I’m not sure why this has been happening more recently than in the past, because I haven’t yet done any of my plans to actually encourage this, like discounts on two copies, spawn copies, gifts, and the like, but it anecdotally seems to have increased over the past few months. Often the wait is only a minute or so, but there are way too many cases of one player logging in, waiting a few minutes, and then logging out, and then literally seconds later another player joins, and the cycle repeats.Īnother related problem is that recently people have been joining the beta in pairs, so they both log in together and usually only play each other, so if you’re sitting there waiting, then two people will join and immediately go into a game together. There is text on the lobby screen telling players to hang out, but a) nobody reads text, and b) even if you do read the text, who wants to just sit there and wait for another player? I made it so you can minimize SpyParty and it doesn’t use much CPU, and it’ll beep and flash the window when you’re invited, but still, what a drag. SpyParty is a 1v1-only game ( for now) with no meaningful single-player mode, so if you go in to the lobby to play somebody, and you happen to be the odd person out, you are a sad agent of espionage:Ĭurrently, you have no recourse but to wait for somebody else to join. There are two really big features: Spectation and Replay Sniper Mode Spectation So, what exactly is in this upcoming update? It’s not clear to me why I’m so averse to committing to dates, but it’s something I need to get more comfortable with because I’m going to try moving to a tiny-team-baby-steps version of the “big named updates” release strategy that Valve pioneered on Team Fortress 2 and the Awesomenauts folks have written about as well.
#SPYPARTY INITIAL RELEASE DATE UPDATE#
The Spectation Update is coming Friday, July 24th! 1 I have been working on the latest big update for too long now, and I’m back from most of my summer travels, and I think it’s time to do my least-favorite thing in the entire world: publicly c ommit to a release date. John did this awesome image for The Spectation Update!
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