Version history

Build 80

Changes from build 71 to 80:

• fixed network map load memory leak
• fixed more network memory usage
• changed camera so it is less sensitive close to player
• fixed auto_bots spamming lots of bots
• added archer bow & catapult progress bar
• “friendlydamage_modifier” in gamemode.cfg works as it should (multiplies friendly damage)
• remade arrow damage
  • the faster the arrow the more damage it inflicts
  • max velocity arrow always kills (unshielded)
• added half second draw arrow time for archer (jumping is suppressed while drawing)
• fixed arrow hits not registering against wall
• knight shield goes down after powerful hit (fast arrow, explosion)
• fixed random disconnecting on map restart
• fixed spawning on enemy respawn
• auto team balance shuffles only new players
• auto team balance doesn’t allow to change teams if teams are unbalanced
• modified no vote time to 5 minutes
• empty servers are kept alive on master
• gold is at least 7 blocks underground
• minimum_players_inteam set to 3
• warmup/break time (increased to 2.5 minutes)
• can’t build outpost or catapult until match started
• barrier set (at 1/3 to 2/3) of the map until match started
• tent has automatically placed bedrock beneath
• fixed outpost capturing bugs
• more rock parts/debris to pick up after collapse (and they stay longer)
• new wooden parts after destroyed wood structures (pickable)
• builder can’t give materials to knight or archer (only bombs and arrows)
• fixed scroll lock in chat box
• bomb block damage is based on distance (the farther the less damage)
• outposts and catapults slowly regenrate damage
• fixed background castle destruction exploit
• added gold bulion block [temporary]
• knight jump velocity is same as other classes
• rearranged block menu so castle wall and ladder are closest to mouse
• removed pilar castle background wall change
• added drawbridge
• arrows can destroy catapults and outposts
• new team emblems
• fixed crash on outpost destruction
• fixed spike stone collecting exploit
• resupply happens automatically on team tent (every 10 secs)
• during warm up time builder gets 100 wood and 100 stone in tent [temporary]
• player labels are a bit higher
• fixed knight gore machine bug
• fixed catapult creation displacement
• door requires just 40 wood now
• scoreboard sorted by kills instead of deaths
• map is restarted on server after 1 minute of being empty and only after match has started
• archer can’t collect arrows while charging bow
• archer can’t jump with fully charged bow
• remade catapults to work more as close siege weapons
  • cost half (120 wood)
  • deal twice more damage
  • range is smaller (1 screen)
  • arrows damage
• captured outpost restores health
• respawning on outpost being captured take 2 times longer
• builder jump smaller down when placing blocks

Hotfixes:

• fixed outpost not resupplying on change class
• fixed castle background not depleting materials when placed on ladder
• castle blocks placed on castle background can’t be placed if nothing below

Build 71

Changes from build 70 to 71:

• added new give/loot key [C]
• picking arrows or rocks is done with harvest key [RMB] (right mouse)
• only archer can pickup arrows; only builder can pickup rocks
• added Mark Griefer option on scoreboard [TAB]
  • available after 10 mins of game time
  • if enough players mark a player he gets kicked
• outposts are capturable (stand on it; the more players the faster capture)
• outposts are 25% stronger (2 bombs)
• fixed network memory leak
• dead bodies don’t block digging
• fixed picking class in destroyed tent
• less hits to gib
• if [TAB] pressed scroeboard stays
• unbalanced team with more players spawns longer
• fixed admin menu kicking
• most bottom row of map cannot be digged/destroyed
• decreased player name length to 20 characters
• fixed block menu not appearing on tent
• console doesn’t scroll if text entered in prompt
• fixed vote server crash
• fixed giving materials not working sometimes
• fixed rcon player ping kick console spam
• fixed 0 time ban from admin

Hotfixes:

• fixed Windows XP startup crashing
• fixed respawn counter crash
• fixed initializing text not appearing in console-XXX.txt
• game window automatically is set to smaller resolution if desktop is smaller
• added fail safe methods when video driver is not supported

Build 70

Changes from build 67 to 70:

• fixed memory leaks on map creation/restart
• can’t vote on self
• player being voted on is marked with red circle
• added message to inform about banning during vote
• all votes are sent to rcon admin
• increased game start to 2 players on team
• added “restartmap_onlastplayer_disconnect” option to game rules (gamemode.cfg)
• decreased max player name characters to 27
• fixed player names having leading or trailing whitespaces
• fixed spikes not removing stone if placed on background
• fixed broken outpost working
• auto-balancing: if teams differ by 2 players can’t switch teams freely
• /kickid cmd is done by player id instead of index (/players views id’s)
• added Admin menu to main menu (for rcon logged players to easily kick, restart map)
• lowered default “nearspawn_multiplier” to 2.2
• bomb range is shorter
• maximum 1 bomb can be carried by Knight
• bomb always kills (unshielded) in close proximity
• gold is always buried at least 5 blocks underground

Build 67

Changes from build 57 to 67:

• new default gamemode Capture the Flag
• construction require support if longer than 5 blocks
• added fully collapsible physical blocks
• added buildable outpost
• added HUD block menu (hold [F])
• change class button is now [E] on tent/outpost
• pressing [E] on team member gives 10 of each materials
• changed bomb throwing
  • pressing [F] lights bomb
  • press [F] again throws at default velocity
  • to throw further you must add momentum from jumping
• decreased sack/flag throw velocity but is affected by player velocity
• not drawing 0 amount label on objects
• fixed catapult/tent resource icon red
• fixed healing heart not adding to 3 hearts in knight
• fixed client changing health
• Knight respawns with 1 bomb
• fixed respawn timer
• dying near respawn results in longer respawn time (gamemode config variable “nearspawn_multiplier”)
• fixed server trying to delete client object which was never sent
• fixed local player globally banned issue
• fixed chat position after death
• fixed label appearing on tent
• added buildable outpost tent
• trees don’t appear on mountains
• own bomb hurts self
• server list is sorted by player count
• fixed catapult rocks making sounds on die
• fixed m_generator not being loaded
• script can now load from generator files eg. LoadMap(“Scripts/generator_ctf.cfg”);
  • LoadMap(“”); - loads m_generator variable
  • LoadMap(“Scripts/foobar.cfg”); - loads random generator map from config
  • LoadMap(“Maps/foobar.png”); - loads map from png image
• generator changes:
  • caves don’t appear under respawn
  • materials appear in larger concentrations behind respawn
• improved gib graphics
• added spikes trap
• fixed sacks/flag collisions near tent
• fixed sack/flag throw velocity lag on throw
• fixed tents not being saved on client (with /savemap cmd)
• stuck player gibs
• fixed and optimized collisions
• removed bugged map name from servers list
• fixed tutorial text background
• trees regrow faster
• materials and construction blocks appear as icons + count on HUD
• sound listener center moved to player instead of center of screen
• fixed player label appearing twice on u_shownames set
• fixed crash when wrong generator file specified
• background castle block costs 3 stone
• added and fixed chat console transparency
• fixed ladder and castle back giving wrong resource number on destroy
• fixed chat bubble staying longer after Enter pressed
• builder doesn’t animate if can’t build at position
• fixed invisible body looting
• added “Looted” text for empty bodies
• team members can loot bombs again
• fixed HUD images stretching
• can’t join again own team
• fixed team menu disappearing when [BACKSPACE] pressed first time
• added floating amount of materials added or removed (on mine, loot or give)
• vote kicks can be casted only against one’s team members
• added “readme” information in vote menu
• rcon players are marked with x in players list
• added unlockable map editor
• own player label dissapears when mouse cursor close
• HUD dissapears on death
• trees drop faster
• fixed door issue being placed on tree stump
• fixed spawning removing background behind tent
• map resets after last player left
• slow arrors give half damage

Build 57

Changes from build 51 to 57:

• fixed local player globally banned when bot banned
• my player is highlited in players list
• dead player collision radius is smaller
• build block cursor blink red if not enough material
• bomb now gibs people
• new death fall frame
• fixed ping kick not kicking
• bedrock layer lays on the bottom of each map
• modified bedrock look and amount
• bedrock bomb destroying leaves rocks
• bubble emote shows for 2 seconds after pressing key
• added mandatory vote kick typed reason
• vote caster displayed in vote box
• number of votes displayed
• vote dissapears if passes
• added radius of sight into earth
• fixed network errors and previous release lag
• added dirt block [experimental]
• added new config variable m_generator; specifies the map generator config file (default: “Scripts/generator.cfg”)
• knight destruction is 50% slower
• thick rock has its own destruction animation and takes longer to harvest
• thick rock takes 6 hits
• rock digging takes 5 hits
• ground digging takes 3 hits
• door needs 5 wood and 3 stone
• ladder needs 4 wood (10 in tree block)
• destroyed door gives 1 wood and 1 stone less
• trees are higher (more wood)
• sacks cannot go behind team tent
• cannot carry own team’s sack on to the enemy side of the map
• health is synced over network
• fixed sack team changed on client when picked up
• changed chat font
• increased small font size
• fixed mouse cursor stuck in menu
• if hit someone map isn’t hit

Build 51

Changes from build 49 to 51:

• added Show Minimap option to video options (turning off minimap increases performance)
• pixel particles don’t show up if FPS drops below 20
• fixed minimap colors
• fixed grass tile appearing as dirt
• added knight shield down
• optimized netcode: not sending entities out of sight
• gold tile appears more distinct than stone
• fixed console kick not banning
• fixed rcon player possible to kick
• removed invalid net object not found messages
• fixed respawn queues not deleted on client
• global banning added
  • if player gets banned twice in some period of time he gets global banned for a couple hours
• added new bedrock block (indestructible)
• trees don’t grow now in holes-
• added error message appears if game runs without Administrator privileges
• tweaked speed hack detection
• added s_system config variable to set sound system (for troubleshooting)
  • (KAG/Base/Scripts/autoconfig.gm - global s_system =
  • 0 - autodetect (default)
  • 1 - DirectSound 8
  • 2 - DirectSound
  • 3 - Win MM
  • 4 - ALSA (Linux)
  • 5 - Core Audio (MacOSX)
  • 6 - No sound)
• the respawn seconds counter is disabled in this version, developer knows about this and will fix it later.

Build 49

Changes from build 45 to 49:

• smaller cursors
• new archer cursors
• servers list is read from cache incase master is down
• your player has a name tag at all times
• name tags are drawn above player
• fixed end game crash reason
• added healing heart spawning randomly from killed player [experimental]
• ladders can be built anywhere against backgrounds
• anything can be built directly on a castle background wall
• build block cursor snaps to build position
• disabled map border fadeout
• casting another vote time increased to 10 minutes
• default vote kick ban time increased to 60 minutes
• if player being voted disconnects he is banned automatically
• rcon authorized player cannot be kicked
• added basic speedhack protection
• added hand cursor on block placement
• autoupdater does chmod +x on .sh script files
• players banned by IP and additional unique ID
• local server always disconnects if joining foreign server
• fixed map dimensions being too small
• added thick stone resource block (3x stone)
• fixed infinite ground background ladders
• added autorestarting functionality on new build release

Build 45

Changes from build 40 to 45:

• local games do not register in server list
• menu is higher when items go under screen
• fixed missing tutorial display
• server list can now scroll
• fixed infinite rock catapult exploit
• can’t build or fire in break time (temporary fix for server crash)
• all objects are destroyed on server first (server crash on restart fix)
• optimized tile rendering speed by 10-20%
• optimized offscreen particle effects
• optimized too far sounds
• fixed generator crash
• default windowed mode
• added “chmod +x KAG” to dedicatedserver.sh
• fixed dead player floating up
• dead players fall off ladders
• fixed fall through map
• new cursors
• new resources graphics
• fixed crash after kick on client
• new title screen & menu colors
• master servers sends only servers with same build number
• tutorial poster runs automatically after game installation
• added icon for shortcuts
• knight has 1 heart more health [experimental]

Build 40

Changes from build 39 to 40:

• catapult can change rotate according to thrower
• improved arrow collisions (from circle to line)
• default score limit is 20% of gold available on map
• fixed crash on precache (loading controls)
• fixed player dangling on server after kick
• fixed bow sound not stopping after death
• fixed catapult facing wrong direction for red team
• fixed knight shield
• fixed gold on map wrongly calculated
• fixed player sprite not updating when dead
• return of the ladder bubble
• mouse aim is farther (to match zoom out view)

Build 39

Changes from build 32 to 39:

• game rules changed:
  • victory condition: mine or collect 3/4 of the maps gold
  • stash gold in sacks
  • 3 sacks available on start
  • steal sacks and bring them to your tent for score
• new map generation code:
  • possible mountains and holes
  • caves
  • stone and gold are more likely to appear around caves and mountains
  • gold appears more as gold veins
  • trees don’t grow on tent
• added catapult
• new sack graphics
• new bomb & explosion graphics
• new emoticon bubble graphics
• tent does not fall down
• sack gold amount displayed on mouse hover
• player HUD is not visible now when score board is active
• increased knight radius of attack
• new castle back build sound
• tent hit pixels changed to black
• fixed invisible map bug
• can’t loot bombs from self & team players
• fixed knight not dying when bomb explodes in hand
• typing bubble appears when typing chat or in menu
• gold sacks & tent are drawn on minimap
• new stone tiles graphics
• added map generator config file (“Base/Scripts/generator.cfg”)
• when not enough resources build tile blinks on HUD
• on reload map, old map saved to “Maps/previous.png”
• particle die time randomized

Build 32

Changes from build 30 to 32:

• added bombs for knight (hold & release [F] key)
• fixed sprite graphics glitch on older video cards
• louder bow pull sound
• increased precision of network object velocities
• fixed some map collision bugs
• fixed teleporting inside map
• optimized collision code
• fixed arrow map collisions
• added fast arrow springy sound hit
• added team emblem graphics on team pick
• resources on HUD are drawn in multiple rows now
• available blocks on HUD now drawn in lower part of screen
• fixed ladder placing not working sometimes
• fixed readme.txt not auto-updated
• added map restart command (\restartmap)
• added map load command (\loadmap [name])
• added map save command (\savemap [name])
• added server send message to all players (\msg [text])
• added vote map restart
• changed minimap colors
• dead not displayed on minimap
• can’t resupply in enemy tent, only change class

Build 30

Changes from build 28 to 30:

• added kick voting (select in mainmenu [ESC], no [F11] yes [F12])
• added server kick command (kick [playername] [minutes])
• player respawns as last selected class
• sack on back is more visible
• added tent flag animation
• tent is now in front of players
• added variable descriptions in autoconfig.gm
• all doors placed vertically open when player touches
• player names forced to be unique
• fixed holes appearing after loading a map
• doors require 30 wood & 30 stone (previously 50 each)

Build 28

Changes from build 24 to 28:

• zoom in/out keys work by tapping now
• zoom in/out by default is mouse wheel (previously left ctrl/shift)
• default view is dynamic; follows mouse cursor
• darker backgrounds
• health doesn’t decrease client-side (false hits not registered)
• minimap is more translucent
• players inside tent are immune
• fixed cursor displaying on other players
• fixed map generator getting stuck on small maps
• optimized sack network updates
• fixed not being able to connect again after failed connect
• changed HUD material graphics to tiles
• trees regrow faster
• hill height is independent from map height
• gold tile is more golden
• fixed empty tiles in ground background
• tweaked map generation code
• fixed actor behavior on map borders
• more shading on backgrounds
• distant sounds are louder
• health is restored on class switch
• archer digging is slower
• fixed machine gun archer exploit
• team is auto-assigned on join server
• fixed map not drawn entirely on smaller resolutions
• ladder wood usage increased from 2 to 3 (tree block = 10)
• team chat channel is more obvious now in chat window
• smoothed continuous building
• updates download automatically

Build 24

Changes from build 22 to 24:

• added picking up old arrows
• start arrows increased to 10
• arrows can’t be fired immediately
• archer & knight can now dig in dirt
• fixed crash near body
• removed dynamic camera from archer
• added health display
• arrow are faster
• ground acceleration is higher
• destroying castle walls & doors takes twice the time
• fixed sack disappearing with dead carrier
• fixed not being able to pickup sack from dead carrier
• increased corpse time