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Super Powered Battle Friends News

Current State of SPBF

Hey everyone, I just wanted to post an announcement here to let the players who still keep up with the game know what's been going on.

During 2021 we spent a lot of time porting SPBF to GameMaker Studio 2 and we have proper bots and proper rollback netcode in place as well as a matchmaking server. The palette system was reworked to use the full palette of each charcter, We even have 8 player local! These changes are in an internal branch at the moment as they were being actively developed and tested up until December 2021. The code is nice and clean, the pipeline for adding new characters/movesets/stages is all there however, many of the characters are still missing attack animations and more.




During the pandemic our artists enrolled/graduated school and are now full-time programmers at other places. This has left us shorthanded with our art workload and until we can find new artists/animators development is kind of at a stand still.

If you or anyone you know is looking for work as a pixel artist (primarily an animator) please don't hesitate to join our discord and let one of the programmers know!

As a final note, We aren't giving up on the project and we have faith that we'll find one or two artists/animators to help us continue our roadmap

Opulent Owl 1.1.5 Hotfix

  • Fixed Vulnerable Falls
  • Fixed Daxter Down Special
  • Stability Improvements



Be sure to follow the development on our Discord!

Steam Build Updated: Opulent Owl 1.1.5

  • AI refactoring begun for unique personalities per character
  • Dash boost exists on all characters
  • Main menu changes
  • Increased Air control
  • Various bug fixes and stability fixes


Please join our Discord and feel free to ask us anything!

-Prazon ːlunar2019piginablanketː

SPBF Stage Hotfix

We're working with some great artists to bring more life to our stages and we wanted to show a glimpse of what we're working on specifically in our current dev branch which can be accessed in the Betas tab under Properties when Right clicking on Super Powered Battle Friends in your Steam Library!



Astral Abyss specifically received a complete makeover on the background assets and the stage assets.





Dark Rossa received an upgrade on the mountains and lake which is now animated with a fish that can drop by randomly

The tree on the left of the ruins/cliffs is now animated

The right side of the ruins has power lines coming down which are animated and a bird may perch there sometimes.

There is also a new satellite on the ruins... someone must be living there?





As always please drop by our Discord and join our community to stay updated and involved with Super Powered Battle Friends!

-Prazon

SPBF Opulent Owl 1.1.4 Linux Native returns

Please access this update in our Dev branch by using the access code "superbetafriends" without quotation marks!


This update features the return of native Linux support and updated portrait artwork for our latest character addition Theodore!

Changes:
  • native linux builds
  • engine upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.24
  • stability improvements
  • fixes for dinput support