Last edited on 09 June 2017 - 12:55 PM by SmellyPenguin

Hey guys. Back with a bunch of huge improvements on the Badlion Client. This patch is aimed at improving the performance of the client, fixing some technical difficulties, and improving the overall user experience of the Badlion Client. We feel that there is too much confusion in the community that the Badlion Client and Badlion Premium are the same thing.

Since we released both the Badlion Client and Badlion Premium at the same time it has been the false impression through the community that you need to pay to use the Badlion Client. This is not the case. There are extra features such as PUG, Scrim, 1v1 League, and other miscellaneous things that are offered in the client for an additional cost (Badlion Premium rank which can be purchased here if you want to https://store.badlion.net/category/ranks). Other features such as BAC UHC's, Betterframes, Badlion Open integration, general Minecraft Launcher, stats, profiles, friend/chat system are FREE to use and access. We hope that this overhaul on the interface will help users to understand better what is and what is not free.

As always you can update your client by simply relaunching it or download it today at https://www.badlion.net/client



Interface Updates

As stated above we have spent some time completely redesigning the entire Badlion Client to be a smoother/easier experience for users. We have more carefully distinguished what is free and what is not free to access in the client. Anyone (as always) can download and install it and this update is not changing what is free and what is not. Everything that is free at the moment has been free from the start. We are just doing a better job at showing the users what is and what is not free.

With all of that I present some of the new screenshots of the Badlion Client!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/276427276525240321/319556018805800970/ss.png

Use any Texture Pack with the Badlion Client!

Today I am excited to share that we are now allowing any texture packs to be used with the Badlion Client as long as they are not attempting to give you an unfair advantage (e.g. xray packs). The question has come up many times why we built our own white list system for texture packs in the first place. The reason we opted for this approach first was to be safer and not have to run the risk of people bypassing the texture pack system with weird things. Now that we have had more time to research and integrate a proper anti-xray pack system we are super excited to release it. We have always had intentions of making it so that users could eventually use any texture pack with the Badlion Client as previously stated here during the Badlion Premium FAQ back in January: https://youtu.be/8EIE24oxNJk?t=7m3s

Showing off my custom texture pack on a Badlion Open UHC:



Upcoming Events

We now have an awesome new feature in the client to show and talk about upcoming events on the Badlion Client platform. Some events are free to enter and do not require a Badlion Premium subscription. Some events will require a Badlion Premium subscription. We will do our best to distinguish the two of them so players know what is free and what is not free.

UHC Elite Season 4 Point Tracker

You can now see how many points you have earned for UHC Elite Season 4 on the League tab of the Badlion Client. We also have taken the time to explain a bit more about how the phases work for the people who are confused. We hope this clears up some of the confusion, but once again we are always here to answer questions and help.



Badlion Premium Only: Team Creation

As part as our initiative to make the most competitive Minecraft PvP platform (which is the whole reason why Badlion Premium exists) we are introducing the ability to make teams in this patch. This team system will be used in most 5v5 tournaments going forward. You are allowed to have 5 players, 2 subs, and up to 10 other players available in your team's pool of players. Every player needs to have an active Badlion Premium subscription or they will be removed from the team. Teams can then signup for tournaments that we will soon be hosting on the Badlion Premium platform.





We have made a huge amount of progress in stabilizing more features on the Badlion Client and the Minecraft Client in this update. Thanks to all of the users who have been extremely helpful in giving us constructive feedback on what is and is not working.

Minecraft Bug Fixes/Improvements

New Texture Pack System (mentioned above).

New Keystrokes Mod.

Complete overhaul to the mod editing system. The mods now properly scale between all resolutions/resizing of the Minecraft Client.

Reworked some network handling systems to try and prevent random crashes that occur when launching client or switching arenas in the 1v1 league.

Fixed 1.7 Block placing animation.

Fixed 1.7 armor damage being too red when hit.

Fixed block hitting on Badlion Premium servers.

Fixed eating animation being shaky while block hitting.

Fixed arrow behavior for 1.7 vs 1.8.

Fixed thrown potions to be flipped like they were in 1.7.

Fixed default positioning of several mods.

Fixed enchant glint not changing on 1.7 properly.

Fixed 1.7 anvil enchant calculations on Badlion servers.

Fixed turning animation of players when hitting.

Fixed armor tint for Armor Damage option.

Fixed critical particles on arrows.

Fixed 1.7 holding animation being slightly off.

Fixed ToggleSneak unsneaking after being toggled (Double tap bug).

Fixed a crash when modifying key binds at a certain time.

Fixed arrow velocity when going through water on 1.7 servers.

Fixed a crash involving connecting / switching worlds in games.

Fixed potentially shaky particles in certain areas.

Fixed an issue with BetterFrames rendering buttons off screen.

Fixed a crash involving render mods mid-game.

Fixed Disguise mode breaking GUI entirely due to ping mod.

Fixed an issue where duplicate buttons would be added to the config.

Fixed Screenshot location to be saved in .minecraft instead of Program Files.

Fixed resource pack location to be in .minecraft instead of Program Files.

Fixed issue with static FOV looking weird.

Fixed enchants on armor after getting hit.

Lowered space in between each potion in potionstatus mod.

Betterframes - Added option to disable fog.

Betterframes - General improvements.

Switched screenshot location to point to normal .minecraft.

Reduced number of required extra libraries from 14 to 2.

Added version checking to ensure there are no incompatibilities in settings between builds.

Added handling to ping mod for when server does not send ping appropriately.

Optimized some code to load settings.

Disabled shinypots option by default.

Badlion Bug Fixes/Improvements

Fixed an issue where all of the Badlion Minecraft Clients would crash when one of our back-end services was rebooted.

Fixed more issues with -4, -14, and general Minecraft updater problems.

Fixed Initialization Error 1 when loading up client.

Fixed the Hebrew Operating System (and probably others) to work properly.

Fixed issue where Java was not properly detected on your operating system quite often. It is now properly installed/detected.

Redesigned how updating works so that you do not need to check for updates now every time you want to launch into the game. All updates are downloaded during the start of the client and the background system will check for updates and prompt you for a reboot if needed.

We are now enforcing you to be on the latest update to play on our systems. Sorry for those of you who are running beta builds still but you need to update to continue to use any of the services.

Fixed an issue where sometimes the client would ask for your Minecraft login even though your session was still valid (will be fixed in hotfix 1.1.1).

Redesigned most of the client color scheme/appearance. Still will be working on this over time.

We have moved the log files back into "Program Files" to make it easier to find stuff you need.

Added Badlion Logo into Minecraft Client.

Disabled Shinypots by default on the Minecraft Client.

Renamed Rush -> Bedwars.

We still have tons of work to do on improving the Badlion Client and Badlion Premium as well. We can't wait to keep improving the features available and show all of the awesome stuff we have in mind on how to make the Minecraft gameplay/experience on Badlion Premium the best in the world.

Fix issues with users who had unicode characters in their names like Søren (Planned 1.2 Patch)

Global Queueing - Be able to leave the PLAY menu and go use other parts of the client while in queue (Planned 1.2 Patch)

Party System - Duo Queue support (Planned 1.2 Patch)

Scrim Servers - Group up with your friends and practice some 5v5's on the PUG game modes (important for some upcoming stuff) (Planned 1.2 Patch)

Beta Builds - Opt in to receive beta builds of the Badlion Client before they go public (Aiming for 1.2 Patch)

Rating Graphs for player progression (similar to our ArenaPvP 1v1 rating graphs) (TBD)

More detailed information about queues and estimated matchmaking times (TBD)

Game Replays (TBD)

Spectating Friends (TBD)

More Minecraft optimizations/performance improvements (Ongoing)

Better Debugging Tools (Ongoing)

Some Minecraft mechanics need fixing still for 1.7 compatibility.

You must wait for the green lock to go red in the top right corner after the Minecraft client closes before launching it again, otherwise you will get a -7 error. To fix it just wait for the lock to go red and try again. We will get a hot fix out for this.

Potion/Armor status mod locations reset after every Minecraft restart.

Patching for 32-bit machines does not work currently. We do not have a machine available yet to test this on until Saturday. We will get a fix out ASAP.

As a reminder, all bug reports belong here: https://www.badlion.net/forum/category/108 Please provide as much information as possible so we can help you with your problem.

Thanks!

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 12:27 AM

Thanks a ton for this update, I actually uninstalled badlion premium until this update came out. One question, do I need to have normal Minecraft installed? I deleted it and would rather just play on this if I can

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 12:38 AM

I think you just have to have started Minecraft at least once on your computer to play with this.

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 12:56 AM

Correct. We will eventually try to get it so that you don't need the regular Minecraft launcher installed at all but we have not had time to do this yet.

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 01:20 AM

Nice update, seems like a lot of good stuff was done. Any updates on the releases of arena S15 and UHC 6.0?

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 01:40 AM

Soon TM.

We have been working hard on them for months. ArenaPvP Season 15 has just started closed beta and UHC 6.0 is in final stages of development.

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 02:18 AM

It says i do not have permission's to access the file? Why is it so

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 02:24 AM

Which file? The download file link? I just tested it and it seemed to download fine?

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 02:29 AM

http://prntscr.com/fh9ot1 i get this when i try to open it after i updated it. Before it was working fine

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 02:36 AM

Did it prompt you for admin access when trying to open?

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 02:38 AM

No, it just displayed that when i opened it, i even tried running it as administrator.

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 02:56 AM

I would suggest trying a clean uninstall and reinstall of the client. Looks fine on my system.

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 03:19 AM

Works fine now, thanks.

Last edited on 08 June 2017 - 04:12 AM by Suitability

Hype! I've been waiting a while for this update :)


Edit: The client freezes whenever I join a match on open RIP :(

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 05:00 AM

What do you mean client? Minecraft client freezes or Badlion Client freezes?

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 05:37 AM

Minecraft client, but I fixed it by dedicating more ram to it.

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 05:40 AM

How much were you giving it before and how much now?

Last edited on 08 June 2017 - 05:49 AM by Suitability

It was set to the default amount which is 1GB if I'm not mistaken, I've bumped it up to 2GB now and I haven't experienced any problems.

Posted on 08 June 2017 - 06:19 AM

Hype!

Last edited on 08 June 2017 - 06:30 AM by Suitability

I'm not really sure where the best place to post this is, but I'll just post it here :D

- Fog bug

In 1.7 when you turn off fog the sky still looks normal





However, if I turn off the fog in the Badlion client this happens






- Enchant glint bug (I've selected the 1.7 enchant glint)

1.7:





Badlion client 1.8: