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Items Player Characters and Damage
For the next update, I am targeting a few things:
Smoother Player models -- I saw a lot of you trying to grab the other players and causing them to go limp/become ragdolls.... you shouldn't be able to do that. I've gone ahead and written out a lot more code around the other connected clients and how they should appear/interact on your screen. The legs are still very ephemeral looking, but I think it looks loads better than the current state. You also shouldn't be able to cause the creatures to ragdoll.
Item spawning, I need to control the number of items that are spawn on the server, because as you are aware this game is pretty demanding on the PC. If we have two many items, then it will definitely cause other people to lag. Too few items and well how can we stab each ot... -
This mod is extremely experimental please do not expect it to work the way the single player does.
I have spent the last couple of months getting the mod to this point. Physics based games (which B&S is) are pretty difficult to make multiplayer, even more so when you're doing it as a mod loaded onto the game. There may be technical issues that can't be surpassed for this game, I don't know yet and I wont know until I get stuck. Right now I haven't been stuck for more than a few days on any given problem. This might be a mod that ends up only supporting coop, or maybe 2v2 pvp.
Even if I continue to make progress on this mod, its possible it breaks in between game updates. Ill try to tackle those as rapidly as I can, but this is just a hobby right now and somethi...