Hey everyone,
Thanks for your patience with our second update to Chess Ultra. We really value your feedback and support so we're really happy to share this latest update with you that includes a variety of style changes and a few bug fixes...
- Cross-platform matchmaking made easier
A search feature has been added so you should be able to find your friends easier when playing on different platforms. If you have friends playing on other platforms they won't be able to use this feature yet but it will be going into the update we do on console in the near future.
- Free camera option
We know some of you wanted to be able to explore different camera angles to view the board and the beautiful locations you're playing chess in. The angles you can move the camera to have been expanded and the camera can be locked in place.
- Single Tournament 'No Timer' option added
There's now a 'no timer' option for tournaments, nothing much else to say here!
- New end game camera
There's now an all new cinematic end game camera. It also tells you why stalemates happened, and differentiates between winning by checkmate, resignation, or time forfeit.
- Indicators to show whether a player is online or not
This will show you whether a player was active online in the game within the last few minutes.
- Offering a Draw
This was missing from the menu UI, but it is now there so you can draw by agreement. However, if you are playing cross-platform, you won't be able to offer a draw against someone on console until the update has gone live for them.
- What are the controls?
Some of you were unsure of what the controls were in the game, so we have added this to the menu to make it clear for everyone.
- Missing tutorial text
Some of it decided to hide, it has now been found and is no longer missing.
There's been some other minor general fixes too. As always if you have any feedback please let us know on the Discussions page or email us on [email protected]
Thanks again for your ongoing support!
Team Ripstone