Game Update - April 29th, 2020

Thank Ben. Appreciate that ZHQ want it 100% fuxed before releasing it back to us but not having it does make leading tge huge groups we are seeing very difficult. Especially for interval training rides

For sure.
I stopped a free ride last night to join a group ride for a bit more draft. I stayed with the beacons and I was going slower with the beacon than the random group I was previously doing a free ride with (at the same effort) lol.

Hi Gerardo

This will never be possible as Apple TV only has 3 BLE channels and one of these is used by the remote leaving just two. However if you have certain trainers such as wahoo Kickr or core they now have firmware the builds a cadence sensor within that calculates cadence due to length of the chain. This means only two channels of BLE being used so you wouldn’t require the companion app

Hope that makes sense
Simon

Any chance of some youth events and challenges?

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I just joined a C grade group ride for an easy spin down after a big start to the week. Got smoked so badly. Was pushing 5w/kg and had no chance. Got dropped after about 10kms. It felt like there was no draft at all. Ended up getting lapped twice. My average power was higher than most the other riders at the end.

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Hi David, I had the same situation in the ride I did this afternoon, felt like Drafting had been disabled. Cheers

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Same thing here Dave. I think something with Zwift’s new anti-sandbagging tech for racing has gone awry. I just completed what was supposed to be a social “D” categorized club ride. I installed the latest update just prior to the ride. I have done this same group ride 17 times since the fall - according to ZwiftPower on the previous 16 outings I averaged 178W to hold the beacon’s pace (easy Z2 for me) - on the ride tonight I had to put out 243W to stay with the beacon (while many around me held the same pace at significantly lower W/kg). In fact, I had to put out more power to hold the pace on this “D” categorized ride than I did on the regular “C” categorized ride I did last Friday. I wasn’t the only one in the group experiencing this issue, so it is likely a result of the latest update that Zwift needs to fix. I am all for weeding out sandbaggers in categorized races, but we should be able to go on social club or recovery rides without having to maintain threshold power!

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I updaye my ipad, but d new bike to shown?
Pc version i check update, but no respond?
Only samsung phone zwift version update succesfully with factor & ripley brand avaialble

The same for me. I was dropped since the beggining from a ride this morning. No way keeping with small groups even pushing lot harder than people on them.

For me it seems drafting was not working (I had the same feeling one day that for my own error I rided on a TT bike).

Hope they’ll fix it soon.

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How old is Zwift? And yet after EVERY ride you have to save your ride and restart the whole game?! It has got to be one of the most annoying parts of Zwift. I want to finish one route or workout and then go straight to another not wait for the programme to shut down and then wait again for it to start up again.

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Thanks for all the amazing work especially during such a weird and sometimes scary time. I honestly think zwift is saving my sanity,my marriage and my mental health. I’m meeting up with mates and having a laugh whilst keeping relatively fit. So again THANKS

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Hacking it with RowedBiker (Android) or PainSled (iOS).

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Wondering what this actually means? Is it a better graphical experience? I have a 1660. Also is this part of the new event mode that let’s you experience zwift in its purest form?

Is there any way of getting an update so that you can which gear you’re in on screen when using a Wattbike Atom?

Wes,
have you fixed the bug, which causes some A-Racers to eat up all KOMs on Strava, because of wrong activity transfer from Zwift to Strava? Those riders have a linear offset in speed and in the flyby they are appr. 15sec per 30km ahead of everybody else, even when they have finished in pos 5 -10 on Zwift.

See screen shot
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Same here. Dropped in a fatburn ride at 3W/kg lol

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Great Job HQ !!

Looking forward to experience the Boost Mode

Cheers

Yes I always force quit, and no it doesn’t fix it. The issue only occurs when joining a group ride or meet-up. Free riding it’s fine. Other people have been noting this bug for years on AppleTV. Makes following ride instructions impossible.

Doesn’t happen every time, just intermittently so I never know if it’ll work or not.

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Good day. After updating I couldn’t manage to connect my Bluetooth devices directly to my pc(Wahoo ticker hr and wahoo speed cadence) I had to link up through my Companion and during my 3R volt event my cadence and watts just dropped and the come back again. This happened a couple of times. Sometimes it drops irrespective what my watts or cadence is. This is very annoying because you then loose contact with your group. Please assist

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This is a great idea. I bought the Tarmac Pro & first try out on it Zwift gave me the Trek Emonda as an Everest climb pressie. Typical lol. Love to be able to trade one back. It’d also be great if we could trade with each other.