What do you think?
What do people think about the following? I can't guarantee that the devs will take interest, but I'm curious to know people's opinions.
1. New seduction vs old seduction
The .16 seduction will have a area of effect: all hogs within a certain radius will leap towards to the hog using seduction.
2. New music vs old music
You might have noticed that some of the older tracks have been disappearing, to be replaced by some more rock-oriented tracks. In particular, the old City, Nature and Island tracks are gone (but Nature will make a return in the Golf theme in .16).
3. Blurry backgrounds vs Non-blurry backgrounds
Most of the newer themes have a somewhat blurry background: Compost, Stage, Golf to name a few. Also, some of the older ones have had their backgrounds redone in this style.
Here's what I think:
New seduction, no.
Old music, definitely yes. (I really like the original pirate and nature.)
I think the blurry background fits well, but I don't think it'll look good in the nature theme (making the trees look closer and like your almost under they're shade.)
To reduce texture size and improve support on older cards, all backgrounds since 0.9.14 have been capped at 1024px and drawn zoomed in 2x.
Also saves video memory (matters more on android/ios). For example, Stage background is 1024x768. Would be 2048x1536 otherwise. Difference between a 12MiB texture and a 3MiB one.
So, we kind of count on blurriness being typical for backgrounds for this to work. One background that could actually use work right now to be a bit more blurry is the Brick theme.
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Oh, I thought it was done purely for aesthetic reasons... but still, you could have a low quality version of the background as well as a higher quality one.
Most players didn't use the old seduction much so I don't mind changing the behavior, really. I think it would be better if you were given a second or two of retreat time, though.
edit: In terms of changes to the average hedgewars gameplay, I think the nerfing of grenade and the altered drillstrike behavior in .16 are far more significant.
mikade
Hedgewars Developer