Zwift version 1.75 begins its phased rollout today. This is a minor update with some visual tweaks and bug fixes, plus a new route badge and some new roads rising from the sea floor…
Watopia Expansion Rising
We already know there’s a Watopia expansion arriving, to be unveiled for the final stage of Tour of Watopia 2024. You could see some evidence of this expansion in game previously, off the coast of the Volcano, but today’s update makes it much more obvious!
Here’s a screenshot we grabbed from partway up the Volcano climb. What do you suppose the team at Zwift has up their sleeve?
BRAEk-fast Crit and Grits Badge
Not included in the release notes is Zwift’s addition of a new route achievement badge for Scotland’s BRAEk-fast Crit and Grits route created as a result of the ZRL route design contest for round 1.
Our guess is that this route will first be available for those racing in the final stage of Zwift Racing League Round 1 on October 15, and then it will be made available, perhaps even as a free-rideable route, in a future release.
More Release Notes
Zwift provided notes on additional tweaks and bug fixes in this update:
- Fixed an issue that could potentially prevent Zwifters from completing events on the Sleepless City route in Makuri Islands.
- Windows: Fixed a potential visual issue that could occur when Zwifting through underwater tunnels.
- tvOS
- iOS: Fixed an issue that could cause the “Quit Event” button to overlap with the “Menu” button when participating in an event on some Apple tablets.
- Android: Fixed an issue that could cause the “Quit Event” button to overlap with the “Menu” button when participating in an event on some Android tablets.
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Questions or Comments?
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Velodrome.
I think a Velodrome as well!! 👍
Although not part of 1.75, the fact that they “hid” pumpkins and spirit fog in 1.74 until Oct 1st was a nice touch.
The ruins in the water…?
It is a portal.
You ride in… and get teleported to a random hill climb.
Oh, the horror…
New flat portals.
Q: Here’s a screenshot we grabbed from partway up the Volcano climb. What do you suppose the team at Zwift has up their sleeve?
A: I’d be very surprised if the new island isn’t Jarvis Island.
If it isn’t Jarvis Island, my avatar will eat his TOW baseball cap!
Hi Eric, did you hear anything, when the frame upgrading will start in Q4/24 ? … and/or other details (type of Halo Bike etc./smaller or bigger upgrades) ?
Tempest of doom… Players go in watts and drops come out
Anybody else having problem calibrating you your trainer? It goes straight to #4 – stop pedaling (before I start pedaling) followed by an error message.
Android/Elite Direto XR user.
Same issue with my kickr
Haven’t tried it myself to see if it broke in this version. But I would advise you to use the trainer manufacturer’s app to calibrate, not Zwift.
Thanks. I’ll give it a go.
Same problem with my kicker, I noticed it after the 1.74 upgrade.
Wahoo does not recommend using Zwift to calibrate KICKR trainers but to use the Wahoo App. I’ve never been able to get my KICKR CORE to properly calibrate with the ZWift calibration process.
Same issue with my Kickr V4. I dont really use the zwift calibration but it’s bugging out. I calibrate with the wahoo app which works fine. Resistance drops to almost zero in Zwift and can’t put out more than 40watts on the highest gear. Recalibration using wahoo app doesn’t fix it. Wahoo app workouts are fine.
Atlantis themed roads based on the hints so far.
Underwater velodrome 😂
Exactly what I thought … the big rocks are only the roof for the new spectacular Velodrome 🙈😉
Photo from begin this year
https://postimg.cc/kBqRy4Sr
Yes, I remember this photo 🤗 … and yes, we can “MIN”imum see that this wooden oval is in the water in Watopia 😎, so let’s pray for a Velodrome 🙏🏼 … but I’m afraid that ZHQ will not use a Velodrome for a Stage of the Tour of Watopia 🤷🏻♂️🙈
But could a route FINISH on the velodrome like Paris-Roubaix? That’d be awesome!
With all the new routes as of late, a new Watopia map must be on the horizon…again.
Yeah, waiting for the November expansion to drop!
What about a map for Makuri Island, Eric?
Portal to link Watopia & Makuri Islands (is there another portal that has gone un-noticed in Makuri / Neokyo Port?…)… probably an impossibility, but a link portal to enable continuous routes/racing across multiple worlds would be neat. But, yeah, probably just a velodrome.
We need a start pen at the top of Ventoux. That would be so cool!
There is one! Or was. I assume it’s still there.
When will zwift hub get updated? It has not been done for a while.
The Zwift Hub was discontinued last February but it isn’t missing any features at the moment.
I wish Zwift would add a Zwift avatar we could all follow. That could follow us so we could just teleport to were the new thing is coming up from the ocean to see what it looks like.
I am not even sure where the spot is to try and run or walk to it.
Its a bummer that these updates keep coming out without the training partner integrations that were originally slated for “early summer 2024.” It feels very odd that, not only are they not coming out, but Zwift seems to have stopped talking about them. I get the impression it may not be happening anymore, but I certainly hope I’m wrong.
Tried to zwift today. Last used 4 days ago and was fine. Now resistance starts soft and gets so hard I can barely pedal within 10 seconds. Direto xr trainer. Also can’t calibrate past step 4. Ruined my plans for today.
Having the same problem here.
Weirdly enough I tried another platform that rhymes with groovy and all was fine. Went back to Zwift and now it’s working properly again. Haven’t tried to calibrate though.
Still not got update 175. 😢😢
Seems that the UK is always last.
Same here, still waiting for 1.75. Usually get it on Thursday evening but it is now Friday afternoon and still not showing as update.
UPDATE October 1
We detected a potential game crash in our telemetry and have paused the release of version 1.75.0 while we investigate
Thanks AndyW, look forward to fixed version.
UPDATE October 4
Game Version 1.75.2
Phased rollout of Zwift version 1.75.2 begins today on Windows/macOS
Did this update get rolled back? I’m seeing 1.74.2 on Mac today.
I am thinking the same. I usually get it on Thursday evening (Ireland) but it is now Friday afternoon and still not showing as update.
UPDATE October 1
We detected a potential game crash in our telemetry and have paused the release of version 1.75.0 while we investigate
UPDATE October 4
Game Version 1.75.2
Phased rollout of Zwift version 1.75.2 begins today on Windows/macOS
Wish they would focus on letting us adjust the size and even remove UI elements.
The new UI whilst nice looking is FAR too big on a 4k TV, i can read it from my neighbors livingroom…
Nice neighbor; letting you zwift in their living room.
what’s happening with the latest Zwift update 1.75 hasn’t droped 1.75.2 hasn’t dropped I know 1.75 had an issue
1.75.2 available a couple of hours ago (iOS/UK)
Hi Eric –
I would LOVE to see an update on when Zwift might give us Mac users the ULTRA profile, the next level up from HIGH. I get 100fps at 4k in Watopia on my M1 Max and in November Apple will release its fourth generation chip (M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max), which is much, much faster.
Cheers!
Philip
What would be great is if you could enter the whirlpool and translocate to any of the other worlds. Then all worlds become one.
Since this update my virtual shifting doesn’t work anymore (with Kickr V6). Changing gears does not affect the resistance making it impossible to do group rides or races. The power output is way too low, even for a warm-up. The only thing I can still do is workouts in ERG mode.