[img]http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27574735/1bfe0d59ab4f7a006c84503e4349574b43af7410.jpg[/img] [h1]Happy Halloween Week![/h1] A month ago we put together our Halloween Contest, “Scared to Reality”, where entrants created custom worlds and avatars for their chance to win prizes including an HTC Vive and more. The submissions are in and the judges will be looking through them this week. On Sunday, October 29th starting at 3pm PDT and going all day and night will be our Halloween event. This event will take place in our Halloween Hub, with portals to all the Halloween rooms, both from the contest and outside of the contest. You will also be able to try out all of the avatar submissions. [h1]Features[/h1] Note: For a full technical breakdown see the [url=https://www.vrchat.com/release]VRChat 0.12.0p2 Release Notes[/url]. [list] [*] Nametags will be temporarily turned off for select Halloween worlds by VRChat. [*] Author of a world is now able to sticky kick a user from the world for 1 hour, as well as warn a user in the world / instance. [/list] [h1]Moderation Improvements[/h1] We will be implementing further improvements and moderation features in the upcoming patches. With this first patch, we have made a big change to the moderation nametags. Previously you would noticed a mod by the host tag next to their name. To further clarify the role the mods have in VRChat, we have change the tag from “host” to “mod”. In addition to this, after receiving feedback about our “Request Host” button, we have changed the naming to “Report Abuse”. After receiving a community request about the vote-kick prompt breaking immersion, we have made it so only the initiator of the vote-kick receives the display user kicked / not kicked message. [h1]Hub Performance Improvements[/h1] Due to a huge surge of new users, there were some recent performance issues with the hub people have been experiencing. The dynamic portals were causing unusually long load times. We have fixed this, and you should now notice much faster loading times upon launching VRChat. [h1]Polaroid Time![/h1] The mod polaroid camera is back and better than ever! If you see a mod, feel free to ask them for a polaroid camera. Pictures come out just like with a real polaroid camera. Any pictures you take with the polaroid are saved to your Pictures/VRChat folder on your PC. [i]Disclaimer: All spawned polaroid cameras go away as soon as the mod leaves the room.[/i] [h1]VRCHIVE Panorama Fixes[/h1] In VRChat, you can take 360° panoramas and view them on VRCHIVE, a 360° image hosting site for VR content. Our previous 5.6 update introduced a few bugs with taking panoramas in VR mode, which have been fixed in this patch. The image quality of panoramas taken should now also be much higher resolution [h1]Help Videos[/h1] We’ve created a batch of helpful videos to walk you through some of the core features of VRChat. You can check them out in the new “Help Videos” world under the featured row in the menu or find the portal in the hub. They are also posted in the #vrchat-guides section of our discord. [h1]Going Forward…[/h1] We are getting very close to the release of the new Hub. We started to beta test it with select members of the community. Until it’s out, enjoy this teaser image! [img]http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27574735/78557d3ce2a136ecbe979340caa1a69fecf426da.png[/img] [b]Thanks and Enjoy![/b] The VRChat team