Protoball (tuxdb.com)

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After a long period of down time we have started development on Protoball again. We've started from scratch in Unreal Engine 5.6 and have rewritten the game entirely Please join the to find other players, and we appreciate your patience as we continue to improve and grow Protoball.

Community Game Nights happen every single week, normally on Tuesday evenings EST, as it gets more crowded we'll add more servers and more days. See the discord.
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WE ARE BACK IN EARLY ACCESS! After a small(long) time sleeping, the game is back!

Major Thanks to our awesome community that helped us play test to get the game ready for Early Access- you guys are the best! Seriously, not even joking, without the community this would just be a good idea. You really are the best.
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The year is 2113 - Protoball is a futuristic sports shooter. Protoball blends FPS/TPP shooting mechanics with sports game play. Players athletically jump, slide, run, grind, and dash their way around the arena trying to pass the Protoball through their opponents goal. Players can shoot curve balls, passes, bounce shots, fake-outs and more.

Shoot your opponent with an energy shield projectile, or use it to deflect the ball and make a big play. Curve the ball, pass the ball, bounce the ball and more... Your skill and creativity is the only real limit.

We are currently still in early development, and our vision for Protoball is grand. We're a small but dedicated indie duo developing this game for the love of the game. Join us and together we will make Protoball the best that it can be. If you join the discord and ask any of the Playtesters and you'll find that we've incorporated and implemented many of the community's suggestions and ideas. You can help too if you join the discord!

Big update! New everything, game is peak, let's go!

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***TL;DR - New mechanic values/balance, new training modes, passing is in, get good, GL HF***[/b][/h2]

RANKS/STATS HAVE BEEN RESET

[u]**Major Mechanic Updates!**[/u]
We've adjusted the speed of almost everything- run speed, air speed, ball charge speed, shield charge speed, speed speed and other speed too. We think this feels really good, we've been testing in the discord and would appreciate any feedback you have.

[u]**Major Spectator Updates!**[/u]
While in Spectator if you click on a player, ball, or shield it will attach to the actor and you can then use your mouse and WASD to pan around the object while your camera auto-follows. RMB will toggle through actors.

[u]**New Passing Mechanic!**[/u]
While looking at a teammate an arrow will appear over their head, press F to initiate Pass mode while looking at your teammate (small indicator on HUD will appear over their head), looking at any other teammate will toggle the lock to them, shooting the ball will pass it directly to that player. Press F once again to leave pass mode (and dunk the ball yourself?). R will look at the focused teammate while in pass mode. **Press Q (Lob shot) while in pass mode to shoot a quick pass without having to click and hold LMB to charge. **

[u]**New Kill Feed**[/u] - kill feed is now in for various actions, style of the kill feed is not final, first draft is in now.

*Other Things -*

- Grinds are wonky, you can get teleported if you ride it until the end. The best thing to do is jump off the rail (SPACE) before you reach the end.
- Reflex / catching balls is ready for testing, give it a shot in the Training Menu. See how many balls you can catch and get on the leaderboard!
- If you discover an issue please join our discord.gg/protoball and let us know! And meet the other playtesters too.

Don't forget to look around the Locker Room in the menu, there are a couple characters (all early dev/beta characters) and some leaderboards for various stats. Including the 100v1 - also 100v1 is ripe for a change up with the new ball charge adjustments, I bet new times are achievable.

[ 2025-08-11 01:02:55 CET ] [Original Post]