Atomic Picnic News

Esfand from OTK, streaming Mad Mushroom's first game, Atomic Picnic! Go to the store page to register for the open playtest and get immediate access to the playtest demo!

Atomic Picnic is running an open playtest until December 18, 2023.

We are excited to reveal that Mad Mushroom is Atomic Picnic's new publisher! Announced during the OTK Video Game Awards, Atomic Picnic will enter Steam Early Access in 2024.

Can’t wait that long? You’re in luck: An open playtest for Atomic Picnic starts Monday, December 11, and will run until December 18. To apply for early access to this playtest starting today, visit PlayAtomicPicnic.com right now. Starting December 11, players can join the playtest by visiting the game’s Steam page.


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We're preparing for Atomic Picnic's next step: Early Access launch!

But we've decided to close the Demo today so the team can focus on it!

We hope you guys understand! But hey! We'll be doing community playtests in the meantime!

Hop on our Discord for more info!

Hey everyone, let us start by saying the AMD Crash should be fixed now! Sorry it took us this long!

On other news, there's some new juicy stuff on this update like Inverted Y and X options, separate Volume Knobs and a new Upgrade: Walkpod!


[h2]New Little Mac[/h2]

• Little Mac has spent some time training and came back with new attacks and abilities!
  

[h2]New Upgrade: Walkpod[/h2]

• Every time you Fast Reload your weapon, summon a Sound Pulse to damage enemies all around you!
  

[h2]Improved Progression[/h2]

• We took a hard look into how the game was played and we made some improvements to overall match time and wave balancing. Both Bosses should appear much faster and match times should be reduced by a bit!
  
• Increased XP Gain during matches
  

[h2]AMD Crash Fix[/h2]

• Sorry it took us this long, but the game should now be playable on older AMD Cards!
  

[h2]Invert Y and X Axis![/h2]

• For those of you who couldn't play the game before due to this missing option, now you can properly play the game!
  

[h2]Separate Volumes[/h2]

• We've separated Ambience, Music and SFX Volumes so you can have better control of those while playing!
  

Let me start by saying that I'm sorry it took us this long to fix the Crash that was affecting some of you guys. I'm sorry and we'll try to do better in the future and fix those important issues much quicker!

Also thanks a ton for everyone that participated in our Open Community Playtest on Thursday this week! It was amazing and everyone tried some cool new secret features that aren't in the game yet
I can say this: There will be more playtests in the future!

Onto more important news!
I have an important announcement to make: We will be closing down the Demo starting on December 1st!

As we gear towards our Early Access release, we need the team to focus on some huge new features and improvements to the game, this means it's better for production of the game if we only have one version of the game to focus on. Because of this we decided to sunset the Demo starting December 1st so we can double down on making what matters: the Early Access version!

I want to add that we will keep doing Community Playtesting before EA Release, so if you want to participate join our discord @ discord.gg/bitcake!

We can't wait to show you more!

We just released a new Update to the game, introducing a new upgrade and some quality-of-life improvements to the multiplayer experience!


[h2]New Upgrade: Lightning in a Bottle[/h2]

Shock your enemies whenever you successfully Fast Reload your weapon!

[h2]Multiplayer Quality of Life[/h2]

• Whenever a player picks up a Health Pickup, they will automatically ping its location to everyone
  
• Whenever a player is downed there's a new warning to your team that someone has fallen
  
• Whenever a player help another downed player there's a new notification warning everyone of how good of a samaritan this player is!
  

This update doesn't seem much, but it's the start of something bigger. We're finally working on some new upgrades to make you feel more powerful and to enable more builds to be done.
You can expect the new upgrades to be visually appealing and way cooler than everything that came before!
We're also making sure each new upgrade fits on a cool playstyle so you guys can think of some crazy combinations down the line :D


There's more coming!