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This weekend, thousands of screaming fans in Antwerp and millions of viewers around the world witnessed the crowning of a new Major Champion. Congratulations to FaZe Clan who proved to be an unstoppable force, taking the Grand Final 2-0.

Today we’re releasing the champions autograph capsule, featuring autograph stickers in paper, glitter, holo, and gold. Celebrate rain, karrigan, broky, ropz, and Twistzz by supporting them in style–50% of the proceeds are shared with the players and organizations taking part in the Major.

And so the Antwerp Major comes to a close. Onward, to Rio!

Hello everyone!

It's been a couple of months! It has been too long since the last content update. I spent a great amount of time trying to work on improving my focus, and while some of it succeeded (exercising, more time outside, adjusting diet, cutting out sugar, adjusting times, scheduling activities, adding vitamins, rearranging my room), some of it failed and made me much more scatterbrained (cutting out caffeine, no fruit diet). Now that I recognize the power of coffee in my ability to focus, I've been making some headway.

In update V2.5 I've added two new levels:



(I haven't added an achievement for this level yet because I'm not sure what I want to make the Par for the hole after adding the ability to see the arc of the ball.)

• Sphinx Boss Level
  
• Patreon Backlog

• Mac Version (Will figure this out soon)
  
• Hardmode Commission
  
• Large Patreon Backlog
  
• Xbox One Port (Waiting on GMS)

• Added Golf Level
  
• Added Black Snake Level
  
• Changed sky color in the Slums
  
• Fixed Grandma/Dog Level, floating spiked platform could kill you while invisible.

If you'd like to support what I do, and vote for future content, consider joining my Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/codypenn

Patrons also have access to the latest beta version of the game, which I update at the end of each month, until I finish the update for public release.



Feel free to join the Discord as well: https://discord.gg/fpAHfyT

You can also support me through Crypto:
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If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, complaints, requests, inquiries, anything, please send a message to: jumpoffthebridgex@gmail.com

Hi Everyone,

Thank for your interest in the game as always. Your time is much appreciated.

I've got some exciting new things coming down the pipeline and I can't wait to release it when it's ready.



We've got some new spell classes in the works including elemental tornados, slow moving wide ranged projectiles that creep forward and deal damage to everything along its path.



The alliance system continues to see development. We'll see some neat random encounters in some of the dungeon areas and you'll be able to recruit various followers through the game's Einherjar system!



Slime variations will be seen in the higher level dungeons. These are not just elemental swaps. Fire slimes for example will move much faster than their Green Apple variant and will explode when killed. Ice slimes although will move slower, will pack a harder punch through increased slow ability via cold attacks.



I can't wait to show you guys more and look forward to the next news post!

Finally spent some time on performance which is something I've wanted to tackle for a while. Completely redid a lot of the internals of the game and really happy with the results, seeing solid framerate improvements (~34% improvement on my RTX 2080), as well as a fairly decent reduction of stuttering as the game loads and unloads chunks while running around the world. There is still some more improvement to be done here, but I'm happy with where it is for now.

A few other fixes and tweaks are included in this update. Please continue to report any issues you see! Thanks

Performance:

• Completely reworked internal saving/loading system for much less memory pressure. This greatly reduces some of the stuttering seen before when running around and loading/unloading the world. New games will see the most benefit vs. loading a pre-v0.5.11 save
  
• Tons of optimizations to rendering, culling, logic, etc. Should increase framerate by 5-30% on almost all configurations

Fixes:

• Fixed water reflections quality no longer actually using High when Medium is selected. The difference between Medium and High is whether the reflections will render shadows or not, a fairly significant performance impact
  
• Fixed rabbit snares losing their correct state sometimes when multiple are present in the world - some with and without trapped rabbits - when loading a game
  
• Clamped contamination of harvested creature items to 100%
  
• Fixed main menu background scene showing weird gray highlights if leaving an active game with heavy cloud cover
  
• Fixed rare issue where the construction materials shown in the character's hands during the building process would actually have collision enabled and would end up pushing the player around during the animation
  
• Fixed another cause of "ghost items" where trying to drag something like mud into the construction materials UI slot (instead of mud mortar) would cause a ghost item to get stuck in the slot

Other changes:

• Soaking slots will always show on the Soaking Basin UI regardless of how much water is present, and the UI was reworked to be more helpful in figuring out what is needed to properly treat the hides
  
• Times shown on things like remaining time for treating a hide are capped to 100 hours now to prevent overly large values from appearing in very inefficient treating setups
  
• Add stockpile ability for soft clay
  
• Slightly different looking bushes as textures/materials are consolidated as part of the general performance optimization above
  
• More interesting looking player/bush graphical interaction effect while walking through them
  
• Better transition between player character running and walking so it no longer appears instant
  
• Long sticks are packed closer together in stockpiles, allowing for more to be placed per stockpile
  
• Reduced how much impact each step has on changing grass to dirt over time

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Weekly Dev Log for May 23rd, 2022, detailing all the changes that have happened since May 16th, 2022. Note: Devs that don't appear in the weekly log are not necessarily away or not doing work, but may be working on things currently not announced or backend work that doesn't need to be detailed.

We've created a forum post asking the community for suggestions on how we can improve gameplay for players with certain conditions such as colorblindness, dyslexia, or anything else that might affect a players ability to use the standard presentation and controls of the game.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, and possible solutions on how to solve a particular issue, please check out the forum post here.

The objective for this contest is to make a bedroom!

You can create the room yourself or decorate one of the rooms in any of the purchasable Condos. It can be as ambitious or simple as you like (feel free to theme it however you want), as long as it follows the rules and is understandably a bedroom.

The deadline to submit entries is May 29th, 2022 at 11:59 PM CT.

Learn how to enter this contest here.

Work continues on the next phase of the Casino.

Johanna finished working on most of the art overhaul for the Casino.

macdguy continued working on Roulette, finishing the bulk of the remaining work. He also started working on Silver Saddles (Horse Betting) game, getting the horse simulation code finished as well as the gameplay logic and loop.

Sketchman worked on Roulette, hooking up the ball animations.









Lifeless finished working on the first blockout for Frostbite.

Wheezwer worked on some concepts for buildings for Frostbite.






Lifeless started working on a new map blockout for SDNL.

macdguy prototyped a version of a system for grouping items together in a Condo.

Madmijk continued working on the Condo instruments.

Will continued working on music for SDNL.

Wheezwer continued working on the Steam backgrounds.



That about covers everything that happened since May 16th, 2022 at PixelTail Games.

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