SRB2 version 2.2.3
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V1ral
Member
LunickTMM
Member
https://i.imgur.com/aXxuKsi.mp4
I feel this was added here on accident, right? This makes the springs, which are inaccessible to any other characters other than Amy and Metal, completely useless.
I feel this was added here on accident, right? This makes the springs, which are inaccessible to any other characters other than Amy and Metal, completely useless.
cookiefonster
Wiki Admin
The new MIDIs are sick!!! From here on out I'm going to run them through GXSCC to finish my 8-bit covers (just kidding).
Zwip-Zwap Zapony
Member
If you play in a "no save" slot, you have a limited amount of continues that you can increase in special stages/by collecting tokens when you have all Chaos Emeralds.
If you play in any save slot, whether completed or not, you have an infinite amount of continues all the time (unless an add-on disables infinite continues).
BomberBlur07
Member
Whoa, finally we are out of the 1998 MIDIs now. Awesome!
If you don't want them for some reason, you can remove the patch_music.pk3 file.
If you don't want them for some reason, you can remove the patch_music.pk3 file.
Icarus
Phantasy Savior
So the game is now slightly easier? To be honest I have no idea what continues did in this game because I never got any Game Over in the 2.2...
I always found it useless in game with a save feature such as Sonic 3 & Knuckles because it just makes you restart in the first Act of the Zone you've reached.
CloneFighter
Mediocre Lua scripter
Hell yeah! I like the new Egg-O-Matic Boss Laser effect!
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Oh, did I mention the Midis?
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Oh, did I mention the Midis?
Save files already brought you back to the start of your latest act and restored your lost lives, so Continues have always been pretty superfluous for them. Continues restart the current act and give you 5 lives.
Edit: I'm not really feeling the new charselect font, the shadow makes the text look pushed into the corner of its border and uneven.
Also save files show your score now for some reason! Wasn't mentioned in the changelog. I uh.. kinda don't like it either, it's not important information (especially when levels played through level select continue to raise it) and makes the save file screen feel cluttered to me. There's Record Attack for those looking to go for high scores.
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Zwip-Zwap Zapony
Member
If you die with extra lives remaining, you respawn at the latest Star Post/checkpoint. If you die without extra lives remaining, you get a Game Over.
If you get a Game Over and use a continue, you will respawn at the start of the current level. If you get a Game Over and don't use a continue, you will be sent back to the title screen, and have to resume from the start of the last level that SRB2 saved data at.
Considering that SRB2's vanilla campaign saves between every level since v2.2.1 or v2.2.2, not just every zone, there's not really much difference between using and not using a continue (maybe besides how many extra lives you end up with afterwards, though I'm not sure). You will resume at the same level either way.
So it's not "easier", just "less time-consuming" if you get multiple Game Overs, while not impacting you if you don't.
Now that continues are infinite, showing the remaing amount of continues on the save cards wouldn't make sense. Meanwhile, the save cards would look "empty" if the continue counter was just removed, so a score counter was put in its place instead.
As for "you can still raise it after beating the game", that may be an argument to show it, not hide it. Some people might like to grind and see how high a score they can get, and then having the score shown on the save cards makes it easier to tell the score of a save slot without having to enter a level first.
(I'm personally indifferent towards whether or not the score should be shown on save cards. I'm not a fan of it, but I probably don't dislike it either.)
cookiefonster
Wiki Admin
Before 2.2.1, the game saved every zone instead of every act, so continues were useful in save files for not having to start an entire zone all over again.
After the save system was changed to every act, continues as a special thing in save files became basically superfluous, so as of 2.2.3, continues in save files instead just allow you to start an act over without getting sent back to the title screen. Continues are still useful in no-save mode for allowing you to continue the game instead of getting a game over.
Probably not, unless somebody feels like making one. At this point the patch is already out and I don't know of anyone on the dev team that's making a video.
Not much point making a trailer for every patch tbh. I don't think we made one for the existing patches (what exactly would there be to show anyway, it's largely bug fixes anyway).
CloneFighter
Mediocre Lua scripter
No, it's not a virus, if you're asking. Did you not see the QnA section?
Plus, 2.2.4 already released, go check it out.
