Hey everyone!
Update 17 is live, adding official support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets, a wood scaffolding block which makes building big things significantly easier and archery more interesting (read below why!), and a wall mount for tools which allows for some great decorations in your house!
As usual, here is a very quick overview of the new things added in this Update, with more details below:
- Added official support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets!
- Added wood scaffolding block. Definitely watch the gif below!
- Added wall mount for tools, using fully free placement on wall
- Made regular torch recipe always unlocked by default, same like Stone Axe and Stone Pickaxe
- Fixed crash that would happen when having more than 500 torches active
- Improved performance of having many open chests in the world
- Very significantly improved performance of having many torches in the world
- Disabled dynamic resolution in the main menu
Official Windows Mixed Reality Support!
Starting with this Update, cyubeVR has official support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets. This means you will see the Windows Mixed Reality controller models in the game and I have tested the controls a lot and optimized them for usage with Windows Mixed Reality controllers (if they are used).
The game was previously only marked as compatible with HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, starting with this Update the game is finally also marked as compatible with WMR on Steam!
Controls should feel perfect now with Windows Mixed Reality controllers, and if there is anything that you feel should be improved, definitely tell me about it! :)
Controls for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are not affected by this of course, the game automatically detects which headset you use.
Wood scaffolding block
There now is a wood scaffolding block in the game! It's crafted with 8 wood and you get 32 scaffolding blocks, so you very easily get a lot of blocks to build with. It can be destroyed with a single hit of a copper axe, so when you no longer need it you can also very quickly get rid if it.
And the best thing about it is, you can shoot it with the bow and arrow to destroy the block!
With scaffolding, it can easily happen while building that you no are no longer able to reach far enough to be able to hit the block with an axe, so being able to destroy it with the bow and arrow makes a lot of sense here, and it's also a lot of fun!
This also allows for building targets further away where it's very easy to practice shooting with, since the effect that happens when you destroy a scaffolding block with an arrow is very visible even from far away. So you immediately see if the arrow hit the target without having to go there and look.
Wall mount
With Update 14, the great feature that tools are objects that can exist in the world, be saved and loaded and be grabbed at any time was added.
Now, you get a wall mount for the tools! This means you can grab any tool in the world and release it while holding it parallel next to the wall mount, and it will "snap" its location to the wall mount. The tool will keep exactly the rotation you released it with, so you can put tools with any rotation on the wall mount. You can then grab the tool at any time again from the wall mount and directly use it, or drop it somewhere else again.
The wall mount is placed with 100% free placement on the wall, so it doesn't snap anywhere! You have complete freedom in where you place it. If you want to, you could place 5 wall mounts all on one side of a block. It's even possible to place wall mounts on the ceiling and then attach tools there :)
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The WMR support, wall mounts and wood scaffolding blocks have been in the beta branch of the game for a few days already and were tested by our great beta testers there! Thanks to those, you hopefully get fully stable updates in the stable branch of the game. If you also want to test new features earlier when they come out in the beta branch, make sure to join the official cyubeVR discord and take a look at the #beta-build-patch-notes and #beta-build-discussion channel!
That's all for today! Thanks for caring about the game and as usually, make sure to report all issues you see and give me as much feedback as possible in the official forums or the official discord server. If you don't like something about the game, tell me there and I'll try to improve it! I'm available to chat with anyone in discord.
If you like the game, don't forget to tell other people about it and write a review on Steam if you haven't done that already. Writing a review and spreading the word is the easiest way you can support the game!
Looking forward to hearing what you think about the new update :)
Cheers!