Rebound v0.53.0
General
- Added a website to share your recent matches with in-depth stats (button in player -> stats -> recent matches)
- Reporting a server will now attempt to generate a report for us when you have it enabled, helping us fix more server related issues
- Added a (free) white puck as a variant of the normal puck to use on dark ice
Cosmetics
- Added hair color, facial hair color, stick cosmetics, stick tape color, stick base color; these will show as 'none selected' for existing accounts
-- Added 6 natural hair colors, these are free for everyone
-- When getting different hair colors, it unlocks for both hairstyle and facial hair
-- When getting different stick base or tape colors, these can be applied to every stick you have that support it
- Reworked the default look of gloves to not intersect with the player and be higher fidelity
- Added a new variant for the premium jersey
- Added 15+ new cosmetics
- Gave 70+ existing cosmetics new variants
Fixes
- Fixed a bug where you would be put in spectator mode the entire match sometimes
- Fixed an occasional leaderboards updating issue (didn't properly clear a cache, causing memory overflows in Redis)
- Fixed an internal issue for handling reports, let's get some more toxic people out of the game
Shop
- The next featured / daily shop (hitting a few hours from this post) will be 100% never seen before items, including sticks!
WHAT'S NEXT?
Our focus now will be on gameplay balancing, competitive and ranked.
- Gameplay balancing
Most notably, there's been a bigger discrepancy in the skill level of controller and keyboard & mouse players now that people are reaching higher skill levels. There are several areas with dash, hitting and bounciness that we are investigating to balance better to create more fun gameplay. We'll be rolling out a new process to apply to help with feedback on this soon.
- Competitive
Leagues, tournaments and other events focused on taking Slapshot to the next level deserve to be in the spotlight. One of our initiatives to fuel this is to make a better system to provide in-game awareness and several other tools to help people run these events. This patch introduces the match sharing website, which kicks off these line-up of improvements for the competitive scene.
- Ranked
We're getting rid of our current MMR system (elo) in favor for something custom built (inspired by TrueSkill) that will make it easier for the system to place you in an appropriate skill level faster and provide more fair matches to truly measure your skill at the game. Ranks and other supporting elements will be introduced with a ranked playlist.
We may choose to roll these updates out over multiple patches.
Good luck, have fun
Erveon & team