Superball News

[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:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

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:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

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

The time has come for a new arena for Super Buckyball Tournament! Until now, our friends Pink, Pai, R47 and Lang have been playing down by the harbour and they are ready to move up into the big boy’s league.

The original idea for the Dragon Stadium is to provide the characters with a more official-looking playing environment similar to real-life where football is played in the streets on fields all around, but the bigger and more official games are hosted in stadiums.

Below you can see our original concept for the Dragon Stadium



If you remember the Great Harbor Arena, you will notice that the atmosphere is very different. First of all, the Dragon Stadium takes place at night which contrasts the blue sky of the Great Harbor Arena. Second, this new stadium is more dominated by red colours and is lit up by spotlights. And third, the Dragon Stadium has a lot more fans standing around cheering you on while you are playing.

After having decided to make this stadium, we started from scratch.

Below you can see a picture of our stadium foundation.



The challenge we faced afterwards was then how to maintain the SBT feeling and atmosphere.
And so we started to design elements to give players the feeling that this is SBT.
Here you can see our concept art for the stage which is placed on the side of the stadium.

Based on this, it seems pretty obvious why it is named the Dragon Stadium



We have also added some tour busses for our characters to have a rest and checkup stations for them to test their equipment before the matches.



Below is the concept art for the blue team’s goal post.



And here is the concept for the red team’s goalpost



The blue head is supposed to be a tiger and the orange one is a lion. Since lions and tigers naturally do not exist in the same habitat, an ancient debate about who would win in a fight between a tiger and a lion is here a symbol to show the fight between the red team and the blue team.

Another interesting fact about the two goalposts is that on the tiger’s tongue is written “over the sky, NO1” and on the lions tongue is written “under the sky, NO1” this means that the tiger is the strongest in all the heavens and the lion is strongest on the earth. Pretty cool stuff eh!

We have also added a few squares on the ground in front of the goalposts to help the goalie get a feeling for his position in front of the goal.



Here you can see a few pictures of the final design of the Dragon Stadium.







We are pretty excited to bring this stadium to you in our next update and to put some more variety into the game. What are your thoughts?

You can see a previous of the stadium in this video we made for you

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And make sure to join our community Discord for news and updates about SBT!

The Devs

Hi everyone,

We know that there are issues on our western server with matchmaking since the current player base is a bit low.
We have been trying hard to grow the player base and we have new players coming in every day.
The problem is that many of our new players stop playing very fast because they find it difficult to matchmake with other players.

We just want to let you know that we are planning a few different campaigns to make a stronger effect of bringing in new people this month.
We are also arranging a tournament for you to give you some fun playing the game.

All in all, we just want to say thank you for your patience and for keeping on playing despite our current issues, and we are trying our best to find more new friends for you to play with.

Have a great weekend
- The Devs

Hi Everybody,

We've had a lot of fun in China hosting tournaments and we‘ve seen our players get pretty excited about playing SBT on a more competitive level.
So, we want to bring a tournament to the west as well.
In China we've selected the top 24 best players from the leaderboard and given them a chance to fight it out in a 2-hour long tournament for cash prizes.
Since our western server lacks enough players to really get the leaderboard started, we've decided to make a signup list instead.

The teams will be decided at random and will be announced as soon as the slots are filled out.
After the teams have been decided we will announce the deadlines of when the games have to be played.
We'd ask the different teams to talk with their teammates and the opposing team about a good time to have the matches and then after they have been played report back to us who won.
If one team fails to show up, the other team will automatically proceed.

The tournament will have 3 rounds.
Round 1: 4 qualifier matches
Round 2: 2 Semifinals
Round 3: Final
The rules are elimination with every game being best out of 3 (BO3).



What are the prizes?
1st price is 50 dollars for each player*
2nd price is 20 dollars for each player*
3rd price is 10 dollars for each player*
*Can be given on Paypal or with a steam giftcard

The signup will be made in our Tournament Signup section of our Discord
Make sure that you and your friends sign up now before all the slots are taken.

Have fun and let us know if you have any ideas!

The Devs