Rec Room update is live! Here's what new this week:
The Virtual Reality World Championships
Today we're announcing our first official tournament, which we're rather grandiosely calling The Virtual Reality World Championships!
Something that's been truly inspiring to us as we make Rec Room has been welcoming players from over 130 countries. That got us joking around about being the "world champion" of paintball, or whatever. And then we thought... wait a minute... what's stopping us from... alright let's do this!
Full details and signup sheet are here: https://www.againstgrav.com/blog/
But the short version is:
- Events will be 3v3 Dodgeball, 3v3 Shield Soccer and 3v3 Paintball.
- Sign up is this week, championship games will be held next week
- Slots are limited so if you want to be a competitor, get on it!
- The winning teams will win a limited edition, never before seen, and in fact not-yet-designed or ordered Rec Room t-shirts =] (Note: It'll likely take at least a month or us to ship these to you)
Tournament games will be held in private rooms, so yes part of this is us laying the groundwork for better match-making and friends support. It's coming. We also want to learn what it's like to host a VR tournament. This is the first time we've done this so we expect to learn a lot. Please remember we're still in Early Access, so there will be bugs and rough edges along the way. But it should be crazy fun!
OK what else...
- More fixes for the "dark world" problem - over the weekend many players got stuck while trying to load into games. This was, of course, terrible. We believe we have fixed it. Please let us know if you get stuck!
- Dodgeball improvements - as part of getting Rec Room ready for the Virtual Reality World Championships we are giving Dodgeball some love. Tightening up the physics, rules, and feedback to make it more comprehensible and (hopefully) more fun.
- Shield Soccer bug fixes - we got some bug reports on Soccer (thankyou!)... we squashed the major ones. Please keep 'em coming!
- Lighting Improvements - making things more purty.
As always, thanks for playing and let us know what you think. Housekeeping note, I will be traveling over the next two weeks with somewhat spotty access to network. I'll make sure some other Against Gravity devs are on deck to field questions.