Hello, TUbular players. Let’s cut right to the chase with this update. This one has the Casino.

The Casino Is Now Open!

The following games are now available to Tower Unite:

Casino

Texas Hold’em

3 different slot machines Triple Diamonds: A basic 3 reel slot machine Grand Quest: A 3 reel slot machine with some RPG elements Wheel of Money: A 3 reel slot machine with a bonus money wheel

Video Poker

Video Blackjack

Spin to Win

Double or Nothing

Trivia

Typing Derby

Developer Note: Most functionality of the Casino Update will initially be limited to Official Servers. Typing Derby and Trivia will still show up on community servers, but they will not payout. Support for other servers will come later.

We are now hosting more Official servers located in Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, New York, and two in Frankfurt. We are also currently setting up a server in Sydney.

Please be aware that there may be initial issues on launch and we will be closely watching all Casino related transactions.

Major New Features

The Casino

Added Trivia to the Plaza

Added Typing Derby to the Plaza

Key Binding

Added AFK support for Game Worlds AFK players will not earn units AFK players will be automatically skipped when everyone else has finished the hole/level in Minigolf/Ball Race AFK players are denoted by an emote over their heads and on the scoreboard AFK players will be kicked from slot machines and will auto-fold in poker

Mediaplayer Voteskip and Voting

This applies only to Theater and will soon be added to Condos in a later update

Added a new Minigolf course, Emission

General Changes

Added a bunch of new items (32!):

Wood Wardrobe, Wood Bookshelf, Wood Coffee Table, Wood Dresser, Wood Round Table, PBB Trash Can, PBB Stool, PBB Coffee Table, PBB Dresser, PBB End Table, PBB End Table Capped, PBB Desk, PBB Dresser Capped, PBB Desk Capped, PBB Coffee Table Capped, PBB Wardrobe, PBB Wardrobe Capped, PBB Bookshelf, PBB Bookshelf Capped, Wall Torch, Hula Doll, Cactus, Garden Flamingo, Bubble Gun, Waffle, Potato, Piggy Bank, Ancient Jar, Grandfather Clock, Bubble Machine, Laser Projector, Wooden Hot Tub

Wood Wardrobe, Wood Bookshelf, Wood Coffee Table, Wood Dresser, Wood Round Table, PBB Trash Can, PBB Stool, PBB Coffee Table, PBB Dresser, PBB End Table, PBB End Table Capped, PBB Desk, PBB Dresser Capped, PBB Desk Capped, PBB Coffee Table Capped, PBB Wardrobe, PBB Wardrobe Capped, PBB Bookshelf, PBB Bookshelf Capped, Wall Torch, Hula Doll, Cactus, Garden Flamingo, Bubble Gun, Waffle, Potato, Piggy Bank, Ancient Jar, Grandfather Clock, Bubble Machine, Laser Projector, Wooden Hot Tub Added adjustable grid snapping for item movement

Jetpack is now predicted. Jetpack will no longer be really glitchy when being used

Fog machine now actually blows out fog instead of fog magically appearing around it (this is still an option though)

Added location text to the left of player chat in Plaza so you can tell where people are

Reduced the “waiting for players” timer to 5 seconds (from 10 seconds) when everyone is ready to play

Player user bar now shows tags first instead of ping to align pings

Added key support for rotating inventory items

Added support for rebinding leaving drivables (instruments, slot machines, games, etc.)

Added support for rebinding the backer item “Golden Watch”

Added support for rebinding Trivia and Slots shortcuts

You can now display FPS through a graphics settings option

Patched up a few holes in the Plaza map

You can now sit on more of the seats in the Plaza (casino, casino lobby, bowling, beach chairs, etc.)

Added chat sounds (from GMT) with option to disable them in the sound settings

Added “clear search” button to the search bar in stores

Added basic Parental Controls (more will be added in later updates)

Disable chat

Profanity filter

Added setting to disable Lobby crosshair

Added setting to disable Lobby HUD

Optimizations

Implemented level streaming for Plaza (phase 2, Game World Ports, etc.)

Minigolf Changes

If everyone has clicked “finished” on the customize window, it’ll automatically end customize timer so people don’t have to wait

Minigolf scoreboard now aligns all names by accounting the width of the flag icon (finished or not)

Fixed the sombrero hat not showing up on your golf ball

Fixed the splash effect from occurring in some of the holes on Waterhole

Fixed pocket effect lagging (really bad for lower end computers)

Ball Race Changes

Added “READY”…“GO!” to Ball Race before the round starts so players can have a chance to be ready

Fixed the camera (for all non-hosts) not facing the right way when first spawning

Fixed the issue where you would sometimes be randomly thrown into the air on the speed boost of the last level of GLXY

Planet Panic Changes

At the end of each round all players have their team scrambled

Team select automatically ends in 3 seconds if everyone has selected a team

You can play Planet Panic with 2 players now (instead of only 4)

Virus Changes

Adrenaline C key prompt is now on the HUD

Fixed being able to unfreeze yourself by pressing the pause menu on and off

Bug Fixes

Fixed various walls, ceilings etc. from not being editable in the Condo

Fixed various items from being rather large on the store pedestal

Fixed ping colors being inaccurate

Fixed in-game notifications not showing up properly while in the pause menu

Fixed not being able to pause while using Piano, Drumset, Slot Machines, etc

Fixed Transit Station location not showing up

Fixed Basement location being incorrect when standing on objects inside the basement

Fixed various other locations in the Condo not showing up

Fixed wind sound on speed shoes

Fixed the floating wall speakers in the Theatre screens

Fixed the Theatre screens prompting the user to turn it on

Fixed ping not displaying for dedicated Lobby servers

Fixed a bunch of other bugs we found while testing

Thanks for bearing with us while we worked on getting this update out. We didn’t want to push out an unfinished update, and we’ve been working around the clock to push the update out a little bit earlier than what everyone expected.

We’ll be continuing to work on new Casino games in the future, this update is only the beginning of what we have in store.

Make sure to report any bugs you find with the Casino (or any of the other new features we’ve added) on the forums and we’ll try to fix them as soon as possible!

If your transactions fail during this week, we’ll be looking into it and we are logging all of it.

You can follow our current developments on our Trello:

https://trello.com/b/6BwRMiPw/tower-unite-roadmap