Vibrant Venture News

A new minor update has been released for Vibrant Venture, featuring a number of fixes, balance changes and a visual improvement.

See the changelog below for details.

• Reimplemented checkpoints in 1-Boss and 2-Boss
  
• Spewshrooms in 1-Boss now fire less frequently and only when the player is close to them
  
• The log in 1-Boss now automatically aims at Madeline when slamming it
  
• Improved Spewshroom projectile visuals
  
• Increased default slow motion duration from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds
  
• Increased Longer Slow Motion upgrade duration from 3.5 seconds to 4 seconds
  
• Fixed Longer Slow Motion upgrade being usable in Time Trials
  
• Fixed the file select screen rounding up file completion percentage resulting in incorrect values being displayed
  
• Fixed the Character Orbs showing up immediately while jumping out of the minecart in 3-Bonus
  
• Fixed the upload button in the Level Builder being visible even when offline
  

A new patch has been released for Vibrant Venture.
See the changelog below for details.

• Fixed the Gem Counter and Challenge Coin HUD always staying on screen in 3-Bonus
  
• Fixed losing your speed in between section transitions in 3-Bonus
  
• Fixed being able to land on moving platforms while using Azura's Homing Attack
  
• Fixed Cardinal's double jump animation not playing in 3-Bonus
  
• Fixed moving platforms being able to move the player while Homing Attacking
  
• Fixed a rendering issue in the temple in Cornucopia Town
  

A new update for Vibrant Venture has been released with lots of fixes, design/gameplay tweaks, and some new features!
See the changelog below for details.

• Added the ability to rewatch Power Crystal cutscenes
  • Recovered Power Crystals in the town temple can now be interacted with
  • Interacting with a Power Crystals prompts you to rewatch the cutscene
• 3-3 level design adjustments
  • Several sections are now easier, less precise and leaves more room to react
  • Upon solving the crate puzzle, it now closes off the area the player came from and spawns in a couple of Rocket Platform deflectors to make ascending easier
  • Arrows indicate when to move up with rocket platforms
  • Design oversights have been addressed and fixed
  • Fixed an issue in section 2 that made it impossible to grab 2 Large Gems
• Tweaked the Stamina wheel, Wall Jump wheel and Iron Oyster gauge
  • Now pulsates when gauge is 25% or lower
  • Pulsates faster the closer it gets to 0%
  • At 25% gauge, they slowly turn red
• Tweaked Azura's Homing Attack
  • It is now easier to target enemies
  • A targeted enemy has an additional threshold distance before becoming untargeted
  • Enemies on ceilings no longer causes the attack to sometimes fail
  • Targeting bubble has a quick animation now, making it easier to tell that an enemy has become targeted
• Improved performance in multiple World 3 levels
• Various 2-3 level design improvements and tile fixes
• Removed a Mollet in 3-4's 2nd section that was impossible to react to upon first playing the level
• Updated control scheme selector UI
• Fixed being able to clip into the ground using Azura's Homing Attack at the start of 2-1's third section
• Fixed being able to clip into the wall in 3-4 using the Moving Hooks
• Fixed grabbing a hook while in Anti Gravity forcing the player to jump at max height
• Fixed opening the Character Wheel after respawning instantly switching to Cardinal
• Fixed character icons in dialogue sometimes lingering into the next dialogue
• Fixed the lift in the temple being usable while the game is paused
• Fixed Clawmads being listed as "cephalopods" in Azura's Journal in English
• Fixed the Goal Balloon in 3-3 not temporarily freezing time when grabbing it
• Fixed camera shaking sometimes not working
• Fixed an invisible collision near the town in the World 1 map
• Fixed the HUD in the Level Builder not becoming transparent when using a draggable tool

Just one single bug fix this time around because we missed a problem with the camera in update 4.1.0. This patch fixes the camera zooming in completely during the cutscene that plays when entering a boss level for the first time.

Whoops! Sorry to anyone this might have affected. Should be fixed now!

A new minor update has been released for Vibrant Venture, including some new features and tweaks as well as bug fixes! See the changelog below for details.

• Added a "Time Trial Unlocked" notification when completing a level with a Time Trial for the first time
  
• Added a new camera effect when entering levels
  
• Updated all timestamps to now show 3 digits for milliseconds instead of 2
  
• Updated the Seedle and Seedle Spawner property editors to now feature a range editor for the Attack Range property
  
• Fixed a major issue where slide kicking an enemy while on a moving platform and then immediately jumping would cause the player to be unable to move
  
• Fixed the slide kick sometimes not stopping when playing with low FPS
  
• Fixed the camera movement not working properly in the Level Builder when playtesting after popping a Goal Balloon in a previous playtesting session
  
• Fixed opening the shop sometimes not allowing keyboard navigation
  
• Fixed the camera shake not working when popping a Goal Balloon
  
• Fixed the lighting in 2-Boss applying to the Challenge Coin
  
• Fixed the Iron Oyster property editor UI having a second "Iron Oyster" header