Slapshot: Rebound News

Gameplay changes

- Stopping is now 65% stronger
this will make dekes more viable to create space both on offense and defence

- Sticks no longer lift over other sticks
That will result in less "w key mosh pits" and allow for more skill based battles for the puckLive

- Fixed issue where the puck would 'wobble' when skating with it on your stick

As always, we will be monitoring games and listening to your feedback.
These changes were introduced through feedback from several players, both old and new.

Shoutout to the GridIron players that helped reinforce that these changes are a step in the right direction.

- Erveon

[h2]Gameplay[/h2]
- Your head no longer collides with the boards (closing the gap between your body and the boards)
- Head collider is 5% bigger
- On faceoffs dizziness is now set to 40% to discourage players from "helicoptering" on faceoffs. This is a remote setting we can adjust on the fly if needed

[h2]Matchmaking[/h2]
- You now earn/lose MMR when playing in quick play, it is also loosely used to create matches (this will be refined later, thank you Jimstur) MMR is hidden in quick play, it's still supposed to be a casual mode but the matches should be more fair like this when more people queue.

[h2]Qualify of life[/h2]
- Quick play now only shows who's playing/queueing in the regions you have selected to give you a better idea of when you'll get a match
- You can now see the global amount of people in quick play under the world icon (region selector)

[h2]UI[/h2]
- Your level is now displayed in a circle to the left of your exp and name to give your name more breathing room (Suggested by Nightsector on Nolt)

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Puck will no longer make the board collision sound multiple times when it's sliding along the boards
- Fixed a main menu error related to helmets

Rebound v0.40.3 is live

Quality of Life
- Lobby chat no longer gets wiped when you go to other UI / play the game
- You will now receive lobby chat messages even if you didn't have the chat open
- Quick play button now says 'In queue' when you queue

Cosmetics
- New jerseys: Camo, space, collegiate, scales, drop fade
- New face details: Fan favorite, rockstar, native, 3rd eye, tear, frank, band, flushed, beauty, claw, nose, sport, china, lunatic, sun kissed, soul, eye scar, war paint, war paint 2
- New eyes cosmetics: Bat glasses, spiral
- New hats: kettle, norman, ram horns, crusader, gallic
- New back cosmetics: baguette, quiver, templar shield, viking shield, bat wings, windup key, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- New hairstyles: baldness, bowl, jimmy, karen, licked, malding, spiky, spiky baldness

Fixes
- Fixed a server crash when you walk the puck into the net
- Spamming the queue button will no longer queue you twice
- Mouth item preview is now correctly discarded
- Added more/better error handling for back-end disconnects (with more debug)
- Fixed scrolling in the custom games list
- Fixed cosmetics roman helmet, arrow head and jester hat

General
- Reworked instant back-end communications to prepare for other platforms
- Leaderboards are now scrollable to show the top 100 players in each category
- Long usernames on the leaderboards that would extend beyond a single line now show an ellipsis instead of wrapping to the next line
- Added the ability to remotely change stamina recharge rate
- Moved in-game notifications (scoring, winning team, face off countdown, etc.) up so that they don't overlap the puck when in spectator mode
- Enlarged purchase pux text and included the % bonus per tier

Cosmetics
-Added new helmet(s): visor, fishbowl

Quality of life
-Added an option to disable cloth physics in Settings > Video. This may help some players improve performance

Fixes
-Fixed an issue where players who were pulled into a custom or quick play game from a practice mode still had that practice mode loaded or were stuck at center-ice
-Fixed an issue where travelling at high speed and pressing dash could slow players down
-Fixed an issue where the horn could sound multiple times as players left after a game had ended
-Fixed an issue where the winning team text could change if the entire winning team left after the buzzer
-Fixed UI images not showing up for cosmetics umbrella, water bucket
-Fixed an issue that caused the pumpkin cosmetic not to work
-Fixed aesthetic issues with the skeleton hands and boxing gloves
-Added some checks to make the game server run a bit smoother
-The dizzy meter no longer displays when pressing F3 or when in spectate
-Fixed some UI issues with the tutorial at different resolutions
-Fixed face details not showing correctly

Rebound v0.40.0 is live

General
- Slappy pass owners get the trainer buddy hat and 9.99 USD worth of Pux

Gameplay & Visuals
- Leaderboards are now live, and include all-time, monthly, weekly columns, as well as an option to sort by region. Stats only include matchmade games starting now and will be wiped before early access.
- Added a 6 goal mercy rule to public games
- Added metrics to track: passes, takeaways, turnovers, overtime wins, overtime losses, faceoff wins, faceoff losses, game winnings goals, mercy rule (both received and dealt)
- Stats are now saved to the specific region that they occur in (for leaderboards)
- The game now goes to the tutorial on the first launch (this will happen for everyone on this update)
- Gave people more time to set up for a shot in goalie practice
- Removed the option to set texture quality. They had barely any performance benefits and made the game look very ugly.
- Removed the 8x anti-aliasing option and set default anti-aliasing to disabled. High anti-aliasing significantly affects frame rate (and thus input lag) on a lot of systems
- Added an extras tab with links to Patreon, discord, and has credits including all Patreon supporters. We've only included the first initial for any surnames. If you're a Patreon supporter and would like your name changed to your in-game username please let us know

Cosmetics
- Added new helmets: Scary mask, 200 IQ, halo, arrow head, boxer, capone, chef, devil horns, egg, elf, marching band, nurse, police, pope, santa, trainer buddy, ushanka, zeus,
- Added new eyes: angry, zen, iced, lucky, rattled, retired, sad, shiner, squint, teary, tic tac toe, stare, wince
- Added new mouths: happy, vampire, chiclets, overbite, bucky, stunned, gasp, try hard, pensive, yikes, sad
- Added new back cosmetic: Candy cane
- Added new mouth items: Chocolate sandwich, puck

Fixes
- Fixed goalie practice mode balancing and made it take new balancing into account
- Added new text characters to fix people's names
- The ö on the "Mjölnir" cosmetic now shows appropriately, along with other common non-English characters
- Players who previously purchased the yikes or try hard cosmetic will now see that in their inventory
- Fixed the euro eye cosmetic not working
- Fixed an issue with the +/- stat
- Changed the way stats work so that saving and loading them is more performant