Update 0.11 - Assassins Ascent

Across Chessland kings compete for more than just land and resources, now the fight brings glory and renown to those that best their opponents. Who shall rise to the top and how will their fight to stay there play out?

This update main appeal is the introduction of ranked, with leaderboards for the top 10 players too. Due to player count only 1 game mode and time format will be available at a time. Since we have added ranked, this updates mode will be ranked on rapid time (15m).

Added

• New piece: Assassin, a costly but deadly piece that can quickly move behind any open space behind a piece, capturing 3 squares behind

• Unit information in the forge

• Game type display at the top of matches

• ELO V2: Elo is more fairly calculated and "exchanged"

• AI V2: This AI has a very naïve understanding of board value, which means they are much more aggressive when they can take a piece

• New challenge: How will your build fair to a queen filled attack?

• Titles: Show off your flavour of tile, currently only 2 for owning either the demo or full game. Will be more in the future. (if you see "developer" then you are playing against our team)

• Board textures: You can now choose from a set of board textures in the settings. E.g. Wood, stone, default

• Ranked: Winning/Losing means more internet points, yay-yay

• Leaderboards: Top 10 Global

• New animations: Board/piece load

Changed

• Matchmaking: Uses additional filters in the background to speed up queue times

• Bigegg can no longer promote into itself

• Allow right click to stop placing piece in forge

• Searching now shows game mode

• Removed AA from pieces, resulting in slightly sharper icons

• Options and forge now give feedback on actions

Fixed

• Connecting to old games

• Settings not being defined

• Cured AI analysis paralysis

• Issues with going between bot and online matches

• Surrendering sometimes not working

• Pieces being invisible when placed

• Tiling of scrolling main menu background