Do you dare take on the Witch Ring Challenges? Patch 1.3.0 is here with a new challenge!
Hey, Pilots! ✈️
Autumn is here, Halloween just happened, and we at Tiny Roar are also totally in a witchy mood! 🎃
With your help, and thanks to your feedback over the last few months (we honestly can't believe it's been that long since release already!), we’ve been busy fixing bugs, addressing your most urgent concerns, and making Lou’s Lagoon overall more enjoyable to play. Now, it’s time to add a little something extra: a brand-new challenge that will put your gliding skills to the test! Want a little hint at what awaits you?
🧹Witches' magic is to fly
high on broomsticks through the sky!
Not a problem, broomstick's ditched!
A Glider's just as much bewitched.
Find three courses, do the "pop!
Come right back once you're on top!🪄
🧹 The Witch Ring Challenges
Once you’ve unlocked the glider and properly entered Gleam Reef, keep an eye out for the witch Ryma waiting for you across all islands (though the Boulderians will need a little extra help before he arrives on theirs). 👀
Conquering these trials will reward you with a brand-new witchy outfit! This is the very reward you all unlocked together by hitting our community launch stretch goals. Thank you so much again for all your support! We’ve also been hard at work on the next goal, the dual-toned hair customization, which is also available in this update! Now your characters can look even more stylish and individual!
🎃 No need for FOMO: A Permanent Addition!
Even though this update brings a fun touch of Halloween flavor, it is a permanent addition to the game! Take your time and don’t feel stressed, you won’t miss out on anything if you don’t get to play right away.
This also means that our Nintendo Switch players will get to enjoy these challenges just the same when the update lands on Switch a little later on, even if Halloween has already passed by then.
Alongside the new challenges, we’ve bundled in several other fixes and quality-of-life tweaks, which you can find in the full notes below.
Full Patchnotes:
Improvements
Added the Witch Challenges:
Find the witch Ryma to take on her challenge and prove that you too possess magic abilities!
The Witch Challenges are 12 all-new ring challenges across all islands that can be done with the Glider of various gadget levels.
Completing the challenges on each island rewards a part of the new Witch Attire.
[Community Goal] Added secondary hair colors. Visit a stylist to set a secondary hair color for existing characters.
Reworked the Glider:
Instead of extending glide time with each gadget level, the Glider now has boosts that can be activated similarly to the plane boosts. Each Glider gadget level adds an additional boost. Boosts only recharge while on the ground.
Greatly reduced the cooldown for opening or closing the Glider.
Opening the Glider now generates much less heat.
The heat gauge now resets after landing, making it possible to immediately switch to swirling or gliding again.
Added the option to increase the text size.
Added control rebinding on consoles.
Added buttons to set the minimum and maximum quantity when choosing item amounts in shops or factories.
Made the Scooper scan highlight more prominent so it is easier to recognize.
Improved quest giver portrait textures to make them look crisper.
“Continue” is now the default selection in the main menu.
Bugfixes
Fixed being able to complete the quest “An Old Friend” without ever going to Eastal. This also fixes a related crash on consoles.
Fixed an incorrect collision on the big tree in Tanglebloom Town.
Fixed shops showing unique items the player already owns and therefore can’t buy.
Fixed an issue where a swirl visual effect would appear on the player character while sprinting.
Fixed visible “holes” in the player character when wearing certain clothing combinations.
Fixed drones going to sleep immediately after returning instead of landing properly.
Fixed overlapping duplicate labels on save slots in the Save/Load menu.
Fixed the quest “Bad Omen” showing as unfinished even though it had already been completed.
Fixed a dialogue in which Bartir mentions the Builder gadget before the player has acquired it.
Fixed an issue where the Glider tutorial could overlay Fidge’s dialogue after unlocking the Glider.
Spoiler Bugfixes
Fixed the final encounter with Bartholomew starting too early after loading a save made before the encounter.
Don’t forget to let us know how you like the new update, either here in the Steam discussions or over on our Discord server, where we always love to welcome you for a chat! 🫶
~ The Tiny Roar Team