Game Update - March 16th, 2021

Can you post a pic? Do you have a smart bike or???

I am very happy about fixing the bug related to selecting an event and then getting on the bike immediately afterwards. I do that a lot as do a lot of other people I talk to. People are trying to finish out their workday and get in a ride right afterwards, so they check the companion app and may find a ride that starts in the next few minutes they want to join. Thatā€™s a very helpful fix.

I have recently experienced a sudden drop in resistance while going up steep grades like 9 to 15%. I thought there was something wrong with my Kicker, so I contacted Wahoo. They did some troubleshooting, said my Kicker is likely perfectly fine, they have had other people with the same problem and they now believe it is a Zwift software bug. I hope that it becomes a high priority for diagnosis and resolution.

Not quite as important but would certainly increase realism: implement an algorithm that more realistically determines when someone is standing up. Sometimes my avatar stands up when I reduce power. That never happens in real life. And sometimes my avatar takes a drink when I have actually gotten out of the saddle and Iā€™m pounding the pedals. Again, not realistic. It seems like it would be fairly straightforward to analyze the rate of increase of power to determine if someone might have stood up. Not just the increase, but the rate of increase. Just a thought.

I did a group ride yesterday and there were some people riding in circles at the start. Never seen that before. Quite bizarre. Perhaps they have the steering feature and did it on purpose, but it was unusual.

Thank you for your attention.

Wattbike v1; running latest firmware. Screen-shot attached; see upper left corner. When taken, the bike was in gear 7. To be clear, the gear selection now displays full-time, all-the-time, even when not changing gears. Before todayā€™s update, the gear selection would display in the same location only when changed ā€“ just briefly ā€“ before disappearing [in other words, when riding and not changing gears, nothing would show prior to the update today].

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Can you fix the bug that it doesnā€™t record your max wattage correctly it can be out by 200watts?

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Did the group ride CHAT get fixed for everyone, not just the leader and sweeper? Already see that a bug is present in this latest release with my avatar sometimes not pedalling.

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Cool little feature - thanks for posting Richard.

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Dlaczego nie ma opcji język Polski !!!

we are waiting too long for fixing this issueā€¦ i am with Hugh - every now and then a new Update rolls out with ā€œspecialitiesā€ in already working thingsā€¦ new colour on shoes, jerseys etcā€¦ wow, what an effortā€¦

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Thanks for the update.

The big issue is the group ride chat bug where group riders canā€™t see a lot of the chat, especially the busier ones. Has this been addressed yet? Itā€™s been acknowledged for months now. The socialising aspect is really a key reason why a lot of us chose zwift over many of the (usually cheaper) alternatives.

Cheers!

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ANT+ RxFail messages are not being logged. Is that by choice?

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Same here, 47 minutes in the screen just froze and Zwift not responding, so frustrating!

Do you know if the bug will retrospectively add the workouts/metrics itā€™s not captured to a plan thatā€™s still in progress? The current fix was to manually Mark as complete but no time/distance etc is captured in the summary by doing this. Thanks!

Massive issues for all ride leaders who use Stream Deck for messages / structured intervals. All of us crashed out several times and then unable to pair and get back in.

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Can we switch worlds without restarting the app or setting up a meet up now?

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Finally fixed. Iā€˜ve been waiting so long for this. Keyboard is so much more reliable than smartphone display in combination with sweat. Canā€˜t wait to try :slight_smile:

I agree, Sticky Draft is worse than ever. Simply annoying

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Runner shoes has absolutely nothing to do with the bugs you mentioned. Completely different people work on those.

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I installed the update this morning, tried to do a active recovery workout and choose the innsbruckring route in the menu. Zwift decided to do a U turn while loading, so I started in the wrong direction and as I didnā€™t note the route, I only found out something was wrong when Zwift sent me up the Lutscher.
Is this U turn while loading (wasnā€™t touching the keyboard and hadnā€™t opened Companion) a new bug in this update?

Another update another. CTD

This is a big regression if deliberate! :confused:

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