Online multiplayer activated, with Battle-Bots!

KEABE: Online Multiplayer is back, and now with Battle-Bots!

Online multiplayer returns, and this time the bots are coming with it. Battle-Bots fill your online matches, so there's always a fight waiting whether you're playing with friends or on your own. This update also brings a new explosion system, big networking improvements, and a long list of fixes across both online and offline modes.

New

• Bots can now join online matches.

• Improved bot spawning and player count handling.

• New centralized explosion system for visual and audio effects.

• Explosion effects now synchronize across the network.

Multiplayer

• Better synchronization of player areas between clients.

• Improved area loading and unloading.

• Better handling of world objects across different players.

• Improved synchronization for destructible world objects.

• Networking optimizations to cut down unnecessary events.

AI

• Improved bot spawning logic.

• Better support for offline and online bot matches.

• Improved interaction between bots and world objects.

• General AI behavior and stability improvements.

Performance

• Improved area activation system.

• Indoor environments activate more efficiently.

• Better visibility handling on large maps.

• Fewer unnecessary updates for inactive areas.

• Improved explosion effect pooling.

Audio & Visuals

• Unified explosion effect system.

• Improved explosion audio.

• Better synchronization of visual effects in multiplayer.

Fixes

• Fixed several multiplayer synchronization issues.

• Fixed missing explosion effects for remote players.

• Fixed area visibility issues.

• Fixed object spawning and destruction problems.

• Fixed various gameplay bugs and edge cases.

Happy Trails!