In 2019 we posted this announcement talking about the future of the game and what was going on. A lot of things have happened since then and since about a year back we’re finally working on the game again. It's been amazing to see people participating in the betas and the player count going up once more.
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with the Betas here’s the rundown of what will be in the free to play update coming later this year.
TABG Free to Play update will include the following features:
- Completely remade map with a bunch of new areas.
- A bunch of new weapons, attachments, and grenades.
Blessings
The game now has buffs called "blessings" that the players can find, these blessings improve the player's character in some way.
For example:
- More movement speed
- Extra air jumps
- Faster fire rate
- Your bullets light your opponent on fire if you shoot to the beat of a song
- You regain health when lying down
Curses:
You can be brought back to life by your teammates if you die. You do however return to life with a "curse". These range from mild drawbacks in combat like slower bullets or a bigger body, to silly limitations like not being able to look to the left.
Limbo
When you die early on in the game you get a chance to release by surviving a skydiving minigame where you need to avoid falling pillars and get to the end in time. Depending on how well you do in this minigame you either don't return at all, return with a curse, return normally or return with random blessings.
Levels
The player now gathers XP when playing which allows the player to level up. Gaining levels lets the player choose a different color for their name, and will most likely also reward cosmetic items.
UI and UX redesign
The game's UI has always been pretty clunky and hard to use for new players, we are working on completely redesigning from scratch.
Catchphrases
Each player gets to select a sequence of 3 words that they can at any time announce when playing. The player can also select the voice that these words are said in, as well as change the pitch of the voice.
Performance, stability, and bug fixes
The game has also gotten a lot of work put into fixing bugs, improving network stability, and improving performance as well as updating the anti-cheat.
Brawl mode
The Brawl mode is still coming to TABG but we have decided to postpone the implementation of the mode until sometime after the free to play update. When we relaunch the game it’s important to us that the player base isn’t divided more than necessary in order to ensure full matches. We still want the mode to be available further down the road!
Classic TABG
If you hate the changes and love classic TABG we will either have a server or beta branch available with the classic version. If you want to play it right now when we’re running a beta you can do so by using the beta code: PLAYTHEOGTABG
If you have any questions or feedback please post it in the steam forums or by emailing us at [email protected]
