Zwift released a game update Thursday night which includes a variety of small changes. Here are the details…
Ride Leader Fence
We talked about this feature when it was being tested almost three months ago. It appears Zwift has updated the feature and will be testing it more moving forward.
The Burrito is Back!
The breakaway burrito powerup makes you undraftable for 10 seconds. It was available in Zwift’s beta days, but was removed from the game because it affects other riders, not just you.
Example: if you are in a two-man breakaway with a teammate and you have the burrito, using it will negatively affect both of you.
So Zwift has added an option to throw away your powerup, solving the problem of having a powerup you don’t want to use. When you throw away your powerup you won’t receive a new one until you ride through another arch.
Here’s what it looks like in-game:
At this time, the burrito is not being given away in the normal distribution of powerups., It can optionally be included in specific events.
New Bike Frames from Felt
For the first time, we have Felt frames in the Drop Shop. And these frames are fast!
Felt AR 
Felt IA
The new Felt frames are turning in the same times as the top frames in our speed tests. We’re still testing them further, but you can see our speed tests spreadsheet for raw results. We’ll be publishing more info on these frames soon.
“Watopia’s Waistband” Route Added
Hurray! We published this as a rebel route in early May, but Zwift has just rolled it out as an event-only route. Pretty cool to see Zwift listening to the community and creating a route people were manually riding because they enjoyed it.
More Changes
More minor changes included in this update include:
- Training Plan Updates
- Added Multisport Mixer training plan, “a cycling-focused plan for multi-sport athletes.” “If you want to get faster as a cyclist while also maintaining run performance, this is the plan for you.”
- L’Etape Phase 4 workouts added
- Minor updates to Cycling 101 training plan
- Added FTMS spindown functionality for BLE
- Added Multisport Mixer training plan
- Updated the calculations used to automatically flag fliers
- Several new cycling and running kits added
That’s all we can see in terms of changes in the latest update. Have you spotted something else? Comment below and let us know!
On my Mac it’s updated to build 36882, but I don’t have Watopia Waistband route. Have uninstalled and tried again but it’s not there.
Ah, “Event Only”.
So happy to see Watopia’s Waistband added as that’s my new favorite ride. lol!!!
No update available on my device; iOS-iPad! Why are we left out/or last in line AGAIN!
Where did you get these release notes? There has been no release info on the Zwift Forum since the Drop Shop was released … at least I can’t find any.
Let’s just say they don’t call this “Zwift Insider” for nothing! 🙂
I DO wish Jon Mayfield would resume posting release notes on the forum. I always appreciated those!
Because Apple check every update before the release it in the App Store.
And this take 1-2 days.
The on-screen turn indicator is no longer a cascade of arrows it is now a single blinking arrow beneath one’s seat/arse….also: I SAW THE ROADRUNNER! He is very small and purple and I saw him just past the yellow diamond roadrunner image sign (was that there before?) Fuego Flats and Zwift Vegas seemed “fuller” also…my imagination or are there some 1 room shacks amongst the mega-structure…more flora too
Where can i find the new cycling kits?
Haha, yeah, we appreciate your inside access. Really can’t understand why Zwift doesn’t inform their users of the release changes. Any idea why many software companies don’t tell their paid users what’s new? Jon’s notes were very informative.
Elite Rampa works fine with BLE on Windows 10
Tried to create a “Watopia’s Waistband” in Meet-up. not there. How can I create an event? I would love to do a “Weekly Waistband ride.
“Event only” doesn’t include meetups. It can only be used for official, “open” events like you’d see on the main events calendar.
All nice fixes and implementations here. I understand that displaying all country flags in game would also be a minor fix, yet it has not even been considered at least since April 2018, and a recent email exchange with support suggested that it isn’t possible, which is obviously not the case.
Currently I can say for sure that this affects the paying customers from Sierra Leone, St. Lucia, Virgin Islands and Bolivia.
Another change: the late join feature is now disabled in zwift. I was a regular user of that function. Pisses me off
They didn’t purposely disable it, from what I hear. I think it’s just temporarily broken! Bet it’s fixed this week…
Unfortunately they did it on purpose Eric (official answer by zwift support), because according to them the feature was completely broken and giving way too much problems. Funny thing, because it worked pretty fine for me. No ETA for this fix. A real pity
Anyone know when they will be releasing the hill extension for the new Watopia expansion?