Hello everyone! Here's another quick update: Now players can choose their positions when initially joining in progress. Bug fixes regarding joining in progress. Puck on boards physics improvements. Thanks, Chuck
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update:
Now players can choose their positions when initially joining in progress.
Bug fixes regarding joining in progress.
Puck on boards physics improvements.
Thanks,
Chuck
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update: Passes and shots now keep skater momentum. This should make post to post passing and shooting more intuitive for skaters. Shot aiming is now more difficult from the neutral zone. Clearing the puck now can be aimed like shooting and can
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update:
Passes and shots now keep skater momentum. This should make post to post passing and shooting more intuitive for skaters.
Shot aiming is now more difficult from the neutral zone.
Clearing the puck now can be aimed like shooting and can only be used outside your offensive zone.
Board goalie (8-Bit Goalie) now added to practice. We also buffed his movement speed and range.
Slightest pull-back for mass to top speed effect. Should be a barely noticeable change for slightly differing builds, but the polar ends of the spectrum should feel it the most.
More sliding to stop trigger adjustments. Also adjusted deceleration speed for skaters.
Thanks,
Chuck
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update: Skater acceleration adjustments. Should feel more consistent now no matter what direction you are skating and what speed you are at. Hitting has been adjusted to favor mass over speed when calculating impact strength. This nerfs smalle
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update:
Skater acceleration adjustments. Should feel more consistent now no matter what direction you are skating and what speed you are at.
Hitting has been adjusted to favor mass over speed when calculating impact strength. This nerfs smaller builds hitting players at high speeds and greatly buffs bigger builds hitting even at lower speeds.
Goalie lunges adjusted for more control and speed. Should help defend against faster skaters.
Fixed goalie camera settings not applying at random times.
Fixed goalie network race conditions regarding hugging post movement. Goalie should no longer get stuck in this movement when the btn is not held down.
Added toggle for goalie upwards arms extent. This is for players who miss the legacy full reach of the goalie even if his arms go above the net.
Deceleration and braking mechanic triggers adjusted for skaters. Slowing to a stop should be easier now as well.
Thanks,
Chuck
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update: Added ability to join games in progress. Pass direction arrow has been added (at the bottom of the skater) to show what direction your pass will go from the end of your stick. Decreased top speed drop off for bigger builds. Back skatin
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update:
Added ability to join games in progress.
Pass direction arrow has been added (at the bottom of the skater) to show what direction your pass will go from the end of your stick.
Decreased top speed drop off for bigger builds.
Back skating and turning around speeds have been increased.
Thanks,
Chuck
We are leaving our Playtest Open indefinitely while we test new features each week. Sunday thru Friday - Free to Practice Saturdays at 1pm PST - Online Mode Opens Saturdays at 3pm PST - Dev Stream Begins The stream will end Saturday Evening at a time TBD and the Playtest will go
We are leaving our Playtest Open indefinitely while we test new features each week.
Sunday thru Friday - Free to Practice
Saturdays at 1pm PST - Online Mode Opens
Saturdays at 3pm PST - Dev Stream Begins
The stream will end Saturday Evening at a time TBD and the Playtest will go back to Practice Only.
Check out one of our Saturday games here:
Harper
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update: Fixed players not being able to grab the puck when they should. Puck on boards physics adjustments. Fixed puck bouncing off edges of penalty box doors and boards when rolling along boards. Goalie made faster. Also arm animations adjust
Hello everyone! Here's another quick update:
Fixed players not being able to grab the puck when they should.
Puck on boards physics adjustments. Fixed puck bouncing off edges of penalty box doors and boards when rolling along boards.
Goalie made faster. Also arm animations adjusted to not go too high over the net.
Camera bug fixes. Puck cam now respects target clamps. Fixed camera jitter off the face off.
Fixed going offsides on yourself bug.
Goalie camera Z position offset min decreased in camera settings.
Leaderboards now update with a 4v4 match instead of a 3v3.
Dive trigger reworked to not be a sequential button combination. Order of press no longer matters.
Fixed players getting stuck on the outside of the penalty box doors.
Wrist shot one timers now happen instantly.
Fixed scoreboard switching not happening at times.
Fixed skater getting hit while still holding on to the puck bug.
Shot aiming adjustments that allow for more precise aiming and corner picking. Also helps with wider angle shot aiming as well.
Thanks,
Chuck
Come one, come all to Club Saturday, a Twitch Streamed Playtest on 1/10/2026 Every Saturday starting at 3pm! Either watch the stream if you aren't ready to match up yet, or jump in and play for an all out war! You can watch the stream on Twitch here: Dev - c_huck32's Twitch Strea
Come one, come all to Club Saturday, a Twitch Streamed Playtest on 1/10/2026 Every Saturday starting at 3pm! Either watch the stream if you aren't ready to match up yet, or jump in and play for an all out war! You can watch the stream on Twitch here:
Dev - c_huck32's Twitch Stream
The stream will end Saturday Evening at a time to be determined and the Playtest will go back to Practice Only.
Hope to see you on the ice!
Harper
Happy new year everyone! Here's another quick update: Skater camera preset adjustments. Added second camera that you can toggle with right D-Pad for skaters (Camera A - Camera B). Adjusted camera settings UI. Added a "Reset Current Cam" button so you can reset your current camera
Happy new year everyone! Here's another quick update:
Skater camera preset adjustments.
Added second camera that you can toggle with right D-Pad for skaters (Camera A - Camera B).
Adjusted camera settings UI. Added a "Reset Current Cam" button so you can reset your current camera to the defaults that were last loaded from disk.
Fixed goalie practice arrow not disabling when "Enable Arrows" is not checked in general settings.
Goalie hug post movement fixes.
HUD adjustments.
Thanks,
Chuck
Merry Christmas Everyone, Disable Goalie Skater Mode and Disable Skater Deflection Mode checkboxes added to General Settings. Hopefully, this will help until we do a full customize input bind UI. See you on the ice, Harper
Merry Christmas Everyone,
Hopefully, this will help until we do a full customize input bind UI.
See you on the ice,
Harper
Hey everyone! Here's another quick hotfix to the latest patch: More poke checking balances. If you are behind a player and try to poke check and hit a skater body before hitting the stick/puck, your poke checking will cancel and cool down for 3 seconds. Punishment enough to let t
Hey everyone! Here's another quick hotfix to the latest patch:
More poke checking balances. If you are behind a player and try to poke check and hit a skater body before hitting the stick/puck, your poke checking will cancel and cool down for 3 seconds. Punishment enough to let the player with the puck make some space.
Interference calling bug fixes. Now anytime a player interacts with the puck at all (slap shot, kick, puck hitting you), a player can hit you and finish his check.
Puck interference radial wave buffer increased by 33%.
Minor puck on skater physics adjustments. Skaters no longer shoot their own lower leg when shooting or saucer passing.
Thanks,
Chuck
Hey everyone! Here's a quick hotfix to the latest patch: Leaderboard writes now happen for 3v3 matches and greater. Poke Checking balances. Stoppage bug fixes. Thanks, Chuck
Hey everyone! Here's a quick hotfix to the latest patch:
Leaderboard writes now happen for 3v3 matches and greater.
Poke Checking balances.
Stoppage bug fixes.
Thanks,
Chuck
Hey Everyone, We were invited to play Hockey Club, and show the new game updates, on Sapsterr's Twitch Stream this Saturday starting at 8pm PST. We've been working on improving the flow of the game and speed of the skaters, build balancing, boards play, and poke checking to name
Hey Everyone,
We were invited to play Hockey Club, and show the new game updates, on Sapsterr's Twitch Stream this Saturday starting at 8pm PST. We've been working on improving the flow of the game and speed of the skaters, build balancing, boards play, and poke checking to name a few, which has really opened up the game's competition level and the game has an amazingly fun feel to it.
Feel free to tune in to the stream at 8pm PST from the below link:
Twitch: View game page
See you on the ice,
Harper
Hey everyone! Here's a quick hotfix to the latest patch: Adjusted sliding trigger Removed tripping (and penalty) until we figure out how to balance it, which allows defenders to poke check more often without the risk of tripping. HUD UI fixes. Thanks, Chuck
Hey everyone! Here's a quick hotfix to the latest patch:
Adjusted sliding trigger
Removed tripping (and penalty) until we figure out how to balance it, which allows defenders to poke check more often without the risk of tripping.
HUD UI fixes.
Thanks,
Chuck
Here are the list of updates in this patch (Patch 0.1.2): - Fixed skater boards movement. This consequently fixes puck going through boards and out of play, skaters not being able to pick the puck up off boards, the skater super speed boost, and network rubber-banding caused by o
Here are the list of updates in this patch (Patch 0.1.2):
- Fixed skater boards movement. This consequently fixes puck going through boards and out of play, skaters not being able to pick the puck up off boards, the skater super speed boost, and network rubber-banding caused by old boards movement. This fix should bring elegant boards play to Hockey Club!
- Smaller skaters speed is now buffed by over 100%. They feel way faster and more balanced as they can get away easier from bigger guys trying to hit them. Basically your skater's build weight effects his top speed more.
- L1 button now cancels a pass.
- If L1 is pressed and held down when you wrist shoot, you now dump the puck in. The puck will lob in the direction you are facing. This should be great for dump and chase gameplay.
- Fixed puck on goalie physics rebound control. This is a huge buff for goalies as in the past there were way to many pucks hitting the goalie and still bouncing into the net.
- Board with gaps (we call him the 8-bit Goalie) added to the front of the net if a goalie is not present on your team (Non practice only). Try to score on that...
- Penalty nerfs added because you guys love the sin bin and you know it. Interference now will fire if the hit player is outside a radial distance (kinda small) from the puck when the hit player does not have the puck. Poke checking now only interacts with gameplay if you have the poke check button held down (R1).
- Deadzones can now be adjusted in the in game menu under "General Settings". Better defaults have been set so it is much easier to trigger a shot / slap shot.
- Penalty shots are called slightly less and have been reworked to only allow one shot at the goalie. This logic will prove useful in the future (Shootouts).
- Slightest nerf in the world for hitting.
- Fixed goalie stopping play when the play is stopped already lol.
- Goalie practice has been made harder.
- Goalie hug post movement adjusted.
- Practice mode aim arrows are now toggleable in the in game menu under "General Settings".
- Audio adjustments.
- Teammates grabbing the puck has become easier to make passing more balanced. Slap shot one-timers are now easier to do as well.
- Leaderboards have been added to Hockey Club. For now, they only record your stats if there are 4v4 players in a game, and are seasonal and will reset after each quarter (every 3 months).
- And we are getting close to working on fighting! We need it...
Chuck
Hey Everyone, Here is a quick bugs fix list for this patch: Passing causing player to get kicked from game. Residual game causing loop back to Main Menu. Penalty UI not showing up. If game fails to load, will get automatically added to blacklist so you can find other games. Frame
Hey Everyone,
Here is a quick bugs fix list for this patch:
Passing causing player to get kicked from game.
Residual game causing loop back to Main Menu.
Penalty UI not showing up.
If game fails to load, will get automatically added to blacklist so you can find other games.
Frame rate capped to 144Hz.
VSync option added to Main Menu->Settings.
That's it for now, we are working on the next features additions and bugs list fixes and will post an update when ready.
Keep that stick on the ice,
Harper
If you've been itchin', we've been scratchin'. It's feelin' more complete and is real close, so if you wanna come help, please join us for our next (and hopefully final) playtest this Saturday 10/25/2025 from 4pm-8pm PDT . Again, feel free to clip your plays and post them in our
Yo Playtesters, I want to cordially invite you all to come and join us this Saturday 9/6/2025 from 5pm-8pm PDT for our 2nd playtest. Oh, and don't forget to clip your plays, they're a ton of fun to watch as they really showcase the gameplay. You can post them in our Discord or Su
We will be posting a new date as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
We will be posting a new date as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Wanna be NOTIFIED of PLAYTEST TIMES , learn how to BETTER YOUR SKILLS , chat with the DEVS , or just hang out? We invite you to join the Official Hockey Club Discord Server . The arena to help establish communication between the Player Base of Hockey Club (which includes the Play
Wanna be NOTIFIED of PLAYTEST TIMES, learn how to BETTER YOUR SKILLS, chat with the DEVS, or just hang out?
We invite you to join the Official Hockey Club Discord Server. The arena to help establish communication between the Player Base of Hockey Club (which includes the PlayTesters) and the Devs which we hope fosters a healthy GAMEPLAY environment.
YO, you ready to go COAST TO COAST? We are! UPDATE: Extended to Sunday, starting now - ending TBD. Join the Discord for more details. After the anticipated one week wait, we are scheduling 3 playtest times. One today (7/31), one tomorrow and one on Saturday starting at 1:30pm PDT
After the anticipated one week wait, we are scheduling 3 playtest times. One today (7/31), one tomorrow and one on Saturday starting at 1:30pm PDT and ending at 4pm PDT. The first 30 minutes are reserved for our playtest team (THAT'S YOU) to download and PRACTICE (Goalie is one of the goated positions) the Hockey Club Playtest which will show up in your Library as a separate game. The DOWNLOAD LINK (you may need to logout/log back into steam) is found on our STORE PAGE where you first signed up to playtest:
GAME MATCH UPs will begin at 2pm PST and continue until 4pm PST, for each of these days. The Hockey Club Playtest is found in your LIBRARY after download:
Remember when we mentioned some of our Beta Test gamers were better than us? WELL, NOT ANYMORE...we are kind of sweaty at our game...if you sell the match, YOU'RE BANNED! ːsteamsaltyː
Lastly, we are also working on a notification system for letting our Playtest Team know when these Playtests will be made available. Details on that are coming... Oh, and to our Friends in other Countries (non-USA), bear with us, we will figure something to help you out!
'til then...SEE YOU ON THE ICE,
Harper