Weapons, Maps + Modes in update b29!

Version beta 29 is now available for testers! It will appear as "b29_1.0". If you are just keeping up with development from the outside. thank you for your support. Make sure to join the Discord to be a part of the conversation!

Note: These patch notes contain some changes already present in the Demo update. Sorry for any confusion!

Content

• Weapon: Assault Rifle! Alt-fire to lob a grenade that deals increased damage after stopping.

• Weapon: Frag Magnet! Alt-fire to launch or retract a magnet that sticks to targets and the environment. Primary fire projectiles track towards the magnet's location.

• Weapon: Energy Glaive! Fires a horizontal spread of ricocheting, piercing hitscan projectiles.

• Weapon: Missile System! Fires a barrage of guided missiles. Hold alt-fire to lock up to 4 targets.

• Weapon: Blade Launcher! Revs up to fire bouncing saw blades. Alt-fire to charge a horizontal saw that sticks into vertical surfaces.

• Game modes: King of the Hill and Zone Control

• Greybox map: Isolation, featuring some rather unique stage hazards

• Challenge levels: Combat Sub-2, Arena Basics

• Additional modifiers: Super Armor and Featherweights

• Added bot characters

  • Masquerade, Barbarian, Contestant, Specialist, Entrepreneur, Traveller

Balance

• Reworked Contest card selling

  • Level 0 cards are now worthless, with a unique sell overlay icon to match

  • Substantially reduced the price scaling on leveled cards

  • Final round now auto sells all your cards to squeeze out any extra points

Features

• Updated the model for the Grenade Launcher.

• The target dummies in the Firing Range have been combined into one character with improved customization and damage feedback.

• Improved popup damage numbers

  • Impact + splash numbers now combine, for example the rocket launcher no longer shows two numbers on hit

  • Spread-shot numbers now combine, for example the Vertical Shotgun now shows one precision and one non-precision number

• The user experience flow for Quickplay, the Server Browser, and empty lobbies has been improved to make it easier to get players or bots to battle against.

• Added sound occlusion and verticality effects

• Added music hits to the main menu

• Bots now have some sense of the game mode and will do their best to win in modes beyond just Deathmatch

• Enabled Steam Cloud for save game data.