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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for June 8th, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since June 1st, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.

[h2]Monthly Dev Breakdown for May 2020[/h2]

ThisIsntNath created a quick breakdown of all the progress we've made over the course of May 2020.
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[h2]Accelerate Progress[/h2]
Johanna completed the first track for Pine Valley, and started working on a prototype for the second track. She's currently working on finishing the first track for Sunrise Isles.

JJosh worked on some scenery components for Pine Valley.

Lifeless completed the first track for Bedzoom, and started working on the second track.

macdguy worked on improving the handling and controls, tweaked the speed of the karts, worked on items, and fixed replication & other issues found during internal testing. He also completed work on the Minimap, and is currently working on the HUD.

Madmijk continued working on Accelerate items.

Sketchman fixed some bugs that came up during internal testing.

Wheezwer helped test Accelerate internally and worked on some updated foliage.

Will continued working on music and sounds for Accelerate, currently working on the tracks for Pine Valley and Bedzoom.

[h3]Accelerate: Gameplay Demo WIP[/h3]
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[h3]Accelerate: Pine Valley Minimap WIP[/h3]


[h3]Accelerate: RV Detail Prop[/h3]


[h3]Accelerate: Pine Valley Second Track Blockout WIP[/h3]


[h2]Miscellany [/h2]
Caboose700 continued working on the OpenTDB rewrite.

Sketchman worked on Rich Presence support for Steam, made some improvements and fixed some more bugs with Workshop Support, and worked on some art for SDNL.

Wheezwer worked on an updated Bowling Carpet Texture.

[h3]Steam Rich Presence Support WIP[/h3]


[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since June 1st, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!


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Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week!

http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs


Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.

For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18

For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for June 1st, 2020, detailing all the changes that have happened since May 26th, 2020. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.


[h2]Update 0.9.1.0 | Hotfix 0.9.1.2 | Hotfix 0.9.1.3[/h2]
Last week we released Update 0.9.1.0, and two corresponding hotfixes to address more issues and fix some bugs that were introduced in the initial update.

You can read all about the various updates with the links below.
Update 0.9.1.0

Hotfix 0.9.1.2

Hotfix 0.9.1.3


[h2]Accelerate Progress[/h2]
Johanna continued working on Pine Valley and Sunrise Isles.

JJosh continued working on Karts for Accelerate, working on the Banana Kart, the Burger Mobile, and the F1 Kart.

Lifeless continued working on Bedzoom.

Madmijk continued working on items for Accelerate.

Wheezwer continued working on Foliage textures.

[h3]Accelerate: Pine Valley New Bridge Model WIP[/h3]



[h3]Accelerate: New Pine Tree Model[/h3]



[h3]Accelerate: New Leaf Texture[/h3]



[h3]Accelerate: New Palm Tree Texture[/h3]



[h3]Accelerate: Banana Kart WIP[/h3]



[h3]Accelerate: Burger Mobile Kart WIP[/h3]



[h3]Accelerate: F1 Kart WIP[/h3]



[h3]Accelerate: Birb Shield Item WIP[/h3]
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[h2]Plaza Improvements[/h2]
Johanna began working on adding the new Game Worlds Ports and Upgrades Store to the Plaza.


[h3]New Game Worlds Ports and Upgrade Store WIP[/h3]



[h2]Miscellany [/h2]
Caboose700 continued working on the Open Trivia Database rewrite.

macdguy worked on bug fixes and started working on the continuous game play feature, which would allow players to pick a new map or gameworld once a game has completed, without having to go back to the main menu.

ThisIsntNath began working on concepts for in-game brochures to explain and show off maps and provide information at a glance.

Sketchman looked into possible fixes for the net desync issues in Ball Race, worked on some art for SDNL, and started working on support for Steam and Discord Rich Presence.

Wheezwer continued working on the Steam Trading Cards, working on the trading card for Sweet Tooth.

[h3]Arcade and Plaza Brochures WIP[/h3]



[h3]Sweet Tooth Steam Trading Card WIP[/h3]



[h2]Wrap It Up[/h2]
That about covers everything that happened since May 26th, 2020 at PixelTail Games. See you all next week!


Join our Discord for development updates and community fun!

https://discord.gg/pixeltail

We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames


Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:

https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week!

http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs


Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.

For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18

For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

This update addresses several issues that were recently reported.

Bug Fixes

• Zombie Massacre: Fixed boss disappearing or ragdolling during boss battle
  
• Ball Race: Fixed Prism missing its platforms
  
• Virus: Fixed late joining issues
  
• Virus: Fixed weapons not always being given to players who late join
  
• Virus: Fixed weapon slots not always filling up for players who late join
  
• Virus: Fixed infected model not always being set on infected players
  
• Fixed stealth box item not hiding players properly
  
• Workshop Editor: Resolved static models not loading in the editor
  
• Workshop Editor: Resolved player models not loading in the editor properly
  
• Workshop Editor: Resolved uploaded player models not being downloadable and previewable

Join our Discord for development updates and community fun!

https://discord.gg/pixeltail

We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames


Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:

https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week!

http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs


Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.

For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18

For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

This update addresses several issues that were recently reported.

Changes

• Zombie Massacre: Adjusted Nightyard lighting
  
• Virus: Reduced camera view turn amount
  
• Vehicles once again scale with potions
  
• Adjusted motor scooter air turning and jump amount
  

Bug Fixes

• Zombie Massacre: Fixed zombies getting stuck in Nightyard and in general. AI that cannot path correctly or is stuck will be automatically removed
  
• Little Crusaders: Fixed an exploit with the dragon air speed
  
• Ball Race: Fixed an exploit
  
• Ball Race: Fixed Ball Race melon reset code removing gold melons
  
• Fixed name tags not showing when you hold Q, if you have "always show name tags" disabled
  
• Fixed Sonic Shotgun tracer effects being offset (Lobby/Condo only)
  
• Fixed view model offsets for confetti gun, potato gun, and spooky gun
  

Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7

General Changes

• New Zombie Massacre map: Nightyard
  
• Virus: Hospital polishing update (updated lighting and updated old textures)
  
• Virus: Overtime polishing update (updated lighting, updated visuals, and exterior art)
  
• Removed hands from view models in Lobby/Condo, so it doesn't matter what player model you are using. Also adjusted placement of various weapons and fixed up some animations
  
• You can now use vehicles in the arcade again
  
• Added name tag offset setting for NPCs
  
• Added Invisible Wall condo material
  
• Vehicle horn sounds are now part of the noise maker volume setting
  
• Added discord, polls, and bug report buttons to the main menu
  
• Updated community links
  
• Menu clean up, news is more part of the menu UI now
  
• Maps that were just updated now sort at the top by default, instead of when they were originally added to the game
  
• Added map updated tag when a map was just recently updated, also added when a map was last updated in the description panel
  
• Bug Bytes: Adjusted bug colors for colorblind purposes
  
• You can now bind more actions with mouse inputs such as mouse clicks or mouse wheel. For example, if you need to bind move forward to mouse click, you now can do that
  

Little Crusaders Changes

• Little Crusaders: Widened bite radius, reduced bite length for Dragon
  
• Little Crusaders: Increased air strafe speed for Dragon
  
• Little Crusaders: Decreased gravity for Dragon (giving Knights a better chance to avoid becoming pancakes)
  
• Little Crusaders: Reduced knight movement speed a bit
  

Zombie Massacre Changes

• Zombie Massacre: Made the pumpkin head zombies more noticeable
  
• Zombie Massacre: Crossbow fire delay is now 0.3 seconds (was 1 second)
  
• Zombie Massacre: Bolt Action Rifle fire delay is now 0.35 seconds (was 0.55 seconds)
  
• Zombie Massacre: RPG is now a Homing RPG
  
• Zombie Massacre: Adjusted flashlight color and brightness. Also added a spot light above players so you can find yourself easier in dark maps
  
• Zombie Massacre: Added chat messages when players upgrade their stats
  

Virus Changes

• Virus: Removed hands from view models to give it a retro feel and keep it so it doesn't matter what player model you are using
  
• Virus: Adjusted view model positions and scales across all weapons, keeping it consistent (TNT and adrenaline are also much larger for better visibility)
  
• Virus: Added crossbow weapon (random chance that swaps with TNT slot). Crossbow is a sniper-based weapon with high/deadly damage, but low clip size and slow reload
  
• Virus: Greatly improved flashlight. No longer does the flashlight draw on weapons & added a texture to the flashlight
  
• Virus: Added geiger counter warning sounds when infected are near you
  
• Virus: Added view bob and view turning
  
• Virus: Added view bob setting to Game/HUD settings
  

Ball Races Changes

• Ball Race: Added level leaderboards on HUD that displays the top 10 times (and your best time) for the level you are currently playing. This is default off and the setting is under Game/HUD settings as "Display Level Leaderboard on HUD"
  

Minigolf Changes

• Minigolf now has floating text chat
  

General Bug Fixes

• Plaza optimizations
  
• Potential crash fix for Workshop NPCs
  
• Fix for workshop model downloads being halted for static mesh workshop models
  
• Workshop memory now clears when you clear workshop cache, resolving a bug that causes workshop models to be extremely large after clearing workshop cache
  
• Fixed being unable to bind mouse inputs to certain inputs such as move forward, etc.
  
• Fixed being unable to bind mouse input buttons such as right click when pressing the rebind feature
  
• Fixed being unable to bind mouse wheel inputs
  
• Fixed player horizontal head rotations not occurring while the player is in a seat. Now you can see full player head movement while players are in seats!
  
• Fixed spectating camera in Plaza and Virus clipping with ragdoll
  
• Spectating camera now has smooth movement when zooming in
  
• Fixed spectating camera in Minigolf resetting rotation when switching between players
  
• Fixed spectator/ragdoll camera not having underwater support
  
• Fixed minigame event teleporters not showing the correct name of the active event
  
• Fixed the moon warping
  
• Fixed vehicles scaling with potions
  

Virus Fixes

• Virus: Fixed waiting for players camera showing other players
  
• Virus: Fixed Plasma Autorifle not playing its fire sound on first fire
  
• Virus: Fixed reloading animations still playing after reloading, switching to a weapon, and back again to the weapon that was just reloaded
  

Minigolf Fixes

• Minigolf - Kingdom: Fixed a collision issue that would sometimes cause players to fall out of the map
  
• Minigolf - Forest: Fixed balls getting stuck on the edge of holes
  
• Minigolf - Forest: Balls will no longer get stuck when next to the spinning circle part of hole 18
  
• Minigolf - Forest: Balls will no longer get stuck on the piece that moves back and forth on hole 18
  
• Minigolf - Forest: Balls should no longer be incorrectly marked as a water hazard despite being on the course in hole 5
  
• Minigolf - Cove: Balls will no longer get stuck on the triangles at the beginning of hole 17
  
• Minigolf - Cove: Balls, if landed on the large white dividers at the beginning of hole 13, should no longer get stuck.
  
• Minigolf - Alpine: Balls should no longer be incorrectly marked as out of bounds when hitting a sidewall on course 4
  
• Minigolf - Altitude: Fixed issue where you'd fail to get into the hole on Hole 1
  
• Minigolf - Altitude: (Hopefully) Fixed weird issue where you went out of bounds near the end of Hole 18
  
• Minigolf: Fixed spectating camera in Minigolf not clipping with the world
  

Little Crusader Fixes

• Throne Room fixes
  
• Little Crusaders: Fixed Knight taunt camera not adhering to mouse invert settings
  

Ball Race Fixes

• Ball Race: Fixed mega melon pickups being reset to single melons when the level gets started/reset, fixing issues with melon achievements not awarding the proper values upon melon pickup
  

Zombie Massacre Fixes

• Zombie Massacre: Fixed zombies falling through floors in Village
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed melee range indicator sometimes not displaying
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed weapons on back not attaching to players' backs properly
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed spawn effect sticking around
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed camera falling through floor after being killed if you are a zombie player
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed ghosts not awarding points
  
• Zombie Massacre: Fixed "I've Covered Wars" achievement not incrementing for players who aren't the host
  

Plaza Fixes

• Arcade: Improved Little Birde Feeders ball return system by disabling ball physics - fixing issues where the balls would fall out of the return slot
  
• Arcade: Fixed Little Birde Feeders LED attract animations not ending properly during gameplay
  
• Arcade: Salmon Says leaderboard now uploads the number of repeats the player reached, instead of their ticket earn amount
  
• Arcade: Fixed Bug Bytes hammer going to the center if you look in the top right/left corners
  
• Arcade: Possible Whack-a-mole game not starting fix
  
• Arcade: Fixed Bug Bytes achievements overlapping with Whack-a-mole ones
  
• Arcade: Fixed Bug Bytes setting Avalanche score due to a typo
  
• Arcade: Meteoroid Mania fixed meteoroid being flamed up when not dropped
  
• Arcade: Whirl-a-Fish now ends sooner, when all the balls available have been scored
  
• Laser Tag: Fixed an exploit
  
• Laser Tag: Fixed player colors disappearing after being tagged out
  
• Plaza: Fixed theater ticker material being missing
  
• Plaza: Fixed theater ticker not updating
  
• Plaza: Fixed theater now playing thumbnail not updating
  
• Fixed some Plaza weapons doing effects/being usable in weapon not allowed areas
  

Item/Condo/Wearable Fixes

• Condo Items: Fixed piano top keys not highlighting properly
  
• Condo Items: Fixed Ram plushy not spawning properly
  
• Condo Items: Fixed ship wheel not be spinnable
  
• Condo Items: Fixed ceiling fan item missing a connector to one of the fan blades
  
• Fixed golf ball milestone placement issues
  
• Wearables: Fixed scorelight placement on skeleton
  
• Wearables: Fixed Death Cloak and Police Hat offsets
  
• Fixed theater seat cups floating in the Theater Condo
  
• Fixed fish not snapping into aquaria as they used to
  

UI Fixes

• Fixed store UI opening the pause menu when closing it with the escape key
  
• Fixed store music (music store) not stopping when closing the store UI with the escape key
  
• Fixed group UI popping up under the scoreboard (and duplicating)
  
• Fixed Collection Book showing multiple percentages on the left page
  
• Fixed Collection Book not restoring the scroll bar position (now you can toggle it off and on without losing where you were)
  
• Fixed Collection Book pixelation on EXP and progress percentages UI elements
  
• Cleaned up pause menu inventory a bit (still needs more work). Fixed tags not all loading properly. Fixed large inventory causing massive lag. Fixed search bar not having a clear button like other search bars in the game
  
• Fixed content menu causing hitching when loading data for it
  
• Fixed leaderboard UI showing invalid score if you have no score yet logged
  
• Fixed Forest leaderboard not loading its icon in the collection book
  
• Fixed collection book leaderboard avatars not always loading in
  
• Fixed a spelling mistake in Trainyard's description
  
• Fixed bug report going to the wrong URL
  

Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! https://discord.gg/pixeltail
We love awesome people like you!

We're also active on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PixelTailGames

Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

Take a peek at what's being worked on every week in our weekly dev logs! There's bound to be something interesting every week! http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help.
For bug reports: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report/18
For suggestions: https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/suggestions/7