WINTER QUESTS AND HOLIDAY EVENTS!!
Holiday events have begun!
There are three new exciting Holiday Quests to participate in!
Spread holiday joy and help Santa Claws deliver gifts to the hardworking Plaza staff, share the joy of hats, and find the missing reindeer!
Find the quest-givers in the Central Fountain area!
In addition, the usual Holiday cheer has swept through Tower Unite! Enjoy beautiful holiday decorations in the Plaza, earn Holiday Coins from playing games, and deck yourself out with some festive gear at Santa Claws’ store!
We've also got a LOT of great presents to give this year! Let's open them up!
WINTER WONDERLAND EVENTS!!
There’s a new weekend event type this weekend! The Winter Wonderland Events give 1.5x Units & EXP on select winter and toy-themed maps: Nimbus, Memories, Summit, Alpine, Village, Bedzoom, Hallway Raceway, Toy Room, Sweet Tooth, and Frostbite!
MIDI Support, Guitars, and a Drum Machine!
The MIDI and instruments update is HERE!
This update is full of awesome features for creating more music in your Condos! We have a video overview of all the additions and how they work, which can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrwIF7JoQg
There's new instruments as well! Including the Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, and Drum Machine.
An extra guide for setting up MIDI file playback in the game can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3114030200
Boardwalk Renovations
The boardwalk has gotten a new look and an improved Ferris Wheel, in addition to the recently added carnival games!
It now has its own beach! Fish off the piers or right on the sand while taking a look at the fun seaside amusements!
Two work-in-progress areas have appeared to indicate the location of the upcoming Bumper Cars arena and an upcoming store!
Post Process & Sky Volumes
There are new IO volumes for Condo builders to use to set the atmosphere of their creations!
The new Post Process Volume will allow you to customize various visual effects such as saturation, contrast, chromatic, vignette, grain, bloom, tint, pixelate, etc. within the volume or globally throughout the entire Condo.
There are also other effects such as pixelate and posterize. You can fade in/out post process volumes with IO as well!
The Sky Volume will allow you to customize the sky effects, including fog, sun, sun tint, horizon/zenith colors, star colors, and time of day settings within the volume or globally throughout the entire Condo.
This volume will give you complete control over the fog and sky lighting in any Condo.
New Items!!
It wouldn't be a joyous holiday without new items coming to town!
We've added new decorative holiday hats such as the Gingerbread Top Hat and an Orbiting Dreidel.
We also have Wooden Chests, Ice Sculptures, Presents, and a Mistletoe.
AND WE HAVE NEW FLOWERS! Heliopsis, Delphinium, Godetia, Lavatera, and Lilium Flowers!
We've received new oversized candy from Sweet Tooth, available in Fresh. However… we're not quite sure who's responsible for taking these… maybe we'll find out soon!
A new Canvas primitive is available, the Canvas Torus! Useful to create piping, and other curly donut shapes.
Changes
- Start of Holiday 2023 events
- Boardwalk Renovation
- MIDI Input Support for Instruments
- SDNL: Decommission Fixes & Updates
- UI: Improved the number input slider on item editor - easier to grab with mouse and control for fine adjustments
- UI: Number input slider now updates the value as you change it, so you can get a better idea as you are adjusting
- IO: Added new Post Processing Volume. This volume will allow you to customize various visual effects such as saturation, contrast, chromatic, vignette, grain, bloom, tint, pixelate, etc. within a volume or globally
- IO: Added new Sky Volume. This volume will allow you to customize the sky effects, including fog, sun, sun tint, horizon/zenith colors, star colors, and time of day settings within a volume or globally
- Accelerate: Improved kart turning friction and grip
- Accelerate: Improved kart deceleration physics
- Accelerate: Adjusted camera tilting
- Added holiday quest reset option in gameplay settings (separate from the Plaza tracker reset)
- Added Halloween 2023 remains to King Arthritis
- Added chatter sounds to the all store/event NPCs
- Condo: Item Finder now defaults to ungrouped mode, showing all items at once
- Condo: Item Finder now has "Hide/Unhide" button next to all items, allowing for easy access to hide and unhide items
- Condo: Item Finder now visually fades out items that are currently hidden
- Condo: Added "Show Volumes" setting, which will hide volumes visually from view (clientside only)
- Condo: Added "Show Sound Emitter Ranges" setting, which will hide sound emitter range spheres visually from view (clientside only)
- Condo: Added "Enable Group Selection" setting to inventory selection. Disabling this will allow you to move/select individual items that are grouped without breaking the group apart
- Condo: Added new item sort types to Item Finder: "Locked", "Hidden", and "Grouped"
- Condo: Item Finder now shows custom item names properly
- Condo: Item Finder now has the ability to rename items directly in the item finder list
- Condo: When hovering over items in the Item Finder, the item will now visually highlight in 3D
- Condo: Added "Underwater" color option to Water Volume
- Condo: Added range setting to Haunted Painting (along with a radius visualizer)
- Condo: "Respawn" IO event on physics items now drops the physics item from a player that is holding it
- Condo: Held physics items now properly trigger when entering a Trigger Volume
- Added Wooden Chest to Rob's Imports store
- Added Fireplace Hearth, Mistletoe, Ice Cube, Winter Presents, Festive Cushion, Frosting (Plain), Frosting (Candy) to Celebrations store
- Added Canvas Torus, Midway Lights to D.I.Y store
- Added Ice Sculpture Catsack, Ice Sculpture Pedestal, Ice Sculpture Snowman, Hanging Mistletoe, Orbiting Dreidel, Gingerbread Top Hat to Santa's Workshop store
- Added Canvas Chocolate Bar, Oversized Lollipop, Oversized Whipped Cream, Oversized Round Gummy, Oversized Square Gummy, Oversized Peppermint Swirl, Oversized Candy Cane, Oversized Ice Cream Scoop, Oversized Cake Pop, Oversized Rock Candy, Oversized Chocolates, Oversized Wrapped Chocolate, Candy Rope to Fresh store
- Added Canvas Can to the Vendy store
- Added Heliopsis Flower, Delphinium Flower, Godetia Flower, Lavatera Flower, Lilium Flower to Seasons nature store
- Added Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, MIDI Maestro to Songbirds store
- Added Drum Machine to Asteroid Belt arcade store
Optimizations
- SDNL - Container Ship: Various optimizations
- Optimization: Flashlight optimizations
- Optimization: Player aim optimizations
- Optimization: Player seat optimizations
- Optimization: Player footstep optimizations
- Optimization: Camera optimizations
- Optimization: General player optimizations
- Lots of optimizations to players in general, reducing CPU usage where we can
Bug Fixes
- SDNL: Attempted fix for the Chainsaw explosion in SDNL maps on AMD cards
- Condo IO: Fixed Water Volumes not working for Dolphins
- Condo IO: Fixed Water Volumes not working for Ball Race Orbs
- Virus - Solar: Fixed jump pad issues
- Virus - Solar: Fixed some weird collisions
- Fixed player persona (player colors/customization) not showing up in minigames
- Fixed head sometimes being shown on first spawn in when you have first person legs enabled
- Condo: Fixed Item Finder not expanding full height of screen if the placeable inventory is closed
- Condo: Fixed inventory search taking input of the held inventory key when first selected (default Q), causing it to repeat "qqqqqqqq" over and over in the search
- Condo: Fixed Hidden Seat seat poses ending when a player moves while sitting
- Condo: Fixed issues with teleporters not always teleporting physics items properly due to optimizations done in last update
- Fixed and updated various Plaza location volumes
- Condo: Fixed Copycat duplication preview not copying scales of items properly (canvas primitives would default to 1 scale always)
- Condo: Fixed Snowball item disappearing when it hits snow, now it'll properly grow in size (and save and network properly)
- Condo: Fixed lingering sounds playing on the Electronic Keyboard
- Fixed Throwable Bowling Ball duplicating visually
- Fixed explosions pulling in physics objects instead of pushing out physics objects
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