Kodu patch 1 is in playtest - Updated (Wednesday 23rd)

[Coolermatt]

Wow, I can't wait for this patch. I was only expecting more pages and faster speed, but everything else is just great

[randomWave]

We're considering a few more:
- move sensitivity (how fast you get from the speed you're at to your max speed)
- turn sensitivity (same for turning)

I'm playing with them and they really let you make very precise movement.

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The other big one is the bug where levels disappear, which I believe but have not yet proven is the same one that lets a world get into a state where it crashes when you load it. Sadly this bug is not in our code so it's a complex investigation to figure out how we can work around it. We're not going to release this patch until we have that worked out, but I'm hoping the fix is within a day or so.

[Markzilla]

We're not going to release this patch until we have that worked out

These emotes are not enough to express my disappointment.

I want this update so bad.

[kazraz]

I knew the patch would be good, but this is almost unbelievable. I never expected half of this to be given in the first patch. I don't think I've ever seen a first patch this good.

[ReGGeh]

wow an impressive list of updates/fixes, comon MS give this crew some epic funding!


Reg

[tavishhill2003]

Something else that would be great at some point that seems like it'd be pretty easy to implement would be additional skyboxes. Maybe some with a few different types of mountains, a sun setting, some with stars, some with forests, etc. Or even the ability to have a lower level horizon skybox (background) alongside different types of skies. As it is right now, you have to add a lot of land and raise the edges to kinda try to isolate the game world you've created and keep it from looking like a floating island in a colored abyss.

Also, is there ANY possibility that at some point in the future you guys can increase the amount of assets we can have in our maps (i.e. increase the thermometer limit)?

[faster90]

Thanks for the update Matt,

I hope you get that world disappearing bug fix soon.

[El Bishi]

Updated with notes from today's build.

[PoHa]

Updated with notes from today's build.

Even more awesomesauce to gorge ourselves on once the best patch ever honors our Xbox's with its glorious presence. All hail the Kodu Devs!

[HaloX]

Awesome! Although I'm kinda sad about the:

"Fix: Don’t play the speech audio effect if the say bubble string is empty."

I had a pretty neat thing going where if a bot was about to be destroyed, he would do keep making that speech sound (like he was malfunctioning) until he exploded. Easy enough to do it another way, though.

HaloX