• Fixed a bug where water wells and the wash basin didn’t refill watering cans.
  
• Fixed a bug where electrical doors didn’t rotate to match the surrounding walls.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player might be ejected from a vehicle if they tried to enter right after placing it.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by having too many objects on screen simultaneously.
  
• Fixed an issue where the game would start even if crucial initialization steps failed, causing unpredictable behaviour and crashes.
  
• Fixed graphical effects that were missing for some attack animations.

Please continue to feedback to help us to refine and improve. Here are the patch notes for Release v.029:

Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of changes/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. If you have any suggestions/bugs that you stumble upon, please let us know in the Steam forum.

INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES:
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Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.

SPECIAL NOTE:
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***Just a quick heads up to let you know that we have just become aware that there are server issues with the Online Leaderboard Legends Ghost Mode currently. Players will notice a large lag when attempting to upload at the end of a round, it eventually loads but it is a nuisance bug. There is also currently an issue with the player start position - essentially you start behind the geometry. A restart will fix it, but we're working on a fix over the weekend. So we'll update the build again early next week. Apologies for any inconvenience.***

UI:
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🌊 EXIT WAVE INFORMATION: Added exit the wave information to the wave moves area within the Options & tips screens, along with relevant Controller buttons
- FIXED: Japanese - Tutorials - Grabs. Debug text appear instead of controller icons
- FIXED: World Surf Tour, after the user viewed Instant Replay returning to the pause menu and selecting Options, the Credits was active again
- FIXED: Japanese > Character > Wetsuits > 2 Pieces > No Sleeved Wetsuit Top description sometimes will display in English with no description
- FIXED: Japanese > Character > Service > Sponsor, displayed debug text for controller images
- FIXED: Japanese > Options > "Vibration" text needed to be updated to Sony hardware standard term
- ADDED: Added more tips text plus localization
- FIXED: French > World Surf Tour > Aileens > leaderboard and backs out the description on the left panel contained debug text
- FIXED: Portuguese > World Surf Tour > Round 2 featured a piece of debug text
- FIXED: Japanese - World Surf Tour > Surf Management, highlighting the surfboard had the tooltips display "Trocar equipamento" (Portuguese) incorrectly
- FIXED: Japanese Language - debug text displayed <spriteindex=1>, button image missing.


AUDIO:
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- FIXED: Trestles: the opening Round 1 audio commentary (Barton & Kaipo) was cut short
- FIXED: Tutorial > PWC Lesson: stop voice repeating after 4th slide
- FIXED: FREE SURF - Wind Type Tips via text and Audio help.
- ADDED: 3 new tracks
- FIXED: JAWS: Audio for A.I. at the end of round cutscene (Round 1) was cut short.
- FIXED: PIPELINE: Audio for A.I. seems to be playing each time the A.I. enters air state
- FIXED: Spanish/Japanese/Brazilian PWC riders: voice audio volume increased


CONTROL INPUT DETECTION:
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- FIXED: 🌊 CONTROL INPUT: Possible input conflict bug. Removed code causing possible input conflict


GRAPHICS:
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- FIXED: Tokyo – wind direction image for Tokyo during the opening cutscene
- FIXED: Annesley surfboards problem with it’s texture when the user selects a D-pad. The board was coloured black
- ADDED: fireworks to Tokyo cutscene
- ADDED: Updated pump movie for the Tutorial pump lesson

GAMEPLAY:
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- ADDED: PWC: Code to ensure that the A.I.’s PWC’s park at the buoys (at all levels) consistently after dropping off the player
- FIXED: Move all A.I. to closer to the players start positon at the beginning of a heat
- FIXED: Fix A.I scoring in Shack Attack at Pipeline
- FIXED: Occasionally as the user gets deeper into the game, the A.I. would stop scoring. Fixed logic
- FIXED: User spamming 'A' button on XSX / 'X' button on PS5 for the coin toss would break the cutscene
- FIXED: Fix the A.I. fast paddle
- FIXED: Improving the A.I. positioning at the takeoff points
- FIXED: Improving the A.I. take offs facing forward (down the wave)
- ADDED: More aggression to the A.I. when they don’t have priority
🌊 FIXED: Improve scoring in the barrel: tube points to be tweaked to lower the tallies across the board for tube combos
- FIXED: Single Session edge case: User got on PWC and got hit by wave at same time causing the respawn of user being stuck on the spot
- ADDED: Code to lock Challenge Mode access until minimum tasks are achieved

ANIMATION:
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- FIXED: TOW-IN: The very first time the animation plays (just when the player releases to ride the wave) there is a large jump/ pop in the animation frame
- FIXED: TOW-IN: When the user swaps from natural to goofy (or vice versa) in the character creator and the model is loaded into the level the leg IK broke
- FIXED: Nuclear Grab animation on the frontside didn't trigger consistently (R2 on the PS5 controller)
- FIXED: Animation delay issue with landing from height

LOADING:
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- FIXED: IN GAME LEADERBOARD LAG: fixed the lag coming back out of the Leaderboard menu


LEADERBOARD:
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- FIXED: Global Leaderboards > World Tour > Manly. Removed Manly from the World Tour table
- FIXED: GHOST SYSTEM: Optimize Data upload / download as we will be now uploading and downloading larger chunks of data
- FIXED: GHOST SYSTEM: Automatic cleanup of files on the server side and removal of test data
- FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Identify and fix crash
- FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Fix non intrusive pop not clearing
- FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Fix upload failing if the user moves away from the scene
- FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Upload speed optimize
- ADDED: New server
- FIXED: A bug where player could exit the scene by summoning the pwc at the absolute edge of the boundary in Leaderboard Legends
- FIXED: Uploading the score display overlap of text once the upload reached 100%
- FIXED: Leaderboard Legends issue displaying incorrect surfer image
- FIXED: Global Leaderboard table: localized time of score column


CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
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- Animation & physics rotation issues with mainly top and lip moves post tow-in release (PC)
- Language localisation & UI cleanup (ongoing)
🌊 Research adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in freesurfing (longer term)
🌊 Research extending the heat time (longer term)
🌊 Research adding A.I. to Freesurf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term)
- General QA bug list

That's all for today.

The Bungarra team.

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No updates this week.

I'm currently making Skirmish and Multiplayer features at the same time. (UI may continue to change)


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Hello VPet Simulator creators and players!
We will be participating in the 2023 Steam China Connoisseur Conference on Friday night, September 22nd.
We'll be streaming the VPet Simulator artwork of siblings on Steam 24h, so don't worry about missing it!
(If you don't know what steam China is, don't worry about it, just know that we have live events!)

Steam's live stream address: above this announcement

At the same time, we are now collecting a number of excellent VPet artwork of siblings (videos, paintings, etc.) to participate in the Steam China Connoisseur's Conference live streaming event, which will be looped on Steam.
We have already contacted some of the creators, but there are still a lot of excellent works that we do not know, and we hope that the majority of excellent producers can recommend their own excellent works to the official. With through the official review can ‍‍ get a small gift: VPet emoticons pack original picture quality + limited emoticons packs
Emoticons:
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Contact information for submission of siblings' artwork at service@exlb.net

The work must be completely original, no horror, gore, violence or sexually explicit content, and have a high degree of originality.
We will not change the watermark and other destructive behavior of the work, only for live activities. Thank you for supporting VPet Simulator!

Event Date September 22, 2023 - September 28, 2023

Hello, Frontiers

DUBIUM started its Early Access on June 14th, 2023. We thank everyone who has supported us through Early Access, as well as those who have been supporting us since the closed beta test.

Throughout the Early Access, we were successful in receiving various feedback (both positive and negative) from all of our users for the past couple of months. Such feedback, ideas, and community engagements aim to improve DUBIUM for those who love to play.



As the title suggests, we are planning to transition DUBIUM to a Free-to-Play Game.

The reason for our decision to go free to play is that DUBIUM is an online multiplayer game that thrives when a certain number of users are enjoying the game simultaneously. However, despite our continual efforts after the launch of Early Access for DUBIUM, we have faced difficulties attracting new users.

We (MUMO STUDIO) believe that one of the main reasons is that DUBIUM requires a purchase to play. If more users can install and play the game at no cost, it could improve the player base, addressing the current gameplay limitations experienced by existing users. By doing so, we believe that we will be able to deliver an enhanced gameplay experience and fulfill our intended vision for DUBIUM.

DUBIUM will plan the transition to free-to-play approximately 30 days after this announcement, and we will share more information about the exact time and date when DUBIUM will transition to free-to-play.

Users who have already purchased and played DUBIUM will receive an amount of in-game currency equivalent to the game purchase price. Furthermore, all existing account progression and cosmetics will remain intact when DUBIUM transitions to free-to-play.

The DUBIUM Dev team has always been committed to open communication with our community members. We would like to continue listening to our community and work together with everyone to improve DUBIUM.

As we move forward, we would like to applaud our Early Access users for being the heart of our community, and we continue to ask for your support. Moreover, be sure to stay tuned for more announcements about DUBIUM. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to share them in the comments below or on Discord.

Thank you,
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