What's new this week?
- Announcing /r/recroom! - Thanks to the kindness and generosity of some fellow redditors, we're excited to share that /r/recroom is now the official reddit home for Rec Room discussion! We'll keep /r/againstgravity for company stuff (like what? No idea =]) but migrate Rec Room announcements, discussion, etc. to /r/recroom. Come join us! We'll be checking the sub daily (at least).
- Lots of new avatar items! - We've had lots of requests for more feminine items so today's update includes lots of dresses, hats, hairstyles, and more! We think these look really cool! Check 'em out: http://imgur.com/MKBWLJQ http://imgur.com/Vi1A00M
- Vote Kick improvements - We got some good feedback, and have now made it much less likely that someone you've vote kicked will re-appear in your game. More to do here, but this should help a lot!
- Fixed issue with mute/ignore - Press and hold menu button to show laser pointer. Target someone and release menu button to open their player menu, where you can mute, ignore, or access their Steam profile. Note: Seems like this is only working when you target the other player's head? It should be the whole body... let us know if it works for you.
- Fix for 100% crash - We've had reports from some people that they are experiencing crashes. We
- think
- we've isolated the problem to the video cameras... if you're experiencing a crash, please go into Settings-->Advanced and uncheck "Enable Video Cameras". If you still crash after that, let us know!
While we're chatting, let's talk a little more about avatar items. Basically, we have good news and we have bad news =] Let's start with the bad news:
- In a couple of weeks we're going to reset avatars and levels, and you're going to lose access to most of the avatar items ಠ_ಠ
Why would we do something so cruel? Well, it'll be synced to the roll out of a proper Rec Room profile, which will be optional, free, cross-platform and is intended to be your "real" Rec Room profile that you can keep forever. You'll be able to choose a Rec Room-specific username (so if you want your special three character nickname, jump on it when we announce). Once you have your real profile, you'll be able to unlock items by playing. So more experienced Rec Room players will have more and cooler avatar items than newbies. That's how we want it to work, so we gotta reset the current free-for-all. Sorry!
I promised good news! Here's what we're thinking:
- Keep your favorite outfit - When we roll out the update that contains the new profiles, we're going to let you keep whatever you're wearing. So if you have a favorite outfit, make sure you're wearing it that day and we'll grandfather that outfit in. So you can keep your look. New players will have start from scratch.
- Early adopter item - to express our gratitude to all of you early players we are planning to make an avatar item that is only available to pre-profile users. Newer players won't be able to unlock or buy this item. It's for OG Rec Room players only. We haven't decided yet what the item will be! If you have ideas/requests, let us know...
OK I think that's it. As always, thanks so much for playing Rec Room, for helping each other out, and for providing feedback both positive and negative. We really appreciate it, and we can't wait to announce some of the exciting stuff we have in the works. In the meantime, keep enjoying Hole 5:
http://imgur.com/CEaWtbI
bwahahahahaha =]