Trosnoth 1.15.0 released!

[Josh Bartlett]

Hello Trosnoth developers and players,

I'm pleased to announce that we've just released Trosnoth 1.15.0, a full 17 months after our previous stable release. Changes since Trosnoth 1.14.0 include:

• Added new welcome screens developed using Qt so that they can be edited in Qt Designer.
• Added an easy way to host a LAN game, and select the game options.
• Added new screen showing available games, with information about why a trusted server is unreachable.
• Added new tutorials screen with various single player scenarios that introduce the basics of Trosnoth.
• Added new scenario, ‘pacifist challenge’, in which bots can shoot but you can’t.
• Added new scenario, ‘wingman challenge’, in which bots can capture rooms but you can’t.
• Added new ‘remember me’ setting that saves a login cookie for a particular server.
• Added new radial menu for selecting upgrades (default hotkey is tab).
• In-game menus are now larger, with a white theme instead of blue.
• The ‘ready’ button is now much more prominent, along with options to change nickname and hat between matches.
• When hosting a LAN game, the game will not start until all players select ‘ready’.
• Greatly improved lag-smoothing algorithm, resulting in much smoother-feeling internet games when network round-trip-time to the server fluctuates.
• Machine gun now slowly reloads whenever the player is not shooting.
• Hitting enter on a blank line now closes the chat window.
• Shoxwave now fires faster in dark zones.
• When a ghost has been idle for too long, they now slowly blur out then are removed from the game.
• In server games, players who do not select ‘ready’ no longer automatically join the game with everyone else (they have to select ‘Join game’).
• Elephant King scenario now awards money to players faster than a regular match.
• You can no longer see the grappling hook rope of invisible players.
• Ninjas now fade in and out instead of becoming abruptly invisible.
• Ninja names, coin count, health bar etc. also fade in and out with the ninja.
• Shots now pass through invulnerable (just spawned) players.
• Pressing space / equals now follows the action in spectator mode like it does in replay mode.
• Majorly improved action-following algorithm in spectator / replay mode.
• In replay / spectator mode, clicking on a player’s name in the leaderboard now follows that player.
• Fixed bug where ‘not the latest stable version’ message would always show.
• Added SilverBot, which reacts very quickly to changes during 1v1 matches.
• Bots now use bomber when they’re cut off.
• Bots now have a difficulty setting, which can be somewhat configured for server-run games.
• Added server options to force certain map sizes and durations (useful for tournaments).
• If a team has only one player and no team name selected, the player name is used.
• Winner banner can now show individual players as the winner (e.g., in a free-for-all)
• Removed hotkeys to toggle leaderboard and HUD as these are easy to bump and annoying to reactivate.
• Settings are now stored in ini files instead of a custom file format.
• Made minor server web interface bugfixes and improvements.
• Fixed various obscure tracebacks in corner cases.
• Fixed some volume level issues with music and sounds.
• Client and server now both use TCP_NO_DELAY.
• Connection to authentication server now uses TLS.
• Game version compatibility is now determined based only on the major and minor version numbers, (with alpha/beta releases considered incompatible with anything but itself).
• Trosnoth’s icon is now generated from the current orb and player graphics.
• Minimum supported Python version is now 3.7.
• Introduced a lot more use of async coroutines in the codebase.

Josh.