Changed the position and timing of some tutorial steps
Changed the way some mechanics are introduced to the player
Added some gameplay opportunities during the tutorial
Quick Play
Added a new Quick Play menu that will appear whenever leaving the Dojo
Added the ability to quickly teleport to any gameplay area in the game through Quick Play
Added the ability to skip the outside tutorial by instantly teleporting to the game mode chosen in the Dojo tutorial
Added a home button to the Ninja Scroll's Home Screen to quickly access the Quick Play menu
General
Set the initial load position whenever loading up the game to inside the Dojo
Made the back door in the Archery Area openable
Improved performance while the Ninja Scroll is open
Improved performance during Wave Master and Chaos Mode
Mission Update!
1.10.1 Update post
Attention, Ninjas! With the 1.10.1 update, we bring to you heaps of juicy missions, an entirely new way of playing Fruit Ninja VR, and a whole rack of divine weapons!
New Missions
Explore our new and improved mission system, uncover all the secrets of Fruitasia, and discover new epic rewards. Make sure you conquer all the challenges to become a true Fruit Ninja Master!
Any Weapon, Any Mode
Ever played classic mode with a crossbow? No? Well now you can! Weapons are no longer restricted to their original modes. Play around with all the weapons in any game mode to unsheath new possibilities of utilising your ol’ weapons!
New Gear
Get ready to slice and dice in style! Our latest weapon update for Fruit Ninja in VR is here, bringing a dazzling array of cosmetic weapons to elevate your fruit-slicing experience to a whole new level.
General
Does the sky look a little different today? That’s right, the skybox just got an upgrade! Enjoy the new view of the Fruit Ninja world.
Bug fixes
Fixed a hand rotation issue with the bow
Fixed issues with the leaderboard top 50 animation
Fixed visual issues with environment loading
Fixed skeet shooting in the archery path
Fixed golden fruits in the the archery path
1.10.1 Patch Notes
New Mission System
Reworked the mission system structure to give more direction and better rewards
Revamped the mission panel UI
Added over forty new missions
Any Weapon Any Mode
Added the ability to bring any combination of weapons into any game mode
Added indicators to all leaderboard scores to display what weapons were used to set them
New Weapons
Extended the racks in the Dojo to hold the new weapons
Added two new sais (Holy Sia and Crescent Sai)
Added three new blades (Butterfly Blade, Legendary Blade and Sun Blade)
Added a new bow (Butterfly Bow)
Added a new crossbow (Cookie Crossbow)
New Skybox
Added a new skybox with more land features to showcase the world of Fruitasia
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue with the skeet shooting minigame on the Archery Path
Fixed an issue with the golden fruits on the Archery Path
Fixed a hand rotation issue with the bow
Fixed issues with the leaderboard top 50 animation
Fixed visual issues with environment loading
1.10.0 Crossbow Update
Crossbow Update!
Our first major content update brings new locations, weapons, three new game modes and more!
New Weapons
Experience fruit destruction in a stylish new way with the crossbow!
New Area
Don't let the cool atmosphere fool you, this new area holds a ton of crossbow shooting action!
Three New Gamemodes
Play with the new crossbow weapon in three new repeatable game modes: Wave Master, Perfect Form and Chaos Mode!
Challenge Mode Leaderboard Update
We've reworked the end game flow to show off the top 50 ninjas for each challenge mode level. You'll see some cool animations when you reach the top 50, so get slicing!
1.10.0 Patch Notes
New Weapon
Added the new crossbow weapon
Added one collectable crossbow skin (more on the way!)
Added crossbows to the dojo
Added a new armory tab for crossbows
Added crossbow spawners around the world
New Area
Added a new crossbow area that branches off the archery path
Added new golden fruit to find within the area
Added the new area and teleport location to the map
New Game Modes
Added three new crossbow game modes to the new area:
Wave Master
Chaos Mode
Perfect Form
Added new leaderboards for each game mode
Added new missions and achievements for each game mode
Challenge Leaderboard Improvements
Added a new screen to the end of all blade/bow challenge levels that will display the Top 50 scores of that level
Added an animated sequence for any new scores that progress into the Top 50
General
Reworked the tutorial to allow new players access to the new crossbow area without needing to select the archery path
Reworked the inventory display on the Ninja Scroll’s home panel
Replaced armory tab names with relevant sprites
Rebalanced ambient audio around the entire game
Rebalanced audio during gameplay
Bug Fixes
Fixed a critical issue where fruit could sometimes fall under the map and could cause games to last indefinitely
Fixed an issue that reset the movement setting for players that use Smooth locomotion whenever they entered the Social Hub
Fixed an issue where slicing a bomb in Classic would cause a 0 to appear
Fixed an issue that caused Z-fighting on the Ninja Scroll while in the Dojo
First Post-Release Update!
Post-Release Update #1
You'll find extended customization, fruit indicators, social features & more in our first post-release update!
Extended Customization Options
We’ve expanded your customization options with brand new eye and skin customizations. Additionally, you can now see your chosen outfit and skin colour in single player!
Offscreen Fruit Indicators
Ported from Fruit Ninja 1 per popular request, this feature will point towards any fruit or bombs that are offscreen! These indicators can be changed to show all offscreen fruit or turned off completely from the settings menu.
Social Features
We’ve expanded the social features in the social hub! You can now invite your friends to your lobby, start private lobbies and view your friends multiplayer status with Deep Presence.
Chinese & Korean Language Support
Chinese and Korean language support has been fully integrated and is accessible from the Language settings menu.
Tutorial Improvements
A few sections of the tutorial have been reworked to improve clarity and reduce the chance of players losing direction.
Bug Fixes
Multiple bugs for multiplayer and singleplayer have been fixed.
Join our Community!
Connect with other Fruit Ninjas around the world, meet the developers, and provide your feedback on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/fnvr2
1.9.3 Patch Notes
Character Customisation
Added in face and skin character customisation options
Outfit customisation improvements
Tutorial Improvements
Added in helpful indicators for various tutorial steps
Multiplayer
Added in Public and Private Lobbies feature
Added an invite to lobby feature
Localisation
Added Korean language option
Added Chinese language option
Offscreen Fruit Indicators
Added in feature request for offscreen fruit and bomb indicators in gameplay
Bug Fixes
Fixed various Multiplayer bugs
Improved various Multiplayer systems
2023 Update Roadmap
Now that Fruit Ninja VR 2 has been fully released, the team will be putting their all into consistent support for the game. We’re going to continue creating awesome content updates for all ninjas to enjoy.
The team has put together a roadmap for the rest of 2023 to give you all a sneak peak on what to expect! Some things on the roadmap may be shifted around depending on player reception and our own internal processes.
As you can see, we have a lot of exciting things planned for 2023. We'll will be putting a lot of focus on player freedom this year to allow ninjas to stab, slice and play however they like!
We’re delighted by the positive reception Fruit Ninja VR 2 has received following its full release. The team hopes our players will be just as delighted by the updates we release this year.
--The Fruit Ninja VR 2 Team
1.9.2 Patch Notes
Cross-Play
Cross-Play between all platforms has been implemented, play with ninjas from all over!
General
Added loading screen tips and tricks
Added context popups to communicate when the player is disconnected from multiplayer.
Sensei & Gutsu cutouts have been added to the Social Hub. Jump in and take some whacky pictures with other ninjas!
Training Poles have been added to the Social Hub.
Fruit Cannons in the Social Hub have been repositioned to allow for side by side blade & archery practice.
Performance
The game will now compile it's shaders during the load screen the first time the game is launched, leading to a smoother experience with less framerate hitches.
Improved performance in the Bamboo Path, Gutsu’s Lagoon, Archery Path & Social Hub.
Improved performance of the Ninja Scroll & menus throughout the game.
Improved performance when the player places weapons in their backpack.
Getting blitz in Arcade no longer causes a dip in framerate.
Bug Fixes
[General] The player can now shoot arrows to activate buttons in Classic, Arcade, Zen & Blade Challenge modes.
[General] Fixed the fruit cannons that would appear to shoot with no fruit coming out in Arcade & Zen modes.
[General] Fixed a bug that caused smoke to sometimes appear on fruit cannons when the player sliced a fruit
[General] Fixed a bug that stopped the Fruit Salad Complete achievement from unlocking.
[General] Notifications for unlocking Classic, Arcade & Zen will now appear on the Ninja Scroll.
[General] Highlighting an object when starting a game mode will no longer keep it highlighted.
[General] Restarting the game no longer causes the wrong weapons to display on the home tab of the Ninja Scroll.
[General] Fast travelling while a game mode is ending no longer causes the player location in the Ninja Scroll to be stuck.
[General] Fixed a bug that caused the Ninja Scroll to become unresponsive.
[General] Fixed various missing or broken collision throughout the map.
[Mission/Achievement] The player is now able to unlock the Master Blade & Bow by achieving a rank of -A or higher in all challenge levels.
[Mission/Achievement] Dragon’s Breath achievement no longer causes audio to replay itself.
[Roomscale] Fixed being able break the Blade Challenges' UI if the player moved past the board physically in the play space and paused the game.
[Roomscale] Fixed being able to break game modes by physically moving moving out of the gameplay area and resuming the game.
[Roomscale] Fixed the player being able to physically move outside the Start Screen area.
[Roomscale] Fixed the player getting stuck if they physically moved in their play space while entering the Social Hub.
[Roomscale] Blink distance is now consistent regardless of where you are in your play space.
[Locomotion] Fixed a number of areas that caused the player to get stuck when using Blink as a movement option.
[Locomotion] Fixed a bug in the Ninja Scroll that would break moving with the blink option.
[Blade Challenges] Fixed an issue in the Fruit Copter challenge levels that caused bombs to sometimes not explode when hitting the player.
[Blade Challenges] Blades will now correctly deflect bombs in Fruit Copter levels.
[Blade Challenges] Fixed a bug that caused incorrect leaderboards to be displayed when quickly switching between levels.
[Blade Challenges] Adjusted some UI styling to be more consistent with the rest of the game.
[Classic] Fixed a bug that caused the UI in Classic Mode to break if the player fast travels at the end of a game.
[Classic] Fixed an issue that caused waves to be delayed.
[Archery] Fixed the player having two bows stuck in their hands if they pick up a bow in their right hand and use it to start the game.
[Archery] Bows will now correctly reset its orientation when letting go of the arrow.
[Archery] Fixed some cliffs in the Archery Range that had broken shading.
[Arcade] Fixed the frenzy banana sometimes spawning too few fruit.
[Arcade] Arcade now displays the correct bonus rewards at the end of a game.
[Arcade] Fixed a bug that caused the UI in Arcade Mode to break if the player fast travels at the end of a game.
[Tutorial] Fixed the player incorrectly spawning on the wrong side of the Archery Gate if they restarted the game during the tutorial.
[Tutorial] Fixed a bug which allowed the player to put a weapon in their backpack before reaching the correct step in the tutorial.
[Tutorial] Fixed the player unlocking quick travel for Gutsu’s Lagoon without having entered the area.
[Tutorial] Fixed a bug which caused music to play in the incorrectly when restarting the game during the tutorial.
[Audio] Fixed issues that caused music tracks to play in the wrong environments.
[Audio] Fixed some audio being controlled by the incorrect volume slider.
[Audio] Fixed the Social Hub doors' audio being stuck on loop.
[Audio] The Ninja Scroll closing sound effect will no longer play unexpectedly when leaving the Social Hub.
[Audio] Fixed some audio that would only play in one ear.
[Audio] Fixed a bug that sometimes caused music to not play in Archery Challenge Levels.
[Gutsu’s Cart] Fixed newly purchased weapons disappearing from the player’s hand if they move too far from the shop.
[Gutsu’s Cart] Fixed the shop displaying the “Not enough Star fruits” if the player takes a weapon too far from the shop.
[Gutsu’s Cart] Fixed an issue with purchasing a weapon that would cause controllers to keep vibrating after clearing notifications.
[Gutsu’s Cart] The shopping list will now properly clear when the player fast travels away and returns.
[Gutsu’s Cart] Fixed a bug that caused the player’s hand to remain stuck on the BUY rope.
[Gutsu’s Cart] Fixed an issue that caused audio to loop with interacting with sai’s in the shop.
[Localization] Fixed some issues which led to missing or incorrect translations.
[Multiplayer] Ghosted players will no longer have their particle effects still be visible.
[Multiplayer] Voice Chat volume and fall-off has been adjusted to improve clarity.
[Multiplayer] Apples in Apple Head will now slice in the correct orientation respective to the arrow trajectory.
[Multiplayer] The host will no longer see ghost apples being sliced when players steal the apple.
[Multiplayer] Fixed an issue that caused players to not properly disconnect when the Host loses connection.
[Multiplayer] Entering and leaving the Quit Menu while holding a weapon no longer consumes to the weapon.
[Multiplayer] Improved fruit collision.
[Multiplayer] Bows now display their correct arrow trail effect.
[Multiplayer] Fruit halves no longer disappear when you hit them with a blade in multiplayer.
[Multiplayer] Options in the Social Tab of the Ninja Scroll are now correctly synced with the Player Board.
[Multiplayer] Fixed a bug that caused players to be disconnected back to single player if they left and entered the Social Hub too quickly.
[Multiplayer] Leaving an arrow drawn on a bow no longer causes the trajectory line to disappear in multiplayer.
[Multiplayer] The Ninja Scroll is no longer visible while playing Apple Head.
[Multiplayer] Bullseye sound effect is now properly synced across all players in the Social Hub.
[Multiplayer] The bamboo fence in the Social Hub no longer clips through the stairs.
[Multiplayer] The bow trajectory line no longer flickers when snap turning in Multiplayer.
[Multiplayer] Fixed an issue that sometimes blocked shields from spawning in the Social Hub.
[Multiplayer] The trajectory line no longer gets stuck in the air if the player drops of the bow while drawing an arrow.
[Multiplayer] Improved audio fall off of fruit slicing and player voices in Social Hub.
[Multiplayer] Fixed a bug that caused arrows to float behind a player if they were moving too fast when shot.
[Multiplayer] Players are no longer disconnected if they are standing next to the doors when another player exits the Social Hub.
[Multiplayer] Fixed a bug that caused the shields in Apple Head to sometimes spawn as the wrong faction.
[Training Poles] Fruit in the Training Poles minigame will no longer disappear when knocked off the totems.
Fruit Ninja VR 2 is leaving Early Access soon!
With the upcoming 1.9.2 update and timed with our release on the Quest Store, we will be officially leaving Steam Early Access. Update 1.9.2 brings a massive list of performance improvements, bug fixes & support for Crossplay!
Steam Price Increase 06/04/2023
On 6th April 2023, we will be increasing the base price of Fruit Ninja VR 2 from $20 to $25 USD. This is an adjustment to bring the price in line with the Quest Store & reflect the game being out of Early Access.
Coming to the Quest Store!
We're thrilled to announce that Fruit Ninja VR 2 is coming to the Quest Store on April 6th! We've been hard at work over the past few months to ensure that the game runs smoothly on Quest 2 and are confident that our efforts will make for an even better experience on all supported platforms, ensuring that you'll have the best possible experience with every slice.
What's next?
Leaving Steam Early Access is a big milestone for us, but it's just the beginning! We have plenty of plans for new content and exciting Fruit Ninja action, including a new mode and weapon type that will be released after our launch on the Quest store and departure from Early Access.
Thank you!
We have some exciting things to share with you all very soon and the team is incredibly grateful for your support throughout Early Access. Thank you for joining us on this journey, and we can't wait to see old and new ninjas jumping into Fruit Ninja VR 2. Get your ninja gear ready, it's time to slice some fruit!
