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Cookies vs. Claus

2018 Summer Update! New Map and Game Mode, new Cookie, and Santa reworks!

V0.4.0 is available for download!


Christmas is coming early this summer! Santa is going on the offensive as he drops in on the prestigious Cookie Castle.



New Map - Cookie Cove

  • Sunny vacation island located as far away from the North Pole as it can be.
  • Cookies have a secret defense weapon hidden within the light house to repel the red menace
  • Travel the map with the new Cookie Cannons!

New Game Mode and Classic Rework

  • Cookie Free For All - Battle solo with up to 8 cookies to prove you're the true cookie champion!
  • Cookies vs. Claus - The classic game mode now supports 8 players in the quickplay lobby. Santa health has been increased appropriately to deal with all the cookies!

New NPCs

  • Magical Mermaid
  • Unicrab
  • Ghost Pirates
  • Sharky

New Pick-up - Cookie Dough Balls

  • Patch up any holes made by santa with some freshly made cookie dough! Heals cookies for 5 hp

Santa Reworks

  • Santa

    • New Weapon - Instead of his slow-firing, explosive projecticle weapon, he now has a Candy-cane machine gun.
    • Santa's cookie pick-up has been changed to a small minigame. Right click once to reach your arm out, right click again at the right time to eat the cookie!

  • Rudolph

    • Rudolph's cookie pick has been adjust similarly to Santa's.

  • Stelf

    • Stelf's cookie pick-up has been replaced with a minigrapple hook


New Power Up - Grenade Launcher

  • Shoots timed explosives, contains 3 grenades

Improved Cookie and Claus Bots

  • All Cookie bot's should now use vehicle's better
  • Cookie bot's are more responsive to attacks
  • Overall they have much better aim and should pose a much higher
  • The Claus bot has also been buffed greatly and should no longer get stuck
  • Adjusting the bot difficulty will be added in a future patch

New Menus

  • Lobby pages completely reworked. The quickplay lobby now allows voting for your favorite map and gamemode! Also allows up to 8 players for each mode
  • Custom control pages reworked
  • Polished up all menus to feel better and be overall more responsive

Christmas Home Changes

  • Christmas tree should be easier to climb
  • Can now walk under trampoline
  • Climbing on the kitchen drawers and similar should be easier and more straight-foward

Major Fixes

  • Explosions kills now correctly apply to players kill count
  • Fixed bug that crashed game when two vehicles exploded
  • Games now end properly, scorebooard should always display correct scores.
  • Shooting should feel better and smoother
  • Mid game joiner's should join correctly after a slightly increased load time
  • Two Santa's should never be spawned in classic game mode
  • Characters should always spawn on the correct team
  • Challenges have been temporarily removed


Thank you for your cookie support. We will continue to try to improve game performance and quality as we prepare for new content this holiday season! Expect more frequent updates from now on!

V0.3.2 - Item Rework, Cookie Changes, and More!

Hi All! In today's update we are introducing a new change to cookie items. Tiny present bubbles spawn around the map giving your cookie an item if you walk into them!

Items
Items still replace your basic attack as before. Previous items have been reworked:

    Cookie Gun

    • Lasts for 15 seconds
    • Shoots bullets quickly


    Laser Gun

    • Lasts for 10 seconds
    • Shoots a mini laser dealing massive damage


    Cookie Sword

    • Size increased
    • Lasts for 15 seconds
    • Damage increased from 4 to 8


    *NEW ITEM* Bouncy bomb

    • Throwable bomb that bounces
    • Explodes after 5 seconds


    *NEW ITEM* Cookie Rocket

    • Shoots one explosive rocket



Cookie Changes

    General:

    • Cookie movement in air has been reduced
    • Cookies move slower and cannot jump while basic attacking
    • Camera view has been zoomed out allowing cookie players to see more
    • Attacks now shoot straighter
    • Smoother use of abilities while attacking


    Choccy, Sugar, Ninjasnap, and Nisiar

    • Basic attacks now have range (150)
    • Basic attack speeds have been increased



In Game UI Update

  • Your character icon and health are now displayed in the bottom left
  • Current powerup and icons are displayed in the top left
  • Game info is now placed in the top right


Map Changes

    North Pole

    • Ice is now slippery!



Fixes

  • Creameo and Nisiar now play their sounds correctly
  • Tanks shield block now has sound
  • Santa bots should not disappear on the North Pole map



More cookie items will be added regularly as well as Santa Power Ups coming soon!
Reminder: New characters will be released in February :)

Early Access Update V0.3.1 - Bug Fixes

Happy New Year!

This update features a few bug fixes:
Bug Fixes

  • Santa characters no longer fly around after picking up elves
  • Stelf can no longer infinite jump while holdilng a present
  • Lasers now properly damage things


Changes

  • Stelf's default health has been reduced by 50


Cookie Quote of the Day:
"Our task will not be an easy one. Our enemy is well prepared, well equipped, and cookie-hungry. He will fight for evol."
- Cookie Unknown

Reminder:
Next big update will be in February featuring a new map and new characters!

New Map and Characters!

V0.3.0 is now ready for download!



This update features a new map, a new cookie, and a new santa character!

Plan for next update
The cookie battle does not end with Christmas. Cookies are cruelly eaten on a daily basis, especially during EACH holiday. The war has just begun.

For the next month we plan on fixing bugs, touching up the current maps/characters, and polishing the game as a whole. Expect some new characters or items, but the next major update will be in February featuring a new map and characters.

Early Access #3 Patch Notes

New Map and Characters


  • North Pole Map

    • New ai characters
    • Careful, cookies can't swim!

  • Stelf

    • Knife - Stelf throws a knife dealing huge damage
    • Dash snatch - Stelf dashes and picks up cookies/objects
    • Stelf Roll - Stelf rolls dropping a bomb in his place and turning invisible

  • Nisiar Laemtao

    • Nisiar blast - Nisiar throws up to 5 raisins that heal allies and hurt enemies
    • Nisiar bomb - Nisiar tosses a raisin explosion that heals allies and hurts enemies
    • Nisiar shield - Nisiar shields himself to become invincible and gains movement speed



Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the game would sometimes not end on a cookie kill
  • Bot kills no longer debug middle screen text
  • The Claus battle challenges now end correctly
  • Claus's candy cane no longer disappears
  • Matchmade games should no longer reset within the first 5 seconds
  • Santa cams now have the correct effects
  • Joining late puts you on the correct team

Have fun!

Early Access Update #2 - Creameo Is Here!

V0.2.0 is now ready for download!



Hi Everyone,

This update features the release of a new cookie, Creameo! Creameo is a chocolate cookie who blasts opponents with his creamy filling!



Early Access Update #2 Patch Notes

    New Cookie: Creameo

    • Cream Shot: Creameo blasts his cream in a cone to hurt
    • Roll: Creameo gets on his side to roll around for quick movement.
    • Lid Throw: Creameo throws his back like a boomerang, does extra damage on the return.
    • 12 new Creameo Challenges!

    Bug Fixes

    • Explosions now hurt all characters correctly
    • Santa death cam no longer spins
    • Joining late in classic can no longer cause two Santas to spawn
    • Victory screen improved
    • Damage texts now display when hitting AI characters

    UFO

    • Updated UFO visuals



BIG NEWS: Expect two new playable characters and a North Pole map by Christmas!!

Today's Cookie Quote:
"Let's get creamy!"
-Creameo

Merry Cookies!

Welcome to Cookies vs. Claus!

V0.1.0 is now ready for download!



Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Cookies vs. Claus! This update contains several small fixes and additions to the game. As well as announcing...

New cookie coming soon! Can you guess who??



Early Access Update #1 Patch Notes

    New Vehicle: The Nutcracker

    • Ride the Nutcracker to slice through your enemies!

    New Power-Up: Star Power-Up

    • Get to the top of the tree at the right time to get the Star Power-Up!

    Bug Fixes

    • Scoreboard updates correctly in Battle of the Cookies
    • In game settings menu's visibility and usability improved
    • Sugar's walking animation fixed
    • Unicorn beam now damages Claus correctly and shoots correctly for everyone
    • Cannons now rotate and shoot correctly
    • Presents spawn correctly around the map
    • Gingerbread men respawn correctly
    • Can now switch cookies after joining mid-game

    Unicorn

    • The Unicorn has a nice new horn beam!

    Chat filtering can now be turned on/off


Today's Cookie Quote:
"Sometimes the cookie doesn't have to crumble."
- Choccy

Merry Cookies!