Hello everyone!
It's only been two weeks since the Twitch Integration beta launched but already we have been humbled by its popularity! We've been closely observing (and joining!) Twitch streams to collect feedback on the future direction to take the beta, therefore we've focused the changes in this patch to addressing the connection and usability issues we had noticed. Hopefully these changes in this update will make
Twitch Integration a more reliable!
However, it's not all about streamers! We've put some extra design touches on to the stage! Now the Chance Round machine and Trivia Bosses have their own platform and set of lights. We'd say this is a step up from their previous location!
Lastly, you'll find over 100 new questions in this update, bringing our total to over 4,800! We would like to thank everybody who has submitted questions through our Discord for making such a dizzying possible. Speaking of Discord, our AI Character Contest, where you can get your own character designs added to the game, is ongoing for just another two weeks! All you need to do is join Discord, drop a picture and you might be lucky enough to see them added as a permanent contestant in a future update! Get them in by July 21st!
Check out the full patch notes below!
- If the Twitch character is in the game the Speed bonus will be turned off regardless of the player's settings for balance purposes as the Twitch character is unable to achieve Speed bonuses.
- If nobody in Twitch chat answers, the Twitch character will not answer the current question. If this happened previously the Twitch character would select a random answer but they would not gain points.
- Added a suggestion to the Twitch info menu for streamers to use W/A/S/D or arrow keys instead of the mouse to stop them revealing their answers to chat!
- Pressing backspace will no longer leave the Twitch menus, as this was causing players to close the menu while typing their usernames!
- Fixed a bug where the Twitch character had an AI avatar on the TV for the final leaderboard, when they should have had the Twitch avatar.
- Twitch Answers sent after the Twitch Character has selected an answer are no longer counted in the bar chart showing the % of answers.
- The initial connection attempt to Twitch and the subsequent connection to Twitch Chat will now automatically retry if they fail on their first attempt. This should make the connection flow significantly more reliable and consistent.
- If the Twitch character loses connection during a game it will attempt to reconnect at the start of each new question.
- If the Twitch character loses connection in the pre-game lobby, or after a game ended, they will now be kicked from the game, but can be re-added through the regular 'Add Twitch Chat' method. Previously this led to a Twitch character that would ignore Twitch Chat until the lobby was closed and reopened.
- A new area of the stage has been added. The Chance Round machine and Trivia Bosses now sit on their own platform!
- This new area comes with its own set of lights.
- The Chance Round's ball machine is now visible in standard games even when the Chance Round hasn't been enabled.
- A few cameras have been changed to better frame these stage changes.
- A minimize button has been added to the Lobby menus, which allows you to hide menu windows when clicked. Clicking any of the tab buttons will make it visible again.
- Players who leave midgame now have a disconnect symbol above their heads - this should help make it clearer when a human player is now under AI control.
- Cosmetic prices in the Character Creator now have commas where appropriate - for example, 5000 is now displayed as 5,000.
- The Math category icon has been updated.
- Added over 100 additional questions, the vast majority suggested by the Discord community! Thank you to everyone who has suggested questions so far!
- Some now-outdated questions have been updated due to developments in the modern day.
- Questions such as 'Which of the following is NOT a noble gas?' have been standardized to capitalize NOT/CANNOT.
- Fixed some typos and cleaned up the wording on a variety of questions. Thanks to all of you who took the time to report these to us directly!
- Fixed an issue where, if the file responsible for tracking which questions a player has seen became corrupted, the player would not see any questions during gameplay. Now, if Trivia Tricks detects a corrupted QuestionCache file is present, it will make a new one.
- Fixed a bug where players were able to attempt to change the material of a cosmetic that only has one material by using a gamepad in the character creator.
- Fixed the Main Menu declaring that it is "Trivia Tuesday" during Saturday Night Trivia.
- Fixed the visuals on the Happy Sparkle emote particle effect from displaying incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug where the player could play various menu sounds during one of the Twitch menus.