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- Fixed an issue where at certain cases, lobbies self-destruct, making other players unable to join after certain time periods.
- Fixed an issue where at certain cases, lobbies self-destruct, making other players unable to join after certain time periods.
Hello! Below are the patchnotes for v0.922 followed by our roadmap and some exciting news: Bugfixes - Online players button is now functional and can be used to invite players to party/whisper - Fixed various issues about the chat window QoL - Players can no longer spam party inv
Hello!
Below are the patchnotes for v0.922 followed by our roadmap and some exciting news:
- Online players button is now functional and can be used to invite players to party/whisper
- Fixed various issues about the chat window
- Players can no longer spam party invites, only 1 instance of the party invite will be visible to the players.
- In the main menu, players can now see the marbles of their party members and their player levels.
- Improvements to server stability
We have setup the back-end requirements for leveling/rewards system. With the following updates, we will be slowly building up the entire system and determine the rewards.
Finally we also started working on new maps. These maps will be Capture the Point maps and they will be similar to the already existing Playroom map.
As always, join to our discord channel if you wish to contact to us in a direct manner at: https://discord.gg/Ts9rEpE
Happy rolling!
There will be a maintenance starting at 12:00 Berlin time today for approximately 4 hours. During this time, multiplayer games will not be playable.
There will be a maintenance starting at 12:00 Berlin time today for approximately 4 hours. During this time, multiplayer games will not be playable.
Hey everyone, I woke up to no internet, meant the servers were down during my sleep. The ISP seems to make some changes and this affected the WAN IP address of the servers. To preserve the games playability, here is v0.921, which is a stable build that fixes some of the bugs ment
Hey everyone,
I woke up to no internet, meant the servers were down during my sleep. The ISP seems to make some changes and this affected the WAN IP address of the servers. To preserve the games playability, here is v0.921, which is a stable build that fixes some of the bugs mentioned before, however there are certain things that are non-functional or non sensical, which all are placeholders for the new content to come.
Online players button does not show the online players, instead shows the player options menu without a player.
Some Marbles in the main menu are gone.
I am planning to update the game within the day to eliminate these (And actually implement them fully, not just disable).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards,
Kaan
Alrighty, After fixing a few bugs in the server by paying the cost of getting some negative reviews (Which were justified I think), the current build is in somewhat a stable state. There are a few bugs that I will list below that will be addressed, and I will follow with the pres
Alrighty,
After fixing a few bugs in the server by paying the cost of getting some negative reviews (Which were justified I think), the current build is in somewhat a stable state. There are a few bugs that I will list below that will be addressed, and I will follow with the pressing stuff that will soon to come.
- Lobbies do not display the current Game Mode and player count
- Players leaving a game stay in the lobby (Intended) but do not have a way to reconnect back (Start Game button will be replaced for disconnected players to Join Game for this)
- Some more getting stuck in the wall issues (Yes still)
- Chat not being active in-game on certain niche cases
If there are more that are not listed here, you know the song (Discord and discussions board)
- The only item that could not make it to this update that was previously announced is online players list. The backend implementations for it are complete, it is just the UX/UI that needs to be done and it will be there with the next patch.
- Player profiles (See the previous announcement)
This has its own title given the major plans that are on it. It wont make it to the next update, however I wanted to share beforehand what it will cover (Initially at least).
You will earn virtual currency (Name TBD) by playing online games and the currency reward will be dynamic based on the following:
- Number of opponents
- Number of allies
- End Score
The losing team will also earn, but in a substantially smaller rate.
The amount you can earn is capped per day.
There will also be daily quests that ask you to play/win/complete certain things within a day that give you some virtual currency that is unbound from the daily cap mentioned above.
With virtual currency you can:
- Buy certain cosmetics
- Unlock styles for your acquired cosmetics (The 3rd rock could also be a gas giant apparently)
The estimate for the next patch is around 3 days that will fix the known bugs and implement the online players bar.
Happy rollin'!
Kaan
Hello! After lines of codes and bunch of weeks, the patch is now out. Given we could complete the backend implementations, now more rapid patching can take action. I personally do not expect a flawless execution given there are a lot of sequences something might occur and testing
Hello!
After lines of codes and bunch of weeks, the patch is now out. Given we could complete the backend implementations, now more rapid patching can take action. I personally do not expect a flawless execution given there are a lot of sequences something might occur and testing it as a single person with limited amount of machines just does not cut it.
As always, if you find any bugs, please write them on discord or Steam discussions page.
And here are the changes:
- You can now whisper to other players
- You can join to a persons game via chat (Join game button)
- You can now access to global chat during gameplay (Single or multiplayer)
- You can ignore messages from a person. With this, the manual moderation of the global chat no longer will be applied. All players that were previously chat banned no longer are banned.
- You can now play single player while in a lobby (Even if you are the leader). Starting single player will only briefly disconnect you from the lobby, which you will automatically will reconnect to.
- A new option, Quick Play is now added. It will force you to connect to the first available lobby/game. If there are no lobbies present, it will join to one whenever available. You can also play in single player while looking for a game.
To accommodate for the mouse interactivity needs, you can Press T in-game to get mouse control. This way you can interact with the chat window easily. The button will replace itself with a button, which when you press, you go back for the regular play mode.
- Fixed Quit/Restart window appearing over the Pause menu in Single Player mode.
Hello everyone! It has been quite some while since the last update, however the workload was immense and we are trying to make the patch ready in a week. Before giving out the changes, I would like to address some of the reasons why these are the contents for this patch: Over the
Hello everyone!
It has been quite some while since the last update, however the workload was immense and we are trying to make the patch ready in a week.
Before giving out the changes, I would like to address some of the reasons why these are the contents for this patch:
Over the course of the game, it has been getting quite positive reviews, apart from the undeniable lack of player base, whether the review itself is positive or negative. This is a bitter fact, that we obviously know, however the possibilities we have aren't enough to create one. Say it is about giving out ads, influencers and so on. However, we can address this in a different way, making the lack of playerbase less impactful on those who would like to play the game. So this patch pretty much is an attempt of addressing these and here they follow.
Lobbies and parties are now moved to server side. This gives us bigger control in regards to notify other people about what your status is.
Players can now interact with global chat during a single player or a multiplayer game. Also for Single player, you can join or create lobbies and see the status of your lobby as you play. This is for:
1. Those who want to play in multiplayer and waiting for people but doing something and just not looking at the menu for players.
2. Those who are in a game and want more players, yet being unable to see what is going on in the main menu. This way, you can simply tell people to join your game by typing in the global chat if your game is public.
As visible on the picture above, you can whisper to people who write in global chat, add them as friends, join their game/lobby if they are in any, invite them to your party or ignore them.
You will be able to see how many total players are playing the game currently, instead of only being able to tell who are online in the main menu.
You will be able to see who is online in the online players list.
We are adding a Quick Play button that takes you to a game that is currently ongoing that you are eligible to join (If the game is friends only and the host is your friend, you can join, you cannot join a full game etc.). This will also check for connection quality/distance, however having no eligible game will do nothing (Or if the only eligible game is distant to you, you might end up disconnecting/lagging).
You will have a player profile that displays your stats, your collection and so on. Even further (This is planned for quite some patches ahead), you will be able to create a showcase of your own to display your marbles and other feats (Hint).
Games, now being in direct contact with our servers, will now be able to report their stats, hence you can now see if your experience with a certain lobby would be good or not.
In the end of the match, instead of our super simple win screen, there will be stats displayed and scores given to players. These stats include: Number of times each player knocked an enemy out of a zone, Gyro Power spent, active time in capture zones.
We will create a progression system that requires you to fulfill certain criteria, either daily or lifetime for you to earn levels. Certain levels add a virtual currency (Cannot be purchased via real money) that allows you to purchase exclusive rewards from the shop (That also cannot be purchased via real money). The lifetime quest completion is planned to unlock certain single player/co-op game modes.
You will be able to invite a player to a challenge in a parkour. In this mode, players cannot interact with each other but can still see each other on a parkour run.
Players will be able to create custom parkours and either send these to other players or invite players to a challenge to try them.
With the backend work we spent so far on the match stats, there will be a lot of achievements rewarded by gameplay, mostly tied to abilities and puzzles that require you to do certain tasks in a certain manner. The puzzle achievements will only contain a hint about how to acquire them, but wont be as simple as "Do this and do that"
We do believe that these changes will address the player base issues (By at least providing a better environment for those who are playing Marble Combat for multiplayer primarily).
If you have other opinions/ideas, do not hesitate to drop them in. We read everything:)
Best regards,
Kaan
Helloooo. 0.919 is out and below are the patchnotes: Abilities - New Ability: Schrodinger's Cat - New Ability: Jet Pack Time Attack - New Parkour: Hit the Six - Ghost Player: The game now records your best run and shows you as a Ghost Player. The previous runs obviously are not r
Helloooo.
0.919 is out and below are the patchnotes:
- New Ability: Schrodinger's Cat
- New Ability: Jet Pack
- New Parkour: Hit the Six
- Ghost Player: The game now records your best run and shows you as a Ghost Player. The previous runs obviously are not recorded so you should beat your score to be able to have a recording.
- New Achievement: When there's grass on the wicket, lets play cricket!
Complete the Time Attack parkour - Hit the Six
Also would like to remind you that this is the last week for Evil Eye. We decided to include both abilities with this patch and then change the Time Attack after it to give you enough time for preparation. This also meant the mentioned Unstoppable Force change is not in with this patch to keep the Time Attack abilities the same.
Soon, there will be a new announcement that gives you where we are standing and where we are going.
Thanks a lot and enjoy!
Kaan
Hello hello! Patch 0.919 is almost ready and here is what will arrive with it: Time Attack - Time attack now records your best run at each parkour and displaying you your previous actions taken. We have plans to make these sharable with your friends, but this will not be ready un
Hello hello!
Patch 0.919 is almost ready and here is what will arrive with it:
- Time attack now records your best run at each parkour and displaying you your previous actions taken. We have plans to make these sharable with your friends, but this will not be ready until the lobby changes. There is a manual procedure that this can be shared, which we will include in the patch notes.
- New Time Attack Route: Hit the Six
- New Ability: Schrodinger's Cat. Launch a quantum replica of yourself towards the direction you are looking by pressing and holding the button. If you release the button within 3 seconds, you take place of your replica and you consume the entirety of your dash power. If the 3 seconds expire, nothing happens. The replica cannot interact with the objects like mouse traps or other balls, cannot be targeted by abilities, however can be affected by AoE abilities like Explosion.
- Unstoppable Force: Unstoppable Force can now launch marbles vertically.
- Few UI tweaks
And below are what is getting cooked for 0.920
- New Ability: Jetpack. Press and hold the button to propel yourself upwards. This action consumes Gyro Power over time.
We will be making changes to the abilities used in Time Attack. Since we cannot predict the impact of these on the leaderboards, before 0.920 drops, we will be rewarding everyone in the most wanted list with the exclusive item Number 66: The Evil Eye and we will be wiping the leaderboards. You can earn multiple Number 66's for being in the top list in multiple routes so you can either give your extras to your friends or sell them in the marketplace. These items will also include your name, position and the parkour name on their description to commemorate your feats.
Bugfixes Fixed goals registering multiple goals on consecutive ball passes through (Via abilities, predominantly Hurricane)
Fixed goals registering multiple goals on consecutive ball passes through (Via abilities, predominantly Hurricane)
Hello. Below are the bulk patch notes for the versions 0.915-0.916-0.917. Bugfixes - In-game chat is now enabled (0.915) - Fixed an issue that makes players be unable to control their marbles under certain host configurations (0.915) - Fixed an issue where marbles are uncontrolla
Hello.
Below are the bulk patch notes for the versions 0.915-0.916-0.917.
- In-game chat is now enabled (0.915)
- Fixed an issue that makes players be unable to control their marbles under certain host configurations (0.915)
- Fixed an issue where marbles are uncontrollable in Marballs game mode due to the above change (0.916)
- Tremor intensity multiplier changed from 1500 to 5000
- Hookshot now pulls you to the object instead of the location, meaning if you use hookshot on a moving object, you will move to it instead of where you targeted.
- Hookshot can no longer pull you to empty-mid air locations
- Hookshot Gyro Power cost increased from 50 to 65
- Explosion no longer gives immunity to the user from Explosion-Like effects (Explosion, Hammer, Blinding Light)
- Explosion Gyro Power cost increased from 50 to 70
- Thunder initial duration decreased from 5 seconds to 2.5 seconds (Still is affected by diminishing returns mechanic)
- Thunder Gyro Power cost increased from 50 to 60
Hello everyone. After a rough few days, iteratively the mess of 0.912 is gone. There are still a few bugs, known or unknown, hence the chanting of please report them comes in. Basically in the state of being a small studio, not having the number of people to test the game extensi
Hello everyone.
After a rough few days, iteratively the mess of 0.912 is gone. There are still a few bugs, known or unknown, hence the chanting of please report them comes in. Basically in the state of being a small studio, not having the number of people to test the game extensively and being unable to create every situation replicable, we released the game in early access, given we knew Marble Combat is fun, but it is not achievable without the help an outer force. We also made it Free to Play so the gamble element which is paying money and getting nothing in return falls upon us, those who made the game, not you, the players who want to enjoy their time instead of regretting giving the hard earned money and ending up with nothing.
- New Game Mode: Marballs: It is a 3v3 gamemode that takes on a foosball board.
- Games that already started can now be joined to.
- Reworked Tremor: Reduced intensity of the impact. Now instead applies the impact for 1 second in every 0.1 second interval to those who are landed.
- Reworked Rubberize: No longer reduces the mass off the marble. This means you will move with your original speed, get hindered less by abilities that pushes you in some way.
- Reworked Hookshot: Hookshot now pulls you to the targeted location much more reliably but over 2 seconds and it cannot be cancelled for this duration. It now also has a range limit.
- Fixed Cancel button in Ability Selection Menu going disabled in certain cases, making players unable to quit the game.
- Fixed cardboard castle gate not being synchronized between the server and the clients.
- Fixed some getting stuck in wall/out of map situations
- Fixed abilities being selectable-unselectable upon pressing ready, that can leave the player with less than 4 abilities
- Fixed In-Game UI not showing up in tutorial mode
- Fixed the achievement "Standing muh ground, winning dem games" not being awarded to players who fulfill the conditions.
- Lobby UI revamped, displaying the games that started and lobbies separately, showing the game modes and auto refreshing. It also is stabilitized so it disappearing at certain cases and not showing back up are fixed.
- Main Menu tweaked to allow selection of game modes and made more user friendly
- Added 3 new cosmetic items: Rainbow, Ghostie and Beachball. Among these however, only Ghostie is made purchasable after the release of the patch. While adding the others, I realized the massive amount of issues the patch has and decided to not push the rest for sale given it seemed unfair to ask for money when making the game unplayable.
- Fixed an issue which players could not move -_-
- Fixed cosmetic item trying showing the equipped marble instead
- Fixed myriad of issues with joining mid-game (Creation of an extra marble, leaving their marble behind when quitting etc)
- Fixed the issue which when a host returns from playing a game and restarting the game getting launched back to the start screen, then to menu.
- Fixed players falling through the floorin the marballs field to the container below
- Started games display incorrect amount of players. These are the known cases where these happen:
a) When a lobby starts a game, only the server player counts as a player. So if you see a game in lobby section with 1 players, it is likely that it has more players.
b) Players leaving a game not decrementing the count on certain circumstances
- In-game chat is currently disabled this is subject to fix in 0.915, which will be released soon
- Players being unable to move on certain hosts: This is an interesting situation given it only happens between certain players. While the rest of the game runs perfectly fine, this bit does not. We are suspecting some DDOS protection tools blocking the input with this and unless we get extra information from players in their system, it will be hard to offer a fix to the players. We could fix this problem, but it has a possibility of crashing the game for players with bad connectivity, especially on high player counts.
There will be a few more patches addressing the current gameplay issues like in-game chat.
Following this, there will be a silent state from us to move the entire party/lobby system into our servers. You will still be able to use Steam to invite players. This is to address
1. Taking more control in our hands. With Steam, it is hard to pinpoint why a specific issue has occurred and coming up with fixes becomes harder.
2. Adding new features on necessity
3. Preparing our backend for consoles (Don't worry though, this is planned for future and we will not go into console development before putting the game in a good position on our main platform.)
4. Being able to report pings, in-game states, server stability to players on started games
5. Preparation to matchmaking
Our current position is to clean up the game instead of greedily adding more and more content and get to the addition of more content, when we are content with everything. Thats a lot of content.
Once again, please report the bugs either into Steam Discussions OR to discord: https://discord.gg/Ts9rEpE
Feel free to make suggestions about the game. We are trying to be vocal and interactive and we certainly wont bite!
Thanks a lot for sticking with us and have fun playing.
Kaan
Before anything, I f*****d up. I have to accept the responsibility and clean the mess I have created. You will find a lot of bugs with the build, especially when joining an already started game. This being said, creating a lobby with "Allow Joining Mid-game" option and playing th
Before anything, I f*****d up.
I have to accept the responsibility and clean the mess I have created. You will find a lot of bugs with the build, especially when joining an already started game.
This being said, creating a lobby with "Allow Joining Mid-game" option and playing the game with the old fashion way should give the same taste as the previous build. After I am done with fixing all the issues, I will be posting a blanket announcement with all the changelogs and fixes that were cleaned from the previous build.
My sincere apologies.
Kaan
Hello. Below are the patchnotes for v0.911 Gameplay - Cancel button in ability selection menu is now functioning and pressing it will take you back to main menu - Rematch button in the end-game is now functioning. When all remaining players vote for a rematch, the game will start
Hello.
Below are the patchnotes for v0.911
- Cancel button in ability selection menu is now functioning and pressing it will take you back to main menu
- Rematch button in the end-game is now functioning. When all remaining players vote for a rematch, the game will start again
- Games can now be joined midway. It currently lacks the frontend implementation, however you can join the games of your friends with Steam Presence. We will be adding frontend functionality for this with the next patch.
- Target finding is now more accurate
- Fixed multiple issues where widgets would get stuck on screen (Like tutorial or Single Player tutorial) causing players to be unable to proceed.
- Fixed occasions where quitting the game in the middle of a game causing crashes. This might still happen occasionally but the frequency should be significantly culled down.
- Several events in the game are made condensed. This means the game will freeze on certain events like starting the match, however the remainder of the gameplay should feel smoother.
- As stated multiple times, the lobby system is going through a revamp. In the final result, players will be given the below options:
1. Private Lobbies
2. Being able to join an ongoing game or a lobby
3. Certain filters like Ongoing games if you want to jump into action immediately
- Balancing: Some of the abilities are doing too good and a few of them will receive number tweaking while the others will undergo revamps. Reporting which ones you think are broken will be valuable for us.
Hello. Today, at 8:00 pm to 00:00 am PST and CET, the community day starts. Those who login in these time periods will automatically receive the exclusive item: Number 10: Discoball We will follow-up with these special events in the future with more rewards and we aim to bring pe
Hello.
Today, at 8:00 pm to 00:00 am PST and CET, the community day starts.
Those who login in these time periods will automatically receive the exclusive item: Number 10: Discoball
We will follow-up with these special events in the future with more rewards and we aim to bring people together for better games!
From 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm CET, the servers will go for maintenance and during this period, the global chat will not be usable.
Spread to your friends and join us on Marble Combat!
Hellooooooo! Below are the patch notes for our biggest update so far: 0.910 Single Player - New Time Attack parkour: Drop the Mic - Time Attack opening cinematic can now be skipped with Q. - Time Attack now has a tutorial Multiplayer - Abilities now have cinematic tooltips that p
Hellooooooo!
Below are the patch notes for our biggest update so far: 0.910
- New Time Attack parkour: Drop the Mic
- Time Attack opening cinematic can now be skipped with Q.
- Time Attack now has a tutorial
- Abilities now have cinematic tooltips that preview how the ability works
- Abilities that have their description missing are now fixed
- Main menu arrangement changed in preparation to the additional game modes
- Menu items now have descriptions, located on the bottom of the screen
- Scalability of some UI elements changed for better viewing in aspect ratios different than 16:9
- Added an option to change motion blur amount (Located under Video)
- Various changes are made in Playroom map.
- New Achievement: I can't hear you over the ringing sound of my big brass balls: Complete the time attack parkour: Drop the Mic
- Fixed an issue which setting FPS cap resulted in wrong cap amount
- Fixed VSync option not working
- Fixed some collision/arrangement related issues in Playroom map.
Hello. Below are the change notes for the patch v0.904 Multiplayer - Players who press ready now stay on the ability selection menu until everyone does so. Those who press ready will be marked with a checkmark next to their names. You can still use the chat in this state. Cosmeti
Hello.
Below are the change notes for the patch v0.904
- Players who press ready now stay on the ability selection menu until everyone does so. Those who press ready will be marked with a checkmark next to their names. You can still use the chat in this state.
- Your selected cosmetics are now visible in Single Player Mode too.
- Pause menu now contains all options in the main menu (Although it still cannot be interacted with keyboard/gamepad)
- You can now use ESC button to navigate back in the main menu
- THAT ANNOYING SOUND
- Fixed the point indicators in Single Player pointing to the starting checkpoint instead of finish
- Removed some weird stuff lying around in the map
Hello hello! v0.903 is out and below are the changes: Gameplay - Time attack mode can now be restarted with the R button at any point - Time attack targets now use a point indicator similar to multiplayer scorezones - Point indicator for scorezones are now more precise UI - The s
Hello hello!
v0.903 is out and below are the changes:
- Time attack mode can now be restarted with the R button at any point
- Time attack targets now use a point indicator similar to multiplayer scorezones
- Point indicator for scorezones are now more precise
- The server can now inform players if they are running an outdated client (You should download this patch to be able to see it first)
- In-game announcements section is now added to inform players about patch details, server maintenance etc
- Slight UI changes to fit the newly added elements
- Fixed marbles being unable to control via W or S buttons in Try mode in customize
- Loading times are reduced slightly
Hello. The servers currently are in maintenance (And this does not affect the playability). The estimated duration for the servers to be back on is 1 hour. This will be followed with a client update and the details will be posted as an additional announcement.
Hello.
The servers currently are in maintenance (And this does not affect the playability). The estimated duration for the servers to be back on is 1 hour.
This will be followed with a client update and the details will be posted as an additional announcement.
Hello. The servers are now up and can be used to communicate with people via the global chat. Talking to a few people there, there are some issues that needs addressing, to understand where we are and where we are heading. The lobbies use Listen Servers, meaning, if you create a
Hello.
The servers are now up and can be used to communicate with people via the global chat.
Talking to a few people there, there are some issues that needs addressing, to understand where we are and where we are heading.
The lobbies use Listen Servers, meaning, if you create a lobby, you will be the host for your game. However, if your connection is not stable/strong enough, the game can be unplayable for other people (Or for you if you did not host).
This comes down to the following:
Connection of the host
Connection of you
Distance between you and the host
Since you can get no clue from any of this, we will be modifying the lobby search system to include the Countries of people. If you do not prefer your country to be visible, you will be able to reduce it to continent.
We will be observing which regions people tend to play the most over the course of 1 month and we will be deploying dedicated servers to the regions.
For the time being, communicating with people over the chat to determine the potential quality of connection is the best we can offer.
These are all acknowledged issues and we will be doing our best to address these.