Barton Lynch Pro Surfing 2022
Update Notes for v.039
Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of change requests/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
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Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files, particularly with v.039. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.
PATCH v.039:
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🌊 KNOWN ISSUES
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U/WATER FOG GLITCH: Appears when the surfer is perpendicular to the wave on certain angles, u/ water fog allow the player to see through to the bottom.
SHORELINE WAVE COLLISION: noticeable that the surfer collision / physics does not accurately apply to the shoreline waves currently.
🌊 CHARACTER MODEL:
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FIXED: TOUR / FREE SURF: Also, the character textures fail occasionally fail in Free Surf when beginning on the beach.
FIXED: CUSTOM MALE AND FEMALE SKULLCAP: For males & females the skullcaps were occasionally drawing the wrong default
FIXED: Some of the custom male & female hair models were clipping through the models skull again
FIXED: Female custom models: eyebrow tint no longer worked
FIXED: Female custom models: fixed the default eye tint values as it was too dark
FIXED: D-Pad and fin unlock and save bug
ADDED: Puerto Rico to the list of Nationalities
FIXED: Surfer IK issue where feet occasionally pass through the board during pump and turns
🌊 LEADERBOARD:
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FIXED: The leaderboard Legends tables Combo scores were not tallying correctly.
FIXED: We were missing the combo scores entirely from the Global Leaderboard tables.
FIXED: adjusted Z Axis issue with the surfer appearing more perpendicular to the wave when performing wave moves than they should. Please note, this will not apply to current saves, only new game saves.
🌊 OPTIMISATION:
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FIXED: Re-instate the Graphics Options for the PC build
FIXED: (& still in progress): FPS: Optimize shaders and graphics for lower end PC's and consoles
🌊 LOADING:
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FIXED: Load loop: user enters character creator after a Tour round, and the game loops from character creator to main menu
FIXED: Load loop: when the user attempts to load a second character
🌊 REPLAYS:
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FIXED: adjusted Z Axis issue with the surfer appearing more perpendicular to the wave when performing wave moves than they should. Please note, this will not apply to current saves, only new game saves.
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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🌊 Memory management: implementation of new character creator code (near competition)
🌊 Adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in free-surfing (in progress)
🌊 Adding optimal take-off position for advanced users
🌊 Research adding A.I. to Free-surf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
🌊 Research adding Fan Hub to allow for custom character and Tour creation (in progress)
🌊 Steam Deck Compatibility UI issues
🌊 Research platform port options
🌊 (IN PROGRESS) PS4: PS4 testing. Set up PS4 settings correctly in order to test different water shaders
That's all for today.
The Bungarra team.
Patch v.38 News
We're releasing a graphics update, which we hope will be the first phase of a series of incremental and continued visual improvements within BL Pro Surfing. It's no exaggeration to say that this patch has been a slog to re-engineer and it's also fair to suggest, it's been anything but trivial. Anyone who knows anything about water graphics in video games can vouch for that :). We broke a bunch of our systems (and nearly our sanity!) during the course of this upgrade and aside from introducing new shaders and underlying code, just putting it all back together has been a mission. We hope that it's been worth it. There is still more to do but all things being equal, now we've got the bulk of this work in place, we should be able to update in smaller increments again and that the next couple of patches should be faster.
The next immediate goals are to get back on to some of the gameplay adjustments and upgrades. We've started work on some of these gameplay additions already and we hope to continue to improve and build out the experience. We are going hard at it.
We’d like to take this opportunity thank you for your continued feedback and support. We really do appreciate it.
Thank you,
Bungarra Software
Update notes for v.038
Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of change requests/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. This is a large change so if you have any suggestions or you stumble upon any bugs, please let us know in the Steam forum.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
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Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files, particularly with v.038. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.
INFORMATION ABOUT ONLINE GHOST MODE LEADERBOARD LEGENDS:
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Please note, if you have any current saved high score data stored then unfortunately this saved data had to be deleted as a result of the graphic upgrade. A re-engineered ocean, weather and lighting etc system has meant we have needed to recalibrate the online data. Again, apologies for this.
PATCH v.038:
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🌊 KNOWN ISSUES
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U/WATER FOG GLITCH: Appears when the surfer is perpendicular to the wave on certain angles, u/ water fog allow the player to see through to the bottom. This will be fixed.
SHORELINE WAVE COLLISION: noticeable that the surfer collision / physics does not accurately apply to the shoreline waves currently. This will be fixed.
🌊 CHARACTER CREATOR: "PS5 EDITOR BUG"
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FIXED: Fixed an issue where modifying deck-grip and fins for all three boards caused an error
🌊 GRAPHICS: CLOUDS
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R&D Investigate 3rd party packages to in order to replace custom volumetric cloud system
R&D Cloud testing: varying cloud lighting and layer tests
R&D: Research HDRI sky parameters
ADDED: Updated cloud settings, including colour, animation, positioning and intensity
RECONNECT: reconnect cloud system
ADDED: HDRI sky
🌊 GRAPHICS: LIGHTING
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R&D: Research shadows on the wave and water surface
R&D: Research character lighting
R&D: Research location lighting, dawn, midday, dusk
R&D: Research U/water scene lighting
ADDED: Shadows on the wave and water surface
ADDED: Real-time Character lighting updates in game
ADDED: Real-time Character lighting updates in character select menu
ADDED: Character cutscene lighting updates
ADDED: Real-time location lighting, dawn, midday, dusk
ADDED: U/water scene lighting
🌊 GRAPHICS: OCEAN SHADER
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R&D: Research the wave properly as it rolls across the ocean
R&D: Water shader implementation
R&D: Wave and water join implementation
R&D: World Lighting – experiment with new settings
R&D: Water colour – experiment with new settings
R&D: Shore-line waves first pass
R&D: Surfer spray values and lighting
R&D: Wave particle values and lighting
R&D: Foam: research the foam trail from the surfer in both paddle and surfing states
ADDED: Animate the wave properly as it rolls across the ocean. Requires making sure all the ocean co-ordinates plugged in to the new system properly from the Ocean Profiles
FIXED: Glitch at the top of the screen when duck diving
FIXED: Fix gaps between water and waves and implement individualized fixes per location
FIXED: Re-apply application of the correct wave sizes in the new shader
ADDED: Shore-line waves first pass added to each location
ADDED: Surfer spray values and lighting
ADDED: Wave particle values and lighting
ADDED: Foam: research the foam trail from the surfer in both paddle and surfing states
ADDED: Water colour settings to each location
ADDED: Refraction levels set
ADDED: Re-apply screen splashes
ADDED: Re-apply particle effect behind the board
FIXED: Ocean plane – general jittering needs to be removed / create new mesh for forward filler.
FIXED: SHORELINE WAVES: add shoreline waves to the scene. Andrew to go through each level and add the shoreline prefabs
FIXED: Ocean plane – collision issues in which the player passed through the first x 4 waves
FIXED: Ocean plane – add missing water sections. Create new mesh for forward filler.
🌊 GRAPHICS PHYSICS UPDATES
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FIXED: Make sure all floating objects use the new Water System ocean surface height for buoyancy
FIXED: PWC height & sinking u/water problem (ongoing)
FIXED: PWC rope & the leash were both broken (stretching out) and needed have their physics reapplied / fixed
🌊 GRAPHICS GAMEPLAY UPDATES
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FIXED: Rework the Surfers (player and AI) to use the Wave Position Texture Map so the AI can know where the next surfable wave is.
FIXED: leash animation is broken
🌊 PLATFORMS
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FIXED: FPS on PC is choppy / low
FIXED: PS5 hardware stressed as a result our software setup
ERRORS
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FIXED: Conditions Screen / Weather Tool: time of day string error
FIXED: Various load errors into Manly (initial shoreline test waves)
FIXED: Load loop Jeffrey’s Bay Contender Series > back to the main menu
FIXED: First person camera artifacts (shader issues)
FIXED: Margaret River Tour load
FIXED: Tokyo load back to the main menu
FIXED: Water plane collision problem through the waves
FIXED: Water plane – general jittering needs to be removed / create new mesh for forward filler.
FIXED: Weather Tool Fixes
FIXED: Snapper and Jeffrey’s Bay waves not rendering the particles in the correct areas on the wave
FIXED: Fix wet maps on the characters skin and costumes
FIXED: The A.I. jumping erratically on the Tour & Competition modes
FIXED: PS5 PWC Tow rope not rendering on that platform
FIXED: the error loading back to the main menu from each location (every mode)
FIXED: PS5 Character Creator: adjust lighting in the scene.
FIXED: Challenge - Simulation, edge case where for a broken surf board entering a challenge from the tour would result in a load loop.
FIXED: TOUR CUTSCENE MEMORY ISSUE: issue raised by Jay during tests
OPTIMISATIONS (ONGOING)
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FIXED: VRAM TEXTURES: reduce texture memory from 3G + to under 2G
FIXED: .ogg audio files exported to HDRP from new URP project
FIXED: VFX Optimisation
REPLAYS
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FIXED: We need to reimplement the waves during replays. They are now missing with the new water system
🌊 LOCATIONS
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FIXED: ALL LOCATIONS (excluding Manly) are missing key pieces of geometry and shader / materials
ADDED: U/water geometry and scenes to all locations
CHARACTER MODEL
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FIXED: Character costume wet map detection and levels broken
FIXED: Character hair wet map detection and blend shapes broken
WEATHER TOOL
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R&D: Options Menu: Weather Setting needs clouds & rain re-implementation
R&D: Wind direction needs to be reconnected / direction needs to be setup again per previous values
FIXED: Options Menu: Weather Setting needs clouds, rain, time of day re-implementation
FIXED (FIRST PASS): Wind direction needs to be reconnected / direction needs to be setup again per previous values
FIXED: Wind settings (water surface ruffle) – the physics for medium and strong waves need to be adjusted
FIXED: WEATHER TOOL DEFAULT SETTINGS (excluding Tour mode) need to be re-applied
FIXED: Random weather tool button within Free Surf
FIXED: Incorrect information displayed in the UI of the weather tool
CAMERA
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FIXED: CUTSCENE CAMERA: Default camera updated to new settings per mode
FIXED: CINEMACHINE: Tokyo cart camera is no longer working
AUDIO
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FIXED: 10 sec clock countdown audio stopped playing
FIXED: Rain / storm audio from the level did not clear at the end of a round and > into main menu.
FIXED: u/water wipeout audio did not clear and would continue to play
TUTORIAL
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FIXED: Scale down the hang loose hand image and place it correctly above the text.
FIXED: remove sprite black birds from the second wave area in the scene.
CHARACTER CREATOR
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(IN PROGRESS) CHARACTER CREATOR: Re-write
FIXED: HDRP RENDER TEXTURE PROBLEM: render texture is broken with our characters.
FIXED: HDRP CHARACTER CREATOR: We have a bunch of errors occurring in the character creator causing old bugs to reappear including:
FIXED: TOUR MODE START POSITION: fix the start position into a tour game
FIXED: END CUTSCNE TOUR MODE END POSITION: fix the end position into a tour game - Aileen’s particularly bad
FIXED: HDRP RENDER TEXTURE PROBLEM: render texture is broken with our characters.
FIXED: ONLINE DATABASE: Fix broken database & Andrew to re-import all of the A.I. again
FIXED: PC / PS5 / XBOX: Custom, Pro and the A.I. surfers need their colours adjusted
ANIMATION:
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ADDED: ANIMATION: running animation – we have had feedback that the running animation is poor. We need to improve the animation to make it look a little more natural / convincing – particularly in the upper body region.
ADDED: ANIMATION: character select scene
FIXED: AIR GRABS WIPEOUT: we had a problem where the code for wiping out from air grabs wasn’t being applied
MENU:
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FIXED: HDRP PHOTO SYSTEM: No or incorrect photos displaying for new characters and default photo image displaying for saved characters.
FIXED: PC / PS5 / XBOX: Tour and Single Session podium scenes not displaying sponsor images
FIXED: FREE SURF SCREEN: Contender Series issue where the Manly Free Surf image incorrectly rendered in each scene
FIXED: NO TRANSLATION STRING ERROR: We also have a no translation string error that is now appearing on the J-Bay opening globe cutscene.
GHOST MODE
FIXED: ONLINE DATABASE: Fix broken database & re-import all of the data
FIXED: ONLINE DATABASE: system to handle new wave. Will involve setting up a new upload build
🌊 FIXED: edge case PC specific crash bug for new saves
A.I.:
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🌊 FIXED: PWC failing to enable the A.I. to head back out to the play area after a single score had occurred
CHARACTER MODEL:
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🌊 FIXED: wet map not being applied correctly to 2 piece costumes (tops)
GAME UI (OPTIONS):
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FIXED: KPH/MPH not getting set correctly within the Options
FIXED: Graphic Settings (resolution and window mode)
FIXED: Game Difficulty for Steam clients failing
FIXED: UI: certain UI circular images appear as square images and lost their alpha
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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🌊 Memory management: implementation of new character creator code (near competition)
🌊 Adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in free-surfing (in progress)
🌊 Adding optimal take-off position for advanced users
🌊 Research adding A.I. to Free-surf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
🌊 Research adding Fan Hub to allow for custom character and Tour creation (in progress)
🌊 Steam Deck Compatibility UI issues
🌊 Research platform port options
🌊 (IN PROGRESS) PS4: PS4 testing. Set up PS4 settings correctly in order to test different water shaders
That's all for today.
The Bungarra team.
Online Server Outage
Unfortunately, we received an email last night from our service provider. They are the people who host our online servers and they have suffered a recent outage. As a result, our in-game player data has been lost.
This affects online leaderboard scores, times etc, only. It does not include any personal data whatsoever.
However, rest assured that we are on the case and are aiming to restore our systems, and this will take us approximately one week to accomplish.
We’d like to take this opportunity to apologize for the inconvenience, and to thank you for your understanding in this matter.
We’ve been overwhelmed with the positive reception we’ve received since we launched Barton Lynch Pro Surfing back in November last year, and we look forward to continuing to support our game to provide the best surfing experience possible to our players.
As soon as the system has been restored, we’ll be sure to make another announcement right here. So please stay tuned.
Thank you,
Bungarra Software
Patch Release v0.37
Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of change requests/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. If you have any suggestions/bugs that you stumble upon, please let us know in the Steam forum.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
_____________________________
Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.
PATCH v.037:
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CHARACTER CREATOR:
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🌊 FIXED: edge case PC specific crash bug for new saves
A.I.:
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🌊 FIXED: PWC failing to enable the A.I. to head back out to the play area after a single score had occurred
CHARACTER MODEL:
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🌊 FIXED: wet map not being applied correctly to 2 piece costumes (tops)
GAME UI (OPTIONS):
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FIXED: KPH/MPH not getting set correctly within the Options
FIXED: Graphic Settings (resolution and window mode)
FIXED: Game Difficulty for Steam clients failing
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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🌊 Memory management: Stability issue on the Xbox S (in progress)
🌊 Research water shader graphics (in progress)
🌊 Research adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in free-surfing (in progress)
🌊 Research adding A.I. to Free-surf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
🌊 Research adding Fan Hub to allow for custom character and Tour creation
🌊 Steam Deck Compatibility UI issues
🌊 Research platform port options
- General QA bug list
That's all for today.
The Bungarra team.
Patch Release v.036
Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of change requests/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. If you have any suggestions/bugs that you stumble upon, please let us know in the Steam forum.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
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Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.
END ROUND FUNCTION:
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‘🌊’ ADDED: End run function to allow the user to end a round at their choice.
ARCADE MODE:
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‘🌊’ FIXED: Challenges / Arcade Mode - Single Session > Manly, after riding a way to the end the user unintentionally gets put onto the 2nd Peak.
‘🌊’ FIXED: Challenges / Arcade Mode - Shack Attack - Mundaka, the fade would occasionally occlude the screen when attempting to stand on a wave.
‘🌊’ FIXED: Challenges / Arcade Mode - any modes, when the player entered the equipment scene and the round ended, the fade would not clear.
MAIN MENU:
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‘🌊’ FIXED: Challenges / Simulation Type pop-up, pressing B button (back) would not go back to main menu but instead proceed into 'Arcade'.
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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‘🌊’ Memory management: Stability issue on the Xbox S (in progress)
‘🌊’ Research water shader graphics (in progress)
‘🌊’ Research adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in free-surfing (in progress)
‘🌊’ Research adding A.I. to Free-surf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
‘🌊’ Research adding Fan Hub to allow for custom character and Tour creation
‘🌊’ Steam Deck Compatibility UI issues
‘🌊’ Research platform port options
- General QA bug list
That's all for today.
The Bungarra team.
Patch Release v.035
Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of change requests/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. If you have any suggestions/bugs that you stumble upon, please let us know in the Steam forum.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
_____________________________
Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.
SCORE:
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🌊 FIXED: PERFECT 10’S SCORE BUG: Scores from one heat are occasionally being applied to another almost immediately when 10’s are scored. Issue related to a combination of the tube scoring and PWC interaction
INTERFERENCE:
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🌊 FIXED: INTERFERENCE BUG: the interferences were not consistently applying the penalty to the player
🌊 FIXED: INTERFERENCE BUG: altered UI message to an “An interference has occured” to allow for all all interference instances
ARCADE MODE:
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🌊 ADDED ARCADE MODE: added a quicker player Arcade mode component to both Challenges and Free Surf modes
🌊 FIXED: TOUR MODE: when the user entered tour mode, the arcade mode gameplay was incorrectly being applied.
🌊 FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS: Ghost Mode also has the arcade mode applied to it incorrectly
🌊 ADDED: CHALLENGE MODE POPUP: we needed to update the localized message for Challenge Modes
🌊 ADDED: FREE SURF MODE POPUP: we needed to update the localized message for Free Surf Mode
POV CAMERA:
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🌊 FIXED: Hossegor Round 3 FOV problem with camera if the user leaves the cutscene to run its course without clicking through
NPC CUTSCENES:
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FIXED: Hossegor – problem with NPC’s walking into the walls during the cutscene.
UI:
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CHANGED: change the UI wipeout message from “Upsidedown Landing” to “Bad Landing” so that the terminology captures all scenarios.
FIXED: In Tour > Contender Series, the mid tier Contender Series selections displayed incorrect prize money amounts.
FIXED: In Tour > Contender Series, the wrong cutscene information was displaying as a result of recent arcade changes to Challenge Modes
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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🌊 Research water shader graphics (in progress)
🌊 Research adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in freesurfing (in progress)
🌊 Research adding A.I. to Freesurf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
🌊 Research adding Fan Hub to allow for custom character and Tour creation
🌊 Steam Deck Compatability UI issues
🌊 Research platform port options
- General QA bug list
That's all for today.
The Bungarra team.
Patch Release v.034
We would like to take the opportunity to say thank you very much for your support, amd we hope this year’s season fills you up with the things that mean most to you and energizes you for a happy and healthy new year.
Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of change requests/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. If you have any suggestions/bugs that you stumble upon, please let us know in the Steam forum.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
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Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.
CAMERA:
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🌊 ADDED: POV camera
🌊 ADDED: 3RD person camera that better tracks the player and allows for near POV perspective. Ability to get a lot closer to the character
🌊 FIXED: WET MAP / CHARACTERS HEAD: As a result of new camera addition, the wet map on the characters head stopped working. The head remained dry & the body wet
🌊 FIXED: As a result of POV addition, 3RD person camera – when exiting the tube, the camera broke and behaved erratically.
🌊 FIXED: WET MAP / CHARACTERS HEAD: As a result of new camera addition, the wet map on the characters head stopped working. Head remained dry / the body wet
🌊 FIXED: POV camera – needs to take into account the end cutscenes as the camera broke when leaving the scene in POV.
🌊 FIXED: POV camera – limit the cameras rotation so that the camera won’t rotate through the player’s body
🌊 FIXED: POV camera – As a result of new camera addition, restarts failed to render the head correctly
🌊 *POSSIBLE FIX* Walk on water bug as a result of new camera addition. Ongoing monitoring.
CHALLENGE MODE UI:
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🌊 FIXED: PS5 - Challenges: After completing Air Show, the user uploaded the score. When the score finished uploading there was quite a few pop-ups appearing incorrectly via Air Challenge
LEADERBOARD LEGENDS UI:
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🌊 FIXED: Leaderboard Legends - modified the scoring to ensure accuracy with coinciding with specific tricks and scores as they were performed
CHARACTER CREATOR:
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🌊 FIXED: Blend shape issue with branded fins and certain gun surfboards not fitting correctly
AUDIO MENU:
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FIXED: Round 4 Hossegor win audio file played the incorrect audio.
TIPS MENU:
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ADDED: Tip: You can enter first person mode by pressing (RS)
OPTIONS MENU:
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ADDED: Options we need to display the D-Pad right and left shoulder information in the Options screen as a tip.
UPDATED: Controller image to display updated music and camera functionality.
GAMEPLAY:
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ADDED: D-PAD CONTROL ADJUST: re-assign Right & Left shoulder camera to the D-Pad left and right buttons. Music moved to Left and Right buttons to D-Pad in pause
🌊 FIXED: Manly, Hossegor & J-Bay errant NPC's walking in odd spots
LEADERBOARD:
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FIXED: Global Leaderboard > Single Session > Mundaka: clear incorrect score displaying for one of the records.
FIXED: Leaderboards > Global Leaderboards > Big Wave. On Big Wave, if the user changes location, the scores on the table are all empty
FIXED: Challenge > Air Show - Upload scores from Air Show displaying in Leaderboard Legends but not in Global Leaderboards
FIXED: Global Leaderboard > All modes should (from this update onward) display Combo Score totals
CHALLENGE MODES:
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🌊 FIXED: Occassional black screen render issue coming into a level in Challenge Modes.
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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🌊 Research water shader graphics (in progress)
🌊 Research adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in freesurfing (in progress)
🌊 Research extending the heat time (longer term)
🌊 Research adding A.I. to Freesurf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
🌊 Research adding Fan Hub to allow for custom character and Tour creation
🌊 Score bug issue not clearing into the next round
General QA bug list
That's all for today.
The Bungarra team.
Patch Release v.033
Note that post release, we will continue to update builds and add certain features as we have to date. It's business as usual and no changes to our approach with either feedback or updates.
Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of change requests/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. If you have any suggestions/bugs that you stumble upon, please let us know in the Steam forum.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
_____________________________
Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.
MENU UI:
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‘🌊’ FIXED: Challenge > Single Session, after playing a round in World Tour, the user was not able to play Challenges as they would get an upload warning message
- FIXED: XSX - Main Menu, accessing Change User a second time caused the popup message to remain and not clear.
OPTIONS MENU UI:
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‘🌊’ FIXED: All UI elements can now be cleared from the screen and reinstated accurately
CHARACTER CREATOR:
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‘🌊’ FIXED: World Surf Tour - entering the character creator and spamming the broken board area caused the surfboard menu to become unresponsive.
‘🌊’ FIXED: Prize surfboards within the menu were not correct applied for certain boards
‘🌊’ FIXED: The fix for elements within the character creator caused the player stats menu to become unresponsive.
GAMEPLAY:
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‘🌊’ FIXED: End of the wave wipeouts when the profile has closed out. Previously wiping the player out when no wave was visible
‘🌊’ FIXED: Scoring in the barrel updated. Scoring in the barrel is now alloted a score, and multiplied again if a tube move is registered
LEADERBOARD:
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FIXED: Global Leaderboard > Single Session > Mundaka: clear incorrect score displaying for one of the records.
FIXED: Leaderboards > Global Leaderboards > Big Wave. On Big Wave, if the user changes location, the scores on the table are all empty
FIXED: Challenge > Air Show - Upload scores from Air Show displaying in Leaderboard Legends but not in Global Leaderboards
CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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‘🌊’ Adding POV and first person game camera (in progress)
‘🌊’ Adding ability for players to lock camera positions (longer term)
‘🌊’ Research water shader graphics (in progress)
‘🌊’ Research adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in freesurfing (longer term)
‘🌊’ Research extending the heat time (longer term)
‘🌊’ Research adding A.I. to Freesurf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
- General QA bug list
That's all for today.
The Bungarra team.
Early Access
Hey thanks for taking an interest in BL Pro Surfing. 32 iterations later, and we are leaving Early Access today. Although its been a much longer journey than we anticipated, it has been for the better. The direct feedback we've received from you has helped make BL Pro Surfing a more solid and viable game, than when entered into EA. Without your direct input, we seriously would not have even been able to get to this point. We are genuinely grateful and humbled by the early access experience. Is there more to do? Yes. So things like adding a first person camera, or refining the Steam Deck experience. So this is not a victory lap, nor are we making any bold claims. For our small team, this is just a mini milestone that has been reached and we aiming to continue to improve the experience. So we are now getting on with the business of fixing and adding more of the features that you have asked for and we're in it for the long haul. Surfing is a really hard game to build.
So nothing changes and its business as usual. We'll be fixing, and updating and adding more content as we have done since our very first day one of EA.