Bang-On Balls: Chronicles News

Thank you to our great community for helping us improve our game!

We have listened to all of your feedback, and fixed many bugs, below are the most notable ones:

• Many holes in the level have been patched, no more falling under the map!
  
• Fixed issue with players falling through elevators
  
• Fixed issue with players in co-op being moved to the moon randomly
  
• Doors with padlock should open properly after coming back from the moon
  
• Fixed blue pip clouds not working properly
  
• Fixed some minor localization issues
  
• Fixed Collision on the moon base dome
  
• Fixed mind control on small aliens
  
• Seals, Goalie and bigger AI cannot be changed to alien anymore (using the alien goo item)
  
• Fixed items being displayed in the wrong section in the inventory
  
• Fixed many water points to act like water (splash and so on)
  
• Fixed many locations to improve framerate
  

The team at Exit Plan is very proud to give you all our next big update, a massive new level for you to explore.

[h2]The Space Race Chronicle !![/h2]

This new world was carefully hand crafted for you all, and it is packed with new content: new enemies and friendly Bobs to meet, locations to explore, many new items and gadgets for you to collect as well as a lot of secrets to find, all wrapped up in an amazing environment made with a lot of love and passion. We hope everyone will have as much fun playing this new level as we did making it!

[h3]USA or USSR? Why not both? [/h3]

Assemble your rocket, and get to the moon!

You really, really want to play our multiplayer Roman Bath Dungeon, and fight giant chickens, pigs or badgers on our Viking map, but you don't want to play with other players?

We've got your back!

[h3]Introducing Rob the BOB. [/h3]

For a small fee of blue pip, the single player Rob (located in a vending machine, near each multiplayer challenges on the maps) will help you trigger the multiplayer bosses as well as help you through the very cool Roman Bath Dungeon.

Treat him well, and Rob will always be there for you :)

Boo! It is the season for scares and sweets, so Exit Plan is bringing a sackful of both with their new Bang-On Balls: Chronicles Halloween update running October 27 through November 5. Starting now you can find plenty of Halloween treats waiting for you in the lobby and the Viking chronicle. Whether it is candy corn collecting treats, pumpkin smashing tricks, new masks or new costumes, this update has lots to keep you amused while they wait for the upcoming Space Race chronicle (coming really soon).

Spooky Halloween update includes the following challenges and cool items:

• Find all 13 candy corn on the main menu to unlock the candy corn costume.
  
• Smash all 30 pumpkins placed around the Viking level to unlock the pumpkin costume.
  
• Frankenstein head and Día de los Muertos masks can be found in the main menu.
  
• Traders located on the main menu will give you some cool items in exchange for blue pips.
  
• Witch potion to turn your enemies into bats.
  
• Coffin shield with its little pet spider.
  
• Vampire mask with a cute little cape.
  

On top of the cool Halloween update, and in preparation for our next big update, the team has been hard at work optimising the game.

TLDR: More Balls, faster FPS, very smooth.

Here are some of the major improvements.

• Fixed issue where save files could become corrupted and players were stuck in the main menu.
  
• Added a new pool system (not of the swimming kind) that puts AI balls and their items (hats, moustaches etc) into a memory pool, in order to make it cheaper when spawning those AI from the pool (less stutter 10/10)
  
• Multiplayer optimization to reduce stutter between Host and Clients.
  
• Added a ping check that will avoid connecting to other users with too high pings (You can still connect to your friend many countries away, via Steam friends).
  
• Improved pip performance to make sure they don’t eat your frames (om-nom-nom-nom).
  
• Animating balls is now more performant (we have also added new animations, including a rather cute “fleeing” animation).
  
• Painting dirt where you walk is now also cheaper, for those of us who don’t have 5 RTX graphic cards installed :)
  
• Chest optimization (same amount of pips in them, but less expensive on the CPU)
  
• Bunnies jumping now no longer makes your frames jump with them.
  

Thank you all for your support :)