(Incorporates Internal Builds 4.11.0-rc0 to 4.11.0-rc25)
(Incorporates Internal Builds 5.0.0-editor-preview-r0 to 5.0.0-editor-preview-r27)
New Folder Locations and Short News Update.
This release will be moving the base application, folders and it’s naming to ‘OutFox’. This means it will not be using the ‘stepmania5.3’ folder anymore, and it will install into an outfox folder. You will need to move your profiles over to this new version. The old version will also need to be uninstalled manually, sorry about all of this, it is just for this update.
There is no conspiracy behind the name change, we have to do this for application signing on the Mac and for the ‘MS Smart Screen’ requirements for the certificates we need on Windows. This allows us to continue to be a free rhythm game that is now signed to ensure your confidence in the project, as well as ensuring the installers and packages are not tampered with. The Windows builds will be signed starting from next year, as it has taken time for the verification to complete. Our MacOS builds have been signed for a few alpha versions now, and with the ‘universal’ binaries we are making the Mac experience better for our Apple Players.
With this release we are announcing that Project OutFox is becoming it’s own official fork. This gives an end to the confusion about our direction and this also allows those who wish to keep 5.1 installed having no risk of OutFox over-writing or damaging profiles or stored scores.
I’d like to thank the StepMania community for making this decision a lot easier. The project is not the same as we started out in early 2019, and we are sorry we were unable to have a clearer ‘direction’ than just ‘modernising the codebase’ when we started. It is not our place to shoehorn this project into the StepMania repo, and a lot of you were very open about your feelings about that and as a result, Project OutFox will be on it’s own moving forward, and we will discuss with the StepMania community about what support we can bring in the future.
With this release, we start off on our journey as a new standalone project, and thus a very exciting time ahead for our team. We have a new touch based theming system coming, new online, new leaderboards, (more new modes of course!) new platforms and modernisations to come over the next year. With the 2nd anniversary of the Public Alpha Programme, the team thanks you for the support and the good vibes you have brought us as we work on this project, and we hope you’ll stay with us for the rest of the journey!
Signed Mac builds update!
We have continued to worked on our Mac builds since the last alpha, and this alpha will be released as a universal binary. This means we do not need to quarantine, nor worry about the systems we needed in the past to get the game to work. OutFox is fully signed and notorised, so this means installation is convenient and easy moving forward; you do not need to worry about which build to grab, as both will function as expected.
KNOWN ISSUES: Alpha 4.11.0
❕❌ ISSUE Playing beat/popnsongs on Endless Mode may have a crash on song loading. Please be aware that course mode for these modes are a bit tempremental at the moment!
❕❌ ISSUEgh mode: Some charts have no real ‘standard’ and will cause a crash when loaded into the game
❕❌ ISSUEgddm/gdgf mode: We do not support the XA codec at this time, it’ll play silent.
ALL:
Mode Specific
❕✅ be-mu: New! renamed beat to be-mu (BE-MUsic)
❕✅ po-mu: New! renamed popn to po-mu (POpn-MUsic)
❕✅ be-mu: New! Base36/Full BME / BML Parser Support
❕✅ be-mu: New!BMS #SCROLL and #SPEED channel support stub. Full support will be in the next alpha
❕✅ po-mu: Fixed 3 Key parser layout
❕✅ po-mu: Fixed doubles missing graphics
❕✅ pump: New!PIU parser pathway, designed for F2/P1 charts
❕✅ pump: New! Added bga one line support
❕✅ pump: New! Added long ’edit’ chart support
❕✅ pump: New!GetSongFolder() support
❕✅ pump: New!pump Custom Notesloader pathway, for themers to use
❕✅ be-mu: New! Column lines for supported themes
❕✅ be-mu: New! Fixed spinning turntable support for noteskins
❕✅ pump: Fixed warp calculations due to ancient code paths being used instead of the new ones
❕✅ pump: New! Added SongCategory()/#SONGCATEGORY support to parser
❕✅ pump: New! Added SongType()/#SONGTYPE support to parser
❕✅ gh: Tweaked strum methods
❕✅ gh: Fixed overly punishing players
❕✅ kbx: New!OTO parser in progress
❕✅ gh: Fixed fever issues
❕✅ gdgf: Began hold support - still a work in progress
❕✅ be-mu / po-mu: Fixed mines auto hitting
❕✅ gdgf: New! wailing support engine
❕✅ be-mu / po-mu: Began #TOTAL scoring system support