Online versus beta - and new shape Bananas

Online Versus Beta

Online versus is here! I am declaring it as "beta" because the rating should be seen as temporary, it has to be switched to a new system and will be reset soon, so don't get too attached to your rank. Matchmaking is currently set to worldwide and it just grabs the first player it can from the queue, no skill based matchmaking. If in the future there arises a need for a real matchmaking system I will add it, but not many people play the game currently so I didn't want to make you wait in the queue if there is someone to match with. Currently this mode is restricted to either queueing or inviting a friend and selecting it from stage select (unranked), you can't play it locally yet.

Versus mode runs on a stage that is essentially the speed stage with some new added rules:

• If the floor would have been moved below the bottom of the screen, the other player's floor moves up that amount instead

• Combos greater than or equal to 4 send "damage" (raises the opponent's floor) to the opponent. Damage values see the combo damage values below

• If you have many shapes in your box (15-30+), the amount of damage sent/done is reduced by up to half, and your floor will move upward faster

• To allow for better comboing while still keeping some random challenge, the color (and shape selection) has been moved to a "bag" system in only this mode. Every 10 shapes it is guaranteed that there will be 2 of every color, and for every shape type (like circle, triangle, square etc) in the current shape mode, there are 2 of every shape per 2*(number of types)

• A combo is counted if shapes merge within 1 second of each other. Previously this was set to .3 seconds, where the velocity of the shape was considered instead after .3s for deciding what shape a shape becomes after merging

• Combos can be extended by quickly dropping and matching additional shapes

• The player that gets a higher score wins,but if the score is tied, the player who survived longer wins. Nobody wins if the survival time and score is equal (though it might say win for both if this happens currently).

Combo damage

• 1x combo: 0

• 2x combo: 0

• 3x combo: 0

• 4x combo: 2

• 5x combo: 1.5

• 6x combo: 1.5

• 7x combo: 1.5

• 8x combo: 1.25

• 9x combo: 1.25

• 10x combo: 1.25

Hitting a 7x combo would do 1.5 + 1.5 + 1.5 + 2 damage, or 6.5 damage. 1 damage is how much the floor moves down after you match a shape. The decreasing value for combos is because I didn't want a big combo to just instakill someone, but I still want it to be rewarded, and it should be worth than a couple small combos (a max combo is about as good as two medium combos right now)

Messiness Factor

As an anti-spam mechanism, there is a messiness factor that essentially makes the floor rise faster by a small amount (the amount is equal to the speed increase after 2 minutes in speed mode). The penalty begins at about 15 shapes, and hits the max at 30 shapes. In addition to this, the same penalty applies to how much damage you send to the opponent, where up to 15 shapes you send full damage, and at 30+shapes you send only 50% of the damage

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