Perfect Round Disc Golf News

8/4/21
Mountain View DGC
-New course with 2 layouts
-Most challenging course to date, with long but fair distances and the tightest fairways in game
-Changed the pipeline for creating this level, which resulted in much more natural looking terrain & features.
-Grass is also different from the other maps, peforms better and does not pop in any more
New Round Start Screen
-rrorganized level select screen, now shows a preview of the selected course
-no longer have to select Front 9/back 9/18 to lock in course change, displayed course is now selected course
-also brought Par 2 course to the list of courses, so the leaderboard can now be viewed in game for that course
QoL changes
-added restart option to pause menu
-added option to change the distance at which the game automatically switches to putting, from 33ft - 66ft

Enjoy!
Rob

Lemme just over TRIPLE the number of the discs in the game real quick

-All the discs on the 2021 Discraft flight chart are now in the game, 49 in total
-I have the stamps for 36 of them, and some have an alternate stamps that has a 30% chance of appearing, whether it is a Paul McBeth, Page Pierce or soft version of that disc. the others will get an art stamp, as always each disc has a 10% chance of generating with an art stamp
-made changes to reduce skips, especially at lower speeds
-removed the power boost on a perfect 3rd click to make the disc more predictable

5/10/21
Weather + Volumetric Clouds!
-Incorporated new volumetric clouds in UE4.26 and weather effects alongside. The weather is all hooked up to the in game wind so rain and snow particles & clouds above will show you the wind speed & direction
-Weather does not have an effect on gameplay. You can select it when starting the round or leave it on dynamic and watch the weather shift during the round
Improved performance!
-when adding the new weather I started investigating different rendering modes, so basically performance is way better, especially at higher resolutions. I was seeing 2x the frame rate at 4k and 25% better at 1080p
4k screenshot at epic settings-2x fps

Leaderboards!
-added leaderboards for every course & layout, spit into the wind setting used. i.e. Cascades longs - front 9 - high wind
-view these on the course select screen when you have a course selected. they should also be viewable from the community hub once I update the backend
-the par 2 course is keeping leaderboards, but not visible in game just yet. will have to reorganize the layout to incorporate that
-Oh yeah, leaderboard scores can be set at any skill level(doesn't have to be on the save file), and any player in multiplayer
Bug Fixes
-lots of random bugs, notably the infinite putting bug in multiplayer and discs blocking other discs in multiplayer. at least I think I fixed that last one, let me know if it still happens

Next few days/week will be fixing a long list of bugs I have written down from users on Discord, and anything else that will pop up.

Enjoy!
Rob

One Year in Early Access! The game looks better than I thought it ever would when I released it 1 year ago, and I still have more to add. Thank You to all the players who have tried out and enjoyed the game, it is nice to hear others who appreciate the game.

This patch brings the long awaited sidearm throw! This will let players attack the course in all new ways.

The other big change was to flight physics, my goal was to get more sweeping Hyzers and eliminate instances where once a disc started going downhill it might never stop. I believe I have done that, and would love to hear feedback on the new disc flight.

Enjoy!
Rob

3/12/21
Celebrating one year of Early Access!
-Sidearm throws are added. R/X button to switch to sidearm throws, which will act as a mirrored backhand
-the animations are a little rough, especially for Kallari. I am ordering gloves to go with the motion capture suit and will create new animations when I get those
-Major disc flight changes. The biggest change was to where an how glide is applied. It looks way better to my eyes and the putting is much more forgiving as a bonus result
-Added option to delete discs in inventory
=added option to toggle flight line/power shot particle effects
-UI layout/font changes
-Fixed discs registering in baskets before they had fully come to a stop, and instances where the disc gets stuck in terrain and never registers as stopped
-Added physics to Phase's alternate skin's hair

It's ready! After some unforeseen challenges in the details, the latest patch is ready. This brings the character count up to 8, and evens the number of left-handed/right-handed players. I also utilized all the skins available with the Paragon characters, so a good round is now rewarded with an alternate skin for the character that was used. The other big change was to the chain physics, since there were a lot of complaints about spit outs. That should be resolved now.

In the next few days I will be adding in some QoL features mentioned in reviews/comments, and should have another patch up soon with those. The next bigger feature I want to work on is online leaderboards, so stay tuned.

Enjoy!
Rob

12/22/20
-3 new characters! Unlock these by shooting even par or better on High Country, Cascades and Green Hills. This evens out the number of lefties/righties to 4 each
-Skins! Every character now has skins that can be unlocked. shooting a round even par or better will unlock a skin for the character you used for the round
-Changes to chain physics. Putting should be more forgiving now, I made the chains heavier so they can catch putts that are coming in with more speed. there may be some missed tap ins(especially with new character Steel), as always let me know which holes that happens on so I can look at it
-5 new DGA stamps added to the game:
Hurricane,
Steady
Tempest
Undertow
Tremor
-Made upgrades cheaper so it is quicker to unlock new characters.level up
Various bugfixes and performance improvements. Performance in particular I cleaned up some trouble aress that should help out a lot(especially later in rounds