A new build of Rec Room is live! Here's what's new...
- There's a new Merch Booth in the Rec Center - after experimenting with the ticket system in Laser Tag, we're expanding the experiment to the Rec Center!
- You can now earn Rec Room tokens by completing daily challenges and for playing your first activity each day.
- Spend tokens at the Merch Booth. If you've played with the Laser Tag Merch Booth, you'll know how this works. Basically, laser point an item to buy it (you must have enough tokens).
- If you already own the stuff on display, consider buying a "star box". Each star box will contain an item that you don't already have.
- This is a limited time experiment - our goal is to "see how it goes" and learn. So give it a try and let us know what you think, how we can make it better, etc. If this goes well we'll likely make this the main way to get stuff (i.e., the random gift boxes would mostly go away, and you'd get tokens instead).
But wait there's more!
This one is for our Custom Room builders:
- New Circuits system - you can now add logic and behavior to your Custom Rooms (e.g., build simple games) by wiring things together with Circuits.
- You make and edit Circuits using the Maker Pen. There's a new "Chips" menu, and a new "Connect" tool that do the heavy lifting. You can also use the "Edit" tool to customize various settings inside chips.
- Circuits are visible only to Hosts by default. The owner of the room can set them to "invisible" or "visible to everyone".
- We'll be sharing how to videos and setting up some Q+A opportunities for those who want to dig into Circuits. Please note that Circuits are not yet for the faint of heart! This is an early version, so there'll be bugs and incompleteness. We absolutely apologize for any frustration this causes!
- There's new stuff in the Sandbox Machine
- Many items can now be connected to circuits (e.g., all the goals). You can lock and unlock doors, or control the Boom Box. There's a button (it's like the Charades button, but improved and you can connect it to a circuit...). There's a sign that you can drive with a circuit. Yes the goals still say "goal!" every time you hit them. Yes we'll fix that =]
- We're just getting started on circuit-enabled stuff. Let us know what else you need to build the things you want to build.
- Custom Room Backups - We've started automatically keeping up to 10 backups of your Custom Room saves on the server. If you encounter a bug restoring your room, get in touch with us ([email protected]) and we can help restore from a backup. Soon, we plan to make this self-service.
Thing a lot of you have asked for:
- New ambient volume slider in Settings - you can now individually control the level of ambient sound in any room. This is for our players who dislike birdsong and the gentle tinkling of fountains.
A nice thing for PS4:
- We changed the way we handle whiteboards/sticky notes/etc. This change should make them look much more readable (i.e., higher resolution) on PS4!
Bug fixes:
- Paintball/Laser Tag - fixed a bug where grenade hits could be attributed to the wrong player.
- Quest - fixed a bug where potions could kill you!
- Quest - fixed a glitch with the mini-witch projectiles
- Disc Golf - fixed issue causing on team disc to malfunction
- Fixed a bug where your face could go missing in selfies :-/ We apologize for the loss of face.
OK that's it for this update. We've got lots more exciting stuff on the way, including the much-anticipated Isle of Lost Skulls. As always, let us know what you think: https://www.againstgrav.com/contact-us-1