Slapshot: Rebound News

This is mostly a quality of life update including some foundations for updates to come.

[h2]Lefties rejoice![/h2]
- Your handedness preference is now synced across devices (as well as your jersey number)
- Left handed players will now see their character hold the stick left handed in the main menu
- Left handedness is now synced in parties in the main menu display as well

[h2]Titles[/h2]
- Premium players now unlock the blue glowing 'Premium' title automatically. You can set it in Player -> Titles.
- Created a popup for when you unlock titles (only premium atm, more planned for other things).
- Added titles to the end-game scoreboard
- Titles now have more appropriate sizing and spacing on the scoreboards and in the title selection interface

[h2]Cosmetics[/h2]
- Created a system for the artists to hide ears on jersey cosmetics (to support hooded capes like 'hooded').
- Added three capes: clawed, hooded and royal cloak (one of which will be exclusive on our Patreon, voting happening now)
- Added alien hands and antennas, superstar cosmetic
- Added two variants for mittens, 9 for fishbowl

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Re-added proper sanitizing of usernames (bug where you could make your username a different color).
- Fixed an issue where if you're banned the ban message would disappear after the loading screen
- Fixed an issue with our chat filter that would fail to catch vAriATioNs iN CapITaliSaTioN

[h2]Other[/h2]
- Took down the holiday decorations in the locker room
- Created a bunch more internal tooling to help us resolve support issues, organize things and moderate the game


- There's more experimentation with taking down the bumping meta and some rotational speed unfairness between input devices (this is progress towards ranked)
- I'm working on a code redemption system in the shop which will help with giveaways and marketing to increase the player base (e.g. we can give influencers and organizations a code in the shop to get a jersey with their logo)
- We have a developer working on a first draft of bots for the game. Still early stages but it's looking promising.
- The artists are working on several simpler cosmetics that we'll be giving away for free later as rewards for logging in and other things

GLHF
Oddshot Games

Happy holidays @everyone!
Premium is 20% off during the Steam winter sale.

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

Thank you for a fantastic 2021 for Slapshot. 2022 will be even bigger!

[h2]Balancing[/h2]
- Increased the cost of dizziness for controller users by 25% to help combat helicoptering
-- We're open to further feedback on this. If you feel like your legit playstyles are getting you dizzy, please post clips.

[h2]New[/h2]
- Added a title system, can be found in Player -> Titles.
-- Currently we only have the exclusive titles for various things such as leagues and the upcoming ranked.
-- Patreon supporters on the legendary tier can have a custom title that they choose. DM me if you are eligible. (not conflicting with existing titles).
-- We'll be adding titles you can obtain through gameplay in the near future
- Added party chat. When you're in a party with someone you can now talk to them using the chatbox on the main menu and in practice mode.
- Your own name is now highlighted on the leaderboards with a golden line in front of it so you can find yourself easier
- Added a new filter to custom games to only show locked or open lobbies
- The locker room has been transformed from anniversary to holidays decorations!

[h2]Other[/h2]
- Changed the tutorial to reflect some stats on where people got stuck or were too advanced for an intro to the game

[h2]Cosmetics[/h2]
- Added cucumber eyes, toothbrush stick

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed the highlighting on the indoor stick
- The match found buzzer is now correctly controlled by the UI volume slider
- Fixed a server side issue that caused it to panic and die.

GLHF

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