# Ultimate Chicken Horse Announcing the Hippo-Party-Plus Update! - Product: Ultimate Chicken Horse (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ultimate-chicken-horse) - Vendor: Clever Endeavour Games - Date: 2021-09-08 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/386940/view/2985312424337999683 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ultimate-chicken-horse/releases/2021-09-08-announcing-the-hippo-party-plus-update What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add new character Hippopotamus with unique abilities - **added** — Add Triceratops alternative skin for Hippopotamus - **added** — Add four new outfits: Floatie, Cowboy Boots, and Balloon for Hippopotamus, and Jockey Outfit with seven color variations for Horse - **added** — Add new level Rollercoaster set at a theme park - **fixed** — Fix numerous bugs throughout the game A new character joins the animal party! Meet Hippo in this FREE content update for _Ultimate Chicken Horse_, coming to you on **September 20, 2021** on all supported platforms! The **Hippo-Party-Plus update** includes: - 1 new character: Hippopotamus - 1 new alternative skin: Triceratops - 4 new outfits: Floatie (Hippo), Cowboy Boots (Hippo), Balloon (Hippo) Jockey Outfit (Horse) - 1 new level: Rollercoaster - Tons of bug fixes As with previous updates, you’ll be able to unlock the new character, reskin, outfits and level by collecting unlock boxes on all levels with a ? sign. No purchase necessary. ##### New Character: Hippopotamus Large and in-charge, Hippopotamus (Hippo for short) joins the Ultimate Chicken Horse cast! This groovy critter is ready to boogie the house down! Don’t let the goofy smile fool you, Hippo is a real contender for the Ultimate title. ##### Alternative Skin: Triceratops Head all the way back to the Cretaceous period with Hippo’s alternative skin, Triceratops! This alternative Hippo skin is compatible with all of the regular Hippo accessories. How did Triceratops safely join the rest of the animals? No one really knows, but we heard it had something to do with a very special car... ##### New Outfits Once you’ve become acquainted with Hippo, you’ll be able to unlock these nifty accessories for Hippo and Triceratops: Cowboy boots: While Hippo usually has dancing shoes on, sometimes they get swapped out for these trusty boots. Balloon: Picked up from the fairground, its name is Wilson. Floatie: Hippo can’t swim, so they need this device when they go to the pool with the other animals. Despite being in the game title, Horse has always been one accessory short, compared to the other critters. But fear not, we bought Horse a new outfit! Horse loved it so much we made sure to provide 7 different colour variations: blue, orange, green, purple, red, pink and yellow. While Horse is convinced the outfit is streamlined for speed, it doesn’t do much other than look cool. ##### New Level: Rollercoaster The whole cast and crew have ventured off to the local theme park and a certain attraction has caught their eye: this speeding roller coaster! Once unlocked, this map will have players placing blocks and traps that allow them to safely pass under the tracks and on to the finish line on another piece of totally safety-compliant scaffolding. Make sure to keep your appendages away from the ride at all times; it will send you right to the grave if you get too close! ##### Other Changes For a full list of changes and bug fixes, click here: https://www.cleverendeavourgames.com/hippo-update ##### A Note About Future Updates First off, thank you to everyone who has played Ultimate Chicken Horse over the past 5+ years. This game is what it is today thanks to your love and support, and we’re so incredibly grateful that we’ve been able to support it for so many years! This update took so much longer to come out versus our initial prediction, and we want to share some context as to why. Last year we discovered that the online architecture we use was going to be retired in the next few years so we started looking for alternatives. We have every intention of keeping Ultimate Chicken Horse functional for as long as we can. Unfortunately, what seemed like a simple thing to change ended up being… not so simple at all. The solutions we found weren’t compatible with the Unity version we have used since the game’s conception and upgrading it to the 2020 version caused a bunch of plugins to break, new issues cropped up on various platforms and so much more. This work already would have taken much longer than expected and it was just made significantly worse with COVID. The original work we had set out to do was taking so much longer than planned, that we made the decision to release new content now rather than wait for the more technical backend architecture to be completed. This update was also undertaken _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/386940/view/2985312424337999683]_