Comedy Night news & patch notes

Comedy Night just got a new update!

You can now hold up signs with custom messages, block guest players from rooms, and enjoy smoother performance across the game.

New features include:

🎤 Custom Signs Hold up signs with your own messages during a show. Messages can be up to 10 characters long and support emojis.

🚫 Block Guest Players Room hosts can now block guest players from joining their rooms.

⚡ Performance Improvements Enjoy a smoother, more stable Comedy Night experience.

Jump in, grab the mic, and make your next set even better.

• Removed Halloween theme
• Permanent Mute: Players you mute will remain muted even if they leave and re-join.
• Muted Players on Stage now visually show that they are muted
• Kicked players cannot re-join the room for 15 seconds, with re-kick time increases per instance for that room (e.g., 15, 30, 45 seconds).
• Increased size of room notifications.
• Added quick access buttons (Leaderboard, Profile, Invite) to the Quit Room menu.
• Fixed bug with "Down drinks" button spamming.

UPDATE 1.22.6 (9th October 2024)

NEW REGION

HALLOWEEN

IMPROVEMENTS

BUG FIXES

• Android cross-play support
• Performance improvements with generating avatar icons (in rooms and Avatar Editor)
• Bug fixes - text chat button being enabled/disabled incorrectly when joining a room

New Features

• New Main Menu where you can see your current Avatar
• New Disco room feature adds a disco ball to the room.
• Improved memory management reduces game load time by only loading the avatars content when needed.
• Higher quality textures for the Avatars
• Sending chat messages now supports clickable URL's as well, so for example if you talking about a YouTube video you can send that via chat and everyone can click it to open the video. Only certain URL's are supported to prevent bad links ie. YouTube, X, Twitch, Kick, TikTok, SoundCloud and a few others.
• Chat messages now display for 15 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
• For Face Masks you are no longer forced to upload an image that's exactly 500x500, it will auto resize the image to 500 x 500 for you.
• You can now leave a room without having to press ESC key on your keyboard.
• Your player badge in the bottom right corner now includes an icon to show it's clickable

Lobby

• You no longer have to choose a Region every time you enter the game, instead now it will remember what you last used. You can change it directly from the lobby.
• Added a "total players online" so you can see if there are players waiting in the lobby to join a room.
• You can now see which of your Steam friends are in a room without having to go into the room.
• The lobby will now auto-refresh without you having to click "refresh lobby" each time a change happens.
• For new players it will generate a room in the lobby with a random room name for you so you can easily start your own room.

Token Balance

• Added a new token balance widget to the top left of the room to always see your balance.
• It also shows you a countdown of how long to go until your next free token.
• Free tokens are now dropped every 45 min (instead of 60) with a maximum of 3 per day. (you need to be in a room for it to countdown)
• Tap to open Token store.

Room Info

• The room info panel has been simplified
• 4 quick buttons to set the room to Open/Private, Stage Timer, Crowd Chat on/off, and Announcer on/off.
• We also now automatically hide the Stage Line-Up when there are no players waiting to go up on stage.
• Add a menu icon when you are the Room Admin to make it easier for new players to know they can edit the settings by clicking the Room Info panel.
• The Room description now also support clickable links for certain websites (like YouTube, X, Twitch, Kick, TikTok, SoundCloud and a few others)

Player Profiles

• We've added new Player Profiles which you can view by left clicking on a player.
• You can follow players, this is to support friends across devices, so if you follow an iPhone player and they follow you back then you will be able to send them invites to rooms. Note! If you follow a Steam player and they follow you back but you are not friends on Steam then you will not be able to send them Steam invites to the room. (You have to be Steam friends as well in order to send Steam game invites. This is a Steam restriction)
• There is also an option to rate a player (bad, good, excellent)

Room Players

Leaderboards

• Redesigned Leaderboard screen
• Player steam profile images are now visible
• New Monthly Leaderboards (Overall Leaderboard still exists as well)

• If a player who is banned from a room tries to rejoin the players in the room will no longer see the Player Joined & Player Left messages.
• Face Mask UI updates
• Fixed an issue with Face Masks occasionally creating duplicate images
• Fixed an issue where your Avatar would sometimes change to someone else's in the room
• The Poster image on the main screen is now cached (so it doesn't download every time)
• Tweaked the AI Face Mask image screening to allow some content that was incorrectly getting flagged.

• Added a red popup that shows when you lose connection to Steam & will auto hide once Steam reconnects
• Improved messaging when you are disconnected from the internet, and you try join a server. Prevent endless connections etc.
• Fixed the placeholder poster showing at start

• The Language dropdown list will now default to the users selected game translation (so Brazil players will default to Portuguese) so you can visually see what language the room is in from the lobby.
• Added Kick to the Social network options
• Upgraded to Unity 2022.3
• Major server & client changes to players accounts to allow for Cross Play in the future
• Fixed a bunch of issues with the Steam game invites

• Removed holiday theme

• Added Christmas theme

• Removed Halloween theme
• Reduced install size & memory used
• Bug fixes

• - Added the new white & black premium Profile Pic Shirts
• - Fixed a bug where the Stage Timer would reset if you changed your flag whilst on stage
• - Updated the Splash Screen to the new microphone image

• Prevent Rich Text (color/font size) in Steam Names.

• Added a Barman - Willy McGregor
• Bar Items are now for sale with Game Tokens
• (receive a free game token every day, and one extra per hour of gameplay (max 3 a day))
• Beers now available from the Bar (on consuming unlock special action - Burb)
• Beans now available from the Bar (on consuming unlock special action - Fart)
• Leaderboards - Biggest Drinkers, Most Gifted, Top Tippers, and Top Players
• Earn points for eating, drinking, tipping, receiving gifts, and giving gifts.
• (available from both the Main Menu and the Player Badge)
• Tip Barman (show your generosity on the new Top Tipper Leaderboard)
• Beans and Beers can be gifted too other players
• Admin now has Quick access buttons below the performers Player Badge to Kick off Stage or Ban from Room (only visible when you move over the badge area)
• OTHER CHANGES
• Added Scottish Flag
• Added Welsh Flag
• Splash screen now maintains aspect ratio correctly
• Performance improvements to some avatar and avatar items
• Prevent issue where it would show the "connecting" menu forever when you had lost connection to Steam (now displays a message box that you failed to connect)
• Few minor tweaks and improvements

Game Update

Game Changelog

• Graphical visual effects overhaul (looks better and runs faster)
• Shiny Female Blue dress enhanced effect
• Shiny Red Blazor enhanced effect
• Improved visor glasses effect
• New options menu settings - MSAA now supported
• New options menu settings - New shadow quality improvements
• Glass effect for side panels (both left and right)
• New "Offensive" Room tag (lets players know what they can expect in that room)
• Simplified the room settings on the right of the screen only showing the important stuff
• Room settings on the right now shows what Room Type you are in (Music, Comedy etc.)
• F9 now turns on/off a FPS counter
• Options menu now automatically shows a FPS counter
• You can now click on the players in the Queue list to view their steam profile
• Hovering over the players in the queue will now highlight where they are in the room
• Hovering over the Admin panel in the top right corner will now highlight the Admin in the room
• Hovering over a players name in the Quick Menu on the left will now highlight the player in the room
• Right-clicking on a player will now highlight the player so you know exactly who you have selected
• New Right-Click player menu
• As a Room Admin it now instantly shows the players name when you hover over a player as well as highlights them so that you can easily identify a player if you need to kick/mute/ban them
• When you hover over a player it now also shows their Flag next to their name
• When someone is talking in the crowd for a few seconds all the players will now look at that player (except if the person on stage is talking then they will remain looking at them)
• Added the Trans Pride flag
• Added the Australian Aboriginal flag
• Added more font special characters (so fewer square symbols should show)
• Removed the Yellow from the Lobby warning system
• Bug Fix - Timer on Player Badge showed even when it was disabled
• Bug Fix - Timer did not show for the player on stage if changed whilst on stage
• AFK will now kick the player from the room (prevents the bug with 2 AFK players constantly swapping admin) and also frees up a seat.

• Added a Leave Room button to the Quick menu (so you can leave without using a keyboard)
• Added more racist filters to Room Names, Descriptions, and text chats.
• If the Room Admin is AFK for 15 minutes it will auto switch to a new Room Admin (it will prompt you first and you have 15 seconds to respond before it switches).
• If there is nobody in the room then it auto shuts down the room.
• If a Room Admin Mutes a player it Mutes that player for everyone in the room.
• If a Muted player tries to talk it now shows their chat bubble in Red with a Mute icon
• If a Muted player goes up on stage and then sits back down it now remembers that they were muted (previously they would become unmuted)
• Room admin can now enable/disable crowd voice chat from the quick menu when someone is on stage.
• Added new Free Player Banners  
• Added new premium glasses 
• Glasses & Instrument bundles now show in the Player Badge lists.
• Fixed a bug where if you are in a room and on stage and then join another room via invite or via Steam friends list you would show up in the new room on stage (even if someone was already on stage)

• Shows your Avatar, Flag, Alias, Social Networks, and Date Joined
• Custom Background with custom colors
• Custom Border with custom glow colors
• View performers Social Networks on their Banners (supports YouTube, Twitter, SoundCloud etc.)
• Easy access to voting players off via your Banner (A big X button appears when voting enabled). Shows remaining time progress bar below your Badge

• Complete re-design
• Added support to switch between single and dual-mic whilst in a room
• Added support to turn voting on for both single and dual-mics
• Added support to switch room type from within a room

• Complete re-design
• You can now see all rooms (previously was restricted to just a few)
• You can now see all room types on one screen (previously you had to go into each room type to see if a room was available)
• You can now set up a room without starting it first
• Shows you your last created/edited room in the list for quick access to create it again
• Now shows who the Room Admin or a room is from the lobby.
• Added 2 new Lobby Types ( Other makes a return and a new type called Just Chatting

• Text Chat (nice way to chat even when a performer is on stage and muted the crowd's voice chat)
• Improved UI in-game

• Christmas theme with a new song
• 2 new free heads (male & female mouth masks)
• 3 new premium heads (bag head, plague mask, and gas mask)
• Made it a lot more difficult to enter racist room name and descriptions
• Made it easier to see what is positive emotes vs negative emotes (now color-coded)
• Completely updated networking backend (should be faster)
• Completely updated Microphone support (should work now for all microphones)
• F11 now switches between window and fullscreen
• Improved translation support
• Becoming an admin of a room you are in no longer overwrites your Quick Access Room Name and Description (unless of course, you rename that room, then that by default become your last created room)
• Bloom visual effect should now work on all devices

• Fixed the game crashing on Mac
• New Options Screen
• Added ability to switch between Resolutions from within the game
• Added ability to switch between window and fullscreen from within the game
• Added new bloom effect
• Fixed the Anti-Aliasing not working previously (thanks @MrEWhite for notifying me)
• Fixed Film Grain not working
• New improved Ambient Occlusion
• Improved the Microphone dropdown list, now auto-refreshes when a mic is added
• Tweaked the size and brightness of the chat bubbles

• Country Flags added to Quick List (allows you to see where a player is from)
• Added Country option to Options Menu
• Performance improvements
• Overall UI Tweaks