- Author Katmint
- Creation date
This is the full update I had planned for 2.2.11. It's a bit late so the previous patch was just to make the exe work in the meantime.
Here's the summary of changes:
- Implemented speed degredation:
- Works similar-ish to classic Sonic games but its effect is weaker. You'll lose speed while above normalspeed in the air except while spinning or during special conditions such as being recently sprung or interacting with certain gimmicks.
- The following vanilla abilities ignore air drag while active:
- Knuckles glide
- Amy hammer spin
- Fang tail bounce
- Spindash's default minimum speed was buffed to 42. This brings it in line with Sonic's drop dash which is the same speed as an uncharged spindash in Sonic Mania.
- Added
puresonicconsole variable: enable to remove the Trick Spin from Sonic. Useful for a self-imposed challenge or mods that provide alternate Sonic abilities.
- Sonic's ability provides much more of a speed boost than before, especially in the air. This is thanks to air drag helping balance it out.
- Also finally fixed the ability facing the wrong direction in manual mode. I only use strafe and automatic so that went unnoticed for longer than it should have.
- Knuckles jump height was increased from 66% to 80% of Sonic's jump height. For the record vanilla SRB2 uses 72% and Sonic 3 uses 84%.
- Metal Sonic gets a new coat of paint: while his concept remains similar to the previous versions, the execution of his moveset has been mostly redone.
- Razor Spin replaced with Burst Jump: a jumpthok-like move which gets significantly stronger in dash mode
- Quick Roll controls like a normal roll, and provides a speed boost up to normalspeed. Its duration is also extended if you hit an enemy, so you should no longer suddenly uncurl in the midst of a crawla swarm
- Dash charge and quick roll can be canceled by jumping out of them
- Dashmode provides the max bonus instantly instead of gradually building up
- Dashmode now functions underwater
- Amy has been entirely revamped from the ground up to become a spin character while stil being inspired by her vanilla SRB2 moveset. She's the least vertically mobile of the vanilla cast but can take virtually any level path.
- Double Jump: Hammer Spin - Tap the button to perform an instashield-like hammer attack with an extended hitbox. Keep holding the button to maintain the state and start falling faster. Upon impacting the ground, rebound into the jump state and gain speed. You can keep chaining the ability, but you'll have to be mindful of timing to gain the most speed - the hammer spin ignores aerial speed degredation, but also increases gravity drastically. Also, if you hit an enemy/monitor with this ability you'll bounce higher than usual.
- Spin: Spindash / Whack & Roll - Spindash funtions like normal. When starting a roll, Amy will transition into it via a hammer swing. You can take advantage of this to power up springs or defeat spiky enemies. Note that pressing spin while already rolling also initiates a hammer swing.
- Boss resistance against Fang's corks was removed. Super Fang's corks were given an AOE damage effect.
- Removed "spring spark" system - it was too OP in most situations.
- However, the whirlwind passive now allows you to use your ability in the air regardless of jump state. So if you want to do cool tricks off springs you'll need to find a whirlwind shield first.
- Better custom character support
- In particular, most instances of mods attempting to slow you down will actually slow you down.
- Removed startup file version check. The exe will keep working even if SRB2 updates. I'm still planning on keeping rphys up to date with SRB2.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed infinite score chains.
- Miscellaneous minor polish.
Bonus features from upstream SRB2:
- Multiplayer emblems (https://git.do.srb2.org/STJr/SRB2/-/merge_requests/1756)
- Allow saving in modified games (https://git.do.srb2.org/STJr/SRB2/-/merge_requests/1749
- gamedatas converted by rphys will have a
.revextension to avoid corrupting vanilla 2.2.11 gamedata
- Lua optimisations (https://git.do.srb2.org/STJr/SRB2/-/merge_requests/2017)
- More colors (https://git.do.srb2.org/STJr/SRB2/-/merge_requests/2027)
- Also updated the vanilla cast's colours
- Various bugfixes