Thanks to everyone who's played in the first few days. A handful of new players got stuck in the same few places, so most of this patch is about those places, plus a long list of fixes.
Course 5
- Course 5 is the hardest course in Season 1, and now it says so: a red fourth star on the course list and the start sign, and "HARDEST IN SEASON 1" until you've set a time there. If it's a wall, Courses 6–10 are gentler. Come back to it.
- Section 3's climb no longer kills you. Fall, and you land; the enemies you broke above you come back (with their points taken back), so you climb again from where you are.
- Arrows on the Section 3 climb show the way up.
- Section 2: a wall now sits above the armoured gate. The way through is under it, with the area ability.
Blind drops
- Course 4 Section 3 and Course 8 Sections 4 and 5 get a direction arrow on the drop, so you're not jumping into the dark.
Tutorial
- The two dash ladders near the end are spread out. Each dash now has its own enemy, with time to see the hit before you dash again. No more mashing.
- The last room's wall moved and got taller, so a missed chain stops you right away.
- The armoured-enemy room gets a wall above it, so the area ability is the only way past.
- New demo ghosts for the two ladder rooms.
- The welcome screen shows your controls as a proper key table, and the longer room instructions are split over two lines so they're easier to read.
Controls and menus
- Settings now opens from the pause menu. Change a key, mouse button or pad button mid-run and the on-screen hints update straight away.
- Rebinding is easier to find: the welcome screen and the main menu both point to it.
- The pause menu is tidied up: both columns line up, and the volume sliders have a new look (in Settings too).
- Controllers: A and Back work on any connected pad, not just the first one.
- Back on a Settings dropdown closes the dropdown instead of leaving Settings.
- Rebinding: picking a key another action uses swaps the two, and an action left with nothing says UNBOUND.
- Menus keep their controller focus when the course list or Settings refreshes.
Spectate and ghosts
- Spectating a run now plays its dashes, area bursts, jumps and wall kicks.
- Spectate shows the dash indicators as the player had them, air dash included.
- Runs recorded before 1.0.2, the staff rival ghosts included, stay quiet on their jumps and show one dash indicator.
Fixes
- Going from the tutorial straight into Course 1 could leave the finish locked. Fixed.
- A save cut short by a crash or power cut is set aside instead of replacing your good one.
- Marathon: respawning at a checkpoint rewinds your splits properly, and long marathon runs upload their ghost.
- CLEAR MY TIMES also clears your Marathon furthest mark.
- A ghost that fails to download no longer leaves "DOWNLOADING GHOST..." on screen.
- Restart no longer drops you into the menu preview.
- Slow connections retry uploads sensibly instead of re-sending the same replay over and over.
- Some behind-the-scenes performance clean-up.
- Leaderboard checks on the server are tighter, and Course 5 pays Season Points as the three-star course it is.
If something's still a wall for you, tell me where. That's how this patch happened.