Sniper Daily Challenge

Sniper Daily Challenge and New Curated Replay Sets!

• Sniper Daily Challenge
  Everybody loves daily challenges in games, and the new Sniper Daily Challenge in SpyParty is pretty special. Every day (rolling over at 00:00 GMT, which is 4pm US Pacific), the server generates a new set of eight games for everybody to snipe against. There are different skill levels based on your number of wins, so you'll always get a set of daily games that are challenging but fair. Everone at a given skill level plays the same set, and the results are posted to a channel on the SpyParty Discord (http://discord.gg/spyparty). These games actually come from the giant replays database that you all have been creating just by playing the game. At the time of this writing there are 2.3 million replays being randomized and filtered to create the daily sets. This is a fun way to stay in practice, compare your scores and times with your friends, and you can even play the other skill level dailies with a simple chat command in the lobby.
  
  
• New Curated Replay Sets
  Thanks to the amazing SpyParty community, we have an entire new batch of curated replay sets in the lobby. The previous curated replays were almost all the old art, and were not a great introduction to the game. Players would log into the lobby, click that button, and then all of a sudden be in an old art hellscape and wonder what happened. The games were high quality, but the visuals left something to be desired. We even got bug reports about the graphics being buggy when players went into the lobby. Now, thanks to player mintyrug and others, there's a whole new group of curated replays, so check them out!
  
  
• Lobby Invitations While Spectating
  Finally, when you're waiting in the lobby to play a match, you can now spectate another match or play a curated replay set, but still appear as available to play and get invites. We had this cool spectation system but players couldn't use it when they were idling in the lobby waiting for a match because it meant they couldn't be invited, so that's finally fixed and you can feel free to hang out and watch other games while waiting for a match for yourself.
  

• new curated replay sets
  
  
  • sets are now permuted so you can retry them without accidentally memorizing the order
    
  • results screen on replay sets
    
  • one-shot sniper mode active for replay sets now instead of multi-shot chances
    
  • replay sets browser is now sortable by clicking the headings
  
  
  
• sniper daily challenge
  
  
  • there's a /daily chat command that lets you specify which level challenge you want to play, type /help /daily for more info
    
  • daily challenge results are posted to the discord #daily_challenge channel so you can compare your score and time with your friends
    
  • if you win 8 out of 8 on your daily challenge level, it unlocks a bonus set of 8 more games for that level and day
    
  • lots of ways to get to the daily, including the main menu box, which will tell you how long you have to play today's or wait for tomorrow's, a button in the lobby, and the /daily chat command
    
  • if you have multiple accounts, the main menu daily panel might get out of sync, but just log into the lobby and everything will be updated
    
  • there's UI for confirming whether you really want to quit the daily before you're done, because it will mark that daily as played and you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the next one
  
  
  
• miscellaneous spectation and replay stuff
  
  
  • checkbox on starting spectation to say whether you want to be able to be invited or not
    
  • setting for "one shot" versus "multi shot" spectation sniping mode, do you want multiple bullets?
    
  • you can select multiple replays in your replays directory and choose to snipe them as a permuted set just like a curated replay set or a daily challenge
    
  • there's an optional one-game spectation delay available if you're worried about people spectating your games live, see the /delay command for more information, it makes spectators wait until the game is completely done
    
  • store replay sniper games and wins in player data for later
  
  
  
• minor stuff
  
  
  • SpyParty Competitive League Season 6 game mode prop file is in the list
    
  • changed "In Room" to "Available" in lobby to be more clear
    
  • cleaned up some lobby sorting issues
    
  • disconnect match if spectation connection drops rather than weirdly later
    
  • slightly better invite failed strings
    
  • added redwoods and terrace to menu backgrounds
    
  • documented replays menu keyboard commands in README.txt
    
  • fixed some replays menu keyboard bugs
    
  • fixed bug where motd wouldn't show up for a few frames at start and be ugly
    
  • put up warning if a lot of clock skew with server to avoid bug reports due to wrong time set on client
    
  • fix bug with typing /help /daily eating a character and being annoying
    
  • fix spectators list doesn't disappear with ui toggles
    
  • fix to avoid escaping from settings and triggering spy action