Online play, rebuilt
This update rebuilds how CLOUDBURST plays over the internet and over Steam. Your screen now works the game out the same way the host does, so what you see is what happens — at any ping.
Aiming and shooting
- The boat you aim at is where your shot will meet it. Other boats are drawn where they really are, not where they were a moment ago, so a broadside that looks dead on lands.
- Your broadside fires the instant you press. The flash, the bang and both shells leave your guns on the same frame.
- You see the shell that sinks you. Enemy shots are shown leaving the gun and reaching you.
- A miss looks like a miss. Shells no longer vanish on a boat and reappear on the far side.
Smoother on any connection
- No more freezes when a packet is lost. Shots, explosions and kills ride the next updates instead of holding everything up.
- Your steering never waits. Your controls are sent several times over, so a lost packet costs nothing.
- Connection hiccups no longer make the world jump. Everything slides back into place instead.
- The storm holds still. Its edge no longer shakes in Chase, Sumo, Race and the other modes where it moves — and in Race, your view no longer shakes with it.
Rams, bumpers, blasts and harpoons
- Rams and pushes happen where the boats meet on your screen.
- Hooked to a bumper, your boat swings and bounces off it instead of sliding into it.
- Bumpers light up and ping the moment a shell bounces off them.
- Your wind blast fires the instant you press, and shells turned by any blast — yours or a rival's — are seen turning back instead of vanishing.
- Harpoons are drawn where they really are, so they bite — or miss — where you see them.
Also
- A short fade-in at the start of each round.
- Less CPU use, and fewer stutters when a round starts or ends and when the Play of the Match begins.
Everyone in a game needs this update. Players on 0.5.3 can't join games on older versions, and the LAN and Steam lists only show games you can play.