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Super Buckyball Tournament Development Update

Hi buckyballers,

Are you excited to play the next BETA soon? We would like to get players informed on the latest news and updates about the game, which we already discussed in the AMA last week.

Early Access Timeline

We had previously hoped to launch SBT into Early Access this summer, but due to developing reasons, we might have to delay the launch. We are still hoping for a release later this year, and we hope you can understand that we wish to have a more polished game before we dare to release it, as these types of multiplayer games will either make it big or fail completely.

Time for the next BETA?

The time for the next BETA is not yet set in stone, but we’re currently aiming for July. While everyone are waiting for July, we have decided to host 2 Open Weekends, so players can still have fun and enjoy SBT with their friends. The first Open Weekend is scheduled on April 17th and April 18th, during the open weekend we’ll put out the February BETA build for players to play. The second open weekend is scheduled around early June.

4V4 game mode

After receiving all the feedback from the survey, we’ve decided to keep the 4V4 game mode as what it is for now. The current idea is not to put it into the arcade mode since it offers the same gameplay experiences as the regular 3V3 mode, but we will revisit further after we launch the game, and it becomes more relevant to support a larger player base.

Protection zone & Tackling mechanic

After receiving all your feedback, we’ll keep then in-game and continue to optimize it.

The future of the item system

After carefully consider what players have suggested, we decided to make some changes to the item system in the future. We’ll share more details with you guys later.

Character balance

Sky will be nerfed in the next BETA for sure, however, the team is not too worried about character balancing at the moment, usually it’s the one of the later thing we do before putting out a BETA. We believe it’s important to improve other parts of the game first as they affect the balancing anyways. And of course before we launch we will be doing extensive balance testing.

Also a note to all players, since there aren't that many topics to discuss over the next few months leading up to the BETA, we decided to change the current weekly AMA's into bi-weekly, which means there'll be no AMA for this week, we'll be back with you all on Discord next week, stay tuned!

If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so!

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

- The Devs

BETA Survey Feedback

Hey players,

First of all, thanks everyone who contributed and shared your thoughts in the survey! After came back from the holidays we collected & analyzed the results and got plenty of feedback and insights. Below are the summary of the survey responses we gathered from the BETA.

[h3]3v3 or 4v4[/h3]



Based on the survey, the majority of players believed that 3v3 is preferred over the 4v4 game mode. However, we’ve also noticed that many of them never played or only played a few matches of the 4v4 mode due to various restrictions. Players generally believed that 4v4 can be a good rotating game mode and we’ll look more into it in future tests.

[h3]Protection Zone[/h3]

Surprisingly, most of the casual & new players are not aware of this mechanic, which actually might be a good thing since it was core players who proposed this mechanic originally. The feedback from core players is overall positive with some room for improvement.

[h3]Tackling Mechanic[/h3]

Regarding the tackling mechanic, the overall feedbacks are great after we implemented the 15s CD (during Pre-BETA testing there were no CD for the tackle). Improve it’s consistency across the map is something that we could further optimize in later versions.

[h3]How players know about SBT[/h3]

According to the survey, over 40% of players found us directly through Steam, with over 20% of players know our game from their friends and more than 10% from various promotions we run.

[h3]Least likable part of the game[/h3]

From core players

- Goalkeeper is too strong (Gridiron, visual does not match the actual hitbox etc.)
- Bullying
- The randomness of the items

From casual players

- Matchmaking takes too long
- Camera & aiming mechanics need to be optimized
- MMR issues in matchmaking (match up against old players in the first few matches of SBT)
- Defense is too difficult

Both sides

- Character balance
- Not enough goalkeeper
- Position based matchmaking
- Lack of rank mode
- Encounter players who troll
- Solo queue against 3 stacks

[h3]Game suggestions [/h3]

- Rank mode
- Replay system
- Optimized camera angle & aiming system
- Optimized ball cam
- More characters, more skins, more maps and more modes
- Make the game free to play
- More tournaments
- Constant updates
- Listen & engage with communities

We'll publish another article next week regarding the plan for next and respond to some of the suggestions & questions you guys had about the BETA.

If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so!

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

- The Devs

The Beta is over and the Champs have been found

BETA

We opened the Beta about a week ago to test out some of the new content we have been working on since Preseason, and of course to let our fans get a piece of the action.

This round of SBT is now about to come to an end and we are super happy to see how many games were played this time. If you want to squeeze in a few last hours of action, we are still open for the rest of today.

The Beta officially ends tonight, Tuesday the 9th of February at 11:59PM PST (the 10th in EU at 10AM CET)

Feedback

We will collect all possible feedback and share it with the designers for optimization of the game.
A survey has been made with a few questions on what you think about the game, and it would be super appreciated if you would be willing to help us fill it out.

If you have Bugs, please report them in The Bugs Section on our Discord.
If you wish to tell us in Person, we will be back for another AMA on Feb 24, also on Discord.

Tournament

Last but not least we had 2 super awesome tournaments happening over the weekend.

A big round of applause goes out to all the finalists and especially the 2 winning teams, Team Insomnia from EU and The Spice Girls from NA.





Also congrats to the following teams:

EU:

2nd Place: Team Hqz (Azulfo / XiTrOnE / Preyz)
3rd Place: The Lucioballers (Deflection / DaggerrunnereZX / Frequency)

NA:

2nd Place: Team Baka (Aylalira / BlazinRavioli / KumoSenpai)
3rd Place: Team 72PC (Dempsey / Slugger / MagicDave)


And a great thanks to the Organizers: ItsTom, Jerem, MrTSeeks, Ally and Puck Talk.
And a great thanks as well to the Casters: Quasdar, Holyblades and Atomme for French.

If you failed to watch the Tournament, you can watch them here:

[h3]European Tournament [/h3]
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[h3]North American Tournament[/h3]
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If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so!

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

Thanks for playing this time and we’ll see you around for the next one!

- The Devs

The SBT Tournaments are about to commence!

Are you an SBT lover, then you don’t want to miss today’s tournaments where the crème de la crème of the SBT community will battle for the glory of being the worlds best Buckyballers.

For the past few days, the SBT community has been training hard for the SBT tournament which is taking place today. And now the time has finally come for them to show off their skills.

The EU tournament starts today Sunday, at 5pm CET
And the NA tournament will start today Sunday, at 12pm PST or 3pm EST

[h3]You can follow the tournaments live in English with Quasdar and Holyblades[/h3]
https://www.twitch.tv/quadsargaming

[h3]or in French with Atomme [/h3]
https://www.twitch.tv/atomme1

[h3]The tournament prizes are: [/h3]

1st place: $150 ($50 each)
2nd place: $75 ($25 each)
3rd place: $45 ($15 each)


Below you can see the starting brackets for both tournaments:

North America:



Europe:



Maybe the best teams win

- The Devs

Super Buckyball Tournament - The Festival's Most Awesome Stream

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!

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


Community
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.

Come see our Tournaments
The EU tournament will be hosted on Sunday, February 7th at 5pm CET
The NA tournament will be held on Sunday, February 7th at 12pm PST or 3pm EST.
You can watch both of them live Here!

- See you on the field!