Spider-Man Multiplayer Devlog #0.5
oh my golly gosh its finally a patreon post!
Sadly this post doesn't have much to do with MP directly, more just miscellaneous stuff cos I feel bad for not posting much as I've been busy IRL and have uni coming up again soon. (Real MP stuff coming soon I promise 🤞)
AFK Messages
We think AFK messages are fun, so we put some together. There's no actual penalty for being AFK, but it's a fun little addition. Here's a few we cooked up:
Custom UI
You all have probably seen the screenshots of the custom UI we've put out on twitter, but there's been some recent changes to the design and some extra features. If people are interested, I could do a post going in-depth about how the custom UI was done, so lmk :) There is also still a lot to be done for a full implementation so there will probably more posts to come regarding that.
Title
I decided to add a little more pizazz to the main menu, since we needed some more buttons anyway. Some of you will have seen this already in the Discord channels.
The MODS button is a very W.I.P. feature, tldr is you'll be able to configure script mods from there, including settings for Multiplayer.
Lobby Panel
This is still largely the same but now with the option to change your lobby privacy, as we use Steam's API for matchmaking, this setting directly changes the privacy of your Steam lobby, so if you have it set to Invite Only your lobby won't show up in the lobby browser, and there won't be an option to join on your Steam profile, if it's set to Friends Only your friends can join from your Steam profile but the lobby won't be listed in the lobby browser, and if it's Public it will be listed.
Since we're on the topic of lobbies, I figure its worth clarifying that if you are hosting and don't have a compatible UPnP device for networking, your lobby will be restricted to Invite Only, as you will need to use a service such as Hamachi or ZeroTier for people to connect to your lobby.
Join Panel
This is still a W.I.P. as the Add Server and Quick Connect options require text input, which is far more painful to implement than you'd expect due to the way the game processes key events. I might post a mini update at some point once I have text input fully implemented, as it's the foundation for a bunch of fun features.