Paint Warfare was at PAX and SXSW Australia last week. I noticed a couple issues and bugs which I fixed over a couple updates :) 1.32.2

• Player effects are now disabled in first person
• Buffed all rocket jumping with explosives
• Fixed models in Mafia Island

• Fixed burst/palas gun model
• Fixed mine launcher model
• Fixed missing models in Dragon Valley
• Fixed a bug where the teleport orb was invisible
• Fixed microtransactions
• Fixed the game end leaderboard from being hidden in the Airfield map

• Can now double click in the armoury or cosmetics menu to equip/buy
• Added a pop up for capturing points in point capture mode
• Made the health bar bigger and clearer
• Added auto sprint
• Slide is now bound to shift by default and the walk key is control. If you played since before this update, your controls should be unaffected
• Improved a bug where asian translations would be simply white squares. This still exists but the game should be more usable now
• Fixed bugs with changing languages
• Implemented 1.32.2, 1.32.3 changes in macOS builds ---> so macOS now has all the fixes like everyone else

• Fixed bugs some people experienced with purchasing coins

I added a new kind of cosmetic called player trails/effects which look super awesome Fixes

• Lots of bug fixes to cosmetics menu
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to rejoin hunger games to respawn after you died
• Added fullscreen mode to options
• Other fixes and improvements

Hello! The hunger games mode needed some love so that was the focus for this update.

Hunger Games Changes

• Made a huge completely new map for hunger games
• Added healing zones
• Buffed HP from 300 to 500
• Added hunger games to the map rotation so its easier to play
• Improved spectating

9 New Ranks

Other Improvements

• Flamethrowers now leave fire FX on the ground
• Fixed freeze gun particle (was not spawning before)
• Buffed med kit heal size by x2
• For other players, when they use grapple hooks the rope will now follow the player instead of staying where the grapple was originally started
• Improved the huts in Mafia Island

Changes

• Buffed kingfisher at super close quarters
• Fixed rank up screen for new players
• Nerfed jetpack 15s --> 8s
• Fixed a missing building in airfield
• Fixed a bug with hats on the banana skin
• Fixed a bug where KOTH maps would show as FFA in map vote

Fixes:

• Fixed bugs that caused shadows and lighting to not render properly since 1.30.0
• Removed the AO setting in graphics settings. This option is now automatically turned off on lower graphics settings (like before) and uses a more optimized version on default graphics settings
• Lower graphics settings now use more optimized water
• Fixed a bug that caused the key bind tips (for beginners) to be broken
• Fixed a bug that caused weapons that are locked to be equippable
• Added butterflies (In castle map)
• Fixed leaderboard bug that prevented some top players from showing up in leaderboards

Heya

New Map: Palace!

New Gamemode: King Of the Hill

• Palace is the first map to be king of the hill
• It's basically FFA BUT
• There's a hot zone that gives you crazy amounts of points, and it changes location ever 45 seconds

Dunes Reworks

Reworked Movement

• Buffed the dash duration and made it more consistent
• Completely overhauled the grapple hook. It's now a swing instead of pulling you towards a target (you can still grapple to the roof use it to build momentum). This differentiates it from jetpack more.
• The jetpack now slowly builds up speed instead of instantly making you fly. This means that if you're falling and you use it it will take a while to break your fall. Also if you use it long enough you can fly really fast up.
• Buffed jetpack duration 5s > 15s

Fixed Coin Purchasing

Other

• New ingame leaderboard that shows player's ranks
  
• A lot of new VFX
• New player respawn shield VFX
  
• New grapple rope visuals
• Added a hook to the end of the grapple rope
• Paint splatters last 4x longer and are bigger (they're also more optimised now)
• Added scorch marks after explosions
  
• Minor blizzard map improvements
• FPS and network optimisations
• New launch screen
• Fixed pink box on the Burst gun
• Fixed a bug that would cause the audio to be super low quality on Bluetooth headphones
• New map icons
• Fixed menu screen performance by removing 3D icons

Kingfisher Rework:

• Made the kingfisher barrel bigger so it looks more like a shotgun to new players
• It now has kickback so you can shoot it at your feet to jump up higher

• Added keybinds for weapon switching
• Added an option to disable/enable AO (shadows in the corners of objects)
• Added an option to enable motion blur
• Added an option to add a slight blur to your hands/when using sights (which I think looks nice)

• Fixed a bug where the ability/weapon equip menus were completely broken and nothing could be equipped
• Fixed a bug where joining a game by code would join the wrong game
• Reduced the brightness of Koto and other maps
• Fixed a bug where paint and kick splatters wouldn't show on top of some objects
• Fixed a bug where the removed snowball machine gun would leave pink boxes where it shot
• Fixed a bug where 3D icons wouldnt load in the cosmetics tab

New Menu

Equip 3 Guns At Once

Reduced Coin Prices

• 300 coins [$3.99 USD ---> $0.99 USD]
• 1000 coins [$4.99 USD ---> $2.99 USD]
• 2300 coins [$9.99 USD] ---> 2500 coins [$5.99 USD]
• 5500 coins (NEW) [$11.99 USD]

• Reduced the price of Abilities from 150 coins to 100 coins to make them easier to unlock without paying

Koto is now Team Deathmatch

Other

• Added bots option to custom games
• Fixed UI bug on AMD GPUs
• Reinvested a bunch of money into some new assetsadded a completely new water shader and birds on Mafia Island. The castle map also now has some ice on it
• Added a new cursor
• Added new screen VFX for burning, frozen and healing
• Player names are now based on Steam username
• Fixed issues with the keybind menu breaking and hidden UI
• Added a trampoline on the top of one of the towers in the castle map
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the screen would keep tilting up when sprinting/getting kills
• Fixed various bugs on the new City Ruins map
• Buffed the black hole gun
• Nerfed the flare gun
• Improved the game chat filter to reduce false positives

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the coin sale and bundle were not purchasable
• Fixed a bug where the spoon was equippable in the ingame weapon selector

Hey all, this is a super massive update I put together over the past week as a thank you to you guys for sticking around through the lack of updates in my exam. This update was released in two parts (but I'm writing this announcement now) so you may have already noticed some of the changes!

MAPS

City Ruins Map

Map improvements

WEAPONS

Flare Gun

• It has a slightly smaller blast radius than the launcher, but sets enemies on fire and has a faster fire rate
• It's also useful for grenade jumping! Shoot at your feet to get launched up, or jump and shoot at a wall to get launched sideways.

Black Hole Gun

• The black hole gun is also an explosive gun, but works pretty differently to the other explosives in the game
• Left click to fire a black hole, and right click after you've thrown it to freeze it wherever it is
• From there it will suck in and trap enemies. It can be escaped by running if you're not too close or grapple/dash
• After 5 seconds it explodes killing everyone in its radius, but be careful as it works on you too!
• Useful for protecting flags, bases or areas

Gun Reworks

• You can now right click to rapid fire the banana gun (it's a lot less accurate at long range though

• Fixed a bug that caused the recoil to go crazy and make it un usable

• No more camera shake/recoil on this gun either

• Now deals 2X more damage

ABILITIES

Voodoo Doll

Ammo Kit

• All allied players within its radius are granted a massive 1.5X fire rate and reload speed boost

NEW RANKING

Other

• New winter menu and music
• New directional walk animations
• Improved Russian, Spanish and Portuguese translations significantly

Bugs and polish

• Strengthened the anti cheat measures
• Coop minigame renamed to co-op for clarity
• Added a tutorial for buying/equipping abilities
• Fixed a bug where every ability was unlocked in the respawning armoury
• The water gun/pressure washer stream now always faces forward
• Fixed a bug with the smoke/bubble grenade where throwing it at your feet midair would cause it to explode on your feet
• Fixed a bug with the costume (DLC) equipping in the armoury where it would get reset each time you loaded into the menu
• Fixed a bug that caused the fire and freeze gun effects to not be applied
• The maps shown in the map votes will now show up slightly more evenly

Holiday Coins Sale

Hey everyone, here's another big patch! Next update will be a pretty awesome content update. 1.28.3 Changelog:

• Localised coin pricing (coins are now cheaper/more reasonably priced for people in Australia, brittain, etc.)
• Added 3 new achievements
• New art for all achievements
• New streamer/recording options in settings!
  • You can now enable/disable ingame UI. All thats visible is a square crosshair which can be edited out by overlaying a white square with 50% opacity
  • You can now enable/disable player name tags
• Fixed the ingame global leaderboard
• Your place in the world is also now displayed in the stats in your profile
• Slight improvements to the armoury
• Fixed a bug where the controls options menu would open scrolled fully down
• Added a new translation system
• Added a cool new effect where the speed of the game slows down 8 seconds before it ends
• Fixed a bug where voting for the castle map wouldn't disable the buttons for voting for other maps
• Improved the DLC banner UI
• Fixed various UI bugs
• Fixed more out of map bugs in the castle map

1.28.1 Patch Notes

• You can now shoot through the fan columns in the castle map
• Fixed various Russian translations
• Fixed various out of map bugs in the Castle map
• The teleporter gun will now be less likely to be able to teleport you into walls
• Fixed shotgun spread patterns
• Fixed the random snapping of the AK when un scoping
• Fixed the recoil patterns of the AK while scoped
• Reworked player/camera animations to be less jarring
• The fans in the Castle map no longer cancel gliding
• Added 35 game tips to the connecting screen
• Fixed a bug on the mini gun where you wouldnt be able to aim straight down while recoiling
• Fixed the key binds menu
• Fixed the chat re-bind keybind
• Fixed the team re balancing logic so you will no longer be randomly switching teams when re spawning
• Made a nice UI to show the next gun in the gun game mini game

• Fixed a bug where the shop timer for hats and skins would reset to 8 minutes every time you re opened the shop
• You can now buy any hat at any time in the armoury
• The hat section in the shop has been reworked, so that instead of being able to buy 1 hat per day, you get an offer for a 20% discount on a particular hat
• Aiming straight down with the launcher will now shoot down instead of exploding on your feet
• Walking up to a wall and shooting the launcher will no longer allow the launcher bullet to phase through the wall
• If you quit during the tutorial, you will now be given the option to replay the tutorial when you re open the game
• Fixed connection issues
• Improved the loading screens in between maps or menus
• Improved DLC selection screen
• Fixed the black screen bug
• Fixed bugs with coin buying where they would occasionally not be granted
• Improved english tutorial voice lines
• Completely overhauled the tutorial
• Added progress bars to both tutorials

Hello everyone! It's been a while since the last big update...and that's because I've been hard at work polishing up the game and implementing a bunch of really small features/ bug fixes It's time for another huge content update!

New Map: Castle

• I've also bumped the number of maps in the map vote to 6 to accomadate

2 new Abilities

Hardened Bullet

• The first bullet of the mag deals 1.5X damage. For example, the damage for the AK is something like [48, 23, 23, 23 etc]. For the shotgun pistol, one of the pellets is randomly chosen to do 1.5X damage
• Overall it's a pretty unique ability, there will be more abilities soon that modify game rules or centre around combat rather than movement. Let me know on the Paint Warfare Discord if you have ideas!

Med Kit

• This replaces the old 'Heal' ability with something that's also useful for cooperation team-based modes. If you bought the old heal ability, you'll have this automatically unlocked
• You can throw the medkit down to your feet (instantly drops) or anywhere you like
• It deals a small explosion where it drops where it heals 30HP for you/teammates in the radius
• It then heals 10HP every second for 8 seconds for you/teammates standing in the radius
• So essentially if you see one of your allies are low, you can throw the medkit at them and heal them :)

Overhauled: Glider

• Momentum: if you fly downwards for long/fast enough, you build up momentum in your glider which you can use to fly up really fast as well
• Buffed the overall speed of the glider
• Added wind SFX depending on the speed, and the camera now zooms slightly depending on how fast you're going
  

Overhauled: Radar

• The radar was very weak, so now on top of showing enemies through walls, it now displays directional arrows around your crosshair to reveal nearby enemies to you

Overhauled: Super Speed Boots

• Super speed boots now increase speed while midair as well

New Map Feature: Giant Fans

Polish & Bug Fixes

• Reworked a lot of the code base to minimise bugs and speed up future development time
• Fixed the consistency of double jumpingsometimes double jumping would not always work
• Fixed the glider not activating correctly
• Fixed the equip buttons not updating in the respawn armoury when changing from primary -> secondary weapons
• New quality option: Max (increases shadow rendering distance and makes them look a lot nicer by smoothing them)
• Smaller bug fixes

Fixes

• Fixed performance issues
• New invert Y/X mouse options
• Organised keybinds menu
  
• New curated featured video feature to support Paint Warfare creators
  
• Fixed the grapple being "locked" respawn armoury
• Fixed a bug where the ingame pause/options menu would become broken and not show up
• Fixed some interactions in the menu so you can use the [esc] key to exit more menues

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Other news

Fixed XP and Coin bug

• Fixed a critical bug some people experienced on the last update that prevented XP/coins from being earnt

Other changes

• Fixed tutorial loading/ respawn bugs/ polish
• Optimized game size
• Added an ingame FPS counter in game options
• Fixed a bug that would cause the match timer to break when loading
• Fixed a bug that caused the health bar to get stuck on a red colour
• Fixed a bug with Fast/Super fast graphics settings on Apple Silicon macs that caused a grey screen
• Fixed a visual bug that caused the in-match weapon switcher weapon to show up in the map
• Typing in chat while in the pause menu no longer triggers the button hotkeys
• Fixed a rendering bug that caused the Galaxy skin and Blaze skin to show up in the menu on the player (even if it wasn't unlocked)
• You can no longer shoot team mate turrets
• Fixed team rebalancing
• Added DirectX12 and Vulkan rendering support (Improves rendering performance on modern GPUs)

Changelog

• Reduced lag significantly - network usage reduced by 30-40%
• Fixed black screen bug
• Improved flamethrower VFX
• Fixed colliders in the Train Yard map
• Fixed the team rebalancing logic
• Improved chat filter
• Fixed minor bugs with juggernaut mode
• Optimised and fixed crashes caused by spamming the railgun

• Fixed a critical bug that caused the match timer to start on 10 seconds
• Improved various translations
• Fixed some crashes
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Improved language support

• Added support for 17 new languages
• Reworked the tutorial to be easier to understand on all languages
• New language switcher in options
• Added player nametag font support for all languages

Respawn Screen

• Fixed the profile picture display in the respawn screen
• The respawn screen now also shows the weapon used to kill you
• Nametags of players now properly face the respawn screen

Polish and bug fix

• When your teammates are damaged or heal in POINT/TDM/CTF, you will temporarily be able to see their health
• In POINT/TDM/CTF allies and enemies nametags will now be labeled "Ally" or "Enemy" to help new players and quickly distinguish between the two
• DLC buy buttons now display the localized pricing instead of USD
• Fixed the XP bar at the end of matches
• New credits screen
• You can now shoot through the glass in the Train Yard map
• Fixed strange behaviour when the game ends and you are in the respawn armoury
• Fixed the spamming of shoot and footstep SFX in the game end screen

Teams modes improvements (TDM, CFT, Point Capture)

• Teams now auto rebalance if the teams get too unfair
• Fixed visual bugs with your flag appearing as the enemy flag while respawning/enemy flag appearing as your flag
• Fixed a visual bug that could cause enemies to appear as allies the first time you spawn into a teams game

Better respawn screen

• Made a cleaner-looking respawning screen that now displays your enemy's Steam profile picture (if they have one) and their health

Bigger map votes

• Map vote size 4 --> 5

Kill streaks in chat

• Show off when you're on a roll and gang up on the top player

And more!

• Fixed a visual bug in the armoury that made 'no hat' appear as locked
  
• Various fixes and other improvements

I'm really excited for this update because this small feature will add so many more possibilities to how you play the game!

New Custom Games Options

Here are some cool ideas to get the ball rolling

• 2.5X movement speed
• 0.4X size

• 3X Gravity
• 0.5X Jump force
• No abilities

• 0.8X movement speed
• 2X Gravity modifier
• 2X Jump force modifier (these two combined make jumping quicker)
• 100 HP
• No abilities

• 2X movement speed
• 3X Gravity modifier
• 3X Jump force modifier (these two combined make jumping quicker)
• No abilities
• Sniper only
• 0.7X player size
• 1.5X fire rate

Bug Fix

• You now get XP in custom games
• More invisibility particles
• Fixed bugs with custom games from the last update
• Fixed a bug that caused burst weapons to resume bursting when switching back to them
• You can now see when players kick in third person
• Fixed health bar in hunger games spectate
• New menu music song
• Fixed a bug where the shoot sounds would keep playing while paused or the game ended

Changes:

• Fixed unlocking various achievements
• Fixed steam leaderboard & friends leaderboard
• Spoons no longer automatically fire
• Fixed bugs with oranges & kills exploits with turrets
• Fixed bugs with rocks in Blizzard
• Fixes to throwing the bubble grenade/ damage
• Invisibility particles are now more prominent
• Fixed the Radar ability

Added new ability: Half Shield

• This brand new ability protects you from the front from paintballs, kicks, spoons, you name it! Keep in mind you still take damage from behind :)

New Changes

• Added FOV slider
• More backups! Coins, all weapon skins and hats are now backed up so you will never lose them
• Buffed every weapon by 5-15% to increase TTK
• The player camera no longer looks around in the pause menu/options menu ingame
• Removed aim smoothing

Wassup gamers! Welcome back, this one brings a new map, improvements to the tutorial and some general polish steamhappy

Train Yard Map

Better Ranking

Tutorial Improvements

• Fixed bugs with the maps and double jumping
• Shortened the voice lines in the tutorial to make it more straightforward
• New UIs
• The second stage of the tutorial is now in the Mafia Island map to allow new players to experience the entirety of the game's movement

Improvements & Polish

• Camera shake can now be disabled in game options
• Clearer UI that you can't shoot teammates
• The bubble grenade and flamethrower now shows damage number popups when damaging enemies
• The game chat now remains visible in the game end and map vote screen
• Fixed a bug where both teams would keep getting points at the end of Point Capture games
• Made a new UI for picking up powerups/ drops from enemies when they die
• Make the hitbox for powerups larger
• Buffed the Akimbo pistols and pressure washer
• Fixed a bug that caused points to not be multiplied depending on your place in FFA

I wanted to make the game less buggy so I've went through and fixed a bunch of bugs you guys reported on our Discord server.

Changes:

• Fixed rock clipping exploits
• Explosives no longer damage teammates
• Teammates now properly show up as blue in Point Capture
• Added all the new weapons into the kill feed so they will display properly
• Added new change of language UI in options
• Fixed a bug that caused all the ranks to display at once in the profile
• Fixed Kingfisher SFX not playing
• Flamethrower now unlocks at Rank 1
• Oranges and explosives now destroy turrets
• Fixed a bug that caused explosives to explode multiple times, lagging the server
• Fixed loading issues & save issue
• The enemy that killed you is not highlighted through walls in the respawn screeen
• Added a player trail when dashing
• Added third-person tracers
• Fixed daily challenges
• The spoon is now the final gun in the gun game mode

Hello people! Welcome back, this one brings a new gun, but most of the focus was brought to fixing some pressing issues and a bug that broke the game completely for a lot of people.

Fixed Game Breaking Bug

• This bug is due to a corrupted save file. As the game grows, stuff like this can happen to people, so I've implemented a new save file recovery/backup system
  
• Also added a lot of redundancy in saving games and connecting which should avoid issues

New Gun: Flamethrower

Rebalancing

• Buff: Increased accuracy
• Buff: Decreased the spray pattern intensity

• Nerf: Lengthened reload time by 60%

• The thundergun no longer one-shots enemies (but deals devastating damage 150 > 100)
• Not only does it reflect, but now it both freezes your enemy in place and sets them on fire at the same time
• This paired with its use for movement makes it incredibly fun to use and sets it apart from the Sniper

• Buff: Increased damage by 15%

• Buff: Increased duration by 2 seconds

Fixed Voice Chat

• Voice chat is now more reliable and works
• Voice chat volume auto adjusts to bring loud noises down and quiet speaking up

Weapon Skins Synced Between Devices

• Both hats and weapon skins now sync between devices via Steam cloud. If you had 2 different collections, it will now merge them.

Others

• Fixed achievements and the global leaderboard. It was broken last update.
• New invisibility ability model in the Armoury
• Buying a hat or a gun skin in the shop now automatically refills it with another
• Removed some monetization like the bundle. I want to focus on gameplay
• Improved debuff UI
• Shortened match times to just over 6 minutes
• Improved scrolling in the Options menu, Map select & Profile
• Fixed a bug that caused the armoury to get stuck when ranking up
• More stylized (and hopefully nicer looking) pressure washer water beam
  

• Fixed a bug where the weapon skin select UI (in the main armory) would not be visible to some players

Fixes

• The Mine Launcher and Freeze gun wouldn't equip properly because they were swapped. This is now fixed
• Fixed some buttons not playing the new SFX

AK Balance Changes

• The AK fire rate has been reduced (11 > 9 shots / s), but the damage has increased (11 > 16 damage), overall its time to kill is now noticeably faster (1.24s > 1s) and you have to land less shots correctly to kill making tap firing more viable
• Changed recoil pattern, I want this to be the most "classic" feeling gun, similar to other FPS games like Valorant or CSGO
• Using sights now negates the recoil pattern entirely, making the AK a very solid choice for both close-range and long range
• Decreased random inaccuracy while aiming so its just as accurate as the sniper

Shop / DLC Changes

• $3 bundle 2.26x value (compared to $4 of coins) & you can choose your rewards
• $6 bundle 4.44x value

Aloha! Ya'll loved the last content update, but it was time to do some quick quality of life work on the game to polish up the small details

Swap Weapons In Game

Player Chat Bubbles

Streamlined UI and User Experience

• Removed the in-game tutorial
  • The reason for this is because 99% of the people who download Paint Warfare already know how to play an FPS game and want to jump straight into a game as quickly as possible instead of enduring a 10 minute tutorial
  • Instead I'm favouring a quicker learn-as-you-go approach, teaching new players abilities, sliding, sprinting and climbing through relevant tooltips as you play the game. We'll see how this goes!
• Made the initial menus a breeze
  • The system language is now automatically detected and the game is set to that language (but there still will be a language selector)
  • Simplified initial menus & improved their design
  • The nickname of new players now defaults to their Steam nickname
  • All of the menu buttons are now available immediately to new members originally I didn't want to overwhelm new players with a load of menus, so I hid stuff like the global leaderboard, quit button (lmao) and shop, but it confused new players more than it helped

• Better button SFX
• 300% faster startup time
• Improvements to various UIs and menus
• Better map loading splash screens

Other

• If you had issues with your game (like it being stuck on rank 1 , 1,500 coins, not joining games etc.) this is now fixed
• Point capture SFX
• Reworked the /help command
• Side ingame HUD for equipped weapons
• Icons to display more info on Abilities in the armoury
• New icon for weapons that support an alt fire in the armoury
• Buffed the AK
• The Bubble grenade will no longer show up in gun game
• Optimised the bubble grenade significantly now runs 400% faster
• New screen effect when frozen by freeze gun
• The death first person spectation of players in Hunger Games now also goes up and down as they look up and down
• New systems to prevent corrupted save files
• Patched some out of map exploits

Howdy gamers! Welcome back, I've had this one planned for a while and I'm so hyped to release this update to y'all steamhappy

NEW MAP: Airfield

NEW GAME MODE: Point Capture

• You get put in one of two teams
• You rush to take control of as many points as possible with your teams and try hold them at once
• The more bases you hold, the more points you gain. If the enemy even partially tries to uncapture your base, you stop getting points from it

Koto Changes

• Shrunk and reworked the Koto map slightly, reduced the number of trees and vegetation for visibility
• The Koto map has been removed from FFA and it is now Capture the Flag (which I feel suits it better)

Bubble Grenade Changes

• It will now damage bots in the coop minigame
• It no longer deals damage to team mates

Hey hey hey! Here's a quick patch based on your feedback over the past few days steamhappy

Bubble grenade rework

• Decreased bubble grenade size by 30%, the bubbles are denser now however, which makes it more useful as a smokescreen
• Enemies entering a bubble grenade smoke take 10 damage per second

Weapon buffs

• Minigun is now 30% more accurate
• Increased Frenzy mag size (12 > 18)
• Increased ACR damage (25 > 50)
• Increased Banana Gun damage (37 > 60)
• Increased Launcher blast radius (8 > 11)

Other

• Fixed the AK scope
• Increased footstep volume
• Sped up ranking significantly, especially in later ranks
• You can now preview hats and skins in the coins shop, and made various other improvements. Coins and DLC purchases are how I pay for server costs, so I improved the user experience of those who choose support the game <3

I play the game for a couple of hours after each update and release hotfixes where necessary

Fixes & Improvements

• Redesigned weapon skin sprites
• Improved spawn points in the new map
• Buffed the pressure washer gun range
• Fixed a bug that caused custom games to reboot the game if the new map was selected
• Reverted changes to the bubble grenade, however buffed the duration

Hey hey hey! I'm finally back to Paint Warfare and I'm excited to announce the first map to Paint Warfare in over a month Mafia Island, the amount of time and work that went into this one is insane, and I'm so excited to unveil it to you guys. There's also a DDay map coming up, but I'm not quite ready to unveil it yet, join our discord server to get sneak peeks on it though steamhappy

NEW MAP: Mafia City

Watch the trailer here

Unfold to reveal some dev screenshots of how I made the map :)

Blizzard Improvements

Customisation

Polish + Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug that caused the map to go black
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to become unplayable after exiting the pause screen
• Fixed the game failing to connect and having to reload multiple times in the main menu
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to show 'defeat' in Capture the Flag, even in the case of a draw or a win
• Fixed a lot of issues with saving to prevent lost progress etc.

• 4 maps will now show in the map votes instead of 3
• Buffed bubble grenade > visibility will be heavily reduced while in the bubble grenade
• Buffed invisibility ability (1.5s > 2s)
• Added momentum-based sprinting. The longer you sprint, the faster you will go, up to about 150% the regular sprint speed

• The walk animation will no longer play while zoomed in on weapons like the AK, ACR or Freeze Gun
• Fixed visual bugs with the in-game XP boost, it will also no longer overlap with debuffs such as invisibility, damage buffs, freeze etc.

Welcome back everyone! It's been a busy few weeks for meI've been caught up in examsbut I've put together a super exciting update that I think you guys will enjoy. From next update onwards we'll be going back to the traditional massive updates like a few months ago :)

Freeze Gun

• Ability blocker
• Freeze your enemy
• You regenerate health from your enemy
• The more you charge it the more damage you deal

Hey supporters! This update is super exciting and I think you guys will love this one!

(1.) Locator Ability

• Unlimited uses
• Recharges on an 8s timer

(2.) More players

Removed MMR-based matchmaking. I've done some work on the AK and other beginner weapons to make sure they're easy to use even for new players. [/olist]

(3.) Voice chat

This feature HAS at one point been in the game, but it was underdeveloped so now I'm re-releasing it with significant improvements.

• You can now change your selected microphone, and your selected microphone will persist in your save file
• Voice chat can be toggled on/off
• Voice chat keybind can now be changed
• Upgraded voice chat servers to handle the bandwidth

I feel like this feature will make playing with friends so much more fun! Enjoy!

(4.) Fixes & Improvements

• Added first-person hand animations
• Added a new option for adjusting UI scale
• Added a loader UI for timed ability
• When you have reached a limit for the number of turrets, the UI will become red
• Fixed smoke grenade and orange grenades getting stuck when switching weapons
• The randomiser power-up will now randomise both abilities
• Added a screen for initialising the voice over
• The starting tutorial is now skippable
• Fixed translations
• Pausing the menu music will now persist between game sessions
• New pop up for 3 hour XP boosts
• Added more contrast to health text to make it more readable
• Fixed bugs with a number of daily challenges
• Improved map ambience sounds
• Added new menu music
• Buttons in the armoury now toggle

(5.) Balancing

• Increased invisibility duration (2s > 3s)

Enjoy the update! Head over to our discord to partake in tournaments, report bugs of offer ideas!

Hey all! I've spent the past few weeks thoroughly testing and ironing out bugs in the game, the patch is finally out and I'm super excited to talk about some of the new changes...

(1.) Invisibility Ability Balancing

• The invisibility ability now leaves a trail of particles. This will make it so you can still be hit while invisible, but it'll still throw off your enemy and give you well needed relief
• Fixed a bug that caused you to stay invisible permanently after using invisibility

(2.) Sights (Zoom) Improvements for the ACR and AK

• Fixed a bug that caused sights on the ACR and AK not to zoom in properly
• Buffed AK zoom (1.5x > 2.8x)
• Buffed ACR zoom (3x > 4x)
• The AK will now be more accurate while zoomed in (2x), slightly reduced accuracy while not zoomed in (~10%)

(3.) Hunger Games

• 6X XP in hunger games
• Added a players left counter to hunger games
• Added a proper UI for when the round ended and restarting hunger games

(4.) NEW GAME SERVERS!!!

• Added US/EU server selection

(5.) All Other Improvements:

• Fixed a bug that stopped you from picking up items from chests at close distance
• Fixed a bug that made the pick up pop up linger even after picking up a gun from a chest
• Added bindable keybinds for kick, chat, and opening chests
• Improved reliability of syncing for match timers
• Fixed a bug that caused it to display "Game ended" when joining a game
• Fixed bugs with map vote
• Added a pre loading screen before the main menu
• Improved the ammo HUD
  
• You can now tell if enemies are aiming up and down
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to kill a person multiple times with explosives
• Fixed a bug that caused a black screen on low settings when running on Apple Silicon devices
• Fixed sticky mines sometimes not exploding
• Fixed a bug that caused the speed of the dash ability to be affected by your game frame rate
• Fixed Russian and German translations
• Added a new shader to the arms during the spawn invincibility
• Sticky mines can no longer be shot through the floor
• Fixed connection issues in the menu
• The tutorial is now skippable
• Fixed a bug that caused random costumes to be equipped when launching the game
• Removed camera jiggle when swapping weapons
• Sights on the AK now improve accuracy
• The chat now dims when not in use

I'm so hyped up to release Paint Warfare merch!

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(1.) NEW WEAPONS + WEAPONS REBALANCING

PRESSURE WASHER

AKIMBO PISTOLS

STICKY MINE LAUNCHER

• It's fully automatic
• 6 mine barrel
• Mines stick to walls or other players
• Explode after 1s
• Excellent in tight spaces

AK IMPROVEMENTS

• I've added a sight to the AK (increases accuracy)

GAS GUN REWORK

• It now damages over an area (sort of like a shotgun)
• I've buffed the damages over distance, though it still will do most damage when you're close to the enemy

WEAPON REBALANCING

• It felt like you died too fast, so I've rebalanced all the weapons so you effectively have ~ 2x more health
• I also noticed that you'd get shot a lot from behind (which isn't fun), so I made some improvements to make it clearer when you get hurt (see: Polish and bug fix below)

(2.) RANKING CHANGES

• You'll now rank up faster, added 3 more ranks

(3.) GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMTS

ABILITY OVERHAUL

• Theres now two ability classes: passive and active
• Active abilities are those that recharge on kills, such as the dash, turret or invisibility, and passive abilities are ones that are always charged, like the jetpack, grapple hook, speed boots etc.
• You'll now be able to equip both at once, which should allow for more combinations and even better movement

MOVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS

• Jumping felt too 'airy', so I made some improvements to jumping and the fall speed
• You can fall to the ground faster by holding your slide key (ctrl)

(4.) HUNGER GAMES REWORK

• The game is now more of an elimination, when you die, you'll now be able to spectate other players until there's only one player left and the game restarts

• Improved the gun picking up in Hunger Games
• Fixed the hunger games spawn cam
• Fixed out-of-map bugs on the Island map

Polish and bug fix

• The Health bar now flashes red to make it clear when you're getting hit
• Changed the colour of the damage direction indicator to red
• Fixed a bug that caused the poison gun sound to play continuously non-stop for other players
• Fixed armoury weapons order to match their unlock order in ranks
• New banana gun shoot SFX
• Removed capture the cow mode
• Added icons for the base location in Capture the Flag
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be placed in a separate lobby from everyone else if you were max rank

Hello again! Here's this week's mega content update :)

(1.) HUNGER GAMES + TROPICAL ISLAND MAP

• Everyone starts with a spoon
• You can open chests to get other guns
• There are no abilities or modifiers
• If you die you just respawn, and there's no time limit. I did this because I don't think it'd be fun waiting for everyone else to die, and because people die really fast in this game. I'm open to suggestions though if you'd like some kind of 'elimination' kind of gameplay!

(2.) ARMOURY IMPROVEMENTS

(3.) NO PLAYERS IMPROVEMENTS

(4.) BUG FIXES

• Fixed the same map being listed multiple times in the custom games menu
• The text on the ability UI now reflects the keybinding you have for that ability
• Fixed some other out-of-bounds glitches
• The ability randomiser powerup should no longer clip into the ground

Hello again! I'm working on making the game more friendly for beginners, so the past few updates have been centred around polish and incremental improvements. Here's the key features new in this update:

(1.) COW MODIFIER

• One player starts with the cow
• When holding the cow, you heal 15 HP every 2 seconds, making you a TANK
• If the player holding the cow is killed, it is transferred to the killer immediately, and they now hold the cow

(2.) KILL ASSISTS

• Assists also display in the Profile and ingame leaderboard now

(3.) CAPTURE THE FLAG IMPROVEMENTS

• If the enemy dies with your flag, you can now touch the dropped flag to return it to your base

(4.) POLISH AND EXPLOIT FIXES

• Right clicking now explodes the orange instantly
• Fixed a bug with power-ups not working
• Got 6 people from our discord community to narrate the tutorial to their language!
• Fixed dashing out of the map, and beneath the floor
• When you rank up, the "Armoury" button now goes to the weapon you just unlocked
• Fixed map player counters in the map select
• Improved the menu tutorial
• Fixed a bug with the invisibility timer UI not showing
• Fixed issues with the map vote
• Fixed bug with team colors in Teams/ CTF
• Fixed translations being clipped off in foreign languages
• Improved the shop

Hello again! I'm working on making the game more friendly for beginners, so the past few updates have been centred around polish and incremental improvements. Here's the key features new in this update:

(1.) MAP VOTES // GAME TIMERS

• The only map with players always being dunes, and maps like Spoon Factory or Anubis being empty
• Most people will now play in the same match, but we'll be able to cycle through different maps

(2.) POWERUPS

• Ability recharge
• Weapon fire rate & reload boost
• Heal
• Ability randomiser

(3.) NEW CHALLENGES

• Added 6 new daily challenges for y'all. Enjoy!

(4.) TRANSLATIONS

• I've been playing around with Google Translate and GPT4, all text in the game COMPLETELY translated to other languages
• If you'd be willing to be the narrator the tutorial in your language (~3-4 minutes of lines), DM me on discord and I can gift you coins and DLCs for free as a thank you!

(5.) DASH CHANGES // EXPLOIT FIX

• Dashing is now more consistent you no longer dash further in the air than you do on the ground
• You dash a bit slower, but further now; this is in response to people asking it to be nerfed

(6.) NEW KILL SFX // UI

BUG FIX

• If I listed the number of bugs I fixed, this report would realistically be twice as long, here are the 2 main things
• Your weapon skins are now synced in third person for others to see
• Fixed a spinning bug when plugging in a controller.

Hey! It's still peak exam time for me, but I thought I'd come out with a pretty big bugfix update for y'all.

Health Rebalance

• Health increased 100 > 150
• Spoon damage nerfed (3-4 hits now) 200 dmg > 50 dmg

Report System

Bug fixes

• Fixed Capture the Flag
• Fixed a crazy shotgun and ACR bug that caused the sound to play rapidly
• Added tracers to the minigun
• Ingame playtime tracking fixed
• Bush, tree and dodge skins are now fixed in teams (didn't display colours previously)
• Fixed bugs with the coop minigame
• The gun you're up to in gun game now persists between rounds
• Round length increased (45s > 120s)
• Fixed a bug that caused the leaderboard to reload each time you respawned
• Added a preview of your gun + skin + hat in the menu :)
• More clear damage FX
• Added more translations. Daily challenges are now translated.
• Fixed a bug that turned maps black
• Fixed stickers
• Improved the tutorial & translated
• Fixed a bug with equipping gun skins in the armoury
• More armoury QoL improvements
• Fixed a bug where you could shoot with invincibility
• Network fixes

This is the first of a two part update in the second part I'll be adding weapon inspect animations and some more game modes (potentially)

Weapon Skins

• Galaxy Set (AK, Kingfisher)
• Futuristic Set (Kingfisher, Frenzy, Sniper)
• Scrolling Rainbow Set (Kingfisher, AK, Frenzy, Sniper)

• AK
• ACR
• Launcher
• Frenzy
• Banana gun
• Sniper

3 New minigames

Gun game

Infinite abilities

Coop

Other

• Various fixes and improvements

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the fire sound to keep playing if you sprinted
• Lag optimisation
• Fixed the jetpack
• Improved the glider SFX

This update's focus was to add as much new content as possible, improve translations and polish up the game. Enjoy!

Gas Gun (Rank 13)

• Deals tick damage
• Damage decreases with distance from the enemy
• Generous amount of ammo

Armoury Improvements

• Buying hats has been moved to the shop
• Select hats by dragging the hat options at the bottom
• Added 3 new hats

FREE Daily Coins: New Shop UI

• You now get 10 coins daily on top of daily challenges
• You can now purchase a 3-hour XP boost with coins. This stacks with the supporter boost and the 2x XP game mode

Glider

• If you've ever played Minecraft it feels fairly similar to that
• Double press space to fly
• You can climb slowly by looking up
• Point the glider down to pick up speed

Translations

• Polish
• Russian
• Spanish
• French
• Dutch
• German

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the out-of-bounds glitch
• Fixed a bug with costumes
• Network and performance improvements

Hello again! This update I wanted to focus on adding some new unique weapons & polishing up the gameplay. There are a number of fixes and changes in this update so it's worth reading through :)

New Weapons

TELEPORTER

BURST

RAILGUN CHANGES

• Increased the fire rate of the railgun to be faster than the sniper
• Increased the knockback of the railgun (this can be a good thing)
• Added a slight charge delay before firing the railgun to make it more challenging to use

Butter Smooth Connection

What this means is

• Lower ping
• Less lag, disconnects and stuttering

QoL and Polish

• Gun type is now displayed in the killfeed
• DOUBLE YOUR FPS: On macs or high-resolution monitors with this new resolution option
  
• Added some more names to the credits

Bug fixes

• Fixed an exploit where you could switch to your secondary in spoon only
• Improved the syncing of gunshot sounds (like the minigun)
• Removed floor is lava from all FFA maps; it will now only be available in team deathmatch
• New SFX for lava
• Above lava respawn points during the floor is lava game mode
• Fixed team spawns in Factory
• Fixed player counters in the menu

Hello everyone. Thanks for reporting connection bugs with yesterday's patch, these should all be fixed now.

Connection Fixes

• Fixed players stuttering and freezing
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to lose connection to the server, where shooting would not work
• Various other improvements

• There will now be a slight delay when eliminating enemies, this is normal while I'm reworking the prediction system

Other Improvements

• The buttons in the map select will now click
• Visual improvements to the rank-up screen
• Tutorial level improvements

• Fixed a bug when launching the game

Yo! I'm still working on marketing this week, but I've put together a small regular patch to fix some bugs.

Bug fix

• Fixed a bug that caused disconnection issues when leaving a map
• Fixed other connection issues
• Fixed a bug that caused the cape to remain visible while using the invisibility ability

Polish

• Respawn cam is now synced to your position when you died
• Improvements to the profile menu

Balance

• Increased ability price (100 > 150)
• Enemy players now have an outline, changed the colours to make them more visible
• Decreased the probability of floor is lava and beach balls game modes

Polish

• Made movement smoother
• Added a new kill bonus in CTF if you get a kill while holding the flag
• If you own a cape it will now be previewed on the costumes in the armoury
• More audio feedback and SFX

Bug fix

• Fixed bugs with capes
• Fixed a point-scoring bug in CTF
• Fixed the copy room code button in custom games
• Fixed the replay button at the end of CTF and Teams games
• Fixed connection issues on the Koto map
• Fixed issues with the player counts in the map selector
• Fixed the join button displaying player counts for the wrong map
• Fixed an armoury bug preventing costumes from being swapped
• Locked CTF until rank 4
• Fixed a bug where the menu would be unusable after a bug

Balance

• In CTF, abilities such as the Dash, Invisibility and Turret will now recharge on capturing the flag
• For the next week, XP on CTF will be doubled

• Fixed flags in CTF

Welcome back! It's been a while since I've brought you guys some new gamemodes, so I'm proud to introduce Capture the Flag! Along with a new map designed explicitly around it There won't be an update next week as I'll be directing my efforts to marketing Paint Warfare.

Capture the Flag

Anubis Map

New Tutorial

Other

• UI improvements
• Squashed some bugs
• Banned some cheaters
• Removed XP in custom games

• Fixed a bug that caused the turret to fire extremely fast
• Speed boost sounds are now synced over the network
• Fixed various connection issues

Hello! Apologies for the delays with this update. I'm pleased to affirm that the development of this game is still in overdrive. Let me know in the discord if you have any feedback/ suggestions!

NEW MAP Koto

Developer Note: Hyperspeed Boosts

Banana's Winter Challenge (Battle Pass 1)

To be able to work full-time & hire people for the project [/olist]

I've introduced a new winter battle pass, complete with 13 rewards.

• 2 full COSTUMES
• Paint Warfare's first CAPE
• Some absolutely awesome hats
• 600 coins
• 10+ hours & $20 worth of bonus content

Enjoy!

Custom Game Improvements

I know a lot of you love to play with your friends, so I've made some improvements to (private) custom games.

• Added match timer option
• Added spoon only mode option
• Added sniper only override option
• Added double HP option
• You can now have bots in private lobbies
• Private lobbies will no longer give you XP
• Shortened room code length

NEW ABILITY Invisibility

Added a requested 2s invisibility ability!

Polish and Game Improvements

• Added back spoon only mode to FFA
  
• Added 'floor is lave' to FFA
• Increased map height. Changed map border on most maps (hemisphere > cylinder)
• Better Armoury UI & improvements
• Merged the US & EU servers into just 'us-east' for the time being. This will increase player counts, and most of you guys seem to be somewhere near that vicinity.
• Fixed flickering in Dragon Valley
• Fixed a rank bug in the profile
• Fixed an issue with hats part of the Supporter Pack & Dino DLCs

Turret Balancing

• Decreased turret fire rate (2 > 1)
• Lowered damage (10 > 7)
• Capped the maximum number of turrets per player to 2

Sniper Balancing

Other

• Removed the match timer on all FFA maps
• Lowered fog on blizzard

Hello! Thank you everyone for reporting the bugs in yesterday's release. I put together a quick patch today covering all of the bugs you guys encountered. Let me know on the discord if you find any more!

Gamemodes

• Fixed an issue preventing games from restarting
• Fixed infinite loops of game over
• Fixed the match timer displaying absurdly high amounts. All maps now have 15-minute games
• Fixed an issue where first place would be placed second in FFA games

Turrets

• Fixed turret targeting (it was targeting the furthest player instead of the closest)
• Fixed turret accidentally hitting/ damaging its owner
• Fixed a turret kill giving all other players in the lobby points

Other

• The sniper scope should now work correctly on Apple Silicon based macs
• Fixed graphics quality continuously resetting
• Fixed minor bugs in the armoury
• Fixed 'V' accidentally toggling voice chat
  
• Hard capped the number of bots per map at 1 (there were previously more in Factory). For full transparency, these are used when there are huge dips in players (night time) in both the EU and US regions to make the game more fun.

Hello! From this point on, I'm making weekly mega updates. Let me know in the discord if you have any feedback/ suggestions!

Paint Warfare With Friends!

• Since introducing MMR-based matchmaking, I unintentionally made it difficult to play with your friends. You can now directly join your friend's games [olist]
• Esc > Get Lobby Code
  
• Copy the code & send it over to your friend
  
• They can paste it in here ^ :) [/olist]
  
• Added private lobbies

Huge Gamemode Improvements

FFA

• Added match timers
• Added a game-end leaderboard & a score bonus multiplier based on the final standings

Teams

• Added match timers
• Huge polish & QoL improvements to the mode
• Added a game-end leaderboard and win/lose

Turret Ability

Other

• Improved explosion VFX
• Fixed broken tutorial
• Added 2 new daily challenges
• Fixed green menu on low settings
• Fixed out of bounds map bug on blizzard
• Pre-unlocked the dash ability for everyone
• Minor menu fixes & improvements

Hey all! Sorry about the delay with this update, there's been a lot of smaller features I've been putting together :)

New Abilities!

• Super speed boots
• Heal
• Jetpack

New Ranking, Currency & Daily Challenges

Feedback on Bots

QoL

• Keybinds
• Sniper aim sensitivity slider
• Improved rank related UI
• Huge gun rebalancing, added inaccuracy the sniper when not aimed
• Added a kick (F)
• Added paint splatter (thanks for the suggestion)
• Improved the verticality in the maps
  
• Added US servers, with a region select if you want to play with friends on a different region
• MMR-based matchmaking
• Added a double-jump
• Improved the respawning screen
• Added a leaderboard in respawn

Hey!

New Minigames | FACTORY MAP ONLY

Capture the Cow

Mines

Floor is lava

Team Deathmatch

• 'Blue' team is now your teammates
  
• Scoring is now based on kills
  
• You can now see your teammates through walls

Gunplay

• AK (Snake)
• Frenzy
• Minigun

QoL

• Improved UIs
• Bug fixes
• New disconnection screen
• Patch notes
• Sped up match joining speed ~200%
• So much more!

Yo! I'm aiming to get rid of as many bugs as possible over the coming weeks :)

Bugfix

• macOS build fixes
• Fixed a bug that caused the (removed) map vote to sometimes pop up
• The match timer will no longer run in the background
• The camera will now face the player that eliminated you as intended
• Fixed a bug that caused the Railgun to be lit up constantly
• Polish to the 'Global Leaderboard' and 'Map Select' tabs of the main menu
• Removed beta 'Drift' maps from the game. Still working on adding it back soon though :)
• Fixed gamemode desync issues
• Fixed the spoon weapon gaining 5-10 kills at once on occasion
• Fixed version text around the game displaying the wrong version
• Fixed the main menu join button being stuck on "connecting" when there were no players
• Patched some connection issues

Balancing

Railgun

• Launch back force from the rail gun increased 1,000 > 2,000
• Fire rate increased (10%)

Frenzy

• Accuracy decreased (40%)

Minigun

• Decreased spin-up time (18%)

Hiya! Here's a quick bugfix patch :3

Bugfix

• ACR Fixes
• Fixed bug where you could switch to the same weapon (playing animation) over and over
• Removed 0 character width names
• 'Opening pause menu, opening options then pressing escape gives you full control of the game with pause menu open' - FIXED
• Clearer pause/typing indicator
• Removed map vote/ countdown
• Added an indicator to see bots through walls

Minigun ;)

• Introducing the Minigun! a rapid-fire machine gun that unlocks at rank 4! Deal heavier damage than the AK, with 125 rounds at the cost of a small charge-up.

• Also added some new damage text indicators... let me know what you think!

Map Votes

• I heard playing on the same maps was getting a little repetitive for y'all, so I made a new map vote every 10 minutes.

Global Leaderboad!!!

• Added a sick new global & steam friends leaderbead, scores are the total number of kills you have in total across all games.

UFO

On October 30th, Paint Warfare will be invaded by Jeff Bezos' Amazon delivery drones, armed with deadly railguns.
• Join our discord server to take part in a huge upcoming UFO boss fight over the coming weeks as part of the spooky season!

Polish

• New Paint Warfare font for menus
• Better steam banner (credit: pabs from our discord)
• Spooky Halloween Stuff
• Added a torture chamber to the bottom of the tutorial
• M1 mac fixes

Hiya! I'm currently doing exams so this one is a little on the smaller sidehere are some well requested features :3

New Tutorial

• Tutorial improvements
• Sensitivity slider range increased 2X > 3X
• Added a new UI ingame to show when you rank up
• Reload indicator for the launcher
• Removed bullet tracers

Howdy! I've returned, I'm currently doing exams so this one is a little on the smaller side I'll be making updates on a more consistent basis now though :3

New Tutorial

• Improved map layout
• Hired a German voice actor to make the tutorial more entertaining
• Added keybind GUI

Apple Silicon

Other Major Changes

• Return of jukebox feature in the menu
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to equip weapons/ items you hadn't unlocked yet
• Smoother frames in the main menu
• Fixed a bug that would cause the Railgun's ray to desync/ persist after switching weapons

Soon :)

• Keybinding

Ima try to drop these huge updates on a monthly basis now :)

The Thundergun

Map Improvements

Polish

• New immersive ambient track for all maps
• 4 new achievements
• Increased the size of hit direction indicator
• Improved explosives gunplay & added subtle camera shake
• Bubble grenade fixes
• More feedback when getting hit
• Double XP/ supporter boost now displays near points in the kill text to reduce confusion
• Definitely no new easter eggs

Soon :)

• M1 mac support
• Keybinding

There were some minor issues with the game, so here's one more patch to add polish :)

Fixes + Changes

• Linked the YouTube and Discord Server in the main menu (thanks for Goose for the suggestion)
• Fixed a bug that caused all of the ranks to display at once in the profile
• Fixed a bug that caused player team colors to sync from the Team Deathmatch Mode to FFA
• Fixed an issue that caused the Viking Helmet, Anime Headband and Holy Headgear to be pre-unlocked

Balance

• ACR scope animation is now 35% faster
• The beach ball game mode (Dunes, Dragon Valley) now summons 3 beach balls instead of one

Recent Devlog :)

I've just dropped the cost of the supporter bundle to $3.5 for the duration of the steam summer sale (July 7) and added some cool new features :)

• [NEW] Free carbon-fibre weapon wrap for AK, Falcon, ACR, Launcher, Frenzy and Banana Gun

Critical Fix

• Fixed an occasional game-breaking bug that caused one person joining to spawn hundreds of characters

Other Fixes

• Fixed hats on the distinguished dino skin
• Fixed falcon in third person
• Fixed a bug that prevented people from equipping hats on the default skin
• Hats now save between swapping costumes in the armoury

Howdy reader! This update took longer than some of the other major updates, but I'm so hyped to finally release it for y'all to try out B:)

Huge Map Improvements!

Gun Stickers :)

Supporter Improvements

Team Deathmatch Mode!

New Hats + Ranks :D

• Kinky Cat Headband

• Holy Headwear Hat

Distinguished Dino Costume

UPCOMING TOURNAMENT Minecraft Village Map

Other Notable Changes:

• Sprinting movement increased by 10%
• UI Improvements
• Increased the world border sizes on the Dragon Valley and Spoon Factory maps to ensure that you won't get stuck or hit your head on the roof as often
• Raised the roof of the Spoon Factory Map
• Improved sound design
• New menu and joining music by Vern Carson!
• A new ingame jukebox feature where you can play tunes while playing
• Fixed macOS build

Changes

• Added a mic select setting in the options menu
• More voice chat fixes
• New music
• Fixed another bug that caused players to be unnamed

Voice Chat + Better Servers

• Larger bandwidth on voice chat and gameplay servers
• The 'Voice Chat' setting in options now displays your current mic when you hover over it (ingame only)
• When speaking (holding V), the mic icon in the bottom right corner will now have an audio visualisation so you can see if voice chat is working
• Voice chat volume is now automatically increased/decreased to make sure everyone is audible

Other

• Improved UI responsiveness and sound design
• Added my friend g0d to the game credits for designing some cool upcoming hats!
• Added a groovy new joining tune made by my friend Vern Carson
• Better looking stickers on supporter guns
• Huge content update coming soon B:)

Hey! Welcome to another fancy patch! Thanks for all the support recently, I appreciate it. Onto the patch notes :DD

Bug Fixes :p

• Fixed a bug that caused you to remain scoped if you switched from a scoped weapon
• Fixed an [strike]issue[/strike] feature with an easter egg that caused it to play really loud copyrighted music in Factory
• Fixed a tag bug
• Maps will load faster & no longer get stuck while loading in rare cases

Other

Yo! B:) I've been on spring break, & so I patched all the known bugs and added some needed polish to the game. I'd like to thank you all for the support, constant bug reports, feedback and content you've all been putting out! Anyways, here are the patch notes:

Bugfixes

• The map select menu now properly shows player counts
• Fixed a bug that caused the chat to be spammed when killing bots
• Fixed a typo in a joining message
• Fixed a bug that caused you to remain scoped if you switched weapons from the sniper while scoped
• Fixed an issue that caused the player to clip through some walls
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to break when the save file was corrupted (from a BSOD or crash mid-game)
• Fixed a bug that caused really loud music to play when leaving games (oops)

Map Improvements

Factory

Other:

• Improved FPS on the Dunes map by 5-10%
• Improved FPS on the Dragon Valley map by 4-7%
• Added more spawn points to the Spoon Factory map

SFX

• Improved AK + Frenzy reload sounds
• New bubble grenade sounds
• Audio feedback for sliding :)

Grapple Changes

• Grapple hooks now sync over the network

Cloud Save

• Your save files are now synced over the Steam cloud! (Works cross-platform too)

Howdy! I wanted to add heaps of new content for this update. I hope yall enjoy it :D

Abandoned Factory Map??

ACR

Rank 13

Other

• Improved tutorial
• Made third person hands camo
• New kill text when eliminating people
• Skin tone customisation for owners of supporter pack
• You can now play music in the menu after pausing it
• More launcher nerfs
• Polish & bugfix

I've been secretly dropping some lil mini patches recently so here's the official changelog :)

VFX Updates!

Misc

• New UI to display people who are currently speaking & you can now speak while respawning :)
  
• Made the menu a little more lively with some of my favourite tunes from my friends Vern Carson, Helixarius and Dalux
• Game credits (Options > Credits)
• Nerfed rocket launcher damage
• Smoother menu animations & a new splash screen
• EU SERVERS (lower ping)

glizzy costume lmao

Coming Soon/ Roadmap

Howdy! Here's an update I've been working on in the background for a while with some big movement changes and other cool stuff. Next update will be even bigger ;)

Grappling

Better Sliding :o

Dragon Valley 2.0 + Other Map Improvements

New Languages

• German
• French
• Polish
• More coming soon..

Aloha! Here's part 2 of the patch released last week, that tackles some bugs and gameplay issues you all found in the release. :D

Gameplay:

• Spawn invulnerability now lasts longer (3s ---> 3.5s), but is deactivated immediately once you fire

• Added a new UI that displays gamemode changes & gamemode length reduced (60s ---> 35s)

Quality of Life:

• Added a map select when you press 'join game' in the menu (you can still quick join a random active room by just pressing return/enter)
• Loading music will no longer play while respawning
• Gamemode change UI
• New respawn music + easter eggs? :)

Balance/Bugfix:

• Respawn time decreased (5s ---> 3s)
• Fixed the game hanging on loading screens
• Fixed a bug causing players to be unnamed
• Solved an issue causing the cursor to be hidden at times where it shouldn't

Known Issues:

• No way to exit spectator mode at the moment

Hey! I just wanted to thank everyone for the huge amount of support recently, the game has totally blown up and I'm so thankful for you all *<:) Here's the first of 2-3 small patches that'll be coming over the next few weeks targeting bugs and cheaters. Please update to continue to be able to play with other players.

Cheaters:

Servers:

• Bought some bigger servers (old ones were maxing out)
• Increased the size of the match leaderboard (8 ---> 12 players)
• Improved matchmaking to help spread out players into the different maps (use /j, /blizzard and /dunes to swap maps still)

Bugfix:

• Updated chat filter
• Fixed bug that caused keys to disappear
• You can no longer join the tutorial level and kill new players
• Launcher explosion radius reduced (11m ---> 9m), lethal radius reduced (4m ---> 3m)
• Explosives no longer explode multiple times
• Chat cooldown to help counter spamming
• Quality of life improvements

Howdy! This update is a little on the smaller side, but brings some well-needed improvements before the game comes out of early access :)

Balancing/ Gameplay

• Removed the grapple (g) while I work on mechanics to make it better work better with the existing movement
• Voice chat loudness is no longer based on the distance from the source

Bugfix

• The Snake (AK) will now be the same colour (orange) on all maps. Fixed a bug that caused a tiny yellow bell to fly off the gun when you spawn
• Fixed bug that caused the cursor to be hidden when returning to the menu
• Damage dealt stat will now display correctly when respawning

Other

• The AFK kick timer has been increased (2 ---> 8 minutes)

Howdy! This update adds a crazy amount of new mechanics, polish, progression/economy improvements and content that I'm so excited to finally release to you all! Basically, after this version is fully tested & some other minor polish changes are added, the game will come out of early access. :)

Bubble Grenade!

Hats + Progression Updates

• coins have been replaced with unlock keys (automatically exchanged)
• 5 new ranks to grind through with some wayyy cooler rewards incase you're into that B:)

Improved Movement

• slide [ctrl or q]
• grapple hook [g]

Notable Changes ;-;

• SFX and Music sliders (finally)
• Client side prediction (less lag, enemies die instantly on your screen)
• New tutorial level that teaches important gameplay mechanics (access with /tutorial in chat)
• You can now rotate and move weapons in the armoury using RMB and LMB to inspect
  
• Fixed kingfisher flying exploit
• Other minor fixes/polish probably forgot lmao

Paint Warfare: Captain Banana Supporter DLC

Hey people! i've been pretty tied up with exams, videos and commissions as of late, so this month's update is a little on the smaller side. Nevertheless though, strap in and prepare to find out all about the cool new features you're getting! ;)

*Proximity Voice Chat* >:D

New Servers + Ping Counter:

Bugfix/Polish:

• The game no longer plays music in between switching maps
• Time played is now recorded correctly
• Changes to the colour palette the game and UI is slightly more vibrant now
• Damaging enemies with explosives and not eliminating them no longer plays the kill animation
• I'm currently looking into an issue where the game bricks if the save file becomes corrupted (super extremely rare)
• Other minor things *<:)

0.9.1_b fixes a few minor bugs and adds more polish (credit to mandar1jn for reporting!)

Polish + Balance:

• Fixed a rendering bug that caused boxes to flicker on lower settings
• Joining a match in the new map will now properly display as "Match: Dragon Valley" in the menu
• Damaging enemies with the respawn invincibility no longer plays the kill animation
• Disabling details now disables slightly fewer objects
• Some optimisations ~8% fps boost

The new update brings crazy amounts of new content, unlockables (like tags, weapons and even more achievements) and some more polish/bugfixes based on your feedback. After a lil bit of closed testing, Paint Warfare is back, and there's even more planned for the future of the game!

New Dragon Valley Map:

Unlockables!

What can I unlock?

• more guns
• coloured nametags
• new characters + abilities (coming next update!)

Banana Gun ;)

Polish/Bugfixes:

• Gamemodes can no longer repeat and last 60s instead of just 45, you can now also swap gamemodes by typing /gm in chat!
• Fixed bugs that caused props in the map to glitch or disappear, other people's movement is now much smoother
• Damage and points summary in the respawn screen
• Definitely no new easter eggs at all ;)

0.8_b2 adds adds more polish in the game :)

Major Updates:

• added achievements (more coming soon)

Polish + Balance:

• transitions between maps and menus
• made the ui more consistent in some places
• added a spectator and cinematic spectator (activated through using /s or /cs)
• new greasy mayo setting which improves fps by around 20%
• minimum fps cap is now 20
• renamed the 'double xp' gamemode to 'double points'
• nerfed the launcher fire rate
• made the dash a bit louder
• no new easter eggs at all :>

0.8_b adds a huge amount of content, polish and well-needed bug fixes to the the game :D

Major Updates:

• new 'minigame modes that cycle every 45s - giant beach balls (dunes only) - infinite dashes - double xp - orange only - spoon only - more coming soon..
• new spoon weapon
• added a dash to the movement that can be controlled with your movement keys and recharges with each kill
• improved UI and fancy animated kill indicators

Polish + Balance:

• white hitmarkers
• fixed issues with bots getting stuck, reduced bot invincibility to 2s and added a slight delay before they explode
• the launcher now has infinite ammo again, but its fire rate has been reduced by 33%
• you can now use C, Q and Z to fall to the ground
• added more join messages and messages to the chat when a player is switching maps
• you can now knock back explosives with paintballs and other explosives
• smoothed explosive animation
• a bit of optimisation
• improved the accuracy of the chat filter and whitelisted words like cracked and sucks that were blocked as a result of a bug
• damage of explosives now drops off with how far away the source was
• bot invulnerability reduced from 3s to 2s
• improved the range or the rocket launcher
• bots now have a slight delay before exploding so that its now possible to kill them with melee weapons

Bugfix:

• you can now shoot through your feet/head
• getting killed by a bot will now properly display in the killfeed as being killed by a bot

0.6.2 addresses critical issues in the last version like cheaters and fixes a few bugs.

Changelog:

major changes

balance

polish & bugfix

The goal of the Paint Warfare rework was to fix a lot of the underlying issues with the old Paint Warfare and to shape the game into something that was unique to anything any other FPS game has to offer currently After a bunch of closed testing, and a short public beta on itch.io, Paint Warfare is back on Steam! :)

Combat Changes:

Other cool mechanics that I won't go into:

• Respawn invulnerability (rush opponents/revenge)
• Grenade jumping (difficult to pull of but incredibly fun lol)
• Faster time to kills
• Removal of terrible mechanics that encouraged the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve xD

Better Maps:

Polish and Less Bugs:

[previewyoutube=cMBRTnUcs4o;full][/previewyoutube]

Hey guys! Over the next few months, I will be completely overhauling the game in order to address some core issues and bugs with the game in response to recent reviews. This rework will bring with it:

• Improvements to combat, maps, modes and movement, to bring more depth
• Improved multiplayer bots/some form of singleplayer
• Fixes to major issues with the project (it's over a year old!) which will make it easier for me to add content faster and without creating bugs
• Improved visuals and UI redesigns
• Weapons that more creatively use the paintball theme
• Controller support

Paint Warfare is now Free To Play, making it easier than ever to play with and invite friends! Bigger and better updates are in the workings. Cheers, Mini

After long and careful consideration, I've decided to make Paint Warfare a Free to Play game. Due to dwindling players over the past few months, we believe that Free to Play will help you guys enjoy the game with friends and will bring more players overall to our small community. We're also going to roll out a few other new features, to reach a greater base of players, including more languages, controller support and more optimisations! Cheers, Mini

After a month of both open and closed beta testing on the discord server, weve nailed down most of the major bugs found in 1.7 and 1.7.2. Along with that, some well-needed overhauls reworks, and polish work have finally been completed!

Maps:

Movement:

Combat:

Matchmaking, AI and Spectator:

Other major changes:

Environment:

• Environment particles
• Added unique reverb presets to each map
• Added lens flare to sunny maps

Movement:

• Added ability to step up on platforms
• Removed vehicles
• Fixed flying ragdolls

Weapons:

• Removed Uzi
• Fixed a bug that prevented bazookas and grenades from dealing damage
• Increased grenade jump force

UI:

• Brand new menu UIs
• Removed redundant parts of old menus

Other:

• Improved chat moderation system
• Shortened the launching sequence
• New preloader

Following some feedback and some suggestions, I've released 1.7.2, fixing some smaller issues, cleaning up the UI, previewing the upcoming singleplayer mode, and more!

Features:

• New Dunes map
• Singleplayer Gun Game mode
• New crosshairs
• Clearer UI
• Credits
• Other fixes and balancing

Paint Warfare 1.7.1 was a 2 part update fixing critical issues and bugs found in 1.7.0.

Changes;

• New unique music for the Blizzard, Archipelago and Factory
• Changes to the way music is played when loading a map
• Updated menu music
• Ping counters in the menu now display 'connecting' when a connection is not yet established
• Added rocket jumping
• Definitely no new easter eggs

Fixes:

• Fixed missing textures found in the player model in the plane
• Fixed a bug that prevented the plane from shooting
• Respawn fixes in the LMS mode
• Fixed a bug that prevented vehicles from being destroyed
• Fixed kill-feed syncing issues
• Fixed healing and auto-heling

Balancing:

• Reduced bazooka damage to a maximum of 100hp, depending on the distance from the explosion
• Reduced the ammo for the bazooka from 6 to 5
• The med-kit cooldown has been reduced from 5 seconds to 3
• The med-kit is now infinite and heals 20hp per use
• Bumped up grenade count; depending on which type of grenade you have equipped, you now have 2-5 bonus grenades
• Increased M240B damage to 14hp / hit
• Reduced the force of grenades when grenade jumping

Paint Warfare 1.7.0 has been a trek; it's been a 3-month project, the most development time ever put into a release after 1.0. We've had countless new people come and go, helping make this update possible, and I'm finally happy to announce that the 1.7.0 update is now public on Steam! [previewyoutube=jYSWUjsloQw;full][/previewyoutube]

Movement:

Maps:

Combat:

UIs and Menus:

Smaller Changes:

• Kill-feed now displays 'FFA Started' on FFA maps
• Removed the SFX option
• Fixed some building colliders
• Impoved the chat censoring system to minimise false blocking
• Fixed a bug that prevented tanks from shooting
• Fixed wetlands spawn
• You will no longer automatically enter vehicles by walking up to them
• Optimised maps
• Fixed flickering issues on Wetlands
• Re-scaled buildings and props to fit the player size
• Fixed a bug that caused the Chiappa to be invisible
• Added custom skyboxes

We're holding the final 1.7.0 open beta in our discord server. Feel free to join in and be part of the gameplay for our new trailer! The test will be hosted on via a link so won't matter whether you have the game or not. :) [previewyoutube=rWKqtSqA5OE;full][/previewyoutube] "1.7.0 has been a trek. It's been a 3-month project, the longest development time ever put into an update after 1.0. We've had people helping out with the project come and go, though development has been going strong. There's been countless stages of testing (some more successful than others), from private 1v1s, closed betas and now the open beta this Saturday. All funds earnt from the last 2 months past release have been put directly back into the game, whether it be licensing music, SFX and render farms for rendering the shorts. Paint Warfare has been one of my biggest projects yet, and I'd like to thank the community for still sticking with me and being so supportive, as I know the past builds recently have been a bit rough and buggy recently. Hope you guys enjoy the build :)" - From our discord

Hey all! Sorry for all the radio silence this month while we've been testing an perfecting Paint Warfare 1.7.0 (yes that's right, 1.7.0).
We've been busy stress testing the game, so when the build releases, I won't have to consistently release small patches to fix up tiny bugs and me and a few other people have been hard at work creating brand new features and content, such as planes, new maps (read about them here), grenades, and much more! [previewyoutube=kE5uQTNClNc;full][/previewyoutube]

Testing:

Release:

1.7.0 will be one of the biggest updates to the game, bringing forth massive changes, fixes and content overhauls! For the past 2 months, I've been secretly working on 2 new 4x4km (yes that's right) maps for Paint Warfare, to replace 2 of the 4 existing maps already in the game!
These maps will feature a spawn select screen, new areas, brand new vehicles and more! The new Archipelago map will replace the old Tornado map, and a brand new Blizzard map (with a completely new layout and custom models) will replace the old map, with a massively larger fighting area.

New Maps Trailer:

Sketch a monster or two for the 8.0 co-op update and get a free game key for paint warfare or my other games!

How it works:

4-6 winners will be chosen and the top monsters will be added to the game [/olist]

Rewards:

1st

2 paint warfare keys or 1 paint warfare key + all itch keys

2nd

1 paint warfare key and a choice of any of my itch games

3rd-4th

free paint warfare key

5th-6th

key for any of my itch games Since I'll be slowly shifting paint warfare's focus away from realism, you can make any monster you like. Feel free to check out some of the examples below!

7.0 will be the biggest and greatest update to the game! I'll be working on a lot of new content, maps and features for this new build of the game.
Firstly I'd like to mention about some of the problems / issues brought up by the community that we'd like to address in this update.

• Not enough players online, making the game unplayable
• Players take too many hits to kill
• Not enough customisations for characters and skins
• You can level up to the max level in a few days
• There isn't any story / the game doesn't make sense: a paintball fight in a tornado with tanks and bazookas?
• Not enough explosions
• Lots of bugs

7.0:

• Campaign
• Weapon upgrades
• New weapons (including new explosives)
• Bug fixes

8.0:

• Co-op
• Player customisation
• Intro sequence
• Possibly air vehicles (will be teasing these before 7.0)

This update features a completely reworked footsteps system, with 170 different SFX for different surfaces, a fresh menu, balancing, matchmaking fixes, optimisations and more!

Features

• Reworked footstep system, with over 170 new SFX for different surfaces
• Reload SFX for the Chiappa Double Eagle, Beretta, MAT-49, UZI and Bazooka
• Fixes to team deathmatch and matchmaking bugs
• Added paint splatter to walls
• Slight balancing changes, including med-kit buffs
• Leave messages and automatic reconnection when the connection is lost
• Refreshed main menu
• Changes to SFX when underwater
• Unique music when loading each map
• Particle optimisations (40% better particle performance)
• Other changes and fixes

6.0.1 fixes a ton of bugs (especially vehicle bugs), buffed and balanced vehicles, updated (and added) a bunch of sound fx, and polished a bunch of features implemented in 6.0.

Full list of changes / fixes:

• Updated / removed solid colour textures from some vehicles
• Decreased amount of vehicles per map by ~50%
• Changed vehicle entering to be the same across both water and land vehicles
• Fixed a bug where a player would only be disabled locally when entering vehicles
• Fixed a bug where vehicles could bug out if already entered
• Buffed vehicle health
• Made vehicles indestructable unless there is a player inside as to prevent people from gaining points by blowing up empty vehicles
• Made tanks default to first person view to help with aiming
• Synced tank turret rotation over network
• Fixed issues preventing vehicle UI from updating correctly
• Decreased boat sound range
• Fixed some ambient sound effects (especially the wetlands one)
• Fixed an issue where the user could select an insanely low screen resolution
• Improved some animations
• Med-kit now heals health before shield
• Fixed a bug where that caused a team death-match game with 2 players to be on the same team when joining / respawning
• Changed damage FX, removed blur and blood loss effects
• Added new shell casings to TOZ
• Added casing sounds
• Added hit sounds

Hey all! Me and a few other people have been testing the new build recently, and we've come across a few minor issues, though the general feedback overall has been really positive. I'd like to seriously thank anyone who's purchased the game at this stage and left feedback on how I could improve. I've combined all this feedback and will be making changes to the game for 6.1...
First off I'd like to talk about some changes and fixes I'd like to make for the 6.0.1 mini update:

• The player will be properly disabled over the network when entering and exiting vehicles
• Med-kits will heal health first rather than shield
• You will only gain points by destroying vehicles if there is someone in them (prevents people from farming points by destroying vehicles)
• Footsteps will be silent / a lot quieter when crouching
• Destroying a vehicle will no longer appear in the killfeed unless there was a player in that vehicle
• You will be able to use tanks in a first person mode so you can aim

Paint Warfare is a low-poly casual multiplayer FPS with large scale maps. team and FFA combat, fun and unique weapons, vehicles and much more!

Features of this update:

• Ground and water vehicles unique to each map. Wetlands features RHIBs and both the Blizzard and Tornado maps focus on tanks, trucks and armoured cars
• New cutscenes! The Tornado and Wetlands map now have an epic animation when spawning
• New tornado map! Cooked up a fresh new map with brand new models and textures, just make sure to not get sucked in!
• Crouching! You asked, we listened. You can now crouch to get into those tiny spaces and buildings
• New secondary weapons. Made 4 unique secondary weapons to replace the previous system. I'll be sure to add more if this new system works out!
• Med-Kit! You can finally heal yourself with a single use med-kit (equippable in the armoury) instead of a bazooka.
• New ways to score! Get mini in-game achievements that increase your score at the end of the round. Some achievements include: base capture, double kill, medic and roadkill
• Security improvements and more. We've had some reports of cheating in the past, so we've upped our security. Data is now encrypted, and the game is now protected from running outside of Steam
• A lot more!