Tower Unite - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)

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In Ridealong we send> Brendan into >game worlds to meet the inhabitants that dwell within.> This time, the bony condo owners and anti-social gamblers of Tower Unite s casino town.

He never blinks. The red, glowing eyes of KrazyKillerSheep are transfixed on his widescreen television, and he never blinks. I d like to say it s because he never wants to lose sight of what he s got. His penthouse is a grandiose apartment, full of chic furniture and musical instruments. There s a swimming pool upstairs, a drum kit in the corner, a long dining table, set for three. A piano sits on an intricate marble floor, surrounded by glass windows that overlook an unreachable skyline. The owner has all this, and yet his crimson eyes are set firmly, unfalteringly on his massive TV. He isn’t worried for his possessions, nor captivated by television. Killer can t blink because he s a skeleton. (more…)

Tower Unite - MacDGuy



New Condo: Theater!

Price: 40,000 Units

Now you can own your very own theater. This Condo comes with 4 theater screens (with vote-skip support) and customizable features such as the concession stand screens and lights.

It's a completely indoor Condo for all your media viewing needs.

New Condo Portable Tools: Scaler and Stasher!
We've added the Quick Scaler tool, which allows you to scale any item in your Condo up to 10x or 0.1x its original size. This is a must have tool for all Condo builders.

Including that, a new Stasher tool has been added. You can just click and stash any item that you've spawned in your Condo for quick clean ups.

We've also decided to make all Condo Portable Tools completely free (including the Copycat)! When you start up the game, you'll be given these Condo Tools for no Unit cost. Any purchased Copycat tools will be refunded to you in full automatically.

Oh, yeah, and the Copycat tool now has grid snap support.

Additional Hotbar Added
Due to the increasing number of items you can equip and the new Condo Portable Tools, we've added another Inventory Hotbar for you to use.

Now you can equip double the amount of items! Our research has concluded that it is possible to equip 16 pets, but we can't be held accountable for the damages of said pets.

Underwater Condo Fixes and Improvements
The Underwater Condo has had several fixes and improvements in this update. All the elevators are now fully operational (sorry that it broke) and we've sped up transportation between satellite Condos with new water transport tubes. The full list of changes is below in the change log.

Various Fixes Through-out
Including all of this, we've fixed some long-standing bugs in various places such as Ball Race. Ball Race wearables now will clear out properly, and also now has a kill feed and improved ball colors.

Poker had a major bug where you couldn't text chat while playing, this has now been resolved. We will be updating Poker soon to add endless Poker (multiple hands without being kicked off the table) soon.

We also changed how the end of Game Worlds are a bit so they don't end within 20 seconds anymore. You can also now text chat (thanks to a bug fix), allowing players to organize their next match.

Zombie Massacre Development
While we've got your attention, we just want to also let you know that we've been progressing very well with Zombie Massacre as of late. We're very excited to get this new Game World out for you to enjoy soon. We've still got lots to develop such as adding new characters, an in-game upgrade system, and more.


Major Changes
  • Added new Condo: Theater! Grab it at the Condo Realtor store for 40,000 units
  • Underwater Condo had various fixes and improvements
  • All Condo portable weapon tools are now free and are awarded to you on start up. You will get an automatic refund for any purchased Copycat tools
  • Added an additional hotbar to the inventory. Now you can equip twice as many things! The original hot bar will allow for weapons slots and the second hot bar can be used for cosmetics
  • Added Quick Scaler tool. Quickly uniform scale items in your Condo. You can resize items 0.1x to 10x their normal scale!
  • Optimized lots more things and reduced load times (should reduce the black screen issue for most users)

Changes
  • Added new furniture items: Gamer Chair and Classic Computer Desk
  • Added Stasher tool. Quickly stash Condo items back into your inventory without the need of context menus
  • Added grid snap support to Copycat tool
  • Increased the return to Plaza timer from 20 seconds to 2 minutes so players can talk with each other more at the end of a Game World. Added a "return now" button to bypass this wait
  • You can now adjust the grid snapping to 1 (before it clamped at 2)
  • Optimized lots of Plaza textures
  • Ball Race: Added a notification for when a player has ran out of lives
  • Ball Race: Added kill feed for when players die
  • Inventory manager tab now sorts all items and tags alphabetically
  • Underwater Condo: Replaced the old ocean material with the new ocean material
  • Underwater Condo: Increased the speed of the elevators by 25%
  • Underwater Condo: Increased the speed of the airlocks
  • Underwater Condo: Sunlight now reaches the ocean floor
  • Underwater Condo: Lights on surface platforms are now editable
  • Underwater Condo: Better visuals for when swimming underwater
  • Underwater Condo: Added water transport tubes to quickly get around the map

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed being unable to open chat during the end of a Game World
  • Fixed projector media player crash
  • Fixed HTTPRequest fatal error on load up
  • Minigolf: Fixed the host not getting the player has pocketed notification
  • Ball Race: Fixed wearables sometimes not being removed when you die or complete the level
  • Poker: Fixed a bug that prevented players from being able to text chat while in Poker
  • Fixed a bug where if you have chat open when the Casino anti-macro dialogue pops up, you'll be unable to enter the correct key
  • Fixed a graphical bug where Canvas Statues with follow camera mode would no longer have proper transparency support
  • Fixed media player (and theater projector) dynamic lights not actually working despite the setting being on
  • Trivia: Fixed if you select two answers at the same times, it'll display the wrongly selected one
  • Fixed missing collision on Piggy Bank item
  • Fixed Hot Tub items missing water volume (now physics objects float within them)
  • Underwater Condo: Satellite condo elevators will now properly sync for all players in the server
  • Underwater Condo: Main condo elevator will now sync properly for all players in the server
  • Underwater Condo: Airlocks will now properly sync for all players in the server
  • Underwater Condo: Fix an issue where the effects and lighting do not properly transition while going between above-water and under-water
  • Underwater Condo: Fixed several gaps in the walls of the satellite condos


UPCOMING FEATURES


You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

You can follow our weekly developer logs here:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report

Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
Tower Unite - MacDGuy



New Condo: Theater!

Price: 40,000 Units

Now you can own your very own theater. This Condo comes with 4 theater screens (with vote-skip support) and customizable features such as the concession stand screens and lights.

It's a completely indoor Condo for all your media viewing needs.

New Condo Portable Tools: Scaler and Stasher!
We've added the Quick Scaler tool, which allows you to scale any item in your Condo up to 10x or 0.1x its original size. This is a must have tool for all Condo builders.

Including that, a new Stasher tool has been added. You can just click and stash any item that you've spawned in your Condo for quick clean ups.

We've also decided to make all Condo Portable Tools completely free (including the Copycat)! When you start up the game, you'll be given these Condo Tools for no Unit cost. Any purchased Copycat tools will be refunded to you in full automatically.

Oh, yeah, and the Copycat tool now has grid snap support.

Additional Hotbar Added
Due to the increasing number of items you can equip and the new Condo Portable Tools, we've added another Inventory Hotbar for you to use.

Now you can equip double the amount of items! Our research has concluded that it is possible to equip 16 pets, but we can't be held accountable for the damages of said pets.

Underwater Condo Fixes and Improvements
The Underwater Condo has had several fixes and improvements in this update. All the elevators are now fully operational (sorry that it broke) and we've sped up transportation between satellite Condos with new water transport tubes. The full list of changes is below in the change log.

Various Fixes Through-out
Including all of this, we've fixed some long-standing bugs in various places such as Ball Race. Ball Race wearables now will clear out properly, and also now has a kill feed and improved ball colors.

Poker had a major bug where you couldn't text chat while playing, this has now been resolved. We will be updating Poker soon to add endless Poker (multiple hands without being kicked off the table) soon.

We also changed how the end of Game Worlds are a bit so they don't end within 20 seconds anymore. You can also now text chat (thanks to a bug fix), allowing players to organize their next match.

Zombie Massacre Development
While we've got your attention, we just want to also let you know that we've been progressing very well with Zombie Massacre as of late. We're very excited to get this new Game World out for you to enjoy soon. We've still got lots to develop such as adding new characters, an in-game upgrade system, and more.


Major Changes
  • Added new Condo: Theater! Grab it at the Condo Realtor store for 40,000 units
  • Underwater Condo had various fixes and improvements
  • All Condo portable weapon tools are now free and are awarded to you on start up. You will get an automatic refund for any purchased Copycat tools
  • Added an additional hotbar to the inventory. Now you can equip twice as many things! The original hot bar will allow for weapons slots and the second hot bar can be used for cosmetics
  • Added Quick Scaler tool. Quickly uniform scale items in your Condo. You can resize items 0.1x to 10x their normal scale!
  • Optimized lots more things and reduced load times (should reduce the black screen issue for most users)

Changes
  • Added new furniture items: Gamer Chair and Classic Computer Desk
  • Added Stasher tool. Quickly stash Condo items back into your inventory without the need of context menus
  • Added grid snap support to Copycat tool
  • Increased the return to Plaza timer from 20 seconds to 2 minutes so players can talk with each other more at the end of a Game World. Added a "return now" button to bypass this wait
  • You can now adjust the grid snapping to 1 (before it clamped at 2)
  • Optimized lots of Plaza textures
  • Ball Race: Added a notification for when a player has ran out of lives
  • Ball Race: Added kill feed for when players die
  • Inventory manager tab now sorts all items and tags alphabetically
  • Underwater Condo: Replaced the old ocean material with the new ocean material
  • Underwater Condo: Increased the speed of the elevators by 25%
  • Underwater Condo: Increased the speed of the airlocks
  • Underwater Condo: Sunlight now reaches the ocean floor
  • Underwater Condo: Lights on surface platforms are now editable
  • Underwater Condo: Better visuals for when swimming underwater
  • Underwater Condo: Added water transport tubes to quickly get around the map

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed being unable to open chat during the end of a Game World
  • Fixed projector media player crash
  • Fixed HTTPRequest fatal error on load up
  • Minigolf: Fixed the host not getting the player has pocketed notification
  • Ball Race: Fixed wearables sometimes not being removed when you die or complete the level
  • Poker: Fixed a bug that prevented players from being able to text chat while in Poker
  • Fixed a bug where if you have chat open when the Casino anti-macro dialogue pops up, you'll be unable to enter the correct key
  • Fixed a graphical bug where Canvas Statues with follow camera mode would no longer have proper transparency support
  • Fixed media player (and theater projector) dynamic lights not actually working despite the setting being on
  • Trivia: Fixed if you select two answers at the same times, it'll display the wrongly selected one
  • Fixed missing collision on Piggy Bank item
  • Fixed Hot Tub items missing water volume (now physics objects float within them)
  • Underwater Condo: Satellite condo elevators will now properly sync for all players in the server
  • Underwater Condo: Main condo elevator will now sync properly for all players in the server
  • Underwater Condo: Airlocks will now properly sync for all players in the server
  • Underwater Condo: Fix an issue where the effects and lighting do not properly transition while going between above-water and under-water
  • Underwater Condo: Fixed several gaps in the walls of the satellite condos


UPCOMING FEATURES


You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

You can follow our weekly developer logs here:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/devupdates/weekly-dev-logs

You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report

Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
Feb 3, 2018
Tower Unite - MacDGuy


This hotfix addresses many issues with the media player.
The Plaza has also shed its winter snow.

Changes
  • Added a new item: Theater Screen
  • Summer Plaza is back
  • Optimization to Plaza was done
  • Added the ability to change moon angle and moon lighting intensity
  • Added quick use buttons to quickly toggle into night or day time instead of fumbling around with the sliders
  • Changed Condo settings menu to no longer require holding C to interact with it
  • Added a return to main settings page to Condo settings menu
  • Updated the look of the Condo settings menu
  • Slight UI touch up on the store UI
  • Added text that informs players of the item scale when the item is scaled down for the pedestal

Bug Fixes
  • Major: Fixed issue where if you turn off the media player and turn it back on again, you couldn't add videos to it
  • Major: Fixed issue where you wouldn't be able to interact with multiple media players
  • Fixed player models not setting correctly for Bowling and Ball Race
  • Fixed Smooth Dirt having a massive sun and moon
  • Fixed a fog issue with Condo windows
  • Fixed flashlight in third person being offset
  • Fixed a bug where changing day night would not happen instantly for the condo owner (which made it hard to preview what the change will be)
  • Fixed chat line not wrapping properly for repeated characters
  • Fixed media player text elements not being clipped properly
  • Added missing water volume to Highrise pool
  • Fixed emote icon scale in Little Crusaders
  • Fixed FOV resetting when switching to third person mode
  • Minigolf - Treasure Cove: Fixed bad lightmaps on hole 15
  • Minigolf - Treasure Cove: Fixed hole 17 moving hole reported issues
  • Minigolf - Treasure Cove: Fixed hole 10 issue where you could occasionally fall off the tightrope section
  • Minigolf - Emission: Fixed hole 17 out of bounds issue
  • Fixed pets in the Toy Store clipping through the store pedestal
  • Fixed a few more cases of stuttering when synchronously loading items that became out of network range

You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report

Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
Feb 3, 2018
Tower Unite - MacDGuy


This hotfix addresses many issues with the media player.
The Plaza has also shed its winter snow.

Changes
  • Added a new item: Theater Screen
  • Summer Plaza is back
  • Optimization to Plaza was done
  • Added the ability to change moon angle and moon lighting intensity
  • Added quick use buttons to quickly toggle into night or day time instead of fumbling around with the sliders
  • Changed Condo settings menu to no longer require holding C to interact with it
  • Added a return to main settings page to Condo settings menu
  • Updated the look of the Condo settings menu
  • Slight UI touch up on the store UI
  • Added text that informs players of the item scale when the item is scaled down for the pedestal

Bug Fixes
  • Major: Fixed issue where if you turn off the media player and turn it back on again, you couldn't add videos to it
  • Major: Fixed issue where you wouldn't be able to interact with multiple media players
  • Fixed player models not setting correctly for Bowling and Ball Race
  • Fixed Smooth Dirt having a massive sun and moon
  • Fixed a fog issue with Condo windows
  • Fixed flashlight in third person being offset
  • Fixed a bug where changing day night would not happen instantly for the condo owner (which made it hard to preview what the change will be)
  • Fixed chat line not wrapping properly for repeated characters
  • Fixed media player text elements not being clipped properly
  • Added missing water volume to Highrise pool
  • Fixed emote icon scale in Little Crusaders
  • Fixed FOV resetting when switching to third person mode
  • Minigolf - Treasure Cove: Fixed bad lightmaps on hole 15
  • Minigolf - Treasure Cove: Fixed hole 17 moving hole reported issues
  • Minigolf - Treasure Cove: Fixed hole 10 issue where you could occasionally fall off the tightrope section
  • Minigolf - Emission: Fixed hole 17 out of bounds issue
  • Fixed pets in the Toy Store clipping through the store pedestal
  • Fixed a few more cases of stuttering when synchronously loading items that became out of network range

You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report

Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
Jan 19, 2018
Tower Unite - MacDGuy
Another hotfix that addresses many reported issues.

Note: For those who have multi-monitor setups, please be aware the game may start on the wrong screen after applying this patch. We have added a new graphics setting that will allow you to set the default monitor the game displays on. Once you set your default monitor in the graphics setting, it'll remember that setting the next time you start up the game.

Changes
  • Christmas events are now over
  • Added event calendar and rules board to Plaza in the Transit Station
  • Reduced load times on the menu by removing the 3D background
  • Added default monitor selection as a graphic setting (for multi-monitor setups)
  • Condo map list no longer uses a horizontal scrollbar and will tile the maps properly (for those on 16:9 720p/1080p, you should see all the Condo maps at once now)
  • Improved the flashlight (no longer clips with nearby walls and is a lot more smooth)

Bug Fixes
  • Reduced stuttering
  • Reduced networking size for inventory hotbar items with the intention to fix full hot bars not working while in Plaza
  • Fixed an issue where FOV settings would reset when another player joins your server
  • Fixed mouse sensitivity resetting sometimes
  • Optimization: Highrise no longer uses an expensive ocean shader
  • Optimization: Highrise Tower in the distance was too detailed and caused performance issues
  • Fixed glass when viewed from the inside removing fog effects from the entire map (effects Highrise and other maps that use windows a lot)
  • Fixed Canvas Statue sprites rendering through water shaders (such as Underwater condo)
  • Fixed Canvas Statue sprites rendering through translucent things
  • Fixed Canvas normal map missing
  • Fixed underwater effects not working in first person
  • Fixed a grid box being visible in Highrise
  • Fixed a bug when you click off the splash screen, you'd lose input on the menu and have to click again to interact with the menu
  • Fixed a bug with the appearance UI that prevented certain resolutions from being able to interact with it
  • Fixed super low poly LOD being set on appearance character in the menu if you had view distance set to low
  • Fixed appearance editor in the menu having terrible lighting, making it hard to see certain effects and also it lacked shadows on the character
  • Fixed certain number UI inputs (stairs, poker bets) having float values
  • Minigolf: Fixed Forest having day night enabled


You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report

Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
Jan 19, 2018
Tower Unite - MacDGuy
Another hotfix that addresses many reported issues.

Note: For those who have multi-monitor setups, please be aware the game may start on the wrong screen after applying this patch. We have added a new graphics setting that will allow you to set the default monitor the game displays on. Once you set your default monitor in the graphics setting, it'll remember that setting the next time you start up the game.

Changes
  • Christmas events are now over
  • Added event calendar and rules board to Plaza in the Transit Station
  • Reduced load times on the menu by removing the 3D background
  • Added default monitor selection as a graphic setting (for multi-monitor setups)
  • Condo map list no longer uses a horizontal scrollbar and will tile the maps properly (for those on 16:9 720p/1080p, you should see all the Condo maps at once now)
  • Improved the flashlight (no longer clips with nearby walls and is a lot more smooth)

Bug Fixes
  • Reduced stuttering
  • Reduced networking size for inventory hotbar items with the intention to fix full hot bars not working while in Plaza
  • Fixed an issue where FOV settings would reset when another player joins your server
  • Fixed mouse sensitivity resetting sometimes
  • Optimization: Highrise no longer uses an expensive ocean shader
  • Optimization: Highrise Tower in the distance was too detailed and caused performance issues
  • Fixed glass when viewed from the inside removing fog effects from the entire map (effects Highrise and other maps that use windows a lot)
  • Fixed Canvas Statue sprites rendering through water shaders (such as Underwater condo)
  • Fixed Canvas Statue sprites rendering through translucent things
  • Fixed Canvas normal map missing
  • Fixed underwater effects not working in first person
  • Fixed a grid box being visible in Highrise
  • Fixed a bug when you click off the splash screen, you'd lose input on the menu and have to click again to interact with the menu
  • Fixed a bug with the appearance UI that prevented certain resolutions from being able to interact with it
  • Fixed super low poly LOD being set on appearance character in the menu if you had view distance set to low
  • Fixed appearance editor in the menu having terrible lighting, making it hard to see certain effects and also it lacked shadows on the character
  • Fixed certain number UI inputs (stairs, poker bets) having float values
  • Minigolf: Fixed Forest having day night enabled


You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report

Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
Tower Unite - MacDGuy
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!

Most of us are back from our vacations which means FULL STEAM AHEAD on new content for Tower Unite in 2018.

The team is currently hard at work on finishing the 0.4.0.3 patch to fix those pesky regression bugs that were introduced during our upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.18.
We should have the patch ready within the next week.

Once the patch is released, the entire team is going to buckle down and start work on the next Game World for Tower Unite, Zombie Massacre. Zak will also be continuing development of Steam Workshop support in tandem with Zombie Massacre.

We are also going to reorganize our public Trello over the next couple days so that it better reflects our plans for 2018. We’ve started using a new system internally to help us keep organized and super focused. However we will continue to keep the public Trello in sync with internal development.

For a more detailed look at what we're up to now, please read our previous Winter Developments announcement:
http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791441305225/announcements/detail/1469726757017189640
Tower Unite - MacDGuy
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!

Most of us are back from our vacations which means FULL STEAM AHEAD on new content for Tower Unite in 2018.

The team is currently hard at work on finishing the 0.4.0.3 patch to fix those pesky regression bugs that were introduced during our upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.18.
We should have the patch ready within the next week.

Once the patch is released, the entire team is going to buckle down and start work on the next Game World for Tower Unite, Zombie Massacre. Zak will also be continuing development of Steam Workshop support in tandem with Zombie Massacre.

We are also going to reorganize our public Trello over the next couple days so that it better reflects our plans for 2018. We’ve started using a new system internally to help us keep organized and super focused. However we will continue to keep the public Trello in sync with internal development.

For a more detailed look at what we're up to now, please read our previous Winter Developments announcement:
http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791441305225/announcements/detail/1469726757017189640
Dec 29, 2017
Tower Unite - MacDGuy
This bug fix addresses the game hanging issue players have been experiencing.

We also updated to Unreal Engine 4.18.2 (we were on 4.18.1).

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed the game hanging sometimes
    Thank you all for helping us by testing the beta branch and giving us information to solve this!

  • Fixed not compatible screen full screen resolutions showing up on the resolution dropdown. Every resolution shown should now be compatible with your system


You can follow our current developments on our Trello:
https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap

You can report bugs on our forums:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/c/bug-report

Or you may also report bugs on our Steam community, but please expect slow response time.
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