- Fixed Pass the Mic sometimes not handing the turn to the next player.
- Fixed a player getting dropped from the room at the end of a long game.
- Fixed background audio carrying on after leaving a take mid-playback.
Voice chat
- Fixed the host not being able to hear the other players.
- Your own talk light now flashes when the room can hear you. If you're speaking with push-to-talk up, the waiting room tells you which key to hold.
Lobbies and the room
- Steam invites now work from any screen, and from a closed game.
- Invited friends skip the room password.
- The party box on Dub Select now shows who's ready.
- The party box also shows who's recording (● REC), who's still installing a pack, and how many lines each player has left.
- Guests now see "waiting for the host" at the end of a game.
- The host can no longer start until every character has a voice.
- New: challenge another readied-up player to noughts and crosses while you wait. Look for VS on their row.
LAN / Direct IP
- Hosting by IP shows your LAN address in the waiting room. It's hidden by default for streamers; use SHOW, or COPY to copy it without revealing it.
- JOIN BY IP accepts a pasted address:port, and no longer joins an empty room when left on the default address.
Steam Workshop
- Every Workshop pack now has a REPORT button. It opens the pack's Steam page so you can report it.
- Pack titles, descriptions, character names and subtitles are checked for slurs and abusive content before upload.
- Fixed Workshop packs published from the playtest not showing in the browser.
Dub Stage and Clip Studio
- HEAR IT AGAIN now replays the reference straight away.
- The voice changer has previous/next arrows, so you no longer cycle all the way round.
- Clip Studio: the playhead no longer jumps when you drag a line.
- Clip Studio: imported videos with a separate vocals track now play their dialogue in the editor.
Menus and display
- The main menu no longer overlaps itself on ultra-wide screens.
- Dark Mode now applies to the main menu on launch.
- Escape on Settings goes back to Home. On Home it still offers to exit.
Other
- The bundled example scene is now Cosmonaut Astronaut.
- Steam Cloud now syncs your settings, stats, achievements, voice and chat-voting settings, and your victory line.
- The game keeps logs from your last 10 sessions, which makes bug reports much more useful.
Known issue: on very wide (21:9) screens the main-menu tiles sit right against the left edge.