Well I'm here to share with you our latest set of plans for Hedgewars.
0.9.10, like most major releases, contains some irritating bugs. The bug's aren't critical, but we want to stamp them out before 0.9.11.

Why?

Because we want to run a second tournament on 0.9.10. This tournament will be a 2v2 tournament, and will run similarly to the first. Again there may be real world prizes for winning.

So, In order to get a release out before 0.9.11, in perperation for the tournament, we're working on a small 0.9.10.....5?  release,  this release will contain a few things.

We're going to implement a new weapon. This won't be the one on the home page vote, that will come in 0.9.11. But it will be a fun one all the same.

We're also going to implement a new utility, the "vampire" utility. Any damage you do in your next turn, heals your hedgehog by the same amount.

To go with this utility, there will be two new game modifiers, which we are currently calling Vampire and Empathy. Vampire will be the same as the utility just described, but it will be a global effect that lasts the entire game. Empathy is quite different, any damage you do to hedgehogs.. you will also recieve that damage yourself!   Meaning your aim is to knock enemy hogs into the water whilst doing as little damage as possible, or you might end up blowing yourself up!


Apart from this, here is the list of bugs I've identified in 0.9.10 so far, that we hope to fix for 0.9.11

* Netgame hangs when one player leaves game sometimes
* Server crashes related to account integration
* Buffer errors occur sometimes
* Include files excluded from some release packages due to cmakelist
* Sync error in multiplayer lobby, some players not seeing selected predifined map, having to switch to generated map + back to make everyone see it
* under some circumstances (seems room being destroyed whilst playing is one) being returned to lobby causes game list to show incorrect data, refresh does nothing, only rejoining works.. is connection to lobby actually terminated?
* under some circumstances, closing a single player game generates an incorrect state error message, it doesn't actually cause any problems but it's annoying. I think it might be to do with leaving the multiplayer lobby then going into single player. Restarting frontend fixes it.

If anyone has found or discovered any other bugs, I'd appreciate them posting a comment on this news post to inform us!

Anyway those are our plans, more details on the next tournament soon.

I wonder who's going to take out Me and unC0Rr :)


Also, I've found proof that not upgrading hedgewars is the work of Satan himself, so upgrade!