This update is heavy on optimizations and bug fixes with a focus on the Plaza! We've fixed over a hundred Plaza related bugs in this update!
New Holiday Items!
Holiday 2024 Items are here! These include new placeable items, pets, and weapons. They also include a variety of new holiday profile backgrounds.
New Casino Exterior & Entrance
The Casino Exterior and Entrance have gotten some love this update! The entrance has been updated to add a new social area to the Plaza, and make the Casino interior and exterior more consistent with one another.
We’ve also added a fountain area around the back exterior of the Casino which will add yet another area for hanging out in the Plaza, and improve the overall appearance of the Plaza.
With these changes, the Casino has also been greatly optimized.
Boardwalk Ice Cream Shop Now Open!
As part of our continued work to finish under construction sections of Plaza, the ice cream shop on the boardwalk is now open!
This is another cozy area for players to hang out and buy items without entering the Arcade.
New Fishing Peninsula!
The Fishing Peninsula art pass is included in this update! This brings the Peninsula up to the quality of the rest of the Plaza.
Vroomspeed Is Now Open!
Vroomspeed is open! You can now buy stationary vehicles. There are currently two types of vehicles - Stationary (open the doors and sit inside) & Props (static for decoration). The sedan item has been moved to Vroomspeed from Rob’s Imports.
New Items!
On the Road to 1.0, we’ve also been working on adding more basic items to increase the catalogue. These include common household appliances, tools, lights, and more! The full list of new items is below.
Inventory: Quick Action Toolbar
New to condo builders is the Quick Action Toolbar, found at the bottom right of your inventory. This handy toolbar has various editing toggles such as showing/hiding volumes and surface editing. It's also the new location for the Item Finder.
Laundry Machines (Basic Dryer, Basic Washer, Combo Unit, Commercial Dryer)
Celebrations
Holdable Snow Shovel
Snow Shovel
Fresh
Raw Steak
Chocolate Bar
Eggnog
Project 12
Moonshine Jug
Sparkling Wine
Santa's Workshop
Personal Snow Cloud (Particle)
Snowflake Pet
Snowfella Pal
Snowball To The Face
Skewering Icicle
Present Disguise
Plush Woven Elf
Plush Snowfella
Holdable Cork Rifle
Holiday Profile Backgrounds
Gingerbread
Ornaments (Red)
Ornaments (Blue)
Ornaments (Green)
Ornaments (Plum)
Festive Lights
Reindeer
Sugar Plums (Frost)
Sugar Plums (Mint)
Sugar Plums (Peppermint)
Sugar Plums (Lavender)
Holidays Trees (Pine)
Holidays Trees (Silver)
Holidays Trees (Gold)
Holidays Trees (Midnight)
Changes
Inventory: Added inventory quick options bar. Has quick toggles for grid snap, surface editing, showing volumes/sounds, group selecting, and item finder
Vroom Speed is now open
Blocked players will now be automatically banned from your condo
VR: Updated VR bindings for Oculus and Vive. Default Steam Input bindings should now be setup properly for these controllers
Condo: Updated icons for Canvas Primitives
Condo: Updated Soda Fountain item to have one coloring slot (metal was replaced with plastic in the past) and added an emissive slider
Virus - Hospital: Adjusted ward room in Hospital to prevent camping as much particularly in Horde mode
Virus - Hospital: Made quite a few changes to the waiting room to prevent sightlines
Inventory: Moved item finder button to the new inventory quick options bar
Added Camera View Bob to Accessibility settings
Libretro: Added controller mode that shows no controller in first person with the Controller item
Holdable Eggnog now makes you slightly drunk
Painkillers are now functional (removes drunkness)
Plaza Major Changes
Casino Exterior art pass
New Casino Entrance
New Casino fake interior
Finished Boardwalk Ice Cream Shop
New Fishing Peninsula rock-work re-do
Vacation Houses art pass
Updated all water to use the new water shaders and dynamics
Vroom Speed is now open
Plaza Changes
Surf Shop: Detailed surf shop store shelves
Rob's Imports: Added ambience sounds to Rob's Imports
Toy Stop: Added details to the train diorama and removed signs that did not have anything on the shelf. Added Libretro consoles to the shelves, and boxes to add some clutter
Arcade: Redecorated the front room and moved the pluck-a-pal machines
Theater: Added frames around the projector light origin instead of just a black plane
Theater: Reduced the distance of the projector light FX to avoid it blocking the view of the media being played
Game World Ports: Updated the construction walls to new ones, changed their colors to not be as distracting
Nature Store: Added butterflies to nature garden
Nature Store: Updated store preview to the 3D pedestal one
Casino: Decorated and placed various seats in the new lounge room
Beach Umbrellas are now bouncy
Backer Statues Garden: Added night lighting on statues and paths
Nightclub: Added another media player screen in the second billiards room
Updated center fountain to support the new water shader
Added a monorail doorway next to the new Ice Cream shop on the boardwalk
Adjusted draw distance on sea plants
Added curtains to the bait boat shop on the ocean rentals to show it is closed
DIY: Removed empty ceiling signs that have nothing on them
Overhauled the beach area behind bowling/laser tag
Added more foliage in general
Plaza Optimizations
Major optimization passes on the landscaping and rockwork elements for the jungle-side of the island.
Major optimization pass on the roller coaster environmental art
Optimization pass on the tower lobby
Rob's Imports converted from cubemap system to HLOD system for distance viewing
Vacation houses optimization pass
Lazy River lighting optimization
New Casino entrance interior set up and optimized for HLOD streaming
Toy Store interior set up and optimized for HLOD streaming
Appearance Store interior set up and optimized for HLOD streaming
Major optimization pass on the boardwalk
Optimization pass on Laser Tag entrance
Casino Exterior optimization pass
Arcade: Optimized various game cabinets and reduced cabinets that aren't needed to help performance for both client and server
Improved dedicated Plaza CPU usage
Plaza Bug Fixes
Fixed boundaries of the map to prevent players from going outside of the main streaming volume
Fixed texture streaming issue for Condo Hub sign in the Tower Lobby
Fixed texture streaming issue for Splash Blasterz' mural
Bowling: Fixed wearables show up due to mirror on bowling alley
Nightclub: Fixed media player screen freezing while in billiards room
Vacation Houses: Fixed one of the seats in the vacation/party houses flipping you upside down
Lazy River: Fixed stairs not touching the bottom of the Lazy River
Laser Tag: Fixed laser tag lobby music playing two tracks at once
Rollercoaster: Fixed greek column in rollercoaster area clipping with a support beam
Boardwalk: Removed broken pluck-a-pal machine
Theater: Fixed the theater sign lights not being centered
Theater: Fixed theater dynamic lights not being centered and being rotated
Dark Voyage: Fixed western town level streaming issues
Fixed not being able to fish on the Peninsula
Sweet Suites: Fixed Sweet Suite sign having foliage clipping
Sweet Suites: Fixed hole on floor of doorway
Fixed not being able to sit in Beach loungers
Arcade: Fixed various trims missing materials
Arcade: Removed untextured WIP arcade cabinets
Arcade: Fixed a hole in the upper game room
Arcade: Fixed missing materials on the light gun machines
Transit Station: Fixed cracks in ceiling
Fixed Frankie's store not always loading in from a distance
Fixed floating flowers on the beach
Fixed up underwater foliage across the Plaza map and updated the faraway island materials
Fixed potion bottles in Lighthouse clipping through windows
Fixed various trees that were colliding with buildings
Fixed Holiday decorations due to various changes to Plaza
Fixed Holiday present quest not being achievable
Fixed Typing Derby mural artwork being blurry
Bug Fixes
Arcade - Cow Wheel: Fixed pucks teleporting around and having inaccurate physics
Fixed leaving vehicles with Left CTRL (Leave Drivable bind) not always working
Inventory: Fixed potions toggling when pressing 1 key while they are on the wearables hot bar
Inventory: Fixed weapons in your hot bar being equipped after getting into a seat or lightgun cabinet
Optimized Plaza scoreboard
Fixed footstep sounds doubling up sometimes when using first person legs mode
Inventory: Fixed right clicking over bottom inventory stash area still stashing items when it is meant to cancel
Accelerate - Wishy Washy: Fixed a spot where a rocks collision was sticking into the track
Minigolf - Waterhole: Attempted to fix Hole 18 desyncs (again)
Minigolf - Waterhole: Fixed occasionally getting stuck on Hole 4 in Waterhole (bullseye)
Zombie Massacre - Village: Fixed lighting issue that would occur when switching to Village after playing on another map
Virus - Catzek Temple: Jump pads should now be more reliable
Virus - Potential fix for rare crashes when zombies respawn
Potential AMD crash fix in SDNL
Condo: Optimized Sky Volumes
Fixed player profile backgrounds changing when the host of a Game World or Condo changes their background
Fixed medieval torch items not always igniting with right click
Improved initial load times
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!
Winter 2024-25 Condo Contest
Hey everyone,
The 2024-25 Winter Condo Contest has started!
As usual, we’re doing a Winter / Festivity theme.
So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!
The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
We're hard at work and very close to completion on our next update, which we're aiming for release this week.
The upcoming Plaza update is heavy on optimizations, bug fixes, and new additions! We’ve fixed over a hundred Plaza related bugs in this update!
It'll also bring with it new Holiday items, and a bunch of highly requested items.
You can read everything slated for this update on our Trello page.
Miscellany
Johanna worked on wrapping up the changes to the Plaza for the next update.
Lifeless spent some time working on Accelerate, specifically with issues with rubber-banding when boosting. He also worked on separating the tracks, making them individual maps instead of one map with two different tracks.
macdguy worked on bug fixes and Plaza changes for the next update. He also setup the Vroomspeed store, and worked on leaderboards, achievements, audio passes, and special Minigolf hazards for the Minigolf map, Dino Drive.
Nuclearxpotato worked on implementing food items for Cooking. He also continued working on the backlog of requested furinture items, this week working on Vintage Filing Cabinets, a Utility Cabinet, some Booth Sectional pieces, a Wood Four-post Bed, and a Brass Frame Bed.
Sketchman continued working on optimizations and fixes for the next update, specifically focusing on optimizations with the Lobby Scoreboard, a reduction in hard references (which should help with loading times), and more.
Upcoming New Furniture Items
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!
The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
Wheezwer continued working on a huge batch of profile backgrounds.
Upcoming Profile Backgrounds
In addition to these profile backgrounds coming soon for everyone, Wheezwer also created a few animated profile backgrounds for all our patrons to use!
Plaza
Johanna continued working on plaza optimizations and polish in preparation for our 1.0 release, while also fixing various bugs for the upcoming Plaza update.
Lifeless updated the area behind the Laser Tag arena.
macdguy worked on a bunch of under the hood code changes, bug fixes, and detailed areas of the Plaza.
Plaza: Casino Lounge Area
Plaza: Toy Stop Detailing
Miscellany
Lifeless worked on trying to fix AMD GPU crashes. He also made some changes to the Hospital map in Virus.
macdguy fixed issues and bugs with the inventory, as well as implementing a quick action bar. He also worked on code for the Holiday items, as well as work on the Shooting Gallery and the Vroomspeed Store.
Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive. He also worked on Holiday items, setup the new profile backgrounds and polished some upcoming items.
Sketchman continued working on optimizations and fixes.
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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There are three exciting Holiday Quests to participate in!
Spread holiday joy and help Santa Claws deliver gifts to the hardworking Plaza staff, share the joy of hats, and find the missing reindeer!
Find the quest-givers in the Central Fountain area!
In addition, the usual Holiday cheer has swept through Tower Unite! Enjoy beautiful holiday decorations in the Plaza, earn Holiday Coins from playing games, and deck yourself out with some festive gear at Santa Claws’ store!
HOLIDAY PLAYER PROFILE BACKGROUNDS
We have added 5 new holiday backgrounds to Santa's Workshop. We plan to have more in the next update.
MORE HOLIDAY FUN & ITEMS ARE ON THE WAY!!!
While the events have just started, we're still currently in the middle of a major Plaza update which we're working to get out very soon. The next Plaza update will have new Winter items and should be out within the next week or two.
As we've been saying, we've been working hard on bug fixes, which this new Plaza update addresses. This is all a part of the Road to 1.0.
DECEMBER EVENTS CALENDAR
Just a reminder, here is the December Calendar for TU! We’ve got some special winter / holiday themed bonus events going on in the next few weeks so be sure to hop on for that if you’re interested!
Happy Holidays from the TU Team!
This isn’t the last of our holiday fun this year, but we did want to wish you all a Happy Holiday season!
We hope you all have a great time in the game and out of it, and we thank you guys for your support this year! It’s meant the world to us! :]
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So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!
The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
Johanna has been working on plaza optimizations and polish in preparation for our 1.0 release. While optimizing, she's also been working on fake interiors for more immersion and seamless transitions between interiors and exteriors.
Plaza: Boardwalk Ice Cream Store
Plaza: Trivia Fake Interior
Arcade
macdguy has been working on finishing the Arcade shooting gallery in preparation for our 1.0 release.
Arcade: Shooting Gallery
New Player Models
Joshua continued working on the new player models, focusing on new outfits.
New Player Models
New Items
Nuclearxpotato has been working on highly-requested furniture for Condos to help fill out our catalogue, this week working on some new Laundry Machine items.
New Items: Laundry Machines
New items are a Basic Dryer, Basic Washer, Combo, and Commercial Dryer.
Both "Basic" machines have the option to add coin slots. The commercial dryer has an option to make it an "upper" machine for stacking.
All machines have spinning drums that can be enabled.
Miscellany
As last week was our Thanksgiving break, we had a shorter worke week. We're back in normal development starting this week.
Joshua worked on some upcoming holiday items.
macdguy fixed some bugs relating to leaving vehicles. He also updated the VR bindings for Oculus and Vive, which should hopefully fix Oculus controllers.
Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive.
Sketchman worked on fixing bugs released in the patch last week.
Wheezwer finished the December calendar and started the new contests.
Will continued working on the 1.0 trailer music.
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!
Winter 2024-25 Condo Contest
Hey everyone,
The 2024-25 Winter Condo Contest has started!
As usual, we’re doing a Winter / Festivity theme.
So, your build should be either: winter-related, themed after winter holidays / holiday activities (including New Years), or generally wintry and festive!
The submission period ends on January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
Nuclearxpotato has been working on highly-requested furniture for Condos to help fill out our catalogue, this week working on Lobby Lounge Chairs, Vintage Radiators, Basic Bathtub, Clawfoot Bathtub (and a Trashed version), and Industrial Lights.
New Items: Lobby Lounge Chairs
New Items: Vintage Radiators and Bathtubs
New Items: Industrial Lights
Miscellany
Last week some of our staff was impacted by a bomb cyclone storm that hit Washington state. During the week, development was put on hold for those staff due to long power outages and Internet outages.
Everyone is okay and power and Internet was just restored early this week. We also had some other staff members out of work for the week due to other real-life incidents.
After our Thanksgiving break, we will be back to normal development.
This week will also be a shorter development week as we have our Thanksgiving break.
Johanna worked on the Plaza changes for the next major Plaza update that focuses on bug fixes and optimizations, along with working on the Ice Cream store for the boardwalk as part of the road to 1.0.
Joshua continued working on the new player models, focusing on outfits.
macdguy was impacted by the bomb cyclone storm and was out of power for the majority of the week, but also worked on finalizing the boardwalk shooting gallery and major bug fixes.
Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive.
Sketchman was impacted by the storm and was unable to work most of the week, but has been working on bug fixes for the rich presence feature for an upcoming hot fix.
Wheezwer worked on player profile backgrounds for Christmas, the holiday winter contests, and December calendar, along with organizing through reported bug fixes.
Will continued working on the 1.0 trailer music.
New Player Models WIP
New Player Profile Backgrounds WIP
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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We’ve already been getting a ton of responses and have gotten to work on major bugs that have been reported there in addition to ones we already knew about!
If you want to fill out the feedback survey, we seriously appreciate it and it is of great help to us as a small team.
New Items
Nuclearxpotato continued working on new items.
New Items: Leather Sofa, Armchair, Loveseat
New Items: Stationary Cars
These condo items have openable doors and seats inside. Trimmed down "prop" versions will be available as alternate items.
New Items: Crowbar
Miscellany
Johanna continued working on finishing optimizations and art for the Plaza.
Joshua continued working on the new player models.
macdguy released the bug fixes update, and fixed more crashes over the weekend. He also finished both the Arcade and Boardwalk shooting galleries.
Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive. He also updated the House condo to include the new garage door and fixed bugs with static windows.
Sketchman worked on optimizations and fixing bugs in preparation for the 1.0 release.
Wheezwer worked on organizing the player bug feedback, worked on art for posters, and other misc tasks.
Will continued working on the 1.0 trailer music.
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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We’ve already been getting a ton of responses and have gotten to work on major bugs that have been reported there in addition to ones we already knew about!
If you want to fill out the feedback survey, we seriously appreciate it and it is of great help to us as a small team!
PLAZA FIXES
We’ve tackled bugs and made gameplay tweaks in the Plaza.
These include fixes to Arcade, Casino, Fishing, Minigames, Dark Voyage, and more!
The fishing ponds should now be functional (excluding the peninsula), and there have been fixes to general gameplay as well.
In the Casino, fixes were made to Aces and they are now calculated properly as high or low in all card games, soft locks were fixed, bingo cards no longer display on the wrong screens, and Silver Saddles now properly returns your bet if you win.
In the Arcade, Coin River, Dragon’s Treasure, Coloracle, Cow Wheel, and Balloon Pop have all had major fixes, as well as fixes to LODs.
In Dark Voyage, player guns no longer block your view, allowing you to enjoy the game without your friends getting in the way.
Other fixes are detailed in the changelog below!
GAME WORLD FIXES
This update includes many fixes for collision issues and spawn points in Virus: Subway.
Ball Race, Zombie Massacre, SDNL, and Virus all had fixes to visual issues, gameplay, and collision, respectively.
There were also fixes and improvements for Sub-Objectives in Zombie Massacre, and SDNL grav glove prediction improvements.
CONDO FIXES
Several fixes have been made for item collision desyncs, visual issues, and other minor map issues in Highrise, Underwater, and Resort Condos! Also, hiding items now saves!
Further changes are detailed below! Again, we greatly appreciate any feedback in our feedback survey, forums, or other comments!
PLAZA FIXES COMING NEXT
We are hard at work on the major Plaza changes which will include the new Casino entrance & outside area, new fishing peninsula, and various fixes and optimizations.
Changes
Virus: All weapons now automatically reload when their clip is empty (if they have ammo)
You can now rotate your camera (without rotating yourself) while on the broom stick after pressing right click
Player Profiles: Made friends only status a lot more noticeable. Removed the underline effect and added an icon
Player Profiles: Made location status a lot more visible on bright backgrounds
Added mature condo filter support to Condo Hub
Typing Derby: Added an animation when you fail a word
Condo: Fixed stashed item notifications duplicating multiple times (now it combines all the recent notifications into one)
Arcade: Optimized leaderboards
Casino - Bingo: Added mouse mode toggle (space key), which will keep the camera static on the board and enable mouse input allowing you to select without moving your view
Added circular variant to Mirror Panel item, and support for future shapes
New Items
Added Thanksgiving 2024 Player Profile Background to Celebrations
Added Basic Garage Door to D.I.Y.
Added Basic Windowed Garage Door to D.I.Y.
Added Glass Garage Door to D.I.Y.
Added Basic Door Frame (Half) (w/ 6 shapes) to D.I.Y.
Added Basic Window Frame (Half) (w/ 6 shapes) to D.I.Y.
Added Basic Window Frame (w/ 6 shapes) to D.I.Y.
Added Rope Fence (w/ 7 variations) to D.I.Y.
Added Victorian Gate to D.I.Y.
Added Shutter Door to D.I.Y.
Plaza Bug Fixes
Arcade: Fixed coin pushers
Arcade: Fixed issues with Coloracle
Arcade: Fixed issues with Cow Wheel
Arcade: Fixed soft lock with Arcade and Boardwalk Games when first playing them (such as Milk Jug Toss leading to not being able to toss the ball)
Arcade: Fixed Prismatic ending too early when there's still balls in the maze
Arcade: Fixed LOD of Wheel of Fire sign
Arcade - Pluck-a-Pal: Fixed sheep plush being too big in Pluck-a-Pal making it impossible to grab
Arcade - Pluck-a-Pal: Fixed collisions with Obnoxious Citrus for Pluck-a-Pal
Boardwalk - Balloon Pop: Fixed balloons not always making a pop sound and also improved the pop sound
Boardwalk - Balloon Pop: Fixed top left balloon popping immediately preventing you from winning the game
Boardwalk - Balloon Pop: Fixed balloons not popping for spectators
Boardwalk - Milk Jug Toss: Added settle delay to ensure the milk jugs have settled before ending the game
Dark Voyage: Fixed guns from other players blocking your view (now they fade out)
Casino - Video Poker: Fixed ace pairs not counting as jacks or better
Casino - Video Poker/Poker: Fixed ace not calculating as low or high properly
Casino - Blackjack: Fixed being able to double down on a natural blackjack, causing bet calculation issues
Casino - Silver Saddles: Fixed your bet towards a winning horse not being rewarded back to you
Casino - Bingo: Fixed cards being assigned to the wrong screens
Casino: Fixed long-standing issue where you could not get up from their slot machine if you just did an action or spun the wheel
Fishing: Fixed not being able to move bobber in one of the fishing pond
Fishing: Fixed fish sometimes spawning too far out from the range of the bobber radius
Fishing: Fixed fishing cast circle having visual glitch
Trivia: Fixed Top Total Score leaderboard not updating while playing single player
Trivia: Fixed many issues where players would not be put into the seats properly, or could get the game to soft lock
Trivia: Fixed an issue where you could not be able to cast to a response with keyboard shortcut sometimes
Halloween: Fixed pumpkin placements in Plaza (ones that were clipping or floating)
Halloween: Fixed trick or treat candy buckets blocking camera
Typing Derby: Fixed some exploits
Condo Bug Fixes
Condo: Fixed items that are hidden being desynced with clients who late join
Condo/SDK: Fixed needing to double click to change item targets on condo IO connections
Condo/SDK: Fixed "Goto" condo IO connection feature not working properly
Condo: Fixed unset canvas material displaying as Sky Space
Condos: Resort - Fixed gap in floor underneath Suite doors
Condos: Resort - Fixed water in fountain being solid
Condos: Resort - Fixed landscape near pool weirdly glitching out
Condos: Resort - Fixed Z fighting in the store area
Condos: Resort - Fixed small gaps in Arcade stairs
Condos: Highrise - Adjusted collision on stairs in living room to better fit the actual model
Condos: Underwater - Fixed several surfaces that were editable, but visually would not change
Condos: Underwater - Fixed several surfaces that were not editable
Condos: Underwater - Adjusted water physics volume so that items actually float on top of the water rather than just underneath
Condos: Underwater - Fixed a light visually staying on in Satellite Condo 4
Condos: Underwater - Adjusted seaweed too close to windows
Condos: Underwater - Fixed spelling mistake in Location volume
Condos: Underwater - Adjusted post process volume underwater
Condo/SDK: Fixed floating chat messages not clearing when dying while inside the radius or when an SDK map ends
Condo/SDK: Fixed floating chat not clearing when the floating chat item is destroyed
Condo IO: Fixed Camera IO not setting FOV properly if players have a different FOV set from the default FOV
Condo: Fixed custom item names taking priority of item types when grouped by type (would display a custom item name instead of Canvas Cube x4) in Item Finder
SDK: Fixed camera fade module causing hidden items to become visible
Item Fixes
Fixed Carnivorous Plant not playing sound packs properly
Fixed Flying Eyeball Pet not displaying
Fixed Canvas Necronomicon not displaying for clients
Fixed hat crab scale
Fixed potion equipping being applied to clients if the host is toggling the potions
Fixed broom stick animations being offset for players who are smaller scale
Fixed Damage Heal Volume rate value being ignored and not functioning
Sound Emitter: Fixed workshop sound emitters not resuming at the correct position when you walk away from their hearing radius
Sound Emitter: Fixed pitch adjustment not updating playback duration properly
Sound Emitter: Fixed workshop sound emitters playlists not working (would not advance to the next sound)
Fixed FPS issues while equipping the crossbow milestone item
Game World Bug Fixes
Gib system: Fixed top half gib ragdoll not working for workshop models (it would freeze mid-air)
Fixed player profile backgrounds not updating on waiting for players menu
ZM: Fixed sub-objectives not starting for clients
ZM - Gasoline: Adjusted zombie spawns to prevent dead zones
ZM SDK: Optimized zombie spawners
Virus - Subway: Prevented players getting on top of benches they shouldn't
Virus - Subway: Adjusted collision around no-entry ticket barriers
Virus - Subway: Fixed broken spawn point
Virus - Subway: Fixed collision of pipes that stuck out way further than their geometry
Virus - Solar: Fixed horde mode only blockers (and ramp) still having collision in non horde mode in Solar
Ball Race - Event Horizon: Fixed issue where small blackholes wouldn't kill you when you approached them slowly
Ball Race - Khromidro: Fixed water flickering in and out of existence when looking straight down
SDNL: Fixed grav glove kills only awarding achievement/stat progress for the host (now it works for clients too)
SDNL: Added client side prediction when carrying an object with the grav glove (fixes grav glove lag when carrying)
SDNL: Fixed kills payout displaying when you have 0 kills
SDNL - Meadows: Physics crates now respawn when there is not enough of them anymore
Minigolf - Forest: Fixed sky in Forest being dark
Minigolf: Fixed issues with spectating camera defaulting at a weird angle wrongly
Minigolf: Fixed issues with spectating camera not handling collisions properly
Bug Fixes
Fixed SDK maps not loading sometimes on first time play if you click on host quickly
Fixed head not hiding in First Person Legs mode
Fixed your head being missing in mirrors while in First Person Legs mode
Fixed wearables not drawing in mirrors in first person when First Person Legs are enabled
Fixed the broom stick leg physics for workshop models
Fixed player model textures breaking when de-quipping a workshop model while in a vehicle
Fixed appearance cameras going to the floor when editing appearance while in a vehicle
Fixed Ghoul Coins being falsely rewarded multiple times
Fixed chat rules popup not closing if you close the chat window without closing the chat rules popup
Fixed names on collection book leaderboards being hard to read
Fixed vehicles lagging when you press the alt key
Fixed name tags of players you have one-way blocked not hiding when you just blocked them
Fixed rolling pets of players you have blocked showing up (now they will not be there)
Fixed vomit emote effects of players you have blocked showing up (now it will not be there)
VR: Fixed your head and wearables being missing in mirrors
VR: Fixed camera centering/initialization issues
VR: Fixed VR main menu not being interactable
Known Major Issues That Will Be Fixed In Next Plaza Update
Pluck-A-Pal on boardwalk has horrible physics (specifically that one machine)
Bowling alley shows your wearables in first person
Dark Voyage level streaming issues
Peninsula water is not a fishing spot
Lots more TBA
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Tower Unite Dev Log!
Cosmic Catsack Makeship Plushie! - LAST CALL
Bring the cosmos home with the neverending mystery of the Cosmic Catsack! Gaze into the abyss of its eyes and find a friend... or the comfort of space-time!
The campaign will be up for a limited time (1 DAY LEFT!!!), so check out the store page to see how it all works and get one for yourself!
These limited time plushies go directly towards supporting our developers!
Joshua has been working hard our new player models, getting them rigged and adjusting offsets for the cosmetic items.
New Player Models: Feminine WIP
New Player Models: Masculine WIP
Miscellany
Johanna continued working on finishing optimizations and art for the Plaza.
macdguy continued going through long standing bugs in preparation for the 1.0 release. He fixed bugs in SDNL, Minigolf, Bingo, Trivia, the Arcade games in the boardwalk, as well as issues with the first person camera. He also worked on the Shooting Gallery in the Arcade, added a exterior to the Virus map, Hospital, and centered the VR Camera.
Nuclearxpotato continued working on the Minigolf map, Dino Drive, working on polish and lighting.
Sketchman worked on optimizations and fixing bugs in preparation for the 1.0 release.
Wheezwer worked with Makeship and wrote the changelog for the next update.
That’s a Wrap!
Thank you for reading and we’ll see you all next week for more!
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Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.
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