Early Access Release v.029

Please continue to feedback to help us to refine and improve. Here are the patch notes for Release v.029:

Any change with a ‘🌊’ icon in front of changes/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players & QA. If you have any suggestions/bugs that you stumble upon, please let us know in the Steam forum.

INFORMATION ABOUT SAVE FILES: _____________________________

Please note, if you have any current or old saved data stored then the ongoing build updates will not necessarily translate accurately to your save files. It's a little hit and miss - some features will apply to an older save and some will not. In most circumstances, in order for the changes to take effect it may be better to begin a new game and /or save file to ensure that the latest fixes are applied accurately. Apologies for this.

SPECIAL NOTE: ___________

***Just a quick heads up to let you know that we have just become aware that there are server issues with the Online Leaderboard Legends Ghost Mode currently. Players will notice a large lag when attempting to upload at the end of a round, it eventually loads but it is a nuisance bug. There is also currently an issue with the player start position - essentially you start behind the geometry. A restart will fix it, but we're working on a fix over the weekend. So we'll update the build again early next week. Apologies for any inconvenience.***

UI: ___

🌊 EXIT WAVE INFORMATION: Added exit the wave information to the wave moves area within the Options & tips screens, along with relevant Controller buttons - FIXED: Japanese - Tutorials - Grabs. Debug text appear instead of controller icons - FIXED: World Surf Tour, after the user viewed Instant Replay returning to the pause menu and selecting Options, the Credits was active again - FIXED: Japanese > Character > Wetsuits > 2 Pieces > No Sleeved Wetsuit Top description sometimes will display in English with no description - FIXED: Japanese > Character > Service > Sponsor, displayed debug text for controller images - FIXED: Japanese > Options > "Vibration" text needed to be updated to Sony hardware standard term - ADDED: Added more tips text plus localization - FIXED: French > World Surf Tour > Aileens > leaderboard and backs out the description on the left panel contained debug text - FIXED: Portuguese > World Surf Tour > Round 2 featured a piece of debug text - FIXED: Japanese - World Surf Tour > Surf Management, highlighting the surfboard had the tooltips display "Trocar equipamento" (Portuguese) incorrectly - FIXED: Japanese Language - debug text displayed , button image missing.

AUDIO: ______

• AdjustedFIXEDTrestles: the opening Round 1 audio commentary (Barton & Kaipo) was cut short - FIXED: Tutorial > PWC Lesson: stop voice repeating after 4th slide - FIXED: FREE SURF - Wind Type Tips via text and Audio help. - ADDED: 3 new tracks - FIXED: JAWS: Audio for A.I. at the end of round cutscene (Round 1) was cut short. - FIXED: PIPELINE: Audio for A.I. seems to be playing each time the A.I. enters air state - FIXED: Spanish/Japanese/Brazilian PWC riders: voice audio volume increased

CONTROL INPUT DETECTION: ________________________

• RemovedFIXED🌊 CONTROL INPUT: Possible input conflict bug. Removed code causing possible input conflict

GRAPHICS: _________

• AdjustedFIXEDTokyo – wind direction image for Tokyo during the opening cutscene - FIXED: Annesley surfboards problem with it’s texture when the user selects a D-pad. The board was coloured black - ADDED: fireworks to Tokyo cutscene - ADDED: Updated pump movie for the Tutorial pump lesson

GAMEPLAY: _________

• AdjustedADDEDPWC: Code to ensure that the A.I.’s PWC’s park at the buoys (at all levels) consistently after dropping off the player - FIXED: Move all A.I. to closer to the players start positon at the beginning of a heat - FIXED: Fix A.I scoring in Shack Attack at Pipeline - FIXED: Occasionally as the user gets deeper into the game, the A.I. would stop scoring. Fixed logic - FIXED: User spamming 'A' button on XSX / 'X' button on PS5 for the coin toss would break the cutscene - FIXED: Fix the A.I. fast paddle - FIXED: Improving the A.I. positioning at the takeoff points - FIXED: Improving the A.I. take offs facing forward (down the wave) - ADDED: More aggression to the A.I. when they don’t have priority 🌊 FIXED: Improve scoring in the barrel: tube points to be tweaked to lower the tallies across the board for tube combos - FIXED: Single Session edge case: User got on PWC and got hit by wave at same time causing the respawn of user being stuck on the spot - ADDED: Code to lock Challenge Mode access until minimum tasks are achieved

ANIMATION: __________

• FixedFIXEDTOW-IN: The very first time the animation plays (just when the player releases to ride the wave) there is a large jump/ pop in the animation frame - FIXED: TOW-IN: When the user swaps from natural to goofy (or vice versa) in the character creator and the model is loaded into the level the leg IK broke - FIXED: Nuclear Grab animation on the frontside didn't trigger consistently (R2 on the PS5 controller) - FIXED: Animation delay issue with landing from height

LOADING: ________

• FixedFIXEDIN GAME LEADERBOARD LAG: fixed the lag coming back out of the Leaderboard menu

LEADERBOARD: ____________

• RemovedFIXEDGlobal Leaderboards > World Tour > Manly. Removed Manly from the World Tour table - FIXED: GHOST SYSTEM: Optimize Data upload / download as we will be now uploading and downloading larger chunks of data - FIXED: GHOST SYSTEM: Automatic cleanup of files on the server side and removal of test data - FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Identify and fix crash - FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Fix non intrusive pop not clearing - FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Fix upload failing if the user moves away from the scene - FIXED: LEADERBOARD LEGENDS (XBOX): Upload speed optimize - ADDED: New server - FIXED: A bug where player could exit the scene by summoning the pwc at the absolute edge of the boundary in Leaderboard Legends - FIXED: Uploading the score display overlap of text once the upload reached 100% - FIXED: Leaderboard Legends issue displaying incorrect surfer image - FIXED: Global Leaderboard table: localized time of score column

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: _____________________

• Animation & physics rotation issues with mainly top and lip moves post tow-in release (PC) - Language localisation & UI cleanup (ongoing) 🌊 Research adding more variety in the waves in the same heat or even in freesurfing (longer term) 🌊 Research extending the heat time (longer term) 🌊 Research adding A.I. to Freesurf along with PWC gameplay considerations (longer term) - General QA bug list

That's all for today.

The Bungarra team.