MK3D Online 0.1.17: no freeze after fatalities, Deception arena and high-ping fixes, back to practice, new logos

MK3D Online 0.1.17

Everyone needs 0.1.17 to play online. The launcher offers it by itself: press UPDATE NOW.

No more freeze after a fatality

Matches that go through the server's relay (about half of all matches) could freeze at the end, after Finish Him, until the game gave up waiting. The server stopped passing the match along 15 seconds after the result, while the fatality and the winner's pose were still playing. It now keeps passing it for 60 seconds, and the ending plays through.

Deception matches no longer get thrown out when someone picks an arena

Deception's select screen has its own arena choice. Online, only the game of the player who used it took that arena, so the two games loaded different stages, fell out of step, and the server threw the match out and started the next one (it looked like the match restarted). Online matches now always play the match's arena; practice and single player keep your choice.

Games no longer freeze mid-fight at high ping

When the game rewinds to correct a prediction (which happens more the higher your ping), it could undo the moment Deception's and Armageddon's loader let go of a lock, and the game then waited on that lock for ever: a freeze in the middle of a fight, or while a match loaded. The rewind no longer touches what the loader owns.

Back to practice after a series

With Practice while you wait ticked (the default), when a Kasual series ends (you or your opponent left, or the rematch timed out) or a Ranked set is over, the match's game plays its ending, then closes and practice opens again. Untick the box to stay at the game's menu instead.

A new look

• The launcher has the new MK3D logo in its corner, in its windows, and as its icon.
• Each game's button shows that game's own logo, and each game's window and taskbar icon is its logo too. Both are taken from your own copy of the game once you have built it, so the download carries none of it.

If a game ever stands still in a match

If a match's game stops for 10 seconds without waiting on the other player, its log now notes where it is stuck. If that happens to you, send the newest session folder in MK3D-Online\sessions.

After updating

As after every update, the launcher prepares your games' code again by itself; let it finish before you queue.

Updating

• From 0.1.7 to 0.1.16: when the update window comes up, press UPDATE NOW (or UPDATE TO 0.1.17 in the launcher's footer). It waits until your match is over and you close any game you are playing, puts 0.1.17 in place and starts again, then prepares your games by itself.
• From 0.1.6 or older: close the launcher and the game, open the zip, open the MK3D-Online folder inside it, select everything, and drag it into the folder that holds your MK3DLauncher.exe. Choose Replace the files in the destination. From then on, updates come through the launcher.

SHA-256 of the zip: 808c48fda637078d3be1239d010099ee350905cd31a0b9547be36148cb9cf0ac

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