Hello everyone, we have a big news for you. Today is a big day, Cartoon Strike is finally out of Early Access.
What new content is added in Season 1?
Lots of new skins for weapons and characters.
New Farm map (remaster of the old Farm map from Cartoon Strike Online).
New Prototype map.
Achievements.
Daily Quests.
New profile system - you can now play with all skins on all maps.
Party system - play with friends.
New shooting system.
And many more small improvements.
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Season explanation and FAQ Seasons are introduced for better understanding of our release cycles. We refer to Early Access as Season 0 (S-0 for short) and to Full Release as Season 1 (S-1). With new season comes new level up rewards, new boxes and lots of new content.
What defines Season 1?
We view Season 1 as Season 0 extended with new content. So Season 1 contains all the content of Season 0 and many new additions.
How Season 1 affects level up rewards?
Level progress is reset and new rewards are added. Level up to claim exclusive Pink and White Rabbit skin - mascot of Season 1! Overall level up rewards have been increased.
What is an exclusive skin?
Exclusive skins can be used for all profiles: History, Present, Future. They are marked with purple color. Currently only four skins are exclusive:
Chicken Man Yellow set, Chicken Man White set, Rabbit Pink set, Rabbit White set.
How Season 1 changes boxes?
Boxes are renamed to include season abbreviation, e.g. Common Standard Box is now Common Standard Box S-0. Newly added box of same type is named Common Standard Box S-1.
What contains boxes from Season 1?
Common Standard/History/Present/Future Box S-1: One weapon or clothes skin. Either selected from new skins or Season 0 skins.
Rare Standard/History/Present/Future Box S-1: Three weapon or clothes skins. One common, one rare and one either common or rare. Each skin is selected from new skins or Season 0 skins.
For more information about boxes consult our wiki: https://cartoonstrike.gamepedia.com/Boxes
Full Release - Announcement!
Hello everyone, we have a big news for you. Full release of Cartoon Strike will be available in October 14 on Steam.
What can you look forward to?
- lots of new skins for weapons and characters - new Farm map (remaster of the old Farm map from Cartoon Strike Online) - new Prototype map - achievements - new profile system - you can now play with all skins on all maps - Party system - play with friends - new shooting system - and many more small improvements
Check our trailer for Full Release !!!
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What can you expect in version 1.0?
Hi all Cartoon Strike players, today we have some interesting news to share.
We are working on the full release (1.0) and you can look forward to some big changes. You can also check our short teaser of the new map. You also have one last chance to get free Chicken skin before full release. Just level up your profile.
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What can you look forward to?
- more than 20 new skins for your character - lots of new skins for weapons - new Farm map (remaster of the old Farm map from Cartoon Strike Online) - achievements - new profile system - you can now play with all skins on all maps - Party system - play with friends - new shooting system - and many more small improvements
New Update: Improvements and optimizations
Changelog - Ver. 0.0.12: Fixes and QoL changes
------------------------------- General: - Various updates and fixes for following maps: Menu, Tounine, Arabian Night, Streamhouses, Airport. - Join Team rework. Once per minute a player can join the team if there is either free space or an AI. - Team colors rework. Player’s team will always be blue and the enemy team will always be red. Even after changing teams.
In Reality: - Fixed various problems with AI. - Walk, Run and Jump sounds effects are now correctly synchronized with player’s Walk, Run and Jump actions. - Time between matches reduced from 60s to 30s. - Player has 90 seconds to choose the team at the start of the match. - Turned off shadows for players. - Fixed bug where game broke after player changed team on Streamhouses map. - Chat fixes.
In Menu: - Added sound when equipping clothes and changing weapon skins in Customization.
Other: - Renamed teams on Streamhouses map from Blue and Red to Omega and Alpha. - Default clothes colors for teams Omega and Alpha are purple and green. - Visual error on Bank Robber vest fixed. - Fixed daily quest conversion problem.
Khione Arena Update
Arena Update is finally here and you can look forward to a new map, daily quests and many different improvements.
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Changelog - Ver. 0.0.11: Arena Update
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General: - Added Khione Arena map! Designed for fast action, spherical arena offers quick interaction between players. Battle it out to claim a spot among the best Khionian warriors. Gaining intel in the center of the map will help you. It replaces the old Planet Khione map. - Added Daily Quests! Once per day the player gets a random quest. Finish it to claim a reward. Player can have up to three quests in progress. Once per day a quest can be reset to get a different one. There are ten unique quests.
AI: - AI can now hack security point on the Airport map. - AI can now hack computers on the Streamhouses map. - Various AI behavior improvements.
Graphics: - Added option to disable Post Processing in settings to improve performance on slower machines.
Menu: - Added Level Up Menu. Entered by clicking on the player's profile in top right corner, Level Up Menu shows level up rewards for each available level. The last level, codified “X”, is repeatable. - Daily Quests are displayed on the right side of the Home screen. Click on the quest to read the description or to reset it. - Cartoon News moved to the left side of the Home screen. - Reward Window shows up in the Menu when the player levels up or completes a daily quests. This is a reminder of player’s achievements. - Create Default Reality button has 30 minutes cooldown. It is intended to be used only in case of emergency when already created reality breaks. - Tounine map image in Reality list menu and Create Custom Reality menu replaced with new one. - Fixed problem where texts in Boxes menu did not show up in 1280 x 720 resolution.
Weapons: - Reload time is faster by 20% for all History and Present weapons. - Laser Bullets: add new bullet effect and new muzzle flash effect. Bullets show small laser explosion upon impact. - Fixed laser bullet headshot problem.
Character: - Crouch motion speed increased by 136.25%. - Walk animation speed increased by 61%.
In Reality: - Daily Quests progress is shown at the end of the match. - Characters shown in the Top Three Players screen are now closer to each other.
Other: - Map category is displayed in the description text in the Create Custom Reality menu, at the start of the match in the Intro Screen and in the End Game Screen.
New Update - Steam cards and more
Changelog - Ver. 0.0.8 ----------------------
Steam Store:
- Added Rare Starter Pack. It contains various clothes sets and more for a discounted price. - Reduced clothes sets price.
- Frag Grenade, Smoke Grenade Flashbang, Thermal Imploder: - Physics reworked. Grenades are now faster, heavier and have same trajectory. - Added trail effect. - Frag Grenade, Flashbang, Thermal Imploder: - Changed detonation time from 3 to 2 seconds. - Frag Grenade, Thermal Imploder, C4: - It is no longer possible to kill teammate. - Fixed problem where light was not reflected on these weapons: Frag Grenade, Flashbang, Knife. - Knife is split into three categories: History has Ka-Bar, Present has BK-7, Future has Toria Razor L1. - Some knives can be bought from Steam Store:
Skins:
- Added rarity information to the game data. Skin rarities are visible in Customization menu and Boxes menu. A skin is framed in dark grey rectangle if it is a default skin, light grey rectangle if it is a common skin, blue rectangle if it is a rare skin. Rarity color effect is shown after opening box. - Added skins for Ka-Bar and BK-7 knives. Both can be dropped from Common Standard Box and Rare Standard Box. Ka-Bar can be dropped from Common History Box and Rare History Box. BK-7 can be dropped from Common Present Box and Rare Present Box. Rusty Ka-Bar and Tsunami BK-7 skins can be purchased from our Steam Store.
Maps:
- Airport:
- Hacking reworked: all players can now take bag through security point in the middle of the map, but when one team hack the point, the opposite team for a short time lose opportunity to go through with bag on. To support this, images showing limited access were added to the security point. - Fixed the issue where joining player had wrong flag captured info. - Fixed issue with minimap not working correctly when player entered the portal or spawned at some places. - Fixed issue with minimap not correspoding to the actual position on the map. - Fixed problem where hacking feature broke down when player died in the hacking area. - Added shafts near security point.
- Tounine:
- Fixed bug where player could jump into the bridge building. - Fixed lighting on the map. Moving objects should be visible more clearly.
- Streamhouses:
- Player can no longer jump out of the map when Change Of Gravity anomaly is on. - Fixed occlusion culling problems.
Firing/Attacking system overhaul. It is more responsive and precise with improved Netcode.
In Reality:
Lowered maximum number of players in one reality from 12 to 10.
Added CLICK TO CONTINUE text to Tutorial Screen after reality is loaded.
Weapons:
Decreased fire rate of these weapons: MG 42, Tommy Gun, Vz. 61, AK-47. Damage per bullet was increased. Damage per second remains same.
Added new fire sound and new fire zoom animation for AK-47.
HUD:
Being hit by a teammate doesn’t cause red damage feedback flash to appear.
Hotfix #5
Changelog - Ver. 0.0.5 ----------------------------- On Game Start Up: - Configuration dialog is shown. Player can manually assign input keys to ingame actions.
Options: - Controls button is hidden.
AI: - Bot difficulty increased.
Hotfix #4
Changelog - Ver. 0.0.4 Weapons: - Lowered recoil for StG44 and MP40 by 25%. - Lowered spread for Tommy Gun and MP40 by 25%. - Fixed repeatedly played sound of dry fire on AI. HUD: - Weapon crosshair dimensions increased. - Hit confirm crosshair dimensions increased. - Hit confirm crosshair color matches weapon crosshair color. UI: - Added 'Next Reward' text in the main menu next to the player level. - Added 'Reward' text in the End of Match screen, when player reaches new level. - Fixed bug which caused showing 'PlayerName' in the score table instead of players name. - Fixed bug which caused not showing correct player name in the log when he joined reality. - Background of the death screen darkened. Global: - Added option to create custom reality without anomalies. - Increased anomalies cooldown. Previous: cooldown set to 15-30 seconds. Now: cooldown set to 45-60 seconds. - Turned off camera shake after being hit.
