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Interface

• Some more adjustments to the game mode cards in the Play menu
• The Custom Game screen’s main options and player slots are now synced between all players
• The Custom Game menu players can’t change the options on their end now
• When you accept an invite you are now being taken to the Custom Game screen again like in the past
• The Customize menu’s search has been fixed
• In the Customize menu, the issue where you would be prevented from customizing decals if you clicked on the audio tab and then on the decals tab has been fixed
• In the Customize menu, the old weapons customization bar no longer flashes when you click the decals tab

Visual changes

• The Diabotical powerup has an extra light on it to make the faces more visible

Gameplay

• In Brawl the powerups now spawn at 1 minute and then every ...

Interface

• The Matchmaking menu has been renamed to Competitive
• The Quickplay and Competitive menus have been adjusted with some size changes to the options
• The options in Quickplay and Competitive can now be selected by clicking anywhere on the card, not just on the text
• There have been improvements to the playback of the card animations of the Quickplay and Competitive options
• The Custom Game’s player slots and drop down arrows now rescale correctly in lower resolutions
• The Custom Game’s lobby name font size has been adjusted to match the rest of the options
• The Custom Game now has disabled dropdowns for the people who aren’t the host
• The More Settings’ Directional hints option checkbox now triggers a sound correctly

HUD

• The HP and Armor bars’ segment lengths have been improved

Gameplay

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Interface

• The tide bar no longer flashes in the menu after you launch Diabotical
• The Play menu has been redesigned
• The “following text” when spectating has been lowered to not overlap with the respawn text

Visual changes

• The flickering textures have been fixed - maps like dt_gd_01, dt_pr_01, duel_pr_03, duel_pr_04 were affected, playing them should be a more pleasant experience now
• The rocket flame particles have been updated, they are now a bright yellow color so that the rockets are clearer to see during fights
• The Diabotical powerup (commonly referred to as Double Damage) gave the person that grabbed it a yellow effect over their Eggbot’s legs, arms and weapon, this effect is now also visible over the shell (main body)

Gameplay

• There is a new powerup called Megashield which currently gives you 3x damage reduct...

Sounds

• The Smoke Weeble has new equip, impact and smoke release sounds

Visual changes

• The Weeble trails are now centered on the flying Weebles
• The number of emissions of some of the Grenade Launcher’s impact particles has been reduced to decrease the performance impact that they had

Maps

• wo_prb_01 has been updated
• omar_city_04 has been updated

Interface

• The Weapon9, Minigun, Laserpen, Flak Gun (previously in the WMD category) and the Healing Weeble (previously in the Weeble category), are now Super Weapons, together with the Crossbow which remains a Super Weapon
• The Machinegun and the Grenade Launcher are now Standard weapons
• The Weebles with the exception of the Healing Weeble are bound to the “Ability/Weeble” bind in the Controls
• In Controls the Weeble and WMD keybinds have been taken out and the Machinegun and Grenade Launcher keybinds have been added
• Because of the above changes your previous Super Weapon bind changed to Machinegun, the WMD bind changed to Grenade Launcher, the Weeble bind changed to Super Weapon - check if you are ok with these binds and if not, change them to more comfortable ones

HUD

• The elements in the HUD editor now all include 2 new buttons in the Type row of each element...

Update #1

Interface

• The Diabotical logo on the Header is now being resized correctly in lower resolutions
• The Matchmaking map selection screen is now centered
• The Matchmaking indicator is now showing up again after you’ve played a matchmaking game during that session
• The custom weapon combat settings are now working again
• The background of the dropdowns in the Settings menu is now blue to match the background color of that menu
• The appearance of the checkboxes has changed
• The Custom Game’s More settings button has been repositioned

HUD

• The aspect ratio options in the HUD editor are now limited to your current aspect ratio and options with less width
• The appearance of the checkboxes in the HUD editor has changed
• The Armor and HP bars under the avatars in team modes have been aligned
• T...

Update#1

Interface

• The text in the dropdown elements now has a more contrasting color, the options aren’t squished together anymore and the scrollbar has been fixed

HUD

• The Accent Box (rectangle) and Speed HUD elements are now hiding on death correctly
• There is a new HUD element called Yaw Ruler
• In some circumstances in non-duel modes you might see the Dashboard (Powerbar) HUD element with a Weeble recharge indicator inside of it (in Duel the Rage indicator occupies the same spot) which will indicate when a new non-healing Weeble recharges, note that this is just the indicator, the mechanic has not been implemented yet, when it’s implemented you will still always spawn with 1 Healing Weeble but what is currently an Explosion Weeble will vary on spawn and will recharge after being used

Gameplay

• The Shotgun’s shots...

Update#1

Interface

• There have been several UI changes and with this there are some issues with the appearance and usability of some things at the moment which are being fixed, some fixes should come very soon
• You will most likely have to set your sensitivity again and if you were using /mouse_circumference you will now have to input that in Settings->Combat->Advanced

Maps

• wo_prb_01 has been updated
• wo_mrh_01 has been updated
• duel_pr_07’s spawn inside a wall has been fixed
• df_p0_01 has been updated
• df_p0_02 has been updated
• You can now try /edit omar_city_04 which is a version of dt_prb_02 with more art

Update#2

Interface

• The custom weapon settings are back to working correctly
• There are still various other issue...

Customization

• Some new decals have been added, you can find them in the list if you look through the pages or you can check Diabotical\autodecals\Logos, Diabotical\autodecals\Jacobs_Decals\Painterly_Decals, Diabotical\autodecals\Jacobs_Decals\SimpleFace_Decals (recent unreported change)

Performance

• There were some performance optimizations

Interface

• The issue with icon tooltips showing up behind the icons has been fixed
• There is a new Join game message when you are invited
• There is a new Leave match message
• The Combat settings’s custom weapon settings now include all Wipeout weapons
• A crash when changing controls while in a map has been fixed

HUD

• There is a new Default HUD
• The Stack bra (bar) element is now functional
• The HUD no longer shows up when loading the map
• The Victory/Defeat text at the end of a game is showing up again
• Spectators no longer show up on the Final Scoreboard

Sounds

• The announcer lines are now queued instead of overlapping
• There is a new announcer line in Wipeout, “Egg hunt” to warn the players when there’s only one player left alive on a team

Visual...

Interface

• The header’s fade-in, fade-out has been improved
• Tooltips for the menus have been added when you hover over the icons (the issue with them being displayed behind the icon is known)

HUD

• More UI optimizations, including a fix to a very significant lag spike that happened when you were hit with the Shotgun
• The Final Scoreboard is working again and it has a new look
• There is now a temporary way to set the HUD that the Reset HUD button will reset to, edit Diabotical\ui\html\janky_temporary_sandbox_for_letting_priv_testers_mess_with_default_hud_definition.txt with your hud_definition found in Documents\Diabotical\Settings.txt, you can also upload this file so people can easily try it with just a file replacement
• Spectators have been removed from the Tab Scoreboard and the Final Ccoreboard
• The Melee weapon now shows up on the weapons...

Interface

• The menu header has received some updates, the text and icons are now brighter when hovered over
• The respawn bind is now part of the game category, for the moment you will have to set a dedicated key for it
• The default Custom Game team colors have changed
• Note that there are issues at the moment with the Header disappearing in the menu and with the text and icons lingering too long when switching to a map

HUD

• It’s now possible to press the tab scoreboard during the intro
• There is now a “Waiting for all players to load.” message during the intro to explain that state of the game
• The Rectangle HUD element’s color is working again
• More UI optimizations - as a part of the UI optimizations that have been done recently, the way that multiple elements work has changed, this is why certain elements that worked before stopped working and...

Visual changes

• The Heal Weeble has new visual effects - note that the placeholder effect is still there in addition to the intended effects

Gameplay

• The changes to the collision of the eggbot have been reverted for now, lifts will work more often now and it won’t be as easy to walk inside a block or prop

Editor

• The collision of the torii_gate prop has been changed to match the shape of the prop more closely (recent unreported change)

Update #1

HUD

• The aspect ratio setting in the HUD Editor now saves properly (recent unreported change)

Visual changes

• The commonly used doorframe prop ind_doorframe which can be many different colors, has been changed from being well worn, with paint scratches, to a clean/mint condition look (recent unreported change)

Update #2

Interface

• There is a new Menu header

HUD

• The Avatars and health bars at the top have been fixed
• The Tab scoreboard has been fixed
• There is a new ready indicator style with a little red or green box on the bottom right corner of the Avatars
• When playing a match with 1 player on each team (1v1) there is now a different Ally and Enemy score appearance relative to matches with multiple people on 1 team

Update #1

HUD

• The Powerbar HUD element’s icon scaling has been improved
• The Powerbar HUD element now has an icon color option

Gameplay

• The Eggbot model while in a floating position and the Eggbot hitbox have been lowered 4 units

Update #2

HUD

• The animation of the You Fragged and Frag Feed elements have suffered some changes
• The Frag Feed now includes an option for the new line to show up at the bottom (default) or at the top
• More UI optimizations
• At the moment there are issues with the tab scoreboard, final scoreboard, avatars, ready up message, chat, these are being fixed

Gameplay

• The terrain has been made less slippery, note that there is still some slipperiness when moving down a terrain ramp along a wall and there is...

Update #1

Interface

• It is now possible to set the color of the crosshair layers to be translucent

HUD

• The Ally and Enemy score HUD elements now have a score with the background of the team colors, larger avatars and a segmented health bar
• The Weapons list HUD element now has a customizable Colored bit width
• The NotoSans-Regular font is now available
• The Final Scoreboard’s 2nd team color is now being displayed correctly

Sounds

• There are new movement sounds in first and third person which can be described as Star Wars-like or bucket-like, these sounds have not been refined, they were added to test if they improve players’ ability to track other players around a map
• The issue with missing movement sounds when walking on certain surfaces has been fixed

Visual changes...

Interface

• The Custom Game’s Score Limit now includes 3 and 4 as options (Best-of-five, Best-of-seven) - score limit 4 is the currently recommended score limit for Wipeout

HUD

• The Throttle (which can be included in the G-Meter’s options) has been fixed to no longer have occurrences of “infinity” and “NaN”
• There are new HUD elements called Stack and Stack Bar which display a calculation of your effective HP (armor mitigates 66% of received damage)
• The Final Scoreboard now includes the name of the map, player avatars and team colors (the missing team color at the top will be fixed in the next update)
• The chat in the Final Scoreboard has been fixed, you can now type in it
• There’s a new font option available for the HUD elements called “Poppins-medium”
• The Ready messages under the avatars now get reset when a new match starts

Maps...

Interface

• The confirmation dialog boxes for Quit Game, Reset HUD, removed HUD element, have a new appearance

HUD

• The default HUD’s HP and HP bar color has changed from white to green
• The default HUD’s Armor and Armor bar color has changed from blue to white
• The Current Ammo HUD element no longer has a circle option
• Fixed a width bug on the HP, Armor, Current Ammo elements
• The Frag Feed has a new appearance, with a semi-transparent background that has round edges
• The Frag Feed now displays the correct weapon icons with the exception of the Laserpen
• The Frag Feed now displays the player names with the correct colors (recent unreported change)
• The Game Timer and Time Limit elements now have a text-shadow option
• The Powerbar’s icon order has switched, Dodge is now on the left, Rage Meter is now on the right
• Th...

Some recent changes that hadn’t been reported and some changes from today HUD

• New HP bar and Armor bar appearance
• Bar dividers are now called segments
• The default HUD now includes 8 segments for HP bar and Armor bar
• The Crosshair center alignment has been fixed
• The G-Meter’s keyless/minimalist version has lower opacity and less aliased
• The G-meter’s outer rings default thickness is now thinner at 25%, compared to the previous 30%
• The Current Ammo HUD element now has a text-shadow option and a disable circle option
• The Frag Feed has been fixed
• The background color of the scores in the tab Scoreboard have been fixed
• The Score colors on the Ally and Enemy score elements have been fixed
• The scores at the top are working again
• When dead your teammates and enemies now show up on the correct side of the screen
• There are now res...