Changelog - Avatar Legends

The latest update - ‘The Bison Bugfix’ 2.0.1

We've been travelling with our flying bison, collecting and fixing some bugs!

Change:

• We’ve made some performance optimisations for players on PlayStation 4 & 5. We are continuing to investigate possible optimisations we can make. 
  • If you are experiencing low FPS, you can turn off NPC outlines or activate performance mode* by talking to the White Lotus NPC on Air Temple Island. (*Note this can not be reversed)

Fix:

Flying Bison:

• We’ve added support for the controls to adjust whether you are using a controller on pc or a touch device.
• The outline of the saddles on the bison is now correctly aligned.
• The interact prompt now appears if you are close to a bison on a mobile device.

Other:

• The hot bar now appears if you enter creative mode again. While we don’t recommend going into creative mode, we don’t want to block your ability to build things in the world.
• Meelo’s hands both in the world and on the skin pack no longer have completely yellow hands.

Update published: 2024/06/18
Version: v2.0.1-rc.2+build.65c519

Previous Updates:

Update 2.0.0 - The Bison Expansion:

Soar into the brand new Avatar Legends: Bison Expansion in Avatar Legends 2.0.0. Tame your own Flying Bison, nurture it, and explore the world together.

New:

Flying Bison:

• Choose and raise your own Flying Bison on Air Temple Island; they’ll be your companion as you explore the world!
• Care and nurture your Flying Bison; your bison has moods! As you care for them, they’ll grow up and become bigger and faster.
• Explore the world from brand-new heights by riding your Flying Bison.

Customization:

• Use Air Blades to change the haircut of your Flying Bison; which stylish cut will you choose?
• Use the customizer station on Air Temple Island to equip your Flying Bison with a saddle.

We’d love to see how you style your Bison! Make sure to fly on over to our Discord and share some screenshots in #gm1-chat

Collectables:

• Find and collect Moon Peaches around the world, they are your Bison’s favorite snack!
• Hunt around the world for new saddles for your Bison!
• Is your Bison hungry? You’ll now find straw barrels and grab the straw to feed your hungry Bison.

Change:

• Air Temple Island has been expanded to include a Bison paddock, stables, a greenhouse, oh and of course Flying Bison!
• You now use your Bison whistle to travel between the different regions of the world.
  • We’ve also added more options for travelling to Air Temple Island
• We’ve made a lot of performance improvements for all devices.
• To support the expanded content of Avatar Legends, we’ve reduced some graphical settings if playing on Nintendo Switch. This includes the removal of black outlines on characters, as well as NPC Icons, and puddles no longer animating.

Fix:

• The Avatars in the spawn room no longer have their bending abilities appear on the floor.
• We fixed an issue where the Boss Bar sometimes gets stuck on a player's screen.
• If playing in multiplayer, completing the tutorial duel no longer awards more than one mastery point if two or more players click the reward button at the same time.

Update published: 2024/02/27
Version: v2.0.0.8_rc1

Update 1.1.2:

Changes:

• We've improved double jumping! Double jumping in a different direction than you are currently traveling will now push you in the new direction. 
  • Jumping while pressing W (moving forward) then letting go of W and holding D (right) will mid-air before jumping again should now push to the right instead of forward right.
• You'll no longer see the white bending highlight while holding Earth Wall if there are blocks above which would prevent you from using Earth Wall.

Fixes:

Bending:

• Bending abilities no longer get stuck after death. If a player died while using Fire Stream they would be using Fire Stream when they respawned.
• We made several fixes to Earth Walls:
  • Earth Walls can no longer be pulled underneath several of the carts in Ba Sing Se
  • Earth Walls no longer have a chance to appear one block above the ground
  • Earth Walls no longer have a chance to spin around randomly when they are pulled
  • Earth Walls no longer have a chance to be bent underground, resulting in a darkened Earth Wall
  • Interacting with Earth Wall while looking at an area that can not be bent will no longer force you to place down an Earth Wall when you let go of interact and then look at a bendable area
  • Players can now correctly push an Earth Wall if their faces are smashed up against it. Please stop running into solid walls though!
  • We've fixed an issue where unsuccessfully bending an Earth Wall would still consume CHi 

Duels & Encampments:

• The Daofei encampment will now correctly award a mastery point after completing it again.

Other:

• When a player exits a meditation site they will no longer spawn inside of it, we'll place the player to the side now! 
• We fixed an issue that could occur if a player acquired two trinkets in quick succession.
• We resolved some Z-fighting issues on several skins. The Boulder, Tonraq, Ghazan, Avatar Roku, Zaheer.

Update published: 2023/12/19

Version: v1.1.2.1_rc1

Update 1.1.1:

Add:

• If you go out of the playable area bounds, you’ll now hear a jingle as well as the fade to black.
• You can now choose between fast or fancy graphics inside the ‘Performance Guide’ on Air Temple Island.
• A play button now appears the first time you enter the game.

Changes:

• We changed some visuals to make them easier to see and understand:
• Air Sphere
• Avatar State
• Avatar Statue Spirits.

Fixes:

Bending:

• We resolved an issue introduced by Minecraft 1.19.60, which caused players who used Earth Quake or Meteor Dash to become frozen.

Duels & Encampments:

• In nearly created worlds, a section of the border of the Air Nomad Encampment in Northern Air Temple is now more clearly defined.

Other:

• We resolved an issue introduced by Minecraft 1.19.60, which caused players to be incredibly fast.
• We resolved some visual problems on Nintendo Switch which caused some parts of the game to appear as white boxes, notably:
• Pai Sho Tiles
• The map credits
• Air Sphere
• The Avatar State

Update published: 2023/02/10

Version: v1.1.1.2_RC0

Update 1.1.0:

Add:

• We added a new class of Airbenders that don’t use the tornado ability for the Northern Air Temple encampment to improve performance.

Changes:

Performance & Optimizations:

• Tornados no longer have their inner core transparent core to improve FPS. Tornados now use two render controllers instead of three.
• Black outlines are now removed from all NPCs when outline mode is enabled rather than them remaining on interactable NPCs. Interactable NPCs still have a white highlight outline.
• Water sources (buckets, wells, troughs) now have increased range, and on new worlds, there are fewer.
• Several technical improvements have been made, including removing unused code and improving function efficiency.
• Bison Statues and Bat Lemurs in Northern Air Temple are now removed if a player is in performance mode.
• Air Spheres now have a longer sound effect and animation to improve performance on Nintendo Switch.

Fixes:

Bending:

• Frozen enemies can no longer use charging attacks while frozen. This includes Air Sphere, Quake, Fire Sweep etc.

Progression:

We’ve made the tracking of player progression more robust with this update to resolve a common issue and some fringe cases.

• Tracking of if the player has collected the Bison Whistle is now done on a scoreboard after some players were losing their tag.
• Tracking if the player has completed the tutorial is now done on a scoreboard after some players reported losing this tag.
• Bending ability unlocks now backed up to a separate system to ensure progression is not reset. This backup is read every time a player logs in, challenges an Avatar or enters a Meditation Site. 

Duels & Encampments:

• King Bumi no longer appears twice (or more) as an NPC or enemy if two (or more) players click the claim button after defeating Azula simultaneously. Congratulations if you coordinated that, though!
• Enemies in Rumble Arena can now create Earth Walls in the entire arena rather than just the centre circle.
• Resolve an issue where enemies would despawn after the duel cutscene. This was caused by players losing their `bender` tag. This is now tracked on a scoreboard.

UI:

• The background of Mastery Points and the purchase button in the Meditation Site is now a dusty gold/orange to comply with contrast accessibility guidelines from WCAG.
• A UI element which caused some players to have a black box in the middle of their screen has been removed.
• The `Emergency Exit Button` (Big Red X), which appears if a player is in a dialogue window for too long, is enabled by default for more UI Screens after a 30s wait.
• If a player clicks the `Emergency Exit Button` (Big Red X) in a duel cutscene fade, then duel fades are disabled for all future duels. This prevents an issue where on Nintendo Switch where players could be stuck on a black screen.

Other:

• If a second player joins a world and uses a Bison whistle while the host player is on Air Temple Island, the player who used the whistle is now taken to the Bison rather than the dock.

Update published: 2022/12/20

Version: v1.1.0.1_RC1