Ultimate Arena News

It's Ultimate Arena's 2nd (err.. 8th?) birthday, and we are delivering one of the most requested features in our latest 6.0 update: Ultrawide and Scaling support.



When Ultimate Arena was written, it ran exclusively in windowed mode at 720p. This made sense at the time because it was meant to be played on stream at 1080p, and that gave room for additional content for the streamer. Over the years higher and higher resolution screens have become readily available, and often not in 16:9 ratio - the only aspect ratio Ultimate Arena supports.

Today, you can finally play Ultimate Arena at the correct aspect ratio in fullscreen on any display >720p. This was accomplished by reworking the code for every single menu and window in the game. This glorious improvement allows for Ultrawide support, but also 4:3, 5:4, and 16:10. You can now play Ultimate Arena with fullscreen on a Steam Deck. This massive quality of life change we hope will bring you back to the Arena, one more time.



In a future update we will have an integer scaling option for those who want to run at extra high resolutions (i.e. 4k 3840x2160) to scale the picture up from 1/2 or 1/3 the resolution. This will ensure that Ultimate Arena remains playable even as our pixel counts creep into the tens of millions.



Thank you for making Ultimate Arena an incredible best seller! This update is for you!

-Troy

Arena Operators,

Further improvements have been made to the tools at your disposal, in particular a secret Santa hat applicator that only activates in the month of December has been added to the detailed fighter view. You can only enable Santa hats on characters that believe in him.

Snow and holiday theming has returned, and should return every year automatically before reverting to the regular arena theming in January.

Lastly, you may have noticed this release skips 5.4 and goes straight to 5.5. 5.4's changes have been incorporated into this patch including changes that address a few small bugs and performance concerns.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Triverske team!

Hello!

It's good to see everyone again, and we're here with some regularly unscheduled bug fixes for Ultimate Arena!

• Fixed Custom Workshop Texts
  
• Adjusted how Sanity works
  
• Fixed some unobtainable achievements
  
• Fixed a crash in the menus
  

Please report any bugs you see on our Discord or our Github so that we can address them as soon as we can. Your help has made this game much better than we could ever do by ourselves, so thanks so much for playing Ultimate Arena!

- Troy

On February 29th, 2016 we released Ultimate Arena. Now, 4 years later, we get to celebrate its first birthday.

This update includes several community suggested features and some features of our own design. Newspapers have some additional funny quips to add to the regular stream of updates and the 3D Map takes you in for a closer look at some of the magic going inside of the arena. We think players casual and old will both find new and interesting situations with these updates to our tools.

While this is our last big feature update for the game, we're committed to keeping it bug-free. Please submit all bug reports on the Ultimate Arena github page where we can better address any issues that come up. We thank our wonderful fans who have supported the game for 4 years.

-Troy

every day i get home and read literally hundreds of emails begging for gameplay in ultimate arena. how people manage to completely miss the point of this "game" is beyond me. it's like an aquarium, you watch it, maybe it's interesting or maybe it isn't. i don't care.

whatever.

i'm sick of the emails, have fun "playing" ultimate arena this lovely first day of april.