We’ve been very busy working on Living Lobby and started production on our next Game World, Zombie Massacre. You can read all about that here: The Road Ahead: July 2017
But, while that’s going on, we wanted to get a nice big patch out for everyone.
The biggest change to this update are the increased payouts in Game Worlds and Lobby Games!
Major Changes
- New Plaza server browser. Now displays all Plaza servers by region and will display all official servers always
- Improved joining servers from Steam friends
- Adjusted Game World payouts: 80% average increase
- Adjusted Plaza games payouts: 60% average increase
- Payout Added: Bowling - 4th Place and Below
- Payout Added: Trivia - 4th Place and Below
- Payout Added: Trivia - All Questions Correct
- Payout Added: Typing Derby - 4th Place and Below
- Payout Added: Typing Derby - Perfect (100 word combo)
- Payout Added: Virus - 4th Place and Below
- Payout Added: Ball Race - 4th Place and Below
- Payout Adjusted: Virus - Biohazard minimum players required reduced to 2 from 3
- Payout Adjusted: Ball Race - Collected Melons max increased from 20 to 40
Changes
- Added the ability to walk with in Lobby (you’ll have to bind this to a key, we suggest ALT)
- Updated friend list UI. Replaced the drop down context with an easier dropdown
- Added a joining UI message when joining servers from Steam
Lobby Changes
- Added Steam friends section to the Lobby/Condo scoreboard
- Store UI was updated slightly. Stores that do not have preview pedestals will appear in the center of the screen
- Laser Tag: Added better hit feedback and tagged out feedback to crosshair
- Laser Tag: Improved HUD and eliminated HUD events
- Flashlight is now disabled while in the Casino
Condo Changes
- Condo physics items now collide with players (you can kick things around)
- Condos now ask before overwriting an existing snapshot
- Condo canvas surfaces (walls, ceilings, etc.) no longer have a canvas bump map applied to them and are clean and are now simply the URL image
- Potato Gun projectile potatoes now collide with Basketballs and other Condo physics items
- Potato Gun projectile potatoes now properly bounce on Trampolines
- Potato Gun projectile potatoes don’t remove as often while in the air
- Trampoline is now colorable
- Flying Turtle is no longer visible in first person
- Vault Door now has sounds
- Adjusted Grey Carpet texture for Condos to use new tiling carpet texture because we totally didn’t lose the old one or anything
- Players (who are not the host) can now move their own spawned items in the Item Playground
- Placeable inventory tab no longer shows up while in Item Playground (because you can’t place those items down anyways)
Ball Race Changes
- Khromidro: Extended the time on Level 4 from 70 seconds to 90 seconds
Virus Changes
- Virus: Added better hit feedback to crosshair
Minigolf Changes
- Sweet Tooth: Players should no longer get stuck on the blue wall that moves up and down on holes 18, 6, and 9
- Sweet Tooth: Reduced the light-map data on Sweet Tooth, which will take up less hard drive space and slightly increase load times and performance.
Bug Fixes
- Ball Race - Khromidro: Fixed kill volumes sometimes not activating when falling off the level
- Minigolf - Sweet Tooth: Reduced the chances of being flung out of the spiral turn in hole 16
- Minigolf - Sweet Tooth: Fixed an issue where players can get stuck next to the booster pad in hole 16
- Minigolf - Sweet Tooth: Fixed an issue where players could land on the candy lily-pads and get stuck
- Minigolf - Sweet Tooth: Fixed an issue where players would sometimes get stuck floating above the final hole in hole 18
- Minigolf - Sweet Tooth: Reduced the chances of phasing through the giant mixer in hole 15
- Minigolf - Alpine: Fixed moving walls disappearing on low draw distance settings on Hole 15
- Minigolf - Altitude: Hole 18 is now a lot more predictable, which should mean less players randomly falling off the level
- Virus - Subway: Fixed camping spot near the rear stairs
- Little Crusaders - Amphitheatre & Market: Fixed some camping spots reported by players
- Little Crusaders: Fixed a bug where the hit notifications (like the ones used in Laser Tag and Virus) would play while in Little Crusaders
- Laser Tag: Fixed scoreboard not displaying
- Condo - Suite: Fixed sunlight leaking through walls
- Condo - Condo: Improved light attenuation radii
- You can no longer click on your own profile on the scoreboard or chat
- Fixed a bug where flying pets (Flying Turtle) would not always appear
- Fixed Firework UFO not taking off well
- Fixed small collision issues with Victorian Couch Chair, Toy Train, and Race Car Bed
- Fixed “Trash” showing up twice on inventory tooltips for items in the trash state
- Fixed Golden Watch item not making crabs fully golden
- Fixed a bug where you could sell items that were in the trash state
- Fixed a bug with the Item Playground editor closing wrongly after setting the filter
#UPCOMING UPDATES
You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap
You can follow our daily logs here:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/daily-dev-logs
You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report
Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
