Slapshot: Rebound News

Hi Slappers!

We're happy to introduce a new game mode to Slapshot called Dodgepuck!
Dodgepuck has no goals but it does have multiple pucks. It's a team-based game mode where your goal is to hit the opposing team in the head with a puck. It's not easy, trust me.

To spice things up we've made a custom dodgepuck arena that features a few obstacles including tires that have significant bounciness to them so you can make some insane plays for your montages. There is only the initial faceoff (and potential overtime faceoff). Scoring does not interrupt play.

Our objective for this patch was stability improvements and refactoring of a bunch of old code. The most fun way to do this is to make support for more game modes in the process thus dodgepuck was born.


- Added a new game mode: Dodgepuck. Available in custom games.
- Added a new arena: Dodgepuck (creative, I know) with obstacles and zero goals.
- Taught bots how to play dodgepuck (they'll get better at it soon)
- Matchmaking: Changed the way parties are weighed in matchmaking to make for more fair games. You'll be way less likely to queue into a party with anyone in it much above your own rating.
- Added a game mode and arena selector to the Bot Match practice mode
-- Note: When playing dodgepuck with bots, make sure to select hard or they'll hardly score
- Improved the performance of various game elements
- Took Outdoor and Outdoor Night out of the map rotation and selection for investigation related to a C++ run-time error we've been chasing. (Let us know if you still encounter it!)
- Added a consent pop-up for personalized ads (they were not before, and will not be if you decline).
- Added cosmetics Snowman, Frozen and Gingerbread.

Please let us know what you think about dodgepuck. Is it fun? Is it too difficult? We're hoping to feature the game mode in the upcoming Pond (social hub) as the primary game mode to practice and mess around in while you're in a queue (or not).

Keep on slapping,
Oddshot Games

The Plushie campaign is funded! 🤩🥰

We really want people to be able to have a physical Slapshot item so we helped push it over the threshold. I'm assembling a plushie army to take over the world.

Last 3 days to get your own!
https://www.makeship.com/products/slapatar-plush

Heya Slappers!

From now until the 29th of October you can grab a limited edition Slapatar plushie! ːreboundː
We need to sell about 200 of them for the campaign to be funded.

If this one does well, we'll definitely do more with different cosmetics and/or have Goosan/Trainer Buddy plushies.
The stick is detachable from the plushie so you can swap them out with potential future plushies.

Also, every plushie sold gets an in-game code for the exclusive 'knit' cosmetic, which makes your head look like a plushie in-game.

Plushie page: https://www.makeship.com/products/slapatar-plush

Hiya Slappers,

Want a chance at 50 USD of in-game currency? Scroll down to the outreach survey!

This is a small update that adds the ability to add bots to custom games and improves the performance of the online servers. We're not done with the performance improvements yet but are seeing good progress.

In custom games, you can now add up to 3 bots. You can play with them or against them. Matchmaking games do not have any bots currently, it is only an option in custom games.

We've also added a region lock for OCE, where if you have more than 150 latency it will not let you use its matchmaking. Custom games are unaffected by the region lock. Other regions do not currently have this restriction.

[h2]Plushie giveaway[/h2]



On October 7th, we're launching a plushie campaign with Makeship!
From today until October 6th at 6pm (GMT), you can enter into a giveaway for the very first one!
The plushie ships worldwide, so there are no restrictions on who can enter.

Follow the instructions in the tweet to enter:
https://twitter.com/Slapshotgg/status/1576857110775705601

[h2]Outreach survey (Win 50 USD in Pux)[/h2]

We're conducting a survey to figure out where to best focus our efforts on acquiring new players for Slapshot while we ramp up for full release.
One submission will be picked at random to win 50 USD worth of in-game currency.
https://forms.gle/3T4MZTtExDTM7afz6

GLHF!

[h2]RANKED & MATCHMAKING[/h2]
- We did a small rebalancing of the rank distribution (see below for the new distribution curve)
- Added a leaderboard for ranks (found in the rankings tab). You can find the top 50 rated players there (with 50+ matches played)
- Fixed a critical issue that impacted match balancing. Many matches will have much better balancing now.
- Re-added the leave warning. You get 1 free leave per hour. Leaving during the hour grants you a 5 minute matchmaking ban.

[h2]SHOP REWORK[/h2]
- Redesigned the shop to be easier to navigate and have a better user experience
- Added a 'Secret Stash' which is a personalized shop for you (yes, you!) - it'll only contain items you don't have yet.

[h2]COSMETICS[/h2]
- Added a LED jersey and LED cap
- Added a Goosan backpack

[h2]GENERAL FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS[/h2]
- Improved the connections to the Slapshot Services. It should cause less chat disconnects and server crashes.
- Made a potential fix for the wrong rank icon being shown at the end of the match
- Streamers: The clubs command now allows you to force a team to use a specific kit (more info by using the clubs help command)



GLHF!