Superball News

We'll be hosting an AMA session for Super Buckyball Tournament during the Steam Game Festival.
The AMA will be streamed on our steam page and questions can be asked in the chat or on our official Discord in the AMA channel Make sure to join us Here!!

For more information about Super Buckyball Tournament, check out our Steam Store Page

And here is a little glimpse of the action from our last Tournament.

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A few days ago we invited the game director of SBT for an interview, as we thought about hosting a Q&A session and answering some of the most common questions about the game.


Learn some tricks about Pink & Pai:

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How to Master Lang & R47:

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[h2]Watch Edens play Super Buckyball Tournament or Join him in-game![/h2]


In this event, you'll watch Edens_Forest, one of our core testers play the game while showing tips and tricks and teaching the viewers how to get advantages over your opponents. If you like Edens and his style, you can follow him Here



[h3]Ask whatever you want![/h3]

While Edens is ready to answer any questions related to the player experience of the game, our team of developers are sitting ready in the chat to answer any questions you might have about our studio, the development or the game in general.


If you can't make it to the stream, you can always join our Discord, and catch us there as well! We will always be happy to answer any questions you might have.


[h3]Try the Game![/h3]

If you haven't yet played Super Buckyball Tournament, you can download the game on our Storepage

And if you like it, please wishlist or leave us a like and you will help us greatly.
Thank you and enjoy!!!



[h3]Catch you on Wednesday June 10[/h3]
Set a reminder so you don't miss it


[h3]Here is a little glimpse of some high level gameplay![/h3]
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[h3]Patch Note 0.201[/h3]

- Added new character 'Gridiron'
- Added new map 'Dragon Stadium'
- Added new item 'Rocket Fist'
- Added new lobby background music
- Added leaderboards for goal scored and saves, in leaderboard now players can quickly access their rank
- Added lobby announcement board
- Added options where players now can quit during custom match & practice matches against the AI
- Added server shutdown & restart server notice
- Added customized voice chat button

Character Adjustments

All

- Fixed character can jump multiple times when clicking, now the maximum amount of Acrobat (jump on people's head) were set to 3
- Slightly lowered the height of Acrobat
- Fixed Parkour (wall jump) on some characters to make it more reasonable and easier to activate

R47

- Adjusted the special effects of Ground Pound (Right-Click), slightly increased the range of Ground Pound and shorten the animation when R47 jump to the maximum height
- Slightly increased the speed of R47's Ultimate
- Slightly increased the speed of R47

Pink

- Increased the speed of Pink
- Adjusted the algorithm when charging Pink's color cannon. She'll now receive 1 charge every time she pass & charge shoot, and full charge if she got hit by a teammate Lang's Eye of The Storm (Ultimate)
- Adjusted Pink's hit range and algorithm
- Shortened the animation of Pink's color cannon
- Fixed the issue where it's hard to aim while using Point Ray (Ultimate)

Lang

- Minor adjustments on the height of Lang's double jump
- Minor adjustments on Lang's Wind Tackle (Right-Click while Jumping) so that it's easier to tackle the ball when the opponents are carrying the ball in the air

Others

- Adjusted matchmaking system so that it's more reasonable and optimized
- Adjusted AI goalkeeping rules
- Fixed the issue where message bar might get disappear after players typed frequently

Important Notice:

Start from this update, we’ll no longer use players’ Steam name as their in-game username. Instead, players can type their new username when they entered SBT for the first time after the May patch. As a result of this change, we’ll have to delete all players previous data, including their levels, coins and records.

May Patch

The May patch is just around the corner and for those of you that haven´t been following us for the past few weeks, here is an update on all the cool things you can expect in a few days.

As you may remember, we announced our newest character Bubba a while back with some information on how we designed him and why we felt the need for such a character.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1059110/announcements/detail/2233166553097623503

New character:

Since then we have changed his name to Gridiron, and we feel it sounds way cooler.
What do you guys think?

Here is a more detailed description on how to play this character, with his abilities and basic strategies. As mentioned before, this guy was made to be a goalkeeper and he has quite a few skills designed to make him stronger for this position.

His size: Gridiron is a very wide character and he covers a much larger proportion of the goal. Not only is he the widest character, but he is also the tallest, being a couple of centimetres taller than R47.
His Shield is called Line of Scrimmage and it allows Gridiron to use 3 different abilities besides his ultimate.

The first is Plasma Screen which makes him able to cover an even larger portion of the goal.

The second is Shockwave which pushes the ball and other characters away from Gridiron.

The third is Hail Mary which consumes the remaining Ability Points (AP) to create a magnetic field which pulls in the ball and then sends it flying out when released.

These three abilities all use AP which are obtained throughout the game.

Gridiron can get AP in 3 different ways:

1. Ball hog: Gridiron gains AP when he hits the ball.
2. Punching Bag: Gridiron gains AP after he body blocks the shot.
3. Gameday: While not using abilities, Gridiron slowly generates AP overtime.

Garbage Day is the name of Gridirons ultimate. The function is very similar to Hail Mary, but instead of just the ball, it pulls in everything and with a strong force shoots it back out.

An explanation of Gridiron and his skills can be seen in this video

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Dragon Stadium

In this patch our new Dragon Stadium is released. Unlike the Great Harbor Arena, which has a more “underground” feeling to it, the new Dragon Stadium is where the real big games are played.

If you missed out on our previous article which covered how the Dragon Stadium was designed, you can read it here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1059110/announcements/detail/2216278688533704223
Or if you just really want to see what it looks like, you can check out our Dragon Stadium Trailer here:

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New music

Are you ready to kick back and enjoy these funky vibes for next time you are hanging out in our game lobby? This sweet tune is made by Sean Garavan, a handsome English producer who makes music that will melt your heart.

Check out our lobby music here:

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Rocket Fist

How about a new item to bring out more chaos and variety to the game? Rocket fist is perfect for this purpose. Similar to Iron Ball, when you see the lock on symbol on the ball, you can fire of a rocket that punches to ball out of the hands of your opponents.

Here is a short video where you can see how the Rocket Fist works:

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Pink Buff

Pink has not been picked that much recently and we have noticed that especially in our more competitive tournaments she is rarely picked. We think it is a shame to leave her on the bench, so we have hired a personal trainer for her, and she is now in tip top shape!

- After many hours on the treadmill, she is now much faster than before. In fact, she is so fast now that she can almost compete with Pai. Of course, only if he doesn’t cheat and use his Light Dash.

- Pinks ultimate has been upgraded as well. Well in fact it is already really strong, so we have just made it a bit smoother than before.

- Pinks right click ability, the Color Cannon has had its animation time shortened. This means that she is now able to shoot it out faster than before.

- And finally, we have increased the charging speed of her color cannon. So she will be able to use it a lot more often than she was able to previously.

So, don’t be shy to pick Pink from now on, she won’t bite. Or will she?

We also have a few extra patches which will be posted out when we update the game.

And don’t forget to join our community on Discord to meet new friends to play with:


Happy gaming!!!

- The Devs