Party Crashers
Patch #15: The Big One
I have some exciting news to share! We have just pushed a brand new update to Party Crashers. We have been working on this update for over a year now and excited to share it with you. It is mostly content improvements and bug fixes, but I feel that it really improves the look and feel of the game.
We are planning to role this patch out to all consoles too, but there is some testing and QA we need to do for each individual platform first.
Here is a patch list of some of the things that have changed over the last year or so:
Added Instructions for PC
- Instructions are based on P1 controller
Updated Arena Icons
Added Bend Thickness
- The bends can customisably get fatter or skinnier around corners
Reworked Arena
- Arena is better looking than ever!
Improved Spinner
- Now with extra spin
Improved Rocket AI
Improved Arena AI
Improved General AI
Added Track Decorations
- The tracks now look peritier. Watch out for the billboards.
Fixed pickups not firing fast enough
Changed Arena Camera
- Better follows the action now
Minor performance improvements
- Nothing major.
Improved skidmarks
- More efficent
Prevented effect pads from overlapping
Improved effect pads graphics
Added effect pads for corners only option
- Boosts will be on straights, slippery will be on turns. Fully customisable
Added Football Car
- In spirit of Australia Day
Fixed Sports Car Collider
- Again
Fixed graphics for ghosting
Fixed lap tally
Fixed controller sound volume (PS4 only. May require revisit).
Fixed pickups being used to early would cause them to go invisible.
+ Many more bug fixes and improvements.
Exciting stuff! Please feel free to come to our Discord and give feedback on the update and let us know what you think! We love to hear what you have to say.
https://discord.gg/giantmargarita
Patch #14 - Leaving Early Access and What's Next
As you may have noticed we've made it out of Early Access!
Thank you to all of those that purchased in Early Access and especially to those of you that helped with suggestions and bug fixes throughout the development of Party Crashers.
To those of you just joining us, from all of us at Giant Margarita, welcome and we hope you enjoy playing our game!
It's been a long journey but we've made it and have released not only out of Steam Early Access but also on PS4 and Switch! We plan to continue working on the game, listening to your ideas and suggestions and improving on what we have.
As always if you have any suggestions, content to share or simply want to talk about the game come join our discord! https://discord.gg/giantmargarita and don't forget to leave us a Steam review with what you liked and any feedback!
Below is a changelog of all the cool bits and bobs we've added! Now for us it's back into our development cave until we have something cool to show you once again!
Patch Notes
- Fixed minimap displaying in countdown
- Added gamemodes progression (can be bypassed in settings)
- Randomised tracks on quick game
- Added sound effects
- Added more rumble
- Removed rumble from menus
- Fixed duplicated inputs from controllers
- Small localization changes
- Improved cameras
- Added afterdeath god-ray effect
Patch #13 - Glorious Reflections
A quick patch here to update the steam version to what we are displaying at PAX West. We have added a ton of polish, making vehicles look more dynamic, better visual effects, set dressing and glorious reflections. We have fixed a small collection of bugs too. The visual fidelity of the game has improved significantly and this game is getting closer and closer to our final goal every update :)
We are looking at feedback for performance and what people think of the visuals. Be sure to create new steam discussions or join us on the official Giant Margarita Discord server. We are always looking for community feedback! Join at https://discord.gg/invite/giantmargarita
Patch Notes
- Vehicles drive after the game finished still
- New chasing line FX
- Reflection FX
- New Plasma Ball FX
- Cars now properly explode when behind the chasing line
- AI can now use gun pickups
- Bombs work more reliably
- New animations for pickups
- Trail renders don't just disappear anymore
- Suspension effect added to vehicles when cornering.
- Split times appear when more than 1 lap is completed.
- Nerfed Brickmobile. It no longer has a smaller hitbox than any other vehicle.
- Homing missiles now unlock at the correct angle
Patch #12 - Rework Physics
As some of you may have noticed, there has been a new update to Party Crashers! (bit of a delay between the update and the news, so I apologies). We have been busy working hard over the last few weeks, fixing numerous bugs, improving stability and framerate, adding more features and redesigning a bunch of stuff!
This will most likely be our final update (bar some bug fixes) before our fabled release later this year, so we made sure we crammed as much as we could, with Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves being included!
Please make mention of the updated system requirements. We now only support 64bit Windows OS and we will unlikely to change that before full release. The recommended settings have been updated too, suggesting at least a decent CPU and graphics card (although we have been optimizing a ton, so minimum specs should still be playable :) )
Be sure to check out the discord server to voice your opinions and suggestions! We are always looking for community feedback! Join at https://discord.gg/invite/giantmargarita
Patch Notes
- Reworked vehicle physics
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
- UI Overhaul
- Massive bug fixes
- Camera improvements
- New GUN weapons! Machine Gun, Tail Gun, Plasma Cannon
- New Shocker weapon
- Improved AI (They can actually race and use pickups properly!)
- Better controller management
- Split controller play (hold start / menu / options on controller)
- Better health display
- More gamemodes
- Brickmobile
- Localization! (supported languages on store page)
- Gentlemans Agreement Afterdeath Rule (no killing players on match point)
- New vehicle collision physics
- Jammer (replacement to flash)
- Handy capping
- Bonus points
- Light-Weight renderer (improved performance)
- Minimap on race / splitscreen modes.
:papyrus: thanks for reading
Patch #11.64 - Easter Build
Patch Notes
Additions
- Self-Damage override in the options. Use this to stop mines hurting yourself.
- Area Of Effect Pads. The maps can now generate pads that can give one of 4 effects: Boost, Grip, Slippery, Bad Handling. Play around with these in the track customisation menu.
- Tack edges where there are no walls now have a scarry tecture
- Track edges are animated
- Improved wall visuals
- All pickup likelihoods have an Off and an Only option added (Very Low Weighting no longer functions as "off"). If anything is set to Only, it will have an equal chance with anything else set to Only, and anything NOT set to Only will be ignored. If nothing is set to Only, then the standard weighting rules are applied (and anything Off will be ignored).
- Coins now have a nicer UI
- Tracks with variable width are now possible
- Added Chilly Causeway Map.
- Player Chosen Hats instead of crowns
- Gave pickups small effect to indicate where they are located (even if they are unavailable)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed railguns. They will now actually hit people more reliably.
- Fixed procedual levels crashing
- Added better cleaning of the tracks
- Mini Scoreboards are no longer too big
- Coins now properly spawn
- Circle arena actually works now
- Fixed durpy and bad wall colliders
- Fixed all players colours getting set when a single player changes their colour (causing lag)
- Fixed preview camera
- Vehicle preview always shows correct fill
- Improved stats overlay.
- Coins now wait properly for at least 1 player to collect
- Rockets work more reliably.
- Improved stability and less bugs
Be sure to check out the discord server to voice your opinions and suggestions! We are always looking for community feedback! Join at https://discord.gg/invite/giantmargarita
Patch #10.47 - Coin Spawns
Hello everyone! Got a fresh new build lined up for you all to try! Sorry for the lack of updates, but we have been super hard at work migrating to a newer version of Unity and wanted to make sure everything worked smoothly and perfectly! (well, as perfectly as we can)
This update brings in the coin system that was shown off at Fridays stream as well as the new respawn system!
Patch Notes
Additions
- New physics models for cars. They are a lot smoother now!
- Bunch of new arenas, such as UpDown arena and some train based arenas!
- Vehicles now freeze during the countdown
- Coins, Coin Modifiers, and Coin Gamemodes are now available. Race around the track and try to get as many coins as possible!
- Added respawns! Fall of the track? No worries! With out new patented spawner, your sure to never die!
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the health metric
- Fixed best lap time
- Fixed scoreboard ordering
- Scoreboard match points text now lays out correctly
- Bomb no longer sticks around after the round
- Cannot cause more damage than the health remaining to a vehicle
- Vehicles always spawn on the ground
- Drafting now behaves more reliably
- Drafting no longer shows effect if you are not drafting
- Massive improvements to the player customisations window. They work reliably now :)
- Starting grid default is now staggered landrush
- Sliders can now be used in conjunction with non-slider options
- Vehicles now have a proper bumper collider so they can go over lumps better
- Bananas are more stable
- New wheel physics model
Be sure to check out the discord server to voice your opinions and suggestions! We are always looking for community feedback! Join at discord.gg/giantmargarita
Patch #9.36 - New Years
We are always looking for your feedback on the game and want to hear from you guys directly. Be sure to voice any suggestions you have on the stream discussions or our official discord at discord.gg/giantmargarita
Patch Notes
Additions
- Player Customisations
- Changeable Player Colours
- Afterdeath: Pickup Point
- Afterdeath: Remove Pickup Point
- Pickup: Brick Wall
- Pickup: Favourite
- Modifier: Constant Acceleration now has multiple modes.
- Modifier: Speedmode / Damage Amount
- Modifier: Speedmode / Speed Threshold
- Modifier: Speedmode / Frequency of Damage
- Modifier: Car "Fill In" (allows you to have neon lines or not).
- Map: Normal Arena
- Map: Block Arena
- Map: Circle Death Wall Arena
- Map: Moving Platform Arena
- Map: Rotating Ramp Arena
Bug Fixes
- Drafting now has some extra tolerances (so you can draft past someone)
- A bunch of internal bug fixes and refactors. The vehicle controller has had some cleaning to help maintainability.
- The cameras are more efficient. Their effects have been slightly reworked and now perform much better.
"Speed" Mode and Bug Fixes
- the speed threshold (defaults to off)
- the amount of health removed per second (defaults to 100).
(Coming soon for this feature is a modifier for the rate at which health is reduced, as well as more game modes combining this feature with other modifiers other than the one we have added. This mode may also undergo a name-change so as to not reference the movie *Speed*)
Photo mode has been improved (you can use L3 to move the camera faster, and controller support is now better but not perfect).
In addition a big stability patch has been brought in. The most recent patch a few days ago destroyed a lot of things through the Player-Chosen Options. These options started erroneously turning themselves on, resulting in some players experience random turning on of Reversed Steering (you may have seen this in the stream), or changes in size and clearance. This has been resolved, but also a design decision has been made to take away the ability to choose your own size, reversed steering, constant acceleration etc. as these options allow players to give themselves an advantage too easily. These options were only enabled before for testing. Remaining options are:
- Car Model (not size)
- Car Horn
Favourite-weapon pickups are no longer enabled in this menu either, and will be replaced by a new system in an upcoming patch (you can still set these via Custom Game > Weapon Pickups).
Options to be enabled in future patches will include Player Colour, Hats, and Favourite Weapon.
Twitch and Discord Integration, Light Bikes, Trailers, Bombs, and everything else.
A big new experimental feature we've added is the ability to link the game to your Twitch channel, and viewers can type commands in the chat window to mess with you in the game (all commands can be found at
http://partycrashersgame.com/twitch ). Only some commands work (car model, size), while many others are still being tested. Let us know what works, what doesn't, and what twitch integration we could add via the forums or Discord!
Since the last Steam announcement, we've added light bikes mode. Now you can leave a trail of mines (or bananas) behind you in this new fun wacky mode!
We've also added trailers (not videos, literal trailers) containing things like boats, shipping containers, etc. You can start with any number of trailers, or run through the Add Trailer pickup to collect more trailers (like Snake!). You can drop trailers on your frenemies using the Drop Trailer pickup.
The Bomb pickup will make you explode within 15 seconds... unless you hit another player, transferring the bomb to them (thanks Supersmo for the idea!)
We have the start of a selection screen which lets players choose their own options even if they aren't player 1. This feature is again experimental, and we're going to be improving this in the coming weeks.
Other modifiers and content:
- Some graphical improvements to the default map
- The AI have gotten smarter at using pickups
- Constant acceleration
- Left only, right only steering (with more to come)
- Starting direction (can start backwards, left, right, forward, anywhere inbetween including random)
- Track clearing
We have also added Discord Rich Presence, so now you'll have a lovely presence on discord when you are playing Party Crashers.
Keep an eye on the Discord and our weekly streams showcasing new content!
AI Added (aka Friend Substitutes) + Discord Details
For those of you without friends, or those who just want to test out the game solo first, we've added a rudimentary AI for non-player cars. They'll do their best to stay on the track and use powerups (but they're pretty stupid at the moment). Remember, Party Crashers is best experienced with friends, the AI are simply substitutes.
We've also implemented a couple of fixes to the tracking camera.
Thank you to everyone who played the game at PAXAus, we had an absolute blast. Seeing the looks on people's faces as the nostalgia of the great racing games of the past washed over them was truly rewarding for us. We are going to do our best to honour the likes of Wrecked/Mashed/Micro Machines (and Indy 500 and Supercars and Nitro and Racing Destruction Set) while also putting our own Giant Margarita spin on things (all the customisations!).
Our Discord server is the best place to throw as many new ideas at us as humanly possible. We'll be listening, replying, and usually implementing your requested features and bug fixes. There's even a roadmap which lists what we're currently working on, planning to do, and already completed.
We want to make the content of this game determined by YOU the players, and what YOU want. Make your voice heard on the discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/eyaAmfM