What's new?
- New handshake gesture to make cross-platform Rec Room friends! If you're a member, you can make a permanent friend connection with another member by shaking their hand! Guests can shake hands too, but it won't make a friend connection. http://imgur.com/7sX6F2J
- New cross-platform friend system - soon you'll be able to be Rec Room friends with Oculus Touch owners!
- New invite system. Send any friend who is online in Rec Room an invite via the Watch UI. If they accept, they'll immediately join you. NOTE: UI is first pass, we'll be patching this soon to be easier to understand.
- New avatar system is live - you'll get to keep your current outfit (if you're a member), but otherwise you'll be reset to Level 1. Avatar items are now tied to leveling up.
- Level up by earning XP - you get XP for logging (once per day), completing games, completing daily checklist items, and other stuff. Love to hear feedback on how the pacing and progression feels.
- Watch menu is now detachable - when the watch menu is visible, press the Menu button to detach the watch UI from your wrist. This makes it possible to use the menu with one hand again. It also avoids fatigue if you need to spend a long time in the menu. http://imgur.com/z8KmPKB
- New rotation options - we heard your feedback on the swipe rotation and made some additional changes. In the settings, you can now choose a 45 degree increment (much easier to get the rotation you want), and you can disable the swipe to rotate entirely. Let us know what you think... we are not totally against bringing back grip rotation if people really want it!
- 100+ new avatar items and variations - with lots more on the way. Of course, you gotta unlock them =]
- New game show music for 3D Charades.
- Updated tutorial VO.
- Updated help clipboards so they no longer have stale info!
IMPORTANT!
- This update temporarily removes leaderboards. These will come back soon as true cross-platform leaderboards in a future update. We saved the data from the Steam leaderboards, and will display these as a "Hall of Fame"!
Thanks as always to everyone who plays and who provides feedback, whether positive or negative.
We encourage you to become a member! It's free! Just find a kiosk in the Locker Room... Members can make friends, level up and unlock the coolest items, and send/receive invites. Private rooms are coming soon, which will also be a "members only" feature.