Encore 05 is broken due to the gliders not reaching the 2nd platform anymore.

Thanks for informing me! I've had to move and even erase a bit of terrain to make it work again, but it should be barely noticeable. The version with the fixed level is attached.

I had only checked up to the end of the Legend rank, i.e. the main pack, so far. Meaning, no guarantees yet for the Groupie rank. But I will take a look at those as quickly as possible.

Solved the Encore rank ... I would have liked to say, but it seems like you still haven't done that mass replay check

As I've told you above, I've actually done a mass replay check already. It's just that the output file is pretty useless.

I have done a mass replay check

The reason being that a lot of replays in the folder fail not because the level is unsolvable, but because they are Old-Formats replays. There are a couple of levels for which I had to create new replays in New Formats: Levels formerly featuring radiation and/or slowfreeze, some levels requiring a hand-made terrain ceiling (because of the switch from solid to deadly ceiling), and then there were also some levels for which the solution is the same, but slight unknown variations during conversion caused the original replay to fail. Thus, those replays are in the New-Formats folder.

For all the other levels, however, whenever I change something, I do so in Old Formats first, re-run the replay, then either manually implement the change in New Formats or, if I want to be on the safe side, quickly re-convert the level again. Then I run the exact same Old-Formats replay over the New-Formats version, thus ensuring that the same solution works in both versions.

Consequently, when I run a mass replay check over the Old-Formats folder that contains all the LWT replays, of course this results in a bunch of failed messages for Replays from Paralems and Pit Lems, as well as for Old-Formats LWT solutions that don't work in New Formats, but are still perfectly fine replays for the Old-Formats version.

I maintain those in parallel (e.g. Arty already told me he's going to continue playing the pack in Old Formats), and therefore of course don't delete those replay files from the Old-Formats folder. And especially with the Encore rank, there is even more overlap with replays for Paralems and Pit Lems.

In short, the mass replay check file on the Old-Formats replay folder gave out so many errors that I would have to re-check a ton of levels again manually anyway, because these failures can be caused by a multitude of reasons listed above, and only a fraction of them is due to the Glider-Faller physics change. And most of these are issues that I have of course already fixed in the New-Formats version - it's just that those fixed levels have dedicated New-Formats replays as a consequence, which are not in the Old-Formats folder. The few levels that are affected by the Glider-Faller physics change are thus a needle in a haystack of replay files failing for various other reasons.



Instead of manually identifying and copying all the 320 Old-Formats replay files to the New-Formats replay folder, I went the faster opposite route and copied the few replay files which are dedicated New-Formats replay files to the Old-Formats folder. Now I could run a second mass replay check over the entire Auto folder once again, so there should be at least one solving replay for every New-Formats level in that folder. This will take a while, though, because there are obviously still a bunch of replays from other packs in that folder.

Otherwise, we've got an exit which trigger area is not visible due to water and you need to keep guessing where it actually is with your stoners. (Encore 13)

Yep, this is always the issue with underwater levels - be the water real or an updraft, like in Arty's tileset - it's trigger areas covering traps and/or exits that's the problem in general. Perhaps it would be a worthwhile suggestion to have trigger areas of different types of objects change colour in true-physics mode whenever they overlap? Meaning, two overlapping updrafts / water / fire areas etc. would not change colour, but an exit inside an updraft, a trap inside water etc. would (e.g. one could be pink, the other one green, to create a strong contrast).

Note though that "Dark fate of Atlantis" used to have a hidden trap, which is set to overwrite / on terrain now. So with all the water that the level calls for, it's as fair as it can currently get.

Speaking of hidden traps, though...

An invisible trap (Encore 33)

I don't know what you are referring to here. The smasher trap on "We are the Lempions" is clearly visible above the water. The levels before (Lost in Space) and after (Fire in the hole) don't even have any traps, just fire areas, and those are also visible.

Are you referring to a different level, maybe? Or is there something different in your version of the level compared to mine? "We are the Lempions" is from Pit Lems, after all, and in that pack I tried to be as mechanically fair as possible (even fairer than on some select LWT levels featuring a certain octopus ).

And a level where you know it's just annoying to play (see postview text of Encore 39) and just blame it on the hard-worker removal. Instead you just could have done one of the following possibilities which would spare the players nerves:

1.) Just making the level smaller with only 1-2 stacker gaps.
2.) Think of an alternative solution to the level and enforce that.
3.) Leave the level out of the pack and put it in Lemmicks instead.

All these options would have been better than a postview text shifting the blame!

The level "Brothers in arms" actually already is part of Lemmicks (on the Eternal rank featuring the hardworkers gimmick, obviously).
This was just the best way I could re-create it in 10.13 and New Formats, given that "Brothers in arms" is a very famous song that I hardly wanted to leave out.

The original plan in Lemmicks was to have a Basher bash alongside with a Platformer platforming - hence the level title. Didn't quite work how I wanted it to, even in Lemmicks, but the title remained. And thus, now it's here on the Encore rank.

Now you know what I meant when I said in the opening post that the Encore levels were not selected for quality - only because they happened to be previous levels that had also been named after songs.

That said, I obviously wouldn't have included the rank if I hadn't had the impression that a good amount of them are at least worthwhile. Some I even really like quite a lot (e.g. "Na zdorovje Lem" and "That's the name of the game").

I just finished watching Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) and am eagerly awaiting the fifth and final season!

The solution to the following level may thus contain possible spoilers for seasons 1 and 2.


Bella ciao

Keep in mind this is not a movie- or TV-themed pack, but whenever a show heavily leans on a particular song, that increases its chances of a reference slipping in here.

In case you haven't seen the show and the flags are understandably confusing you in terms of where this level is located geographically, the flag on the right is the one indicating the location.

Here is another place that fell a little short in Lemmings World Tour:


Lem e som oss

That said, I must be careful not to dilude the main theme of this pack with too many geography levels now.

First and foremost, this is still a Lemmings-3D-inspired pack. So here are some more levels imitating those tilesets:

CANDY

Life is a lemon and I want my money back


CIRCUS

The Time Warp


Air balloon


LEGO / CLASSICAL

Forever young


Jump (Part Two)


She's so high


Shut up and fence with me


EGYPTIAN

Tell Lara I love her

Guess which sprite(s) I'm using here .


MEDIEVAL

The heart asks bashers first


I am a Lem and I'm digging a hole


MAZE / FOREST / OUTDOOR

The swimmer takes it all


Schody (Czech for "staircase")


GOLF / SPORTS

We've found Lems in a hopeless place


Those balls are perfect

This second one was actually indeed "sung" by a sports star, namely none other than Tom Brady... Look it up on YouTube...
The makers of the video, schmoyoho, are certainly also going to have a lot of fun with the US election debates again this year.


ARMY / ALPINE

Big Dig

This one is a symptom of this year's (cancelled) Eurovision season introducing me to the famous Russian rave band Little Big...


Gliders on the storm

Okay, I've checked my replay of Legend 04 ("Take me home, country roads"), and it works fine. The reason that yours doesn't is simply because you're making a small conceptual mistake of when to assign the Stoner.

I think you completely missunderstood for what the "ticks" inside the level selection menu are.

Of course they don't change as the level file itself did not change. Only if you edit the level file or replace it then the tick changes to a yellow tick or a dot.

The ONLY thing you can go by when you check for breakage is the mass-replay check result text file. Only there you can see which levels need investigation --> everything labeled "Failed" or "Undetermined". It does not mean the level is broken, maybe only the replay file needs slight adjustments, but it means the level might be broken.

Thanks for the explanation. I have run all my replays over the Legend rank "manually" (loading the level and holding down the space bar) and I can thus assure you that, aside from the levels I've listed so far ("Lemmings in the sky with diamonds", "Lemmingrad", and "Wind of Change", i.e. Legend 06, 07, and 10), none of the Legend levels is broken.

I will have a look at the two remaining ranks (Encore and Groupie) soon.

Make a folder "Lemmings World Tour" inside NL's replay folder and put all your own LWT replays in there. Then you only have the replays that matter counting.
Replay files need to be organized!

They are organised - alphabetically. This means I don't have to navigate through a bunch of folders, especially when jumping between different packs. Now that I'm working on several packs in parallel, this comes in really handy. I can just start typing the level name while inside my Auto folder an immediately find what I'm looking for, no matter which pack it is from.

Who would have known that somebody would tinker the physics in hindsight? Don't get me wrong, I understand why the change to Glider-Shimmier behaviour was made (even though I did like that trick with gliding on top of the stack ). It's just that such retroactive physics changes after the official implementation of a skill (in contrast to experimental versions) were one of the things that were for the longest time sure not to happen. So I don't feel bad that my way of organising replays happens to not fit this one weird corner-case of a retroactive physics change.

Without such fundamental changes in game mechanics, I've never felt the need to do a mass-replay check in the first place. During the conversion to New Formats, I re-checked every level once by manually running a replay over it, but that was because I had something to change about almost every level (and if it was just re-adding the backgrounds, many of which were resetted by the converter tool). I wanted to make sure with my own eyes that every level still looked the way I had intended it to in Old Formats, or at least as close at it was possible in New Formats.

In order to now place all LWT replay files into one folder, I'd have to go over the entire list of level-name-based replay files, find the 320 among them that are in LWT - some of them are also included in other packs, though, especially on the Encore rank, so that's an additional thing - before I could isolate them in a separate folder. Hardly worth it.

The Inverter. A slight twist on the previously-mentioned Intruder. This lemming moves through terrain in all directions, rather than just walking through walls. Meaning: He falls through it, climbs through it, walks through it etc. and starts walking again as soon as his foot trigger hits the first piece of thin air. In short: Empty space becomes terrain, terrain becomes empty space for this lemming.

Okay, levels that are definitely broken because of updrafts are "Viva Colonia!", "Lemmings in the sky with diamonds", "Wind of change" and "Lemmingrad".

The updrafts are in such positions that the Glider parachute no longer opens up when a lemming drops into them.

In case of "Viva Colonia", I currently have no idea on how to fix this. It was bad enough with the deadly ceiling enforcing a change at the top of the cathedral, and now everything breaks again.

Hi IchoTolot, to my knowledge this change in Glider physics should only affect Shimmier interactions.

Since Lemmings World Tour was originally made for Old Formats and thus doesn't include any Shimmier levels (nor does the New-Formats version, since I didn't add any new original levels during conversion), this shouldn't be an issue that affects Lemmings World Tour.

Lemmings Open Air had one or two levels affected, but that pack is still in its development stage, and I have already adjusted the levels in question a while ago ("Mr Sandlem, give me a dream" and "My life would suck without you").

I disagree. To me, this would mean "I do not support this idea personally [this could imply either "against" or just "neutral"] but I could understand how there could be support for it".

Thanks, namida! That was precisely how I intended it.