CART RACING

• The default controller controls are now right trigger to accelerate, left trigger to brake, A to jump/powerslide and X to fire weapons (and similar for the fourbie)
  
• Cart handling (turning), powerslide, boost out of powerslide, jump height, acceleration and max velocity have all been tuned
  
• Cart camera positions and FOV have been tweaked
  
• We've added in the option to do split screen vertically as well as horizontally (currently in the camera options screen)
  
• Cart camera smoothing for vertical "bumps" so it doesn't jitter all over the place

BOSS FIGHT CHANGES

OTHER CHANGES

• ACHIEVEMENTS: 11 new achievements - should be awarded off loading a 100% save game and going to the game totals screen. See the achievements information for the game in Steam for details on what these new achievements are!
  
• ACHIEVEMENTS: Race achievements (come first in a race, come first in all races) should now award if you load a 100% complete save game where you've completed those races.
  
• ART: fix for alpha issues with the oil rig textures used in the buster boss fight
  
• ART: Envdome upres for Southern Rivers (overworld)
  
• AUDIO: added SFX for throwing a frill off a bunyip
  
• AUDIO: updated main menu SFX
  
• AUDIO: added new glide SFX loop
  
• AUDIO: Updated some cart racing SFX
  
• CAMERA: fixes for the camera clipping through the roof (eg stand on a crate in between bush rescue HQ and town; and double jump)
  
• CART RACING: Brand new in-game race UI for single player, split screen, and Chocker's shops.
  
• CART RACING: split screen races now draw the props on both views, if "Cart Prop Detail" is set to High (new settings option in screen settings)
  
• CART RACING: music for races starts on start of flythrough now
  
• CART RACING: fixed issue where some objects wouldn't shatter during cart races
  
• CART RACING: lots of cart camera fixes to smooth things out
  
• CART RACING: added vertical split screen option to multiplayer cart races (in camera options UI)
  
• CONTROLS: jump with ty is now on by default on a fresh install
  
• CONTROLS: Change default controls for vehicles for left trigger = break, right trigger = accel; X = throw/fire; A = jump/slide
  
• CRASH: fix for crash if exiting level/to main menu; while in the middle of a boomerang throw
  
• GRAPHICS: fixes to fading in of objects when SSAO is enabled to fix some of the "pop to black" issues
  
• GRAPHICS: omni lights update while changing rangs from rang selection popup
  
• GRAPHICS: net fixes for m12 to make it more like the original release
  
• GRAPHICS: reflections are fixed for clipping and draw distance
  
• GRAPHICS: fix for helicopter mission ssao issues (1cm nearplane and 1km farplane!)
  
• GRAPHICS: fixed edges on invincibility texture particle effect
  
• GRAPHICS: added road shader specular
  
• GRAPHICS: fix for graphics corruption if both SSAO and Bloom are disabled on boot
  
• GRAPHICS: fix shadow setting not initialising if shadows were set to "off"
  
• GRAPHICS: tweaked all shadow settings for all races
  
• LEVEL DESIGN: Added some decoration props to the beach area.
  
• LEVEL DESIGN: Set some per-level grass detail settings for Burramudgee to improve performance
  
• MISSIONS: Grindstone Cowboy control and camera fixes; and graphics fixes
  
• MISSIONS: boss fights are now replayable
  
• MISSIONS: Buster the nanobot fixes
  
• PERFORMANCE: grass now runs on the gpu
  
• UI: Added per-level collectable information pages to the pause screen (scroll through on the game totals tab)
  
  
• UI: new race shop UI updates (chocker's) with trophy visible if you've won
  
• UI: Added a scroll to the race win flag background to make it a more dynamic looking.
  
• UI: added map for Canopy Capers
  
• UI: sped up speed of scrolling button groups on the UI (for long menus eg shops)
  
• UI: fixed the "press start to play" text for the race intro to reflect your last used control device
  
• UI: race hud now displays the name of the race during the flyover
  
• UI: boss fights now have a different icon on the map; once you've finished them
  
• UI: fix for sound options not being able to be changed on the main menu
  
• UI: added animated dunny to the "you've lost" screen for races
  
  
• UI: new location banner system (only used for shop entries ATM)
  
• UI: All of the shops have new UI, icons etc

• Controls changed for triggers to be accelerate/brake; with the "THROW RANG" button to fire the weapon
  
• Camera smoothing (steadycam) on the vertical movement, to smooth out the camera bouncing everywhere while driving over rough surfaces
  
• Handling changes to have more of a ramp in/out on the turn; as well as a speed boost from exiting a powerslide, better turn rates and an improved jump height
  
• Some collision and shattering fixes

DENNIS JETBOAT

TY THE WHALE

IMPROVED CORAL AND TIGER SHARK

LOCATION NAMES

NEW SHOP UI

MISC BITS

• Improved grass performance
  
• Per level collectable counts
  
• More achievements
  
• The ability to hit the barracuda with your aquarang
  
• Stong Temple of Carnook playability improvements

• Changes to the save game format. It should be able to load the old save format without any loss of progress, or items, etc.
  
• Mass changes to the streaming of the fourbie-driving level - hopefully nothing has been broken in terms of endless Julius sciene facts, etc

NEW FEATURES

• CONTROLS: Mouse boomerang aiming now works like it does in TY1 on Steam (throws at the view direction)
  
• GRAPHICS: Added shadow normal support to improve shadow quality.
• MAPS: Implement "won race" icon (trophy) on the maps.
  
• MAPS: Added star at Sgt Bluey's location in town, for the hidden frill mission
  
• SAVES: New save system that alows us to add new save data, moving forward.
  
• SHOPS: Added initial lighting, shadows and SSAO to the shops.
  
  
• SHOPS: Added some VO that didn't get implemented in the original release. Have fun finding out what/where!
  
• UI: Boomerang HUD is now toggled on and off, instead of having to hold down the "action" button (Y button on X360 controller, R key (default binding) on keyboard and mouse).
  
• UI: You can now select boomerangs from the Boomerang HUD, even after you upgrade them.

CONTENT UPDATES

• ART: Updated the texture for the sheoak tree
  
• AUDIO: Updated whoosh sound for main menu logo sequence
  
• LEVELS: Changed how Sly's Shack art is loaded when you're driving around; so you can see it from a distance
  
• LEVELS: Merged half of the different level streaming packags together, for when you're driving around. Fixes a variety of different popping issues, etc.
  
• LEVELS: Added in "Big Croc" prop to the Southern Rivers, that didn't make the original release.
  
  
• LEVELS: Big props (prawn, pie, pineapple, croc) are bigger; and you can see them from further away.
  
• LEVELS: added warp flower to near Sly's Shack - once you've made it to the top once (from this build onwards), it will appear and let you avoid having to do the jump puzzle each time you want to buy a rang.
  
  
• LEVELS: Added some additional props around Sly's Shack
  
  
• LEVELS: Removed low poly houses from town, that we don't need anymore as the high-res ones are always loaded.
  
• LEVELS: Added some additional props around the entrance to Burramudgee from the Southern Rivers

BUG FIXES and MISC

• AUDIO: Rework of the audio acoustic settings system, to data drive it. Some tweaks to the various settings for the reverb etc while in caves.
  
• AUDIO: Fix for aquarang sounds that occasionally stopped it from playing a sound.
  
• AUDIO: Fixes to acoustic (reverb) support so that the reverb doesn't sometimes cut out, mid sound.
  
• GRAPHICS: Fixes to draw distance calculations that caused the settings to lag by one option.
  
• GRAPHICS: Fixed issue with shadow interpolation causing "forever shimmering" shadows.
  
• GRAPHICS: Fixes to grass system, so grass spawning on props (like the mossy logs) works again.
  
• GRAPHICS: Fixes for the visibility of the invisicrates and invisiplatforms (and them not being included in the shadow map).
  
• GRAPHICS: Fix for wave height in Sheep Dip
  
• KART RACING: Fixes to the chance for AI racers to take the shortcuts. Larger chance to take a shortcut, the further behind you they are, and reduced chance to do it, if they are close to you.
  
• KART RACING: Simplified the rubberbanding code and made some changes so that their catch-up is less aggressive, depending on the situation.
  
• LEADERBOARDS: Don't post a race result to the leaderboard unless it's better than the default time (10 mins).
  
• LEADERBOARDS: Display Race times display as m:ss.cc; game completion times display as d:hh:mm:ss
  
• MISC: Added some logging to an achievement that isn't unlocking for some users.
  
• MEMORY: Fixes for a variety of memory leaks.
  
• PERFORMANCE: Fixes for load-hitches as new data streams in.
  
• UI: Removed the word "Loading" from the loading screen (TY logo with animated rings). Linds personal note - Have hated that being there since the original release, where it had to be there for TRC requirements.

WHAT'S NEXT

• LEVELS: Continued level prop placement improvements.
  
• PERFORMANCE: Rewrite of the grass system to improve performance.
  
• UI: New shop UI art implementation.

• SHOPS: Implemented the shadow, SSAO etc system in to the shops. More work to come here, with some lighting etc - but that needs to wait until after the new UI is implemented (note - textures for the shops haven't been upres'd yet).
  
  
• SHOPS: Implemented some more VO that was all set up in the original game, but never triggered (will leave it to you guys to find out what this is!).
  
• BOOMERANGS: 1st pass implementation of being able to select the Tier 1 boomerangs, even after you buy the Tier 2 versions. Still need to do some polish on this for the controls before we add it to a build. Also - we've changed it so the selection overlay toggles on/off; instead of you having to hold a button
  
  
• SAVE GAMES: Lots of "under the hood" work to allow us to add more things to the save games, so that we can implement some little bits and pieces; like a warp flower to get to the top of Sly's Spire, once you've done the jump puzzle once!
  
• MAPS: Added a trophy icon (that was in the original game but not hooked up due to time) to show which races have been won
  

NEW FEATURES

• ACHIEVEMENTS: Added 2 x new achievements (finish first in a race and finish first in all races)
  
• AUDIO: Added collection sting for Kromium Orbs.
  
• LEVELS: Reworked the data streaming for Burramudgee. There should no longer be a wait between Bush Rescue and town (opal spawner removed). There are no gates going up to the Haunted Manson. Removed the fences etc blocking off the top of town to bottom of town. Level is now closer to how we wished we could have made it in the first place; but ran out of memory. Note - no performance improvements at the moment :)
  
• LEVELS: More reworking of the data streaming for the overworld, merging some data stream packages together. There is no longer a separate data package for "Crouching Birrel, Hidden Squeaver", "Explosive Cargo", "Plutonium Panic", "Bush Fire"; or the entrance to "The Never Never" level
  
• UI: Missions that have been completed once; but still are visible on the map (ie repeatable) now display a different icon on the hud map and pause menu map; and added the icon to the map key on the pause menu

BUG FIXES

• AUDIO: Fixed music pausing on some missions, where the intro cutscene had already made the music start playing (was erroneously pausing it to then try to restart the same music track). Example: The Birrel and Squeaver missions.
  
• CRASH: Fix for exiting leaderboards while a task is in progress
  
• CRASH: Fix for hitting "A" (on controller) on the leaderboard summary on the pause menu
  
• CRASH: Fix for crash when viewing leaderboards on race results after an ingame race
  
• CUTSCENES: Fixed lipsync memory overwrite potentially occurring in specific cutscenes in IT/ES/DA/SV
  
• LEADERBOARDS: Fixed leaderboards not starting at Rank 1 when changing displayed leaderboard after scrolling down some pages on the previous displayed leaderboard
  
• LEADERBOARDS: Fixed leaderboard crashes from trying to obtain more users in the list
  
• LEVELS: Fixed up ID conflict causing the wrong chunk to load, when trying to play Sheep Dip.
  
• RACES: Fixed RaceResults and TrophyScreen to display correct control messages at the bottom of the screen.
  
• UI: Made the map on the pause menu bigger.
  
• UI: Fixes to the font(s) to remove the period that was being displayed instead of the hard-space, before button icons
  
• UI: Modified "icon in string" remapping to adjust to keyboard/mouse or gamepad descriptions based on which device was last used. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT COMPLETED, WE STILL NEED TO IMPLEMENT SPECIFIC KEYBOARD vs CONTROLLER STRINGS.

ART

• ART: Hi-res rang textures for all rangs
  
• ART: Hi-res fire truck texture
  
• ART: Improved quality of the Bush Rescue banner in the cutscene after you finish the first level
  
• ART: Pocket Fluffy HUD texture updated

NEW FEATURES

• ACHIEVEMENTS: Added 2 x new achievements (finish first in a race and finish first in all races)
  
• UI: Missions that have been completed once; but still are visible on the map (ie repeatable) now display a different icon on the hud map and pause menu map; and added the icon to the map key on the pause menu

BUG FIXES

• CRASH: Fix for exiting leaderboards while a task is in progress
  
• CRASH: Fix for hitting "A" (on controller) on the leaderboard summary on the pause menu
  
• CRASH: Fix for crash when viewing leaderboards on race results after an ingame race
  
• UI: Made the map on the pause menu bigger.
  
• LEADERBOARDS: Fixed leaderboards not starting at Rank 1 when changing displayed leaderboard after scrolling down some pages on the previous displayed leaderboard
  
• RACES: Fixed RaceResults and TrophyScreen to display correct control messages at the bottom of the screen.

NEW FEATURES

• AUDIO: Added collection sting for Kromium Orbs.
  
• LEVELS: Reworked the data streaming for Burramudgee. There should no longer be a wait between Bush Rescue and town (opal spawner removed). There are no gates going up to the Haunted Manson. Removed the fences etc blocking off the top of town to bottom of town. Level is now closer to how we wished we could have made it in the first place; but ran out of memory. Note - no performance improvements at the moment :)
  
  
• LEVELS: More reworking of the data streaming for the overworld, merging some data stream packages together. There is no longer a separate data package for "Crouching Birrel, Hidden Squeaver", "Explosive Cargo", "Plutonium Panic", "Bush Fire"; or the entrance to "The Never Never" level

BUG FIXES

• AUDIO: Fixed music pausing on some missions, where the intro cutscene had already made the music start playing (was erroneously pausing it to then try to restart the same music track). Example: The Birrel and Squeaver missions.
  
• LEADERBOARDS: Fixed leaderboard crashes from trying to obtain more users in the list
  
• LEVELS: Fixed up ID conflict causing the wrong chunk to load, when trying to play Sheep Dip.
  
• UI: Fixes to the font(s) to remove the period that was being displayed instead of the hard-space, before button icons
  
• UI: Modified "icon in string" remapping to adjust to keyboard/mouse or gamepad descriptions based on which device was last used. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT COMPLETED, WE STILL NEED TO IMPLEMENT SPECIFIC KEYBOARD vs CONTROLLER STRINGS.
  
• CUTSCENES: Fixed lipsync memory overwrite potentially occurring in specific cutscenes in IT/ES/DA/SV

ART

• ART: Hi-res rang textures for all rangs
  
• ART: Hi-res fire truck texture
  
• ART: Improved quality of the Bush Rescue banner in the cutscene after you finish the first level
  
• ART: Pocket Fluffy HUD texture updated

NEW FEATURES

• LOCALIZATION: First pass Italian, Spanish, Swedish (text only) and Danish (text only) commit. There will no doubt be some missing or erroneous translations - please let us know anything you can help with on this in the short term (we'll be doing a re-localization pass closer to the end of Early Access, similar to TY1). Note that there be some memory leaks in these new languages - we'll be further working through things, as we go. The game will use the language set up in the "LANGUAGES" tab in the properties of the game). People who have the game already installed may need to change the language dropdown in the properties if you're changing to IT/ES/SV/DA
  
• LEVEL: Fixed up prop pop-in that you see right in front of you (the huge trees) when you enter the fourbie. Data streaming has been modified for "Dennis Freeway" and the Training Grounds mission near "Dennis Freeway", so please let us know if there are any issues
  
• LEVEL: Changed the data streaming going to Sly's Shack and "Fire Fight" - let us know if there are any issues when driving around, or going to/from that mission
  
• LEVEL: Changed the data streaming going to "Croc Stock Pile" and removed the airlock blocking off access due to load times - let us know if there are any issues when driving around, or going to/from that mission

BUG FIXES

• CUTSCENE: Fix for missing audio line in an Italian cutscene that we probably originally shipped with

MISC

• Stripped old shadow data out of the model format, to reduce size
  
• Reworked data archive storage (which archive has what files)