Swap Force Recompiled 0.3.0-beta.8

Swap Force Recompiled, 0.3.0-beta.8 (test version).

• Nothing of its own this time: this release brings the parts all six games share up to date.

• Discord status (new, off unless you switch it on): under F4 > Game > Discord status, your Discord profile shows which Skylanders game you play, with which Skylander (and its vehicle or the villain in its trap), in which level and for how long, while the Discord app runs on the same PC. With two players it says co-op. Only the game's own names for figures and levels go out, never a figure's nickname.

• Smooth shadow edges at a higher internal resolution: at 2x and above, shadow edges could have small stair steps. Where a game draws its shadows at half resolution and blends them up to the full picture, that blend picked the wrong pixels at a higher resolution. Shadows are as soft as on the console now.

• A little less work per draw: the graphics thread keeps the last shader it used at hand instead of looking it up again.

The easy way: install Core of Light, the launcher. It sets this game up from your disc and keeps it up to date by itself.

On its own: run SwapForceRecompSetup-0.3.0-beta.8.exe and point it at your own Xbox 360 disc (an ISO file or an extracted folder). It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": "More info" > "Run anyway". The README says which disc version it needs.

The game's data (graphics, sound, levels, movies) doesn't come with it: the setup takes it from your own disc.

Problems: F4 > Game > "Report a problem" in the game, then a new issue.

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