Golf It! News

We begin this week with another hotfix that addresses a number of important issues. For Mac players, this update will be very large in size. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but we're hoping it'll help us find a fix for the issues some of you have.

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- Enabled challenges for custom maps
- Added progress text to challenges when hovering
- Fixed Deep Blue's effects do not sound underwater
- Fixed players getting kicked after downloading the map
- Fixed light not working correct in multiplayer
- Fixed free cam speed getting inversed by scrolling
- Fixed free cam rotation getting applied to camera arm
- Fixed aim arrow not showing up in hotseat on custom maps
- Fixed putter not being visible while spectating
- Fixed volume settings for custom music
- Fixed magnet not remembering states correctly
- Fixed VR not including audio effects
- Fixed inventory sorting
- Fixed stats for secrets getting displayed in percentages
- Fixed wrong hole number on VR Classic
- Fixed some spelling issues
- Fixed goal effect sometimes not showing up
- Fixed goal effect sounds not getting influence by water
- Tweaked sound effect for putting in
- Removed modern art on Jade Temple

Thanks and take care,

Perfuse Entertainment

We've had a spectacular night. You've completed so many challenges that our service has gone offline a few times. As a result, some of you did not receive your challenge rewards. But we've planned for outages, and you can still get what's yours by restarting the game. If this is not the case, please contact us.

We have now implemented several fixes for service and game issues. But there are also some known issues that will be addressed soon.

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General
- Fixed play menu not closeable
- Fixed visual limit of coins (>65535)
- Fixed names of items
- Fixed putter not showing correctly after switching clubs
- Fixed in-developement maps being visible (Pssst!)
- Changed editor text style (looking for a better solution)

Editor
- Fixed magnets not being available
- Fixed some editor lanes not being available
- Fixed goal material not changing correctly
- Fixed event water always using old material
- Fixed underwater objects affecting the world

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

- For some players, Deep Blue's effects do not sound underwater
- In some cases Mac users can't join or host server (on our Mac currently not reproducable)
- Players may be kicked after downloading a map and will need to rejoin

We've already received some fantastic feedback on our Discord that will lead to some quality of life improvements next week.

Thank you for your interest after all these years and take care,

Perfuse Entertainment

It's time for another update! Just before Christmas, we have a bag full of exciting new features for you. Let's dive right in.



[h2]Audio Overhaul[/h2]

After seven years on the market, we finally realized that there were absolutely no sounds in the game. So we decided to dub the whole thing, figuring it was better late than never. Now you can hear everything - the sound of your golf ball rolling on different surfaces, hitting things, the sound of the environment, the user interface, and much more. It is a completely new, immersive journey to play our official maps. Not only that, but all the sounds are also available in our map editor. We can't wait to hear what you're going to create.

[h2]Grassland Visual Upgrade[/h2]

Our oldest and most iconic map is Grassland. It was created as part of our Steam Greenlight prototype and hasn't gotten much love since. That's why we've created over 150 new assets to make this map more visually appealing. Of course, all of these assets are also available to you in our editor.



[h2]Challenge System[/h2]

Sometimes a game against friends is not enough of a challenge. For those times, we've created an all-new challenge system. It will provide you with new challenges of varying difficulty every day. Completing these tasks will reward you with coins and items that are sometimes only available there. In our new shop, you can spend your hard-earned coins on skins, trails, hats and more.



[h2]Additional Swing Mechanic[/h2]

Staring at the same putter for over seven years gets pretty boring. That's why we've added a new type of equipable item - the putter. They are pretty rare, but be sure to check out your first Weekly Challenge, you just might be able to find one. To help you get even more enjoyment out of your brand new putter, we've decided to add a new, optional visual swing style. It's more like a swing and less like a train. Check our options and activate the rotational swing, but be careful, you might lose your skill.



Have fun and take care,

Team Perfuse Entertainment



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General
- Added challenge system
- Added additional swing mechanic
- Added putters as an equipable item
- Added goal effects as an equipable item
- Added shop for ingame currency
- Added ability to see other people's putters
- Added new trails, hats and skins
- Added fade to golf ball light (Key L)
- Updated graphics on Grassland
- Updated all official maps with new sounds

Audio
- Added new audio system
- Added sounds throughout the game
- Improved audio options for better customization

Editor
- Added 150+ Grassland themed asset to the Editor
- Added all new sounds to the editor sound object
- Added ability to trigger Events with key pressed
- Added ability to attach/detach event objects to other event objects
- Added ability to customise goals including colors
- Added magnet activator and deactivator volumes
- Updated Foliage painter to be able to better remove foliage

Misc
- Updated editor ui to always show aim target
- Updated event network code
- Updated rendering on trails for better performance
- Updated VR teleport not having the ball in the middle of the playarea
- Disabled trails on low settings
- Replaced trails with new particle system
- Improved performance on all official maps

Bug Fixes
- Fixed lobby showing players twice
- Fixed players joining mid game being stuck in spectator
- Fixed some broken objects not spawning
- Fixed snap points on some objects
- Fixed alignment on some objects
- Fixed preview picture on some objects
- Fixed flatness and color overlay not being used on visibility checks
- Fixed MinesRock Material not working correctly on visibility checks
- Fixed DNA trail not rotating correctly
- Fixed scoreboard scrolling wrong on hole 19
- Fixed Romanian and Rwanda flag switch
- Fixed hats and skins not being able to be deselected
- Fixed rotators sometimes spawning goals wrong
- Fixed landscape grass not tiling correctly
- Fixed Editor UI options resetting
- Fixed HowToPlay not showing input icons
- Fixed autosave interval in the editor
- Fixed autosave triggering multiple times in multiplayer editor

This update fixes a number of issues and adds some quality of life features. Thank you for your continued feedback, we really appreciate it.




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General
- Added play order setting for hot seat
- Added ping to server browser
- Added button to close lobby and prevent people from joining
- Added option to automatically show scoreboard after finishing hole
- Added support for LiveSplit when using -livesplit launch command
- Added button to unsubscribe workshop maps to map selection screen
- Added option to select between Window, Fullscreen Window and Fullscreen mode
- Added simple VR-Keyboard for entering lobby name and password, this will receive further updates
- Improved performance when playing in huge lobbies
- Improved performance of custom assets on large maps
- Improved memory footprint and loading time of inventory system
- Fixed upload of alternative and VR leaderboards on VR Classic
- Fixed issue with recommended settings overwriting default settings
- Fixed freeze when striking milliseconds after spawn on Pirates Cove
- Fixed issue where swapping between golf ball and spectator triggered a voxel recalculation
- Fixed billiard skin not randomizing correctly
- Fixed lobby names not being saved
- Fixed hot seat players getting stuck in a hole
- Fixed some issues related to closing menus
- Fixed scoreboard always showing the playing-marker on last hole
- Fixed lobby moving people into the wrong team after finishing a map
- Fixed wrong camera orientation of spectator in gravity zones and on spawn

Editor
- Added Master Light to the Lights category, this light can be used to create different light shapes, e.g., point light, spotlight, etc.
- Added option to Events to make them spherical
- Added default option to rotators to update only when visible
- Added ability to show and open map backups
- Changed multiplayer editor to be invite only
- Fixed issue where names of local assets and blueprints are not displayed
- Fixed postprocess volumes not being replicated
- Fixed planets not being replicated
- Fixed sound objects not being replicating
- Fixed foliage not being replicated
- Fixed voxel terrain not being replicated
- Fixed editor menu having a wrong scroll position after reopening
- Fixed some objects having wrong textures
- Fixed some objects having wrong snap points
- Fixed issues of having multiple menus open at the same time
- Fixed issue where a master transformer loses its settings
- Fixed broken master transformer after being moved
- Fixed mines template always reverting to voxel terrain
- Fixed mouse wheel not working correctly on snap points
- Fixed visibility of force fields getting reset
- Possible fix for clients having wrong lighting after joining

Last week we released Update 1.0 and we're pleased with the response. Thank you for all the feedback you've given us. We're now working hard to fix all the issues.

Here's everything we changed over the weekend.

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- Added speed options for free cam mode
- Added password filter to server list
- Added UI icons for Switch controller
- Added achievement reset for "Golf It Secrets"
- Added colors to editor transform UI
- Updated server visibility while searching
- Updated garbage collection settings
- Fixed server search bar not working
- Fixed inverted options also inverting putter swing
- Fixed river flickering
- Fixed not being able to use more than one custom material at once
- Fixed post-process not working while playing in editor
- Fixed achievement "Top Secret Deep Blue"
- Fixed not being able to deselect customizations
- Fixed dynamic lanes causing huge frame drops
- Fixed some issues related to ball customization
- Fixed disappearing buttons not appearing again
- Fixed some random game crashes
- Fixed rotational objects spawning at wrong location
- Fixed water looking black when using time of day
- Fixed editor UI leading to miss clicks when using terrain and foliage editor
- Fixed old bronze crown not using correct preview picture
- Fixed golf ball resetting in editor at -70.000 or lower

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]
- Scoreboard isn’t as readable anymore
- Selection in join menu gets lost on refresh
- Mechanic for item scrapping is too hidden
- Sometimes people can still join mid game
- Binds can’t be reset to default
- Chat sometime not readable
- Objects in editor sometimes explode while resizing
- Light in editor sometimes doesn’t get replicated to client
- Music in editor keeps getting reset to default
- Terrain type changes to voxel in editor when it shouldn't