MAIN CHANGES
A lot of internal changes in this update, but also a couple of player-facing ones.
PC only (not smartphones): You might notice that the download size is significantly larger than normal. This is because starting with this version, all seasonal content (Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving) is bundled in. There is a button labelled “Seasonal Content” in the Options menu that will allow you to switch between seasonal editions on the fly. “Automatic” means that the game will use the current date to decide which seasonal edition to use (if any). Other buttons force a particular seasonal edition at all times. Note that, due to a technical restriction, this setting is reset every time the game is updated.
Also, some minor changes to the Accumulator, so watch out for them if you’re using it.
Bug/Idea medals will be awarded later in the day. Note that your medal cannot be awarded if your in-game callsign doesn’t match your forum name (put it in your forum profile where it says “name” so I can find it).
COMPATIBILITY
You will lose:
- any mid-mission progress
- your language selection
- your seasonal content setting
CHANGELOG
New features – 
Tweaks – 
Bug fixes – 
Internal changes
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Deleted users who haven’t logged in during the past week and have less than 10 minutes of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the past 4 weeks and have less than an hour of playtime, and also users who haven’t logged in during the last 12 months and haven’t set an e-mail. Note that users with any purchase are never deleted.
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Fixed more instances where ‘western’ 0-9 numerals appeared instead of Arabic ones (@Bandicoot)
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Accumulator: Made changes according to 📊 Weapon data spreadsheet - #244 by OneWingLunarian (@OneWingLunarian
Idea) -
CreateSwapChain()DXGI_SWAP_EFFECT_FLIP_DISCARDis now correctly applied to Windows 10+ running under Wine (bug introduced when Wine detection was added in v.134) -
“Report player” tab: Fixed crash when reporting the same player twice.
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Thundercluck: Guitar now awards points gradually as it’s being damaged (@TPoserGaming Idea)
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Multiplayer: Fixed host player not becoming grayscale if they became a zombie (ghost) on any wave (except the first) and then dis-/re-connected during that same wave. (@hoangmc2048 Bug)
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Fixed WAD and context manager memory leaks (only relevant if UVE was restarted, e.g. language change)
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Context manager now also deletes all children upon destruction.
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Seasonal WADs now only contain overridden resources, and seasonal edition can be dynamically changed without recompilation (without
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Special Forces boss: More accurate Xmas/Halloween edition theming.
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Superchick boss: More accurate Easter edition theming.
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“Three by Three” wave: Increased despawning delay to give sufficient time for Slobs to completely disappear (@kAPET)
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Compare screen: Absolute/Per Hour lists now scroll to the top when switching from Fleets (@Anatolia Bug)
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“Chiller chimes” sound effect for Chiller no-heat zone is now correctly marked as “looping”.
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Multiplayer: UCO boss: Engine sound can now be heard by mid-wave joining players.
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Multiplayer: Iron Chef boss: Engine sound can now be heard by mid-wave joining players.
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Multiplayer: Electric fence sound can now be heard by mid-wave joining players who join while fence is ‘on’.
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Reworked spawn algorithm for new players to make them more evenly spread out in the galaxy (@darkordersol Bug)
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Grand Prix wave: Prevented Berserker from spawning (aggravated Berserkers would otherwise disappear abruptly) (@EdgardCIfan97 Bug)
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All-Time Best screen: Widened callsign/score columns.
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iOS/Android: Native font glyphs now also have “faux emboss” effect applied.
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Fonts: “Faux emboss” effect is now applied relative to font baseline (was previously relative to glyph bounding box).
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iOS: App receipts without any valid
latest_receipt_infowill no longer cause user to be kicked out of server (nevertheless, purchase won’t proceed either). -
Pilot (military) chickens now show gold coin on chest when they carry it (@thai2910 Bug)
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Fixed reward message for Galactic Cup winner (@OfficalK12 Bug)
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Fixed race condition while uploading log to server (during which time, new log lines could be lost).
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Changed versioning format to
major.minor.patch -
File manager: Reworked WAD handling.
v137.2
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Halloween: Overall galaxy nebula is now colorized correctly according to season (@PlasmaX Bug)
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“It’s Party Time” boss: More accurate Christmas theming (@Sihok-Adssres Bug)
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“Magnetic Manipulator” boss: Applied Christmas theming (@Sihok-Adssres Idea)
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Thanksgiving: Separated out turkey boss and chicken boss sound effects (@Knightcap Bug)
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Superchick boss: Added “chicken boss cry” sound effect upon appearance.
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Seasonal content: Added a lot of season-dependent sound effects (@Pidgey Idea)
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Easter: Added coloured eggs (@moon2004 Idea)
v137.2.1
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Thanksgiving: Fixed crash (missing sound effect for damaging Alien Container) (@Knightcap Bug)
v137.2.2
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Loader is now prevented from loading any resources while UVE is frozen.
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Superchick boss: Lowered frequency of “chicken boss cry” sound effect. (@OrvilleTheOrca Bug)
