Summer locker room, pants cosmetics, arena overrides, alt mouse input
Rebound v1.3.0 is now live ːreboundː
NEW
- Added a 'pants' cosmetic slot (Added two pants to the featured shop now, three tomorrow + a pants shop bundle) -- Hitboxes are always the same, the visual style of the pants will not deviate from the hitbox -- For existing outfits, you'll need to explicitly select the default pants in order to start leveling it up - Added an alternative mouse input system that is closer to how controller input is calculated (does not affect your input motion) -- The feature is optional and disabled by default - Added a new settings tab for arenas, including a new 'Arena Override' setting (requires premium)
Changes
- The summer locker room makes its way back into Slapshot! - Matchmaking arena rotation: Removed Outdoor and Slapstation, added Colosseum and Island - Added an 'Open Details' option on cosmetics without variants so you can still see the description etc
Fixes
- Fix for staying in spectator while your player character has spawned if you were spamming the camera flip button while loading in
Cosmetics
- Added 17 pants cosmetics (some are in a new shop bundle, some others in the featured shop right now) - Added two variants to the free default pants (primary and secondary colors)
GLHF, Oddshot Games
Canada Day & July 4th celebrations!
Hello Slappers,
Celebrating Canada Day & July 4th
From now until Sunday July 7th, two codes are redeemable through the shop! - CANADA24 redeems a stick with the Canadian flag for Canada Day - USA24 redeems a stick with the American flag for July 4th (Note: People that redeemed the stick last year will get an already redeemed message).
Patch Notes
- Added the Canada stick - Improved game setup process to help speed up game boots for some players - Fixed party up navigation on controller - Changed the premium secret stash refresh text to accurately say 22h instead of 24h - Fixed an issue where the chatbox caused stutters in some scenarios - Added August Patreon items (Futuristick, Croc Hunter hat, Diving helmet, cracked egg hat, Greek god jersey). Patreon supporters will vote on which ones they want to receive throughout this month.
Happy slapping! - Oddshot Games
Party up feature, new free hairstyle, reworked block stat, server improvements
Rebound v1.2.0 is now live ːreboundː
NEW
- Added a 'party up' button on the end game screen for pubs. This way you can easily request and start a party with teammates you encounter - Added a new free default hairstyle for long hair - Reduced the cooldown for the Secret Stash premium refresh from 24 hour to 22 hours
Changes
- Reworked the block stat, you'll be granted a lot more blocks now - The score blocks award you has been reduced from 15 to 10 - The season challenges for blocks have been increase (easy 3->5 normal 5->10). This was reduced before because it was hard to get - Improved our internal moderation system and process, repeat offenders will now receive longer mutes/bans - Improved the way that the optional latency simulator calculates the latency to use - The faceoff will no longer restart every time someone joins before the match starts but wait a second for other joins to not spam the whistle / positions - Adjusted our internal database infrastructure to better fit our workload
Fixes
- Drastically reduced CPU usage of servers, which has resulted in a huge amount of extra stability and consistency - Fixed a few false positives in our internal automated moderation tooling - Fixed a bug where the puck going out of bounds during goal celebration time resets the play - Fixed our fallback server provider launching servers too far away from the target location when those locations are full
Cosmetics
- Added July's patreon items: Ballistic mask, Eye head, Earth head, Liberty hat, Avocado head - Added a long default hairstyle (see NEW section)
GLHF, The Oddshot Games team
v1.1.1 Small Fixes
Hey Slappers,
We've patched v1.1.1 with some minor changes: - Added the ability to cancel queue from end game screen - Fixed a memory leak in the Bundles shop tab when wearing a cosmetic that gets hidden by another piece of the outfit and uses a newer coloring technique (yeah that was an annoying one to figure out) - When pressing escape to close the dev console, your mouse will correctly lock if in-game - Added June's Patreon items to the gamefiles: Egg puck, iridiscent helmet, lava cape, waffle stick, stop sign
Good luck, have fun! - The Oddshot Games team
Slapshot Rebound 1.1.1 Hotfix
Hey Slappers,
This is a tiny update to fix the stick highlights for God of Sea and Tentacle sticks. It also increases the difficulty of the hard mode for the goalie save practice a little bit (higher and harder shots).
Have fun! - The Oddshot Games team
Matchmaking adjustments and several fixes
Rebound v1.1.1 is now live ːreboundː
Matchmaking
- Adjusted matchmaking algorithm based on observations from the last few weeks to provide more balanced matches quicker - Created an internal region search speed modifier, NA West search speed has been set to 1.5x and Oceania to 2x. This means it'll be quicker to expand your search radius and find a match. If you have multiple regions selected, it will use the lowest search speed for all (if you queue both NA West and NA Central, it'll search at normal speed for both).
Quality of Life
- A player joining or leaving the custom lobby itself (but not the match) will no longer be announced in the chat when you're in an active match to avoid confusion
Cosmetics
- Fixed the monk hood clipping with default hair
Fixes
- Fixed the career interface not showing your rating history properly for people whose PC was in an unsupported language - Fixed the button sizes in the esports tab, the EUSL button was a few pixels bigger than the others - Fixed the new shop rotation notification dot not working properly if you change your PC's locale - Fixed the game crashing if you set the puck spawn and target to the same location in practice (division by zero distance, oops) - Fixed post hits not counting towards your Steam achievements. These will now count offline as well. - Fixed the ability to join the pond from the end game screen of an online match or other pond session
GLHF, The Oddshot Games team
Season Correction, Launch Fixes, Quality of Life additions
Rebound v1.1.0 is now live ːreboundː
First off, thank you so much for the fantastic full launch! We have reached all of our launch goals and are so happy with how much you love The Pond and the new season pass. As mentioned in the launch post, 1.0 doesn't mean the game is finished, so here's some more features and changes already:
Season Correction
With the soft reset, we noticed we over-tuned how much it would reset the 'uncertainty' factor (how much you gain/lose), we have corrected this: - Your rating has received a correction to what it should have been based on all of your matches in this season so far. This will show up as a Season Correction when hovering over the rating change in the career interface. If this change kicks you out of a rank, you will have to reach it again to qualify for season rewards. If the change puts you in a higher rank, it automatically qualifies you for the season rewards unless you have not completed your placement matches. - The default uncertainty factor for soft resets have been changed to reflect the new changes and corrections
NEW
- Added a button to go to the pond from the end game screen - Added notifications when people join/leave your lobby, even when you're in practice - Added a new setting to hide the score bug (intended for broadcasters) - Added a command broadcasterinfo on/off that writes a file with the current game status for broadcasting software. The file is located in your installation folder. - Added a timestamp to the rating changes in Player -> Career
Cosmetics
- Added support for back items to Oni and Pestilence - Added support for hairstyles on the penguin hat
Fixes
- Removed the grace period for leaving within seconds of the end because of abuse. - Fixed a bug where if you left during the replay of a mercy rule, you would sometimes get leave penalties on top of the match result - Fixed the Baseball and Tennis ball puck sizes
Good luck, have fun! The Oddshot Games team
Slapshot Rebound 1.0 is OUT NOW!
Slapshot Rebound 1.0 is here!
We're very excited to bring you the full release of Slapshot Rebound! We've been working on the game for the last 4+ years, making countless of improvements, adding new features and working with all of you to make the game the best it can be. As mentioned in the initial announcement, 1.0 does not mean the game is done - we will continue working on it and bringing you more awesome things.
We've been teasing The Pond for a very long time and it is finally here in all its glory. You can join The Pond from the main menu while you're in the queue for a match or just because you want to hang out with others. It's a place to practice, play minigames and have fun together without any pressure.
Season 1
The pre-seasons have concluded! Everyone that has played their placement matches in pre-season 2 will get a title and gloves for the peak rank they have achieved. Season 1 starts off with a soft reset of the ranks, meaning you'll need to redo your placements but start off at your previous rating. The rating calculations, matchmaking algorithm and rank requirements have been adjusted to reflect everything we've learned from the pre-seasons!
Season 1 Pass
The new season brings with it an all-new season pass with 50+ new cosmetics. If you've completed the previous pass, you'll have received enough pux to get this one for free (if you didn't spend them :wink:). This pass also contains pux rewards to pay back your initial investment. There's some cool new free cosmetics on the free track as well! You'll still have unrestricted access to the previous pass, you can select which pass is active in the new dropdown menu on the Season tab.
Patch Notes
While most of the changes in early access have come through the bi-weekly and monthly updates, there's a few new ones in this patch too!
NEW - An all-new locker room for the game's launch - Added the pond, accessible from the main menu - Added the Season 1 pass - Added ranked rewards: Gloves - Adjusted rank rating requirements to improve the player distribution - When logging in, if you've played before launch you get an exclusive beta cosmetic - You can now manage your party while in-game - Your Steam friend list now shows if you're in a party - Added a setting to hide all off-screen indicators for the pond specifically - Added a hard mode to the Open Goalie Practice mode - Added thor eyes, cupcake set, tongue out, tailbone, god of the sea stick, tentacle stick - Added the Slapatar in space loading screen by Rocky / JonathanWick
FIXES - Fixed key prompts for the puck and caster cam - Fixed a rogue pixel on the Sweat eyes decal - Fixed mercy rule setting not always taking effect in a bot match
Thank you for joining us on this amazing journey. We hope you have fun! - The Oddshot Games team
Fixes for practice mode puck locations & rich presence
Hi Slappers,
Smol patch to fix some minor issues: - When setting custom puck spawn and target positions in practice (F and G buttons), it wouldn't correctly set the target direction when calculating the velocity - Steam rich presence would say "Bot Match" instead of "Practicing" when in Free Skate
GLHF, Oddshot Games
v0.99.0 Fixes + Easter event!
Hi slappers,
This is a minor update to fix some things from yesterday's patch and adds an Easter cosmetic redeemable right now :-)
- Added an Easter cosmetic, redeemable using code EASTER24 from NOW until April 5th - Fixed death jersey cloth not showing up - Fixed the back action for cosmetics not correctly re-equipping the previous cosmetics when using team-specific cosmetics - Fixed video settings not showing the frame rate limit setting sometimes - Added a setting to limit background FPS and a setting to indicate the target background FPS
Mark your calendars, April 11th is getting close for the full release of Slapshot Rebound!
