again, it's breaking levels and removing options for level designers for very little benefit, similar to the radiation and antisplat pad culls.
You speak from my soul, namida
. I don't want to warm up the radiation debate here; there might have been ways to fix the execution issues by implementing blueprints for these objects, but these are a lot more difficult to calculate when the lemming is free to move... so for these objects, "fixing" would probably have required a lot
more code.
Anti-splat pads are a different thing: Pit Lems for example contains a level ("Base jumping", LOL 10] where the difference between anti-splat pad and updraft matters. Because splat height seems to be re-calculated starting from the point where the lemming leaves the updraft, so an updraft slightly above the ground will save a lemming passing through, whereas an anti-splat pad won't unless it is built / platformed / stoned into. This level in my view is a strictly fair puzzle that can't be replicated in the New Formats version.
This is also part of the reason why I'm barely using the New Format player yet; I get that a lot of bugs etc. have to be taken care of before new juicy stuff gets added (and adding new stuff is more work, obviously). So far however, I mainly see the removed features, or things that are being changed just for the sake of it, like the new title screen which I find rather ugly. This is a shame, because I appreciate all the time and effort Nepster and colleagues put into this, so no offense here.
I just can't see myself using the new formats editor in the near future... unless I'd desperately want to build levels with the spooky tileset.
Any packs that come out exclusively for the new player I will of course attempt to play, also to report any technical issues I might find and thereby help improving the new formats version through feedback.At the current time however, Raymanni's Halloween pack is the only new formats-exclusive one, and I managed to get stuck on it pretty early
. All the other packs I'm currently playing, even if they're already available for new formats as well, I'm still playing on 10.13 - and if it's just for the nicer title screens!
Bottom line is: Don't go on a culling frenzy. Removing more and more things from the new version, no matter how unnecessary or corner-case you might believe them to be, will not attract more players to the new formats version. Why would you "upgrade" to something that can do less than what you had before?