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Hot Summer Desert Goos!!!

[p]Long time no see! We one hot and ready for you guys. New Goos, new Game Mode, Balance updates and more![/p][h2]Desert Goos[/h2][p]We have a hot new group of 5 summer goos! They come straight from the desert. Summer was the last season we didn't have a group of goos for, so we decided it was their time to have fun in the sun! Fire goos have been neglected for awhile so we decided to give them some more options with our first new goo Firble:


Firble introduces a new mechanic of "burn" it will stack and do damage over time whenever that goo attacks! Another new goo that uses that is Singe.

[/p][p]Singe is gotten when have 3 or more fire goos on your team and will burn away the attack of your enemy![/p][p][/p][p]Speaking of Attack we also have Rigor! The Rigor Mortis Tortoise. He doesn't have Health at all! As he is already undead! Instead he takes damage to ATK and has a hearty shield on top of that. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Rounding out the squad we also have Cassi the Cactus who is a great early support cactus giving everyone on the team +1 ATK per turn, and lastly Diablo, master of Summons! Diablo gives any summoned goo extra starting ATK when they are summoned. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]I'm super excited to see what you all come up with and how to use these guys in your goo teams.[/p][p][/p][h2]Casual Mode[/h2][p]We have added a new gamemode! One of the biggest feedback points of the game is that it can be BRUTAL for new players, as such we have added a "casual" game mode that you can select when starting a run. In Casual you will be matched with other "casual" teams and be allowed to lose 5 times instead of the usual 3! This will give you more time to develop and tweak some wild goo strategies.[/p][p][/p][h2]Other new things[/h2][p]We have fixed a ton of bugs this update, as well as added some other things due to community feedback.[/p][p]Such as a DinoNug & Novelty icon, and a New background to fit our Desert Goos.[/p][p][/p][p]We have also renamed some Goos to have a slightly more 'goo' vibe to them such as Golem is now Goolem, but I won't spoil all our new puns here ;) [/p][p][/p][h2]Final thoughts[/h2][p]As always thank you everyone for continuing to goo up the Arena! As always please let us know what you think here on Steam via the forums or a review, OR in our Discord. We have a lot more GOOdies planned as updates for the rest of the year! Good luck in the Arena.[/p][p][/p][h2]Balance updates[/h2][p]Goos
-Toaster [/p][p]Ability now gives +6 ATK instead of +4 [/p][p]Speed: 5 -> 4 Def: 0 -> 8 [/p][p][/p][p]-Mothor [/p][p]Speed: 7 -> 6 [/p][p]Atk: 15 -> 10

-Rover [/p][p]Speed: 7 - > 5

-Shouty [/p][p] Speed 7 -> 6

-Pablo [/p][p]Attack: 15 -> 20 [/p][p]Speed: 10 -> 7 [/p][p]Def: 5 -> 2

-Ashley [/p][p]Speed: 8 -> 5 [/p][p][/p][p]-Pixel [/p][p]Speed: 7 -> 6

Items
-Hammer now gives +4 atk per faint instead of +5
-Top hat now gives +5 HP instead of +10 per faint
-Energy Drink only removes -3 HP instead of -4
-Toast now gives +3 ATK instead of 2
-Yarn now gives +3 HP instead of +4
-Laser now gives +3 ATK instead of +4
-Chefs hat no longer gives ATK -Stardust now gives +1 ATK instead of +3 [/p]

Be Our Guest: Update

Hey everyone! Just put out a smaller update with a ton of fixes and some behind the scenes changes. Big part of this update won't effect those of you already playing goo, but is still a big update nonetheless!

Play as guest:

We have added a new way to start you goo Journey, with a 'Play as Guest' option now added. We heard from a lot of new users that they don't want to use their email on some random Indie game developer to play a Goo game, That is totally valid so now you Create a "Guest Account" that can do everything a main account does without using an email.(We only use your email currently to help you recover you account and to make it easier to do crossplay). After making a Guest account you can upgrade it and add an email and password at any point and save any progress you made on your guest account.



We will not be able to help you recover any guest account that you lose access too! So Goo carefully.

Fixes/ Working Goo

Sometimes to coordinate things across all the devices that you can Goo on we have to take down the servers, before we just would bring the servers down and people would keep erroring out when trying to connect, we have added a nice friendly goo to help alert you if things are down!



On top of that we have fixed (hopefully for the last time) the Goopendium being busted for Omni Goos. As well as a few other fixes of things that were broken for the newest goos such as Franken Goo not showing up in the previews or Nighty being able to hold items if they were holding on to one before mutating.

What's next?!?

As always thank you guys so much for all the support you give to us and Goo Gladiators. I keep hinting at a new game mode in a near update and am happy to say that I think next update will be the one!! Keep in eye out for it, We are aiming for May for a Royal GOOd time ;) Do let us know anything else you would like to see in Goo! Hope to see you in the arena soon.

New Year New Goo: Content update.

Its a new year with some new goo to celebrate!

To celebrate the new year we have reworked a lot of the goos and added 10 new goos across all existing groups of goos (3 of them are in the base game) with some new mechanics. On top of that we upgraded and fixed a lot of other things in the game. Lets get into it!


New Goos!

We have added new Goos to all of the base Goo Groups.

To the base game we added Hippo, Novelty and Penguin.


Penguin is another Ice goo joining Golem in the base pack who will fill the void of a late game tank that the base goo group is sorely lacking.

If you find yourself endlessly cycling items, Hippo is the go to goo, Hippo will give you free item cycling for free each round with the number of hippos that you have!

Lastly the Novelty Goo

Novelty introduces a fresh new mechanic of position swapping! When hit Novelty will move to a different spot to try and avoid being hit again making them difficult to lock down. The addition of a clown nose has also been added to give other goos an ability to swap spots during battle to a limited capacity.


Each other group has at least one goo added to it, We won't go into them all here, but here is the full list:
Egg goos: Crocy, The Shoe crocodile
Spooky Goos: Frank, the undying
Chilly Goos: Toasty, the warm speedster
Cryptid Goos: Nighty, he has no arms!
Electrix Goos: Sssshock, the vibing viper
Spring Goos: Bee & BayBee, Bzzzzing is better done together

All these goos will be added to their groups for free so if you already have unlocked their group you will start to see them around!

New background & Icons

To celebrate the new goos we have added some new Icons and backgrounds! Themed around some of our new goos. A picnic for Bee and a Circus for Novelty Goo!




Balance updates

A ton of goos have been updated! Most notably we have reworked a lot of the Omni goos as they were dominating the arena. We gave some buffs to older goos as well to try and make them more competitive. Here's the full balance changes:

[h2] Goo changes [/h2]
Jumptio: [Rework]
-Mutates from bubble goo getting a Bottled Lightning instead of Tadpole (this makes it a later game goo)
-gives +7 HP instead of +3 when hit.
- HP 8 -> 20
- ATK 5 -> 15

Meow
- ATK 7 -> 9

Meooooow
- ATK 16 -> 18
- HP 8 -> 9

ClayVase: [Nerf]
-ATK/HP: 10 -> 8
-Takes an extra turn to turn into Vase

Vase [Nerf]
-Ability now does 25% damage to enemies on death instead of 100%

Projector: [Rework]
- ATK 10 -> 12
- HP 5 -> 10
- Def 5 -> 0
- Ability Now gives +2/+2 Atk/HP to goo in front and behind instead of +5/+5

Pixel: [Nerf]
- ATK 20 -> 18

Rover: [Nerf]
-Ability now gives +2 HP instead of +5.

Peas: [Buff]
-Ability now triggers every other Attack for x2 damage instead of every 3rd for x3

Mika Worm: [Nerf]
-Ability now gives +1 DEF to space goos instead of +2

Ice Cream: [Nerf]
-Ability now gives +8 HP instead of +10 HP

[h2] Item Changes [/h2]
Bottled Lightning:
-Now part of the base goo items
-Now gives +1 HP, +1 ATK -1 Speed (the added HP is new)

Honey
-New item, replaces Heart if using Spring goos, Same stats as Heart but can mutate into Bee

Clown Nose
-New Item, one time use per round! Will swap spots with the goo behind you when hit.


The ending bits

As always thank you guys so much for your continued support of Goo Gladiators, Your support and seeing all the teams you guys make is what keeps us going Discord! I'll see you soon with more Goo Goodness :)


Full(ish) patch notes

-Tons of balance updates
-Updated infrastructure of core game
-10 new goos added
-Updated animations to be a bit smoother
-2 new Items
-Fixed bug where cyrptid mutations showed improperly
-Fixed bugs where menus could get weird







Goo Gladiators now out on the Google Play Store

Way too long of a delay but Goo Gladiators is now out on the Google play store and not just the Apple App store! All progress in either app is cross progression/save on Steam and Mobile so get gooin on the go! :)

Goo Updates and Announcements

Hey everyone a cleanup update is here! Turning a bunch of bugs into pure goo to help clear the way for a couple big things.. Lets go over some of it.


More Quality of life things!
We have added a ton of little things across the game to make things a little easier to see what is going on. Such as above now show what goos you will be getting and in how many rounds they will appear! This will make it easier to see what's going on when you have Goos like Chicken that swap what your new goos are.

Bug Fixes
The goopendium keeps getting messed up. We have fixed it for good now so don't worry we won't break it again :) As well we have fixed a bunch of other bugs such as the wrong goo showing in some prompts and a crash when starting larger private matches. We also have recoded a ton of the backing things for loading our animations, the game now loads almost instantly! Overall the game should be a lot more stable.

Future things and final thoughts
Overall this update was to pave the way for the "New You New Goo" Update that will be coming out in early January with 8 new goos coming to existing goo groups! (Two of those are in the base game group!) Along with that update there are going to be some radical reworks and balance changes that we have planned. Please let us know any Goo you would want to see buffed or Nerfed in this update.

This current fixes update is out now on Steam and will be out on iOS as soon as it passes cert. It also will be on THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE, once that passes certification as well so expect to hear more about that very shortly.

I'll leave you with one of the new goos




[h2]1.16.2 Patch notes[/h2]
-Added 'ghosts' for when upcoming goos are coming
-Fixed Goopendium.
-Fixed a some goo visual issues.
-Decreased game load time significantly.
-Fix Crash on large private matches
-Added tip for cycling items to tutorial
-Fixed Shouty's ability not triggering correctly