Trivia Tricks News

Hello everyone!

We hope that you had a fun spooky month and enjoyed our Spook-Aversary! Today, however, our Halloween-themed event must come to a close. If you didn't manage to complete all the challenges or collect all the cosmetics they'll return next year.



While we'll no longer be all dressed up for Halloween, this update introduces Stage Selection! You'll be able to visit Halloween Hill or Isla del Trickster whenever you like (or stick to the Studio if you're more comfortable indoors)! Look forward to updates to these stages and additional locations in the future.

Finally, this build contains a handful of general improvements and bug fixes from the last couple of weeks! Enjoy the detailed patch notes for 0.9.8.4 below!

• You can now change stage locations right from the lobby!
  
• Return to either Halloween Hill or Isla del Trickster!
  
• Each stage has its own theme from past events!
  
• A change of pace is always nice!
  
• More locations coming soon!
  

• The Halloween Event is now over.
  
• Halloween missions and cosmetics are no longer available to unlock. You'll keep whatever cosmetics you already earned!
  
• Netcode has been optimized with improved performance.
  
• Ready timer now displays '0:00' instead of 'Game starting...' when the timer reaches 0.
  
• Saturday Night Trivia times have been updated to reflect US Daylight Savings changes.
  
• Improved crash logging and collection.
  

• New questions have been added!
  
• The Halloween questions have been migrated to suitable categories where appropriate.
  
• Some now-outdated questions have been updated due to developments in the modern day.
  
• Fixed some typos and cleaned up the wording on a variety of questions. Thanks to all of you who took the time to report these to us directly!
  

• Fixed a bug where the lights would change during the ending if someone joined midgame.
  
• Fixed a bug where the boss podium may display the wrong boss name on slower connections.
  
• Fixed a rare crash where the host closed a lobby with at least one other player connected.
  

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Howdy! Hope y'all are enjoying the Spook-Aversary so far! This is a small hotfix internally moving the EU Saturday Night Trivia start time to coincide with the ending of Daylight Saving Time. As daylight savings is still observed in the US for an extra week no changes have been made to the US Saturday Night Trivia start time.

• The internal EU Saturday Night Trivia time slot has been adjusted for the ending of summer time. As a reminder, the EU Saturday Night Trivia time slot is...
  
  
  
  
  • 7pm - 8pm UTC (Sat)
    
  • 7pm - 8pm GMT (Sat)
    
  • 3pm - 4pm EST (Sat)
    
  • 2pm - 3pm CST (Sat)
    
  • 12pm - 1pm PST (Sat)
    
• The US Saturday Night Trivia time is unaffected in this update and will be changed next week.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Rainbow Shirt was using the Mummy Shirt texture.
  

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Howdy! Hope y'all are enjoying the Spook-Aversary so far! This is a small hotfix addressing player feedback on the new seasonal question category.

• Shortened the length of questions that were long enough they would be displayed on three lines instead of two.
  
• Fixed some additional question typos.
  

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Hey everyone, Count Tricks here!

It's that time of year when everything turns a little spooky - and what’s scarier than the passage of time?! To celebrate both Halloween and a whole year of Trivia Tricks updates we're ditching the studio in favor of a much more fitting atmosphere! This new Halloween event will be running from October 27th to Novemeber 11th!



We'll be running our little quiz on the grounds of 'Halloween Hill' - hopefully you'll have the courage to join us! There’s also a limited time 'Halloween' question category, testing your knowledge on anything scary!



Some event missions have also been added with limited time Halloween Cosmetics as rewards! Finishing games will also reward you with Candy which can be used to purchase other Halloween items in the Character Creator - including last year's event cosmetics being available again.



While we all love Halloween, let’s not forget today marks 1 year since the release of Trivia Tricks! This year has flown by with a Regular Update releasing on average every 2 weeks. That's a lot of updates! We’ve put together a recap on the past year further below.

Let's mark the occasion with some cake! Wait, why are you putting it on your head? Well, ok!

• We've headed on over to Halloween Hill! Enjoy the spooky manor grounds!
  
• Plus we’ve put together some Halloween music to go with it!
  
• 6 limited time challenges with Halloween themed rewards!
  
• Earn Candy by finishing a game in any mode, play well for more candy!
  
• Swap your Candy for purchasable cosmetics in the Character Creator!
  
• Wearable Birthday Cake for everyone!
  

• Permanently increased the category veto count, allowing you to narrow down category selection even more!
  
• The Pumpkin hat now glows! Ominous!
  
• Accessories and shirts can now have animations, check out the new Demon Wings and Devil Tail for examples!
  
• Further development progress on Steam Workshop Support for custom question packs
  
• Fixed a bug where the counter for number of times a question has been seen (Which is used to give lobbies unique questions) would reset if a question was moved to a different category
  
• Fixed a bug where the counter for number of times a question has been seen (Which is used to give lobbies unique questions) would reset if a question was removed from the pool of available questions but later re-added
  
• Fixed a bug in the Character Creator where changing the color of a cosmetic while wearing conflicting accessories would make both accessories be visible on a character
  

• Added 80 additional questions, many suggested by the Discord community! Thank you to everyone who has suggested questions so far!
  
• The Halloween category has been reintroduced! Tons a of Halloween appropriate questions from our existing categories and some Halloween-specific trivia!
  
• Trivia Tricks now features over 5,000 questions!
  
• Any question which has an answer option of Green/Red/Blue/Yellow will now place that answer option on the respective color, which should make communication against Summer a lot easier!
  
• Any question which has an answer option of 1/2/3/4 will now place that option on the respective field for Twitch ordering.
  
• Questions with numbered answers will display their answers in sequential order, unless it would break the above rule or is in the Mathematics category.
  
• Fixed some typos and cleaned up the wording on a variety of questions. Thanks to all of you who took the time to report these to us directly!
  

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Hello Tricksters!

This release may seem small in content but it’s huge in potential! We’ve upgraded the engine that Trivia Tricks is built on, laying the groundwork for making several upcoming features possible!

As this update is an interim step to other exciting things we’re not making a big show about it in your news feeds. But, as you were nice enough to still check out these patch notes anyway, we’ll let you in on a little secret!... Development on our yearly Halloween event is underway! 🎃 Get involved by suggesting Halloween-related trivia questions to build up the Halloween category in our Discord!

Finally, this build contains a handful of general improvements and bug fixes from the last couple of weeks! Enjoy the detailed patch notes for 0.9.6.5 below!

• When Change Answers is enabled, each players buzzer sound will be capped at playing twice per question to prevent spamming.
  
• Podiums now display streaks and speed bonuses after the camera has zoomed out from the TV to ensure the effects are visible.
  
• The Twitch Answer Bar Charts during answer reveals are now in order from left-to-right in the order that they were added to the game.
  
• The Twitch Answer Bar Charts now animate off screen.
  
• Fixed some typos and cleaned up the wording on a variety of questions. Thanks to all of you who took the time to report these to us directly!
  
• Smoothed the transition between cameras during gameplay
  
• Upgraded our version of Unreal Engine and our used plugins.
  

• Fixed a bug where, when players joined a game in progress without taking over an AI slot, they would have zero points instead of being given the expected catchup amount.
  
• Fixed a bug where, when players joined a game in progress without taking over an AI slot, the streak flame effect could be placed on the wrong podium.
  
• Fixed a rare bug where, when players joined a game in progress without taking over an AI slot, the new players would not be placed on their podium.
  
• Questions that are marked to enforce their answering order will now do so the Twitch order instead of starting from the bottom answer and rotating clockwise
  
• Improved connection reliability to Twitch
  
• Set a character limit to the Twitch Authorisation Code text box
  
• Fixed rare cases where the wrong camera could be used
  

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