Engine Upgrade
This week's update has a significant engine upgrade from Unity 2017.1 to Unity 2017.2. There are lots of bug/crash fixes, improvements, and new platforms supported (like Microsoft MR Headsets), as well as one massive new feature that we will be working on supporting: Single Pass Stereo Instanced Rendering.
While SPSIR is quite a mouthful and a pretty awful acronym, the performance improvements that it can provide are no joke. Not only improved GPU performance, but up to 50% CPU rendering performance improvement. It is not currently enabled in the game yet, as no post effects (bloom, black & white filter, etc) work with it, however we're actively working on the functionality and hope to bring some incredible performance improvements to everyone very soon!
As with all engine upgrades, there is a chance that some features that worked perfectly fine before are now broken. It's impossible to test them all, so please be sure to report any issues either in the discussion forums here on Steam or in the QuiVr Discord!
PvP Progress
The Player vs Player features have sat a bit by the wayside recently due to some issues with the matchmaking system. However, we brought in some web development talent to overhaul the system, resulting in a much more robust and extendable matchmaking system that will be able to handle group queuing, 1v1, 2v2, and even possibly 4v4 matches.
The PvP map has also been brought into the main scene (though disabled when not in use) so that no loading screens will be required when switching from a normal game to PvP and back. The intent is to have a single scene for all actions in the game, eliminating all loading screens except the initial one at the start of the game!
Other News
We have a number of other features and aspects under development including:
- Microsoft MR Headset support
- New custom composed music
- Art assets for Event Tiles
- Updated tutorials
We'll have more information to share about all these topics soon, but it's good to let everyone know what to be expecting over the next few week!