The impressively popular social VR game Rec Room recently received a ‘Fancy Pants’ update, adding more than 100 new items for players to customize their avatars. As detailed on the game’s Steam news page, the update fixes a number of bugs, increases the level cap along with retuned XP rewards and level curves, and adds new community event features.
Community event hosts are now marked with a crown icon, have the ability to kick players without a vote, and the host is “guaranteed a spot in their own event.”
The bug fixes are listed below, including a few more added in a subsequent ‘Fancy Pants’ patch:
- Fixed a bug where Share Camera would be tiny when you dropped it!
- Fixed bug where @names were displaying incorrectly
- Fixed a bug where friend import could fail during new user tutorial
- Fixed a system issue that could cause a bunch of “weirdness” with activities (e.g., Paintball, Quest, etc.). So, hopefully there will be less weirdness!
- Fixed “ice skating” bug – you can no longer abuse rotate to move through the world! Fun while it lasted…
- Quest – fixed boss encounter in The Rise of JumboTron
- Quest – can now get past lava room in Golden Trophy!
- Quest – fixed a bunch of bugs with enemy spawning
Since developers Against Gravity received a major funding boost in February, updates have arrived thick and fast, adding new features, quests, maps, and fixes. A major update a few months back brought the game’s second quest, Rise of the Jumbotron, a four person cooperative mini-campaign where players battle through challenging enemies to reach the end.
As for this recent character customisation update, it could present a money-making opportunity if players were given the choice to purchase rewards, but Rec Room admirably remains totally free to play.