I was pretty excited for the Optimisation Update, but of course the bad outweighs the good like always. Let's list the few good things in this update:
- Optimization
- Bug Fixes
- 4 New Blocks
- Alot of new Block Properties
- More World Page customisability
These features are great! But as I said earlier, the bad outweighs the good. Let's talk about the bad things in this update.
(Almost) All Previous Worlds Broken
The REPEATER Gate and Wiring Variable Block got new settings (REPEATER Gate got Increment & Wiring Variable Block got Local (yes I forgot the setting name)) and instead of Increment being set to 1 and [setting I forgot the name of] to Global (effectively making them functioned how they did before) both got set to "nil". Now I think it's cool in a rarity sense but in a practical sense, this is horrible! Most Worlds use these blocks (all Featured Worlds do for sure, and some Featured Worlds are abandonded so it's an even bigger problem) meaning that they'll have to manually fix all their REPEATER Gates & Wiring Variable Blocks, not to mention abandonded Worlds exist and those will just be dysfunctional forever, masterpieces ruined by an update.
So Many Bugs!
This happens in every update, so it's not that big of a deal, it usually get resolved within a week or so, but come on, you have testers, how is it not thourougly playtested? I get it's just one developer but it feels like the playtesters aren't even reporting bugs of their own, the community tries it's best by reporting bugs in their version of Wubby, but they don't have access to the new version with the new bugs. I'm gonna stop ranting about the bugs now, and move onto the next criticism.
Gate Colours Changed AGAIN & REORDERED TOO?!
Just as I was settling down with the new colours too... Did they have to, yet again?! No old colour remains! They even reordered the Blocks! We haven't had an update since last year and this is what we get?! Are you kidding me?! Wiring is one of the core parts of Wubby, and they just made it 10x harder! They didn't even release player settings like they promised, what, 3 updates ago?!
Final Thoughts
The Optimisation Update was an unnecessary update at best, and at worst an update that made the game way more user-unfriendly.