Version 0.2576 highlights

• Includes global lobby and room chat so you can talk to friends whilst waiting

  
  

• New UI layout and level art

  
  
  

• Updated visuals including this new hand-made stop-motion explosion!

  
  
  

• Many bug fixes and balancing tweaks

  
  

• Fixed pass-through bugs letting you climb out of the level
  
• Bombs and other pickups have less time to glance a platform before hitting a player and still doing damage
  
• KO player bomb drops have been rebalanced and timings adjusted depending on the number of KO'd players
  
• Spawn points are slightly jittered to prevent crazy bomb stacking
  
• Players can no longer join a full room
  
• Dialog popup and handling of network disconnects (this is an initial solution, in future we'll try rejoining the current game automatically)
  
• You can now jump whilst aiming with the mouse (!)
  
• Ticker log correctly identifies melee weapons
  
• Fixed broken portrait UI
  
• Fixed players not dying properly in the tractor level
  
• Fixed tutorial sprite icons
  
• Changed character selection method to use shoulder buttons/bumpers
  
• New rare [REDACTED] weapon
  
• Rooms now have a status badge making it easier to see when a game is ready to start or in progress
  
• New UI skin and more consistent input (still WIP)
  
• Lobby and room chat API additions
  
• Optimised input traffic by 3x
  
• Rooms can only exist once unless full, making it easier for one person to start a game
  
• New built-in room "Brawl Central" with randomised level selection that scales with the number of players
  
• Better death handling when falling off the tractor