Hello There Ballstars!
We have been very hard at work over the last few weeks going through the game's systems to make it perform better for you all! Not only that, but we have a couple neat new features too. Check out the details for patch v1.1.0 below:
New Features:
Bot A.I. Version 1 is finally out! You can fill up your matches with bot enemies to fight until they get replaced by players as they join. Choose their difficulty and bully them right now in Free-For-Ball and Political-Negotiation game modes! (Bats n Balls AI coming in Version 2)
There is now ambient battle music playing in the background as you, well, battle.
Added a work-in-progress player spray system - press X to dump a temporary placeholder spray onto the map!
Tweaks:
Network Optimization: Enormous amount of work and effort basically redoing all the network functions so they are more optimised!
Performance: Reworked assets in all three maps to be better on the ol' performance.
Reworked the terrain in Valley so it has cute little bases at the edges.
Added more collision blocking to the edges of all the maps to fill those pesky holes and stop Nathon_VI getting out, hopefully anyway :smile:
Added hosting buttons to searching screens to push players towards hosting their own matches.
Reduced the number of squirrels in Valley as they were being too randy and it was affecting performance.
Removed the LAN option from Hosting as it isn't working correctly... yet.
Removed the LAN option from the Server Browser for the same reason... yet.
Fixes:
Widened the spacing in the Killfeed to larger names can appear
Cleaned up some older video files that were hanging out in the deploy folders
Fixed up some level streaming issues in BunkerTown
Fixed an issue where the Spitfire skill could sometimes completely remove the HUD
Fixed some strange floating grass placement in Valley
As always if you have any suggestions, questions, or find any juicy bugs that need a good squish then please get in touch at [email protected] or by joining the Discord server: https://discord.gg/xbseaXmM65
Much :hearts:
The Modern Ballfare Team