Tldr; BIG POLISH PATCH

We've made some huge improvements to visuals, audio, game feel, and track discovery. Full changelist at the bottom.

If you haven't played in a while, ball up and give us some feedback. We have 129 custom tracks in the Hub to check out.

We'll keep making small improvements, but now we're shifting focus to content:

• EA season 2

• More physics props (cannons, seesaws, bumpers, more!)

• More hats, skins, & explosions

• (I promise I will also fix controller nav asap)

If you have ideas (even the crazy ones!), let us know. I keep a big list.

If you find bugs (sorry), please report them. It's hard for us to catch everything 🙂

Happy ballin'.

Changelist (See bolded items for the cool stuff)

Menus:

• All new menus

• Customize takes you to a new locker room

• Added a real loading screen

• Added a wipe out of loading screens

Customization:

• Added the ability to tweak gloss & pattern power on the basic balls

Environment:

• Improved fog settings for better foreground/background separation

• Fog is no longer volumetric, slight perf boost

• Two big improvements to track readability:

• Near and mid-distance objects now have a soft outline

• Material improvements to roughness, contrast, and tinting

• Circuit tracks all received a paint job

Game feel:

• Hats now tilt when accelerating

• Added subtle speed fx when you're going 40+

• Improved camera probing so it can get closer to the ground

• Camera now tilts very slightly in response to lateral movements

• The smallest camera shake ever added to collisions

Hub:

• Filters are now available for Hub searches; select a tag to see more of what you want

• Added author time preview to the info panel

• Added difficulty preview to thumbnails

Editor:

• Now includes a checklist. Small improvements to publish flow.

SFX:

• Removed infinitely looping stadium music; it's now built into track finish choreography

• Water splooshes

• Greatly improved crowd ambience

• Goal explosions now have appropriate SFX

• The rolling sound is now attached to your ball instead of global, so you'll no longer hear rolling in your ears if you happen to freecam while rolling

• Stadium ambience now has attenuation, so if you happen to fly really far away, it'll get quieter. It's the little things.

VFX:

• Water now has splash VFX

Camera:

• Improved camera probing so it can get closer to the ground

• Small post processing corrections to color and shadows

Performance:

• We think we've greatly improved the hitches for first time users. 🫰

Other:

• No longer hiding author times until you have gold

Fixes:

• Hitting tab during gameplay no longer blocks your jump inputs

• Ambient volume should now correctly remember your preference

• Friends list no longer exceeds widget bounds

• Hovering a track in the hub before it loads no longer flies in bad information

• Fixed the dialogue on track publish so that the confirmation is no longer "Yes!"

• Fixed an issue where multiple goals could spawn in the Track Editor

• Fixed an issue where sounds would not resume after being set to 0

• Hid the "Map" tag from tracks