v2.12.0

HP2PC_AP v2.12.0

The other Harry Potter 2 players in your room show up as ghosts, the client says exactly what is blocking a launch or a mod update, and a Gold Card Room logic fix.

New

• Ghost players (ghost_players, on by default). Other Harry Potter 2 players in the room who are on the same map appear in your game as translucent Harrys, moving and animating as they play, and your Harry appears in theirs. Each ghost carries its slot name over its head in a colour of its own, and mirrors the peer's disguise, size, wand and upside-down state. Cosmetic only: a ghost has no collision and cannot be targeted. /ghosts takes on, off or seed like the other link commands, and a bare /ghosts flips it. Off also stops sharing your own position.

Changed

• The client tells the launcher window from a running game. When a connect skips the auto-launch or a mod update because something is up, the message now says whether that is Harry Potter itself or the New Game / Load Game launcher window, and which one to close.
• A mod update that could not land holds the auto-launch. When the apworld carries a newer mod build than your install and the update is refused (a game or the launcher window is up) or fails, the client no longer starts a game on the old build. Fix it and reconnect, or type /play to start the game as it is. While an older build is still bridged, the game shows an AP: mod update ... reminder every ten seconds.
• A refused write raises a popup. When Windows will not let the client write into the install (almost always a Program Files install with the launcher not run as administrator), the client raises an error popup naming the folder and the fix, instead of a line in the log. The sound and music randomizers get the same popup.
• The WRONG INSTALL warning repeats. A seed on the wrong install (an open castle seed on vanilla maps, or the reverse) now shows its warning every ten seconds, not once per level.

Logic and content changes

• Every Gold Card Room card needs Spongify, or Rictusempra with Flipendo. That is the gate on the room's first room. In open castle, Rictusempra alone used to pass. Vanilla is unaffected in practice, since entering the room there already needs Flipendo.

Poptracker 1.0.9

Changed

• Access rules regenerated for the Gold Card Room gate: Spongify, or Rictusempra with Flipendo.