The 1.4.1 update improved usability to different aspects of the game. It included quality of life improvements, some new content and fixes, and also made changes to the project structure to modernize it for upcoming updates. We have a few major milestones we want to address in the near future. This is a roadmap we have had since summer 2024 and the first milestone, update 1.4.1, is done:
💻 Update connectivity:
Superfighters Deluxe requires manual port forwarding. When we started with the first code back in 2010 port forwarding was still a common setup you had to do in order to play multiplayer games. In 2025 the average gamer doesn't know what port forwarding is and some internet service providers (ISP) actively block this possibility and other features like UPnP.
🏁 Goals:
Make it easier to connect to other users using Steam's API for connectivity.,
Verify and authenticate Steam users in a multiplayer session, making ban reliable.
💥 Challenges:
We need to investigate what we can do with the Steam API to achive our goals.
This will take a long time for us to fully explore and implement. Odex is making great progress on this.
🎮 Overhaul Gamepad controller:
The number of buttons required for performing actions exceeds the number of buttons on a typical Gamepad controller, which makes the button layout forced in some aspects and can make the controls feel complex. We want to reduce complexity and the number of buttons and make it easier to pick up and play.
🏁 Goals:
Reduce control complexity, like introducing a weapon wheel to swap weapon and more.
Other updates:
We will continue to release updates focusing on quality of life improvements from time to time while working on our major goals. Further along, we will explore adding some new content.