TUXDB - LINUX GAMING AGGREGATE
by NuSuey
NEWSFEED
▪️ GAMES
▪️ STEAM DECK ▪️ DEALS ▪️ CROWDFUNDING ▪️ COMMUNITY
tuxdb.com logo
Support tuxDB on Patreon
Currently supported by 8 awesome people!

🌟 Special thanks to our amazing supporters:


✨ $10 Tier: [Geeks Love Detail]
🌈 $5 Tier: [Arch Toasty][Benedikt][David Martínez Martí]


Patch 1.1.7 - New Skills and Game Mode changes

Hello everyone! Ballistic Overkill is getting a new update today. The highlights are new skills for every class, capture the point game mode and performance upgrades that should make the game more stable and have less hiccups. As always, thank you for your support and feedback. If you have any issues regarding this new update, please share with us via e-mail (support@aquiris.com.br) or forum (http://forum.aquiris.com.br/index.php?board=6.0). Enjoy the update and take a read at the release notes below!

Main Improvements


  • Performance upgrade
    • The game should be more stable now and have less or even no hiccups during a match. Please let us know in the forums if you have any problems running Ballistic Overkill in a machine that reaches (or exceeds) the minimum requirements.
  • Resupply stations repositioning
    • This is a test and isn’t final. We’re analysing the changes in the flow of the game with this new resupply distribution on the map. Are players camping? Are players feeling afraid of leaving the spawn point? This is the kind of things the we want to know. Further changes in this mechanics will happen in the future.
  • New Mode - Capture Point

Berserker


  • Class Traits and Skills
    • New Skill - Hide in Plain Sight
      • While sprinting, Berserker is invisible on the map.
    • Skill - Bloodlust
      • Damage amount stack increased from 3% to 4%

Vanguard


In this patch, we’re nerfing the Vanguard a bit. He already has a very strong trait with his “on kill regeneration”. We feel that having Scavenger as well was one of the factors placing him above the other classes. We’re removing Scavenger as a trait and adding it as a Skill instead. That, coupled with a few other changes in his skills, should help bringing him to the same tier as other classes.
  • Class Traits and Skills
    • Trait - Scavenger removed
    • New Skill - Scavenger
      • When walking over a dead body, Vanguard recovers +50% of his max ammo and +1 grenade. Additionally, Vanguard gains +10% damage resistance.
    • Skill - Carelessness removed
    • New Skill - Modified DNA
      • Vanguard gains +15% max health.
    • Trait - Regeneration
      • Life per second nerfed from 2.5% to 2.0%.
    • Skill - Weapons Expert
      • +5% damage resistance added
    • Skill - Action Hero
      • Accuracy while moving increased to 40% and damage resistance against explosions reduced to 30%.
  • Weapon Balance
    • Heavy Metal rate of fire and damage reduced slightly

Wraith


The main change in Wraith comes in the form of a nerf to the Lethal skill. We feel that the skill was too complete, allowing for players to pick it up without thinking. We removed the extra range from this skill and added it to a new skill. This should help creating different Wraith builds allowing more diversity.
  • Class Traits and Skills
    • New Skill - Combat Wraith
      • Wraith gains +15% damage resistance, +10 meters to the range of all weapons and 5% sprinting speed.
    • Skill - Lethal
      • +10 meters to range of all weapons removed
    • Skill - Elite Shooter
      • Reload speed and rate of fire per kill increased to 10% (was 9%) and 5% (was 4%).

Shadow


  • Class Traits and Skills
    • New Skill - Vampire
      • Shadow recovers +10% health with each melee strike. Additionally, backstabs recover 100% health.
  • Weapon Balance
    • Switchblade rate of fire reduced slightly

Grenadier


While we feel that Grenadier should have more grenades than other classes, the extra grandes trait was facilitating grenade spam too much. To avoid this, we’ve changed it to a grenade regeneration trait. Grenadier also received a lot of indirect changes because of adjustments in his grenade launchers. Again, the goal with those changes is to make the grenadier not so spam friendly, and, at the same time, effective.
    Class Traits and Skills
    • Trait - Trait - +2 Grenades removed
    • Trait - Grenade Regeneration added
      • When out of grenades, Grenadier recovers +1 grenade after 8 seconds. (Grenadier can never have more than 1 grenade at a time)
    • New Skill - Restraint
      • Grenadier gains +50% explosive damage, but loses -75% explosive range with grenades and grenade launchers.
  • Weapon Balance
    • Grenade launchers max damage reduced slightly, min damage increased and range decreased
      • The max damage being reduced is not as bad as it sounds because of the direct hit fix (you can read more about that under Fixes). Overall, direct hits and close hits will be better than before, while medium range hits are drastically nerfed.

Tank


  • Class Traits and Skills
    • New Skill - Last Stand
      • Tank resists death for 5 seconds.

    Fixes


    • All loadouts have been reset
      • Some players were using weapons that they weren’t suppose to. To fix this (and avoid bugs related to the new skills) we’ve decided to reset the loadouts of all players on the first time they open the game.
    • Server list now shows the ping in dedicated servers
      • The reason that we don’t show ping for player created matches as well is that Steam doesn’t deliver precise information in this case. In player matches we show the country and region instead.
    • Grenade launcher projectiles now deal max damage in direct hits
      • Until now, grenade damage was calculated by the distance between the player and the explosion. The problem with this system is that the origin of a player is somewhere between his feet. That means that hitting a grenade in the head of a player would deal less damage than hitting close to that player’s feet. This is now solved and grenades deal max damage on direct hits. To compensate for that, the balance of grenade launchers was changed.
    • Loadouts can now be reset without exiting the game
      • Warning: there will be a big hiccup when doing this, but, as far as we know, there are no other setbacks.
    • Projectiles from Grenade Launchers now deal damage even if the player that shot it is dead
    • Grenades dealing damage to former teammates when switching teams fixed
    • Several skill icons updated
    • Capturable Point UI color fixed
    • Server list now defaults to number of players


  • [ 2016-06-08 20:10:59 CET ] [ Original post ]



    Ballistic Overkill
    Aquiris Game Studio
  • Developer

  • Aquiris Game Studio
  • Publisher

  • 2017-03-28
  • Release

  • Action Indie Casual
  • Tags

  • Game News Posts 78  
    🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
  • Controls

  • Mostly Positive

    (7077 reviews)


  • Review Score

  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/296300 
  • Steam Store

  • The Game includes VR Support



    Ballistic Overkill Linux [1.75 G]

  • Public Linux depots

  • Ballistic Overkill - Berserker: Veteran
    Ballistic Overkill - Grenadier: Zombie
    Ballistic Overkill - Marksman: Zombie
    Ballistic Overkill - Vanguard: Crusader
    Ballistic Overkill - Shadow: Ninja
    Ballistic Overkill - Tank: Elite
    Ballistic Overkill - Vanguard: Elite
    Ballistic Overkill - Vanguard: SpecOps
    Ballistic Overkill - Wraith: Elite
    Ballistic Overkill - Marksman: Secret Agent
    Ballistic Overkill - Shadow: Red Leader
    Ballistic Overkill - Grenadier: Mad Bomber
    Ballistic Overkill - Shadow: Guerrilha
    Ballistic Overkill - Wraith: La Muerte
  • Available DLCs

  • Ballistic Overkill is a fast paced PvP shooter. Easy pick up and play, no complicated setups or rules: it’s kill or be killed!



    A new form of energy was discovered 15 years ago. Clean, safe and abundant, it changed the course of civilization. It’s 2035 and a secret war surfaces for the first time as megacorporations fight for the control of the energy, hiring armies of highly skilled mercenary soldiers!

    Game features

    Select a role from one of the unique game characters, each with their own skill tree and weapon arsenal. On the full game you’ll be able to level up to unlock additional loadouts and weapon skins to show off your experience with it. Mercenaries are designed to compliment each other’s skills, but each is fully capable of delivering insane frags on the battlefield: no wimpy support classes, in Ballistic everyone is a killer!

    Early Access Classes

    • The Vanguard– a master of field survival, capable of sustaining himself from for long killing sprees without ever returning to base.
    • The Berserker – a deadly close combat specialist with vicious skills that enable him to engage his prey on his own terms.
    • The Wraith – a master infiltrator that rarely misses their mark with the deadliest sniper rifles that can turn invisible with limited mobility.

    Future Classes

    • The Tank – a towering machine-gun totting bulwark of a mercenary, draw all the attention to you and live through it to tell your story.
    • The Grenadier – the bane of the campers and master of ordnance, carrying enough grenades to gib out entire teams.
    • The Shadow – master of speed and stealth, the silent blade can easily dodge bullets and make your enemies cry in frustration whenever you get them from behind.
    • The Engineer – with his powerful exoskeleton, the engineer can carry the heaviest weaponry and a drone that can deploy as a guardian turret.
    • The Medic – with his next-gen field medical gauntlet, the medic can boost nearby teammates and quickly revive them amidst a firefight.
    • The Huntress – the master of stealth and silent kills, the huntress utilizes a custom-fitted arsenal of bows and arrows to stalk and take down their prey undetected.

    Fully loaded arsenal


    Starting with an arsenal of 24 unique weapons on our Early Access, we’ll quickly expand ranging from state of the art modern assault rifles, light machine guns, sub-machine guns, machine-pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles and sidearms to more specialized ones like grenade launchers and ninja swords. There is ever a new way to kill your enemies in Ballistic.

    Tactical skills


    Each character has two unique skill-trees designed to allow you great strategic and tactical advantages over your opponents: each has many options so make sure to try and come up with a build that fits your playstyle: Do you prefer to run and gun with extra damage for sprinting? Or take a more strategic approach and reveal enemies on the minimap for you and your friends?

    Unique locations


    Each level is crafted to deliver a unique atmosphere and allowing four gameplay modes. Starting from the 3 maps available at the start of the Early Access, we already have 9 maps to be released.

    Early Access maps

    • Corporate park: a large map set in between two corporate towers that enables very strategic gameplay routes.
    • Sunnsquare Mall: a multi-layered level where firefights can occur from every direction set in a luxurious downtown mall.
    • Overhead: a compact warehouse filled with containers and moving platforms sets the tone for intense close-combat firefights.
    • Hollow: a close-quarters focused map set in the bowels of a secret facility under construction.
    • Nox Museum: a mix of long and multi-layered corridors and close quarters adjacent rooms makes this contemporary art museum an exciting battleground.

    Future maps

    • Hakim Library: a large arena with long-range fire lines surrounded by corridors and stairs set in a stylish library atop a skyscraper.
    • Wonderdome: a sniper-friendly map set in the “outdoors” of a research facility greenhouse.
    • Citadel: an underground data center that offers many different interconnected areas with many horizontal action battlefields.
    • Blackfield Hospital: a harrowing abandoned mental hospital in the heart of a metropolis that hides secrets that could change everything.

    Game Universe


    A new form of energy was discovered 15 years ago. Clean, safe and abundant, it changed the course of civilization. It’s 2035 and a secret war surfaces for the first time...

    It happened faster than anyone could have predicted. Scientists found a bacterial moss living in the most extreme and remote places of the world that could do a strange form of photosynthesis, releasing Hydrogen in gaseous form as a byproduct. By means of artificial cultivation in large scale, H2 burning would fuel the world into a new era of clean energy with pure water as a byproduct. Seeing how their grasp on power would soon end, oil mega-corporations seized what control they had on global politics and made sure that this breakthrough be maintained under tight control.

    The MFA has claimed a monopoly on this technology, regulating distribution, production and further research, claiming that this is the best way to provide everyone with access to it. Many other private parties do not agree with the terms of this monopoly, their opinion that only the free market can truly defend people's interest without the rampant corruption that runs in political organizations.

    The war begun when mysterious mercenary strikes were launched on several MFA facilities across the globe, all related with MFA governmental activities. The MFA itself doesn’t want much information about their actions being divulged, so decided to fight back hiring their own mercenary forces who could neutralize the threat as soon as possible. These mercenaries are highly trained mysterious fighters from across the globe. They have no loyalty but to their current contract, no interests but to accomplish their missions as both sides are fighting this war in secrecy from the public attention.

    Long term development


    Ballistic has been in the making for a few years. What started out as a purely F2P browser game developed for a publisher has evolved to be our passionate self-published game. After bringing it to the market with a publishing partner, we are now assuming full control of the product, and we feel there is an audience that will enjoy the game with no microtransactions and a complete overhaul. We have worked hard on the foundation of Ballistic Overkill and will start as an Early Access game so our player community can give us feedback from the very start, helping us shape what this new Ballistic will be.

    The game will receive constant updates and extra content. You can expect new weapon packs, characters, game modes and levels that are already in the works as well as weapon and character skin vanity DLC to show-off on the battlefield. You can check our plans and track our development on our forums and public task board, voting on what features you want in the game first. We hope you like it and take your time to participate in the game’s development, it is being made by us for you, so help us make it even better! We are committed to bringing this vision to reality and your support is very much appreciated. See you in-game!

    About us

    AQUIRIS is an independent game studio based in the city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. We started 7 years ago doing casual games and work for hire, we did everything from web games, to mobile, to PC. In 2010 we started the development of Ballistic, our most ambitious game to date. Now we bring you the best version of Ballistic ever, filled with the experience we had so far, the game we want to play!




    Join our active players community and take part in the development while we complete and evolve the game:

    MINIMAL SETUP
    • OS: Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHZ or betterMemory: 2 GB RAM
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or betterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 4 GB available space
    RECOMMENDED SETUP
    • OS: Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz or betterMemory: 4 GB RAM
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: GeForce 200 Series or betterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 8 GB available space
    GAMEBILLET

    [ 5951 ]

    13.39$ (55%)
    9.90$ (67%)
    20.62$ (17%)
    5.94$ (15%)
    49.58$ (17%)
    27.59$ (8%)
    18.00$ (55%)
    6.80$ (66%)
    26.09$ (13%)
    19.49$ (35%)
    4.59$ (8%)
    5.77$ (17%)
    4.12$ (17%)
    10.00$ (80%)
    4.19$ (30%)
    4.12$ (17%)
    6.00$ (70%)
    12.59$ (37%)
    24.87$ (17%)
    13.79$ (8%)
    20.74$ (17%)
    2.00$ (80%)
    16.99$ (15%)
    20.02$ (56%)
    5.37$ (73%)
    12.59$ (16%)
    4.00$ (80%)
    6.65$ (65%)
    24.87$ (17%)
    16.96$ (15%)
    GAMERSGATE

    [ 3154 ]

    6.0$ (85%)
    11.99$ (20%)
    14.99$ (25%)
    24.49$ (30%)
    7.42$ (59%)
    11.99$ (52%)
    4.0$ (60%)
    0.56$ (81%)
    1.46$ (89%)
    1.88$ (62%)
    3.0$ (95%)
    6.29$ (48%)
    9.37$ (63%)
    9.9$ (67%)
    7.49$ (63%)
    1.13$ (92%)
    1.88$ (81%)
    1.91$ (89%)
    6.0$ (70%)
    0.56$ (81%)
    10.79$ (46%)
    1.13$ (92%)
    10.13$ (77%)
    13.49$ (25%)
    5.4$ (73%)
    1.13$ (92%)
    13.99$ (30%)
    1.5$ (85%)
    1.0$ (80%)
    10.0$ (75%)

    FANATICAL BUNDLES

    Time left:

    3 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes


    Time left:

    26 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes


    Time left:

    8 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes


    Time left:

    39 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes


    Time left:

    45 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes


    HUMBLE BUNDLES

    Time left:

    5 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes


    Time left:

    5 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes


    Time left:

    14 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes

    by buying games/dlcs from affiliate links you are supporting tuxDB
    🔴 LIVE