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Update #1

Interface

• In the Quickplay menu the Brawl mode has been changed from saying Trios to saying 5v5, the Instagib mode has been changed from Duos to 5v5
• The Custom Game’s map image has been moved slightly to right to avoid a vertical line being visible when the mode dropdown is opened
• The Customize menu’s dropdown arrows have returned and the bar is no longer spilling out

HUD

• Adjustment to the padding of the icons on the Weapons list
• The score indicators now have text shadow to avoid issues with bright team colors
• The score indicators in Brawl have round score indicators in preparation for when those are implemented
• Respawn timers are now only being shown in Wipeout
• The correct team colors are now being shown in the final scoreboard
• The Frags, and Damage values are now being displayed correctly in t...

Interface

• In Custom Game the Leave Lobby button now works (recent unreported change)
• In Custom Game the Ghost Hunt mode has been renamed to Instagib

HUD

• In Wipeout the Weeble keybind (“Use” keybind in the controls) is now being displayed again

Sounds

• There are now announcer lines played for when a player/team takes the score lead, ties the score, and loses the score lead

Visual changes

• In Instagib the left hand Weeble has been resized and repositioned
• In Instagib the left hand holding the Weeble is now animating after a Weeble is thrown once

Gameplay

• The Rocket Launcher’s knockback has been increased - knockback changed from 85 to 95, this will be changed again soon
• In Instagib you now have a Crossbow instead of a PNCR - current...

Interface

• The Play menu cards now have hover text on them explaining each mode
• The Quickplay cards have been adjusted to show the images and animations in a less zoomed in state
• Clicking the Custom Game menu now shows the lobby request messages and the menu fades in properly
• In Custom Game, there is now a mode option called Ghost Hunt which includes the following map selection: ig_egg-plant, ig_stronghold, wo_furnace, wo_refinery, wo_wellspring, b_temple_quarry (the Instagib option in More settings can still be ticked to be used in combination with other modes) - this mode’s name will change soon
• In Custom Game, unticking the Instagib checkbox now works correctly (you don’t need to restart the game anymore if you wish to launch a non-instagib mode after having launched an instagib mode previously in the session)
• The Customize menu’s dropdowns are now working

HUD

Interface

• In the Custom Game menu there are now options for score limit 1 and 2 - at the moment if you wish to play Brawl I recommend selecting the score limit 1 option because at the moment the score limit is determining the number of rounds played. At the moment there isn’t an option to set a Brawl frag limit
• If you play a Custom Game with the Instagib setting turned on for now your next matches will be forced Instagib regardless of the setting. To solve this you will have to restart the game in order to launch a regular Custom Game. This will be fixed soon

HUD

• When you grab a Powerup its type and its current cooldown is now indicated in the Dashboard with some placeholder icons at the moment (when a Powerup is dropped and you pick it up, its cooldown will start from when it was left off)
• The Press KEY To Respawn message has been changed to Press Attack to Respawn

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HUD

• There is no longer an ability slot in the Dashboard when you grab the Diabotical or the Haste (these powerups no longer have active abilities)
• Frags, deaths, damage taken, damage done are now shown in the final scoreboard - note that there are some issues with the damage amounts being displayed at the moment

Sounds

• The PNCR’s shots now have different sounds depending on their charge level (how many consecutive shots have been hit before that shot is fired)

Gameplay

• In Brawl the eggbots of the team currently in the lead now have a crown model on top of them to highlight them (the crown doesn’t have a texture yet)
• The Diabotical powerup no longer has the active ability that allows you to see through walls for 3 seconds, you can now see through walls throughout its whole duration but the range has been decreased from 1000 units to 48...

HUD

• The final scoreboard’s winner text in Brawl has been changed to only mention the winning team
• There is now an active ability indicator on the dashboard when you’ve grabbed a powerup that has an active ability

Visual changes

• The Haste powerup now creates a red highlighting effect on the player carrying it, which is visible by others, and a red effect on the weapon which is visible in first person by the player with the powerup (previously was orange like the Diabotical’s effect)
• The Siphonator powerup now creates a green highlighting effect on the player carrying it, which is visible by others, and a green effect on the weapon which is visible in first person by the player with the powerup (previously was blue like the Vanguard’s effect)
• When you carry the Diabotical you no longer see red dead eggbots on the ground

Gameplay

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Interface

• The Menu header’s appearance has been updated, the backgrounds of the menus now change color when being highlighted and when selected (more feedback)
• The Masterserver status message no longer shows up after launching Diabotical
• Improvements to the Header and Custom Game on different aspect ratios
• Custom Game hosts are now able to move players correctly
• The Custom Game’s More Settings are now synched between players
• When changing video settings that require a restart, the warning message now has a working warning sign character at the start

HUD

• In the final scoreboard your name is now highlighted
• The chat in the final scoreboard is working again

Gameplay

• The Survival Pack powerup is now known as Siphonator (the entity is still called survival pack)
• The Siphonator now allo...

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...