Bang-On Balls: Chronicles News

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 :)

Over here at Exit Plan we’ve been thinking to ourselves: “that Football update was fun, why don’t we keep this sports train a-rollin’ and celebrate the next worldwide jamboree of athletic achievement!”. Thus, the Olympics! We’ve got new BOB colors for you to choose from that may or may not correspond to a certain logo. We've got new bonus items like gold, silver and bronze medals, and the Olympic Torch to help guide your way (or light things on fire).

Keep an eye on our social media accounts for the codes for these new items, and join our Discord server where you might even be able to get these new codes early.


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[h2]Kick some balls with the new Football Challenge!!
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The devs at Exit Plan Games have been watching UEFA EURO 2020 to see which team would take the cup. As big fans of football we wanted to bring the excitement of the tournament to players of Bang-On Balls: Chronicles with a new football mini-game in time for the Euro 2020 and Copa finals!. Whether you’re watching the Euros or Copa, now you can play out the finals or choose the teams you think “should” have made it if it wasn’t for the referee making that terrible call! He was clearly off-side! How could…. ahem Sorry, emotions are still a little raw. Anyways, now players can enjoy some in-game, bang-on soccer fun!

• A New Kick in the Balls: The new football mini-game is all about scoring as many goals as you can within the time limit, the more you score the bigger your reward! No 0-0 ties here, just goals, goals, goals! Playable solo or for up to 4 football fans in co-op, players can access the new mini-game by jumping into the football arcade machine situated in the studio lobby, near the recently added arcade challenge machines.
  

Give them all a try!

• Fixed rewards sometimes not spawning after destroying cars.
  
• Rewards are now always present in lobby after you have unlocked them and will remain there until you pick them up.
  
• After completing the car smashing challenge the timer will wait for you to press the button in order to restart it.
  
• Car debris now sinks to the bottom of the sea.