Successful 6-Man Multiplayer Match! Asteroidains Release v0.4.1.140

I am ecstatic to announce that a week ago, a full multiplayer game of 6 players was completed successfully! On top of this, I have been working to polish the overall experience one would expect of any game or program.

Gameplay:

• Grapple logic for rope bending around the terrain. WIP and this still needs improvements!
• Jumping now prevents you from moving at the same time.
• Jumping will now finish even if the turn timer runs out during the jump.
• Fixed turn being ended if you were to take fall damage, but game rules have fall damage disabled.
• Fixed weapon not changing at the start of the turn, if that weapon had no ammo left.
• Fixed visual error with pickaxe not showing the correct aiming angle after switching weapons.

General:

• After a game is completed, you will now be returned to the lobby you came from. No mandatory need to restart after every match!
• Windows tray flashes to alert you that it is your turn, if game window is not selected.
• Added keybinds for panning the camera.
• Added keybind "presets" to the options menu. You can now easily play with W:A style controls!

Multiplayer Lobby:

• Entirety of game rules are now sent to newly connected clients. No need to wait for clients to connect before configuring the rules, teams, or choosing a level.
• Game rules shown in lobby UI now properly show the real game rules as they change.
• Added player "ready" indicator.
• Better management of client authority changing. (Who can change the game rules)

Backend:

• Refactored game rules to be extremely versatile, extendable, and event driven. Server now has command "rules".
• Upgraded DarkRift 2 to v2.9.1 (Multiplayer backend plugin)

It was important to me that I get a multiplayer-stable build of the game released, so while I did do a lot to polish the multiplayer side of things (especially in the lobby), there are still some things that will soft lock the game.

Known Multiplayer Softlock Bugs:

• There is no connection "timeout" for clients or server.
• Clients do not get notified of the server closing.
• There are infrequent cases of Reliable messages not being sent/received. I'm still looking into the cause of this. Depending on the kind of message, this will softlock everyone connected to the game. (Like ready state messages, or loading done messages)
• Clients disconnecting while taking their turn in game will softlock everyone else.
• Clients disconnecting while in game, in general. I need to do more testing lol.

If you like the game, it would mean a lot if you could throw me a few bucks! :)