It's no secret that holding down a button a lot can fuck with your wrists and fingers. It's too late for me to be damageless, but I can at least create an option to reduce further harm.
This accessibility feature, when enabled (kickstartaccel and kickstartaccel2/3/4 in the console) behaves with the following properties:
* Hold accelerate for 1 second to lock it down.
* Press again to release.
* Short holds/presses do nothing (good for POSITION).
* Continue holding it during the releasing press to re-lock it.
* A small triangular UI element is added next to the speedometer sticker, which displays the current state of the acceleration kickstart for visual feedback. (NO SPLITS SUPPORT YET)
In addition:
* Add PF_ACCELDOWN and PF_BRAKEDOWN, and BT_REALACCELERATE (which ACCELDOWN tracks). Even if this feature never gets merged, BT_REALACCELERATE is required because sneakers and boosters force it on too (extending this is how I implemented it).
* Fix the dehacked playerflag list being out of shape.
* I replaced some existing flags during development of this branch, so their old uses have been whittled away.
While in the air: release accelerate while at nearly-still speeds, and you'll preform a minisucle air drift boost. This mechanic is meant to fix the long-standing issue where you can get stuck in 0 speed in the air and not be able to do anything.
Before, doing a spindash input while turning, but not being at a low enough speed, would make you start drifting.
Now, it checks if you're trying to E-Brake first before interpreting it as a drift input.
If you were already drifting, then attempting accel+brake will still be brake-drift, so that technique is unaffected.
- Fixed the bugs with them in our last netgame
- Karma bombs are no longer slippery or have stat changes
- Karma bombs cannot pick up spheres. Their remaining spheres before they died are removed 1 per tic.
- Karma bombs are out of the game permanently when touching the overtime barrier
- When successfully hurting another player, instead of getting 0.5 bumpers, they steal ALL of the opponent's bumpers, effectively swapping places with them. One bumper is lost in the process, meaning bumpers are slowly flitered out the more people need to come back.
- Removed karma items/eggboxes... hopefully this is temporary and we can bring them back later, but currently we don't have a design for how they should work under the new rules :x. They are still in the code behind the `OTHERKARMAMODES` define
- Bumpers & comeback timer are now player_t variables instead of kartstuff shit
- eliminated boolean on player_t for checking when a player touched the barrier
- Buffed crouch landing; lasts slightly shorter and cuts speed less
- Support for swimming! Knuckles has slightly different glide controls when he has swim sprites underwater
- Improved glide controls in 2D mode
- Super Knuckles perks: land from a glide or latch onto a wall to generate a shockwave and damage nearby enemies
- Refactored skid dust
- Made super sparks use FF_FULLBRIGHT
- Added P_SpawnSkidDust and P_Earthquake to Lua
