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VRWare (World)

2024-01-07 - Fonts Update​

New community translations​

  • Added Russian localization by Belka
  • Added Toki Pona localization by fuopy
  • Add new font to support community-created Russian localization.
  • Add new font to support community-created Toki Pona localization.

Other​

  • "Most Players" minigame should no longer internally crash when a player leaves the instance while the minigame is running.

2023-08-14 - Sync update​

Manual sync with no remediations​

VRWare has been updated with a significant change in the way minigames are synced:

  • VRWare was initially designed in November 2020, when Continuous sync was the only available sync method, minigames would sync 2 minigames in advance in order to compensate for problems in sync speed that occured during playtests.
  • In the November 2021 version of VRWare, the game uses Manual sync but it still uses the underlying logic behind Continuous sync, because Manual sync used to stutter every time a new player joins the instance.
  • In 2022 and 2023, VRChat's Manual sync appears to have significantly improved. However, the method used in VRWare still had occasional desyncs due to the complexity I had initially introduced by designing my way around Continuous sync.
  • I have decided to try a different sync method by scheduling the next minigame as soon as the current minigame starts. This dangerously reduces the sync time window to 1 second, and also requires all clients to start the next minigame before the instance master sends the new information about the next minigame in order to avoid a desync, so it was a risky change.
  • After testing that new sync system yesterday in an instance with 70 players, the system looked quite robust, so I've decided to push this change live.

Other​

  • Particle success/failure effects will no longer play under spectators.
  • Fix an issue where the URL field would be focused by default for desktop players, causing minigames that involve clicking to fail.
  • Fix the "Everyone, exactly" minigame where the player would fail despite having succeeded their task.

2023-08-14 - Playtesting Update​

Added a new minigame variant to "Everyone, exactly".

The players must press the trigger of a gun multiple times to shoot a box. The total number of hits is counted. Any player shooting the box any time after the counter hits 0 will fail the minigame.

Updated localization keys​

A new localization key has been added:

  • GwTeamHitBullseye2023_PistolExactly

    • Everyone, hit exactly 0 times!

2023-08-09 - VRWare 2023​

The VRWare worlds have been updated​

  • The VRWare Quest world is now Cross-platform instead of being Quest-only. The name remains VRWare Quest.
  • VRWare Quest now has a soft cap of 28 players instead of 12 players, therefore supporting 56 players.
  • VRWare remains PC-only, and now has a soft cap of 40 players instead of 28 players, therefore supporting 80 players.
  • Avatar scaling is now allowed, but some minigames may be physically impossible to complete.

Introducing Hard mode​

  • It runs to 51 points instead of 31 points.
  • Minigames start faster, and increases to a faster point.
  • The timing of some minigames are tighter.
  • Some minigames have been modified with harder win conditions.
  • Hard mode is meant to be played in a group of people who agree to it. It is enabled if more than 51% of players vote for hard mode, so the instance master does not get to decide on their own. VRWare seems to be used as a gamemode to introduce new players to VRChat, so the timings in Normal mode remains accessible to new VRChat players.

Introducing Spectator area​

  • Anyone walking up the stairs of the world will be considered a spectator.
  • Spectators can jump back into the game by walking down the stairs at any point, except during games involving locomotion.
  • Spectator can still play minigames as long as the minigame does not require locomotion.
  • Spectators will not be accounted for in difficulty scaling (i.e. delay before platforms fall in "Don't fall", or the number of times to hit in "Everyone, hit").
  • Although unlikely, Spectators retain the ability to win a round.

Introducing StringLoader translations​

  • Translations can now be loaded from URLs
  • Translators from the community can look up this document: https://github.com/hai-vr/vrw-t
  • Added Traditional Chinese localization by XoF_eLtTiL
  • Added Simplified Chinese localization by XoF_eLtTiL
  • Added Polish localization by VRowe Futra

Appearance​

  • The game area has been partially remodeled.
  • World is now fogged, with color matching the sky.

In terms of cleanup​

  • Internally, the original VRWare project has been updated to VCC.
  • Fix a potential issue introduced by recent VRChat updates where the avatar bone lengths can change way more frequently than the game expects.
  • Some old unused minigames made during early development have been removed from the scene.
  • Attempting to fix an issue with the synced random number generation that previously caused minigames to play the exact same way.
  • Attempting to solve raycast issues with some of the minigames where firing weapons would not hit targets.
  • Portal to VRWare has been made private, and the private world VRWare Cross-Platform has been renamed to VRWare Classic 2021.