Flash Client Update
 

Looks like the flash client just got updated. The colors look washed out, lots of text is broken, there's a new loading animation. I think this is the Unity update.

Lol looks like the update got reverted

I seem to have the new loading animation.


Also being forced to login again and the text boxes are just black.


I'm no expert but it doesn't seem like it's using flash anymore. I got no message box asking to enable it and everything just seems BETTER. Fullscreen doesn't look like a mess any more either. Really happy about this.


I'm not sure if this is intentional or not but I love this semi-transparent profile background. Please make it a permanent thing.

It's running on OpenGL now, but I had someone in my Discord server claim that it wouldn't work in a new browser until they installed Flash

I'm curious to know if the person who updated the client is someone who works with the team regularly or if they're a contractor, because there seems to be a lot of problems that need to be fixed and will require an understanding of how the game used to work

A consequence of the change is that my favorite client to spar on, Opera 12.18, is no longer supported, but I don't think I ever really planned to play the game beyond chatting and exploring again, anyway, so it's not the end of the world

Pretty much all of the issues I saw have been fixed already which is amazing, thanks! All i'm running into now are sent messages being weird and repeating the last few characters after being sent and text boxes are almost pitch black so it's near impossible to see what you're typing. This was a really great update which came out of nowhere and i'm happy to be able to play in fullscreen without any graphical problems.

Who tested this? There are so many obvious issues.

PC client connections are being routed through France for some reason. Mobile client is still direct to Canada. Not sure why it's networked that way, but that's why every PC player has a French flag.

Keypresses will randomly stop registering. I was sparring some friends earlier and we would be forced to a complete halt with our movement keys not working for a second or two. This also happens while typing.

Occasionally the back button on profiles will not work and it will change pages. Usually after clicking it 3-5 times it'll work again.

PMs and other UIs will repeat the last 8-10 characters or an error box. The previews in shops will not display.

The text box for typing messages is completely black. You cannot copy/paste into text boxes.

The overall performance of the client is slower. PC doesn't even reach 20fps. Flash did. Edit: Seems to be better now.

The check boxes in the settings/house/guild house/guild settings menu don't show up but you can still press them.

The heads in guild chat are squished. Error boxes also show in the names of guilds and guild mates.

Using the -/+ buttons at the top don't increase the header size.

Enabling the font change option makes chat text look a lot bigger than it use to.

The font in profiles/ui looks blurry, bigger and somehow squished now lol. Edit: Even fonts in statues are bigger now, making most people's organized statuses look jank (See Kai (Rare)'s status on iOS, then on PC).

Mixed GST is gonna be fun lol

Making sure you're running the latest version of Chrome or Firefox if you're encountering performance issues.

Also update your video drivers and make sure hardware acceleration is enabled in your browser (usually is by default).

This is a WebGL based client so proper browser support is key.

Hello, here is my not-so-comprehensive report. (Warning: Image heavy!)

On Flash the game looked sharp for me. Now it looks blurry. My friends say the game looks sharper for them now. My screen resolution is 2880x1800.

It looks blurry when playing zoomed in, which is a new problem It looked sharp when the webpage was zoomed in by increments of 100% (on chrome at least)

Also control + keys to do emoticons still work, but no longer override the default chrome commands (eg ctrl+s will do the smile emoticon but also attempt to save the webpage.)

They never overwrote browser commands to my knowledge, winking at people in spar used to be a good meme because they'd often do ctrl + w and close their window during their spar streak.

ctrl+w was the only outlier. All others were able to be done with no problem.

I was planning to announce the update after we fixed the bugs but you have been faster than me to announce ;)

Thanks for all your reports, it's really helping us to improve the client.
We have already fixed lot of bugs and will fix most remaining until the end of the week.

That's great news. Thanks!