Phased rollout of game version 1.96 begins today to macOS / Windows / Android devices.
Phased rollout to iOS / tvOS devices begins tomorrow.
The in-game “Friends Zwifting” notification is no longer shown during Workouts.
In the Achievements screen, placeholder badges will now only be shown for routes that are available to all Zwifters in the Routes list. If a route is only accessible via an Event, the badge will be shown in the Achievements screen if it has been earned.
Fixed an issue that caused some environmental shadows to have jerky animations.
Fixed a crash that could potentially occur when creating custom workouts.
Fixed an issue that could cause water to flicker at some locations in France.
Android: Improved Bluetooth connection reliability.
Windows, Android: Stability improvements.
UPDATE August 27
Phased rollout continues to Windows / macOS / Android / iOS.
Phased rollout to iOS/tvOS begins today.
UPDATE August 28
Phased rollout is complete.
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In the Achievements screen, placeholder badges will now only be shown for routes that are available to all Zwifters in the Routes list. If a route is only accessible via an Event, the badge will be shown in the Achievements screen if it has been earned
And how does zwifthacks (and similar third-party sites) get their information if they can’t see the badge placeholders in Zwift itself? How do they ensure their information is accurate when Zwift sometimes change which routes have badges?
In my opinion it is not a problem to have route badges for event-only routes. Most riders manage to organize time to join relevant events to earn them. But it is a problem to have badges for event-only routes which do not make sense to be used for an event (like Macaron) so there actually are no events on that route available - ever. This is frustrating. It is also an issue to have place holders for new routes long before those routes are avaible to anyone (event-only or not). This is frustrating for badge hunters like me and makes the achievements overview messy. Years ago it was not necessary to publish these place holders on such an early stage. Why now?
My suggestion is to use the “hiding feature” for new place holders as long as the specific routes are not available (event-only or not). I also suggest to not have route badges for event-only routes on which no significant number of events are likely to take place.
This has to be one of the dumbest things I have seen Zwift do over the years, and we have seen some.
Instead of making them rideable you just hide them so you dont have to comment on them or explain how we can ride them. Typical zwift. Lets just hide it and be quiet instead of coming up with something usefull
If we’re on the topic of hiding achievement badges, what I’d really like to see is a cycling only target total. This figure I believe includes running badges and is constantly mocking me. I have no interest in or access to running on Zwift.
Having routes as Event-Only to begin with is extremely short-sighted. The routes are there. To be blunt, the more I have gone through this bike upgrading process, spending hundreds of hours riding with RoboPacers or free-riding Tempus Fugit or Route Of The Week in with Trainer Difficulty set to 0% and ERG set to some arbitrary constant power value using the Trainer Control function in the Wahoo app for my KICKR BIKE V2, it would be nice to be able to free ride anything, once the route is created in the ZwiftApp. The more I have ridden free rides because of these upgrade challenges, the more I realize I prefer to ride free rides or pacers, versus “Events”. It lets me train on my time and otherwise zone out of the social functions on Zwift, which has increased the value of the platform for me significantly, because I get more out of it on my time, and I can avoid the annoying chat.
Just let us Zwift whatever routes we want, always.
Hear, hear! Free the roads! Don’t hide worlds like Bologna, in fact I would encourage Zwift to give these small worlds some love and explore their expansion.
That’s actually my case in point. I wanted that route for Zwift-frame bike upgrades, I finally got in on 1 April on an event that had convenient timing. During the event, I strictly rode the mountain bike because the event was then set to No TT Bikes. For the after party, I went several more times up for climbing credit on Zwift Mountain bike, and did the Zwift TT bike for everything else.
It helped with upgrade progress on those annoying frames a lot. 101km of Bologna. It was absolutely the perfect route for “climbing” and “timing” bike upgrading when switching frames on route.
To drive users to other sites and then maybe to some event to get the rare top secret route badge?
Do people actually enjoy that challenge is what I want to find out.
IMO, event only routes need to be destroyed permanently and never to exist again. Use other “carrots” to get people to events, like special bike paint schemes or jerseys. I prefer to ride at the times available to me, not at some strange time that is inconvenient just to get a badge.
I don’t know, I reckon users might prefer a cleanup of the bot riders, weight dopers and other dodgy hacks we are seeing at the moment (see any of the fast robopacer groups right now). I don’t think people appreciate 44kg 5.0w/kg zone 2 riders messing up the pace of robopacer groups. That is a daily event.
We’ve had a lot of mixed feedback on this one over the years: We hear some folks say that they’re frustrated about having a list of un-earned route badges that they can’t complete without finding external events that are out of their control, and we hear others tell us that they like the macro-level challenge of badge hunting even if it means they have to join random community events or wait for certain routes to eventually be hosted by event organizers.
One obvious theme in this is that many people are simply looking for a clearer source of truth on what badges are available, which we can solve in a few other ways and we’re currently discussing that internally.
Another theme is about wanting more event-only routes to be made public so that they can be ridden any time. We’ve been chipping away at this over the past year or so (a few examples off the top of my head in game updates 1.81, 1.76, 1.72, 1.64), but there’s also more to do here and we’re actively discussing this too.
Thanks for the feedback on this one!