Jingle Balls!
Another big-balled update for ya just-in-time for the holiday break! It's got so much in it, like a new hacker game mode, unlockable weapon skins, poo leaderboards, a snow map, aaaaand an evil Santa that hunts down you and your dreams! What a delight!
New Features
A new experimental game mode launches today: Hacker Mode. This lets you fine tune your ball-stomping experience to match your own definition of 'weird and wonderful' through host settings like: Infinite Ammo, Instant Skill Cooldowns, Low Gravity, Flying Mode, and more! It's a chaotic mess that's just a joy to see, but don't take our word for it, here's what members of the community had to say about it in a recent playtest:
Arizona Ranger
"that mode is masterpiece"
Mr.Abdlerahman TF2
"its pure chaos"
Srebrny
"True Eastern Europe Experience 10/10"
Finisu4444
Is that Poland on a sled?
The Valley map has become a frozen hellscape for the holiday season - complete with snow trails and Santa boss! Kill Santa and ruin Christmas for loot! (This snow map variant will become a permanent map option in a future update)
We've added Steam leaderboards to the game! Tracking the important things in life like the number of times you've pooped on another player, and the number of times you've been pooped on! Aaaand I guess kills n deaths if you're into that sort of thing. Check 'em out below:
Got Pooped On:https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1147130/leaderboards/7468256
Total Deaths:https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1147130/leaderboards/7468211
Total Kills:https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1147130/leaderboards/6477517
Hit People With Your Poop:https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1147130/leaderboards/7459387
New weapon skins for the primary and secondary weapons! Now unlockable like any other customisation item. (Pinata, Santa, Zombie Bosses, and the first kill of each map) Great weapon skins like: Ice, Flesh, Poop, Ghost, Gold, and Lava! Gotta collect 'em all or something I guess.
New bot difficulty where they fly, are super stronk and generally a pain in the balls.
Added version 1 of the First Person view mode; Pressing C when in-game will toggle between First and Third Person views.
Tweaks
- For the holiday season all maps have snow particles turned on around the players.
- Customisation drops are now based on the inventory of the player that picked them up - meaning you no longer get useless duplicate items.
- Reworked many of skills so they work with the new skill-spammy hacker mode.
- Massive optimisation of skill management across all Multiplayer modes.
- Call The Cops now spawns further away from the player to stop them blocking the player that used them.
- Hotdog Cannon now spawns further away from the player to stop you getting stuck inside the cannon.
- Updated the visuals of the Hotdog Cannon mesh to be less crappy - but still crappy.
- Made the Pinata in Hacker Mode golden with better loop drop chances.
- Using the Slavic Disco skill whilst in the disco now returns you to the map as if you jumped into the toilet exit.
- Reworked net code of the projectile system ready for a future update to make them smoother.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the skill icons in the HUD could get mismatched to your selection in the Loadout screen.
- Fixed an issue where Russian Vodka could get stuck onscreen resulting in permanent communism.
- The Fart skill is now less performance intensive to use.
- The Meme Airlines skill is now less performance intensive to use - especially when the planes overlap.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes you would spawn with skills that couldn't be used.
- Fixed an issue where pressing the Enter key wouldn't open the chat.
- Fixed an issue where the mode descriptions didn't have the correct type casing.
- Fixed an issue where the particle effects from the Rush B skill wouldn't deactivate.
- Fixed an issue where the particle effects from the Vampire skill wouldn't deactivate and could lag the game.
- Fixed a spacing issue with the UI in the Lobby screen.
- Fixed an issue where the Perk pickup on Rooftops would sometimes only give you the Big Balls effect.
- Fixed an issue where the Leap Jump skill would accumulate speed boosts and you could get infinite speed power.
- Fixed some issues around achievement unlocking
- Fixed an issue where you could be locked out from the post-match map vote if you had the Pause menu open whilst it transitioned.
- Fixed an issue with the grenade launcher projectile not lining up with the direction for clients.
- Fixed an issue with the grenade launcher projectile trail not always displaying as the velocity wasn't always getting set.
- Fixed an issue with the Map Vote screen displaying the incorrect map before it recieved any votes.
- Fixed some more kill volume locations on Rooftops so escape artist Nathon_VI can't escape anymore (Probably).
And that's ya lot.
As b-allways, if you have any suggestions, questions, or find any juicy juicy bugs that need a good ol' squish then please get in touch at [email protected] or by joining the Discord server: https://discord.gg/xbseaXmM65
Merry Christmas ❤️
The Modern Ballfare Team