Meta Horizon Worlds v82 Release Notes

Meta Horizon Worlds v82 is here. This week is a lighter update that includes a handful of fixes to things like notifications and object physics.

v82 Hotfix

When we initially released v82 on Monday, some people were experiencing app crashes related to intermittent network connections. Worlds would crash if you had a spotty wifi connection or if your wifi cut out entirely during travel. We quickly released a hotfix yesterday addressing this issue, so that you now see a screen letting you know that your network connection has been lost rather than the app closing altogether.

Bug Fixes

General

• Avatar images on the People Tab should now display clearly, without getting cut off.
• Fixed an issue where garbled voices would still occur with blocked or muted players.
• Notifications should now be accessible from all “Tabs” of the Horizon Menu.
• The appropriate “release” sound effect now plays when closing a dropdown menu where nothing has been selected.
• The profile dropdown button should now play the correct sound.

Arena Clash

• We’ve fixed issues in Arena Clash that were decreasing framerates.

Creators

• Script comments can now be placed outside of event blocks (e.g. above the world start event).
• Breakable assets from the hitting pack should work as expected again.
• Objects colliding with each other should now have the expected physics enacted on them.

Known Issues

General

• Some people can’t proceed past the “Play with Friends” loading page or the blue loading screen. [UserVoice for loading page, UserVoice for blue screen]
• When using party travel to go into personal space, invited guests will fail to travel and see an “Unable to travel” panel, but the host is able to travel successfully.
• People are occasionally separated from their party when traveling.

Visit Mode

• Picking up grabbables and hitting them against each other causes some games to lag.
• In some worlds, it’s difficult to interact with grab points on large objects attached to an avatar.

Creators

• Unable to approve more than the 10 most recent posts to world page. [UserVoice]
• World auto-saving is failing for some creators and leading to them being kicked out of the world and unable to re-enter. [UserVoice]
• A bug is causing the error message “There was a problem deleting your world” to display, even though the world is actually deleted. [UserVoice]
• In Build and Edit mode, pulling the Door gizmo into the world causes headlock and performance issues.
• Projectiles are broken in some worlds—object velocities drop to 0,0,0 when you pick them up, which breaks the experience in some worlds that have things like “throwing darts.” [UserVoice]
• Sound capacity changes between Edit and Preview modes and is also impacted by how many people are in a world. [UserVoice]
• Most sound gizmos are not playing back any audio.

Arena Clash

We’ve addressed some performance issues in Arena Clash and are continuing work on other quality of life improvements, including but not limited to:

• Some people can’t join a team in Arena Clash and stats are missing. [UserVoice]
• Rocket launcher VFX repeats at the impact location until another rocket is fired.
• Not being able to spawn back into the lobby after a game.