Superball News

Clear your calendar and fill your freezer with frozen pizza, because you’re not going to leave your PC for a week!

Super Buckyball Tournament is back today, and you can play the demo here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament!

Have you been twitching for the past 2 months since we closed the Preseason? Then you are about to get something to calm your nerves.



We open the gates to our new stadium and the rest of the package right now

And will leave it open until: Feb 9th 11:59PM PST

Make sure that you don’t miss out on this special opportunity to try our new character Sky, play on our new stadium – Mist City and of course to battle your friends and foes in the highly anticipated 4v4 mode which takes the competition to a higher level.

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On top of that we also want to celebrate this beta with a tournament where all our enthusiastic Buckyballers get to throw down for cash prizes!

We welcome you to get your team together and signup for either of our 2 Tournaments:

EU Tournament Feb 7th, 5pm CET. Sign up Here
US Tournament Feb 7th, 12pm PST. Sign up Here

If you do not yet have a team, do not fret. You can join our amazing Discord Community to find new teammates!

See you all on the field!

- Pathea Games

At 11 AM PST /8 PM CET, you will see 16 of our core players test out the game with all-new features such as:

New character - Sky
New stadium - Mist City
4v4 mode
Tackling system

We suggest turning on your sound for this stream because the commentary is great!


Super Buckyball Tournament welcomes you to try out the latest version of our game today!

Ande if you like the game, Wishlist to stay tuned with the launch and other special Betas between now and then.


If you wanna meet new friends to play with or want to participate in the upcoming tournaments for this weekend, make sure to join our Discord Community.
Everyone here is super friendly and happy to give good advice regarding the game.


- See you on the field!

Hi all Buckyballers,

In the last AMA on Jan 27 we mainly discussed details about the upcoming beta. The main topics can be seen below.

Taichi girl’s New name:

In the vote we did, Luna came first at 83 votes, Rin at 63, and Sky and Jade at 47.
Our devs were thinking about the name for a few days after we passed on all the names and their popularity and in the end we choose Sky as the official name.

Pretesting and video recording

We had a pre-testing session over the weekend where 20 players were given special access to the game to help us out by recording a lot of cool footage which we will be cutting up and editing over the next few days and it is planned to air 1-2 hours after the beginning of the steam game festival.
We want to give our thanks to everyone who participated in the pretesting and we value the feedback you have given us which will help us make some last minute important changes before the launch of the beta.

Tournament

We have set the time and date for the tournament to be on Sunday 7th of February at 11AM PST/ 8PM CET. Apart from this, we're still working on the rules, signup, casting plan etc.
We also want to say thanks to our volunteers for the help and support to help create what we hope to be an awesome experience for everyone. Thanks to @ItsTom @Lark @MrTSeeks @Ally @Jerem !
More updates to the tournament will be posted later, so stay tuned.

R47 Final Skin

In the Preseason back in November, 1 master grinder from the west made it all the way to the top and completed our battle pass. To honor his hard work and dedication, we are giving SirBlooky the final battle pass lvl 60 skin for R47 for the upcoming beta.

Trivia

Since Friday, we have been doing a count down to the beta launch, and there are now only 2 days to go. With these countdown posts on our twitter, we are doing daily trivia questions where you can win extra in-game coins to help you get your favorite skins.
Join the trivia here https://twitter.com/SuperBuckyBall

Servers

Over the past month we were considering whether to run the beta just on the NA server like we did in the open alpha, or to run the beta on multiple servers around the globe.
And we went with option 2 which means you will be able to play on:
Virginia, Frankfurt, Sao Paolo, and Singapore.

Global lobby and leader board

The server decision brings good news to the leaderboard.

We have now combined the lobby of all the regions (except China) which means that you can add friends from other regions and play on other servers without having to create a new profile.
This also means that the leaderboards will now be global, and you will be able to compare your performance with players from overseas.

Patchnotes

Several of you have mentioned to us the importance on patchnotes and how much they are being valued. Since it has been a while since the preseason, there might be a few things we have forgotten. But we will try to add as much as we can.

Content creator Role

We have written up the #content-creators welcome note.
We have been happy to see all the content that have been created for the game so far.
And we are planning to make a content creator program once the game launches. Until then we have made the channel #official-content for all creators to post their content in.

Steam Streams
We will be streaming the pretesting video throughout the beta, but if someone has the desire to make a secondary stream, you would be very welcome. If you are interested, pls contact me and I will help you with the setup process.

Suggestions:

1. Make a half time where people can change characters

2. Beta avatars

3. Name banner in the lobby

4. Flagpoles on each side of the stage with different options flags

5. Make it possible to pop eriels bubbles by team mates (or only by team mates)

6. Make a character design template

7. Ping limit to control crossserver matchmaking
A: We are currently not using this and will look into how complicated it will be to implement

8. Skin design competitions



Based the pretesting there were a few issues we will look into:
R47 hitbox got bigger

- According to the director, the hitbox is still the same size as during the preseason

Bug where the Taiji girl can continually use her retreat ability

- We will try to fix this

100% accuracy for R47

- This is intended and happens when you shoot a little bit softer than a fully powered shot.

Tackling and bullying

- Several players made us aware that the new tackling system has turned into another method for bullying.

- We are right now testing with a 15 sec cooldown to remove the bully effect

Last Day before the BETA!

Can’t wait to see you guys on the field Tomorrow!



Wishlist and download the Demo to play on launch day here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/

Only 2 Days to go!

New starting Positions for 4v4 matches



Wishlist and download the Demo to play on launch day here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/