The Explosive Update (v0.5.0)

Howdy, pardner!

There’s a new and explosive update in town 🤠 Feel free to join the Discord server to discuss this update or look at sneak peeks for the next one! 😎

Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon is a former military base turned dynamite (barrel) factory! Zoom across the map on conveyor belts, or watch your opponents' suprise as you flip the switch that makes them go in reverse and send them to meet their maker.

🧨 The BOOM-bardier 🧨

The BOOM-bardier launches sticky sticks of dynamite that you can detonate at will by pressing the zoom button. Place your dynamites strategically and make your enemies tremble!

🧱 The brick barrel 🧱

Presenting the BRICK BARREL! It shoots BRICKS that inherit your velocity, EXPLODE on hit and deal more damage the faster you move!

UI overhaul

We overhauled the UI with slightly more stylish buttons and backgrounds:

PS: Some menus may look a little odd on some screens at the moment.

Try weapon parts in the tutorial

We fixed a few bugs that plagued weapon switching, and you'll now be able to try any combination of weapon part that you want in the tutorial map.

Changelog

Features

• New map: Grand Canyon

• New barrel: The BOOM-bardier 🧨

• New barrel: The BRICK barrel 🧱

• Spray cans! 🎨

• Added santa hats that will make a comeback next winter 🎅

Improvements

• Fancier victory screen; now with animated outline! 🏆

• Players should be more visible at distance now 🔭

• Made fan particles look much more like wind (and fixed a few quirks) 🌬

• Added wind particles for the skies as well!

• Doubled the performance of the entire game by disabling superfluous cameras 😅

• Improved performance of decals through GPU instantiation

• Made menu buttons more fancy

• Altered menu scene layout

• Used the loading screen background for other UI elements as well

• Added loading screen transition animation ⏲

• Added lots of new crimes and tips

• Gave the cowbots more texture 👔

• Gave the healthbar more flair with more colors, animations and damage numbers 🏥

• Made the damage popups for crits more impactful 💢

• Overhauled scoreboards with CRT background and more sound effects

• Added overheat sound for lawn mower 📯

• Improved trash impact shockwave (it doesn't look quite as trashy anymore) 🗑

• Added screen shake from explosions

• Added weapon bobbing

• Added more platforms and cover to The Pit

• Added grafitti decals in various spots in the existing maps

• Textured the shacks in Crater Town

• Made spectator cam start out looking towards what killed you

Bug fixes

• Fixed the oddly long-standing issue where firing the Big F**ing Lazur did not deduct ammo

• Fixed decals being able to attach to various bullet hole decals

• Fixed loading screen not appearing when joining a lobby

• Fixed some issues related to switching weapons

• Fixed AIs not yielding while leading 🔨

• Fixed some glitches with the yield countdown

• Fixed telescope sight persisting after death in spectator mode

• Fixed several issues with sticky projectiles

• Made it possible to jump off of explosive barrels

• Increased maximum number of players in online matches back to 4 (whoops)

• Prevented the loading screen from blocking level cards

Please report issues you find in the bug report discussion thread, it