Slapshot News

It's been a while since release notes as I forgot to write them for ranked MM. Sorry about that! We've been working on a mixed bag of things, but mostly new player QoL stuff.

## New Features

* Blue lines on the ice
* Tips on the loading screen
* Gameplay tutorial
* Ranked matchmaking (from last update).

## Bug Fixes

* Net textures are darker than they should be
* Stick highlighting doesn't work in practice
* Shaders disabled for some players

## Upcoming work/In-progress
* Stick customization
* Some new Slappy Pass items 👀
* Better client physics (worker threads)
* Server stress testing and physics efficiency

To see what's being worked on and a list of known bugs, be sure to check out the roadmap: https://trello.com/b/VlwX4V1g/hockey-development.

Stick checking has been nerfed among other things:

## New Features

* Stick checking nerfed
* Better infrastructure for NA West and Oceania
* Increased threshold for dizziness

## Bug Fixes

* Warmup shown in game clock
* Stats showing up in scoreboard during warmup
* Competitive overtime clock broken
* Camera settings obliterated when changing
* Key bindings not saved between game sessions

## Upcoming work/In-progress
* Elo-based ranked matchmaking

To see what's being worked on and a list of known bugs, be sure to [check out the roadmap](https://trello.com/b/VlwX4V1g/hockey-development).

Controller support has been released, as well as a dizziness feature that comes along with it.

## New Features

* Client/server version verification
* Controller Support
* Dizziness
* Reworked keybind system


## Bug Fixes

* Warmup can go to OT

## Known issues

* Warmup sometimes displayed when joining game - This it due to a race condition when joining a game and receiving initial game data.
* Stick lag (Syrup stick) - This is a difficult issue that is fleeting, I have a few ideas as to what it might be.
* Competitive overtime shows strange symbols - Fix will be out in next build.

## Upcoming work/In-progress
* Dampening stick checking - In beta right now, and will be released soon.
* Higher threshold for dizziness
* Balucha is designing a revamped UI
* EU League!
* Pseudo-ranked matchmaking

To see what's being worked on and a list of known bugs, be sure to check out the roadmap:

https://trello.com/b/VlwX4V1g/hockey-development

After many requests, we've released controller support for all regions. Try it out now!

This week was mainly focused on DevOps in order to make our servers more efficient and releases faster. We also unblocked competitive play, which is starting this week!

• On-demand AWS instance manager
  
• Competitive mode in private games
  
• Endless overtime in private games
  
• Better stat file naming (was a Unix timestamp, now datestring)
  

• Instances getting jammed in incorrect state
  
• Goal counted when warmup mode ends
  

Erveon has controller support ready for release, it's blocked on a synced client/server release mechanism that I will be working on today and tomorrow.

To see what's being worked on and a list of known bugs, be sure to check out the roadmap.