Goaltender VR
Goaltender VR is officially "retired" and will be removed from Steam storefront
First off, thanks to everyone who played Goaltender VR! On May 2017 Goaltender VR early access was released on Steam, development however did end just after a year in May 2018. Early 2020 I started working on new game based off Goaltender VR, Goalienator improves every aspects of Goaltender including new features, overhauled visuals, UI, new and improved game modes, whole codebase is rewritten and more under the hood. In short, new game that includes players favorite game modes from Goaltender VR.
I have decided to "unpublish" Goaltender VR as no new updates will be coming and game is considered "retired", which means Goaltender VR will be finally "retired" and will be removed from both Steam and Oculus storefronts. If you have downloaded the game, you should be able to keep playing as long you wish.
If you wish jump over to Goalienator, do not hesitate to contact and let me know that you interest testing Goalienator PCVR version when available.
if you have questions or just want to chat, you can reach me from:
Discord server: https://discord.gg/4TcZrXVSsj
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rbcVR
Goaltender VR launching as a free game
Why?
We are hoping that removing final "entry barrier" has positive effect on the amount of feedback/suggestions, which in return helps to shape Goaltender VR into better experience for everyone.
Development progress has been slow after we left early access and for the near future we don't see any immediate change on that front. There has been few recent changes to our team members work outside this project and that time is naturally away from Goaltender VR development.
Instead taking part in different sales continuously, we decided to just offer Goaltender VR as free product.
Thank you for your support and feedback.
Goaltender VR 1.0
- Improved shooting algorithm (less shots to center)
- Added haptics for body and head collisions
- New challenge system
- New training game mode: Onetimer
- Added missing achievements for all challenges
- Added missing leaderboards for all challenges
- Fixed "Stats" feature
As always, we love to hear your feedback and bug reports. If nothing major happens (such as bugs/missing features), Goaltender VR will exit early access with this version.
Of course, this does not mean that we will stop updating or/and abandon Goaltender VR. We consider this release to be stable enough for enjoyable game experience, all the features should work as intended (leaderboards, challenges and such).
After first 1.0 release, we start looking into feedback and suggestions, updates will come once we have something decent to update (new content/tweaks to game play etc). So if you have anything you would love to see in Goaltender VR, let us know via forums or email runbycoffee@gmail.com.
Thank you for your support and feedback.
Beta branch updated | Beta EA #7 (November 7)
Remember to read beta branch FAQ before trying beta builds: http://steamcommunity.com/app/558750/discussions/1/1368380934258646617/
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Beta EA #7 (November 7)
1) New game mode (Hockey Stadium map): Onetimer
Three Training Dummys passing pucks and ripping onetimers
Current beta build game mode is using fixed goal size, passing and shooting speed. Only option to tweak for this mode is training length
2) Fixes
- Fixed Ball Cannon game mode and arcade leaderboards not saving shots into Goaltender Profile (stats windows)
- Fixed shooting gallery arcade mode, sometimes tennis balls would hit crossbar which means they would not go into goal (even if you did not manage to make a save)
3) Reset Goal and Shot stats
If your stats are broken due to previous bugs, you can press "E" key (from keyboard) to reset stats.
Update EA #6
Unfortunately we had to leave few features for next update in order to polish them up.
New "Challenge" mode
Step closer what challenges should really be, no longer just leaderboards. Each game mode includes own challenge with 3 difficulty level, last challenge level (4) is familiar leaderboards. Difficulty levels goes from easy (beginner), medium (novice) to hard (master) with increased shooting speed and more strict completion requirements.
Your Goaltender Profile
New profile keep track of your stats, including shots against, total saves and of course save percentage (SV%). Only saves/goals from playing shooting gallery or ball cannon challenge rounds will be recorded into your goaltender profile
[B] 1) [/B] Added leaderboards for challenges
[B] 2) [/B] New Hand Shield models (hand paddles)
[B] 3) [/B] New Glove and Blocker models
[B] 4) [/B] New training equipment "Double Gloves", use two catcher gloves
[B] 5) [/B] GUI improvements
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<*> Training scenario options moved to center bottom (near player), detached from center window
<*> Main navigation moved to right side panel
<*> Made "controls help" screen available at left side panel
<*> Game mode explanation/instructions and rules are now at the middle screen, below "SELECT TRAINING MODE" for easier access
<*> Changed font colors and few icon updates (example yellow arrows instead blue arrows).
<*> You can now loop through all the options instead having to go back/forward all the time.
Previously you had to press forward or back if minimum/maximum value was met, now we we allow to loop through variables.
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[B] 6) [/B] (EXPERIMENTAL) New game mode using larger (similiar to football) objects. Block balls coming from opposite wall cannon, stop them going behind you
7) (EXPERIMENTAL) Head and body colliders
8) Audio updates
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<*> Added sound for "result screen" stars.
<*> Added sound for menu interactions.
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9) New achievements
New set of achievementss
[B] SMALLER CHANGES [/B]
- Made tennis balls smaller size
- Changed "Catcher and Blocker" to "Glove and Blocker"
[B] KNOWN ISSUES [/B]
* FIXED
Catcher glove hand (left or right) will not update correctly if you are not wearing "Glove and Blocker" already. You can correct this by selecting "Glove and Blocker" (from training center) and switching back to left/right again from options.
Update EA #5
2) Added training options to change puck color and size (only for hockey stadium map)
Puck colors: Black, white, blue, orange
Puck sizes: Large, medium, small, tiny
3) New variations for game modes in Hockey Stadium Map
For training and challenge modes.
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<*> Shooting Gallery: 3 ice hockey players shooting pucks at you.
<*> Moving Dummy: Training dummy shoots pucks towards top left and right corners.
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4) Fixed pause menu, by making one global pause menu
Middle in-game "pause" will open same window as normal GUI pause button.
5) Added "recenter" function
You can now recenter yourself by pressing touchpad. Just walk to desired location and press touchpad, this will teleport you back to goal.
6) Options updates
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<*> Added option to enable/disable object trails.
<*> Background music volume settings do not reset after game restarting / map changing anymore.
<*> Haptic settings do not reset after game restarting / map changing anymore.
<*> Added option to switch "Catcher hand" handedness (left or right hand)
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Hockey stadium update has been reverted
Sorry for the inconvience!
Update EA #4.5
- Added new map, "Hockey Stadium".
Update EA #4 (HTC Vive support)
1) Challenges
Replaces old "Arcade Mode" feature.
2) Tweaks to ball/puck physics
In short, ball/puck will interact better when colliding with your hands/equipments, more accurate to save and ball/puck will not bounce into goal if you manage to make a save.
3) Improved GUI
We once again revisited GUI and made changes hopefully improving GUI look and feel.
- Added "Countdown" before round starts.
- New "Round Result Screen" with 3 star rating.
4) Added "Pause Game" button top of the goal,
"Pause Game button" will stop current round and opens menu which allows to change few options and going back to menu or quit the game (exit game all together).
Known issues:
- "Options" menu at the middle of the round is not updated correctly, you can still change settings but changes you made from the "main menu" options are not updated to secondary options menu.
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What about hockey map? We have some good and bad news.
Bad news are: in this update there wont be a hockey map.
Good news are that we have started working with 3D artist to create more reallistic and detailed hockey goalie catcher and blockers for the Goaltender VR. So instead doing just small hockey map update, we decided to delay for bigger hockey related update.
"Hockey Update" is most likely coming near end of the month, with following content:
- Update will come in "parts", meaning some things might come sooner.
- Hockey stadium map.
- New catcher glove and blocker.
Update EA #3
- Added new game mode: Target Shooting
- Added background music.
- Added "Settings" menu window.
- Added "Credits" menu window.
- Improved GUI layout.
- New shooting speeds.
- New goal sizes.
- New achievement: Target Shooting Novice
- Removed some limitations from Color Block game mode
- Fixed color block mode "double goal count" bug.