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1. Pitch Modifier: Added a pitch modifier on hit for better audio feedback and more engaging gameplay. It has 3 modes: Slow, fast, and random. :music:
   
   
2. Character Skin Override and Browser: Added options under Settings->Visuals to override Skins of targets. :art:
   
   
   
3. Added Favorites feature to Benchmarks, Competitions, and Workouts: You can now mark content as favorite and quickly access your list of favorites. The list of favorites replaces the old "benchmarks switcher". :star:
   

1. Redesigned browser button placement on Benchmarks, Competitions, and Workouts.
   
   
2. Modified Content Browser Card Layout.
   
   
3. Removed the video played when launching the game, resulting in a faster boot.
   
4. Hid Playback icon when in a challenge that has the player running along a predetermined path.
   
5. When uploading scenarios to Steam, the prompt will now tell you the name of the scenario that was uploaded upon success.
   

1. New leaderboard sorting rule: In tied scores, the player with higher accuracy will rank higher, even if accuracy is not a primary scoring factor. Previously, the oldest score would rank higher. (Will only take effect with the wide public release) :dart:
   
2. Scenario Editor: Bumped 'Block Ability for Duration on Challenge Start' max value from 5s to 100s.

1. Resolved workshop cache issue causing some scenarios to be "not found".
   
2. Fixed a performance issue in some scenarios. :wrench:
   
3. Fixed a bug related to the Sandbox Browser that was causing FPS drops to some players. For those affected, it can increase FPS by 10 to 40%. :wrench:
   
4. Fixed the problem with Language Settings not persisting.
   
5. Fixed playback profile "Play" icon being visible during Challenge mode.
   
6. Fixed the scenario challenge window not showing the “Uploader”.
   
7. Fixed bugs with scenarios/playlists that had trailing whitespace.
   
8. Addressed hit registration issues with Witch and Mummy characters.
   
9. Corrected the Character Profile issue related to Lifesteal.
   
10. Fixed a sandbox crouch exploit.
    
11. Resolved an issue where having more than 6 categories caused overlap in Benchmarks categories.
    
12. Disabled playback profile PLAY icon when in CHALLENGE mode.

## Anime Sound Pack :loud_sound:
1. Anime01.ogg :notes:
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14. Uwu01.ogg :heart_eyes_cat:
15. Uwu02.ogg :heart_eyes_cat:
16. Yaya01.ogg :baby_chick:
17. Yaya02.ogg :baby_chick:

1. WA_Door
   
2. WA_Premium
   
3. WA_Tatami

1. Bamboo_Potted
   
2. Barrel_A
   
3. CylinderPlank_R
   
4. Plank
   
5. MetalCylinder
   
6. Statue_B
   
7. PaperLamp_B
   
8. BannerAnime
   
9. Statue_B
   
10. PaperLamp_B
    
11. BannerAnime
    
12. Tiles_Bend
    
13. Tiles_Cap
    
14. Tiles_HalfBendIn
    
15. Tiles_HalfBendOut
    
16. Tiles_HalfCap
    
17. Tiles_HalfPyramid
    
18. Tiles_HalfStraight
    
19. Tiles_Pyramid
    
20. Tiles_Straight
    
21. Tree_B

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2633870/ Coming Soon :hourglass:

We are thrilled to announce that the ownership of KovaaK’s Aim Trainer has been transferred back to KovaaK himself, the original owner and creator.

Reflecting on the past eight years since the first alpha release in 2016, it's been an absolutely remarkable journey. Thanks to your continued support and feedback, our game has reached millions of players worldwide. We're so grateful for your passion and love for KovaaK’s, whether you're using it as a trainer, enjoying it as a fun hobby or both!

KovaaK Games, an indie team, will be led by KovaaK. He is joined by DrUninstall and a select few passionate developers, each of whom has been key to our success over the years.

Here are some of the things you can continue expecting from us:

• Continue adding features that enhance and optimize the aim training experience.
  
• Strengthen the KovaaK’s community, improving the experience of searching for new and existing content, creators, and players.
  
• Make playing, training, and creating more intuitive and user-friendly.
  
• Increase our communication and interaction with the player base, ensuring you’re heard and your feedback is incorporated.
  
• Respect and support everyone’s experience with KovaaK’s, recognizing it as more than just a tool or trainer, but also as a game and hobby. This includes both players and creators.
  
• Update KovaaK’s Plus (more details to come).
  
• Implement a healthy and ambitious plan for the future of KovaaK Games.

We want to thank you again for your loyalty, and hope you are as excited as we are for KovaaK Games’ future. We welcome your ideas and suggestions on how to continue improving KovaaK’s. As always, you can reach us through our socials, and we will do our best to respond and implement your feedback.

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Before we conclude, we want to express our gratitude and appreciation to the previous owners, The Meta. Under their leadership, the game was enriched with playlists, sharecodes, a map editor, a webapp, and more. As a VC-backed startup, The Meta aspired to elevate KovaaK's by partnering with a larger organization. However, unforeseen shifts in the esports software market presented challenges at a critical juncture, influencing their decision to change course.

Their decision to pass ownership back to KovaaK reflects their dedication to the game and the community's best interests. We commend their professionalism during this transition and cherish the friendship and learning experiences shared. Our heartfelt thanks goes to them for their unwavering commitment and hard work. As they embark on new ventures, they remain a cherished part of KovaaK’s journey, and we encourage everyone to extend their support to their future projects.

https://kovaaks.com/kovaaks/leaderboards

🌟Global Leaderboards

Your standing on the Global Leaderboard reflects your performance across all online scenarios available on the "Sandbox".
Points are awarded based on a simple formula:
Points refresh daily at 2 AM GMT. The more scenarios you conquer, the higher your potential score!

Thank you to our KovaaK's Plus Supporters who had one week of early access. Based on your feedback, we're proud to open the Global Leaderboards in an already improved state to all KovaaK's players.

• Player Leaderboard → Global: Open to all players.
  
• Player Leaderboard → Region & Country: Exclusive to KovaaK's Plus Supporters.
  
• Country Leaderboard: Accessible to everyone.
  
• Region Leaderboard: Also available to all.

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🚀 Additional Updates & Enhancements

• Language Selection Memory: Your language preference will now be remembered between sessions.
  
• Search Functionality Improved: Enhanced user search capabilities to ensure profiles are always findable.
  
• UI Improvements: Adjusted icon sizing and padding for better navigation.
  
• Content Display Enhancements: "benchmark" removed from titles for clarity; content type is now displayed will be shown on the client's UI.

🔧Bug Fixes & Security

• Profile Search Issue: Fixed a bug where some profiles were not appearing in search results.
  
• Localization Strings: Added missing localization strings for full functionality across all supported languages.
  
• Backend Stability: Improvements made for a more robust and secure leaderboard experience.

🔍UI/UX Adjustments

• Leaderboard Clarity: Rank is now displayed first, followed by the country flag next to the username.
  
• Scrollbar Accessibility: The width of the scrollbar has been widened.
  
• Points Column Highlighting: Attempted new styling on the POINTS column for better visibility.

https://kovaaks.com/kovaaks/leaderboards

📣Your Voice, Our Inspiration

We're here because of you! Share your gaming highs, your feedback, and your ideas for KovaaK's future. Join the conversation on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit!

Thanks for your support and more great stuff coming soon!

As we leap into 2024, get ready to level up your gaming skills with KovaaK's! Now at 50% off until January 4th! Whether it's honing your aim for ranked games, grinding the leaderboards, or just having fun, it's never too late to jump in.
Don't miss your chance to play Santa 🎅 and gift a friend with KovaaK's - the gift that keeps on giving!

Soon we will announce the winners of the KovaaK's 2023 Awards and award the https://kovaaks.com/ profile badges. Stay tuned!





We're here because of you! Share your gaming highs, your feedback, and your ideas for KovaaK's future. Join the conversation on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit!

Thank you for your unwavering support. Here's to a year of incredible gaming moments and community achievements. Enjoy the holidays and a Happy New Year from all of us at KovaaK's! 🎆

🏆 Nominate KovaaK's for the Steam Award in the "Labor of Love" category!
🌟 Whether it's been a fun adventure, a fulfilling experience, or a crucial part of your gaming journey, if we've made a difference, your support means the world!
❤️We're dedicated to nurturing and enhancing your experience, providing new content for the long haul.

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🎯Elevate your gaming skills and have fun along the way.


Invite you and any new players to share feedback and ideas - find us @KovaaKs and on our Discord. Thanks for your support and more great stuff coming soon!

🎉We're thrilled to announce the new aimerz benchmarks, accessible to everyone (KovaaK's Plus or not!) within the Benchmarks game mode.


🤗We're committed to community collaboration, so stay tuned for more exciting updates as we continue to feature community content!


You can play them through the Sandbox or through the Benchmarks. For the latter, just click on "KovaaK's Plus" -> "Browser"! 🎯



Lastly, props to @wa11p1per for the work done on all these scenarios!

A small patch release to add some content and address a few issues that cropped up with the 3.3.0 release.



It’s that time of the year and we have many tasty treats for you: 29 spooky map objects, 5 fiendish materials/textures, and 6 terrifying targets!


https://kovaaks.com/kovaaks/benchmark-creator

• The title Character Limit has been reduced to 27.
  
• The creator's username is now shown on the content list.
  
• Workouts created through KovaaKs.com should now correctly unlock categories based on stars.
  
• UI no longer allows typing non-supported characters and has a warning message for it.

https://kovaaks.com/kovaaks/scenarios?scenarioName=Consecutive%20Tracking

Enjoy an improved browsing experience with the updated scenarios page! Search and click on scenarios and check their details : Entries, plays, description, creator, published date and tags and aim type. Of course, you can also view and search every scenario leaderboard!

• Fixed crosshair selection issue in the trainer
  
• Fixed an issue where a scenario wasn’t playing as expected when in playlist mode
  
• Fixed an issue where pesky bots would persist in the freeplay manager after switching scenarios
  
• Added a character limit to scenario titles
  
• Fixed an issue where unpacked bot profiles had a different value for a variable than was contained in the original scenario
  
• Tidied up sizing of bottom buttons on the Challenge End screen
  
• Fixed a text overflow issue with scenario info
  
• We organized the brushes in the map editor so they are grouped into similar categories

When using and testing Playback Profiles on the Scenario Editor, one often is required to “respawn” the character to see any changes made. One quick way to do this is to switch teams back and forth (1 to 2 and then back to 1, for example) on the “Freeplay Manager”. We will be looking into ways to improve this user experience.


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!

https://kovaaks.com/kovaaks/playlists?subscribed=false now features Playlists! You can browse or search by name, author, and aim type. The playlist view shows the description, breakdown of scenarios by type, playlist time, and scenario list. You can click to play from the website or copy the sharecode. Additionally, you can also click on a playlist creator to check their profile and follow them 😀


We are happy to announce that major parts of the Sandbox are now localized into Japanese and Simplified Chinese. You can access them through Settings -> Misc. Many thanks to pleasewait and ObserverQwQ for helping with the translations! If you have any suggestions for fixes or improvements or are interested in translating the Sandbox, join our Discord and reach out! 😀






With the 3.3.0 patch, scenario creators can now record their own mouse and keyboard inputs in the scenario editor and make use of those recordings in the following ways:

• Have players follow a pre-recorded movement path from spawn (looping or not).
  
• Have bots (targets or teammates) follow a pre-recorded movement path from spawn (looping or not).
  
• Have bots mix in pre-recorded sequences of dodge patterns within their normal movements.
  
• And more!

Once in the scenario editor, pressing F1 will begin recording, and pressing F1 again will stop recording. After a playback file has been created, the Character Profile editor’s Spawn tab or the Dodge Profile’s Playback tab allows you to make use of the playbacks.

Playback Mode allows you to specify whether the recorded movement pattern should lock the character to the same exact x/y/z location that was used at the time of the recording or not.


Given it’s one of the most seen and replayed moments of the KovaaK’s experience, the challenge endscreen is something we seek to constantly improve. One particular piece of feedback that caught our eye was that the score graph could feel jarring at times, depending on scores achieved during a given time frame. To improve this, we have reworked the top and bottom of the graph so that they anchor to the closest leaderboard percentiles (25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th). This should improve the scaling of the graph and also comes with the bonus of being able to use it as a discrete leaderboard representation.
Finally, we moved the scenario title to the header and made it possible to customize the graph color (Settings -> UI); We will continue to enhance this screen but the resulting experience should feel significantly better for new, existing and returning users.



https://kovaaks.com/kovaaks/benchmark-creator
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new "Creator Tools." With these tools, you now have the power to craft your very own benchmarks and workouts, tailor-made to their needs and preferences.

• With this update, all scenarios added to a Benchmark or Workout will remain playable through the Sandbox.
  
• You don't need KovaaK's Plus to create and submit benchmarks/workouts.

We can't wait to see the awesome creations you come up with!




The topbar now shows a browser button and displays some player info, such as username, avatar, flag, etc.








Based on your feedback and requests, we have updated the functionality of the Session Statistics and Clock widgets:
Under Settings->UI, you can now configure the Session Statistics widget to show only the timer, only the statistics, or both.
The Clock widget now also shows a cumulative gameplay timer since the game was last opened.




We have added new sky options to test the idea of a “moving skybox”! For now these aren’t affected by the advanced sky settings, such as “Sun/Stars”, “Tint”, etc. but we will eventually make them compatible.



In response to your valuable feedback and requests, we've added two new shapes to the map creator:
Quarter Dome: A sleek, quarter-dome shape for seamless integration.
Concave Corner: A steeper version of our existing “Concave Ramp” shape, closer to half a circle/sphere.
We hope you find these additions useful and enhance your map design possibilities!

• New variable: "Restart Dodge Profile Timer on Respawn" - when this variable is utilized, the bot will reset its timer of current dodge profile on respawn.
  
• Dodge profile enhancements to “Initial Left/Right” and “Initial Forward/Back”. You now have the following options available: Left/Right; Initial Strafe: Left / Right / Random; Initial Strafe On: Initial Spawn / Every Spawn / Swap Dodge Profile; Forward/Back; Initial Strafe: Forward / Back / Random; Initial Strafe On: Initial Spawn / Every Spawn / Swap Dodge Profile.
  
• Dodge Profile Editor: Increase maximum value for Time variables in UI to 100s.

• You can now make the leaderboard, Freeplay Manager and Playlist windows larger by hiding the HUD element "Hotbar".
  
• Adjusted scenario cache download so it only writes to disk when the game is paused. This should reduce stutters caused by scenario updates.
  
• Online Playlists can now be marked as unlisted when creating them. An unlisted online playlist will still have a ShareCode, it just won’t be discoverable through the Playlist Browser. Although we recognize this is a niche addition, we’re hoping it empowers the coaching community.
  
• We’ve consolidated and updated tags for scenario creation. This is the first effort towards improving the experience of finding and discovering scenarios and their creators.
  
• Modified difficulty indicator to have different colors for different difficulties (red to green).
  
• The Leaderboard widget is slightly larger when in Challenge mode and not part of a Playlist.
  
• Added footstep and fall sound effects.
  
• By default, it’s only enabled on humanoid characters but you can enable it for all character types.
  
• Settings -> UI - when clicking 'Show Health Bars only when damaged', the option to show health bars will now automatically turn on if it wasn't already.
  
• Resized Font on Clock and FPS Widgets to be smaller.
  
• Updated KovaaK’s Benchmarks button to “KovaaK’s Plus”.
  
• Added tooltip for play toggle during playlists.
  
• Playlist window changes - removed button to change title/description, made title/description always editable while editing a scenario. This reduces the number of clicks and keeps the user-flow simple.
  
• Added 'Replay' button on Challenge End Screen for when we're in a playlist but not complete with it.
  
• Added character limit to Playlist titles.
  
• Optimized health bar.
  
• Map Creator search bar now shows hint text “Search” to make it more noticeable.
  
• Re-organized “Session Manager” UI so it’s easier to understand and renamed it “Freeplay Manager”.
  
• Added MenuClick and MenuHover sounds to the default list of sound effects.

• “Downloading Scenario Updates” now obeys the time interval set by the User Settings, instead of doing it on every game launch.
  
• Changed UI scaling rule in Project Settings to better support screens using aspect ratios other than 16:9.
  
• DPI Settings UI alignment.
  
• Now applying Set Keyboard Focus on Construct in hopes of helping Linux users.
  
• Player’s color highlight on the leaderboard is now assigned to the Primary Color in Settings -> UI.
  
• Fixed tooltip in Reaction Tab for LOS Reaction Type
  
• Fixed an issue with Strafe Swap Pause where bots would stay paused through death/respawn.
  
• Fixed Play Toggle being fully grayed out during a Playlist.
  
• Fixed issue where explosive weapons with flat knockback were always using the max value instead of randomizing between min and max.
  
• Fixed tooltip on Zoomed Scope option.
  
• Fixed a couple of crashes.
  
• Fixed lag on the Trainer.
  
• Better handling of high score posting when using Local Scenarios and/or Local Playlists.
  
• Fixed playlist keybind related softlock.
  
• Fixed playlist next / playlist prev having the wrong name.
  
• Some work on scenario caching.
  
• Long playlist names no longer flow on top of buttons in the Scenario Browser.
  
• Fixed first person hands being dithered.
  
• Fixed NaN dates appearing in graphs.
  
• Fixed issue with scenario editor validation and bot/aim profiles.
  
• Fixed “Move to get more points” message so that it doesn’t come up when the player has in fact moved.
  
• Changed Settings Cog widget color to match header text color.
  
• Fixed gibs not working.
  
• Only show popup windows when the game is paused.
  
• Added call to Unpause Session Timer after restarting a benchmark, which was also bugging the Scenario Stats sometimes.
  
• Fixed themes not loading in the trainer menu.
  
• Fixed respawn logic for characters that ignore collision with other characters - they will no longer hold back on spawning when other characters are overlapping their spawn spots.

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


When using and testing Playback Profiles on the Scenario Editor, one often is required to “respawn” the character to see any changes made. One quick way to do this is to switch teams back and forth (1 to 2 and then back to 1, for example) on the “Freeplay Manager”. We will be looking into ways to improve this user-experience.


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!

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