Good morning, afternoon or evening everyone! Thank you for your patience.
Tonight brings a new patch which should fix the majority of current issues.
Thank you to everyone who's been submitting telemetry and bug reports. It's helping more than you know.
Highlights for the 0.89.800A patch:
- Reworked local multiplayer seat handling around deterministic P1–P6 seats.
- Improved controller-integration with the menu.
- Expanded Steam lobby setup and overhauled interface.
- Added an over-the-net display in competitive to reflect team and details.
- Refined the ball camera to keep the player and ball in view more consistently.
- Strengthened BWAC protection.
- Expanded localization catalog validation and runtime language switching,
including broader non-English catalog coverage, RTL checks, and clearer
marking of locales that remain under construction.
- Added and extended deterministic runtime/invariant probes around multiplayer,
arena rules, input routing, presentation, and crash/input diagnostics.
Known limitations for this playtest
- Camera framing still needs rendered verification across every zoom preset,
high-ball case, player/ball swap, lateral separation, overhead view, and
wall/corner compression scenario.
- Physical controller and Steam Deck checks remain separate from source/build
validation, including P1–P6 filling, mouse-free roster control, and
controller identity when a remote Steam player is connected.
- Paired Steam/Direct-IP protected-match admission, live Steam avatar callbacks,
and SteamOS/Deck launch/render behavior still need live-device evidence.
- Translation catalogs are not all production-ready: machine-drafted locales
and locales marked Under Construction still need native-language, shaping,
font, and layout review.