A new beta client is available!

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  1. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    I am VERY happy to announce that a new beta client build for PoxNora is available on Steam thanks to joint efforts of Cortices and Slugbait . In order to join it, please send me a DM (along with your Pox name) so you can be a part of the tests. Updates to said build will be done every now and then, no timetable on this one.

    PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS IS A BETA AND ANYTHING CAN BREAK IN YOUR MATCHES - PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK!

    Here are the changes:
    Unity 2021
    - Upgraded the Pox Nora client from Unity 5.6 to Unity 2021.3 (LTS). This is a significant upgrade that includes over 5 years of engine improvements and changes from the Unity team.
    - Due to various changes to Unity components, some side effects may occur. The most noticable is that some rollovers are not working due to issues with mouse raycasts being intercepted by child elements. The buttons should still work, but the rollovers may not. This is a work in progress
    General User Interface Changes
    - Controller buttons are now only shown if that controller type is present and supported
    -- this is a work in progress, and many places still have controller buttons
    - Fixed an issue where the text for heroic quests and daily quests could be cut off
    - Improved Heroic Quests and Daily Quests to show all text of the quest and not be cut off
    - Improved the clarity of some fonts by switching to a newer Text renderer. This is a work in progress and has only been set up in some places
    Login / Registration
    - Fixed the text for "terms of service" and "privacy policy" being cut off in new user registration
    - Fixed rollover not working on "register" text button on the login screen
    Chat
    - Fixed chat not appearing on certain resolutions
    Deck Manager
    - Fixed deck name being misaligned when viewing game on resolutions with an aspect ratio other than 16:9
    - Added an additional effect for foil runes (this will appear on all places that show the rune)
    Solo
    - Fixed an error that could occur in the solo play screens in which some screen elements were not removed in some cases
    Game
    - Fixed the following maps having incorrect map data
    -- Forglar Swamp
    -- Forsaken Waste
    -- Savage Tundra
    -- Shattered Peaks
    -- Tundra Lake
    -- Ironfist Mountains
    -- K'thir Hill
    -- Nora Glades
    -- Lost City
    -- Elemental Plateau
    -- K'thir Hill 4
    -- Ironfist "Alternate"
    - Brood pits "Alternate"
    - Fixed sprite for LE elven mage

    Known Issues:
    - Company logos are appearing twice on startup
    - Some incorrect artwork is showing up for conditions
    - Rollovers are not working correctly on abilities
    - Controller buttons are still appearing on abilities
    - Movement bug is still in - working on it
    - Fatigued and Engaged conditions have incorrect icons


    NOTE: the beta is currently available for PC only. Will see how fast a MacOS version can be done, no ETA on this.

    Any issues found should go here.
     
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  2. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    A new build of the PoxNora beta client has been released. Restarting your steam client is the easiest and quickest way for it to be detected for download.

    In this build the following changes have been made:
    - fixed an issue in which the PS4 Limited Edition runes did not correctly show their idols
    - tweaked some buttons on the solo and campaign screen to correctly show and use the new TextMeshPro renderer
    - fixed an issue where conditions could show the correct graphic
    -- note: this was an attempted fix for missing condition graphics for things like "engaged" which currently just show a blank circle. ultimately I just need to make some new art for those missing conditions as it is a problem with the art not existing rather than it being in the incorrect location​
    - fixed an issue in which 2v2 games would not show up in the lobby
    - fixed the idol art for the Sporedrop Mushroom relic
    - fixed an issue in which the splash screens for desert owl / unity would show twice
     
  3. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    Beta Patch 3

    A new build of the PoxNora beta client has been released. Restarting your steam client is the easiest and quickest way for it to be detected for download.

    Art & Effects:
    - Changed the import settings of all champion and relic sprites so that they no longer use bilinear filtering, which could cause some lines to bleed onto the edges of other sprite frames
    - fixed an issue in which effects that used the line renderer would not display correctly after the unity 2021 upgrade. This effected Spell Resistence, Confused, as well as many many others
    - fixed an issue in which the effect for Impervious would not play on the unit it was being used on
    -- this fix was done in a generic way so that if a sprite animation can not be found on an ability that is being used, it will no longer throw an error that prevented additional effects/sounds from playing as part of that ability​
    Gameplay:
    - Reverted a change where Chasm tiles were treated as Impassable
    - Changed the "screen message" effect so that it is now dynamicly timed so that the time of the message is shorter or longer depending on the amount of text shown
    -- as part of this change, the "Opponent's Turn" / "Your Turn" screen message only shows for 2 seconds instead of 4 seconds, and the time before that effect shows is now 0.5 seconds instead of 1. Since this screen message is a blocking effect, this means you have an extra 2.5 seconds of unimpeded gameplay per turn​
    UI:
    - fixed an issue that caused the difficulty button to show but the controller and non controller versions if you clicked to edit your deck and then returned to that screen
    - fixed an issue where button rollovers would not work correctly for activated abilities
    - unified some lobby buttons to use shared resources so that they should appear more consistent
    - controller buttons are no longer visible in the custom games lobby when no controller is present
    -- some button prompts are probably still visible in the create game interface​
    - adjusted the position of unity condition icons slightly to give it more space from the continuous ability icons above
    - added a unit condition icon for engaged
    - added a unit condition icon for fatigued
    - combat messages for turn changes no longer appear in the Global chat tab
    Performance:
    - suppressed a log that occurred when any image was loaded/instantiated, which could happen literally hundreds of times depending on the spell used and when the game itself loaded (since it preloads a lot of sprites into memory)
    -- this should have the side effect of improving performance of spells that use a lot of small images​
     
  4. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    Beta Patch 4 (was launched on 13th of June 2022)

    A new build of the PoxNora beta client has been released. Restarting your steam client is the easiest and quickest way for it to be detected for download.


    Art & Effects:
    - fixed an issue that was preventing certain location effects to not always appear on all affected squares, or could make multiple instances of location effects to not appear when multiples of them were active. this affected the following:
    -- Ice Trap
    -- Fire Trap
    -- Poison Trap
    -- Acid Trap
    -- Boulder Trap
    -- Poison Cloud
    -- Hungry Dead
    -- Locust Plague
    -- Choking Stench
    -- Elsarin Night
    -- Fog of Ancients
    -- Abominable​
    - fixed the artwork for the new Engaged condition icon from being pixelated in certain resolutions
    Gameplay:
    - fixed an issue that would cause the movement grid of a selected champion to be incorrectly recalculated with a path based on a moving champion as the other champion was moving, which would then subsequently cause that champion (which is currently not moving) to be issued a movement path that could lead in an incorrect (and often opposite) direction
    -- yes, this is the bug you think it is
     
  5. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    Beta Patch 5

    A new build of the PoxNora beta client has been released. Restarting your steam client is the easiest and quickest way for it to be detected for download.

    Mac:
    - Builds for Intel and Apple Silicon are now available for the beta
    Art & Effects:
    - Rune art in the lower hud and the dock now shows the new "foil" effect on relevant cards
    - Fixed an issue that caused some effects that draw with circular lines to not appear. this affected the following:
    -- Grim Aura
    -- Desecration
    -- Desecrated Zone
    -- Cleanse
    -- Battle Drum
    -- Death Knell
    -- Invoke: Warbeast Roar
    -- Death Nova: Skeletons
    -- Drudgery
    -- Motion Sensor
    -- Holy Light
    -- Psychic Conundrum
    -- Vex Cor Pram
    -- Lay Hands
    -- Blessed
    -- Font Blessing
    -- Restraining Aura
    -- Chains of Corruption
    -- Distracted
    -- Burdened
    -- Paralyzed
    -- Twisted
    -- Balancing Act
    -- Sermon
    -- Tainted Statue
    -- Immobile
    -- Turtled
    -- Elsari Coven
    -- Demoralized
    -- Unpowered
    -- Impervious
    -- Dragon God's Staff
    -- Cleansing Flame
    -- Dispel
    -- Dispelling Blows
    -- Pure Fire
    -- Purge
    -- Oblivion Shield
    -- Relieve
    -- Cleansing Mist
    -- Mika's Healing Aria
    -- Soothing Aura
    -- Sacred Temple
    -- Cleanse
    -- Judgement
    -- Nature's Blessing
    -- Cleansing Storm​
    - Fixed issues with portions of maps being displayed at an incorrect size, which led to skewing at the right hand side and at the bottommost inaccessible area of the map and caused overlay graphics and visual effects to not correctly line up
    -- In particular, this fixes the lava on underdepths and the treeline on k'thir maps​
     
  6. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    Beta Patch 5, continued

    General:
    - Updated the interface for "deck validation" and added additional handling for if deck validation fails for some reason. additionally, cleaned up the display of invalid decks for things such as solo campaigns that have deck restrictions
    - Removed more controller buttons (when applicable)
    -- the store in particular still needs to be fixed with these changes, as does the filter popup​
    - Fixed some naming of a few units which were renamed
    - If login fails due to Steam having no connection, a different error message will appear besides "invalid user name or password"
    Store:
    - Opening packs in the store now displays correctly
    Deck / Rune Manager:
    - The active deck is now selected and scrolled to when opening the Deck Manager
    - Dixed less than 5 runes appearing in a row when using a non 16:9 resolution, which could really mess up the scrolling functionality of the rune manager
    Game UI:
    - Fixed the input field for chat not showing input text on certain resolutions
    - Fixed icons in the global effect window displaying at a smaller size than intended
    - Fixed cooldown displays showing as "-1" for abilities on an unowned unit
    - Fixed cooldown displays showing as "-1" for unit conditions that have no duration
     
  7. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    Patch 6 (released on 22nd of June 2022)


    A new build of the PoxNora beta client has been released. Restarting your steam client is the easiest and quickest way for it to be detected for download.

    Controller Support:
    - Added correct button prompts for ABXY controllers (Xbox, etc)
    - Fixed the options screen being inaccessible on Xbox controllers
    - Fixed help and the pause menu being inaccessible on Xbox controllers
    User Interface:
    - Fixed an issue in which you could not open the pause screen if a neutral Nora Font was selected
    - Pressing the Escape key now cancels any ability targeting that is selected
    Chat:
    - Fixed an issue wherein chat would not correctly display if it needed to wrap to multiple lines.
    -- this primarily affected the /who command​
    - Changed the behaviour of text that is wrapping to multiple lines to not break words into multiple lines unless the word spans the entire width of the intended area
    Art and Effects:
    - Fixed an issue where several 'foil' runes were missing the new foil effect (baby slag, Menalaus)
     
  8. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    Patch 7

    A new build of the PoxNora beta client has been released. Restarting your steam client is the easiest and quickest way for it to be detected for download. Note: if this patch does not have any critical issues, than the plan is to push this to be the new release client tomorrow in the afternoon (when Slugbait gets off of work)

    Controller Support:
    - Abilities now show the correct button prompts for ABXY controllers (Xbox, etc) and correctly hide the buttons if a controller is connected but not "active"
    - Added correct button prompts for the Rune Filters popup
    - Controller prompts are now hidden correctly on the Rune Filters screen if no controller is active
    Rune Filters:
    - Made adjustments for readability and usability to the options in the Rune Filters screen
    Options:
    - Added the option to enable/disable automatic map panning in the options screen so you don't need to know about a hidden F1 key
    Art & Effects:
    - Corrected Nefari Guardian incorrectly having foil effects on its card and dock icon and Nefari Torch (LE) not having foil effects on its card and dock icon
     
  9. Etherielin

    Etherielin The Floof Cultist

    Patch 8

    A new build of the PoxNora beta client has been released. Restarting your steam client is the easiest and quickest way for it to be detected for download.

    Deck Manager:
    - Filters for Champions (race, class) no longer hide all non-Champion runes if the filter "None" is not selected
    - Fixed the full name of Runes not appearing for Runes with long names (i.e., "Angel of Nourishment", etc)
    Art & Effects:
    - Fixed a number of missing foil effects on champions (thanks @GabrielQ )
     
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