Memorial Day Weekend Sale

Its that special weekend again, and also the first weekend of summer break for me. Memorial Day Weekend is here, and with that comes the annual sale of hats and releasing new hats. Here's some of the new hats:

Their were also old hats that came back. For example, this bad boy came out for an hour last night for R$ 400. (I also couldn't get it because I was at my sisters birthday party. ):

Not a lot of people were happy with this being back on sale for the eleventh billionth time. But oh well.

The sale ends on Monday, and I'm assuming that's when the "Purple Dominus" releases. People has been speculating about this hat since it got leaked a week ago. Some people thought it would be a Twitch code. Others thought it would just be part of the sale, which is correct.

I'm just going to be on the lookout for hats this weekend. Head over to roblox.com/catalog or go to @roblox on Twitter to get hats once they are released.

Ultimate Competition is here!

Oh, hey! An event, and a new one too! The new "Ultimate Competition" began yesterday and will run for the next few weeks. Its (yet again) in 3 developer places, the places being HEX, Hide and Seek Extreme, and ROBOT BLOX. 

I've only played a bit of it, and the game choices i'd say were the "edgy" feel they were going for. Decent at best, so far. I only have one complaint. I hate that you have to switch from place to place earning and hunting for the hats. I also do like the hats in this event. They look ok to really good. I'll give a final ranking later, when I have played all the games.

The only hat I have been able to achieve at the time of post.

On another note, don't expect me to post too much this week. I'm crammed with school projects. The next-to-last week of school can be hard. 

Weekly Recap: May 3rd - May 9th

So this is some new recurring series on this blog I'm starting. Huzzah for me.

So first up this week, the mobile app got the new UI. Here's what the app looks like now:

Next, a new blog post showed off how developers are using the new custom particle system, from snow to smoke from a missile. Check it at http://blog.roblox.com/2015/05/game-creators-show-the-power-of-custom-particles/.

And that's pretty much it. Smooth terrain is coming sometime in the next 2 weeks, so there is that.

When will we see smooth terrain?

Its a question that's been asked ever since RDC West: When is smooth terrain coming?

A smooth terrain build by Quenty.

Our first look at Smooth terrain was back during BLOXCast October, when we saw the new grass and best of all, the water. Smooth terrain was first made available to certain people on Gametest5 back in January. Developers like CloneTrooper1019 and TheAmazeman showcased it off. It was also shown off at RDC West and given a release time: Spring. Counting from today, there is about 43 days left until Summer in the Northern Hemisphere.

Last Friday, Clone made a tweet saying that smooth terrain would come this Wednesday. And it didn't. So when will this get released? Arseny Kapoulkine (zeuxcg) said that smooth terrain was almost finished  and that he was "waiting for iOS at the moment" back on Wednesday, which is probably why this feature didn't get released. So, my best guess is that this feature will get released in the next 1-2 weeks.

Side note: The old face has returned! A new update today gave us the old face. c: