The long awaited surf update is out!
With full map creator support so you can create maps you wish.
This one took a while - surf needed its collision rewritten from scratch before it could work.
Here's what's in it.
Surf is now its own category with five maps.
The old surf ramp implementation never worked, you fell straight through the slopes because of poor collision. The whole collision layer was rebuilt on convex brushes, the same approach Quake and Source use.
The maps that come in this update have been created with difficulty in mind from easiest to hardest, the most notable map is surf Kitsune map which I have taken inspiration from the Counter Strike Kitsune map.
A new exclusive melee built out of a speedometer. The needle is the blade, and the dial overloads and moves based on your speed.
The speedometer is unlocked by completing the Escape Velocity achievement for reaching 10,000 u/s.
The second biggest addition this patch is Dropper, with its own category and 3 maps.
The map editor now fully supports surf ramps and other newly added shapes.
Surf ramps have two placement modes. Straight places one with a single click. Custom lets you click the starting point, then click where the far end should go, and solves the shape for you.
There is also a hole cutter that punches openings through walls and platforms. Added curved walls and speed rings, support for changing every block colors, outlines, opacity.
Map creator names now properly displayed on "Best of Workshop".
Leaderboards got a search bar and the "Jump to me" button now works past top 100.
Extreme category removed and maps were merged into Hard category.
Mutators adjusted for better experience.
The completion screen has a pace bar showing your run, your Personal Best and the World Record together.
You can read the full changelog below.
Additions:
Added a new Surf category with five maps: First Wave, Utopia, Aperture, Maelstrom and Kitsune.
Added surf ramp collision rebuilt on convex brushes, replacing a system that never worked.
Added Kitsune, an 8-stage map converted from a real CS surf map.
Added the Speedometer Needle melee.
Added the Re-entry Shard melee, unlocked by a new achievement.
Added the Escape Velocity achievement for reaching 10,000 u/s.
Added a Dropper category with its own leaderboards.
Added surf ramps to the map editor, with Straight and Custom two-click placement modes.
Added ramp chaining in the editor, snapping the next piece onto the end of an existing ramp.
Added a live readout while placing a ramp showing length, bend, drop and whether the face is surfable.
Added curved walls to the editor, following the same arc as a ramp.
Added a hole cutter to the editor that removes geometry and collision through any wall or platform.
Added speed rings to the editor with configurable size, colour and boost.
Added an appearance panel to every block type for fill colour, outline colour, opacity and a neon style.
Added W/H/D sliders and much larger size limits for blocks.
Added per-type size memory in the editor.
Added a snap lock covering both ramp ends and hole faces.
Added a search bar to the leaderboards.
Added a "Jump to me" button that finds your rank past the top 100.
Added a builder badge showing how many of a creator's maps have been featured in Best of Workshop.
Added movement arrows to Best of Workshop showing how far each map moved since the last rotation.
Added a pace bar to the completion screen.
Added the ability to delete custom maps.
Added separate lists for subscribed Workshop maps and Workshop droppers.
Added a surf practice area to the playground.
Changes:
Merged the Extreme category into Hard. All existing times and completions were kept.
Updated 12 more languages: German, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Reworked mutators into a single start button that changes colour and wording when one is enabled.
Moved the active mutator list to one line at the top of the screen during a run.
Mutators now reset when you leave a map instead of carrying into the next one.
Improved surf air control so a hard turn is roughly twice as fast and costs almost no speed.
Tightened surf ramp faceting so curves lose less speed across a bend.
Menu flythroughs now follow the map they are showing, including ramp shapes, with a slower camera.
Personal bests now read back from the server, so a wiped install no longer loses them.
Motion blur is now off by default on new installs.
Replaced Solid Wall, Gray Wall, Invisible Block and Wall/Obstacle with a single Wall block.
Merged Powerup Spawn and Powerup Choice into one Powerup block with a toggle.
Replaced the editor's colour picker with a game-styled one.
Achievements and quests now only count on official maps with no mutators enabled.
Fixes:
Fixed a map's first-ever leaderboard time never being accepted, which made every new map's leaderboard impossible to seed.
Fixed curved surf ramps destroying your speed at segment seams.
Fixed the flat ends of surf ramps teleporting you on top of them instead of blocking you.
Fixed the run timer continuing after a death on a map with no checkpoints.
Fixed ambient wind and speed wind ignoring the SFX volume slider.
Fixed Best of Workshop never naming or paying its winners, and private items being able to win a week.
Fixed the completion screen saying "Tied your PB!" on a first clear and stacking its labels on top of each other.
Fixed achievements and quests being earnable on custom maps, Workshop maps and mutator runs.
Fixed the Speed Boost mutator doing nothing at all.
Fixed Mirror Mode not mirroring spawn points or checkpoint respawns, dropping you off the start platform.
Fixed selecting "None" in the Loadout tab zooming the preview into the player model.
Fixed Workshop map titles being rendered unescaped.
Fixed Best of Workshop rows getting stuck on "Loading...".
Fixed map imports failing with "Failed to parse map file!" on valid maps.
Fixed editor confirmation messages never appearing on screen.
Fixed block rotation being dropped at runtime, so rotated blocks played straight.
Fixed the hole cutter not cutting.
Fixed "playground" always appearing under Your maps.
Fixed the Appearance reset button not affecting newly placed blocks.
Fixed blocks set to 0% opacity still being visible in editor playtest.
And a lot of other smaller bug fixes.