Private Theaters and Laser Tag Arena Update (0.14.4.0)

Laser Tag has a new look! Maneuver your way around the new sea and space themed arena, fending off the opposing teams around new terrain, including more ramps, barriers, and vantage points!



The teams and their respective hubs have also been given a color update, to make them more visible. Charging stations should be clearer as well.

More updates to Laser Tag gameplay will come in a future update!


The long awaited private theater system is now here! Just like the Volt Nightclub’s karaoke rooms, you can now rent out a theater space for you and your friends to enjoy videos in the Plaza together privately. You can also invite others in by answering their knocking at the door!

Enjoy the full theatre experience by grabbing a drink at the in-theater bar and selecting light options at the settings panel by the door to set the mood.




The surface editor now displays all the materials in a larger way, making it easier to find materials. It also keeps track of the currently selected surface, along with automatically highlighting the current surface. It supports canvases and displays canvases for fast access to already used canvases. Several bugs have been ironed out as well, along with many surfaces having world align variants that they previously did not have.




One of our main focuses for this update was bug fixes, and it sports quite a few. We've gone through and resolved several collision bugs, voice chat issues, workshop load-in issues for condos, and much more.


Changes

• Private Theaters!
  
• New Laser Tag Arena!
  
• Plaza: Added hot tubs to the rooftop
  
• Plaza: Improved minigame plane physics and turning (as well as the RC plane)
  
• Plaza: One of the bowling alley NPCs, Darien, has gotten a new unique character model
  
• Plaza: Moved pool tubes into the beach store
  
• Casino: High Roller room now has its own media player
  
• Theater: Improved theater seats, made it easier to get out of them (now can use CTRL like all other seats), and you can use the media queue and your inventory while in the seat
  
• Theater: Moved down the handrails so they don't block the seat view
  
• Updated water FX: Transition between above/below water states is more seamless
  
• Reduced amount of things blocked players can emit noise from while blocked
  
• Water splash effects now scale volume and splash effects based on how fast the player/object enters the water. Also physics items now properly do splash effects
  
• RC cars and vehicles now support ramps (instead of just falling down to the ground instantly)

Condo Changes

• Condo: New & improved surface editor
  
• Condo: Surface editor now has a new section for canvases. It will now list all active canvases that you can select as a surface for easier selection
  
• Condo: Added these new condo surfaces: Pool Tile, Grass Condo, Concrete Condo, Concrete Dirty, Smooth Metal, Plaza Glass, Highrise Column, Marble, Marble Beige, Plain, Wood Tile, Fireplace, Garage Floor, Marble Tile, Tile Floor, Chrome, Deck, Roof, Trim (wood), Pool Floor Tile, Pool Tile 3, Pool Tile Wall, Parquet Wood, Marble Floor, Tile Floor 2, Lobby Wall Tile, Fine Wood, Wood Basic, Kitchen Tiles, Smooth Dirt Concrete, White, Tile, Planks, Theater Tiles, Theater Tiles Striped, Theater Ceiling Tiles, Theater Wall Tiles, Building Plaster, Gasoline Tile, Glass Cracked, Old House Walls 1-5, Dirty Floor, Dirty Plaster, Dirt, Forest Floor, Moss 2, Torn Floor, Rotten Floor, Rotten Carpet, Rubble, Noise, Metal Wall, Metal Floor, Fire, Reflection, Dock Wood, Old Brick, Cabin Roof, Cobblestone, Vaporwave Tile, Arcade Carpet 2, Rainbow Light, Rainbow Gradient, Stripe Wallpaper, Star Ceiling, Fake Interior, Fake Interior 2, Fake Interior No Glass, Fake Interior Blinds, Building Windows, Building Windows 2, Grass & Stone, Grass & Stone 2, Burnt, LC Brick Wall, Sandy Rock, Sandy Rock 2, Forest Greens, Nightclub Tile, Nightclub Fabric, Diamond, Light Gradient, Conveyor, Rope, Rope 2, Rope Fence, Resort Roof, Dock Planks, Light Row, Town Carpet, Hay, Metal Grating, Metal Wall Grate, Warning Stripes, Lighthouse Glass, Mansion Wallpaper, Mansion Foyer Wallpaper, Peeling Wallpaper, Concrete Wall Stripe, Sparkles, Old Plaster
  
• Condo: Teleporter items no longer make a noise
  
• Condo: You can now toggle off the platform of Smooth Dirt
  
• Condo: Added new shadow setting: Placeable Dynamic Shadows, which toggles on dynamic shadows for placeable light items in Condos
  
• Condo: Underwater condo's visuals and water transition effects have been improved and optimized
  
• Condo: Added setting to disable/enable shadows per light (placeable point lights will have shadows disabled by default)
  
• Condo: Middle clicking on items will now immediately open the edit menu for the item
  
• Condo: Item Finder now groups items by default
  
• Condo: Reorganized the editor buttons such as undo/redo and advanced edit mode to be all in one line, reducing the vertical space the condo inventory takes up
  
• Condo: By holding the right mouse button, you can now rotate the camera while the inventory or an edit item menu is open.
  
• Condo: Improved outline effects for editing surfaces and items
  
• Condo: Edit surface tooltip no longer displays while you are in gizmo state

Gameplay Changes

• Accelerate: Vastly improved ramps and fixed desyncs relating to ramps, ensuring karts will always get properly launched off ramps
  
• Little Crusaders: While scared, Knights will continue to run the same speed as they sprint, regardless if their stamina is out
  
• Little Crusaders: Dragon roar no longer scares Knights who are behind walls or crouched behind objects
  
• Virus - Subway: Updated lighting and atmosphere
  
• Virus: Improved outline effects
  
• ZM: Reduced Electrician's turret upgrade range by about 40-50%
  
• ZM: Increased zombie spawn rates for games that have more than 3 players
  
• Laser Tag: Improved outline effect for recharge stations
  
• Laser Tag: Team Aqua is now Team Solar to keep the teams equal visibility wise
  
• Laser Tag: When a player is tagged out they will now go completely invisible until they recharge

Major Bug Fixes

• Fixed other player's head up/down movements, flashlight angles, and laser pointers not animating for the condo host
  
• Fixed head rotation being very broken while in a seat
  
• Fixed players sometimes having frozen animations
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed players sometimes not spawning at the boss spawns
  
• Condo: Fixed NPC workshop models not loading sometimes and defaulting to a t-pose character
  
• Condo: Fixed workshop items being applied to a different item when editing a workshop model
  
• Fixed voice chat repeating when voice is muted, or voice switches between 2D/3D modes, or if the player is far
  
• Fixed an issue where the waiting for players menu wouldn't show up after level traveling

Bug Fixes

• Plaza: Fixed rooftop elevator door being smaller than it should be
  
• Plaza: Removed cabinet models that were spawning behind a wall of the furniture store
  
• Plaza: Fixed an arcade high score screen that had a light bisecting it
  
• Bowling: Fixed ceiling lights drawing on the floor which made the floor very distracting
  
• Plaza: Fixed minigames not respawning players above the ground sometimes after a game ended
  
• Condo: Fixed teleporter visual arrow representation blocking item traces
  
• Fixed RC tank materials being missing
  
• Plaza: Fixed not being able to drive up the central fountain stairs using RC vehicles
  
• Condo: Fixed Canvas Cubes not having world align setting on by default
  
• Condo: Fixed disabling collision option only working for hosts
  
• Bowling: Fixed missing wall in Bowling lane #8
  
• Item: Fixed Holdable Balloon not attaching properly for the knight milestone
  
• The Stray: Fixed Magic Trampoline not being listed properly when selecting magic tools at The Stray
  
• Milestone: Fixed Ghost milestone using the old ghost model
  
• Condo: Fixed Teleport absolute rotation setting not being copied properly by Copycat
  
• Condo - Suite: Removed weird floating support beams where the patio roof is
  
• Condo - Suite: Fixed staircase corner being overly bright/not the same texture as the rest of the staircase wall
  
• Condo - Suite: Fixed z clipping in upstairs area
  
• Condo - House: Fixed doors sometimes being desynced and open for clients (but closed for the host)
  
• Condo: Fixed some color issues with the search bar and item finder inventory UI
  
• Condo: Fixed Sand material not being in the nature category
  
• Condo: Fixed Arcade carpet material not tiling or world aligning
  
• Condo: Removed duplicate Plaza brick materials and added a wet variation
  
• Condo: Fixed several materials missing icons
  
• Condo: Fixed Limestone Dark Tile material not being as reflective as it should be
  
• Condo: Fixed sliding roof not saving if it's closed or not in the condo save data
  
• Condo: Fixed some items not having the ability to toggle their collision
  
• Condo: Fixed various condo surface materials not having tiling or colorable support. Specifically these: Fence, Grey Carpet, Metal Trim, Casino Wall, Cosmic, Lava 1 & 2, all the grass, Mud, Moss, Sand, Acid, Boost, Nightclub screens, Celebrations Rug, Slime, Swift Field, Oasis Tile, Paradise Wood Wall, probably a few others. Note: You may have to reapply a few of these surfaces to see the changes take place (such as grass 1, grass 2, metal trim)
  
• Plaza: Fixed not being able to interact with media players while in a seat
  
• Plaza: Fixed an issue with seats where you could be stuck in seat mode, but not actually in the seat (requiring you to press leave seat again)
  
• UI: Fixed key prompts not hiding when in HUD hide mode
  
• Items: Fixed hot tub items allowing you to toggle lights off/on with use (now only does the seat aspects). You can still toggle lights off/on using the item settings menu
  
• Game Worlds: Fixed voice chat in game worlds not adjusting volume properly with the volume slider
  
• Condo: Fixed tiny potion item spawning in the condo
  
• Item: Fixed Wowozela effects not coming out of player faces and also having different positions when switching between first person and third person
  
• Item: Fixed outdoor wood bench item not having seats
  
• Appearance: Fixed feminine summer outfit not being selectable
  
• Milestone: Fixed turret milestone not firing for clients (and players not sitting down correctly)
  
• Milestone: Fixed turret milestone seat causing players to get put outside of the map in certain scenarios
  
• Milestone: Fixed turret milestone lacking muzzle flash effects
  
• Condo: Fixed canvas animations not working for canvas flags and canvas screen types
  
• Condo: Fixed Transdimensional Painting being different for client and host while in absolute rotation mode
  
• Milestone: Fixed minigolf milestone item camera being really slow
  
• Arcade: Fixed not being able to play arcade games properly while having the ghost, knight, or monster potion milestones equipped
  
• Plaza only: Fixed leaving Plaza seats resetting your camera/position to a weird location. Now it will put you back where you were before you sat down

Game World Bug Fixes

• Accelerate - Sunrise Isles: Fixed ramp just before the finish line not always launching karts properly
  
• Accelerate - Pine Valley Track 2: Fixed ramp across the main bridge not always launching karts properly
  
• Accelerate - Pine Valley: Improved rock collisions on track 1
  
• Accelerate - Pine Valley: Fixed a few areas where you wouldn't go out of bounds on track 2
  
• Accelerate: Fixed golf hole eating items that weren't thrown (for example if you drove over a golf hole while holding a bowling ball that you haven't used yet, it would eat the bowling ball)
  
• Minigolf - Garden: Fixed railings not having their original bounciness (before the art pass), causing many HIOs being hard or impossible to get
  
• Ball Race - Prism: Fixed getting stuck on a railing segment on level 11
  
• Ball Race: Improved camera fade out system to work more reliably and with multiple platforms blocking the camera
  
• Ball Race - Oasis: Fixed level 1 brides fading out incorrectly
  
• Ball Race - Oasis: Fixed level 7 rotating segments incorrectly fading out too early/not reliably
  
• Ball Race - Oasis: Improved collisions for level 2 to ensure you can't get stuck inside of the tube cage part
  
• Ball Race - Prism: Fixed an issue where you could get stuck between the railings and platforms on level 14
  
• Ball Race - Oasis: Fixed getting stuck on an exit tube in level 2
  
• Little Crusaders - Market: Fixed a collision issue where you can get stuck in the corner above the stairs leading down to the sewers
  
• Little Crusaders - Market: Fixed ivy having collision
  
• Little Crusaders - Market: Fixed rock floor trim collisions bouncing the camera up and down
  
• Little Crusaders - Throne Room: Fixed various collision issues
  
• Little Crusaders - Throne Room: Fixed a hole in the level on the stairs
  
• Little Crusaders - Amphitheatre: Fixed missing rock collision for some small rocks hanging off the bridge edges
  
• Little Crusaders - Amphitheatre: Fixed several small visual holes and z fighting
  
• Little Crusaders - Amphitheatre: Optimization pass
  
• Little Crusaders - Amphitheatre: Improved collision for stairs to avoid getting players stuck in corners while going up the stairs
  
• Little Crusaders - Knightsend-by-sea: Fixed a couple dragon camping spots
  
• Little Crusaders - Toy Room: Fixed several collisions regarding cards and tracks, along with some optimizations
  
• Little Crusaders - Mystic Grove: Fixed several collision issues with rocks and wheelbarrows
  
• Little Crusaders - Mystic Grove: Rocks that players slip on now have a more distinct texture compared to rocks you don't slip off of, also reduced some rocks that you slip off of that got a bit confusing
  
• Little Crusaders - Mystic Grove: Fixed the fire pit burning you when you weren't near the fire pit
  
• Little Crusaders - Mystic Grove: Fixed various parts of the ground being too steep to walk up
  
• Little Crusaders - Mystic Grove: Fixed bad collision in cave rocks
  
• Little Crusaders: Fixed dragon not regaining stamina if out of stamina when in air and sprint key is still held down
  
• Virus - Overtime: Fixed a few graphical bugs
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed controller rumble occurring when another player fires their weapons
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed placeable equipment sometimes not scaling in for clients

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