Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart 1.6

What's new in 1.6

Headline changes
- Reduced visual jitter under unstable network conditions.
- The software renderer has gotten a significant performance boost!
- Specifically beneficial on maps with busy visuals (many objects, midtextures, and segs visible at once).
- One playtester with a slower computer reported "Avant Garden Classic", a community-created map with a reputation for bad performance, went from unplayable to a little under 35fps!
- Controller input has been updated to use the SDL Game Controller API.
- The game now supports a wider selection of controllers, including Xinput and Switch.
- Controller axes now have easier-to-identify names.
- D-Pad buttons are now considered hat switches.
- Known issue:
Mayflash GameCube controller adapters are not correctly supported.
- Delay measurements are now more accurate.
- If the client has caught up to the server (say, during a screen transition), don't report an extremely large delay.
- Fix an off-by-one error that slightly underestimated client delay.
- Don't include holepunch time when measuring server ping.
- The in-game server browser has been improved.
- Retries getting info multiple times; consistently reaches a few more servers in testing.
- Clear the server list when entering the menu and when refreshing.
- Create a "status line" that displays:
- When the game is checking for an update or loading the server list from the master server (removed the blue message box)
- How many servers are available and how many the game is trying to contact.
- If there are no servers available (no longer displays below the horizontal line)
- Slide the server list left and right when switching pages.
- The map command now supports using level titles, whether partial or in full.
- This feature was previously available in multiple community-created builds.
Interpolation changes
- Fix a number of circumstances which could cause the screen to violently vibrate in Software mode.
- Visual portals, such as in Fakery Way.
- First-person mode in replays.
- Player teleports will now adjust camera interpolation as needed.
- Custom Lua HUDs will no longer flicker with both splitscreen and interpolation.
Changes for online servers
- Client timeout has become a little stricter.
- If a client has fallen so far behind that the server is about to freeze (approximately 8 seconds), assume the lagging player is unlikely to recover and remove them.
- Reduce the grace period where lagging clients won't get kicked to 10 seconds (from 30). …

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