RELEASE NOTES August 23, 2018

New Features

• Added an icon below the care package to help indicate where its going to land

• New music! Gnomehenge has a custom soundtrack

• Balanced music and sound effects for Gnome Village and Gnomehenge

• Added a popup to remind players that changing the Vsync settings requires a game restart

• Gnomes no longer respawn in the same spot as their teammate

• Added some gameplay items to the first time gamma adjustment screen

• Updated the controller required splash screen to say that 4 controllers are required

• Updated the grass bag icon in all our menus

• Add controller instruction banner to the Credits menu

• Added a controller page in the How to Play menu

• Small balance adjustments to the item drop system

• Reduced game download size

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where blue gnomes cannot grow grass while shooting grass bags from tank mode onto the right edge of the red team’s lawn

• Fixed a bug where gnomes could dismount the mower and land on top of the braziers in jungle rumble

• Fixed a seam in Jungle Rumble that was visible when playing in lower resolution settings

• Fixed a bug where the SFX from the rotating fence in Gnomie-Go-Round would still play in the end game trophy screen

• Fixed a bug where thrown items could clip through the gate in the fence in Gnomie-Go-Round

• Fixed a bug where the mower out of gas SFX would keep playing on the end game trophy screen

• Fixed two bugs related to the breakable tiles in A Lawn Way Down Mower would break a tile instantly when driving over it diagonally Mower would sometimes break a tile instantly when driving straight across the tile

• Fixed a bug where the mower would lock up on an edge in A Lawn Way Down and slide back and forth along the edge on its own

• Fixed a seam in A Lawn Way Down

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Fertilizer from despawning if it landed outside of a level

• Fixed a bug where players who were stunned while holding a gas can could no longer pick the gas can up again

• Fixed a bug where players could not pick up gas cans if they were thrown on top of the moving islands in Seas the Day

• Fixed a bug that caused the gnome animation to break on the the Woodland Retreat Elevator

• Fixed a bug that caused items to unexpectedly launch in a random direction if a player tries to pick up an item just before a care package lands on top of them

• Fixed a bug that caused Fertilizer bags to unexpectedly launch in a random direction after it lands on the ground caused by someone breaking its care package via a thrown item

Known Bugs/Issues

• Game crashes when a gnome is hit in the face with a rock while riding a mower. Specifically, this only happens on our minimum spec testing machine. If you encounter this bug, we would love to know your hardware so we find what is causing this bug!

• Game freezes occasionally when playing in Woodland Retreat

• Controllers can rumble uncontrollably when playing in Woodland Retreat

• Gnomes who get knocked off a mower can occasionally get knocked back away from the mower after landing on the ground

• Rocks that plant on the stationary border of the rotating fence section of Gnomie-Go-Round spin with the rotating fence

• Aim arch and retical jitters when aiming at the moving platforms in Seas the Day

• Grass bags and Fertilizer can bounce of the moving platforms in Seas the Day

• Gnomes can get stuck in the rotating fence in Gnomie-Go-Round

• Fertilizer bags will not plant after stunning a gnome occasionally

• Items sometimes don’t follow the aim arch after throwing the item while the gnome is standing with a ledge or fence behind them

• Sometimes players cannot pick up items that are on the elevator in Woodland Retreat

• Grass does not grow from fertilizers when they land near the center fence on the blue team’s lawn in Seas the Day

• Rocks that land on the ground after spawning from a care package that was broken via thrown object can no longer be picked up

• Menu control for ‘everyone’ does not work in all menus