Changelog:
Taisei v1.3.2 Released! 2021-05-01 10:00
It's been a long time since the last update, but the project is still alive and
well! In fact, we're busy working on some large updates for v1.4, which we will
post about soon. Unfortunately, v1.4 isn't quite finished yet, but today we
bring you a long overdue maintenance update for the v1.3 branch.
As usual for maintenance releases, it consists of various bug fixes,
optimizations, and non-gameplay affecting features backported from the v1.4
development tree. As such, v1.3.2 remains replay-compatible with the original
v1.3 release.
A few highlights include:
* The web version should finally be playable again. It has been broken for a
while due to a change in recent Chromium versions, resulting in a black
screen in-game. This release finally addresses that problem.
* Fixed some rendering errors, including the Stage 1 water effect on Intel
iGPUs and incorrect laser blurring.
* Fixed major performance issues on macOS with AMD GPUs. This involved
working around a long-standing AMD OpenGL driver bug on macOS.
* Improved support for high-DPI displays. Taisei should no longer be upscaled
by the OS on all supported platforms.
* Slightly optimized various parts of the engine, including 3D and text
rendering.
* Added GameMode integration on Linux. If you use Feral Interactive's
GameMode daemon, GameMode will now be automatically activated when you
start Taisei.
* Fixed some portability problems, mostly for macOS, Switch, and Emscripten
builds.
* Updated the SDL game controller database, enabling out-of-the-box support
for even more controllers.
The motivation is to consider meson as an application, so there is only
one copy on the system, and as a python 3 program, it can build python 2
packages.
This is a stable maintenance release. It features some important bugfixes and a few optimizations and visual improvements backported from the v1.4 development tree, as well as new character art by @afensorm.
Other than fixing some rare game-breaking bugs, there are no gameplay changes and this version should be replay-compatible with the initial v1.3 release.
Taisei (lit. Occident) is a free and open-source fangame of the Touhou
series.
Basically, it is a shoot 'em up game with lots of bullets (the genre is
literally called bullet hell). It doesn't aim to rebuild a particular
installment of the Touhou games, but is rather an original game set in the
world of Touhou.
