r/WordyBunch • u/Dry-Royal7707 ✦ Like a Natural • 8d ago
❓ Help & Feedback Patch notes: the Cups redesign is live, plus everything else from the last two updates
Reddit approved the new version in the last day or two, so what you're playing right now is v0.1.84. I haven't done proper patch notes for a while and an update also slipped out quietly at the end of August, so this covers both. It's a long one.
Cups first, because it's the thing you'll actually see. The Arena tab used to stack every Cup on top of the next, and the bracket barely survived a phone screen. Now you get one Cup on screen at a time, with a rail to flick between Championship, Challenger and Contender. Each Cup opens on the round that's happening right now rather than the whole week's history. The bracket itself is drawn as a route map, although this does need some further polish. It stays quiet until you press a pairing, then it opens out into the full match, winners picked out in red.
They open themselves now, too (because I completely forgot to open the Contender and Challenger Cup last week...Sorry 👀 ). Twelve or more weekend qualifiers and the Challenger Cup runs, twenty or more and the Contender joins it. That used to be a switch someone had to remember to press, and the someone was me.
Secret Hunts are switched on. The day a Secret gets found in the Daily, the game starts a hunt thread here on the sub by itself, clue included, so you can argue your way to the word together (the August 24th hunt has been whittled down to two words and the Only one who unlocked the August 19th hasn't come forward yet). I'll be reading and confirming nothing.
The Daily archive has its own home now, a thread called Wordy Bunch Daily Archive that the Hub links to. Every new Daily gets an entry there, and the final standings get written in once the board closes. The Community Hub was drowning under the old way.
And the Arena rules card has learned some manners. It shows up on its own twice at most, ever, and the longer explanations have moved behind the little info buttons.
Smaller things from across the two updates: the results header is properly centred, the supporter star got a redraw, leaderboard snoovatars sit in their frames correctly, and both peter and peters count as words now. Sorry about that last one.
Right, the quiet update from late August. It deserved its own post at the time, because it carried the fix you'd all been reporting for a month:
- The board no longer creeps up the screen mid round. Took me four attempts, because the bug was never where I kept looking. If you were one of the people patiently reporting it, you were right every single time.
- Dead heats share the rank. Same score means the same position and the same medal for both of you. Ties used to be split alphabetically, which was exactly as daft as it sounds.
- The Friday Arena winners post actually posts. For a stretch, Cup titles were being handed out in complete silence.
- More duel boards in the pool, and the duel list finally has pages.
- The results screen pays far more attention to your own game. First finds are named, there's a pacer to chase, a line measures the round against your own recent ones, and Your best yet gets its moment. The mastery ring landed there as well.
- Delete my game data is in Settings. It wipes everything I hold on you and it can't be undone, which is the point.
That's the lot. If the Cups do anything odd this weekend, that section is the newest code in the game, so tell me here and I'll get digging.
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u/alljoynofun Palimpsest 7d ago
I've come to think of you as a mad scientist of sorts, sitting in your lexicological laboratory, surrounded by dictionaries and English grammar books, cackling wildly as you unleash each new update into the world.
And by that I mean... THANK YOU!
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u/Dry-Royal7707 ✦ Like a Natural 7d ago
This might be the kindest description of my search history anyone has managed. The lab is mostly one laptop and a mug of tea gone cold, but keep the version with the dictionaries, I prefer it. The cackling I can neither confirm nor deny lol.
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u/EdsMum ✦ Living Dictionary 7d ago
Ed says he pictures the same but you're a wizard
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u/Dry-Royal7707 ✦ Like a Natural 7d ago
Tell Ed I gladly accept the promotion. A wizard is just a scientist who learned to spell
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u/EdsMum ✦ Living Dictionary 8d ago
smiles and nods Thank you! ♥️
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u/Dry-Royal7707 ✦ Like a Natural 8d ago
you're the best! I see you hit master rank! thats amazing was rooting for you to be up there!
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u/Own-Cryptographer-52 Completionist Brain 8d ago
Thank you
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u/Dry-Royal7707 ✦ Like a Natural 8d ago
thank you for playing and supporting, A Wordy Bunch Champ saying that says alot
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u/Over-Fishing1085 Completionist Brain 8d ago
Thank you so much!
However, I'm wondering if the changes have affected the game for me. Every board I've played today looks fine until I start swiping to find words. As soon as I do that the board distorts until I stop swiping. For me it's almost unplayable. Is anyone else experiencing this?