Hello everyone.
As Simon wrote before, we did quite a bit of rework for the looping movement code which took way longer than anticipated. But we finally have something that works. You will see that brand spanking new update in your steam downloads next time you load the client. You will also see that we changed the name... kind of :)
A few weeks back we told you about the name clash we have with another game called Sky Arena. If you search for Sky Arena on YouTube you will find a bunch of videos for the other game and a couple of videos for ours. Together with you we came up with the idea of simply augmenting the name. And thus "Super Sky Arena" is born :)
I think Super Sky Arena will work very well because
a) it's still kind of the same name so our previous marketing efforts are not wasted
b) if you search "Super Sky Arena" on YouTube you'll find a bunch of videos that are over a year old. So the term is free for us to fill with our own amazing content. Success
The march patch will come to you in two parts. Today we pushed the new movement scheme because we want to test it a little bit online. Later in the week we will push another update with the new game content we have been working on over the last two months.
It's going to be a good week for Super Sky Arena :)
A quick description of the new movement system:
-Press either B (Circle) or RS to toggle the new mode
-You enter into a very fast moving state, indicated by a firey glow around your ship
-In this state you have full range of motion, if you pull up, you pull up to do a looping. But you can also pull down to do a downward looping or roll and turn and do a looping at the same time. It's up to you :)
-This state is dangerous for your enemies. If you ram someone while in this state you do some heavy damage
-This state is limited! There is a new fuel indicator that quickly drains when using the boost mode and you can refill it by picking up the yellow energy pickups
Please play around with it for a bit and give us your feedback. We would love to know what you think about these changes
-Oliver