VR Skater news & patch notes

Important notice

Content

New Map: Industrial

Academy

Settings & Options

• Playlist options (There will be more songs soon! Promised!)
• Audio sliders
• New layout of the settings menu

Game Modes

Sudden Death

• A mode for the pros who are looking for the ultimate challenge.

Optimization and Polish

Changes in lighting

• For the graphics quality "high" and better there are changes in the lighting system. It's slightly more GPU heavy. But overall it's the better solution.

Skating

• Many optimizations
• More fluid transitions into grinding and sliding
• Improved steering
• Improved pushing

UI

• New and fresh design
• Beautiful map previews

Spectator Cam

• Better performance

Enjoy!

VR Skater 0.2.2

Features

• HP Reverb G2 support
• Oculus Quest 2 controller models
• New spectator cam options for social media: Portrait 4:3 & 9:16

Optimizations

• More fluid snapping in grinds and slides
• Less visual geometry overlaps
• Better collision behavior at edges and slower speed.

Bugfixes

• Late nollie tricks are now correctly recognized and named
• 1260 shuvits and septuple flips are now correctly recognized and named
• Many smaller fixes ...

Changes

• The Slide/Grind transfer bonus is no longer part of the game. Trust us - it was not well balanced (and buggy)

Additional

• It is now possible to play the game with first generation WMR. However, this is not official, as we cannot guarantee smooth gameplay with the limited tracking volume and unresponsive buttons.

• Hopefully this fixes all problems with unintentional jumping back with the VIVE Wands Controllers. Sorry for the inconvenience.

• Fixes music bug in the academy challenges
• Fixes missing wall collisions in the academy practice mode
• Adds leaderboard to the finishing screen after a finished run

• Fixes many collision bugs
• Fixes double bail bug in the Construction map
• Adds missing headlines on the finishing screen
• VIVE Wands only: Changes JumpBack back to REAR CONTROLLER MENU BUTTON
• Adds a MuteMenuMusic button
• Fixes some issues with experimental physical ollie
• Fixes academy challenges loading bug

Important notice

• Due to changes regarding the scoring system, the high scores will be reset. Sorry for the inconvenience. This will be necessary in future updates to further improve the game, too.
• VIVE WANDS: "Jump back" is no longer mapped to the Front Menu Button! Changed to HOLD GRIP + PRESS TOUCHPAD DOWN.

Maps

Neighborhood

Construction

Features

Tricks

Bluntslides, Lipslides, FS/BS

• All grinds and slides are now differentiated by frontside and backside.
• Bluntslides and lipslides are now detected.
• Bluntslides on ledges are now possible

Late Tricks and Air Combos

• Late tricks are possible now. (But these are hard as hell)
• Through the late tricks you can now make combos in the air. Unfortunately, there is no tutorial for the late tricks yet. We will post a tutorial in the community hub.

Modes and Options

• Option for custom spawn points in the practice mode available in the pause menu (beta).

Leaderboards

Customization

• A small selection of skateboard designs. It's just a glimpse.
• There is a possibility to use your own board and griptape texture. More about this will be available soon in the Community Hub. (Early Access only! - This will be an unlockable feature in the full version)

Fixes

Optimization

• New optimized and balanced scoring system
• Better spawn points
• Better spawning after failed combos
• Tricks will now only be devalued if your trick/combo was successful.
• No health regeneration anymore
• Always one last bail when health is 0
• ...

Level Changes

• Changed the layout of the Academy Warehouse.

Modes

• New Free Practice Mode for the Academy Warehouse. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40301517/a56051ef89b721744b372b9f9025aa93a7d7ccf6.gif

Bugfixes

• Fixes some slide and grind glitches.
• Fixes missing wall collisions when doing tricks with Shuvits.

Optimizations

• More stable Grind and Slide mechanics.

Features

• Challenges in the Academy will now automatically restart when failed. You don’t have to use the “retry” button anymore.
• Finishing a tutorial in the Academy will allow you to continue doing tricks. The next section or tutorial set will start when using the “next” button. This allows to continue practicing the trick, without having to use the “retry” button anymore.
• In the Academy Tutorials and the Academy Free Practice Mode you can now reset your position based on selected checkpoints via rear thumbstick down.
• Timeline for the current playback position of the tutorial videos.
• Some additional tutorial tips and highlighted notes under the tutorial videos.
• Save files can now be deleted via settings menu.

• Fixed some collision bugs in the Middle School level
• Added new obstacles into Middle School level
• Optimization of level architecture in Middle School level.

• Fixed a bug which prevented players using Virtual Desktop to correctly detect motion controller models used.
• Fixed a bug keeping players in a loop for dialog option selection between “Exit to Menu/Retry/Next Tutorial”, which occurred when bailing after having failed in a tutorial challenge.
• Fixed a bug which would cause showing the wrong tutorial when changing foot stance in the intro tutorial.
• Fixed a bug where parts of the steering tutorial could be skipped when having to repeat that section.
• Fixed a bug preventing players from being able to finish the turn in place tutorial when having switched foot stance via pause menu during stance confirmation dialogue.
• Fixed Steam validation when using virtual desktop
• Fixed broken Oculus Touch Controller identification using virtual desktop
• Various fixes in the user interface and video player for tutorials.

• Improved pushing to be slightly more responsive.
• Increased range tolerance for standing on the board.
• More stable 50-50 grind.
• Better and fairer scoring system.

• HUD can be toggled on and off via pause menu now.