Hello everyone! After a small break from development, I have a new update that I'm very excited for. Update 1.3 brings the Community menu to the game! Through this menu you can play daily and weekly challenges, and view the leaderboards which display the top players in some categories. I hope that this update will bring an increased sense of online presence, and add some competitive elements to the game
Improved disc physics
I have been very fond of keeping the disc physics 100% realistic. This means all the physics code comes straight from physics equations. However, there has always been one aspect that I have not been able to accurately capture with equations only: friction. With low friction values, the disc skips like it should and generally behaves well at high speed, but if the disc lands on a hill it starts sliding which is very annoying. With high friction values the disc does not slide down hills but behaves very weird when it touches the ground at high speed. This gave me an idea that seems to fix both problems: artificially increase the disc friction at low speeds. A nice side effect of this is that the disc can jump around a little when stopping, as if there were imperfections or small rocks in the ground. Let me know in the discord channel if you notice any weird physics that may come from this change.
Changes:
Made discs less likely to slide down steep surfaces after landing.
Made the saved seeds window less confusing.
Discs will now stay in the same spot in backpacks between games.
OB zones can now only reset players to a dropzone on the first throw.
The community menu
Added the community menu
Features:
The daily & weekly challenges
Here you can play a special seed that updates every week or day. The seed is the same for everyone, and your score on the round is uploaded to a server. The top 5 scores on each challenge are displayed for everyone. Once you complete a challenge, you can’t play it again until the challenge resets.
The daily challenge is a short 9 hole round, and resets each day at 10 am UTC.
The weekly challenge is a longer 18 hole round that resets each Friday at 10 am UTC.
Leaderboards
Here you can view the top players in (for now) four categories:
- Best score - total score over par for any round.
- Number of aces - just in case it ever happens.
- Longest throw - longest distance of any throw.
- Longest putt - longest distance of any throw that ends up in the basket.
Through this menu you can also view other players' steam profiles.
To celebrate this, and to bring some new players to compete against, the game will be on a 50% sale for one week.