BETA 1.1.0 is now live

VERSION 1.1.0

Features

• Added button prompt ("E" for keyboard, "Select" for gamepad) during team selection to start an online game through Remote Play Together

• Added player statistics for Steam Achievements (only the first human player has their stats counted)

  • Added the "Stats" menu

  • Player stats were not collected previous to version 1.1 so all stats start at 0

• Added Steam Achievements

• Added Steam "Rich Presence"

• Added two new pickups

  • "Switch Posession" - when the ball touches this pickup, it will change to the opposing team's possession

  • "Black Hole" - when the ball touches this pickup, it will warp across the map!

• Added a bird

• Added a "What's New" system

  • Added a "What's New" sub menu that displays all the new, cool stuff in Dudelings

  • Added a "seen_whats_new_version_x_x_x" setting

  • Added a button to the "Main Menu" that players can use to see the new stuff

Improvements & Fixes

• Improved the match rules menu

• Updated controller detection

• Moved Steam Notifications to the top right corner

• Improved match setup workflow

  • First, choose your team

  • Select the game type

  • Select the map

    • On this screen you may press "SELECT" (or "E" on your keyboard) to customize the match rules

• Made the stars in the night sky twinkle

• Fixed background animations on Beach

• Added shader effect to Beach

• Reduced chance that the sunset variant of Beach will be chosen

• Updated benefactor's ad branding per their request

• Fixed issue where the button context bar was empty when first entering the Player Setup menu from the Main Menu

• Improved Pause Menu styling. Added toggle to show/hide Match Info using the "SELECT" (or "E" on your keyboard)

• Improved controller navigation in menus including focus change wrapping in the following menus:

  • Main Menu

  • Settings Menu

  • Volume Menu

  • Pause Menu

Balance

• Reduced chance the HARD and IMPOSSIBLE AIs will skip taking an action per AI think tick

• Reduced bowling ball's weight

• Refactored balloon's stats

  • Lowered the balloon's weight

  • Increased friction

• Reduced all ball's mass scale when in the LARGE state

Known Issue

• The game will randomly fail to launch when trying to initialize the Steam API. Relaunch the game once or twice and it should work. We're debugging this issue right now.

To join the beta, right-click on Dudelings from your library, then select Properties. On the Betas tab, use the "Beta Participation" drop down and choose "beta_1_1_0"