The ever-awesome ZeroTKA had an awesome idea for a Valentine’s Day surprise, and then my daughter gave me a cold and I couldn’t get it done for the actual day.  But hey, it’s still Valentine’s Day in Damon’s heart.

This build, v0.1.2487.0, was supposed to be a quicky, but it snowballed bigtime.  Here are the release notes from the private beta forums:

Uh, this was supposed to be a quick update.

• add idle timestamp to invite confirmation if player is idle
• s/In Lobby/In Room/ in lobby status
• auto-idle state in lobby after 5 minutes of no input to SpyParty
• display away message when playing
• tiebreaker for both players hitting spy or sniper at the same time in match menu – kind of a hack
• wait a bit after putting down briefcase
• couriers never stand on a pad to pick up or put down briefcase
• ambassador won’t put down briefcase unless it can be picked up without standing on a pad
• display game type and level on match results screen
• Happy Valentine’s Day (belated due to a cold) – thank zerotka for the awesome idea!
• pointier convo arrow
• reenable previous talker arrow
• add concept of “important” NPCs (like green statue swapper)
• sort important NPCs higher/lower than unknown cast
• put a grey bar on them in the portraits on result screen
• play microfilm failure animation if bailing on action test
• drink events for accept, reject, offer, waiter giving up
• okay/good/bad -> white/green/red in mission preview text
• much more visible sniper crosshairs
• try harder to find a spot if you’re forced to go to pedestal
• delay forcing swapper until outside min radius and then random timer
• finally solved the mystery of the floor pad rotations, old click-to-move ui vestige, thanks kcmmmmm!
• round event for cast member picking up pending statue
• handle room name escapes before eating whitespace
• ignore escape until endgame results synced to avoid lobby kicks and disabled Spy/Sniper menu items
• setting to not print /help on lobby entry
• allow big lobby font, allow ellipsis in settings and lobby escape menu
• Damon at least looks at the corpse, for god’s sake
• arrow ui for conversation talking turns
• version number in screenshot name
• toby offers drink and waits until accept or refuse
• break up too-long chat lines correctly with wrapping
• settings in lobby escape menu uses new lobby layout
• small timestamp font, only do time, not date (clipboard still gets full date)
• sync up /time format
• block actions while putting down or handing off briefcase
• allow Toby to go more places and offer more drinks (like the back side of Balcony, which he basically was afraid to visit)
• new walking bug tuning, midpoint, tighter radii, etc
• display autolock animation times correctly in spy disk
• move ambassador personal space radius in a bit so not as jumpy
• bulge cy2 pillar out a bit more, but NPCs really hug it, better practice this or get shot by r7
• whiter whites for your username
• fix bug if spawn at convo center you’re going to
• if you’re finishing convo because you’re lonely, and somebody shows up, go back to listening
• retry look areas if your spot is taken
• clear the customer’s queue so don’t take drinks long after waiter leaves
• make veranda front a little wider for pathing sanity
• walking people count as violating ambassador’s personal space, so spy can’t twitch
• version check content package to avoid weird bugs
• fix lobby chat crash bug
• draw cast bars with quads, size properly
• sort known-to-sniper cast members low, unknown (like seduction target, no-suspected double agents) high
• splash screen works on wineskin (non-transparent)
• expand results screen portraits on mouseover now that we have a mouse on that screen
• fix results display for multiple consecutive time-adds
• only push round events if playing
• push round event on shift-m add time
• flicker ambassador ui during leaving, not go to red (ST color)
• grey outlines in results, not yellow

So, the briefcase/floor-pad thing is kinda huge. Having to actively reject Toby is kinda huge. New green swap is big. I don’t even remember what else. Yikes.

Chris