A new build of TY2 is now available.
This is a bug fix build, the most important of which being the fix to fonts for non-English subtitles. Other fixes are:
ART: Improved textures for Dunny, Pillar and Roadtrain
AUDIO: Fixed cutscenes playing the menu select sound at the start of the cutscene. Also fixes the unwanted sound when opening the pause menu.
GRAPHICS: fix vanishing vines and stretchy terrain bug - visible in Canopy Capers. Caused by first material of static batches using the same material as a skinned model immediately before it.
GRAPHICS: Fix active chunk selection - doesn't use not-visible chunks - stops shadow flicker issues (visible in Canopy Capers)
MISC: Removed some debug messages that were appearing in retail builds incorrectly.
TRANSLATIONS: Fix for font so that subtitles/UI should display correct characters in non-English languages
Any issues, please let us know!
Cheers
Linds
Also...
Happy Holidays TY2 Build (r3102_v101) Now Available
Hi all,
A small TY2 update has been pushed active, to let you play with TY in his holiday duds!
To enable this special costume limited to the holiday season, just use this handy cheat!
COSTUME UNLOCK: LEFT / RIGHT / ACTION / LEFT / RIGHT / ACTION / ACTION / THROW / BITE / ACTION
X360 CONTROLLER (default configuration): DPAD LEFT / DPAD RIGHT / Y / DPAD LEFT / DPAD RIGHT / Y / Y / X / B / Y
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE (default bindings): A / D / R / A / D / R / R / LEFT MOUSE / RIGHT MOUSE / R
If you change to another costume via the UI, you'll have to enter the cheat again to get back to this special costume.
Happy Holidays from everybody here at Krome Studios.
Linds
TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue Released from Early Access
We are proud to announce that TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue has been released from Early Access!
Additionally, we've now made available the soundtrack for the game as DLC, which you can find here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/763590/TY_the_Tasmanian_Tiger_2_Soundtrack/
We have also set up Digital Deluxe and Digitial Deluxe upgrade bundles; which will save you 5% if you buy the game and the soundtrack (or upgrade your game to include the soundtrack DLC) (these may take a few minutes to appear on Steam).
Thank you to everybody who has helped us throughout this process. Your feedback, bug reports and your patience with us have been appreciated. If you like the game and have enjoyed it, please leave us a review - every little bit helps!
We'll be keeping an eye on things after the release to make sure things run smoothly (hopefully, there won't be any problems) and then we'll be back early in 2018, hopefully with some new things to share with you.
Thank you again. You're all awesome.
Krome Studios
TY2 Will be Leaving Early Access tomorrow. Price increase information!
Hi all,
We're looking good to release TY2 out of Early Access tomorrow - it'll be the same build that is in the EXPERIMENTAL branch right now!
When we release from Early Access, the price will be increasing to $14.99USD (and local equivalents).
As per our previous posts, our intention is that the game will not go on sale for the first 3 months post-release from Early Access.
Happy TY playing everybody!
Cheers
Linds
TY2 Build r3063_v100 is up on EXPERIMENTAL
Hey all,
A few more fixes from testing that has been done internally (and reported by you guys!) before the launch.
Also... we've got a brand new launch trailer ready, and you can check it out early here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR0Ek8dRPd8&feature=youtu.be
Any issues, please let us know.
Cheers
Linds
CHANGES
AUDIO: Fix for multiple sounds playing when using mouse to hover over/around UI elements
GRAPHICS: Font no longer takes lighting and shadows for in-game text
UI: Fixed input for the credits screen so that you can skip it/quit it
TY2 Exiting Early Access Information + build r3040_v082 released to EXPERIMENTAL
Hey all,
We have some exciting news for you all!
Unless there is an unexpected problem, TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue, will release from Early Access early next week!
At this point the price of the game will increase to $14.99USD (and equivalent prices across other currencies).
As has been our policy for our previous releases, we will not be discounting the game for any sales for at least 3 months post-exit of Early Access. This is to ensure that the people who have supported us throughout Early Access are not in any way price disadvantaged.
Lastly, the TY2 soundtrack will become available for purchase when the game leaves Early Access, and we expect to shortly thereafter set up appropriate Bundles.
Then we're going to go see The Last Jedi.
In the drive to the v1.00 release, we have also released a new build on to the EXPERIMENTAL branch!
This build has a variety of small fixes, as well as language translation updates for all languages.
Any feedback on breaking issues that would effect the full launch would be, as normal, greatly appreciated.
Thank you to everybody who has been part of this journey so far. Hopefully we'll have some more good news for you, early in 2018.
Cheers!
Lindsay
r3040_v082 Changes
ART: Up-res for textures for several actors (Clarence, Bruce, Orchid,
Snappy, Bruno, Red, Boonie, Goannas)
AUDIO: Projectiles now play the targets hit sound if needed.
AUDIO: The thermo-bunyip trigged switches in Wulli Wulli Oil Rig now play a sound when hit by the water from the thermo bunyip.
CONTROLS: Both analog sticks on the controller can now control the doomerang
CRASH: fix for some rendering issues that can cause driver crashes from primitive render calls.
GRAPHICS: Fixed the underwater fog effect
LOCALIZATOIN: Updated all French, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Danish lines that required translations.... unless we missed any! :)
UI: Boomerang Hud - gamepad direction pointer is hidden when not using gamepad as current input.
UI: NoisyButtonGroup, ScrollingButtonGroup - play sound when changing selected item using the mouse.
UI: Pause Menu keyboard and mouse bindings - moved the "Reset to Default" and "Back" buttons upwards so they are onscreen.
UI: Updated the steam and opengl messages to refer to "TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2".
VIDEOS: Updated the videos in the extras menu of the main menu. The 2003 attract video is our original video from E3 2003, and contains footage of some of the content that didn't make the final cut. I don't believe that this video will have been seen by the general public previously. The 2004 Attract video is the video that was in the original release of the game. These are (quite obviously) lower quality than what people are used to these days; but they are the highest quality that we have!
TY2 Build r3000_v081 has been released on EXPERIMENTAL
Thank you to everybody who gave us feedback on the game in the previous build that we pushed through to the DEFAULT branch.
We've made several changes, and have put up a new build on the EXPERIMENTAL branch that we'd love to get any more feedback on, before we finish up Early Access!
This build has had limited testing.
TLDR LIST OF CHANGES
Updated doomerang controls
Improved KB&M and gamepad controls; and rang selection
Fixed reverb
FULL LIST OF CHANGES
ART: Up-resed the HUD RADAR icons
ART: Tweaked the camera positions for all shops
ART: Up-res'd the background used on the loading screens.
AUDIO: Tweaks to Buster the Nanobot sounds
AUDIO: Finally fixed the pesky issue with some sounds not properly playing unaffected by audio effects (like the opal collection sound, the health collection sound, etc)
AUDIO: Tweak to the sewer acoustic reverb settings to tone it down a little bit, and adjusted some of the sewer bubble sound effects
AUDIO: Tweak to flame thrower SFX for helicopter missions, Oil Rig missions, combat arena missions
CAMERA: improved some of the camera code for handling turning around corners and hitting roof collision better.
CONTROLS: Adjusted mouse smoothing to improve KB&M controls
CONTROLS: Reworked the entire controller deadzone support to make the controller a bit more responsive. Should help people with issues on TY not maintaining full speed
CONTROLS: Improved the boomerang selection accuracy with gamepad
CONTROLS: Fixed bug where the exit of leaderboard screen would lock the mouse to the center of the screen on the pause menu (or while switching past it with gamepad etc).
GAMEPLAY: Fix for townies drawing (and saying their VO) when you're in the sewers
GAMEPLAY: Changed how the Doomerang controls, so that you can aim it upwards, and gives it a bit more usability for the terrain shapes throughout the game.
GRAPHICS: Fixed an issue with cloth, causing the ghosts to look terri-bad
GRAPHICS: Fixed cloth issue with selecting carts in 2 player mode
GRAPHICS: Fixed issue with terrain shadows popping on/off at various points around the level
MISC: Fix for boot up sequence to not flash the screen twice, to initialise the MSAA
MISC: Removed some various debug logs
PERFORMANCE: Fixed up packages for the game, that were causing load stalls
UI: Added pointer arrow to rang selection to help you aim at the rangs in the rang wheel
UI: Skin selection screen - user can now change the selection to un-owned skins, but can't see the name or what they look like still, and can't select them and apply to their character/vehicle. Allows easier navigation using the gamepad.
Please let us know any/all issues, ASAP!
Cheers
Linds
TY2 Build r2941_v079 has been released on DEFAULT
Hi all,
The latest build up on the EXPERIMENTAL branch looks pretty good, so we have released it to the default branch.
Any feedback would be appreciated, as we are looking to leave Early Access in the next 4 weeks.
The changes in this build since the last default build can be found in the news posts for the various EXPERIMENTAL builds we have released:
This is a quick update - mostly to sort out the DPI issue on Win7 machines.
It has had limited testing.
CHANGES
ART: Small fix for North icon on minimap
AUDIO: Misc sound range and volume changes for various SFX
CRASH: Fixed DPI dll crash on Win7 machines
GRAPHICS: Small change to dynamic lighting to remove a hack that was making more intense contrast
Any problems, please continue to let us know!
Cheers
Linds
TY2 Build r2920_v077 released on EXPERIMENTAL
Hi all,
A new build of TY2 is now available on EXPERIMENTAL.
There are a of changes in this build. Many of these are not noticable in terms of what is on screen - but there have been multiple optimizations and performance improvements, which will hopefully mean a much more stable framerate throughout the game!
Additionally, we have hopefully fixed the issue some players were having with the game rendering only in the top left corner of screen, in full screen mode.
Lastly, we've decided to remove the rang shops and replaced them with a bunch of lootboxes. Every kart race you race you've got a chance to earn a lootbox if you beat your best time, or you can purchase the lootboxes for the low, low price of $1.99USD each!
;)
(as this is the internet I will now make sure it's clear that the above is a joke, we have not removed the rang shops, there are no lootboxes to purchase as microtransactions).
Please check out the changes below, and let us know any problems.
At this stage our intention is to finalize the last few audio updates we have planned, update the language translations, then we will be looking to exit Early Access. Once these plans have been finalized, we'll make sure we do a post to let everybody know the timing, what's happening with the price post Early Access, etc (same as we did with TY1).
Almost there!
Cheers
Linds
AUDIO
Updated Cass' meteor attack sounds
Volume tweaks to various sounds across the game
Updates to flame trap sounds
Updates to ninja billie sounds - throwing stars now play looping sound while in the air
Play SharkAlert sound when shark alerts. (25% chance for silence).
Audio now pauses when the game loses focus
Removed audio log spamming.
ART
Updated all the rang trails to be less 8-bit.
Added location names to the whole game
Fix for some minimaps that didn't have the correct background color
Texture upres for the kelp grass
New opal bags
CAMERA
Push in the camera fade closer... so TY is less likely to alpha out
CRASHES
Fix for grass threading crash
GAMEPLAY
Enemies can now attack the Helicopter/sub again.
PocketFluffy now makes a splash (visual and sound) when hitting the water during a "flinch"
GRAPHICS
Fix for Burramudgee shop objective markers not appearing when running in to town from Bush Rescue
Fix grass issue in helicopter minigames - caused by using the same material on 2 different grass types.
Improvements to the rendering of the shop prop neon signs
Fixes to the water in the first custcene of the game
Water reflections now handle view zoom - used by cutscenes and probably if you were looking through a zoom rang at water.
Fixes to static batching so that prop groups that need to enable/disable by mission completion work correctly
Fix dpi awareness - this will fix the issue people are having with the game only displaying in the top left corner, in certain set ups
Fix window displaying twice during msaa creation
Fix for grass types that had >1 grass models spawn from the same terrain triangle.
Fix rendering so it doesn't static render props that need to be individually modified
Removed subdivide from data conversion to the archive. This is always slower on modern hardware because of all the extra state changes drawing more subobjects.
Updated opal bag rendering for speed improvements
Fixes for lighting/visibility issues related to omnilight and shockwave effects
UI
Removed unused option from CameraOptionsScreen - This option was moved into the RaceOptionsScreen that appears when starting a race.
Fix for bug where the sound effect that plays when changing the volumes would play once when entering the sound options screen.
Fixes to the minimap - fills the whole area now and the map is calibrated correctly for Burramudgee.
Fixed bug where switching away from zoomerang while zoomed in, using the rang select wheel, would stay zoomed in.
Switch to modern terminology "Left Stick" and "Right Stick" for controllers
Fix for minimap North to display correctly in small mode
Fixed Swedish credits not being updated last round of changes
