Rebound v0.71.0 is now live
Goal horns!
- Added a new cosmetic type: Goal horns.
- Added a new bundle in the shop with a few boat horns
- Added a 'thunder' horn to the Norse God bundle. Everyone that bought the bundle before has received it for free.
Arenas
- Added the Island arena. It is accessible from bot matches and custom games
- Removed Slapstation from the public game rotation due to performance complaints
Matchmaking
- Created better balancing for the teams within a match
- Made matchmaker a bit stricter, avoids instant matches with suboptimal balancing
Quality of life
- Added native support for PS5 controllers, you no longer need to use Steam Input for it
- Added controller icons for DualShock and DualSense controllers (PS4 & PS5 controllers)
- Latency simulator has been made more accurate (take round trip time into account)
- Latency simulator is now on by default so new player experience in tutorial and practice is closer the online experience
-- It'll estimate the latency, then after having played a match uses the latency found in that match
- Region selector now shows the estimated latency to a region and color codes if it's good or not
- Added advertisements for premium and the leagues for your respective region
- Made some huge infrastructure improvements, making a bunch of operations significantly faster
- Added more server-side metrics and monitoring to find out about bad performing servers quicker
- When changing or adjusting camera settings, 'reset zoom' is used so settings are more accurate and less weird angle issues
- Added support for 800x600 resolution for the people with potato PCs
- Added the ability to view variants of items in bundles by clicking on the item, this'll bring up the item details UI
Cosmetics
- Added a camera helmet cosmetic for the creator program
- Added selfie stick, makeshift stick, skull cleaver stick, reinforced stick
- Added more variants to the premium hoodie, all existing and future premium users get these for free
Fixes
- Better stability for game server startup
- Fixed an issue where if the server fails to start, you have to reboot to queue again
- Fixed the variants for the bird wing cosmetic
- Fixed playstation controller icons for quick chat not showing correctly
- Fixed an issue where sometimes the purchase confirmation UI would incorrectly assume you own a cosmetic already
Creator program
We have launched a creator program to work with those that are creating content for Slapshot.
Oddshot Games is determined to help you create great content and want to support you in the process!
For more information check out the info page here: https://oddshot.notion.site/Public-Slapshot-Creator-Program-e869eda1d76e48bf91a13d40aff2703b
GLHF,
Oddshot Games