Big Features:
Reworks to the pool of multiplayer Gem Hunt levels!
- Several new community custom levels added, including:
- Centroid, Requisite, Skatium, Agility, and Meridian by BlastedMarble
- Green Mess, Two Levels, and SkillPlex by Kurt
- Brown Hills and Green Resort by Davive (rep. Kwill)
- Inferno Ring by Ignas
- Acropolis 2 by Tuna Patrol
- Duplex by Connie
- Cragmire by Zenebrick (rep. Kwill)
- Fun in the Sun by Aayrl
- Treasure Box by zzGreeDzz (rep. Kwill)
- Basin Hill by CylinderKnot
- Incidious by Adustalarm
- Rink Ring by Threefolder
- Sprawl Evolved by xi am classicx
- Wrap Zone by hPerks
- Poolside Panic by MillieAmp
- Mogul by Human Gamer
- The Dragon Room by Matan
- and the four beta MBU levels released publicly by the OpenMBU team!
- Several already-implemented Hunt maps were moved around between categories, and levels are now roughly sorted by difficulty within these categories.
- The "Custom: Hunt" section has now been replaced by a "Bonus" difficulty alongside the other Hunt difficulties, leaving the Custom: Hunt section empty for players' installed customs.
- A "Director's Cut" section has also been added to Hunt to hold old levels voted out by the community.
- Several new Hunt levels have received slight changes from their original custom versions to improve gameplay, as voted on by the community.
Other Additions:
- MBG Xbox and Marble Blast Mobile levels are now available to play in the online leaderboards in the Bonus sections.
- MBU Hypercube has also been moved to Bonus and given proper MBU physics! Scores have been migrated to the MBG version.
- MBP Director's Cut has also finally been moved into the Platinum section, instead of being placed alongside the community custom packs.
- The offline Hunt category will no longer experience temporal anomalies. For those looking to play with pumpkins and peppermint all year round, however, there may be some seeeecret cheat codes hidden somewhere to sate you...
- Winterfest's levels are all now full of jolly puns to really channel your best Santa laugh.
- A new Winterfest level, King of the Rink, a piercingly cold winter remix of King of the Ring, has been added!
- Several MBP levels now show all of their credits in the level select, rather than hiding them in comments at the top of the level files.
- The gems in the end screen of online Hunt will now rotate, and change their shape according to the theme of the level being played.
- Even more loading screen messages!
Bug Fixes:
- Expanded support for older DirectX 11 graphics drivers
- Fixed certain dif files not being able to load
- Fixed certain checkpoints in Sand Storm, Rickety Race, and Above and Below respawning the marble in very strange, rebellious ways
- All multiplayer levels of all gamemodes now have preview images, camera paths, and use the correct shapes and music for their respective game themes. You're welcome.
- Cleaned up the oil spill covering all the fancy new terrain
- The "/slap" command no longer sends your command as a message in server chat alongside its actual effect.
- Spookyland's water now contains the right amount of strange potion ingredients to appear aptly spooky.
- Several more spinning arrows now spin in the correct direction while loading.
- A certain multicolored title screen easter egg no longer becomes impossible to activate if you press literally any other button ever.
- Fixed the MBG HD and MBG Xbox Shaders texture packs not working properly for multiplayer interiors.
- Maintained dubious quantum superposition of Herobrine
This updates brings the following changes and bugfixes:
- Added the ability to change the rendering driver for advanced users.
- Added Camera Smoothing in Input options tab.
- Fixed crashes caused when Marbleland customs are not stored locally.
- Fixed the dedicated server being broken.
- Fixed MBU Helicopter image being broken in old replays.
- Fixed Time Travel/Gem value message being at the wrong position.
- Fixed MBU Start Pad animation not playing after restarting the level.
- Fixed certain shape files not being rendered.
This updates brings the following changes and bugfixes:
- Added Advanced Option: Restart Reloads Levels.
- Added Advanced Option: Save Marbleland Customs Locally, defaulted to false.
- (MacOS): Added proper exclusive fullscreen support.
- Minor Options menu changes and fixes.
- Fixed powerup effects on old replays not working properly.
- Fixed powerup timer jitters (again!).
- Fixed Create Subs being broken (again!).
- Fixed VSync causing the cursor movement to be sluggish in the menus.
- Fixed certain interiors not rendering when using Legacy Material Quality.
- Fixed being unable to change input key bindings.
- Fixed temporary fields being shown in the Editor.
- (MacOS): Fixed TPS being locked while not in VSync.
Due to the changes in the new renderer, some of you may have noticed that the FPS counter shown in the game shows incorrect values. This was due to the fact that the game rendering was not synchronized with the game logic. We have now made this configurable in the options menu as well as distinguishing between the rendered frames per second and the now added measurement 'Ticks Per Second'.
Ticks Per Second: This is the number of times the game logic is updated per second. This is the same as the old FPS counter prior to 2.10.0 update and is the most important value to look at when trying to determine the performance of the game. It is the value that affects the marble physics and the game logic.
Additions to the Options Menu:
- Renamed "Max FPS" to "Max Tick Rate" and added commonly used refresh rate value presets.
- Added options to "FPS Counter" to also show the Ticks Per Second.
- Added "Framerate" setting having the following options:
- "Vertical Sync" - This will cap the FPS to the monitor refresh rate.
- "Match Tick Rate" - This will cap the FPS to the Ticks Per Second.
- "Unlimited" - This will allow the game to render as many frames as possible. It also means that FPS can go higher than Ticks Per Second.
Other Changes:
- Added Marbleland support for Multiplayer.
- Added noFinalLapMusic in the Edit Mission Info dialog.
- prefs.cs now back up automatically.
- Par Time alarm text now always shows up when enabled after the alarm has already started
- Minor lighting fixes.
- Minor text and arrangement fixes in options menu.
- Fixed a bug where setting the game FPS to 60 would cause the game to run at 30 FPS.
- Fixed a bug where the game didn't allow you to upload a replay due to maximum file size.
- Fixed hover and alert messages being slow.
- Fixed powerup timer stuttering when watching a replay.
- Fixed powerup effects overriding each other.
- Fixed marble having an incorrect shader in Multiplayer (again!).
- Fixed moving platforms and cannons not working properly in Multiplayer.
- Fixed camera being stuck in one position when joining a Multiplayer game.
- Fixed certain objects disappearing when loading particular levels.
- Fixed cursor not restoring is previous position when pausing the game.
- Fixed "Create Subs" crashing the game when used in the Level Editor.
- Fixed rendering being done twice in the Level Editor.
- Fixed bug where the timer would always be green with the Par Time Alarm disabled.
- Fixed music accelerating when loading a level preview in certain cases.
Lots of bugfixes after the initial release of the new engine.
- Changed the WebGPU library to a more maintained one. This should fix crashes on MacOS and ensure compatibility with older hardware.
- Revised the options menu again, moving options and toggles around.
- Updated Mega Marble sounds and fixed a bug where the Mega Marble shrink sound was not being played.
- Music now plays faster while the alarm is going off or if you're in the final lap. This is toggleable in the Options menu.
- Added the ability to change music's speed using MusicTrigger.
- Updated how replays are sent to the server. It should be more stable and allow for higher file sizes.
- Fixed a bug where music only sped up while speedometer was enabled. Now it speeds up regardless when the marble goes fast enough.
- Fixed discovery of non-portforwarded multiplayer servers on the server list.
- Fixed various keyboard and mouse input bugs.
- Fixed crash when loading resource heavy levels.
- Fixed crash when taking screenshots.
- Fixed taking screenshot of level icons not being done correctly.
- Fixed some DTS transparency bugs.
- Fixed detection of normal and specular textures.
- Fixed a bug where resources were not searched for in different directories.
- Fixed lighting when multiple suns are present.
- Fixed marble shader not reloading on changing marbles in-game.
- Fixed deletion of replays.
- Fixed changing sky in the editor being broken.
- Fixed editor dropdown and tree view rendering being incorrect.
- Fixed serialization of temporary fields. They are no longer written anymore.
- Minor UI fixes.
After many months of development and testing, we are proud to announce a new update to PlatinumQuest! This is the first version to utilize a reverse-engineered engine source, alongside an updated renderer, much thanks to the dedicated efforts of Torque3D developer James Urquhart.
This update ensures the game runs smoothly on modern hardware, including support for macOS Catalina and newer. Significant performance and stability improvements have been achieved with the new renderer.
Additions
- The game window is now resizable by dragging the borders.
- The multiplayer file transfer system has been updated to be significantly faster. Thanks, HiGuy!
- Default Torque features (Terrain, Water, etc.) have been restored, with editor support included.
- All remaining MBP Easter Eggs have been re-added, along with the items necessary to collect them.
- Added RTA Speedrun mode. Check the in-game dialog for more information.
- Added a new stacked menu the level select screen.
- Added a new toggle menu in the Gameplay options, allowing you to tailor the game to your liking.
- The datablock limit has been increased to 4096.
- The marble's shadow and Mega Marble sounds have been restored.
- The leaderboard marbles pack is now available offline.
- Special handling has been implemented for cases where the marble collides with malformed friction surfaces.
Fixes and Other Changes
- Increased system requirements: 2GB RAM and a DX12, Vulkan, or OpenGL 4-compatible GPU.
- Fixed crashes when changing resolutions.
- Fixed crashes on certain hardware caused by marble reflections.
- Fixed the "white boxes" crash in the upgraded renderer.
- FPS measurements are now more accurate.
- Missing textures now appear blank instead of producing Invalid Packet error.
- Hole punching is now more stable, as it has been properly integrated into the engine.
- Fullscreen mode is now borderless instead of exclusive on Windows.
- Several preview images have been updated.
- The game now opens external links using the correct web browser.
- The Bubble power-up now scales correctly, both upon application and as an item.
- Moving platform friction has been disabled on certain leaderboard custom levels.
- Minor text fixes have been made throughout.
- Profile avatars are now saved to memory instead of disk.
Deprecations
- Changing resolutions in fullscreen is no longer supported.
- Custom shader files can no longer be loaded due to proper shader integration.
- Bloom and Antialiasing have been removed due to challenges in porting them.
* Fixed not being able to see or join multiplayer servers
The long awaited fix for PlatinumQuest crashing on Windows 11 computers.
* Removed the Crash Reporter as that was what triggered the crashes on some computers, this means no more crash dumps.
* Fixed Super Bounces, Shock Absorbers, and Gyrocopters sometimes displaying incorrect times on their powerup timers when changed to values other than 5000.
* Level Editor now shows lines to Destination Triggers when selecting a Teleport Trigger.
* Fixed scores not sending when toggling Competitive Mode.
* Fixed Ahead of Schedule achievement not being granted in Online play.
* Fixed MBXP Texture Pack leaking into Online play.
* Changes to support the new marbleblast.com website.
* Updated Pack 8 - Path o' Petals.
* Other Pack 8 metadata fixes.
* Minor improvements for MBP WRR4.
* Minor UI improvements.
* Security and stability improvements.
Fixed Pack 8 levels not being of correct version.