Hot Lava News

By: LavKib

Grab a candle- things are about to get dark!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1537536088

This map was made as part of a Hot Lava Discord community mapping challenge. Several other awesome Halloween themed maps are also available on the Workshop. So go get your spook on!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/382560/workshop/

• Players can now enable input display on the HUD through the gameplay setting ‘Display Input’
  
• Trials now count towards your player rank, your current rank will be adjusted accordingly.
  
• Completed Trials are now displayed in pause menu
  
• Worlds are now unlocked through player rank progression
  
• Fixed issue with jumping around while scrubbing through replays
  
• Fixed issue where watching a replay would reset your current run time
  
• Fixed issue where some objects did not bounce
  
• Updated to most recent version of audio engine
  
• Adjusting settings with keyboard/gamepad accelerates (you can turn up volume faster)
  
• Allow longer localized strings in Pause menu
  
• Allow translation of checkpoint and section progress
  
• Move “look who’s talking now” indicator out from under beta tag
  

• Added player rank (number of challenges completed) beside player names in game
  
• New multiplayer sync system dramatically reduces the amount of data sent to allow larger lobbies in the future
  
• Added new Angel costume
  
• Added SSAA anti-aliasing for high end graphics cards (1070/1080s)
  
• Fixed bloom
  
• Added new playset art
  
• Fix beakers misplaced in school atrium
  
• Workshop buttons (Custom Games and Languages) filter by their type
  
• Game defaults to Exclusive Full Screen for more performant default
  
• Fix rare error when pressing “G”
  
• Redesign or update football jersey, viking helmet, crossbow, dark star, laser sword models
  

• Updated modkit to use Unity 2018.2.8f1. You will need to download this version of Unity to use the latest modkit. For upgrading, I would strongly recommend starting a fresh project with the new modkit, and then copying over any scene or mesh data you want.
  
• Portals can select different game mode based on player’s held item. (Place GrabbableItem with KeyId=Red in world and add GameModeTweak with RequiredKey=Red to GameModeContainer.) This replaces how buddy mode used to work.
  
• Add named objects and NOT_PLAYER condition to ActivateTrigger
  

It’s that time of year. Pumpkins have been spotted throughout School and Wholesale. Smash all 100 for a treat!

• Upgraded core engine to Unity 2018. Major performance improvements
  
• Added checkpoint VFX that visually guides you to the next checkpoint
  
• Added new Devil outfit
  
• Thrown objects now bounce an appropriate amount
  
• Improved the consistency of surf by ensuring you leave the surface in the direction you are looking
  
• Added new distance fog on low-end graphics, greatly improves performance
  
• Fixed lava rocks in school that, at high speeds, caused players to abruptly stop
  
• Fixed angled mats in school gym causing movement issues
  
• Fixed floating mats in school gym
  
• Fixed jump animation not playing in low framerate situations
  
• School tweaks to reduce the difficulty in the acid section in course #5
  
• Lava world card in storage shelf of school kitchen is now easier to get
  
• Boost meter now has an effect letting you know when it has been maxed
  
• Players will exit surf in the direction they are looking more consistently
  
• Fix emote popup when selling duplicate emotes
  
• Fix no sound when clicking on emotes
  
• Switch between fullscreen modes in-game: exclusive, borderless, windowed.
  
• Fix course portal names were rarely untranslated
  
• Make more strings translatable
  
• Fix mixed up input axes strings
  
• Light map fix ups in School
  
• A touched pursuit object slows down if it gets too far away instead of killing you
  
• Add support for right-to-left translation mods
  
• Better translation mod error messages in output_log.txt
  
• Fix buddy not appearing in buddy replays (only fixes new replays)
  
• Leaderboards will now clean up removed friends after a short time
  
• Increased the LoD distance for certain grabbable items
  
• Fixed alignment issue when throwing items downward
  
• Hide items that are impossible to earn in Customize screen
  
• Checkpoint trail SFX
  
• Updated Boosting SFX
  

Hazard modeling the new football item set

As we are working hard on preparing Hot Lava for Early Access, I wanted to take some time to talk about some amazing things going on in the Hot Lava community.


Yesterday we added support for user created translations of Hot Lava, and in under 24 hours we have seen 'Russian', 'Spanish', 'Turkish' and even 'Pirate' translation mods appear on the workshop! If you are interested in helping translate Hot Lava to another language, details can be found on the Klei forums. To view translations as they are added visit the workshop


Through the Community Spotlight we have been highlighting some of the best and most accessible levels the community has been producing. But please know this is just the tip of the iceberg- the workshop is littered with plenty of other creative, surprising, and challenging maps!
View workshop maps


The Modkit is being updated today. Support for multi-course levels, game modes (like pogo), consistent export names (only retire leaderboard when you intend to), modkit friendly wall jumps and much more! It's strongly recommended that you install the modkit to a new project and port existing maps over to avoid corruption. We will continue to build on and improve the Modkit based on your feedback. The new modkit should go live in the next hour.


The speed running community for Hot Lava has become very competitive. Many world records have been secured by fractions of a second. A "Full School Run" tournament will be happening on the 22nd at 11am PST, 2pm EST, 7pm CET. The competition will be streamed on Twitch. If you think you have what it takes and want to sign up, or are just interested in following the competitive scene an event discord has been setup.


To show our appreciation towards the community we have added two award items. The Wrench and Crown. These items will be awarded for recipients of the Community Spotlight and the to the winners of select Community Competitions respectively. Those who were featured in previous spotlights have retroactively received this award. Thank you for helping grow Hot Lava through your contributions!



Klei hosts a weekly developer stream where we talk about on of our games- and this week (like, right now) you can catch us talking about Hot Lava. More details are available on the Klei forums.


If you are interested in becoming involved in any part of the Hot Lava community- or just want a chill place to hang out, please join me on the Hot Lava Discord.

Today we are adding the ability to translate Hot Lava into other languages. This is an important step towards early access. If you are interested in helping translate Hot Lava into your language instructions are available at the bottom of this update.

• Added full translation support
  
• Added translation mod uploader tool to Steam
  
• Difficulty markings have been added to the course info screen of each course
  
• Added football item set
  
• Added community spotlight award item
  
• Added community speedrunning award item
  
• Automatically disable SSAO in potato, was visually detrimental
  
• Optimization: decorations now lod out at a distance based on quality
  
• Optimization: Integrated Vignette into the fog pass
  
• Re-tuned pursuit to be more competitive
  
• Improved visuals of lava fog
  
• Fix for bug where finish points could be seen through walls before they were active
  
• Collision cleanup in wholesale for some trap areas, some notorious traps in freezer and at the start of course Meat Grinder.
  
• Timer visibility re-enabled for first sections of mastery courses (the timer is always counting so this will not affect the leaderboards)
  
• Fix for bug where players would sometimes play non-pogo jump animations on pogo
  
• Improve gamepad navigation on Custom Game screen
  
• Improve default settings for detected hardware
  
• Improved accessibility of the art room in school
  

For more information on how to create and submit user generated translations please visit the Klei Forums:
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/95685-creatingusing-language-translations/

• Disable "select" button when selecting currently active language mod
  
• Optimized VFX on wrench award
  
• Fixed rare crash with certain language mods
  
• Fixed level/group update issue causing names to appear twice
  
• Fixed issue where players could get stuck under the art room cabinet