Big Bang Beta 2.0.9-9

With all the chaos from the influx of users now behind us, the dev team has been straggling a bit due to burn out. This has resulted in a slower pace of a development for the moment, but that doesn't mean we've stopped completely!

New features

• Replaced upper-right corner minimap with bottom-middle bearing compass.

• Split death messages from regular event stream and put them upper-right.

• New dissolve effect on spawning items and players.

• Added backported map "Center".

• Added UI overlays on players to draw targets and damage numbers.

• Prizes now attract toward the winner to increase the odds they get their prize.

• Added damage indicator around crosshair.

Improvements

• Improved the visibility of the edge radial damage effect.

• Fixed an issue with item drop resynchronization where it could leave behind an empty item.

• Fixed an issue where the server query reply gave the wrong time remaining.

• Brightened the team colour palettes slightly.

• Increased the amount by which items repel each other to avoid overlapping.

• Flash halos around players when dealing damage to them.

• Increased the length of intermission to 60 seconds.