Hello everyone,

We’ve been hard at work updating our existing systems and adding some new features. While these are still in progress, we felt it was important to get a new stable build out for testing.

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So, here’s a fresh “stable” build for you! As the patch notes suggest, this update includes several work-in-progress systems and features. We’ve also made some under-the-hood changes to how certain things operate, so you might encounter some breakages along the way. 🙂

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We appreciate your testing and feedback!

Party System and matchmaking

• You can now invite your Steam friends to your lobby and queue up together.
• We now display how many players are currently in the queue.
• We have added multi-region support that we will test out.

Loadout

• We’ve begun work on how abilities are equipped:
• We have added a bunch of color variations to existing skins
• Several new weapons and weapon variations
• The UI now displays a hotbar of abilities. To equip an ability, simply select an ability you own and then choose the slot in the hotbar where you want it equipped.

Gameplay

• You can now use a select amount of abilities in the Spectators lobby
• We've made adjustments to how certain abilities function. Now, you’ll see a projectile being thrown from the player towards the target position. Currently, the projectile travels very slowly, but we’ll speed it up in a future update.
• Reworked and added visual effects (VFX) for abilities that were missing them.
• Game state improvements
  • Podium for match/round winner
  • Clearer beats when the match is changing states

Optimizations

• All arenas have undergone an optimization pass for better performance.
• Added a precompiler of Shaders to reduce in-game stuttering.

Camera

• We've added a system that hides objects between your camera and character, so you should no longer have a face full of grass when looking up in the Bamboo Forest arena.

Bots

• Bots have been improved and will no longer clump together in the middle of the arena.
• Their reaction times have been enhanced, making them better at deflecting the ball.
• Bots are now able to dash.

Menu

• New Main Menu UI has been implemented (skin variations)
• Saving game settings to lootlocker

Website

• Website has been created and made public

Abilities

• Bomb visuals
• Mega Jump visuals
• Double Jump visuals