Rec Room News

Rec Room PATCH - for the "Try Before You Buy" Edition

We made a few quality of life improvements!

The loading experience should be a bit smoother now.
Player names and emotes now face streamer cam properly.
The base flying speed is now faster than a flying snail!

Also, our facilities staff would like to remind you to wear appropriate footwear at all times. Scuff marks are unsightly and difficult to clean.

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.: https://recroom.com/community

Thanks for playing Rec Room! As always, don't hesitate to give us your feedback =]

Rec Room PATCH - for the "Try Before You Buy" Edition

Rec Room PATCH - for the "Try Before You Buy" Edition

Howdy y'all! First up, we're excited to share some updates to improve your player experience!

* HoloHelpers now have visual subtitles and also tilt up/down to face the camera
* There's now a "Voices I can hear" setting in Settings > Audio for more control over voice chat. This only affects who you hear; others can still hear you!
* There's now a Help tab in the Settings screen which shows the controller mappings
* You can apply Content Warnings to your custom room (This Room > Setup > General Setup > Content Warnings). Remember that rooms still must follow the Code of Conduct!
* Banned players can no longer use the Maker Pen or Share Camera (so be good for goodness sake!)
* Added a "NEW" icon above the Store button when there are new items available
* Added a "NEW" icon above new items in the Watch Store and in the merch booth

We also adjusted how our ignore bubble works - check out the details below:

* If you're getting too close to another player then they will fade out. This replaces the old behavior of fading out your own hands.
* If a player invades your Ignore Buffer, their voice volume will fade out along with their avatar.
* Fixed a bug with the Large Ignore Buffer where invading players would never completely fade out regardless of how near they approached.

And we fixed a few bugs!

* Fixed an issue where the Weekly Challenge item would not appear at the end of the first-run tutorial
* Fixed bug where "new" / wearing / lock icon intersected with the outfit item in the dorm room dresser
* Fixed bug in Rec Royale where the "upgrade to elite" button was still present after successfully purchasing elite
* Fixed bug where the input field was always invisible when trying to edit room tags
* Fixed a bug where teleporters were being flung across rooms
* Fixed an iOS issue where objects and avatars could appear overly shiny in certain contexts
* Red indicator now appears when taking damage in games on iOS
* Fixed an issue where sometimes the wrong icon would be used on the iOS touch UI
* Fixed an issue where certain buttons on iOS were unpressable on the Maker Pen palette

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.: https://recroom.com/community

Thanks for playing Rec Room! As always, don't hesitate to give us your feedback =]
Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.: https://recroom.com/community

Thanks for playing Rec Room! As always, don't hesitate to give us your feedback =]

Rec Room PATCH - for the "Try Before You Buy" Edition

Heads up... We now have recroom.com! We've started to migrate a bunch of things over to that domain. Againstgrav.com will continue to work for the time being, but eventually we plan to migrate everything over to recroom.com! Rec.net is unaffected by this change...

We've done a pretty major revision to "Comfort Mode". Comfort Mode is a VR-specific setting that can allow motion-sensitive players to experience a wide variety of locomotion types (e.g., walking, Rec Royale hang gliders, etc.). This feature has existed since we shipped Rec Royale as the "TV Mode Vehicles" setting. Comfort Mode replaces and considerably enhances "TV Mode Vehicles".

You can find Comfort Mode settings in Watch > Settings > Gameplay > Comfort Options. Comfort Mode can be set to:

Off (default) - in this case it does nothing!
Vehicle Only - in this case Comfort Mode will turn on automatically when you're in a vehicle (currently only the Rec Royale hang gliders... but we're planning ahead here people!). This emulates the old "TV Mode Vehicles" setting.
On - in this case it is on all the time. This is a new capability that means you can play the entire game with Comfort Mode if you want. This means that players who mostly use teleport can experiment with using Comfort Mode to experience walk-only rooms. In our internal testing, some of our most motion sensitive players have been able to play walk-only games using Comfort Mode. For now, you'll have to enable Comfort Mode manually, but in the next update we plan to add an prompt to switch it on automatically (and temporarily) if you're a teleporter going to a walk-only room.

Since different players have different levels of sensitivity, there are some additional settings to play with:

Mode - can be 2D or 3D. In 2D mode it's like Rec Room is playing on a TV in front of your face (that's why we used to call this "TV mode"). In 3D mode, the stereoscopic nature of the VR world is preserved. 3D mode adds some additional immersion at the risk of reducing comfort for some sensitive players.
Size - can be Small or Large. Small gives you a small view port that optimizes for comfort. Large gives you a substantially larger view port that increases immersion (while still limiting peripheral visual information).

OK, apart from Comfort Mode, we've also fixed a bunch of bugs:

Paintball - removed an invisible wall that was blocking a window on the Red side of Spillway
Rec Royale - repaired shipping container in Frontier Power that had its door halfway in the ground
Subrooms - removed "not yet supported" banner on "none" room when changing parent rooms.
Fixed a bug where "try to match me with non-juniors" toggle could be cleared after switching rooms.
Emails should now be sent from recroom.com.

Some fixes that only affect screen mode players:

Fixed an issue where UI icons would flicker when using weapons
Charged melee attacks are now much more reliable
Selecting an item from your backpack will now pick it up automatically
Point gesture no longer expires after two seconds

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.: https://recroom.com/community

Thanks for playing Rec Room! As always, don't hesitate to give us your feedback =]

Rec Room UPDATE - the "Try Before You Buy" Edition

Ooh look an update! Here's what's new...

We added an item preview to the purchase confirmation screen so you can see your item nice and large before you commit to buying it!
We decided to add nine more Saved Outfit slots for no reason. Weird that nobody ever asked us for this!
There's a new "Try" button on the Store page (in your Watch) that lets you try on items before you buy them!
You can only try on items in your Dorm Room
You can only try on one item at a time...
Added "Get More Clothes" and "Saved Outfits" buttons to the mirror & dresser in the dorm
WMR - Fix for throwing objects and picking up the whip while using Windows Mixed Reality headsets

Please see here for convenient links to controls, tutorials, comfort options, etc.: https://www.againstgrav.com/community/

Thanks for playing Rec Room! As always, don't hesitate to give us your feedback =]

Rec Room PATCH - the the "Living in a Material World" Edition

Just fixed some stuff we broke with our last update - sorry about that! :-/

Room Chat works for VR players again!
Fixed an issue for VR players where the Room Chat mute setting would not be applied
Fixed a bug where VR players could cancel sprinting by clicking the thumbstick on some platforms
Fixed a bug where teleport players would get sucked out of the Rec Royale Gondola
Fixed a bug where VR players who were flying would accidentally walk
You can now correctly teleport out of the hang glider in Rec Royale