Hey, everyone! MIDIMan here.
For the foreseeable future, I will be in charge of future updates for SRB2 The Past. Glaber is still on the development team, but seeing as he's banned from the MB, we've decided transferring ownership to someone else would be for the best going forward.
We've been making a lot of progress towards SRB2 The Past's next big update, version 2.1. I won't reveal too much since it's far from finished, but rest assured that the mod is still being worked on.
This update aims to fix a few things that were broken with the release of 2.2.15, as well as address some lingering issues from the previous update.
CHANGES:
- Changed map thing IDs for the "Old Christmas Pole" and "Old Berry Bush (Snow)" objects from 1860 and 1861, to 4057 and 4058, respectively.
- This prevents them from being replaced by Silver Shiver's trees. The maps using them have been updated to accommodate this change.
- Renamed the old Scatter panel, Explosion panel, Grenade panel, Rail panel, and thrown Grenade ring's sprites so they don't overwrite the 2.2 sprites.
- Updated every boss to the latest version of "Retro Bosses".
- Updated every monitor/power-up to the latest version of "Retro Monitors".
- Updated the "ME_Red" skin color to make it more accurate to 2.0's "Red" skin color.
- Replaced Final Demo Zone and the overhauled 2.2.14 multiplayer maps with their 2.2.13 counterparts.
- This is a temporary change. Version 2.1 will move these maps to different slots.
- Replaced most textures updated in 2.2.14 with their 2.2.13 counterparts.
- This is also a temporary change. Version 2.1 will make these textures separate from the overhauled ones.
- Updated names in the credits and code comments.
BUGFIXES:
- Fixed a typo in TPEra.Rings.lua that prevented the rings in Greenflower from using their correct-era sprites.
- Fixed the Earthworm Jim podium in the museum's gallery that would freeze the player when interacting with it.
- Fixed Emerald Hunt stages not being marked as completed when finishing them.
- The Lua script's name fixing this is EmeraldHuntTempFix.lua. Feel free to use it for any reason (hosting it in a server, being able to 100% certain mods, etc.) until 2.2.16 comes out and fixes the bug properly.
- Fixed an oversight where failing 2.1 ERZ3's Metal Sonic race in co-op would warp the player to Beta Quest's Doomship Act 1.
- Also fixed an oversight where failing the race in co-op would unlock Metal Sonic.
- Fixed Sonic Doom 2's first person camera not activating.
- Fixed interpolation issues in the Grand Credits. In other words, you'll no longer see split-second blips of the map between transitions.
Special thanks go out to the following for this update:
- @Barrels O' Fun, for changing the map thing IDs for the "Old Christmas Pole" and "Old Berry Bush (Snow)" objects, and keeping track of the maps they're used in.
- @InsaneEnergy, for spreading awareness of the Emerald Hunt stage completion bug.
- Everyone on the development team, for playtesting this update and discovering the Metal Sonic unlock bug.
