New netcode: Antistatic 0.7

It's been a while, but 0.7 is finally released.

Headlining the changes, and the source of many delays, is refined netcode: mostly rewritten, and much more stable. There have also been substantial tweaks to knockback curves, several bug fixes, and polish passes over some parts of the game.

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As usual, report any bugs in the Steam discussion board or on the official Discord.

Full change log:

0.7.0 - Dec 20 2020

New controller polling code, new netplay code, tons of netplay improvements, a lot of code cleanup, more visual improvements, new knockback curves.

Features

• Controller polling is handled more reliably now

• A big portion of the netcode stack has been rewritten or overhauled, and should be much more stable

• Netcode now consumes even less bandwith

• First phase of new SFX work, plus new SFX encoding pipeline

• Lots of visual improvements

Balance

• New knockback curves, with a lot of move adjustments that aren't directly comparable anymore

• Big balance pass, accounting for knockback/stun changes

• Xenon and Helium have been resized to be larger

• Can no longer tilt shield while in shield stun

• Parry window reduced to two frames

• Disabled stale DI system for now, to test without it and because it got broken and this is easier than fixing

• Bounce knockback curves reworked - now bounce higher

• Iron has a new up-tap

• Shield can now trigger during iasa frames

• Can no longer buffer actions out of dropping shield

• Lag-cancel window tweaked: active for 10 frames, but can input again after 7

Fixes

• Fixed some ledge options with control stick not working as intended

• Fixed parry audio being too loud

• Fixed shield knockback

• Tons of code cleanup and automatic linting, which caught a few obscure bugs

• Fixed damage displays rising further and further away from characters based on damage

• Bandaided Xenon bot's recovery

• Fixed sound effects being pretty quiet

• Fixed being able to change spawn facing at the start of a game by holding a direction

• Frame-perfect reverse forward-tap now correctly uses the pivot version of the animation

• Fixed hot reloading of characters not working right if there is more than one of that character in game

Misc

• Tuned thresholds for tilts

• Improved ftilt vs utilt input

• Tuned out of shield control options

• Menu fits the screen better

• Remapping menu is spaced better

• Updated TypeScript, Node, FreeType, and other dependencies

• New logo

• Improved controller debug display

• Cleaned up installation a bit (removed unused files + fixed some of the build process)