Hello!

Let’s begin by saying that this feature has been quite a lot of work to make due to all of the uncertainities and how difficult it has been for us to test. Now we’re finally releasing this, and we expect there to be issues. We need your help to properly test out this feature properly, by gathering as many bugs and feedback as possible before we can open Wave 4.

Testing details

  • If you find any exploits report them to the development team. Report these bugs either via Discord by direct messaging developers there, or via our contact email address: contact@walkscape.app. Players who find exploits and abuse those will be banned, but if you report your findings you’ll be fine, as long as you don’t try to intentionally abuse the exploits. In extreme cases, we might rollback your character to a previous backup.
  • When reporting issues to us, please tell us as many details as possible. What wearable are you using, what applications are you using to sync your steps to Apple Health (in cases when you’re using something else than Apple Watch), what steps did you take to encounter the issue. The more in-depth you’re with the details, the easier it will be for us to replicate your issue and fix it.
  • Feedback is also much appreciated. If you feel something could be better, be it UI, texts or whatever, please give us feedback. Best place to file in feedback is on our Discord server’s #wearables forum channel, as then other people can also easily chime in to discuss the feedback. If you don’t see the channel, you probably haven’t picked up the beta role. You can do that from #roles channel.
  • If you’re reporting bugs or other issues regarding the steps, please include screenshots of your Apple Health step data entries. This can be found from Apple Health > Steps > Data Sources and Access > (choose your device) > (choose date) > Screenshot of the entries, or of a single sample that might’ve had an issue.

What we are looking for

  • We’re also looking for as much information as possible on how the wearable support works on different devices and wearables. Initially, all wearables and health sync apps are allowed. Based on the information we get, we will later on transition to a whitelist system, as we’ve already found that some wearables and apps report their data in a format that isn’t specific enough for having robust anti-cheat.
  • If you find that your wearable or apps you’re using are having issues working with WalkScape properly, please report this to us as well. Also, if something works really well, we would love to hear that too. This will help us to have a good understanding about what works and what doesn’t, and will help us in the future to provide good customer support for users that use wearables.
  • For reporting these, we have opened a new forum channel on Discord called #wearables. Please report your findings there.#

When are we releasing this

  • The game will go maintenance as soon as the reviews on Apple TestFlight and Google Play are done. We can’t know exactly when they’ll finish the reviews, but it can be anything from 1 hour to 24 hours. On average, it’s lately been around 2 hours.
  • Maintenance is expected to take 1-2 hours.

Changelogs for #457

Added

  • New achievements
  • New PFP option
  • New recipe
  • New keyword
  • New items
  • Wearable support on iOS
  • New, improved language selection UI
  • New translations from Weblate
  • Languages with grammatical gender can now choose their preferred grammatical gender. This affects languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
  • Reworked the in-game settings. In-game settings have been reset to default values due to these changes.

Changed

  • Adjusted cut opal value
  • Adjusted a chest loot table

Fixed

  • Fixed some background errors that were happening when changing PFP color options
  • Fixed some background errors that happened when starting crafting actions
  • Fixed some background errors on iOS when launching the game
  • Fixed a bunch of small issues that happened in the background while using a fresh account & install

Thank you

Thank you, and thanks for the patience! I’m hoping this testing goes well, and we can get as much feedback and bugs reported as possible, so starting next week we can fix as many of them as possible.

As long as all critical issues are fixed, the only thing at this point that is missing before launching Wave 4 is fixing the inconsistencies in steps graph. We’re hoping to fix after smart watch support related issues are resolved.

Happy walking everyone!