This week we have quite a few exciting improvements to the game!
Statistics and Ranks
With this patch we're introducing basic player statistics along with global ranking! Stats and ranks are only recorded for plays starting with this version, so it will take some time for all players to be ranked.
The stats for your main profile (which is named liked your Steam user account) are now displayed right in the main menu. Ranks are updated after every game.
Popular Player Quizzes
To make it easier for you to discover Workshop quizzes created by other players we added a small list of currently popular player quizzes to the main menu (see screenshot above).
Clicking on the title will open the Quiz's workshop page if you want to see details. The stars (between 1 and 5) show ratings by other players. To make it even easier, we added a download button that immediately subscribes, downloads and installs the quiz so you can start playing it right away! (Quizzes downloaded via the Workshop website can only be played after restarting the game)
We hope that this way more players will discover the awesome player-generated quizzes already on the Workshop, such as:
- Star Trek Voyager by clemenskaa
- All About Harry Potter by kidrocket
- Inconceivable! The Princess Bride by kidrocket
- A Quiz of Ice and Fire by blackpirateroberts
- Video Games by blackpirateroberts
- and "alles mögliche" by Larumpa
Automatic Workshop Upload
Up until now you had to manually trigger the upload of your quizzes to the Steam Workshop by pressing F6 in the menu. But from now on quizzes that have the "share on Steam Workshop" checkbox in the quiz editor checked will automatically uploaded when the game launches.
Reworked Finale and Introduction of Stars
The finale now works differently. Player scores are converted into stars at the beginning of the finale, with the best player getting 10 stars and all other players getting a number of stars based on many points they had before in relation to the best player. Correct answers add one star, wrong ones subtract one. Bonus awards also add one star. At the end the player with the most stars wins.
The number of stars you won are persistently tracked in your profile and stats.
Unlockable Characters and Buzzers Coming Soon
The introduction of stars paves the way for our planned content update which will deliver new unlockable characters and buzzer sounds! We'll reveal more about the update in the coming weeks.
What we can already say is that you'll need stars to unlock new characters and buzzers. You can start saving up on stars right now!
Skipping Score Sequence
To speed up the game we added the possibility to skip the high score table sequence.