A new chapter of diabolical levels, rule-breaking challenges, a bunch of marbles, and tons of new features await you in The Challenge Update. You should really just jump in to check them all out, but for those of you who like lists, well we have one for you a bit further down.
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First, the major changes and additions -
Chapter 6: Play For Keeps
The all-new Chapter 6 brings you 10 new monstrous challenges sure to keep you on the ball. Ruthless spinners in Danger Zone, mind-melting gravity changes in Confluence, and the breakneck pace of Stratosphere might have you jumping back to Big Easy to calm your nerves.
Also, we’d like to credit community member Three for his fantastic level contributions to Chapter 6 - Head in the Clouds and Centripetal Force.
Weekly Challenges
The Challenge Update also brings you an entirely new way to play each week with the Weekly Challenge system! Each week a selection of official levels will be made available to play with gameplay modifiers that completely change the routes.
Reverse Sunspire with gems? Archipelago with double-jump and no powerups? With tons of modifiers and the ability to combine them, the possibilities really are endless!
And what’s a challenge without some competition? Participating and competing against your friends earns you new marbles and, of course, some bragging rights. You’ll be able to see your standing in realtime with the new datagraph, keeping you focused on improving your time and beating your friends. The previous week’s challenge is viewable as well so you can see the top replays and pick up some tips for the next time those modifiers roll around.
New Marbles
The Challenge Update introduces over 30 new marbles to unlock. Rewarded for level progression, trophies, challenges, and more!
In addition to the marbles included in the base game, we’ve also added some new features that give us the ability to add more marbles in the future without requiring big content updates. This new marble-download system is still a work in progress but we hope that it will pave the way for tons of new and interesting things in the future!
The Other Awesome Stuff
There are a ton of other, smaller features included in this update as well, so here’s a list of other ‘new things’:
Completely redesigned main UI
Mouse input redesign with clickable buttons on all UI panels
Better support for hot-swapping between controller & KBM
Improved controller support on both macOS and Windows
Improved cosmetic UI selection and navigation
Added achievement progress bar in cosmetic UI
New marble unlock system
Dev Console added ( ` to open) with some basic commands
Improved older marble shader rendering
Improved marble texture resolution at close range
Removed the Start Pad for a better new-user experience and future-proofing cosmetic options
Added new respawn animation system
Friend & Global high score lists now show marble used in replay
Score selection now persists after playing a level
Fixed issue with level selection pulse not working after entering level select
Level lightmap compression improved for smaller level sizes
Added some initial stat tracking systems
New Confirmation Window system
Added ability to clear local score data on a per-level basis in game
The entire team is thrilled to finally be able to release this update into the wild. Please report any bugs you happen to find either in the forums or on our Official Discord Channel!
Steam Achievements and More! - Update 1.0.36
More bugs squashed and improvements made as we work toward our next content release. As always thanks to our Discord community for help reporting issues and providing suggestions with our beta branch updates.
Steam Achievements
The first set of Steam Achievements are now here! This first set is linked to all of the medal achievements (chapter and completion) but we will be expanding it in the future with new content updates and multiplayer achievements.
PC UI Improvements
This update includes a number of improvements to the Keyboard+Mouse UI. Navigation tooltips will still show up when using a controller, but mouse UI buttons are now present on all UI screens so navigation by mouse is more intuitive.
Additionally, non-16:9 aspect ratio screens are now better supported with dynamic scaling UI images.
"Life is made up of marble and mud." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Update 1.0.28
Thanks once again to our fantastic community on Discord for helping find and squash a bunch more bugs! Thanks to community feedback, we have several new features in this update - with plenty more in the works!
Steam Workshop Leaderboards
Steam Workshop levels have continually impressed us with their inginuity, artistry, and clever designs. To bring them into the core singleplayer gameplay experience we've equipped each workshop level created with a Steam Leaderboard so that you can view global and friends' top times on your favorite community maps.
Additionally, each Steam Leaderboard entry has a replay attached to it using the Steam Cloud system so you can still watch the crazy world record for custom levels and improve your performance by racing ghosts!
Improvements and Fixes
Added camera distance slider
Fixed hitching when loading music tracks
Invert X/Y now correctly works with mouse input
Fixed issue locking input on empty last page of cosmetics
Mouse only shows in menu if no controller is attached or mouse moves
Added a fix for macOS mouse cursor visibility during gameplay
Dramatically reduced level file sizes
Fixed some level lightmaps
Fixed Out-of-bounds + Rewinding issue
Steam Workshop level selection pips now wrap across screen
Fixed issue with animated marble rendering in Forward Render path
Fixed Discord API preventing clean application quit
Disabled selection of local scores since only one replay is saved
Better Steam authentication process
Fixed cosmetic UI render issue
Fixed for rewinding replay glitches
Fixed issue with marble becoming stuck on Bashers
Fixed issue with Level Select UI when moving to next chapter
Fixed compressing replay bug
Updated replay info text with temporary solution for Keyboard values
Keep on marblin'!
- Edit -
We’ve rolled back to a previous patch due to issues with NEW players accessing and uploading to the Leaderboard system in this update. This update will still be available to all players via the “december-patch” branch.
To access this branch: Right-click on “Marble It Up! In your Steam Library, select “Properties”, then “Betas”, then select “december-patch”. This will download MIU! with the December patch installed.
We recommend new users play a few levels on the main branch before swapping to the this update.
If you have any questions, please chat with us in the official Discord linked above!
Update 1.0.1
Thanks to everyone who has been helping with bug reports over the last few days! There's still plenty to work on but we've tackled some of the major issues that slipped through the cracks before release.
Changes and Fixes
Fixed issues with distorted/clipping audio
Fixed various issues with key binding
Right click now unbinds bound keys
Fixed duplicate cosmetics from Chapter 4
Fixed focus issues on macOS
Fixed fullscreen<->windowed issues on Windows
"Dynamic FOV" changed to "Dynamic Camera" and disabling works more like MBG
Added better support for 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratios
Marble It Up! is ready to roll on Steam!
We are immensely proud to bring Marble It Up! to Steam - and we’re just as proud to welcome to all of our new and returning Marblers!
Having such an enthusiastic and active community is a joy for us. We listen to and thrive on your feedback - and we can’t wait to see where we take Marble It Up! together.
We’re already hard at work squashing bugs that slipped through the cracks and working on what comes next!
And finally… we’re having an absolute blast watching the streams and chatting in the discord - we’re eagerly awaiting mind-blowing maps on the Steam Workshop!
We’re the Marble It Up! team and we’re glad you could join us. Let’s roll!
