Slapshot: Rebound News

Hi everyone!

To finish the anniversary celebrations, we have released Steam Community Items including trading cards, badges, emoticons and profile backgrounds. You'll receive a trading card roughly every 30 minutes of gameplay. Craft them into badges to get emoticons and backgrounds or get them from the Steam points shop! 🙌

GLHF
Oddshot Games

Happy birthday Slapshot: Rebound!!

It's been an absolutely fantastic year for Slapshot that we've had the pleasure of sharing with you.
To celebrate, we've dressed up the locker room and you'll get an exclusive anniversary hat if you log in by December 14th!

Over the next few days, we will be making two more fun announcements 😄

Until December 14th, Slapshot Premium is also provided at a 30% discount!
That's the biggest discount so far and likely will be for a while

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1485570/Slapshot_Rebound_Premium_Lifetime/

Thank you, slappers!

Until December 14th, Slapshot Premium has its biggest discount yet!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1485570/Slapshot_Rebound_Premium_Lifetime/

[h2]NEW[/h2]
- Added team chat, pressing 'Y' opens a team specific chat. Can be rebound in the controls.
- Informational quick chats will now only be broadcasted to your own team

[h2]Anniversary![/h2]
- Slapshot: Rebound is 1 year old today! To celebrate we have a login reward until December 14th and have decorated the locker room accordingly

[h2]Cosmetics[/h2]
- Added hippie glasses, peppermint puck, candy cane stick, anniversary hat

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- We fixed some of the most problematic cases where the puck would get stuck on its side
- Increased a lot of stability on the back-end services to avoid some disconnects or crashes

GLHF,
Oddshot Games

Until November 1st, Slapshot Premium is 10% for the Halloween sale!

[h2]NEW[/h2]
- All regular sized arenas are now in the rotation for public matches, this introduces Slapville and Outdoor to pubs!
- Added an esports hub with links to the 3 major community leagues as well as esports livestream notifications and video guides
- When backfilled you will now see a message that if you lose, you will not get this loss added to your record
- Created more advanced alternative account checking tools; this will be used to help uphold the integrity of competitive leagues
- We are introducing more automated systems to battle against toxicity in the game; now we have multiple levels:
-- 1 month mute for racist, homophobic or otherwise hateful speech (existing)
-- 7 day mute for other toxic behavior that is picked up (new)

[h2]Preparing for ranked[/h2]
- A public match will now be in a warmup mode until everyone has loaded in
- If not everyone loads into a match, the match will be cancelled

[h2]Other[/h2]
- Removed the Unity splash screen so you can get to play at least 2 seconds earlier!
- Added a start screen that shows you your login status with Steam and the Slapshot servers
-- Now, if you are unable to connect because of Steam, it will be more clear in the popups
- Added a toggle in the settings that allows you to hide the spectator buttons on the bottom

[h2]Cosmetics[/h2]
- Added the old Steampunk model as a variant of the new one
- Created an extra variant for the goalie helmet owners
- Added water eyes, lightning eyes, santa set, vampire cape, neon gloves, alien eyes, star eyes, pumpkin mouth & eyes,

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed a bug where you'd be unable to save the game settings if you were spectating a match
- Fixed a bug where pressing 'A' on controller to continue in the tutorial would also zoom your camera
- The player cap (12) in custom game lobbies is now actually enforced

GLHF,
Oddshot Games

It's your boy back at it again with the updates.
This one's got gameplay balancing to get ready for ranked and a bunch of efforts from our artists!

[h2]Gameplay[/h2]
- Buffed the dash duration to allow for more mechanics-driven movement.
-- This buff does not quite bring it back to pre-nerf strength but should allow for the best of both worlds.
- Increased the rate at which the puck slows down over time.
-- This helps prevent attempts at 'lucky' shots through icing to focus more on positioning and possession rather than dump & chase.
- Added a hard cap to the pucks maximum overall speed.
-- In a similar trend to the above as well as a nerf to pinches and aerial puck chaining speeds (batting an already lifted puck).
- Temporarily removed the added power from dash shots while we rebalance its effects as it was not consistent across different swings and input types.

[h2]Cosmetics[/h2]
- Created a system to allow for 3D models as jerseys
- New cosmetics: 14 jerseys, 6 mouths, 7 sets of eyes, 1 face decal, 4 gloves, 7 back items, 9 hats, 7 sticks, 3 pucks, 1 skin color
- Reworked cosmetics: 6 back items, 1 stick, 30 hats, 2 hairstyles. These reworks increase the visual quality of older items.
- Added subtle lightning VFX to the Mjölnir back item and the new God of Thunder jersey. (toggleable in particles; video settings)

[h2]Shop[/h2]
- Increased the amount of featured items to 4 to keep up with the increase in items in rotation

[h2]Audio[/h2]
- Worked with an audio engineer to improve crowd audio blending (more soon)

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- You can change the indoor stick's colors using the stick color slots now
- Visual: The puck no longer 'flops' down when shot in the net but has a more natural motion
- Visual: Improved highlight rendering for the puck when overlapping with the net

[h2]Other[/h2]
- Gave the lobby chat usernames a subtle grey color

GLHF
The Oddshot Games team