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Steam News16 June 20188y ago

2018 Summer Update! New Map and Game Mode, new Cookie, and Santa reworks!

V0.4.0 is available for download! Christmas is coming early this summer! Santa is going on the offensive as he drops in on the prestigious Cookie Castle.

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Full Cookies vs. Claus update

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What changed

1 fix9 additions10 changes2 removals
  • Maps
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Fixes
  • Performance
addedV0.4.0 is available for download!New Map - Cookie Cove
changedV0.4.0 is available for download!Cookies have a secret defense weapon hidden within the light house to repel the red menace
addedV0.4.0 is available for download!Travel the map with the new Cookie Cannons!
addedV0.4.0 is available for download!New Game Mode and Classic Rework
changedV0.4.0 is available for download!Cookies vs. Claus - The classic game mode now supports 8 players in the quickplay lobby. Santa health has been increased appropriately to deal with all the cookies!
addedV0.4.0 is available for download!New NPCs

Cookies vs. Claus changes

addedNew Map - Cookie Cove
changedCookies have a secret defense weapon hidden within the light house to repel the red menace
addedTravel the map with the new Cookie Cannons!
addedNew Game Mode and Classic Rework
changedCookies vs. Claus - The classic game mode now supports 8 players in the quickplay lobby. Santa health has been increased appropriately to deal with all the cookies!

V0.4.0 is available for download!

Christmas is coming early this summer! Santa is going on the offensive as he drops in on the prestigious Cookie Castle.

New Map - Cookie Cove

  • Sunny vacation island located as far away from the North Pole as it can be.

  • Cookies have a secret defense weapon hidden within the light house to repel the red menace

  • Travel the map with the new Cookie Cannons!

New Game Mode and Classic Rework

  • Cookie Free For All - Battle solo with up to 8 cookies to prove you're the true cookie champion!

  • Cookies vs. Claus - The classic game mode now supports 8 players in the quickplay lobby. Santa health has been increased appropriately to deal with all the cookies!

New NPCs

  • Magical Mermaid

  • Unicrab

  • Ghost Pirates

  • Sharky

New Pick-up - Cookie Dough Balls

  • Patch up any holes made by santa with some freshly made cookie dough! Heals cookies for 5 hp

Santa Reworks

  • Santa

    • New Weapon - Instead of his slow-firing, explosive projecticle weapon, he now has a Candy-cane machine gun.

    • Santa's cookie pick-up has been changed to a small minigame. Right click once to reach your arm out, right click again at the right time to eat the cookie!

  • Rudolph

    • Rudolph's cookie pick has been adjust similarly to Santa's.

  • Stelf

    • Stelf's cookie pick-up has been replaced with a minigrapple hook

New Power Up - Grenade Launcher

  • Shoots timed explosives, contains 3 grenades

Improved Cookie and Claus Bots

  • All Cookie bot's should now use vehicle's better

  • Cookie bot's are more responsive to attacks

  • Overall they have much better aim and should pose a much higher

  • The Claus bot has also been buffed greatly and should no longer get stuck

  • Adjusting the bot difficulty will be added in a future patch

New Menus

  • Lobby pages completely reworked. The quickplay lobby now allows voting for your favorite map and gamemode! Also allows up to 8 players for each mode

  • Custom control pages reworked

  • Polished up all menus to feel better and be overall more responsive

Christmas Home Changes

  • Christmas tree should be easier to climb

  • Can now walk under trampoline

  • Climbing on the kitchen drawers and similar should be easier and more straight-foward

Major Fixes

  • Explosions kills now correctly apply to players kill count

  • Fixed bug that crashed game when two vehicles exploded

  • Games now end properly, scorebooard should always display correct scores.

  • Shooting should feel better and smoother

  • Mid game joiner's should join correctly after a slightly increased load time

  • Two Santa's should never be spawned in classic game mode

  • Characters should always spawn on the correct team

  • Challenges have been temporarily removed

Thank you for your cookie support. We will continue to try to improve game performance and quality as we prepare for new content this holiday season! Expect more frequent updates from now on!

Source

Steam News / 16 June 2018

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