What's New

Voyager Foil 0.2.0 beta. Changes since build 179.

Build 187 (10-14), on TestFlight for Beta Testers

Races and leaderboards

Every race course now has an Easy and a Hard sea. The waves are the same for everyone, so race times can be compared.
Race courses are about 5 minutes long, and the conditions line shows wave heights in feet.
Game Center leaderboards for all 5 race courses, Easy and Hard (10 boards). Tap Leaderboards on the race finish screen.
Game Center is optional. If it asks you to sign in at launch, you can cancel. Your personal bests are still saved on the phone.

The Pump button is now a slider, shaped like a backwards L. Slide left to paddle, or hold at the corner and slide up to pump.
Thumb down compresses (deep squat). Thumb up extends and pushes the board. Hold at the top to glide.
Timing pays: compress slowly and extend fast. Good pumping holds speed on flat water, up to 20 mph.
Extend on the face of a bump (coming over the back of it) and you can push past your normal top speed.
Haptics build through the up-stroke, like leg resistance, and a good stroke at low speed gives a visible surge.
You can go straight from paddling to pumping without lifting your thumb.
Lift your thumb and the rider eases back into the normal stance over about a second.
The board rises and dips with each pump, a little behind the rider, like a real pump foil.
New pump animation from real pump-foil video: knees over toes, narrower stance, both hands low on the paddle.

The paddle and pump slider respond at human speed. Slide too fast and you feel a ratchet buzz.
After a stroke, the paddle eases back to the carry over about a second instead of snapping.

The SURF button puts the rider into surf stance again. Builds 184 and 185 had broken it; 186 fixed it.
Surf SUP left turn is now a hand-edited pose. The right arm and hand match it.
In surf stance the feet stay planted through left-right switches. The front foot no longer lifts.
Smoother arms and rails: arms can't whip around faster than a real arm, and the rail tilt lets go smoothly at the end of the takeoff stroke.

Every route opens on a fun default sea: two swells of 5 ft or more, running along the course.
Swells follow each route's start-to-finish line. Before, some routes had swells up to 75 degrees off.
Coast sheltering is off by default.

Courses: Glassy Groundswell Reef, Tourist Bay, Tourist Bay to TourBus Beach, Outer Hawaii foil playground.
Riders: Core Lord, Metalhead, Angus, Nipple Ring.
Board lengths and practice routes follow your units setting (feet and miles).

Build 188 drops the Game Center sign-in at launch. You'll only be asked when you tap Post to Game Center on a race finish.