Rivalry Status Update #111 - Maps Update On Open Beta + March 13th Release

After ironing out the networking issues and polishing the remaining features I'm happy to announce that the Maps feature is now live on the Open Beta with the camera zooming feature fully functional!

To access the open beta right click on Rivalry in your library, go to properties, choose Betas and select "beta - Open Beta - Latest Unity Version"


Update the game and you should be able to play! I'll be playing occasionally throughout the week to test the new features.

I'm hoping to fully release the Mapping feature on the default version of Rivalry by Monday the 13th of March!

Aside from just zooming another new feature that has been added is the ability to quickly jump to each player by pressing its player position indicator.


This enables quick camera movements on larger maps and limits the amount of time it takes to drag the camera from player to player.

The chat feature has also been updated to work with the new maps such that players can chat to each other without having to move the camera around and see the chat conversation. Previously the text was not scaled for the maps and it would be difficult to follow a conversation as the constant moving of the camera would result in losing the location of the conversation. Now the chat follows the camera and can be seen by each player, even when both players' cameras are in different positions.

The last big improvement surrounded the network system and allowing peer to peer networking to work with different arenas. Fixing this was the major hurdle that was needed to get the arena features released. And now that it's been fixed expect the update notification on 13th!

Remaining tasks are now

• Finish up arenas
  
• Sound effects and music
  
• Complete network game lobby UI (make pretty and complete all network game modes).
  
• Complete network game restart UI (make pretty).
  
• General bug fixing, tidy up and enhancement of look and feel..