Hello builders and riders,
Jonny from hugecalf here to provide you with the juicy details of all the improvements we have made to When Ski Lifts Go Wrong. It’s been a while since we provided detailed patch notes and it has come to our attention that we didn’t provide patch notes for our major ‘name change’ patch at the start of November, so this announcement will cover that, and today's Quality of Life patch!
We are continuing to listen to your feedback and will work hard to improve all aspects of WSLGW as we approach the end of the Early Access period! So, as always, we’d love to hear your feedback, bugs and suggestions in the comments below :D
Jonny, Will & Andy
Team Hugecalf
1. 8/11/2018 - The ‘Name Change’ patch summary
- Hugely improved rider controls: - Added a jump button - Can now control riders in the air to land that perfect backflip
- Snowboarders added! Finally, snowboarders are in the game. You can now help or hinder Snowboarder, Skiers and Snowmobilers in equal measure :)
- Physics improvements: - Chairlifts run faster, so less waiting for riders to reach the top - Reworked how skiers sit in the chair so that they fall in a more natural and predictable nature - Reworked draglifts so riders are more predictable when on this lift
- Improved tutorials
- Overhauled UI. The UI and menus have been overhauled so that there is consistency and more polish throughout the game! We hope you like it
- Overhauled objectives system. There are now a consistent set of objectives and medals on every level
2. 30/11/2018 - The ‘Quality of Life’ patch
- Added Korean and Polish language support
- Added 4k support
- Fixed compatibility with existing language options
- Added loading screen to show the level and to display game tips
- Improved sharing features: - Added replay upload panel - Added social buttons to the homescreen - Dropped support for facebook sharing
- Can now hide UI on homescreen to get a better view of the jump
- Santa now shows as first rider on each level during seasonal winter event
- Tutorials improvements - Tutorials will now display the correct icons if default controls are changed - Not quite right box is now only triggered once - Fixed players getting stuck in tutorial 3 - Changed tutorial 5 level design
- Fixed bug where a Snowmobiles would appear in certain levels
- Added save slots to each level
- UI improvements
- UI elements now hide on level complete/fail
- Optimisations to build mode and simulation mode: - Planks now delete and play an animation when braking to improve performance of large structures collapsing - Limited number of colours that stress indicator can display. Now fixed to Red, Yellow and Green. - Blood splat optimisation
- Added target FPS options, default set to 60 FPS
- Snow cannons no longer incorrectly effect skiers on the second slope
- 'Open folder location' button has been fixed and show now open the correct folder
- Added gondola and plank breaking animations
- Fixed leaderboards to correctly show whether the trophy was awarded
- You can no longer edit other players workshop creations
- + numerous other minor fixes