Hey all!
We're back again with a small update! We've heard your feedback on the rep system and world map and we agree with you, they really need some work. We're super eager to rework these things but that's going to be a big project. Before we can start on a major overhaul like this we wanted to get a few smaller things out of the way. One of the things in this update is the newsfeed. This way we can communicate more information to you without having to upload new builds. This is also a place where we can highlight community clips and images.
Apart from this we did a lot of small fixes and updates, which I'll list below.
Changes:
- Added multiple UI sound effects.
- Added new character voice sounds and removed the temporary voice effects from the rider (goodbye Cedar!).
- Added a newsfeed in the main menu. This is where we'll place information about the game, its updates, and community highlights.
- Physics raycasting update, this new method for wheel collision is about 16x faster and should even be more precise as well.
Mixer integration. Streamers who stream on Mixer.com can now enable interactivity in the gameplay options menu. In career and practice mode the viewers can influence level generation and hand out extra reputation when the streamer performs sweet tricks. In freeride mode the viewers can submit level seeds for the streamer to play.We've had to disable this because of issues while building the executable. Expect this in a hotfix some time next week.- Added a few more unlockable items ;)
- GPU performance improvements across the board. We mainly tried to pull the FPS in the forest environment more in line with the rest of the environments.
- Big CPU performance upgrades, should be most notable for people with low end CPUs.
- Bugfix: removed bonus objective UI from freeride mode.
- Bugfix: UI buttons would sometimes randomly scale up.
- Bugfix: Button navigation in game modes menu fixed.
- Bugfix: Couple of localization errors fixed.
- Bugfix: 1460 is now 1440 lol
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpetnUFQMA&t=0m35s
Next up:
As stated above we are super hyped to start working on the new world map and the new reputation system. We want to move away from a percentage based penalty system and towards a system which rewards taking risks and doing sick moves, rather than spending as much time as possible grinding levels in a safe manner. While we're working on this we're definitely going to keep you up to date through our social channels and on Discord. Do keep in mind that this next update could take a month or two, this is quite a big undertaking for the small team that we are.
Next to these big overhauls we're also going to be travelling a lot in the near future. There are several events we'll be going to and if you happen to go to any of these, please drop by our booth and say hi, we'd love to meet you all in person <3
You'll be able to find us here:
- GDC (Right now, San Francisco, USA) - Mike
- PAX East (April 5-8, Boston, USA) - Mike & Rosie
- EGX Rezzed (April 13-15, London, UK) - Mike (& Roel/Lex?)
If you want to keep up to date with the known issues and our current plans, join our Discord, or have a look at the Roadmap! As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts!
Much love,
RageSquid