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@sirbots thats good 😄

@info-creaticode Here soon, at the doctor’s rn. I will provide an explanation:

The project which I had shared where the sound blocks were not working, I had made a copy of the original version with all the old code from the main WOC game. The blocks worked just fine.

HOWEVER:

After making some edits, and, moving the song files around, the sound blocks did not work. Reloading the project yielded no Sucess, and making a copy didn’t work as well. Going towards the original copy of the project, it was working just fine. Even making different edits to make it look the same didn’t break the blocks. I made the code for the project, keeping the original code in the sprites holding the songs from the game, then deleted the original code once I had made all the new code. Doing this did not break the blocks EXCEPT in the Stage.

@sirbots

Please try again. The issue should be resolved now.

@sirbots Good luck!

@tyller_

Please give it a try. I would love to hear your feedback. It is always a challenge to know when to give out the answer and when to hold it back, even for human teachers. Our current setting is to make the AI keep providing more hints when the user struggles. Hopefully, that will be good enough for most situations.

@sirbots

That should be resolved now.

@tyller_ I used the wrong operators, and I didn’t have the proper distance variable in the movement scripts.

This New Ocean 2.0 - Major Content Update

Release date: TBA

What’s New

AI

Finished V1 of the AI The AI can now damage players. The AI will not be visible unless they are within a certain distance of the player. Begun work of adding statistics to different ships Increased the number of bots on the map. Widen the area at which bots spawn by 250% and further increased the distance of which they spawn from each other.

Player

Begun work of adding different statistics to different ships Begun live testing of guided missiles

Buildings

Begun work for settlements to attack enemy ships Added a new building: Port Provides the highest resource rate of any building up to this version, and is the first major resource production building to have defenses.
Statistics Population Growth Rate: 15 Resource Rate: 250 Defense: 3/10

Planets

Added 6 new planet Designs Added 6 new planet surfaces

Sounds

Added voice-lines. Added 6 new soundtracks for fighting enemies

Bug Fixes
There are no bug fixes.

This update is to focus on adding content and testing content.

The AI has played a key part in the game’s development. This version would complete the first working alliteration of the AI.

Since there are different variations of ships the player can use, these ships should have different statistics that should stand out from others. Thus, the Battlecuriser and the Battleship will have their own statistics.

To provide an alternative to machine gun fights, guided missiles will added. During all of 2.0’s live updates, each will mark a new testing stage for these missiles. Expect the game to break or mess up during these live updates.

Introducing the first new building to the game: The Port. For those who want to make a large investment for their settlement, this would be for you! Provides a whopping 250 resources per 5 seconds. It’s also the first major resource building with a form of defense against enemies.

Along with some new planet designs and enemies, this will be one of the few massive updates the game will get.

The next update will be the first live test update of building defenses and guided missiles.

@the_true_odst In This New Ocean, yes. The AI won’t however. It’s already out, just check the Update Log for the game to get the link.

@sirbots

Problem confirmed. It seems this is because this project is getting too big. It is over 145M when exported. You might need to consider using smaller clips or fewer sounds.

@info-creaticode I have 2 solutions to that.

1: Have the find closest clone automatically log each clone’s x and y coordinates of the target sprite every time it’s run.

2: Add a block to calculate the positions of all clones of the target sprite.

@mod-squadacademy I am referring to a “Japanese” teahouse. It’s essentially a building that Japanese people could live in, kinda like the homes you would see in some Japanese shows and WWII movies about Japan and the United States. I can’t go into very much detail here, as I know only a little bit myself.

@tyller_ Ah, alright 🙂

@info-creaticode I will later. It just would not play in World of Conquest, despite multiple tests done with no conditioning for the code to run (If else blocks, etc)

@011830-0a42ef84 https://play.creaticode.com/projects/679b952fe83001fc08dae8bb

@sirbots
I believe this belongs in Feedback!

@sirbots got it

@jeffreyrb03-gmail I got it fixed. I just have the bots point at a different target if the coordinates for their current target is the exact same as the player’s cords.

@sirbots The best I can do rn is to just have them shoot at random bots anywhere on the map based on the coordinates on both teams, sadly. It’s still better than randomly firing at stuff

@sirbots Making great progress! Might have a working system here within the next few hours…minutes even.

@011830-0a42ef84 I was talking about my AI

@sirbots

Check out this example program:

play.creaticode.com/projects/67a3c43978886c154e0b60af

Note that its code is written by our AI assistant XO, when it is given the following request:

I have 2 lists of x and y positions of targets, and I need to search among them to find which one is closest to this sprite. Use 2D distance.

For this kind of small coding questions, we strongly recommend you to ask XO to get started. All you need is to clearly describe your needs.

If you are new to working with XO, you can try to use the “TIRE” method for prompting it: https://www.forum.creaticode.com/topic/1785/ai-the-t-i-r-e-prompting-method-difficulty-3

@info-creaticode No Problem. Just need to clear up space, that’s all. Still want to keep at least 1 or 2 older versions to find sources for bugs that didn’t exist before.

Update 5.5 - Balance Patch and Minor Contend Update

Release Date: April 10, 2025 @ 4:30 PM CDT

What’s new:

Weapon Classes
The Following weapon classes have received statistical changes:

Interceptor

Increased the movement speed boost by approximately 15%

Combat Medic

Reduced the angle at which bullets are fired from the point where they originate from the player by approximately 8% and tightened the dispersion. Increased volume reduction when the player is dead in non-Realistic Battles by 5%

Specials

Punchdown

Reduced the cooldown of the special by approx. 5 seconds

Big Bubbler

Increased shield size by approx. 4% The appearance of the bubble when taking damage will be scaled accordingly with the size increase.

Gamemodes
The following gamemodes have received changes to their mechanics:

Frontlines

Achieving kills will now award points to the player’s team, and will take away points for losing members as so. When compared to Conquest battles, kills only give 2 points, not 3. 1 point will still be deducted for losing a teammate on either team.

Operations

In Operations, capture points will now become contested. This makes it so that Operations is the only non-Realistic mode to have contestable capture points.

Other Changes

Replaced 1 main menu soundtrack. Increased the quality of one main menu soundtrack. Replaced 1 soundtrack to play during battles.

Bug Fixes

In non-Realistic Battles, fixed a bug that caused a player’s special to enter the negatives if the special cooldown counter hit 0 while the player was still dead, and would continue to do so when re-spawning unless used the same time as re-spawning. Fixed a bug causing the AI to not point at the player provided the player was closer than other targets.

This update is focused on making changes to the statistics of certain weapons, game modes, bug fixes, and atmosphere changes.

@catty Yeah. Why?

@sirbots I can try, and updating to a table I believe does slightly lag, I have a project that I recreated here that uses this method, I have recreated it in 3 different places as a sort of benchmark (code.org, here, nad codeacademy) and I’m pretty sure I got decent fps at like 30 clones on creaticode, I’m fairly certain that 10-15 was no problem, though I can try to find the project (the project does have similar logic to this, checks distance from every other clone, then checks some values per clone to decide what to do)

@011830-0a42ef84 Working on another game rn that’s about to have it’s beta version released. Afterwards, sure.