Okay, good thing I waited with an update until version 12.10 was released, because a bunch of my old replays broke for unknown reasons.

Maybe this has to do with yet another physics change? I remember reading something about a Miner-Basher inconsistency being changed?
It's not mentioned in the 12.10 changelog though, and I can't seem to find a Bug Thread for it either.

Another thing is that lemmings now seem to slip through ceilings through which they didn't use to slip before. (Since lemmings can slip through thin stripes of terrain, they also do that at the top level border, because terrain above the level border is treated as non-existent, even if a thicker terrain piece is placed there.) I had fixed the ceilings for all levels for which it was relevant during the initial New-Formats conversion, so I knew about this. However, now there seem to be levels affected that weren't before.

Those are easy enough to fix: Just add a couple of pixels extra to the Y dimension of the level, select everything, move it down that number of pixels, and the steel piece or whatever I've placed at the ceiling to prevent lemmings from walking upwards and dying gets lowered further into the level. It takes a while to identify them all, though, especially since I've fixed them all before.

A similar thing is true for the Glider-Faller physics change: I had fixed all levels where this was relevant, but now it's suddenly an issue again.

The strangest error was on the level "Streets of London", where somehow the save requirement had been raised from 57 to 59 (out of 60), breaking my solution because I had used two of the three Bombers.

I also had to correct the object name for nin10doadict's cat trap again in one level file ("The lion sleeps tonight"), changing it from the style "nin10_cattrap" to "nin10_misc", and changing the object reference to "TrapCat" instead of "catTrap" - even though I was certain I had already done so.



My replays are sorted and the solved vs. unsolved levels after the Mass-Replay check are easy enough to tell apart;
I'm just referring to finding out whether the level broke because of a ceiling death, the Glider-Faller physics change, or because of some other reason.

So far I've fixed everything from Noisemaker up to the end of Professional, but there are still many unticked levels left.

Sometimes, there's actually nothing wrong with the solution, and the reason the level remains unticked is probably just because the level counts as "undetermined", taking longer than the cutoff amount of time after the last skill assignment for everyone to get to the exit. In that cases, I just run the same replay over the level again that didn't pass the mass replay check (and left the level unticked in the selection menu), and it passes as normal and the level gets ticked. So it is also not a problem of the levels not having my correct user name, because I've run them all through the Replay Refresher again.

At least the menu signs were easy to reset to my custom ones . Lemmings World Tour actually didn't have a custom rank sign before (custom rank labels, yes, of course, but not the sign itself). Fortunately, I could still grab those PNGs from Old Formats. I just had to add separate image files for the old up and down arrows. The new ones look nice on the black menu signs I had made for Lemmings Open Air, but I want to keep Lemmings World Tour as it is.

TL;DR: A bunch of levels broke in version 12.10 and this is clearly more than I can fix in one afternoon. This pack is currently not ready to be played in version 12.10!
If you're currently playing it, either keep it in version 12.9 or wait until the update. Either way, be prepared for a bunch of your replays breaking when you update to 12.10.

As a result, I'm also not sure to what extent IchoTolot's and kaywhyn's remaining replays will still work if I watch them now in version 12.10...
I expected some levels breaking with the update, but certainly not THAT many at once!

An even number for the pure "hand-motion" time (like the current 4 pixels) seems fine by me.

Regarding the movement of the projectile, 7 pixels per frame seems quite fast, but then again, I hope nobody plans to use pixel precision with these throwing skills. (Although the Spearer might lend itself more to that than the Grenadier, because the created piece of terrain is smaller than the large crater the grenade causes).

Seriously though, maybe we could come up with something totally new that's unique to NeoLemmix and hasn't been seen in either Worms or earlier versions of Lemmings...

COOKIES!

If we want to stick with explosive foods and go with one that hasn't been used before, there is a clear candidate that overshadows all the rest:

The pomegranate (in German it's literally called a "grenade apple" ).

I still don't understand to this day how Team17, the Worms developers, were quicker to come up with a banana bomb than with a pomegranate.

I was thinking of having them throw exploding sheep, but it's hard to animate that at an acceptable size.

How about a banana?

Also, I think throwing normal grenades isn't really something a game could claim exclusivity on.

As is shooting a Bazooka, like in Lemmings 2. Both Bazookas and Grenades exist in Worms, and both are staples of that game.

But I've already said previously that I'm going to make a bunch of more Worms levels with these skills anyway, if they make it into a stable version .

I'm fine with a "Failed" folder as well. As long as it's some more convenient way of quickly and automatically distinguishing between working and broken replays - the separation is the key issue, not what happens to the failed replays after they've been singled out from the rest.

+1 for this suggestion!

I do indeed like to keep non-working replays around for my own packs if those solutions are backroutes that I have successfully fixed (to test later on whether they accidentally popped up again due to further changes on the level).

However, for playing other people's packs, indeed those broken replays are rarely useful to the player anymore.

And even though with regards to this

Needless to say, I play many more packs than I design.

I was about to comment "It's the other way round for me" , no, it honestly isn't. I just started a lot of packs in parallel and got stuck on most of them somewhere. I may have designed more packs than I've finished playing... but that might just be me forgetting about some of the easier packs I have solved. Usually, the harder ones remain in your memory for longer, because you've spent more time thinking about them.

That's why I'd put it in between the Miner and the Digger, because it's still diagonal . 45° should still be steeper than a Miner, right? Thus, the angle would get continuously steeper from Basher (flat) to Digger (maximum).

Alternatively, it could also go between Fencer and Miner, I guess.

Great work, namida! Especially the smooth transitioning to the Shimmier. And also, that the Climber overrides the Slider during wall jumping.

My only question would be about the Climber transitioning directly to a Slider when hitting a ceiling. Does this happen in Lemmings 2, as well, btw?

Anyway, this is certainly great for preventing Climbers from splatting. And I assume the Slider will turn around when reaching the bottom again (as a Slider sliding down a regular wall does in L2, even when it is a Climber)?

Because otherwise, it will be a constant back-and-forth transition between Climber and Slider, and the only way to get the lemming off the wall again would be by wall jumping.

You wall-jumped right away in this video, so I couldn't tell what was going to happen once the Climber-Slider reaches the bottom and lands on terrain right in front of the wall.