Patch 1.24B brings two holiday tracks, a bonus track, and more!
Hi everyone! Trombone Champ has been updated to 1.24B - the holiday update for 2024!
This update adds two holiday songs: "Carol of the Bells" and "Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah!" It also adds a "bonus" track: "Puttin' On the Ritz!" All three of these are pretty tricky but a lot of fun!
(We usually include a note here like: "this may break your mods, please check them for updates"... but this update is fairly small and shouldn't break anything.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBYTz7OjDBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJInjPIGOeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKk16RCOWjc
We were originally planning to make this update much bigger... we have tons of updates in progress, and a lot of them are almost ready to roll out. But the past few months have been busy with the launch of Trombone Champ: Unflattened in VR, plus the 9-player typing game we showed at NYU's No Quarter 2024 event. Around mid-November, we realized: "whoops, if we want these holiday tracks released before the holidays, we need to work on getting a smaller patch out the door immediately."
Here's a full list of what's new:
New Tracks: "Carol of the Bells," "Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah," and "Puttin' On the Ritz!"
When sliding trombone notes, the tone you hear should match the slide much more accurately.
Replaced the logo on the home screen with the official logo used everywhere else.
The game should jump from the Loading screen to the Gameplay screen a bit faster.
OMG! Lots of improvements to the Tootmaker level editor (which is still "secret" for now).
Fixed some conditions that caused the mouse cursor to reappear if the user had activated the Disable Mouse Cursor setting.
Other minor graphical optimizations and tweaks.
The second bullet point is a big one! If you haven't noticed, pitch bending has been pretty inaccurate since launch: when you bent a note, the tone you would hear would be slightly off-tune in lots of cases. We found a new solution that works like magic and will probably write a blog post about it. This is one of those things that we're embarrassed to have left in the game for so long.
Before the end of the year, we'll make another post about our 2025 roadmap, but to summarize, we have a few large, fundamental updates we'd like to finish ASAP. In the meantime, happy holidays and thank you for your patience!
Forever in your service,
Holy Wow Studios