This update is our first after the Early Access release, and so it brings a lot of QOL changes based on feedback from our players (thank you all!). So let's start with:

Keyboard/Mouse Controls

Players had complained that playing without a gamepad was hard, and rightly so. Your Tuber could only be turned around using your four arrow keys (or WASD), making it hard to aim at stuff. So we changed it to use the mouse for aiming. Now you can move around with your arrow keys and point with your mouse cursor!

Controller Changes

Previously, moving controlled aiming. You could only shoot in the direction that you were moving in. This changed with the update mentioned above - using your mouse, you could aim in one direction while moving in another. We had to do something similar for our gamepad folks as well, as to not make keyboard controls OP. So now, you can optionally use your right analog stick to aim, while you use your left stick to move and the triggers to shoot/boost. Since it is optional, you don't have to change your style of play! You can still keep using your left stick and never touch the right one. It'll be like nothing ever changed.

Servers & Improved Matchmaking

There's been a little update to the servers list: US East was removed. The matchmaking system was improved. Previously, if you selected one server, you could only find matches on that server. So searching on EU, you couldn't play with players playing on US servers. Now, if you search for a match on a specific server, and nobody is playing there, it will automatically move to the server that has players (if any). So you don't have to worry about manually selecting a populated server.

More Updates

• If a player leaves a match before the game starts, they are removed from the match instead of giving them the "dead" status
• If the host leaves before the match starts, it restarts your matchmaking request
• Reduced the frequency of mines in Survival, and added a little delay when they spawn in a ring
• Implemented sentry.io, so whenever your game crashes, we receive the crash data so that we could fix it

Bug Fixes

• Fixed countdown graphics, at the start and end of the match
• King of the Pool bots will now try to go around barriers instead of getting stuck
• Fixed a bug where the game would start before you pressed Enter/Start
• Fixed issues related to delta-timing, which mainly affected slower systems
• Fixed an issue where other players would face your mouse if using keyboard/mouse
• More minor fixes

[ 2019-05-28 07:00:05 CET ] [ Original post ]