Slapshot: Rebound News

Hey everyone!

Today's the day. Slapshot: Rebound is live for everyone!

We chose to release into Early Access so we could work on the game with your feedback in mind.
Frequent updates, performance improvements and balancing are planned for the near future.

Good luck, have fun!

General
- You now get a 200 experience bonus for both winning and playing your first game of the day
- Premium users get awarded premium cosmetics on login (the premium jersey in this case)
- Changed how dash shots are calculated to make them more consistent

Quality of Life
- AFK kick does not kick you when you're messing around in the settings, only when it detects no activity at all
- Added buttons to the escape menu to reset practice and personal records for the respective modes
- Added a 'Matches' folder in game files -> slapshot_data with a log of the stats of the matches you played (for leagues etc)
- Added an 'I understand' checkbox for the first time you see the beta notice popup
- If you cap your FPS to lower than 120, you will now be shown a warning about responsiveness
- You can now search for lobbies (by name or owner) and filter on their region

UI
- Added 'premium' username glow to rankings, in-game scoreboard and lobby UI

Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the backfill would sometimes backfill more players than are allowed
- Fixed 'Network Update Smoothing slider resetting on load
- Fixed a performance issue related to shadows in the main menu that impacted some users greatly
- Fixed 'Leave' button when previewing the Pond
- Jersey numbers are now more visible on light jerseys
- Fixed blue deke bar in obstacle practice
- Fixed an issue where FPS wouldn't be set correctly on the main menu for some people

This is the last bigger patch before launch on Monday.
If there's any game breaking issues left, please let us know so we can have a smooth launch.
The open beta launch does not mean anything is finished, it just means we're ready for the public.

Rebound will launch on Monday December 7th at 9am PT / Noon ET / 6pm CET

Rebound v0.42.0 is live

Premium
- Introduced an optional Premium account status (Lifetime)
This is a one-time purchase of $14.99 / €12.49 / £11.39 that helps support development & grants you:
-> A premium jersey
-> Permanent 10% Experience boost (does not affect gameplay)
-> Permanent 10% Pux boost
-> A glowing name in the chat, leaderboards and scoreboard
-> Ability to use any color for your stick and puck highlights (only affects your own view; non-Premium have a selection of colors available)
Premium will be available on launch. Let us know if you have any suggestions for this.

General
- Added reporting for players, servers and bugs

Matchmaking
- The game will no longer consider any backfilling when a team is down more than 3 goals already
- We don't backfill anymore if the game has been started less than 10 seconds ago (should fix 4v3 bug)

Quality of Life
- Made a better color picker for highlights etc
- Win/loss results will now be counted as soon as the last goal is scored when in OT / mercy rule applied
- Added a 'Feedback' button to the extras panel that links to Nolt
- Added an AFK timer, we'll be finetuning the time and way this works as we go

Cosmetics
- Added new jersey: Premium (Requires premium status)

Fixes
- Fixed scoreboard resetting / sorting incorrectly / not removing people that left
- Fixed chatroom closing in matchmade matches as soon as the buzzer goes off
- Shop will now refresh when you go to its menu, no longer need to restart the game
- Main menu will no longer force to your monitor refresh rate if you have fps capped to a value lower than that
- Clicking 'no' when quitting shows the main menu instead of an empty menu now
- 'Press R to reset' is no longer shown in practice modes that don't allow resetting

Hi,

The matchmaking is getting some love!
- Added backfill to matchmaking games. If a person leaves and there's more than two minutes left in the game, a person from the queue will be added to your game.
- Fixed issue where some player MMR didn't load correctly, causing them to never be considered for a match
- Fixed parties not counting MMR correctly for the queued playlist

GLHF!
- Erveon

Rebound v0.41.0 is live

General
- The matchmaking system has been rewritten and uses the hidden MMR for balancing (Thank you Jimstur)
- Players can now party up with friends by inviting on the bottom right of the UI. Parties can join custom games and queue into quick play together. The matchmaking system takes parties into account by weighing higher MMR players more.
- The new leveling system has been implemented, the first 10 levels are much quicker while levels past that will require the same experience (half of what it was before). All levels have been adjusted to reflect this new system. You will receive 300 pux per level up (the 100 pux per game has been removed).

Cosmetics
-Added new jersey(s): gecko
-Added new eyes(s): lizard
-Added new mouth(s): forked
-Made aesthetic changes to the Wide-eyed, Stare, VR Goggles, Skeleton, Arrow Head, Jabby, and Tribe cosmetics
-Propeller and Umbrella cosmetics now use team primary and secondary colors (Suggested on Nolt)
-The propeller hat's propeller now has a slow spin (Suggested by MDub on Nolt)

Quality of life
-The puck indicator now shows up as white on dark ice (Suggested by Blevinsorg on Nolt)
-Added a "Press '[keybind]' for Reset" to the bottom of practice & tutorial for players who may be unaware of the feature.
-Added a indicator to the shop button that shows when the shop has a new unseen rotation
-When editing your player's 'identity' your character will automatically rotate so you can see their jersey numbers
-Made changes to the tutorial UI so it works on a wider range of resolutions
-Removed the small border from around the minimap (as suggested on Nolt)
-Main menu FPS is now limited to your monitors refresh rate (as suggested on Nolt)
-Added a 'notice' feature to alert you of potential issues on the main menu

Fixes
-Stopped player heads from getting stuck on the net
-Fixed an issue where the puck could get stuck on top of the crossbar
-Reduced frequency of random back-end disconnects (let me know if it happens)
-Fixed issues related to players getting pulled out of active games
-Fixed an issue where jersey numbers would sometimes not change while being set in the main menu
-Fixed an issue where scrolling using mousewheel in the settings wasn't consistent
-Made changes to the water bottle, reducing issues when players interact with it
-Long names on spectate player buttons no longer wrap multiple lines
-Added some missing text characters

GLHF
- Erveon