The old pre-async login system (especially SE's) was this weird mess
and it wasn't clear what data was flowing where, etc. Now it's a flat
function with comments and a bit better logging.
This improves the flow drastically, first by porting it from MobileForm
to FormCard. Next, it fixes some of the annoying bugs such as the
profile not switching properly when adding a new profile. Selecting an
existing game path is now possible, and it's less likely you can enter
in invalid account credentials. The overall look and behavior of some
of the pages is improved.
In the rare situation where the goatcorp servers are offline, they
shouldn't prevent a profile from launching. This adds an option to
quickly disable Dalamud if needed.
Astra's own logs are now stored in a rotating log, the default message
format is improved. The client and DXVK now dump their logs in the same
place instead of in the game directory.
Now the asset updating process is parallelized (especially asset file
downloading). There's less wasteful usage of the patcher and game
version reading when no patches need to be installed.
This includes Japanese, English, German and French - instead of being stuck to English only. I don't have access to a
Chinese or Korean client, so these options are not available.
Not every domain and server will be around forever, so now you can configure the two Square Enix domains used for login
and patching. And you can configure the Dalamud domain used to download assets, etc.
The data directory has been rearranged, and all the Dalamud data is
stored separately, so it's no longer clogging up everything. Dalamud
logs (and our own logs, when that's implemented) now exist in
XDG_STATE_HOME, instead of the data directory.
The game directory now exists under the data directory, instead of
~/.wine. The user path is set before launching the game, and it now
exists under the data directory too. These are also prefixed to the
user and profile UUID that it belongs to.
The "keep patches" option is now implemented (which is off by default)
and it lives in the temporary directory now.
