Game Update - December 17th, 2020

I selected the new serpentine 8 route in the jungle today for a workout and my character immediately pulled a u-turn to go the wrong way.

Yes the routes should become available next week. The reason we need to wait a few days is because if users with old game versions join a meetup on the new routes, their game client will not have the new roads. This is not ideal as you can imagine.

We wait for a good portion of the user base to update their game client before making new routes available, to lower the likelihood of this issue occurring.

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Quite the ride Sepentine 8 - felt like I was on Raiders at Disneyland - great design work!

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I have a computrainer that connects with a USB drive. Was working fine. On my first ride after the update a i had a load of problems. Zwift had a hard time pairing to start. Then while riding i kept getting frequent hard resistance efforts about every 10 seconds while riding on a flat route. I had to unpair and pair again. Then i lost connection to the trainer while riding and had to pair again. I am hoping this is a one off thing and not a problem with the new update

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Thanks for the update, but still so many bugs and clunky behavior. Example. Signed up for New York group ride but when time to start no way to do that. Enter a ride and no prompt to join. My girlfriend got in that way be it failed to prompt me. So clunky and buggy…

Excited for new content, but when will there be an android TV compatible version. Yes, it can be side loaded to something like nVidia Shield, but an unnecessary hassle. Why has it taken years just to publish as Android TV compatible? So many users on so many forums who’ve posted how much use they would get out of this…

New Ocean, Lava, Cliffside Loop is great, little bit of everything. Love your work :+1::grin:

They confirmed the other day there are no plans to bring the game to the Android TV platform.

Love the idea of pacers but it’s a big gap between 8 minute miles and 10:45 could we have a 9/9:30 one ?

If Garmin knows my Di2 gearing, Zwift must be able to find out as well.

The latest update seems to have fixed the graphics issues I was having. Tested 2 different PCs yesterday, both worked at least as well as they used to and possibly even a bit better! Good stuff! Merry Christmas one and all!

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Garmin doesn’t ‘know’ your Di2 gearing, you have to program that in. And Zwift adds in the twist of the ‘Trainer Difficulty’ slider, which makes the actual gearing on your bike potentially meaningless/

It has been a feature request since april. Startpage for Zwift with Settings and Garage
I would like to see that to, please vote.

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Android update now a available

Thanks for your post. As with most software development, value and need push items to the top of the backlog. @scrum master, @business owner, or anyone else Zwift, I’d ask you take a minute to read the following for long term ART/PI planning:

Priorities change, just the same as Android TV continues to take market share from Roku, which is by far a larger streaming platform than AppleTV. Roku has a far variable range of hardware, and lots of hoops to jump through to get certified on their platform (ie: HBO Max).

Easier, but similar with AppleTV, but many publishers want to appease the Apple army. Don’t get me wrong, Zwift performs well on AppleTV, but still hacky (only 3 connections available at time, so disconnect the remote or connect a sensor to companion app??).

Why lose sight of the Android TV app which is hardly any extra effort to certify on Play store, and ignore support of the platform constantly gaining market share? A need which has been made clear by more people than you can count discussing on hundreds of forums & threads for years.

Lots of parallels here to web dev ~10 years ago, where web devs had to assign tons of resources to crappy IE as other browsers continued gobbling market share, and where is IE now? Even Safari is still a minor contender in browser share. While most corporations finally moved on from IE, at least <=IE8, the Apple army still must be placated, but to what expense when there are far technically superior options.

Android TV support is a smart move with little additional effort for the long term vision of Zwift.

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Any chance of fixing the fact that it doesn’t run properly on the Galaxy Z Fold2? It has aspect ratio issues and never really starts on the big screen.

I did the update on my Ipad Pro (IOS14) and now I can’t run it anymore. It crash each time afeter login in…
Please help !!!

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Di2 can broadcast which gear you are in (as far as I am aware at least)

Zwift app on iPhone 11 Pro Max. Zwift starts and freezes during login. Can’t get to pairing screen. Force quit, and music continues to play for a while. Rebooting phone doesn’t fix it.

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Unless something has changed, it is private ANT and not ANT+. So, unless Zwift works with Shimano ($$$), they’re probably not getting the key to decrypt the info.

As for Bluetooth, it’s probably a similar situation.