Only a week to go until BallisticNG releases out of Early Access! 1.0 will be dropping on December 15th at 12am GMT, be sure to come swing by the game’s discord to celebrate with the community!
There's one final track that's being shown today. We also have a special addition for the release that no 90s inspired game should be without, you're going to have to wait to see that one though!
Price Change
BallisticNG is getting its price increase to $8 this week. If you haven’t already picked the game up be sure to do so this weekend as it will be your last chance to get it at the early access price!
This will also be covering the new AUD pricing that Valve has introduced, so if you live in Australia you'll be able to grab the game in a few days.
Listen to the soundtrack update
Can’t wait for the release? Here’s a piece of it while you wait! A mix of the new soundtrack songs has been uploaded for you to listen. If you’ve purchased the soundtrack on Steam these songs will be part of a free update also releasing on the 15th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhfMRyLeapg
Dropping 32-bit support
Steams hardware survey page shows that out of everybody using Steam, only 1.98% of Windows users are running a 32-bit version. This is low enough that supporting 32-bit is redundant so there will be no 32-bit version of 1.0.
Update to answer some questions:
While 32-bit players won't be able to play 1.0, BallisticNG doesn't use any kind of DRM. If you backup your current 0.9.4 install you'll be able to continue playing that. 32-bit builds are going to be removed from Steam when the game releases so people don't end up buying the game and recieving 0.9.4, so if you're backing up then make sure to do it before then.
Leaderboard Reset
1.0 uses new leaderboards so there’s going to be a reset. This is going to be the last leaderboard reset, once the game is released they won’t be reset again.
Also note that due to Steam only providing a finite number of leaderboards, support for custom track leaderboards will be removed in 1.0.
With time trialing in mind, the anti-skip that's being introduced can be turned off in the cheats menu. You won't be able to set times with the cheat enabled but if you like skip hunting then you'll be able to continue doing so!
Surge
Surge is the final pre-release track that’s been added to the game, it’s a stormy track set in a never ending electrical storm. With Atlantica being a hard track and Zephyr Climb being an intermediate track, that makes Surge the new beginner entry to 1.0
