Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps

Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps

Pug Apr 8, 2017 @ 5:00pm
Forces Steam (chat) into "Online" status upon game start
If a player swtiches his/her chat (Steam visibility) into "Offline" this game automatically pushes them back into "Online" status. Can you please fix this so it doesn't force a user into online status? If someone wants to be offline, there is likely a reason, and the game shouldn't override a player's choice. Thank you!
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mutexer (MGT)  [developer] Apr 9, 2017 @ 4:39pm 
We are finishing up the patch for tomorrow, but after that is done we will take a look at it.
Pug Apr 9, 2017 @ 4:56pm 
Originally posted by mutexer (MGT):
We are finishing up the patch for tomorrow, but after that is done we will take a look at it.
Kudos for being a proactive developer! Thank you.
mutexer (MGT)  [developer] Apr 11, 2017 @ 5:51am 
I just wanted to give you an update since I am looking at the issue now. The reason this is happening is because we use the main steam group for the game as our global chat. So when we join you to chat, steam overrides your setting and same thing happens if you join a chat room on your on via the steam client.

The solution I am working on will be that if your status is anything but online or looking for game, then it will prompt you the first time letting you know why you are not auto joined into the group chat, There will be a button on the UI to give you the option of joining it at anytime and thus changing your friends status to online. So after this popup is seen once, it will not show again and in future runs of the game you'll just be in chat offline mode by default if your status is not one of the two above. This way if you want to stay offline you can, but you will not be able to participate in the group chat. This is something steam does automatically so the only option we have is to not join you to chat if you want to stay offline.

Just as a note, I do not know if you want to participate in the BETA 1 testing, but it does not have chat enabled yet so it does not change your status at the moment. BETA 2 will include chat but the solution I outlined above will be in BETA 2 as well.

I will update here when I am able to get the live game updated with this feature.


UPDATE: I have the changes implemented so we just have to test them and then we can push an update to the live game client.
Last edited by mutexer (MGT); Apr 11, 2017 @ 6:40am
mutexer (MGT)  [developer] Apr 11, 2017 @ 9:03am 
Ok the live game is updated with this change now.
Pug Apr 11, 2017 @ 3:58pm 
Originally posted by mutexer (MGT):
Ok the live game is updated with this change now.
Wonderful. Tested and worked! :ok_ay:
Thanks again for being an awesome developer.:woo::hype:
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