Devlog #31 – Quick Match, Personal Waypoints & Mac and Linux 22 of August

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Two weeks of work on top of the last build. Getting into a match is now a single click, the map remembers the places you care about, and the game runs on Mac and Linux.

Multiplayer

• Quick Match: Steam matchmaking with public lobbies, so you can join a session without a code
• Multiplayer panel rebuilt to explain itself, with a tooltip on every button
• Your Steam ID is shown in the panel with a button that copies it to the clipboard
• Health bars for players and ships are drawn on a quad and are visible to everyone in the match
• Healing and damage effects are replicated to the other players, and now stop correctly at full health
• Multiplayer scene and character prefabs reworked, with LODs on the characters

Navigation and map

• Points of interest: save a coordinate, rename it, delete it, and let the game guide you to it
• Waypoint tooltip localized, with the texts imported into the scriptable objects
• Units of measurement switch between metric and imperial, deduced from your region and overridable in the options
• Crossing a region border now shows a line in the dialogs telling you where you are

Ship and balance

• Ship stats replace Efficiency and Range with a single Engine Performance value
• Fuel capacity, consumption and hull are now tuned separately for every ship

Interface

• Menu panels have a single owner and names that no longer overlap
• Inventory canvas rebuilt as a prefab, with slot capacities renamed so they read as capacity and not as a maximum
• New shop slot prefab
• Three more missions wired into the dialog UI
• Mission target refreshes from the mission button, and the old update search button is gone
• New sound for the Thalassa panel

Gameplay

• Build mode is gated on the building areas and always targets the closest one
• Thalassa hands out a reward for each completed fragment group
• World spawner places unique objects in fixed quantities
• New projectiles, with the old placeholder art removed
• Cinematic camera used for the trailer footage

Fixes

• The ship no longer pushes forward on its own while a panel is open
• Opening a panel while moving no longer breaks player movement
• The oxygen refill effect is visible again after a drowning
• Bodyguard AI no longer breaks on missions taken after the acquisition
• Kamikaze duck now targets the right mission objective
• Projectile bug fixed
• Health bar no longer tinted with the duck colour, since the shader does not expose it
• Thalassa no longer floats on the surface, and her effects follow her correctly
• Interactables persist as expected

Platforms

• Linux build on IL2CPP Release, live on the linux-test branch
• macOS build on IL2CPP Release with its own bundle id, and DisplayP3 in the colour gamut for wide gamut displays
• Steamworks configured for all three platforms
• Engine updated to Unity 6000.3.9f1

Thanks for playing the playtest. Bug reports on F8 land straight in our Discord, and they are the fastest way to get something fixed.