Improved Camera, New Stars to Collect [Test Branch] (Update #406)

🤔How to Access Test Branch:

How to opt into the free test branch to test new features early:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/276C-85A0-C531-AFA3

🧍🏼‍♂️🧍🏼‍♀️Player🧍🏼‍♂️🧍🏼‍♀️:

• Re-worked camera system

• Uses Cinemachine, significantly smoother to use

• No more twitching when in-air or moving fast

🌍All Levels🌍:

• Re-worked Fan to run smoother

• Re-worked Trampolines to run smoother

• Re-worked dash panel, improved their look, made them slightly easier to view at an angle

• Added LOD's to 90% of objects in scene to improve performance

• Re-worked those LOD's a 2nd time to make them almost impossible to notice

🌍Free Roam🌍:

• Added 250m height sticks in various areas to gauge your height

• Added collectible coins

• Re-worked coin logic to scale, can now have hundreds in scene

• Added a coin counter

• Added all kinds of nice set dressing, foliage, and objects in distance to give a more polished look

• Added new terrain sections

• Added grass meshes to grass sections

• Re-worked lighting

• Optimized base platforms to use less memory

• Bunker Challenge now requires you to score a goal to get the star

• Re-worked the path leading up to the Bunker Challenge to make the platforming section more interesting

• Added more challenges, and stars to collect from them

• Player's bottom UI circle projects onto player meshes and clubs when it shouldn't

• Low FPS in Free Roam when looking in certain directions

• 3rd Person Camera can occasionally get twitchy

🧪Single Player Adventure Levels🧪:

• It's a fun mashup of platformer and sports game we've been wanting to try for ages

• Make your way through platforming challenges

• Find the ball in the level

• Bring it to the blue goal on the other side

• Beat the team defending it to destroy their base, opening up access to the next level.

• Score on the net to destroy the base and move on!

☁️Cloud Saves☁️:

• We've pushed code in recent builds that should handle Steam Cloud saves for everyone, we just want to give it a little more testing and confirm it's merging playtimes of multiple devices correctly each time!

👩🏼Women Playable Characters👩🏼:

• The first woman playable character is mostly ready to go out!

• We just need to apply a final fix to her clothes to make sure there's no clothing mishaps during gameplay (weird UV and texture normals bug)

• After we're confident with her model, we'll release more variants, until we've got 8 total women characters (or template characters)

• Again we're building the system to be modular, so eyes, hair, noses, mouths, clothing and accessories can be swapped in and out and create some nice variety.

💾Account Progression💾:

• With Cloud Saves confirmed to be working, we'll next start applying basic player levels to your account based on games played, goals scored, and achievements unlocked in-game.

• It's meant to be a foundation for progression as you play the game.

• By default, not everything will be unlocked, but you'll unlock more as you play.

• Maps, characters, and cosmetics would be unlocked from playing the game.

♾️More Stage Hazard Variants and Customization♾️:

• More unique stage hazards will come with the new toys we've been experimenting with in Free Roam:

• Switches, Levers, Cannons, and Collectibles

• Grab-able Hazards: Want to reposition a hazard or take it with you? Go ahead and play around.

  //We'll be experimenting with what level of freedom makes the most sense, and what players like. Do you want complete freedom of any hazard in-game? Or does it make sense to limit to hazards on your side?

• Adjust Hazard