New Side Quest
This new version adds a new side-quest near to the top of the dungeon, so even new players will get to play it, or at least walk in and get eaten by a grue!
Joining the Beta
To play the beta, go into the Properties/Beta settings in Steam for WazHack, and choose the beta:
There has been a not-so-secret private alpha running since April, and so it's now stabilized into a build for everyone to play.
Upgraded Underlying Game Engine
The previous modding beta was put on hold as engine incompatibilities made upgrades challenging, but all that is now in the past with 100,000 lines of pristine ported code. While this doesn't make much change to the game, beyond a few visual improvements, the big gain is that it's now easier than ever to add more to the game (for the technical: it's written in C# on Unity 2020).
Reporting Bugs
Quite a few bugs were fixed in the porting process, and about half the bugs fixed during the alpha have been pre-existing bugs from the old version. But as always, this is a beta, so there will be more bugs to squish.
Always try to use the in-game bug reporter to report bugs - it sends a copy of your game file to me so I can try to repeat the problem.
Other Versions
This is a beta. The default branch remains the one from 2016, unless you opt-in to the beta. There is always a "previous" build that is a recent but previous build, in case some catastrophic bug shows up in a build and you really want to keep playing.
If you were on the old modding beta, that is now closed; if you need to finish a game, use the "2017" branch.
If you also have the mobile version of WazHack, that won't be updated yet, but will be looked at during the beta. Note though that when the game is ported to iOS and Android, it will target much more modern devices that the old Samsung Galaxy Nexus that was the minimal-spec in 2015, so better graphics (a more direct port of the PC version), but more demanding on performance.
Save files are not compatible between major versions. They should not change during the beta, but if essential, the "previous" branch can be used so you can finish your current game before updating.
Detailed Change List
(not)It's a game of discovery, so I'm not going to go into too much detail here. Most things should be entirely familiar, but a few things have been tweaked, and a few bugs that could give undesirable... and desirable... results have been fixed.
Enjoy!
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Waz
