Not sure if this is intended, but I think it's probably a bug. It's probably meant to automatically select a random stage. If it isn't a bug, it's not a very good feature.

If the other player crash/exit the game after selecting an archer, the current is properly unmatched but is unable do anything

Investigating why some menu item disapear

Add a quickplay mode like in the older versions of this mod, where you can just queue in and play against anyone else in quickplay
A random map would be automatically selected and the game would default to tournament settings, 1v1 Last Man Standing

bump version to 0.8.1

Versus awards are shown that are incorrect, such as Comeback King when a comeback never happened. Versus awards are also not synced between players, with different players seeing different awards.

Rematch work now but could be better since we don't have any clue yet what the opponent want to do/have no way to send the opponent our choice. Idea :

• Reconnect to the lobby at Versus Result screen
• Send Choice to opponent (Exit / rematch / archer select)
• Properly go to the right menu depending of the mutual choice

When i try to play local coop with this mod enabled it chooses the level automatically and when the match starts the game freezes

Or at least give the player the choice.
When the level is loading, the 2 clients are trying to etablish a connection. This might fail or take some time.
Investigating why sometime it take some time but the idea is the game should let player disconnect after some amount of time

If you exit the mode selection while selecting a mode other than Quickplay, such as Last Man Standing, and go back to Quickplay, then the player counter at the top left disappears.

If you exit the mode selection while selecting Quickplay and reselect Versus, the mode will already be set to Quickplay and the player counter disappears. If you try and move the cursor upwards to change modes, the cursor will disappear. From here, you can't do anything except hit Z to exit the Quickplay screen, which (only sometimes) takes you to the archer select screen. This also shouldn't happen because the archer select screen should only show after you've already selected a mode. You also can't select an archer or use the arrow keys to change archers, only exit the menu.

I had many inconsistencies while trying to replicate this again, so expect weirdness.

The Quickplay screen without the player counter or the cursor shown.

Add some sort of of custom logger (Singleton ? Transient ? ) on top of FortRise Logger :

• Only trying to log on debug mode
• Proper severity logging

If you select Versus, sometimes you will get a "Failed to Connect to Server" message before selecting Quickplay. If you exit out of the message using the confirm button, then you get to the archer select screen. This shouldn't happen, as you haven't selected a mode yet. If two archers are selected, you can start the game. For some reason, players are required to choose teams, even if you were never in Team Deathmatch, and even if there are only two players. Then, a "Syncing" message appears at the top of the screen, and the game freezes, I assume because it's trying to connect two local players to the server. At this point the game softlocks.

The softlocked game.

Miasma can cause a desynchronization by dissipating
If a kill happen by something else than touching the miasma, it dissipate
Right now, it's not properly tracked and just ignored causing one player to still have an active miasma while the other doesn't

Will be fixed in #52 when i did some reel test

One player is frozen at end round while the other still advance round
They are both still connected.
Digged a bit last time and it's turn out that the level is frozen (intended at end round) but no VersusRoundResult spawned.
Going to remove the replay recoder since it can mess with adding the VersusRoundResult

Inputs can still happen, such as selecting a mode, while the "Failed to Connect to Server" message is displaying. For example, you can still use the arrow keys and the Z button (not the confirm button) to move through menus while this message is displaying.

Got this error after connecting to another client on the same network. However, one client was able to see the other client's lobby and connect to it, only after the game started it dropped the connection.

[ERROR] Ln: 21 [MatchmakingService] Error while listening to server message : An internal WebSocket error occurred. Please see the innerException, if present, for more details. 
[ERROR] Ln: 21 [MatchmakingService] Error while listening to server message - InnerException : A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
[ERROR] Ln: 21 [MatchmakingService] inner exception : A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
[ERROR] Ln: 21 [MatchmakingService] Error when connecting to server : Unable to connect to the remote server
[ERROR] Ln: 21 [MatchmakingService] Error when connecting to server - InnerException : The remote name could not be resolved: 'tf-matchmaking-server.herokuapp.com'

Further testing is probably needed, it might be on my end

The mod assume the player is using a controller (XInput) while letting the keyboard as player 2
This is obviously not optimal since it bypass several cases.
What needed is :

• Patch directly (if possible ?) the base ControllerInput class
• Add missing controller (Defaulting to Keyboard ?) automatically to be used by the remote(s) player(s)

Server side bug

ggrs panic with the message above on spectator mode for some reason

No player spawned when changing round. for one player
But both games appear to still be connected.
No idea whats happening, but looks super rare

When starting an online game, the message "Trying to Sycnh" displays. This should probably read "Trying to Sync."

Right now at the end of a round, the screen looks too bright because the HUDFade is removed.
It should be tracked instead

When a SFX is played, a SoundEffectInstance is created then played
We can grab all of SoundEffectInstance created to save them somewhere to be able to stop it when needed
The real problem come to when a Rollback happen.
Let's admit we save the SoundEffectInstance related to an archer in the game state, we should at least save the time played and what SFX being played
The real problem come to how to restore a SoundEffectInstance to a specific time ?
Look likes SoundEffectInstance has a FAudioVoiceState with SamplesPlayed being the value we want but trying to modify it that value crash the game

So if anyone has an idea how to fast forward a SoundEffectInstance using FAudio 😅
(there is this branch that started something https://github.com/Fcornaire/TF.EX/tree/feature/track-sfx)

Selecting the "Netplay Username" option in the in-game options does nothing.

If the game failed to connect and retry with (same ?) opponent, despite making the connection, the game doesn't start and freeze at the initial connection dialog before aborting
I believe the game keep the state disconnected from the previous , thus preventing to connect to someone

If the first initial connexion failed for X reason, the WS instance is in a state unable to try to attempt to re connect again.

To enter the archer select screen, you do this:
Main menu -> Gamemode select screen -> Archer select screen

When you exit out of the archer select screen, you go back to the main menu instead of to the gamemode select screen.

The current auto updater always DL the latest release to check if there an update or not.
A feature should be a way to check without donwloading as since it happen after the game load, it can interfere with the game.
One solution is to use the Github Api but this one require a token, which isn't optimal for the mod.
The second solution is to instead get the last tag from the repository since a release is always tied to a tag

The Spectate button displays the RT icon, but to trigger it you have to press LT.
The Refresh button displays the LT icon, but to trigger it you have to press RT.

(sorry about the discord ping in the video)

Versus replays appear to have many bugs. I was able to replicate each of these in all of my saved replays.

• Inputs don't correspond to the input display at the bottom
• My archer doesn't move at all
• Both archers stop moving after a while