Today we release the latest version of the Beta which will soon replace the base game.
Multiple fixes and correction, graphical and others. Fixes for gamepads too.
More importantly, we added Steam Success ! You can now unlock them by performing special actions. Time to hunt the rewards, I tell ya !
You can now enjoy a new game mode : Boss This is a cooperative and pvp mode where all players can win by defefating the boss. Just send him back the balls he sends to decrease his HP !
You can still join the discord to report bugs or participate to the development by telling us which feeatures you would like to see. You can also find players to play with using Steam remote play together ! https://discord.gg/Zera3MV
XP given is increased for each player, increasing further more if they are not AI. Also, lvl 30 is now much easier to reach.
We hope you enjoy the news, stay tuned for more.
Suprapong 2.0 in beta
Today is the day we release the newest version in beta test. It is a 2.0 version.
The game has been entirely remade, optimisation has been greatly increased, especially for small configurations.
This version might not be stable and contain some bugs, some we are working on and some we are unaware of.
If you choose to try it, please report us any bugs found in the bug section on our discord : https://discord.gg/Zera3MV
You can enjoy : - new and better interfaces - 1 new gamemode (there is more to come) - 3 new powers - ball effects, you can now curve their trajectory
Many changes like: - the ball bouncing behaviour - the bumper spell being bigger but without the stacking system anymore - A much stronger pitch effect in chaos mode - AI is much better at catching balls in any difficulty - a bigger arena - more convenient menus with a tab system - much less elements in the launching menu making it clearer and easier to use
What's to come ? - new game modes - new powers - new maluses - bug fixes
To activate the beta, on steam go into the game properties and go to the "beta" section. As a password, just use suprapongbeta
We hope you'll enjoy this.
Prepare your racquet and get ready to goal !
End of the beta
It is time to release the beast, many fixes and improvements have been made on the last months. Now it is time for everyone to finally enjoy these changes.
Some last fixes were done that will be listed here. If you did not participate to the beta and you are curious about all the changes / fixes, you can read the previous patchnotes from the November 6th 2019 to this one.
Fixed : - clicking anywhere in the game options menu trigger a sound - a louder sound when leaving a menu using the "back" or "main menu" button - the pause menu cover the background with pink or cyan color - a crash happening when someone was taking someone else ball's while it was in glue. Ball thieves can be happy. - The "game options" button in the launching menu was the only one having an animation when changing its option and was even animating when changing another button's options. The other buttons were jealous. - The 1st player could be stuck playing with a keyboard if a game was left before the end and another was launched after that.
- More micro optimizations through the game and menus.
Remember you can play online using Steam's Remote Play Together !
Join the discord to share / create / find games : https://discord.gg/bbC77rx
Enjoy !
New beta update
New beta update
- Various optimizations through menus and the game - Added a very much requested option : you can now have access to the credit to know the amazing team behind Suprapong ! - Added the title to the score screen. People were forgetting the game's name once they get there. For the love of lightnings ! - Going up and down in the game options menu with the keyboard or a gamepad is now faster.
Enjoy !
Beta Update
As said in the title, this is a Beta update for now. You can activate the Beta mode freely and without any password if you wish to. Be aware this version might have some bugs and we would be glad to know about any trouble you have on the discord : https://discord.gg/Zera3MV
With Remote Play Together, Suprapong have an online multiplayer ! Play with your mates from your bed if you wish to !
The price of the game have been reduced in some countries.
Detail of the update :
- The Freeze spell freeze only for 1.5 seconds instead of 2 - The number of bumpers in the Bumper mode down from 16 to 12 - New and more readable score screen ! - The winner(s) also get a crown to identify them easier - Menus optimisations - Ingame Optimisations - Optimisation for the bumper and chaos game mode
- MAJOR optimization for ALL menus - Ingame pause menu faster to activate / deactivate (I don't think it's a reason to spam the pause but hey, why not ?) - Pause menu doesn't deactivate anymore with a gamepad if you release it after 1/20th second (yeah, that is fast) - Apparition animations in menus - To move through the game options is now smoother - Sounds which did not match the volume of the game have been fixed (they said they would be good boys now)
Enjoy, have fun and good luck kicking your friends' butt !
Patch 1.16
New Version 1.16
It's been a while so it was time to fix some bugs and bring some little tweaks that could make a difference !
In this update you can expect : - AI can now use spells ! - New options : Timers. You can now decide to play your games with a timer. If you do (last option in the game options) if the timer is up before someone win the game, the game ends and the winner is the one with the best score. - New icons for the Chaos game mode
Bug fixes : - Gamepads should now work as intended. This also fixes a lot of gamepad problems like the possibility to play up to 6 players using ps4 gamepads. - various optimizations - no more infinite vibration for gamepads - It now shows the right amount of gamepads plugged in the menus - Crash in the launching menu finally fixed ! I've been hunting this one for so long... - various fixes (text, effects placements... ) many small things boring to write and read so... don't expect more details :p
Same as before, you can report any problem or bug on discord (bug section) : https://discord.gg/Zera3MV
And use Parsec to enjoy Suprapong online: https://parsecgaming.com/downloads/
Suprapong Update 1.15
A new update is here !
Many many many changes, from small to medium ones.
As always, you can report bugs to us or give us some ideas on the discord at this address :
https://discord.gg/Zera3MV
Find players to play with, to play online is possible with Parsec !
If you want to help us and get an access to the latest build, if you don't fear bugs and crash you may activate the beta option on Steam without any password. Same as above, please report any problem you can face in the discord in the "bugs" section.
Changes :
- You can now play with a gamepad AND the keyboard ! It was a hard one, but many asked for it. We replaced the "Skin" button of the launching menu by a gamepad / gamepad + keyboard option.
- The mouse disappear if a gamepad is plugged and you don't move it for a short time. A fix for lazy people, like me.
- 4 "basic" option slots already configured for the new players. Noob / bomb / bumper / umadbro (you mad bro) sets, the titles should give you a clue. For the players who already have a save, we don't change it to not erase slots you already configured. Noob is a bigger racquet and slower balls, bomb is 2 balls (little trick to add some strategy !), bumper have a slower bomb that slow down after an acceleration and smashes are also slower. The last option set almost everything up (or down, it depends).
- some changes in the descriptions of spells or options to make it easier and not let some text be above another. Description of the game modes is now lower.
- a black background now hides the star background in menus when possible when there is text for an easier reading
- Smash animation visually updated
- Glue appearing / disappearing animation is faster and more fluid
- visually upgraded the ... thing that creates electricity in the goals
- The lootbox now opens faster and is more fluid
- Glue and frozen sound have been reduced while the ball hitting a racquet have been increased.
- The globule will now release the ball if the ball hits something
- A new pause menu system, this should avoid some problems that could happen with the background. New animations too !
- New animations when you change options in the launching menu.
- Animation when you change your spell centralized on the spells.
- Changing the customization of the racquet with a skin will now unequip the skin for a better flow in the customization. To get your skin back, just go back to the skin section. You don't have to validate anything, what you see on your player is what you get ingame.
- Slight increase of the smash area
- optimization on the glue spell
- glue can't be invered anymore if you wait the 2 seconds and let the ball leave without be smashed
Changes in the launching menu :
- Player 1 no longer need to be selected with the skin button to be customized with the mouse
- Player 1 can switch between the menu and the customization directly by pressing X with a gamepad. Note that you can't change your spells with the gamepad if you are not in the customization with player 1.
- Colors always appear for the player 1 to be able to select them directly with the mouse
- RB and LB appear on the buttons only if you can use the gamepad to activate them
- A rectangle now shows you the selected option for the special rules (how points are calculated, type of game and type of ball) for more clarity, especially with the mouse.
- B and X are not anymore on the spells in the hope people will stop press them to change spells.
- Customization interfaces now tells you what you can do depending of the situation like : "press x to enter customization" or "press A to select a color"
- To press Y with a gamepad, R with the keyboard while in the customization will give you a random customized racquet with random colors !
Bugs corrections :
- Arrows don't become pink in menus anymore when you use the pad in the customization
- Fixed a crash in the customization
- Particles no longer appear above the players
- Fixed a bug with the gamepad while switching between the options slots in game options that would reset the options of the slots
- Changing option slots in the launching menu with a gamepad now work as intended.
- You can no longer click on colors when you pick a spell wit the mouse
- Spells now appear in a black rectangle above the colors when you click on them
- Customization arrows now follow the change of the number of players in the launching menu
- 1st spell do not exchange with the 2nd spell anymore between the menu and the game
- multiple other fixes
- multiple minor optimizations
- The Dontpass spell isn't wrote above other text anymore. That's the most important change I think.
- Moved some text that was going over skins slots in the launching menu.
- Solo history mode added ! Play the racquet in an unforgiven world where your enemies are not always the ones you think. Discover the betrayal of the ball and how the racquet lost his wife and son and took the path of revenge. Fight in the arena to reach the one who killed them and become the Lord of the Balls ! Oh April the 1st is over ? Damn it. Dare tell me it would not be awesome !
Major Update is live!
To see the full detail of this update, follow this link :
https://steamcommunity.com/games/908840/announcements/detail/1703951108844982977
If you want to play online, use Parsec, it's a free software. Just be aware you will need a good internet connection. You can download it here :
https://parsecgaming.com/downloads
We opened a discord server (https://discord.gg/BEcuY9) to help you join games with parsec or just talk about your ideas about the game with other players... and us !
If you have questions or if you have any problem, feel free to speak with us.
Major Update coming this week
What's new :
- 3 new spells
- Game options slots
- Cumulative game modes
- More animations in the launching menu
- Players order in the launching menu now match their ingame position
- A lot of new animations in the launching menu
- Bug fixes
Details :
Spells
- Icezone will freeze a small area for a limited time. Every ball passing through will be slowed down.
- Glue can be deactivated anytime if it hasn't been used. The next ball(s) touching the racquet (smash won't count) will stick to it and will be released on smash or after 3 seconds.
- Chain will send a harpoon in the direction of the center of the room. If it touches a ball, it changes its direction to the player's direction (hard to use but small cooldown, try to redirect the ball on a bumper and look at the stupid face your mate(s) will make !).
Game options slot
You can now select different slot in the game options (or in the launching menu). Every slot will save every game options you set and you can rename them by right clicking on it. Click the "+" slot to add a new slot and the X in the top hand right corner to delete one.
For example, let's say you create a game option slot called "noob" with a ball at 70% speed, players at 135% size, etc. If you select this slot under the game option button in the launching menu, these options will apply and you don't have to change every option at the beginning of each game ! Customize your favorite options and save them in a slot to enjoy them quickly !
New animations in the launching menu
- changing the number of players now move the players to their next position instead of teleporting them
- selecting different options and moving around will move a pink button, showing you what you are selecting to help you understand how the menu works.
- changing racquet's customizations will now play a small animation
- at player's apparition, everything will make a small jump. Best feature ever. You're welcome !
Cumulative game modes
Before, Suprapong, Bomb, Chaos, Bumper, Protect were 5 separated game modes. Now you can mix them as followed :
- Game mode : changes the arena (bumper / chaos / classic)
- Ball mode : changes the ball (normal / bomb)
- Score mode : aggressive or defensive.
Aggressive gives the point to the last guy (that isn't the guy's side where the goal was made) who touched the ball. If you score a goal or miss the ball and it enters your side and nobody touched it before you, you get a "shame point" (it appears in your score bar) that will decrease your score at the end of the game. If you get a victory with 10 points with 2 shame point, you finally have scored only 8 points. If one of your friends got 9, he beats you. Yeah, that's the game so don't be a noob, don't miss the ball at the beginning.
Defensive : Everyone begin with the maximum score (between 1 and 50 depending of the game options you set) and loose 1 if the ball enters your side (or explodes, who knows ?). The game end when a player reach 0. No shame points here but shame is on you if you loose.
Others
- More indications of what you are doing in the launching menu, for example it tells you "press A to change colors" while colors aren't selected and "press A to validate colors" when colors are selected.
- You can now change the player 1 customization without needing to click on "Customization" first (appearance and colors). It still need to be selected with the pad or the keyboard.
- Launching menu options are now changed with LB / RB buttons instead of the arrows on the pad because of the new "cumulative game modes" system. I guess you'll understand why when you'll change the game modes.
- Optimization when you add / remove players in the launching menu
Bug fixes
- many many many ! (I don't have the detail for these ones)
- Anti-Aliasing now work as intended, no more pixelated moonlight
Discord
So many news today ! But what is happening ?
Magic of Christmas, for sure.
We open a Supra-server on discord !
https://discord.gg/bbC77rx
Make new friends, organise tournaments, find players to play with and discuss about your ideas with the team behind the game.
See you soon !
