Jetball News

Features:
- New slide ability - gain momentum sliding down hills - carve to adjust direction (and of course you can still jump ski too)
- New slide effect that kicks up sparks and dust at your feet while sliding
- New throw and slap animations (players holding throw visibly have their hands "cocked" behind their heads)
- New vchat animations (emotes)
- New grass that bends at player's feet
- New map "Playdium"
- New weapon reticles
- Added a disc launcher muzzle fire effect
- Added a bullet "whizzing" sound
- Unreal Engine Update 4.24.3 (latest stable)

Bug Fixes
- Fixed muzzle fire not showing for others in multiplayer
- Fixed spike gun reload and continue to fire bug in MP
- Holding zoom now adjusts for mouse sensitivity (mouse became overly sensitive before)
- Fixed a walking bug where you walked faster uphill (nobody noticed cause nobody walks in Jetball)!
- Much improved projectile replication (jitter is rare now).
- Restored demo playback / recordings and made various improvements like pausing with mouse wheel
- Server waits for player connections (newly joined game should start from countdown)

Features:
- Major Technical Update
- Steam Integration
- Invite Steam friends to your game
- Easily host your own game server (no more opening ports)
- Server browser should now find all games (Lan, Internet, Dedicated)
- Server browser now shows Ping times
- Unreal Engine Updated 4.22 (latest)
- Converted to the Network Replication Graph Technology (100 player support?)
- Bots generate more one-timer goals (often scoring over 100 points in an all bot 3v3 match).
- (Bots still have weapons disabled)

Bug Fixes:
- Dedicated Servers Restored (note hosting your own dedicated server requires opening ports 27015 and 7777).

Features:
- All about Bots!!!
- Improved bot passing and shooting accuracy.
- Improved bot jet control for catching and intercepting the ball.
- Bots will almost always look for a one-timer play (rather than straight throw in).
- Play with a single bot on the same team to work on your one-timer goals.
- (Bots still have their weapons disabled)

Gameplay Changes:
- None.

Bug Fixes:
- 2K Menu and UI support
- Moved to new dedicated server host.

Features:
- Improved bots (still a work in progress)
- Observer/Spectator camera modes (bound to 3rd person toggle)

Gameplay Changes:
- None.

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bot movement stutter issue (where they sometimes wouldn't even fall)
- Fixed bot shield effects not activating.

Build 0.5.6.19.2 is now live on Steam.

Features:
- Mac OS X Game Client
- Cross Platform Play (Windows, Mac, Linux and Steam OS)

Gameplay Changes:
- None.

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed Practice Goals Showing Goal Cam
- Fixed Jetting Sound Not Playing at times (much improved anyway)
- Enabled Free Roam During Demo Playback.