Tom Devaney
FarSight Employee
- Dec 13, 2017
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So... It seems weird to do this post as the patch I put out had some bugs that I still need to address. But it seems I accidentally deployed this patch instead of 1.19. I went home yesterday and checked out the update history, and it listed it as 1.20 and with Pistol Poker, so I realized my mistake right away. 1.20 I was getting ready for a release along with Pistol Poker in a few weeks, and I forgot it was already approved and everything, so when I seen the most recent patch available to publish, I published it. So that's why people are able to play Pistol Poker. If there are any bugs with it, it's because we were unaware of it, not because it is unfinished. If anyone can solidly reproduce any of these, tell me, and I'll look into it. Sorry for the confusion. Luckily, this little mistake I did doesn't harm anything.
So I'm going to post the changelog and go into it here, but know that today I'll be spending it looking into the all the big bugs: trial mode, tokens, and highscores.
Patch 1.20
Table Added:
-Pistol Poker
Features Added:
-Added friends leaderboard
-Added "You beat friend" HUD
-Added new goal completion HUD
-Added goal completion sound
-Triggers skip through owned tables faster
-Separated PS4 tournament from PS3/Vita tournament
-Changed tournament all time rank logo
-Changed tournament logo
Bugs Fixed:
-Fixed bug where if player wasn't signed in when they launched the game that even if they signed in later they couldn't access online features
-Fixed bad frame in goal completion animation
-Fixed high scores menu where you go from newest table to first table, and you skip over Gorgar
-Fixed horizontal line showing up in middle of playfield for Addams Family, Cactus Canyon, Dracula, Earthshaker, High Roller Casino, Lights Camera Action, Phantom of the Opera, and Starship Troopers
-Fixed bug where going into table exploration prevents fly by camera
-Scrolling through leaderboards now works better
-Fixed custom ball 8 ball texture being stretched
-Fixed stretchy, low-res Pinball Arcade logos on menus
-Fixed X button showing up in upper left corner of menus on load
-Upper left bumper in Dracula now stays lit
So this is a pretty decent update feature wise. QA mentioned how they thought a friends leaderboard was in the PS4 version, but it wasn't. So I added that to the game. But I thought it'd also be cool that if you beat your friend's score while you were playing the table, a little HUD pop up would happen. I had seen how the new GUI had something cool when a goal was completed, so I took this and adapted it for PS4. Now the goal completes happen on here, and if you beat your friend's score, it shows their name and the score you beat.
Now in regards to any bugs in regards to the friends leaderboards, I need more details because I didn't expect any issues at all with the friends leaderboards. I tested it on my dev account, and it worked fine. Then QA tested it on another account, and it worked there. Anyone completely positive that they have friends who play Pinball Arcade, have played that table, and they don't show up?
Quick side note about scrolling through leaderboards: I didn't like how it took forever to go through them. So I tried to make it faster last update, but it was a bit off/buggy. The way it is now is much better though. You hold the left or right button to scroll and once you let go that leaderboard has to load. You cannot interrupt that. Once it's done, you can start the holding process again. This was just a usability thing that bugged me whenever I was looking through the leaderboards. This along with the triggers skipping through tables are two things usability wise that hopefully help people get through menus faster.
Another big thing this update does is separate PS3 and Vita from PS4 in the tournaments. The way I did this was completely copy the old PSN leaderboards, and then made that the start of the PS4 one. So if you are on PS3/Vita and want to switch to PS4, you will have left off where you were. And vice versa if you still want to play tournaments on PS3 and Vita. Or if you want to play both. The benefit of this switch allows us to do season 7 tables in the PS4 tournament now.
Sorry there are bugs, I always feel like I'm putting out a completely solid patch, but something always slips through the cracks. So to help me fix these bugs, alert them to me here. Try not to post them in 1.19 if you think it's a bug caused by this specific patch.
So I'm going to post the changelog and go into it here, but know that today I'll be spending it looking into the all the big bugs: trial mode, tokens, and highscores.
Patch 1.20
Table Added:
-Pistol Poker
Features Added:
-Added friends leaderboard
-Added "You beat friend" HUD
-Added new goal completion HUD
-Added goal completion sound
-Triggers skip through owned tables faster
-Separated PS4 tournament from PS3/Vita tournament
-Changed tournament all time rank logo
-Changed tournament logo
Bugs Fixed:
-Fixed bug where if player wasn't signed in when they launched the game that even if they signed in later they couldn't access online features
-Fixed bad frame in goal completion animation
-Fixed high scores menu where you go from newest table to first table, and you skip over Gorgar
-Fixed horizontal line showing up in middle of playfield for Addams Family, Cactus Canyon, Dracula, Earthshaker, High Roller Casino, Lights Camera Action, Phantom of the Opera, and Starship Troopers
-Fixed bug where going into table exploration prevents fly by camera
-Scrolling through leaderboards now works better
-Fixed custom ball 8 ball texture being stretched
-Fixed stretchy, low-res Pinball Arcade logos on menus
-Fixed X button showing up in upper left corner of menus on load
-Upper left bumper in Dracula now stays lit
So this is a pretty decent update feature wise. QA mentioned how they thought a friends leaderboard was in the PS4 version, but it wasn't. So I added that to the game. But I thought it'd also be cool that if you beat your friend's score while you were playing the table, a little HUD pop up would happen. I had seen how the new GUI had something cool when a goal was completed, so I took this and adapted it for PS4. Now the goal completes happen on here, and if you beat your friend's score, it shows their name and the score you beat.
Now in regards to any bugs in regards to the friends leaderboards, I need more details because I didn't expect any issues at all with the friends leaderboards. I tested it on my dev account, and it worked fine. Then QA tested it on another account, and it worked there. Anyone completely positive that they have friends who play Pinball Arcade, have played that table, and they don't show up?
Quick side note about scrolling through leaderboards: I didn't like how it took forever to go through them. So I tried to make it faster last update, but it was a bit off/buggy. The way it is now is much better though. You hold the left or right button to scroll and once you let go that leaderboard has to load. You cannot interrupt that. Once it's done, you can start the holding process again. This was just a usability thing that bugged me whenever I was looking through the leaderboards. This along with the triggers skipping through tables are two things usability wise that hopefully help people get through menus faster.
Another big thing this update does is separate PS3 and Vita from PS4 in the tournaments. The way I did this was completely copy the old PSN leaderboards, and then made that the start of the PS4 one. So if you are on PS3/Vita and want to switch to PS4, you will have left off where you were. And vice versa if you still want to play tournaments on PS3 and Vita. Or if you want to play both. The benefit of this switch allows us to do season 7 tables in the PS4 tournament now.
Sorry there are bugs, I always feel like I'm putting out a completely solid patch, but something always slips through the cracks. So to help me fix these bugs, alert them to me here. Try not to post them in 1.19 if you think it's a bug caused by this specific patch.