Closed Beta Update Roundup

We released a few updates to the Closed Beta this week, so you can catch all the changes here.

We are truly progressing further to a public beta as each day passes - until then, we are still welcoming people to our closed beta!

New server!

We are now on the new server! 🎉 This means tomorrows planned maintenance window is no longer needed. Please let us know if anything strange is happening since moving - such as disconnects or lag. From our tests, everything is working as expected but we will only know for sure once you start playing. The new server is designed to be able to support the game for the long-term (public beta & release) and solve occasional hits to performance we were seeing.

What's new?

Diagonal walls are here!! Get even more creative with your wall placement alongside improved wall placement tools
Fences are now available in-game to all players
Cinematic zoom embedded into map button selection, return to lot and leave lot
Objects no longer clip the camera and fade out if you zoom into them
NEW: Chat Colours - Edit the colour of the text that appears in your chat bubble/lot chat in the game settings! Go to Settings -> Preferences and pick a colour. All players will be able to see it!

General Changes/Fixes

Lot chat text size has been increased
Motive panel size has been slightly increased
Minimum resolution enforced (1024x768) - only 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios supported. As part of this, Retina/4K is disabled by default to deliver performance improvements - most players won't notice as it offers little visual benefit. Players should notice quieter computer fans, especially on higher resolutions. High-performance machines can enable 4K/retina in settings.
Windows: Persona portraits for other players no longer go off screen at some resolutions
Fix to stop seeing other players in the Character Creator / you will only see other players in lots
FPS will drop when game window isn't actively selected to help performance
Skill locking should now work properly
Fixed a critical bug which prevented players from joining lots with a high number of objects
Motives HUD made slightly larger (again)
World time now moved to the top left of the screen
World time now visible in the World Map again