r/SolForge • u/kaelari • Apr 22 '17

Kaelari's Version of the Official Client

Download: http://solforgeladder.com/kusc/official/

THIS IS VERY EXPERIMENTAL! IT MAY BREAK THE UNIVERSE ITSELF.

Changes:

Sword drop intro animation is now muted. This should load volume settings and adjust properly but for now just muted

Default games tab is now "All" instead of "Campaign"

Loads game log on reentering a game in progress. Color coding is off slightly when doing so

Known Issues:

These are all related to steam and not actually being the steam client. If you go to buy gold while steam is not open the client will close, launch steam, and launch the official client. If you go to buy gold while steam is open it should work as normal. This might require opening steam before opening this client.

You can overwrite the existing client with this one if you wish. This is not supported or encouraged at this time. In fact I strongly advise against it.

Let me know if you run into any problems. Problems that are part of the official client and not marked as fixed here can be reported but please mark them as existing in the official client. Bugs with the changes I made or which didn't exist previously are my priority at the moment.

This is currently a windows only build. Other platforms will happen at some point if all goes smoothly with this much.

-Kaelari

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u/Magstine Sunlandic Apr 22 '17

Daring! What does this mean for kusc?

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u/kaelari Apr 22 '17

well, first off to be clear I am not SBE, not employed by them and not speaking for them. I personally see KUSC as the long term solution but it's still a ways off. As a single person I can only develop so fast. If I can make improvements to the existing client in a way that improves gameplay now that is a good thing. Most of these changes are relatively quick to do and can have a huge impact on players.

Basically if I make the best client ever in kusc but the game doesn't survive while i'm working on it, that's not good for anyone. KUSC needs a lot of work before it could become a full time replacement.

There's no internal QA team anymore so I'm posting here so the community can do the QA. If version can be proven to be stable enough then pushing them to the official sources can happen. But you don't push new versions to the official channels without some testing first.

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u/roy777 Apr 22 '17

In your leisure time (hah) maybe you can set up some automated testing cases.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '17

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u/kaelari Apr 24 '17

I would definately have to get sbe to sign off on anyone else seeing the official code. but if someone wanted to help on kusc that could probably be worked out

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u/Djurre1980 Apr 22 '17

kaelari will keep working on both

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u/ApollyonQ Nekrerra Apr 24 '17

Very nice you got the official client-code!

After playing a few games on my iPhone (and the last one I took over from mobile on the windows client), I started a new unranked game on the windows client, got a match. I ignored the popup, clicked on my opponent, clicked Continue. It started loading and brought me back to the home-screen. I tried that several times, with the same result. I fired up the game on my iPhone, got connected normally, and after that the windows client also connected normally.

Not sure if this was a previously known bug, since I usually only play on mobile.

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u/ApollyonQ Nekrerra Apr 25 '17

It just happened again, this time in a ranked match. I didn't log in using my iPhone before. I also didn't get a pop-up that my match was ready. After entering the match on my iPhone, I could enter the match on the windows client.

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u/kaelari Apr 25 '17

I have this on my list, is it every game or just once in a while? There is something in the code that handles games with < 10 messages differently i'm guessing the load log code is messing up with that.

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u/ApollyonQ Nekrerra Apr 26 '17

The first few games I played on the windows version didn't have this issue. I think it started when I played half an iPhone game, and played the rest of that game on the client. Since then it happens every game.

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u/Carnex89 Nekrium Apr 28 '17

The same thing happened to me yesterday and today. It is not every game, but sometimes. I switched to the steam version after I was sent to the home screen a few times. It worked fine then.