Today's update just went live. What's new this week:
- Vote to kick - thanks for the great feedback and insights on moderation (or lack thereof). We are actively designing here and would love to keep hearing reports, suggestions, praise and complaints. [email protected]. This week we are shipping an experimental "vote to kick" feature. This has been suggested and requested many times, and we agree it's a good idea to try it out. Here's how it works:
- Hit the MENU button to bring up the player list.
- Find the player you wish was gone.
- Hit the "Vote Kick" button with the laser pointer and pull the trigger
- You will see your vote appear right on the button.
- If a clear majority of the people in the room do the same, the person will be kicked to the Dorm Room. It's then hard (but not impossible) for them to join you again. Please be aware that we think this UI is clunky and hard to discover. We have a plan for improving it, which likely involves the...
- Handset menu - we're improving the handset you carry (that's the yellow thing that appears in your hand when you teleport). We're looking at using this more to provide info and functionality - please tell us what you think, and
what would be useful to you! Here's how it works:- In games (e.g., Paintball), you can look at your handset to see current score and time remaining in the round. To do that...
- Press and hold THE BIG BUTTON (i.e., teleport button) for ~0.5 seconds to see the handset menu
- New activity: SHIELD SOCCER!
- Use your teleport (and your hands and shield) to hit an oversized soccer ball into the goal.
- There is a team-colored "no go" zone in front of each goal, for fun matchups between offense and defense.
- Be on the lookout for the boost pickup which increases your hit strength and gives a speed advantage. Pull the trigger to activate it!
- This is UNDER CONSTRUCTION, but we've been having fun with it and wanted to start getting feedback. Do you like it? Is it fun? Should we spend time improving it?
- World rotation v2.0
- Press and hold both grip buttons and make a "steering a bus" motion to rotate the world around you!
- Yes, this is very similar to Pool Nation VR - the difference is that we "blink" rotate in 45 degree increments rather than continuous rotate (which should eliminate motion sickness for those who are sensitive)
- The other method of world rotation (press and hold both teleport buttons) is still there too... what do you think - should we keep both? Or choose one?
- What else happened this week?
- You can now spin the zero-G clothing rack in the Dorm Room with your hands
- New, cooler looking handset when you teleport/laser point.
- Updated lighting for 3D Charades, Paddleball, Dodgeball, and locker room.
- You now spawn with the pen in 3D charades - so no rogues can steal it from you and draw genitalia
- Fixed some issues with paintball spawning which should reduce the incidences of "late hits" from players you just splatted. With high ping there may still be some weirdness, but we fixed an actual bug.
- Fixed more paintball gun spawning bugs - please continue to let us know if you spawn without a gun
- Fixed some nasty bugs that were causing leaderboards to be wrong. Sorry about that. As we keep saying, don't get married to your stats to much while we're in Early Access. We are gonna have bugs and need to reset things a few times.