May 4, 2023

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Our 3.2.2 update continues our focus on improving your overall gameplay experience!
We've fixed a few bugs that were causing issues, and we've also added some quality-of-life enhancements to make things smoother and more enjoyable.

Bugfixes

Fixed a game soft-lock when clicking "next" or "play" during a playlist.
Checking Friends only (Leaderboard), when the Friends List was private, wasn't displaying an in-game message. We now added a message explaining how to make the "Friends Only" leaderboard work.
Fixed Workshop Downloads weren't being saved under certain circumstances.
Online Playlists were showing the wrong download icon at times.
Minor visual adjustments.
Fixed soft-lock when pausing the game just before the challenge end-screen popup.

Enhancements

The playlist window now remains visible when the stop playlist button is clicked.
"Downloading Scenario Updates" is now slightly faster.
Made the "Downloading Scenario Updates" widget visible again.

Your bug reports and ideas are truly appreciated and have been instrumental in making KovaaK's better.
If you're not already part of our community, we encourage you to join us on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit. By joining our community, you'll be able to stay up-to-date on the latest news and updates, and you'll have a direct line of communication with us. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to continue to provide feedback and help us make our game even better.

See you on update 3.2.5!

Apr 12, 2023

KovaaK's 3.2 - FPS Boost + New Features

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PERFORMANCE

FPS BOOST

We’ve done some work under the hood; You should see some FPS gains as a result! Both in our own internal testing and user testing, Patch 3.2 has an average FPS boost of +15% compared to the previous update (3.1.12). Obviously, the numbers will vary depending on your PC Specs as well as the scenario being played but overall, everyone should be seeing more FPS. 😀

STUTTERS

On top of bringing you some more FPS, we have also made changes to the engine that should drastically remove stuttering/hitching (in a lot of cases, completely)!

As always, we wouldn't be here without you, so please send us your feedback and ideas - find us @KovaaKs and on our Discord. Thanks for your support and more great stuff coming soon!

SANDBOX UI/UX ENHANCEMENTS

Better Organization and Presentation

Updated font as well as adjusted text size for consistency and readability.
Adjusted styling of icons, buttons, checkboxes, and windows.
Moved scenario rating to the right of scenario name, to make it easier to read through the Online Scenario tab.
Modified Challenge Endscreen’s TAB and font size, so that the information is more evenly distributed.
Added UI sound FX, which you can adjust with the “UI SFX” volume slider.
KovaaK’s Plus members will now display the supporter icon next to their username on leaderboards.
Adjusted styling of HUD elements too.

Freeplay/Challenge Toggle

We have added a “FREEPLAY/CHALLENGE” toggle to the pause menu. Previously, one would have to load a scenario, click “START CHALLENGE” and then click “PLAY”. Now, fewer clicks are required, just set the toggle to “Challenge” and clicking “PLAY” will start the scenario challenge right away! The app will remember the toggle’s position between challenges and sessions.
Also, the “Session Manager” window is now only visible when the toggle is set to “FREEPLAY”, this reduces clutter, avoids confusing new players, and leaves room to, perhaps, add something else.

Playlist Window

We have removed the up/down arrows as you can now simply drag scenarios to reorder your playlist scenarios.
Updated “Playlist Randomizer” UI, replacing the large text + dropdown with an icon that you can click and it’ll cycle through the 4 types of playlist randomization.

Settings Menu Improvements

Main Tab

We have moved some less-used settings out of the MAIN tab and added some of the most common settings to it, namely: Visual Themes and Crosshair.

Weapons Tab

Per-weapons settings are more organized with collapsible menus
Moved Zoom Sens Mult and Toggle Zoom/ADS into Collapsible Mouse options
Default Crosshair options were removed from this menu and placed into the Main tab, but if you want to change crosshairs for specific weapons then it’s still accessible on the Weapons tab

Video Tab

Pause on Loss of Focus moved here

Sound Tab

Added a UI SFX slider
Reworked multi-sound picker
Shoot Sounds & Cooldown moved here
Hit Sounds & Cooldown moved here
Head Hit Sound moved here

UI Tab

Resetting the HUD will now reset the checkboxes of which widgets are visible
Updated style of UI tab to have a vertical divider between columns
Health & Info Bar Scale moved here

Misc Tab

Projectile Prediction Indicator moved here
Floating Combat Text moved here
Statistics Export moved here
Death Cam Spins moved here
Time Until Online Scenarios Refresh moved here

HIGHSCORE BAR

We have added “Highscore Bar”, a new HUD Element that will display a visual representation of your current score against your highscore and/or session best.

LEADERBOARD RANK (BENCHMARKS)

Introducing Leaderboard Ranks for Benchmarks! Benchmarks can now have a dedicated rank for a certain leaderboard range! (e.g. Top 10, Top 100, Top 500).
A Leaderboard Rank will show in all the places a regular rank shows (benchmark main screen, leaderboard, and challenge endscreen). GL with the grind!

SCENARIO EDITOR

In the character profile’s Move tab, you can now specify the rate of deceleration when flight is enabled.
Added Character Profile Variables for "Vertical Aerial Deceleration".
Changed “Profile” to “Scenario” in a few spots for the Scenario Editor to be more clear.

KMC (KOVAAK’S MAP CREATOR)

Added Stairs Brushes.
Both the snap rotation and snap distance tools now accept user-written values.
Improved Paint Mode’s UI.

KOVAAKS.COM

We recently launched a website that features a new way to search and follow scenarios, leaderboards, playlists, and creators, as well as a place to create your own KovaaK’s profile!
Check it out at http://kovaaks.com

MISC UPDATES

Updated Default Local Scenarios and Favorited Scenarios (only affects new users)
Updated Credits.html file
Added a link to our spiffy new website to the pause menu
Added Tooltip to 'Initial L/R' setting to help clarify functionality
For scenarios with Movement Scoring and/or Distance Traveled Scoring, players will now get a "Move to get more points" message when they aren’t moving.
Updated tooltip for adding a scenario to a playlist from the Scenario Browser

MISC FIXES

Fixed an issue where a scenario uploader would show as “Unknown”.
Fixed an issue with the benchmarks graph where it was always showing the highest rank.
Fixed a crash that occurred when a scenario was restarted just before completion.
Fixed bots having limited lives in freeplay.
Fixed Diagonal Back speed multipliers to emulate Overwatch-style speed. A 0.9 multiplier backwards becomes 0.93333 diagonal back.
Fixed an issue with the Disable Character Collision feature not working as intended.
Fixed an issue with projectile weapon headshots not registering properly in the Trainer.
Fixed an issue with Advanced Search in the Scenario Browser not showing a list of scenarios by Aim Type only.
Addressed some hitches when downloading Steam scenarios.
Fixed FTUE not firing.
Bot characters no longer trigger the “out of ammo” sound.
Fixed an issue where the benchmarks button was showing up at times it shouldn't, such as in the scenario editor.
Fixed bug where scores below 0 would not be posted to Leaderboards.
Fix progress bar showing new when at exact scenario rank threshold

KNOWN ISSUES

"Shrink switching" scenario has different behavior.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Please note that versions of KovaaK's older than update 3.2.0 may not be compatible with maps and scenarios created or updated after 3.2.0, and will soon be unable to post to the leaderboards. As part of this update, EQU8 (our current anti-cheat software) will be going offline and a new feature will be released, which requires an update to the map format. If you have experienced any issues in the past and are playing on an old version, please patch up and report any issues you may encounter. We strongly recommend updating to the latest version of KovaaK's to ensure your ability to post and play with the latest content as we add more scenario and map creation features.