Eslabong - New Demo Content and Controller support!

A new demo patch is live, Controller support is here with lots of improvements.

New Content

New skills: Hollow Explosion, Fire Comet, Firestorm, Ice Pillar, Void Bolt.

New Champions.

Scouting Office Facility: You can pay 2500g to search for a particular class. Several fighters will appear the next week on the market.

Controls & Gamepad

Joystick config, player 2 & 3 cursors, UI basic navigation. You can configure the controller mapping in settings.

Settings improved

VSync, White flash impact, better keybind configuration and more accessibility options.

Simulation Improvements

CPU Captain Mode Compensation: When the player picks CPU Captain (no human piloted unit), the designated captain slot gets a piloting AI boost.

Spotlight Heroes: Named team leaders and champions now have a per-battle chance (max 1) to become a "spotlight" unit. Their AI gets sharper (reaction time, aim error, decision frequency, aggression, etc.)

Season Spotlights & Underdog Breakouts

At season start the sim now rolls a small set of "rival star" named mercs and a wider pool of regular underdogs.This creates emergent storylines and better leaderboard movement.

Rival teams Progression Rebalance

Hard/Champion difficulty no longer pre levels the entire AI core roster to a high floor on day 1. Instead, only 1 (Hard) or 2 (Champion) "early standout" slots get the full bonus.

Weekly News & Records

New persistent league records for single match kills and damage, a new headline type that shows title race tension and low rank fight for relegation.

New player of the week news based on the performance/impact score of that week.

And lots of fixes and small improvements to UI/UX, text wrap/resize and more.

If you find any problems please let me know or report them on Discord! Also any feedback or comments are very welcome.

Thanks for playing!