Zeepkist
Zeepkist Beautiful Beta - Version 16, Patch 69
- "automatically subscribe to workshop levels" is now off by default for new players
- server messages are now aligned to top instead of center
- added a button to online pause menu "subscribe to workshop item", which is enabled when auto subscribing is off
- awarded event cosmetics
- retry button now works in end screen (singleplayer/online only)
- [testing] Added a button that says "Check for workshop item updates!" to the host controls menu, which will force a recheck of your workshop item, to see if there's any that need updating.
Zeepkist Super League - Black 'n' White (Timeslot 1 Reschedule for Tracks 13-15)
NOTICE
Unfortunately, the Zeepkist online server ran out of disk space near the end of the Timeslot 1 tournament. This resulted in us being unable to finish the last 3 levels from the tournament.
Yannic fixed the issue in time for the Timeslot 2 tournament to proceed as planned. If you raced in Timeslot 2 for these 3 tracks, you're all good!
For those affected by the server issue during Timeslot 1, we have rescheduled the last 3 tracks. See below for details.
As the Timeslot 1 room reached capacity for this round, Season 5 Round 5 (26th January) will welcome back having 2 rooms for Timeslot 1 for a 128-player capacity timeslot.
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View the event on Zeepkist's Official Discord server!
When is the Super League tournament?
Timeslot 1 (1 Room, 64 player capacity, Hosted by Akane)
- Sunday 12th January at 11:00 PT
- Sunday 12th January at 14:00 ET
- Sunday 12th January at 18:00 GMT
- Sunday 12th January at 19:00 CET
Super League Details
We will be competing on 3 of the 55 level submissions from the level contest held earlier this month. You can checkout all submissions on the Steam Workshop!
The rooms will open around 10 minutes before the event starts and is scheduled to last around 21 minutes (7 minutes per level). The first timed level will begin on the hour (~10 minutes after rooms open)
The leaderboards in all rooms will be tracked and will be combined into a single overall leaderboard post-event on zeepki.st/super-league!
Top 6 with the most points will receive a special soapbox IN-GAME, a Discord role and 3,000 chat EXP in our Discord server!
Who can join?
The Super League is open to all! Open Zeepkist and hop in to one of the Super League rooms hosted by Akane (Timeslot 1) or Kernkob (Timeslot 2). Rooms are filled on a first-come-first-served basis.
Look out for the following rooms hosted by us:
- Zeepkist Super League: Black n White
What tracks are we racing on?
The 3 tracks we're racing on are the last 3 of the 15 we were originally meant to race on last weekend.
They are:
- Spiritfall Isles by reholmes92
- Onyx Flux by Shadynook
- Red All Over by PoopSheriff
Download the level playlist at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YZ9oDs2Jd1pS2vdUVOULATdL8AHPluec/view?usp=drive_link
Save the downloaded playlist in "%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Zeepkist\Playlists" and load it inside an Online room!
Vote for the Best Layout & Best Track Décor
Voting is now open! The top 4 levels with the best layout and the top 4 levels with the best decoration will earn their creators the Season 5 & 6 level contest soapbox cosmetic!
CAST YOUR VOTE HERE
- Akane
Zeepkist Beautiful Beta - Version 16, Patch 68
- made a new settings category under Accessibility, called "Content Creators", for content-creator specific options
- added setting "Disable End Screen Timestamp"
- added permanent steering limit indicator in the gameplay gui
- tree wood now gives off regular smoke particles
- you will no longer time-out on parking blocks
Zeepkist Super League - Black 'n' White
When is the Super League tournament?
Timeslot 1 (1 Room, 64 player capacity, Hosted by Akane)
- Sunday 5th January at 11:00 PT
- Sunday 5th January at 14:00 ET
- Sunday 5th January at 18:00 GMT
- Sunday 5th January at 19:00 CET
Timeslot 2 (1 Room, 64 player capacity, Hosted by Kernkob)
- Sunday 5th January at 19:00 PT
- Sunday 5th January at 22:00 ET
- Monday 6th January at 03:00 GMT
- Monday 6th January at 04:00 CET
Super League Details
We will be competing on 15 of the 55 level submissions from the level contest held earlier this month. You can checkout all submissions on the Steam Workshop!
The rooms will open around 10 minutes before the event starts and is scheduled to last around 2 hours (7 minutes per level) with a rest period half way through. The first timed level will begin on the hour (~10 minutes after rooms open)
The leaderboards in all rooms will be tracked and will be combined into a single overall leaderboard post-event on zeepki.st/super-league!
Top 6 with the most points will receive a special soapbox IN-GAME, a Discord role and 3,000 chat EXP in our Discord server!
Who can join?
The Super League is open to all! Open Zeepkist and hop in to one of the Super League rooms hosted by Akane (Timeslot 1) or Kernkob (Timeslot 2). Rooms are filled on a first-come-first-served basis.
Look out for the following rooms hosted by us:
- Zeepkist Super League: Black n White
What tracks are we racing on?
The 15 tracks we're racing on have been picked out by our judges.
They are:
- Lucidus by Northwind
- Fragt Port by M4rv1nDD
- Detravaderre Abbey by DeeDeeNaNaNa
- Spectre by Last + Maki + Maou
- Middle Land by Lexer
- Achromatic Entanglement by Mokster
- i struggle with naming my maps by Renergy
- Just as colorful as my imagination by ZOMAN
- [BREAK TIME: BLACK 'N' WHITE EDITION]
- Yokuatsu by Kernkob
- Oh No, my ROOOK! by Not That Guy + Diabler
- Null Space by ttv/Lilly the Bun
- Rainbow Ridge 1925 by St Nicholas
- Spiritfall Isles by reholmes92
- Onyx Flux by Shadynook
- Red All Over by PoopSheriff
Download the level playlist at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YZ9oDs2Jd1pS2vdUVOULATdL8AHPluec/view?usp=drive_link
Save the downloaded playlist in "%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Zeepkist\Playlists" and load it inside an Online room!
Vote for the Best Layout & Best Track Décor
Voting is now open! The top 4 levels with the best layout and the top 4 levels with the best decoration will earn their creators the Season 5 & 6 level contest soapbox cosmetic!
CAST YOUR VOTE HERE
- Akane
Zeepkist Beautiful Beta - Version 16, Patch 66
- Fixed pause menu not working
Zeepkist Beautiful Beta - Version 16, Patch 65
Patch 65
- awarded special cosmetics
- added new level, Y-04, with 11 new gifts
- maybe fixed a weird fan and rocks bug
- fixed leaderboard names not getting parsed properly sometimes
- gifts counter in pause menu
Special Cosmetics
After the recent Shivaxi corkscrew stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZneDAkJKY
The Zeepkist discord moderators and I had a discussion if there weren't other Zeepkist content creators who probably also deserved a special cosmetic, to thank them for their hard work making Zeepkist videos/and/or/streams!
And we came up with a selection of 5!
justMaki
Warcans
Lexer
Codewalt Gaming
Lilly_the_bun
Now, seeing as the models for all of these cosmetics would be too cool to not include in the game itself...
Level Y-04
Level Y-04 is a new holidays themed addition to the Y-series of levels!
It features a lot of recently added blocks, as well as 11 red gifts, with more basic versions of the special cosmetics I awarded above!
SO, if you want to look really really rad, you better get gift hunting!!!
I added a nice little gift counter in the pause menu, so you can see how many gifts you already found in a level!
Closing Thoughts
Now! I'm probably going to be pausing the giving out of custom cosmetics for a while!
Custom cosmetics are a lot of work and also we're getting to a point where there's too many youtubers/streamers that I can give all of them custom cosmetics, and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by prioritizing certain people over others!
If you really really think someone deserves a special cosmetic for their hard work making Zeepkist content and/or the community, feel free to let the moderators on Discord know and we will consider it.
Link to Zeepkist Discord: steelpan.dev/zk-discord
However, keep in mind what I've said above. I'm putting a pause on special cosmetics for the moment. :)
NOW
HAPPY ZEEPKISTING, EVERYONE!! :D :D
Level Contest - Rollercoaster
THEME: Rollercoaster
Build a level that has players driving on a rollercoaster inspired track!
Looking for ideas? How about a course with loop-the-loop elements and hang-time hill elements; a junior coaster with simple flowing elements; or an indoor dark-ride inspired level!
DEADLINE
- Your track should be complete and submitted by Sunday, 12th January 2025 at 18:00 GMT
- Submissions will be combined into a single workshop item after the deadline above
SUBMISSION RULES
- You can only submit one level (you can modify or replace your submission as much as you like until the deadline)
- Level collaborations are permitted (Maximum of 3 players per level. This counts as a level submission for each individual creator. Please name/mention collaborators when submitting)
- Level author name MUST contain the submitters' Steam (or Discord) username
- The name of the level MUST start with "ZSL - " (e.g "ZSL - My Level")
THEME RULES
- No additional theme rules
LEVEL RULES
- Scaling track pieces is permitted
- Level MUST follow any theme requirements set above
- Level MUST be under 4000 blocks
- Level MUST have an author time above 20 seconds
- Level MUST have an author time under 75 seconds (1m15s)
- Level MUST have at least 2 checkpoints. Consider adding additional checkpoints for split timing or where it would prevent a cut, as cuts do not make for good tournament tracks!
- Level MUST NOT have risky or hidden finishes/shortcuts (e.g blind shortcuts or using no-collision/invisible/logic blocks to hide a secret path that is NOT the intended route)
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR LEVEL
- Join our Official Discord server
- Upload the level to the Steam Workshop
- Link the workshop item in the theme's thread in #level-submissions
Don't have Discord? You can submit your entry by linking your workshop item in the comments section of this announcement post!
WINNERS & PRIZES
- Up to 15 of the submitted levels will be used for the next Zeepkist Super League event
- The community will vote on their favourite maps from the theme once submissions close
- Top 4 in the community votes for Best Decor and Best Track Layout will each win a special soapbox cosmetic in-game. Discord users will also get a `Level Contest Winner` role and 3,000 chat EXP in our Discord server.
BANNER CONTEST
We're also hosting a themed banner contest for our Discord server banner image where you can win a special beret hat!!
The theme is Rollercoaster and ends at the same time as this level contest!! View the banner contest event details on Discord
- Akane
Zeepkist Beautiful Beta - Version 16, Patch 64
- rewarded event cosmetics
- ronan 1 year showcase party hat (CONGRATS RONAN :D)
- fixed blocks 2254 and 2255
- fixed C-04 and H-03 glider skips
Ronan's 1 year anniversary Zeepkist level showcase video:
Zeepkist Beautiful Beta - Version 16, Patch 59-63
- improved LOD calculations, should give people way more frames than before
- added setting "Disable Player Transparent Fading"
- added setting "Disable Online Player Shadows"
- online player shadows now disable if they get further than "Max Shadow Cast Distance"
Patch 61:
- Patch 59 and 60 broke logic, fixed this
Patch 62:
- Broke more stuff, I hate game development
Patch 63:
- Broke more stuff, oh my god
Zeepkist Beautiful Beta - Version 16, Patch 58
- Moved top hats a little bit
- attempting to prevent players from breaking server with insane round lengths