v1.1.434

Features

• Support Meta avatars
  • Select either Ready Player Me or Meta as your favorite avatar representation
  • Switch as you like
  • Avatar mirror to preview your avatar
• Support left-handedness
  • Auto-switch main hand in menu when pressing buttons of other controller
• A huge array of new world building features (see back until June for delta)
• The Tower
  • Four new additional chapters of epic proportions
  • Exciting climbing passages & Small fights
  • Elaborate pathways to find and untangle
  • Big performance improvements
• Hunt the Button
  • Many improvements on flow and look & feel
  • Use small mazes as transitions between rooms
• Training Ground
  • Drones will be patrolling the outside
  • Many improvements to outer scenery
  • Doors, adding much more tension to the game
• Add fog in selected worlds for improved atmosphere
• Main menu & Settings simplifications
• New "Connecting" state while not fully ready for Multiplayer
• Show more guidance when creating user reports
• Make complete highscore and online statistics handling asynchronous
  • Creates less hick-ups while playing, supports playing offline and uploading highscores once connected again
• Show updated leaderboard score after finishing a run
• Support showing leaderboard explanations in exit screen
• Big performance improvements all-over (main menu, game and world editor)
• Skip loading unrelated chapters in case they are independent, resulting in a huge performance and memory boost during loading
• Show loading information in leaderboards
• Enable music ducking when speech is played
• Press "h" in PC version to toggle hands visibility

Bugfixes

• Fix replayed worlds reporting wrong statistics
• Fix achievement handling on non-Oculus platforms
• Fix sending statistics twice
• React gracefully to disk full
• Don't take damage when not in-game
• Fix transition sometimes not fully deactivated by variable
• Upgrade Voice package, most likely fixing connection issues some players reported

v1.1.384

Features

• Giant world builder update: more than 200 new features. See complete list (from back until January)
• Achievements!
  • A variety of over 20 initial achievements, for completing worlds, unlocking secrets, walking and more
  • Single unlock & counting achievements (e.g. distance walked)
  • Some secret achievements only visible when unlocked
  • Visible in Oculus profile
• Introduction of paid worlds and chapters
  • Selected worlds or chapters can now be priced
  • Available to community worlds soon
  • Ability to show testimonials, provide free chapters, demo worlds and more
• Supporter Package option for players who want to support the development of the game
  • Will show a heart in the leaderboards for supporters
• Integrate User Reporting to quickly reproduce potential issues
• Always allow nickname entry when not on an Oculus version
• Performance improvements in-game and in the menu

Bugfixes

• Fix a case of enemies getting stuck
• Fix enemy not moving anymore suddenly

v1.1.347

Features

• Speed up world loading dramatically
• Many multiplayer improvements
  • Enemies and collectibles will be removed for other players as well
  • Spawn items reproducibly in identical locations
  • Enable walked path in outro
  • Potentially fix avatar visibility issues
  • Update common play area automatically if either boundaries are redrawn or manually changed
• Hero items will be returned to player if they are outside the play area (depends only on world updates now still to be done)
• New main menu backdrop & Basic portal
• Support 9m play areas in Pyramid, Gallery, Space-Man and AITO
• Ensure player cannot fall through the ground in outro

Bugfixes

• Fix players being stuck in black void when transitioning from one world to another or replaying
• Fix multiplayer alignment issues
• Fix multiplayer padding being calculated incorrectly
• Fix ghost avatar being visible although it shouldn't be
• Fix multiple edge cases of exceptions found in the online error log
• Fix tile size in multiplayer suddenly shrinking
• Catch voice chat trying to log in twice

v1.1.340

Features

• Offline mode!
• Adjust position of drones in Space-Man depending on player height (collectibles coming later)
• Show hint in Multiplayer that host needs to start

Bugfixes

• Fix materials sometimes missing for grabbable objects
• Fix multiplayer with stick movement reporting always 2 by 2 play area

v1.1.307

Features

• Streamline menu
  • Simplified again
  • Make place for 7 worlds
  • World browser is now a menu item
• Improved First Start Experience
• New Intro World: The Holodeck
  • First world with improved voice-over
  • First usage of fog
• Ability to cancel world loading
• Introduce experimental support for controller based movement (slide navigation)
• Performance improvements
• Many many world building enhancements to enable amazing new community worlds in the works

Bugfixes

• Fix LQ shader not being picked up immediately after changing settings
• Fix transitions shining through upper floors
• Don't interrupt moving platforms mid-way
• Fix system boundaries sometimes getting overridden

v1.1.259

Features

• Support for Quality Rules so that worlds will run without the need to manually tweak settings on lower end devices
• Faster start-up
• Reduce avatar and overall memory consumption
• Compress gallery images on devices with fewer memory (Quest 1)
• Performance improvements
• Resize imported images automatically, making Gallery usage much simpler and not causing out of memory exceptions
• Remove Halloween theming again
• Animated main menu

Bugfixes

• Fix lever behavior
• Fix post effects for health not fully resetting
• Fix potential flickering for Gallery images from device
• Fix multiplayer area being sometimes unaligned
• Fix starting point not being possible to determine in initial zone after first death
• Catch more corner cases of elements that could be removed to save memory
• Fix voice chat not working for rooms with special characters or blanks in the name
• Fix health not being reset after dying from falling
• Fix covers not updating after cache period expired
• Ensure combo resets are properly synched in multiplayer
• Fix some multiplayer players seeing tiny play-area
• Fix shielded enemies crossing portals
• Fix collected items not unregistering correctly

v1.1.241

Features

• Multiplayer !!!
  • Play together with friends, private rooms
  • Voice chat
  • Use your Ready Player Me avatar, short-code support
  • Synchronized articulated hands
  • Synchronized logic (buttons, levers, puzzles)
  • Co-operative play mode
  • Join a running game late
  • Special handling: wait for all players to load the game before showing intro zone, support host changes, disconnect/reconnent...
  • And much more planned in the near future, please give feedback and share ideas
• Performance enhancements
  • Big performance increase in zones that require puzzle solving before getting to the next
  • Much faster world loading if no dynamic spawning or moving agents are required
  • Optimized physics
  • Smoother menu
• Make gallery from device sorted randomly by default
• See additional downloads progressing during loading (instead of static universe screen)
• Adjusted pit in Pyramid so that respawn tile is guaranteed to not be a trap
• First portal in intro is now animated
• Show animated path walked after reaching exit
• Halloween menu theming
• Initial app start now also shows loading screen
• Removed default game over speech, reduced outro music volume

Bugfixes

• Fix dropped objects cannot be regrabbed sometimes
• Fix incorrect target count
• Fix world upload retries not working
• Fix world upload not being able to cope with aborted uploads
• Fix player not being able to return to main menu in rare cases
• Many additional fixes all over

v1.1.213

Features

• Reenable & Extend bHaptics
• Make buttons much more responsive
• Shield support
  • Enemies with varying shields in AI Take-Over, including regeneration
  • Test shield to shooting range
• Pyramid traps are now placed in a way that players won't suddenly die without warning
• Close unrelated menu windows when selecting something new
• Speed up initial loading by caching world cover images
• Death UI will state reason
• New weapons: Blue + Yellow plasma gun, including sounds and animations
• Turrets react faster now
• Support weapons without slides
• Animations for fire and reload
• Hide hand HUD as well when grabbing objects with hands disabled
• Shorten interstitial text
• Support debug mode also if no boundaries were reported

Bugfixes

• Fix most cases of laser popping into view for a tiny amount of time
• Catch more corner cases reported online
• Fix download button sometimes not disappearing
• Fix vertical laser not being shootable
• Fix damage performance and behaviour of hands
• Fix gravity sometimes not working
• Fix damage received on player
• Fix world details sometimes not opening anymore
• Fix bullet count being incorrect when holding two guns
• Fix server constantly being contacted while adjusting padding

v1.1.195

Bugfixes

• Fix performance regression & Pyramid sound issues
• Fix Pyramid door making noise also when closed
• Fix retry screen not shown when timer hits zero
• Fix chapter unlock not happening when reaching top of tower

v1.1.193

Features

• Hide ghost avatar during transitions
• Restrict tile size to max of 90cm
• Guns can be reloaded now by pulling the top grip
• Activate challenge ghosts per default now
• Show splash screen immediately after starting app
• Improve memory and performance by reducing object complexity
• Equip time slow-down per default in AI Take-Over
• Join MP through code (alpha)

Bugfixes

• Fix hands scaling after using levers
• Fix objects shining through portals sometimes
• Fix lasers still visible after leaving zone
• Fix full lasers reacting to bullets and not only emitter
• Fix opponents sometimes not getting destructed in rare cases after kill
• Fix Space-Man drones being able to kill player after being destroyed
• Fix some challenges not being able to be played anymore
• Fix menu screen grinding to a halt when opening it multiple times
• Fix multiple speech samples playing in parallel
• Fix gravity being lost after Pause or return to main menu
• Fix many minor errors being reported for some rare corner cases