Detailed Patch Notes

• Added player rank (number of challenges completed) beside player names in game
  
• New multiplayer sync system dramatically reduces the amount of data sent to allow larger lobbies in the future
  
• Added new Angel costume
  
• Added SSAA anti-aliasing for high end graphics cards (1070/1080s)
  
• Fixed bloom
  
• Added new playset art
  
• Fix beakers misplaced in school atrium
  
• Workshop buttons (Custom Games and Languages) filter by their type
  
• Game defaults to Exclusive Full Screen for more performant default
  
• Fix rare error when pressing “G”
  
• Redesign or update football jersey, viking helmet, crossbow, dark star, laser sword models
  

Modkit - Updated To Unity 2018

• Updated modkit to use Unity 2018.2.8f1. You will need to download this version of Unity to use the latest modkit. For upgrading, I would strongly recommend starting a fresh project with the new modkit, and then copying over any scene or mesh data you want.
  
• Portals can select different game mode based on player’s held item. (Place GrabbableItem with KeyId=Red in world and add GameModeTweak with RequiredKey=Red to GameModeContainer.) This replaces how buddy mode used to work.
  
• Add named objects and NOT_PLAYER condition to ActivateTrigger
  

Detailed Patch Notes

• Upgraded core engine to Unity 2018. Major performance improvements
  
• Added checkpoint VFX that visually guides you to the next checkpoint
  
• Added new Devil outfit
  
• Thrown objects now bounce an appropriate amount
  
• Improved the consistency of surf by ensuring you leave the surface in the direction you are looking
  
• Added new distance fog on low-end graphics, greatly improves performance
  
• Fixed lava rocks in school that, at high speeds, caused players to abruptly stop
  
• Fixed angled mats in school gym causing movement issues
  
• Fixed floating mats in school gym
  
• Fixed jump animation not playing in low framerate situations
  
• School tweaks to reduce the difficulty in the acid section in course #5
  
• Lava world card in storage shelf of school kitchen is now easier to get
  
• Boost meter now has an effect letting you know when it has been maxed
  
• Players will exit surf in the direction they are looking more consistently
  
• Fix emote popup when selling duplicate emotes
  
• Fix no sound when clicking on emotes
  
• Switch between fullscreen modes in-game: exclusive, borderless, windowed.
  
• Fix course portal names were rarely untranslated
  
• Make more strings translatable
  
• Fix mixed up input axes strings
  
• Light map fix ups in School
  
• A touched pursuit object slows down if it gets too far away instead of killing you
  
• Add support for right-to-left translation mods
  
• Better translation mod error messages in output_log.txt
  
• Fix buddy not appearing in buddy replays (only fixes new replays)
  
• Leaderboards will now clean up removed friends after a short time
  
• Increased the LoD distance for certain grabbable items
  
• Fixed alignment issue when throwing items downward
  
• Hide items that are impossible to earn in Customize screen
  
• Checkpoint trail SFX
  
• Updated Boosting SFX
  

Translations

Custom Levels

Modkit Update

Community Tournament

Award Items

Developer Stream

Hot Lava Discord

Detailed Patch Notes

• Added full translation support
  
• Added translation mod uploader tool to Steam
  
• Difficulty markings have been added to the course info screen of each course
  
• Added football item set
  
• Added community spotlight award item
  
• Added community speedrunning award item
  
• Automatically disable SSAO in potato, was visually detrimental
  
• Optimization: decorations now lod out at a distance based on quality
  
• Optimization: Integrated Vignette into the fog pass
  
• Re-tuned pursuit to be more competitive
  
• Improved visuals of lava fog
  
• Fix for bug where finish points could be seen through walls before they were active
  
• Collision cleanup in wholesale for some trap areas, some notorious traps in freezer and at the start of course Meat Grinder.
  
• Timer visibility re-enabled for first sections of mastery courses (the timer is always counting so this will not affect the leaderboards)
  
• Fix for bug where players would sometimes play non-pogo jump animations on pogo
  
• Improve gamepad navigation on Custom Game screen
  
• Improve default settings for detected hardware
  
• Improved accessibility of the art room in school
  

Language Mods

Hot Fix

• Disable "select" button when selecting currently active language mod
  
• Optimized VFX on wrench award
  
• Fixed rare crash with certain language mods
  
• Fixed level/group update issue causing names to appear twice
  
• Fixed issue where players could get stuck under the art room cabinet
  

Detailed Patch Notes

• You can now sell certain duplicate items for more tickets
  
• Added new ‘bee’ outfit
  
• Revisions to the pursuit mechanic. Catching the target gives it a temporary speed boost, fade to black no longer goes to full black and starts later
  
• Wholesale course leaderboards reset for Duct and Cover, Meat Grinder and Chase the Lie. Due to course iterations and feedback
  Duct and Cover changes:
  • Spawn point moved up to first checkpoint location
    
  • Set a hidden checkpoint to visible after the cafeteria to help direct players
    
  • Removed redundant wall jumps in first section of risers because it confused pathing
    
  • Opened up some congested sightlines on the top of the risers that would direct players off course
    
  • Fixed an exploit where players could skip the last 3 checkpoints without boosting or using air control by jumping up a paper towel stack
    
  • Nudged various boxes to better guide player along course
    
  
  
• Fix throwing Buddy through walls and blue force fields
  
• Fix timer sometimes activating in overworld after finishing a course or spectating a player
  
• Fix bug where camera would stay frozen after dying on certain courses
  
• Fix rare instance where checkpoints would get out of order when running through multiple consecutive courses
  
• Fixed minor checkpoint and finish point bugs
  
• Collision and lighting fixes in mastery gym level
  
• Collision and course adjustments in wholesale level, Changes made to course Duct and Cover
  
• Fixed occlusion issues in the paper towel fort of Wholesale that was allowing player to see skybox
  
• Updated collision of the ramps in the meat grinder section of Wholesale so players can no longer run along top striped band
  
• Catch the target sfx
  
• UI sfx improvements and addition (Restart, Item already selected, Sell Duplicate, etc.)
  
• Fixed an audio bug in School where a cart floating on lava in the main ring corridor was spamming rattle sounds
  

Hotfix 284294

• Fixed issue preventing taunts from being equipped
  

Rooftop Rush

Detailed Patch Notes

• Buddy added to wholesale. Six new buddy courses in wholesale including new rewards
  
• Fixed misaligned scoreboard numbers
  
• Fixed player controller jumping 45 degrees sideways when A/W or W/D are held on jump, to prevent sideways movement drift
  
• Optimized particle systems
  
• Fixed missing collision in ceiling intersections in school
  
• Disable other players showing “buddy mode”
  
• Fixed missing collision in wholesale inside Bruce’s Own BBQ sauce
  
• Disable fmod debugging
  
• Increase alpha on boosting bar, reduced width
  
• Fixed a null reference with the hot potato
  
• Exploit fix: checkpoints are now properly ghosted if Buddy is not in your hands after Replay or Spectate
  
• Fixed rare case where players would spawn rotated during introduction animations
  
• Fix local mods being unplayable unless you have workshop mods also installed
  
• Fixed news image sometimes loading in slowly
  
• Fixed some stacked / colliding art in wholesale
  
• Bow and arrow accessory increased in rarity and colored
  

• Prevent items from being placed inside geo when falling.
  
• Attempt to fix inappropriate out of bounds death.

City

Detailed Patch Notes

• Hot Potato
  
• Pass it on. Pass it on
  
• New UI visualization for boosting
  
• Step up on crouch now works
  
• Step up works better from a stand still
  
• Crouching in air now correctly prevents grounding in the raised volume
  
• Cleanup raycast now prevents 'pops' when grounded on a concave object (e.g. crouching through the vents)
  
• The player no longer preemptively crouches in the air when their head is touching the ceiling
  
• Experimental shader variant loading, should drastically improve initial load times
  
• Added missing dissolve trigger in the school levels toxic patch
  
• Fixed kill volumes in wind tunnels killing players through walls in school
  
• No longer play collision impact UI from grounding collisions
  
• More Buddy sfx and refinements
  
• Fix for School and Pogo Intro cutscene audio out of sync
  
• Fix Buddy getting coloured by stickers
  
• Fix ghost knocking Buddy into lava
  
• Fix invisible Buddy in your hand after spectate or replay.
  
• Exploit fix: Buddy now appears at the last checkpoint instead of in your hands after Replay or Spectate
  
• Fix Buddy lost when thrown through overworld portals
  
• Fix rare news download error
  
• Fix throw reticle when holding item, now only shows when throwing or placing
  
• Fix items thrown too far to the right of the reticle
  
• Fix over sensitive gamepad at high framerate when vsync is disabled
  
• Fix no sticker award when completing chase the doggo
  

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