Lava Golf - Patch Notes

In this page you can check the patch notes for Lava Golf! As a reminder, you can access our Itch.io page for the game here. You can also have a look at the now archived Beta Patch Notes.

Patch notes

Version 1.0 - 25/05/2021:

This is the official release for Lava Golf. The below changelog is against the last Beta release. It also sport a big balance pass on most skills and related power ups.

Controls

• AirBrake is now activated with the Left Control key.
• Air Dash and Ground Dash are now both activated with the Spacebar key.
• Emergency Jump is now activated with the E key.
• Time Freeze is now activated with the D key.
• Sphere Magnet is now activated with the F key.

UI

• Improved font visibility in the game UI hotbars.
• Fixed a mistake in the Rewind abilityu description in the Game Help page.

Balance Changes

• Air Brake level 4 charges increased from 4 to 5.
• Air Brake level 5 charges increased from 5 to 6.
• Air Dash level 3 strength decreased from 19 to 18.
• Air Dash level 4 strength decreased from 21 to 20.
• Air Dash level 5 strength decreased from 30 to 23.
• Emergency Jump base strength increased from 20 to 23.
• Emergency Jump level 2 strength increased from 22 to 25.
• Emergency Jump level 3 strength increased from 24 to 27.
• Emergency Jump level 4 strength increased from 26 to 28.
• Emergency Jump level 5 strength increased from 30 to 31.
• Ground Dash base charges increased from 1 to 2.
• Ground Dash level 4 charges increased from 4 to 5.
• Ground Dash level 5 charges increased from 5 to 6.
• Ground Dash level 4 strength decreased from 18 to 17.
• Ground Dash level 5 strength decreased from 25 to 18.
• Rewind level 4 charges increased from 2 to 3.
• Rewind level 5 charges increased from 3 to 4.
• Sphere Magnet base charges decreased from 3 to 1.
• Sphere Magnet level 2 charges decreased from 4 to 2.
• Sphere Magnet level 3 charges decreased from 4 to 2.
• Sphere Magnet level 4 charges decreased from 5 to 3.
• Sphere Magnet level 5 charges decreased from 5 to 4.
• Sphere Magnet level 2 duration decreased from 16 to 15.
• Sphere Magnet level 3 duration increased from 17 to 18.
• Sphere Magnet level 4 duration increased from 18 to 19.
• Sphere Magnet level 5 duration increased from 20 to 22.
• Time Freeze level 2 duration decreased from 6 to 5.
• Time Freeze level 4 duration decreased from 8 to 7.

Bug Fixes

• Changed the behaviour of the screenshots logic to avoid the known issue that would prevent the screenshots to be taken if you installed the game in the default directory (inside “Program Files”) while not running the game as administrator. The screenshots will now be created inside Documents folder (My Games\Lava Golf\Screenshots), a more standard approach.
• It is now possible to take screenshots while in the main menu, in the victory screen, in the power up screen and in the game over screen (alongside all levels as usual).
• Taking a screenshot will play a sound effect.
• The screenshot sound effect won’t be played by error at the beginning of each level.
• Fixed a bug that on rare occasion would make the cursor disappear.
• Quitting the Help Screen while in the Video Tutorial page won’t fail to restore the original music volume level.
• Solved an issue with Emergency Jump skill that would make the next shot happen faster if used while grounded.
• Rewind skill can now be used again while grounded.
• Solved a collision problem with the Golf Tee when the Rewind skill was used.
• Fixed the UI element in the Game Over scene so that it reads “Course” rather than “Level”.
• Fixed a bug in the the Game UI Rewind skill button, showing it as unavailable while grounded.
• Moved around some X Spheres around the levels so they are better placed in relation to their closest objects.
• Fixed a bug that occorred after an Emergency Jump was taken while on the ground.

Known issues

• Exiting the game won’t properly save the sound and music volume settings.

Links

Go back to the Lava Golf main page here Lava Golf.

Go back to the Itch.io page for the game here.