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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 27 Feb, 2020
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  There are already several, take a look in the Start Page.

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  1. Yes, the editor works offline.

  2. The addon developer needs to have published an update for C3. Most actively developed addons should have already been ported. If the addon is no longer actively developed, unfortunately this is one of the possible consequencies of relying on third parties to support your game. There may well be an alternative addon available though, or the many new features in C3 may provide built-in support for it instead.

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  Hmm, just thinking - the device you updated from v71 to v80 and started working - what model device is that?

  If it has a Mali GPU, this might be an old WebGL 2 bug that was fixed, but might still be affecting old devices with out-of-date software.

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  I think in the short term, the pragmatic thing to do if you just need it to work now is to downgrade the project to the C2 runtime and publish with that. It supports older browsers so should keep working even on devices that are missing years of software updates. The C2 runtime is scheduled to be removed in July 2021, but you can keep using it anyway for the time being.

  In the mean time I do want to figure out what is going on here. It's possible there's a problem with Construct, but it could equally be something else like a driver bug on certain devices. I think the best next step to diagnose the problem would be to find an old device, connect it up with USB debugging, and check for any errors being logged to the browser console. The tutorial checking for errors in browsers has some info on that. It could also involve several different problems, so you may need to repeat this a few times and see what's going on in each case.

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  • 26 Feb, 2020
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  If you think it's a bug please file an issue following all the guidelines - we need all that information to be able to help: https://github.com/Scirra/Construct-3-bugs

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  • 26 Feb, 2020
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  Some things don't support breakpoints, so pressing F3 won't add a breakpoint for them.

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  • 26 Feb, 2020
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  The scripting feature is fully documented in the manual.

  Mirroring an object just means setting a negative width.

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  • 26 Feb, 2020
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  That message will not appear for any browser released in the past decade or so, so it's pretty much irrelevant now. Besides since C2 is now on track for retirement, only critical issues will be fixed from now on.

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  • 26 Feb, 2020
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  In practice 90%+ of users won't change the default. You'll either get complaints about latency, or complaints that the audio is glitching, depending on which default you choose. There isn't a good way to get it to work by default right now - I think the best thing to do is to wait and see if Google can fix it first.

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  There is no message, I was just saying it would be good to have the possibility to add a warning message with a link to update if WebView is out of date.

  When the WebView is out of date, it does show a message. It says "Software update needed" with instructions.

  WebView version 71.0.3578.99 should be able to run C3 runtime games just fine.

  So I think we're back to square 1 - I doubt it's solely because of an old WebView version. There must be something else going on.

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  Construct 3 has way more features and massively improved performance. Meanwhile Construct 2 is being retired.

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  • 25 Feb, 2020
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  Check your game isn't using more memory than is available on the device.

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  I'm afraid there's no good way to do this right now. I think some platforms automatically reduce the framerate to 30 FPS in power saving mode, but it's not controllable from the app itself. FWIW there's this Chrome issue proposing to implement support for dropping framerate, but it doesn't look actively worked on.

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  Why are you asking?

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  • 25 Feb, 2020
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  Driver bugs are random, and each app uses the GPU differently, so it still makes sense if it works in Firefox but not Chrome. You could just use Firefox if it works there.