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GO MECHA BALL - ARCADE UPDATE 🎰

Good day ballers! Hope you are well. 🏐

It's been almost six months since we released Go Mecha Ball. We've been honoured by all the love and support from the community. And we're back with a new update, with a brand new mode that you can jump into right now!

ARCADE MODE NOW AVAILABLE 🎰

  • Unlock a new arcade mode challenge when you defeat a difficulty for the first time
  • Arcade mode is a score chasing mode where you can earn permanent upgrades for each character by earning bronze, silver and gold medals
  • Complete the highest difficulty to earn shiny new skins!

Here are the rest of the patch notes

Bosses

  • Bosses are more aggressive and attack more frequently
  • Less health replenished when defeating bosses
  • Glitched bosses gain more health, deal more damage and get new attacks with each difficulty level
  • Glitched bosses fire projectiles after certain attacks
  • Glitched bosses teleport around the stage

Combo System

  • Less forgiving combo system to improve gold coin economy balance and combo-based upgrade synergies
  • Combo timer no longer freezes entirely while in the air or using mobility features like transport tubes
  • Combo timer slows down while in the air, in boost mode and while abilities are active
  • Dealing damage with abilities now resets the combo timer

Shop

  • Shop always offers health packs
  • Shop contents are deterministic, so no more shop scumming

Performance

  • Much improved CPU efficiency
  • Reduced physics time step to free up CPU and GPU resources
  • More than halved memory usage in common situations
  • Many times faster startup loading and level loading performance
  • Optimized for Steam Deck: 60FPS without VSync
  • VSync no longer enabled by default
  • UI drawn as overlay rather than using a separate camera
  • More reliable occlusion and frustum culling
  • Improved GPU batching for reduced draw calls
  • Improved shadow quality

Settings Menu

  • Full input remapping for keyboard, mouse and controllers
  • Added headers to settings menu for greater readability
  • Added camera zoom options to set camera range
  • Toggle dynamic or static camera to help some players who experienced motion sickness from subtle camera movements

Keep on ballin' and play the new update now πŸ‘‡
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008510/Go_Mecha_Ball/

- Whale Peak Games & Super Rare Originals

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  • Build 14560726 Β· public branch

    Steam updated Β· First observed