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RELEASE NOTES August 23, 2018

New Features

  • Added an icon below the care package to help indicate where its going to land
  • New music! Gnomehenge has a custom soundtrack
  • Balanced music and sound effects for Gnome Village and Gnomehenge
  • Added a popup to remind players that changing the Vsync settings requires a game restart
  • Gnomes no longer respawn in the same spot as their teammate
  • Added some gameplay items to the first time gamma adjustment screen
  • Updated the controller required splash screen to say that 4 controllers are required
  • Updated the grass bag icon in all our menus
  • Add controller instruction banner to the Credits menu
  • Added a controller page in the How to Play menu
  • Small balance adjustments to the item drop system
  • Reduced game download size

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where blue gnomes cannot grow grass while shooting grass bags from tank mode onto the right edge of the red team’s lawn
  • Fixed a bug where gnomes could dismount the mower and land on top of the braziers in jungle rumble
  • Fixed a seam in Jungle Rumble that was visible when playing in lower resolution settings
  • Fixed a bug where the SFX from the rotating fence in Gnomie-Go-Round would still play in the end game trophy screen
  • Fixed a bug where thrown items could clip through the gate in the fence in Gnomie-Go-Round
  • Fixed a bug where the mower out of gas SFX would keep playing on the end game trophy screen
  • Fixed two bugs related to the breakable tiles in A Lawn Way Down Mower would break a tile instantly when driving over it diagonally Mower would sometimes break a tile instantly when driving straight across the tile
  • Fixed a bug where the mower would lock up on an edge in A Lawn Way Down and slide back and forth along the edge on its own
  • Fixed a seam in A Lawn Way Down
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Fertilizer from despawning if it landed outside of a level
  • Fixed a bug where players who were stunned while holding a gas can could no longer pick the gas can up again
  • Fixed a bug where players could not pick up gas cans if they were thrown on top of the moving islands in Seas the Day
  • Fixed a bug that caused the gnome animation to break on the the Woodland Retreat Elevator
  • Fixed a bug that caused items to unexpectedly launch in a random direction if a player tries to pick up an item just before a care package lands on top of them
  • Fixed a bug that caused Fertilizer bags to unexpectedly launch in a random direction after it lands on the ground caused by someone breaking its care package via a thrown item

Known Bugs/Issues

  • Game crashes when a gnome is hit in the face with a rock while riding a mower. Specifically, this only happens on our minimum spec testing machine. If you encounter this bug, we would love to know your hardware so we find what is causing this bug!
  • Game freezes occasionally when playing in Woodland Retreat
  • Controllers can rumble uncontrollably when playing in Woodland Retreat
  • Gnomes who get knocked off a mower can occasionally get knocked back away from the mower after landing on the ground
  • Rocks that plant on the stationary border of the rotating fence section of Gnomie-Go-Round spin with the rotating fence
  • Aim arch and retical jitters when aiming at the moving platforms in Seas the Day
  • Grass bags and Fertilizer can bounce of the moving platforms in Seas the Day
  • Gnomes can get stuck in the rotating fence in Gnomie-Go-Round
  • Fertilizer bags will not plant after stunning a gnome occasionally
  • Items sometimes don’t follow the aim arch after throwing the item while the gnome is standing with a ledge or fence behind them
  • Sometimes players cannot pick up items that are on the elevator in Woodland Retreat
  • Grass does not grow from fertilizers when they land near the center fence on the blue team’s lawn in Seas the Day
  • Rocks that land on the ground after spawning from a care package that was broken via thrown object can no longer be picked up
  • Menu control for ‘everyone’ does not work in all menus