Patch notes for 2.8

Changes:

• Added Easter Holiday Theme / Event
  • During April, the Easter Holiday will be active in-game
  • Brand new Easter theme, art credit LaFite
  • An Easter Egg Hunt - Find all the eggs and double their bonus! Idea and art credit DimiFW
  • A dozen or so new items, not all Easter exclusive, art credit DimiFW
  • Brand new bugs, tell us all about them!
• Re-branded the T-Rex to Ð-Rex
• Updated some incorrect description strings
• Wash your hands
• Might have made some alterations to certain variables if the date is April 1st
  • Some might have noticed an increase in certain activities
  • There will be an increase of certain activities for the duration of this holiday, although with less crime than today
• Changed save file ending to .DOGE, previously .LZ
  • You can still upload .LZ files, it’s really just a change of filename for more wow
  • If you’re curious, I chose .LZ originally due to the name of the compression library
• Fixed missing pew pew’s for the shotgun
  • We live in a society
• Balance updates
  • Altered drop rates and stats to favor slightly more loot with lower stats in general
  • Pickaxe DPS is unaltered from the previous change
• Pushed back how early you can get access to the D.I.A. mission
  • Somewhat. I’m not telling
• Added the requested names submitted by Patrons
• Updated a couple of supporting libraries (HowlerJS and mobile-detect.js)
• Fixed some new-found time-travel bugs where multiple cars would appear and the buttons never show
  • There is one known bug with time-travel: If you have Fast Travel on (in settings) and do two missions where you hit SKIP, the second one most likely won’t show the buttons. A temporary fix is to press SKIP to show them :)
• Accidentally made the shop display the absolute wrong DPS for all helpers
  • Upgrades remained unaffected
  • Should be all good now, though
  • There was another bug as well, but you had to have the Holiday Theme turned off
  • Luckily, with the aid of a friendly Shibe, we fixed it, yay us
• There were at least two more people I was going to credit

Also,

• I swallowed a bug
• This is the first Easter Holiday version
  • The plan is to add more content before April is over and even more features for next year
  • Definitely more backgrounds
  • Things do not usually go as planned
  • There was going to be a big April Fools feature, but then I barely made the update in time for April, bar a few bugs to fix, which took up the rest of the time available
  • At least we have a thousand ideas for next year :D
• Certain new parts of the phone and tablet modes remain untested
  • These parts are visual in nature and should not cause malfunction, if they are problematic at all
  • I do not advice anyone to use the phone layout without using a phone, or faking the use of a phone
  • There are probably some bugs with using different modes when on the “wrong” device (e.g. phone and desktop layout = stop right there, criminal scum!)

That is all she wrote. I think. Hope everyone enjoys the update! Stay safe out there!

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Patreon auth soon™

While Patreon integration is still underway, it is nearing completion. Very soon™. Credit to this achievement will go to Chipp!

To repeat, this feature is for all the wonderful Patrons of Dogeminer, so you may receive a small buff in-game, plus the ability open the Mystery Box while ads are blocked, as was suggested by you. We’ll see about other possibilities in the future too!

//rkn