Ready to Rumble Update

Highlights

The biggest changes you'll notice right away:

• Stun & Combat System with GG-Milk & GG-Energy - GG-Milk & GG-Energy are now consumables, meaning you can drink them, and they bring new combat mechanics: ground slams and dash-down attacks. Hit your friends on foot and on vehicles, and earn GG-Dollars for stunning them! But watch out, GG-Milk Light lets you fight back with a protective shield. Also new: GG-Energy for a temporary speed boost

• Getting PS5 Ready - Preparing the game for PlayStation 5 with DualSense support across all menus and gameplay

• VFXMassive Visual Polish/New colorgrading across all maps, 4K floor cracks, all NPC textures rebaked, and improved VFX

• Notification System rebuilt from the ground up for better cross-language support

• Living Open World - New crowd AI system with animated NPCs, beach crowds, and more life everywhere (We now have the technical foundations in place – much more to come here, stay tuned)

New Features & Systems

Combat & Stun System

• New stun mechanic: stun other players and earn money rewards

• VFXAfter-stun protection keeps things fair/visible with VFX indicators

• Vehicles can be stunned: Hoverboard unmount, Quad force knockback

• Hoverboard vs Hoverboard collisions: the faster one wins!

• New Dash Down attack with landing VFX

• Ground Slam featured in the Startup Video Tutorial with controller support

• GG-Milk is now drinkable as a consumable: GG-Milk Light for a protective shield, GG-Milk Medium for high jumps with ground smash, GG-Milk Heavy for extended high jumps with ground smash. Oh and GG-Energy for a temporary speed boost

• Consumables now persist across rounds (saved to your game)

• Items can now be consumed while riding vehicles

• New loading UI when consuming items

• GG-Milk Medium and Heavy high jump with ground smash - each with dedicated SFX and VFX

Making PS5 Ready

• PlayStation 5 DualSense controller support implemented

• PS5 controller icons added and polished to match Xbox style

• Controller data created for different platforms

• Shop now has full gamepad support

• Sprinting in Shooter mode works with gamepads

• Full Map navigation available as overlay checkbox

• Friend popup now properly focused for controller use

• PS5 build configs prepared

Open World & NPCs

• New decorative NPCs spawn throughout the world

• Crowd AI system with animated NPCs for a more lively open world

• Beach Chair splines and Beach Crowds set up

• Bird ambiance added

• GPUs now rotate, stop on sabotage, and restart on repair

• Dynamic money rewards for open world activities

Notification System

• Notification system rebuilt from the ground up

• Fixed a bug where German servers and English clients would show wrong notification languages

• Improved notification scaling and font sizes

Visual & Audio Improvements

Graphics

• New colorgrading applied across all maps (Open World, Lobby, Menu)

• FloorCrack textures upgraded to 4K

• All NPC textures rebaked across every zone (Central City, Office Oasis, Lonely Island, Chemical District, Concrete Corner, Rocky Beach, Rocky Hills, Party Circle)

• Material masks for Characters and NPCs fixed

• Character skin color corrected after colorgrading

• Crash VFX polished

Audio

• Ground Smash SFX added

• Force Down Smash sound added

• Improved hard landing SFX

• Heavy land sound updated

• Camera shake on GG-Milk landing

• Boost SFX added for Jetski

• Attenuation improvements for various sounds

Bug Fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed radial force issue

• Fixed force vehicle bug

• Fixed RC Monstertruck VFX stacking bug

• Fixed spline issue on Beach Crowds

• Improved vehicle collision handling for open world character

• Fixed replication issues

• Fixed package issue

UI & Menus

• Quest Display fixed

• Quest Info display fixed

• Quest Toast Notification bug fixed

• Fixed Fullmap issue

• Shop UI glitch fixed

• Tutorial cache problem fixed

• Tutorial gamepad focus fixed

• Fixed gamepad settings

• Loading screen now shows when accepting Steam invite

• Small enemy marker error fixed

Visual Bugs

• Fixed wall color issue on Luxury House

• Fixed Rebecca model and dance animation

• Richard NPC model corrected

• Fixed VFX bounds

• Fixed foliage on Open World

• Fixed start location on Helicopter

• Fixed GG-Milk VFX not being removed properly

Localization

• Complete relocalization pass

• Fixed localization pipeline (string-to-text conversion)

• German localization corrections

• Dialog and quest text improvements

Balancing & Tuning

• Stun duration set to 1 second for fast-paced gameplay

• Stun rewards require you to have money at stake

• Quad fuel consumption adjusted

• GPU balancing pass

• Various text corrections and improvements

Technical

• PS5 build preparation and config updates

• Controller settings updated across platforms

• Input settings restructured for multi-platform support

• Crowd AI system integration

• Niagara system optimizations

• General code cleanup and node refresh