Snow is falling on the Playground and the giving season has delivered a new holiday challenge!

Detailed Patch Notes

• A new holiday Trial and Collectible Gifts can be found in Playground
• Players will receive a holiday hat for completing any course during the holidays
• Add a new holiday comic: A Visit from Hazard – replaces A Sue Nami Christmas
• Add continue support to All Courses Marathon
• Improved “step up” logic, the player should now smoothly walk up small steps
• Increased leniency allowed before committing to a side while boosting
• Collision cleanup in Gym Class courses
• Fixed issue with player collider that would cause shoulders to get caught on certain objects
• Add green outline to Buddy when he starts getting lonely near lava
• Improved visualization of on screen input
• Added a chat command for playing back external replays
/replay name_of_replay_file
• Added bounty maps to the main level select menu
• Snowballs added to Playground
• Updated grouping system to be easier to use in game
• Friends list in the main menu now controls group system
• In game player menu now controls group system
• Reworked some UI elements to make group feature more evident
• Fix issue causing Buddy to think he was in lava when standing on sidewalks in Playground
• Fix screen flashes white while dying when ScreenFlashes are disabled
• Fix hitting Enter on Character Select takes you to main menu screen but shows UI elements from character customize screen
• Fix objects not making sound when falling into acid pools
• Fix slight delay before acid, lava and some collision sounds
• Fix to acid, lava and ball-pit death sounds so they don’t spam as much
• Fix icon for pursuit target failed to fade out when on-screen
• Fix memory leak when entering settings menu repeatedly
• Fix occasional missing idle animation toys
• Fix square shadows on lava bubbles
• Fix Arabic multiline text displayed bottom to top instead of top to bottom
• Fix inconsistent G.A.T. team member names in Russian
• Fix no languages when re-entering language screen
• Fix trampoline infinite bounce bug when players die next to them
• Fix bug where the game would be in a bad state after changing quality settings during a tiny toy trial
• Fix the wrong Buddy appearing in Basement

Hotfix 384847

• Fixed bug where players could die when crouching on moving platforms
• Fixed bug with snowball audio

Modkit 384169

• Add a "Check for Errors" button to look for common modkit errors – bad components/meshes/etc that will break your map in Steam builds
• Add a "Check For Bounty Errors" menu item to look for untranslatable text, baked lighting, and bounty map blocking issues
• Add 'Make Pursuit' button to GameModeContainer for creating pursuit courses like Chase the Grade
• ‘Make Pursuit’ instructions added to readme (modkit_everything_explained.pdf)
• Add BezierPathAnimator for moving objects along a spline
• Add pursuit and BezierPathAnimator examples to modkit_demo
• Add descriptions to each course in modkit_demo to explain what it's demonstrating
• Add editing and troubleshooting info to BezierSplines (for LevelIntro, Pursuit, BezierPathAnimator)
• Fix “Add Curve” on BezierSpline ignored current curve direction and always pointed in the same world direction (click Add Curve, adjusting curve, and repeat is now a good workflow)
• Fix some songs don’t work in modkit maps and remove broken ones
• Use Molten as default music track in new maps instead of none
• Improve near shadow quality using ShadowDrawDistanceOverride and auto-adjust to quality level
• Fix long mod descriptions are truncated when doing Modify Mod
• Fix Handhold and CollectibleForLevel is a confusing giant list of attributes.
• Fix incorrect FindInvalidMeshesInScene errors on course portals
• Fix JumpToBug not opening the scene panel
• Fix visibility changes fail to save after pressing Validate Show/Hide button
• Fix gamemode id mismatch if you rename the scene without inspecting a gamemode
• Completely destroy any "Main Camera" object found in modmaps
• Add log messages to explain when GameModeIdSuffix is invalid
• Don't allow GameModeIdSuffix when using ModeOverride without modifier or config
• Clarify some tooltips
• Prompt users using baked lighting to do a bake before export
• Automatically turn off Baked Global Illumination and Realtime Global Illumination when adding a HotLavaGameContainer for better defaults
• Fix lighting setup in modkit_demo to use realtime lights
• Setup template_land to use mixed lights to be an example of lighting an outdoor scene
• Rebake lighting on indoor_example to be a better example of a realistic indoor scene
• Move indoor_example scene to School art pack to shrink Generic by 40%
• Rope swing instructions added to readme (modkit_everything_explained.pdf)
• Better instructions for Grabbables added to readme (modkit_everything_explained.pdf)