About Super Buckyball Tournament 5th Character
[h2]About Super Buckyball Tournament 5th Character[/h2]
It has now been 2 weeks since we launched SBT into open development. First, we thank all players who have participated and played our game so far. We received a bunch of great player feedback and all the pressure u guys have given us has motivated us to work harder and to speed up the development process.
Last weekend, we hosted the first ever SBT community tournament in China. It was a small tourney between 8 teams, randomly filled up by the top 24 players in the leaderboard. The matches were awesome, and some good players are emerging. we’ve uploaded some highlights on YouTube. So yeah check it out to see how the best Chinese players are doing (Link).
What is very evident in the tournament and the overall gameplay from the last 2 weeks is that it is very difficult to play defence for most people and especially Pai and Lang are a bit OP at the moment. Especially there is a Pai player in the tournament who can turn and sprint while still in the air, then bypass the defence and score, not just in 1v1 situation with goalie, but even when up against 2 defensive players.
Even with strong goalie players, the offence still seems much stronger than the defence which puts a lot of importance on who is better at controlling and keeping the ball throughout the game.
We are now about to put more balance into the game. Not by making the offensive players weaker, but to add better defence.
Right now, R47 is the main goalkeeper for most matches. He is excellent at ball control and is pretty agile despite being such a large robot. In order to play R47 well, it mainly comes down to player’s individual controls (jumping, punching & positioning etc.) and technical abilities. Overall, R47 is not completed positioned as a goalkeeper, he’s just more suited right now due to his bigger size.
For some time, we have been working on creating a character that is better fitted for Goalie
by nature. This character would have to be big like R47 to easily block the shots, as well as having more emphasize on abilities to further increase his goalkeeping techniques.
Here is some initial concept for this character:
Obviously, the one with the shield won the vote and we started to make the concept into reality. Besides the whole batting thing is already used by R47.
Here were a few inspirations we had for the design
Here is some more developed concept art on this guy.
And finally, here we have the upcoming character, Bubba.
Yes, please give us all your Shrimp boat jokes! :P
When this guy comes out, a whole new variety of gameplay and fun will be added to SBT.
He will be part of the Main May Patch that is coming out sometime in May. More updates on the abilities and the actual date of his release is coming later. Stay tuned!
Feedback is appreciated on email: [email protected]
Join our online communities:
Discord Twitter Facebook
The Devs
It has now been 2 weeks since we launched SBT into open development. First, we thank all players who have participated and played our game so far. We received a bunch of great player feedback and all the pressure u guys have given us has motivated us to work harder and to speed up the development process.
Last weekend, we hosted the first ever SBT community tournament in China. It was a small tourney between 8 teams, randomly filled up by the top 24 players in the leaderboard. The matches were awesome, and some good players are emerging. we’ve uploaded some highlights on YouTube. So yeah check it out to see how the best Chinese players are doing (Link).
What is very evident in the tournament and the overall gameplay from the last 2 weeks is that it is very difficult to play defence for most people and especially Pai and Lang are a bit OP at the moment. Especially there is a Pai player in the tournament who can turn and sprint while still in the air, then bypass the defence and score, not just in 1v1 situation with goalie, but even when up against 2 defensive players.
Even with strong goalie players, the offence still seems much stronger than the defence which puts a lot of importance on who is better at controlling and keeping the ball throughout the game.
We are now about to put more balance into the game. Not by making the offensive players weaker, but to add better defence.
Right now, R47 is the main goalkeeper for most matches. He is excellent at ball control and is pretty agile despite being such a large robot. In order to play R47 well, it mainly comes down to player’s individual controls (jumping, punching & positioning etc.) and technical abilities. Overall, R47 is not completed positioned as a goalkeeper, he’s just more suited right now due to his bigger size.
For some time, we have been working on creating a character that is better fitted for Goalie
by nature. This character would have to be big like R47 to easily block the shots, as well as having more emphasize on abilities to further increase his goalkeeping techniques.
Here is some initial concept for this character:
Obviously, the one with the shield won the vote and we started to make the concept into reality. Besides the whole batting thing is already used by R47.
Here were a few inspirations we had for the design
Here is some more developed concept art on this guy.
And finally, here we have the upcoming character, Bubba.
Yes, please give us all your Shrimp boat jokes! :P
When this guy comes out, a whole new variety of gameplay and fun will be added to SBT.
He will be part of the Main May Patch that is coming out sometime in May. More updates on the abilities and the actual date of his release is coming later. Stay tuned!
Feedback is appreciated on email: [email protected]
Join our online communities:
Discord Twitter Facebook
The Devs