Players involved:
Leto (Linux/Ubuntu)
Skywarp (Windows)
Tiger (Windows)
Verran (Windows)

We were trying to play a D2 team anarchy game using Redux 0.7.

Initially, Skywarp hosted the first game. When Leto joined, he received a message "Failed to join the netgame. You are missing packets. Check your network card and try again.". However, after dismissing the dialog, it allowed him into the game. A short time after, his game froze completely and he had to reboot his machine to fix the crash.

After that, we tried having Leto host the game. All the other clients (Skywarp, Tiger and me), received the message "Failed to join the netgame. You are missing packets. Check your network card and try again."; but, we were all able to join the game anyway. After a few minutes, Skywarp's game froze and he had to ALT+F4 to get it shut down.

We ended up switching to D1 Redux 0.7 and were able to play team anarchy games just fine without the packet error message, or the freeze ups/crashings.

Thanks!

Steam Deck user here; can't seem to get the AppImages working. Attempting to run through Konsole delivers this error: "error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Note from Observatory (reportedly some folks have seen this already though). If someone gets a ramming kill, reportedly the kill feed in the top-right shows it twice. Doesn't report twice to the tracker though; only really affects the UI. Might have something to do with how player-player collision damage is processed.

With people struggling to get the settings right for Observatory (and this has been an issue in the past with Rangers as well), it seems that the ability to have OLMod-style "presets" would be helpful to reduce mistakes. Will have to figure out a good UI for this. The presets don't need to be configurable within the game itself - they could be hard-coded or loaded from an XML file.

In Observer mode, currently lasers are broken down by laser level, which is a bit weird/doesn't work properly in some displays. They should probably be considered the same weapon in the UI (graphs etc).

Would it be possible to re-implement the software renderer or some form of imitation of it? I think it would be a nice quality-of-life feature to have, since very few ports of the game still have it.

Requested by Jediluke.

From Lee:
"Several people have mentioned finding it hard to see in descent especially in levels like black rose. For a future release would you consider a toggle or an option for increasing ship visibility without increasing the objects brightness?"

There are some options we might want to pursue for this, e.g. maybe rendering a colored outline or a tint for player ships might improve visibility. It'll probably need some experimentation to find a good solution.

This is an uncommon feature I really enjoy in Chocolate Doom and Woof. When playing 4:3 on a widescreen monitor for instance, it extends the palette flashes (take damage, pick up item, etc.) to the black borders. It's meant to resemble behavior of old CRT monitors (example: https://youtu.be/jjmZPxwcfxc?t=145).

For me, it makes playing 4:3 feel less cramped. I've always enjoyed Descent's scorching red and blue flashes so an option for more of them would be cool.

There has been a well-known exception for friendly fire for a while now where splash damage, and weapons that deal splash damage, can still affect teammates even with friendly fire disabled. This should really be fixed since it goes against the spirit of what the setting means.

I've observed some users (e.g. particularly roncli) changing settings between FFA and 1v1 matches. It might save time to allow separate configurations for relevant modes: 1v1, FFA, teams, co-op.
I'm not sure what a good UI presentation for this would look like. The simplest would be "your configuration applies to whatever the current game type is", but that requires you to join/host a game of that type before you can configure it, which might not be ideal.

Players involved:
Leto (Linux/Ubuntu)
Skywarp (Windows)
Tiger (Windows)
Verran (Windows)

While playing D1 Redux 0.7, Skywarp, Tiger and Leto were seeing team colors as Pink/Green instead of Blue/Red on the scoreboard (HUD/text view). On a hunch, I had them change their game settings to disable custom ship colors. After disabling, they were able to see the standard Blue/Red for team colors on the scoreboard (HUD/text view). Not sure if this is a bug, but sharing just in case.

The actual primary bug I'm reporting: in team mode, is when toggling the score views on the HUD/text view, the individual player colors were showing for the individual scores instead of the standard Blue/Red. This occurred regardless of custom ship colors option being enabled or disabled.

If you need a screenshot, let me know. I'll gather some people up again and recreate to get the screenshot for yas.

Thanks!

Similar to the "automatically record demos" feature, it would be helpful for some players to have game logs split per-game and saved somewhere they won't be overwritten.
(Requested by Lee)

Passing along a problem report I got from Big Rat, who has a Macbook Pro 2019 (2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 - I assume running 64-bit but not ARM). Redux fails to start for him; he sees an error message to the effect of "failed loading SDL2 library". I'm not sure whether the Mac build is supposed to use SDL2; if it is, it might just mean the library isn't included in the archive.