Hot Lava News

Summer is nearly here! What better way to celebrate a new season than with new ways to jump, boost, and surf: A new community-created map “Sunshine Shore”; a new Chase course in School; and a revitalizing energy drink to put some pep in your step. Take a leap and make a splash!

[h3] Sunshine Shore [/h3] [previewyoutube]Sunshine Shore[/previewyoutube]
After a long winter of keep-off-the-floor cardio, it's time to reveal that beach bod! “Sunshine Shore” delivers six beach-themed courses in this new Klei-curated Community Map. Experience fun in the sun and some scorching hot sand that’ll toast your tootsies — so stay off the ground!

Completing each course unlocks a unique beach-themed accessory. Collect all six!

[h3] New ‘Chase Your Sister’ course [/h3] By popular demand, we’ve added an all-new ‘Chase Your Sister’ course to replace the torturous challenging ‘Chase the Grade’ course in School. This new course is more on par with the other Chase courses in the game, so if you’ve been stuck trying to get past this course, give it another try.

Those looking to score another A+ can still access their beloved ‘Chase the Grade’ as a trial in Mrs. DeAngelis’ art room. Complete it to unlock a new item.

[h3] Energy Drink [/h3] For those speed demons thirsty for an extra ounce of oomph, we’ve added a new energy drink — “EdgyX” — so loaded with energy just holding it will give your character an extra boost. If you get thirsty in a course, you’ll have to back out to the overworld to refresh yourself: EdgyX cans can be found in all the overworlds.

Take care, have fun, and stay off the floor!


[h2]Detailed Patch Notes - 404154[/h2]

• Added new community map Sunshine Shore including six new courses
  
• New rewards and ranks to earn in Sunshine Shore
  
• School’s Chase the Grade is now a trial with a new reward and rank
  
• School has a new Chase Your Sister course to replace Chase the Grade as the sixth course to match the format of other levels
  
• EdgyX energy drinks can now be found throughout every overworld -- drinking and holding these will increase your run speed until they are put down
  
• The Level Select screen has a fresh new look
  
• More terrain cleanup in Playground
  
• Fix main menu UI layout for ultra wide monitors
  
• Fix issues with resolution selection in the settings menu
  
• Fix sometimes checkpoint navigation icon jitters between left and bottom sides of screen
  
• Fix poorly aligned UI widgets in main menu
  
• Fix poor use of screen space on friends list
  

[h2]Hotfix - 412839[/h2]

• Fix crashes in Sunshine Shore and other areas due to build misconfiguration
  

Winter is over and spring is almost here!

[h3]Changes:[/h3]

• Winter trials and rewards are gone from Playground.
  
• Players now receive a notification when others enter a course in their lobby
  
• Emotes now display an accompanied chat message
  
• Players can now reset their own leaderboard times. Type “/resetcurrentcoursetime confirm” in chat to reset your time for that course
  
• Fixed areas in playground where players could stand on lava
  
• Fixed doorway collision in Playground Bouncy Land and School Vents
  
• Fixed random out of bounds deaths after respawning
  
• Increased step up granularity to prevent it from causing hangs on some objects
  
• Fix no navigation marker for trials after using navigation to course in overworld
  
• Fix sometimes checkpoint navigation marker jitters between left side and bottom of screen
  
• Fix poor use of screen space and bad alignment on friends list
  
• Fix wrong dog in descriptions of Basement
  
• Prevent spectate or watch replay from marking a run as cheating when cheats are enabled
  
• Removed “cheats” as a command line option to prevent unintended use
  
• Course portals now automatically highlight the next uncompleted course
  
• POI icons now remain on screen when objects are far away
  
• Fixed checkpoints staying ghosted after leaving a buddy mode course
  
• Fixed certain situations which caused buddy to explode into flames when thrown
  

[h3]Hotfix 399028[/h3]

• Fix for pause screen issues in certain mod maps
  
• Fix for the timer not starting when the player first starts surfing in Bouncy Castle
  

Snow is falling on the Playground and the giving season has delivered a new holiday challenge!

• A new holiday Trial and Collectible Gifts can be found in Playground
  
• Players will receive a holiday hat for completing any course during the holidays
  
• Add a new holiday comic: A Visit from Hazard -- replaces A Sue Nami Christmas
  
• Add continue support to All Courses Marathon
  
• Improved “step up” logic, the player should now smoothly walk up small steps
  
• Increased leniency allowed before committing to a side while boosting
  
• Collision cleanup in Gym Class courses
  
• Fixed issue with player collider that would cause shoulders to get caught on certain objects
  
• Add green outline to Buddy when he starts getting lonely near lava
  
• Improved visualization of on screen input
  
• Added a chat command for playing back external replays
  /replay name_of_replay_file
  
• Added bounty maps to the main level select menu
  
• Snowballs added to Playground
  
• Updated grouping system to be easier to use in game
  
• Friends list in the main menu now controls group system
  
• In game player menu now controls group system
  
• Reworked some UI elements to make group feature more evident
  
• Fix issue causing Buddy to think he was in lava when standing on sidewalks in Playground
  
• Fix screen flashes white while dying when ScreenFlashes are disabled
  
• Fix hitting Enter on Character Select takes you to main menu screen but shows UI elements from character customize screen
  
• Fix objects not making sound when falling into acid pools
  
• Fix slight delay before acid, lava and some collision sounds
  
• Fix to acid, lava and ball-pit death sounds so they don’t spam as much
  
• Fix icon for pursuit target failed to fade out when on-screen
  
• Fix memory leak when entering settings menu repeatedly
  
• Fix occasional missing idle animation toys
  
• Fix square shadows on lava bubbles
  
• Fix Arabic multiline text displayed bottom to top instead of top to bottom
  
• Fix inconsistent G.A.T. team member names in Russian
  
• Fix no languages when re-entering language screen
  
• Fix trampoline infinite bounce bug when players die next to them
  
• Fix bug where the game would be in a bad state after changing quality settings during a tiny toy trial
  
• Fix the wrong Buddy appearing in Basement
  

• Fixed bug where players could die when crouching on moving platforms
  
• Fixed bug with snowball audio
  

• Add a "Check for Errors" button to look for common modkit errors -- bad components/meshes/etc that will break your map in Steam builds
  
• Add a "Check For Bounty Errors" menu item to look for untranslatable text, baked lighting, and bounty map blocking issues
  
• Add 'Make Pursuit' button to GameModeContainer for creating pursuit courses like Chase the Grade
  
• ‘Make Pursuit’ instructions added to readme (modkit_everything_explained.pdf)
  
• Add BezierPathAnimator for moving objects along a spline
  
• Add pursuit and BezierPathAnimator examples to modkit_demo
  
• Add descriptions to each course in modkit_demo to explain what it's demonstrating
  
• Add editing and troubleshooting info to BezierSplines (for LevelIntro, Pursuit, BezierPathAnimator)
  
• Fix “Add Curve” on BezierSpline ignored current curve direction and always pointed in the same world direction (click Add Curve, adjusting curve, and repeat is now a good workflow)
  
• Fix some songs don’t work in modkit maps and remove broken ones
  
• Use Molten as default music track in new maps instead of none
  
• Improve near shadow quality using ShadowDrawDistanceOverride and auto-adjust to quality level
  
• Fix long mod descriptions are truncated when doing Modify Mod
  
• Fix Handhold and CollectibleForLevel is a confusing giant list of attributes.
  
• Fix incorrect FindInvalidMeshesInScene errors on course portals
  
• Fix JumpToBug not opening the scene panel
  
• Fix visibility changes fail to save after pressing Validate Show/Hide button
  
• Fix gamemode id mismatch if you rename the scene without inspecting a gamemode
  
• Completely destroy any "Main Camera" object found in modmaps
  
• Add log messages to explain when GameModeIdSuffix is invalid
  
• Don't allow GameModeIdSuffix when using ModeOverride without modifier or config
  
• Clarify some tooltips
  
• Prompt users using baked lighting to do a bake before export
  
• Automatically turn off Baked Global Illumination and Realtime Global Illumination when adding a HotLavaGameContainer for better defaults
  
• Fix lighting setup in modkit_demo to use realtime lights
  
• Setup template_land to use mixed lights to be an example of lighting an outdoor scene
  
• Rebake lighting on indoor_example to be a better example of a realistic indoor scene
  
• Move indoor_example scene to School art pack to shrink Generic by 40%
  
• Rope swing instructions added to readme (modkit_everything_explained.pdf)
  
• Better instructions for Grabbables added to readme (modkit_everything_explained.pdf)