Rec Room News

Rec Room UPDATE - the "Going Questing" edition

This update brings some performance improvements, new shapes and colors, and a surprise for our new Rec Roomies on Quest 2!

Here at Rec Room, we're all very excited to be a Day 1 launch title on the new Oculus Quest 2! To celebrate, we're happy to announce that our co-operative "quest" game Isle of Lost Skulls is available for Quest 2 players!

Everyone else will see general performance improvements in Isle of Lost Skulls, Rec Royale, and UGC rooms.

We've updated the Maker Pen color palette with 27 new colors for you to create with!

We're also adding five new shapes to the Maker Pen! They are a Cone, Hemisphere, Donut, Pipe and a Half Pipe. Please note that these shapes do not yet have accurate collision, and will often be most useful in decoration mode. We plan to add correct collisions for these in the future.

https://imgur.com/a/7oRopYh

We've also added Isle of Lost Skulls and Crescendo of the Blood Moon enemies to the spawner gadget for everyone!

Circuits V2 (currently in Beta) now includes some new and exciting gizmos! Be on the lookout for:
Piston V2
Rotator V2
SFX V2
In addition we've added icons to synchronized variables so they look different from other variables even when renamed.
[h2]General Improvements[/h2]

Inventions are now automatically unfrozen when spawned
Fixed issue where the unsaved room warning dialog wouldn't show after making changes
The Maker Pen is now automatically equipped after creating a new room
[Screens] After editing the time value for an animation frame, you will now properly return to the Maker Pen menu
When using the Delete tool inside of a Shape Container, the shapes will now properly have a red outline
You can now report rooms specifically for "misleading purchases" if you feel like something you purchased in the room was misrepresented.
Fixed some of the Ink Space props not getting selected by the maker pen.
iOS players have the option to Login Automatically, which will get you in the dorm faster than having to select your account every time. You can opt-out of this feature if you have multiple accounts / share the device with family. Logging out from the watch menu is supported as always.
Fixed skipping audio in rooms with multiple audio samplers or holotars

As always, thanks for playing Rec Room!

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.: https://recroom.com/community
We love to hear your feedback, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think...

Rec Room UPDATE - the "Events Improved!" edition

We've been working hard on improving our events system and this ship brings a huge number of changes focusing around discoverability, event promotion, and improved UX.
[h2]Event Organizers[/h2]

Event organizers cannot be kicked from their own events.
Event organizers can always visit their created events, even when the instances are full.

[h2]Events Screen[/h2]

There are several new tabs on the events screen to help search for events:
Live! - Shows active events sorted by current attendance
Upcoming - Shows future events sorted by start time
Popular - Shows future events sorted by RSVPs
My Events - Shows created and RSVPed events
Live, Popular, and Upcoming tabs are all searchable and filterable by tags.
Fixed a lot of little UX issues with viewing and updating events.

[h2]Event Creation[/h2]

You can now specify tags for events.
You can select custom photos to represent events.
You can now select a specific subroom to host your event in.
You can host events in any subroom that you own and in public subrooms in rooms that other players own.

[h2]Inviting[/h2]

Invite players screen is now searchable.
You will now be prompted to invite friends when entering events that are mostly empty.

[h2]Event UX[/h2]

You will now hear a custom jingle when spawning in a room which is an event instance.
Players see a "This Event" button instead of a "This Room" button when in an event.

[h2]Announcements[/h2]

Players are prompted to create event announcements when creating new public events. This announcement is sent to subscribers.

[h2]Event Meetup Codes[/h2]

You can now create event meetup codes. These will show players the event's details screen or go to the event if it's currently taking place.

[h2]Link Buttons[/h2]

Player event link buttons can now search for events.

And to celebrate during all these events, we also have two new cakes: Celebration Cake and 87 Flavor Cake. Complete with candles. Try blowing them out!

https://imgur.com/a/7W0im2C
[h2]Trying Premium Inventions[/h2]

You can now try premium inventions before you buy them. Go to the invention details page, tap Try, and the invention will spawn in your room for a short period of time.
[h2]AI Improvements[/h2]

Improved the AI pathing and movement overall. They should get stuck in fewer places and have smoother movement over terrain and in Quests.
Fixed some places in Quests where AIs would get stuck, die automatically, or have strange behavior.
Max health configuration on AIs in Spawners now works correctly.
Wand is no longer able to stun enemies for a very long time.
Assassin bots now actually do stuff.
Barrel Knights should no longer chase players with their axe lowered.

[h2]General Improvements[/h2]

We're trialing some technical improvements for Quest players to make more community rooms load - if you find rooms that still won't load, let us know!
We're improving the experience of getting disconnected from a room. If you get disconnected you'll be sent to your dorm and get a prompt in the watch menu to rejoin the last room you were in.
iOS app consistency - going to the iOS home screen or another app will cause you to leave the room you're in. If you come back soon you'll be in your dorm with a prompt to rejoin the previous room.
Optimized the use of memory across the app, which should result in fewer crashes, especially on older iOS devices.
Fixed broken search tool for clubhouse selection
Fixed extraneous text on club invite screen
Fixed broken cancel button on club permissions settings screen
Swapping to the manipulation mode while a shape is selected will now properly display all the handles.
Fixed when selecting the manipulation tool on screens, it would perform the manipulate operation on whatever your cursor was hovering over.
Manipulate operation now plays sounds.
Fixed the bug where some goals were being counted twice for daily challenges and leaderboards.
Fixed an error that occurs after an undo operation on shape containers.
Fixed a bug that prevented undoing a merge operation of two shape containers.
If you remove a role with flying on someone it should make them fall.

Rec Room PATCH - for the "Ink Space" edition

This update brings a bunch of improvements to several maps, screens controls, and a few other perks!
[h2]General Improvements[/h2]

Promote your in - game content with new Showcase Posters found in your maker pen. You can configure them to a room or event, choose what content to display, resize and recolor them!
Screens: You can now see yourself on loading screens so you can check your look between rooms.
Players with an available username change can now change it from the profile screen in-game, in addition to on rec.net (Note that you can only change username once!)

[h2]Screen Controls Improvements[/h2]

We've made a couple of changes to screens controls based on your feedback - more to come soon.

You can now tap the left, right Holster Buttons to quickly cycle through holstered objects. You can still hold down the Holster Buttons to manually make a selection from the Holsters Menu.
Scrolling a mouse wheel also cycles through holstered objects, like tapping the Holster Buttons.
You can now tap the left, right Gesture Buttons to quickly swap to the Pointing Gesture. This makes it easy to bring up another player's profile without having to navigate through the Gestures Menus.
Sprint is once again mapped to the Left Joystick Click on gamepads.
Auto-sprint is now available as an option while playing with a gamepad or keyboard, mouse.
Object Mode toggle (aim with a gun, block with a sword, etc) is now mapped to the Right Joystick Click with a gamepad regardless of which hand is holding the object. Right stick click to aim with a Laser Gun in your right hand. Right stick click to block with a sword in your left hand.
Opening and closing Object Menus, like the Maker Pen Menu, is now mapped to a tap of the Shortcut Menu Button. Tap to toggle Object Menu, hold to navigate the Shortcut Menu.

[h2]Map Fixes[/h2]
Cyberjunk City

Removed a box in the high tower on the orange side.
Fixed a spot where you could get on top of ledge where the map sign is near the overpass
Raised the window trim in a few spots so it's easier to jump inside the windows on screens in particular
Fixed a few spots where you could get out of the map

Quarry

fixed a shipping container on the blue side that you couldn't clamber up to, but could on the red side.

Spillway

fixed a spot where everything would disappear from view

Drive In

fixed the vent ramp so teleporters can teleport onto it.

Disc Golf Lake

fixed being able to get inside some rocks

[h2]Creative Tools Fixes[/h2]

Bounce pads and impulse volumes now have nav bake options on them to ignore, generate or block. They are set to Generate by default now.
Creators should be able to bake AI nav mesh properly in all base rooms. This includes rooms like Spillway, Cyberjunk City and many more!

Rec Room PATCH - for the "Ink Space" edition

[h2]General Improvements[/h2]

Screen players can now "cook" grenades by holding down the throw button for a moment before releasing the throw. VR players could essentially do this already by letting go and grabbing it quickly so this change will make fragging more fair across different platforms.
Fixed held/holstered items being invisible when a screen player is dancing or taking a selfie.
VR players who use the setting "don't lock tools in hand" can use the trigger to go through quest doors without letting go of the weapon they are carrying. This also applies if you are not using the setting but want to carry an item that is typically thrown like a breakable bottle or plate.
[Oculus] Rec Room is gearing up to support Oculus Destinations and Presence. This means you'll soon be able to directly join your Oculus friends that are online in Rec Room. You may also see some top Rec Room Original rooms like ^Paintball available as Oculus Destinations.

Rec Room PATCH - for the "Ink Space" edition

[h2]General Improvements[/h2]

We made the new UI more satisfying for VR players with a virtual 3D button as you press the menu. It brings back the wonderful 3D squishyness that we were missing from the old UI. Haptics are also improved.

https://imgur.com/a/2AExclp

Rec Room for iPhone and iPad now supports Xbox and PlayStation wireless controllers on iOS 13 and up. Pressing any button on the controller will put you in gamepad mode, so you can play Rec Room just like on PC/PlayStation. Touch the screen at any time to go back to touch mode. Here are Apple's instructions to connect your controller: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210414
You can now browse more pages of inventions in the invention store