Boomerang Fu News

Confuse your friends and family with our brand new power-up: Decoy! Now you can play your favourite party game twice as much in half the time with an illusory copy of yourself.

We've also added loads of bot improvements, tweaks and bug fixes requested by our wonderful community.



[h2]NEW POWER-UP:[/h2]

• Decoy: make your enemies question reality itself by dashing to create an illusory doppelganger
  

[h2]BOT IMPROVEMENTS:[/h2]

• Added "bots wear hats" setting in the Options menu
  
• Bots now revive fallen teammates!
• Bots now get surprised when enemies teleport on Easy and Medium difficulty
  

[h2]NEW FEATURES:[/h2]

• Characters in the Character Select screen now remember the last hat they were wearing
  
• Added Traditional Chinese language option
  

[h2]BALANCE TWEAKS:[/h2]

• Reviving unarmed teammates now automatically gives them one boomerang
  
• Made alt characters slightly more obvious in character select screen
  

[h2]BUG FIXES:[/h2]

• Fixed disguised players wearing two hats when killed
  
• Fixed alt character button prompt not showing for Players 2-6 on character select screen
  
• Fixed revive UI still showing after round end
  
• Coffee can no longer wear Captain's Hat (because the brim clips with Coffee's rim)
  
• Updated Korean translation
  

Tell us what you think of the new update (and especially tell us if you spot any bugs!) in Steam Discussion or join our Discord community.

[h2]BALANCE TWEAKS:[/h2]

• New characters will now unlock before any hats unlock
  

[h2]BUG FIXES:[/h2]

• Fixed z-fighting liquids spilled by dead characters
  
• Fixed falling characters being unable to catch boomerangs mid-fall
  
• Fixed errors in Japanese translation
  

As always, if you'd like ask questions, share ideas or report bugs for future updates, jump into the Steam Discussion or join our Discord community:

This small update adds a new Spanish (Spain) translation from our wonderful community translators. We also fixed a few spicy bugs from yesterday's Grilling Spree Update.



[h2]NEW FEATURES:[/h2]

• Added Spanish (Spain) community translation
  

[h2]BUG FIXES:[/h2]

• Fixed error when unlocking hats for new characters
  
• Fixed Hot Sauce's walk animation when holding two boomerangs
  
• Fixed missing footsteps on Burger and Hot Sauce
  
• Fixed ill-fitting baseball caps on Carrot
  
• Fixed errors in Simplified Chinese translation
  

As always, if you'd like ask questions, share ideas or report bugs for future updates, jump into the Steam Discussion or join our Discord community:

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Our first major content update has arrived! And it's 100% free!

[h2]NEW CHARACTERS[/h2]
Introducing two spicy new characters: Burger and Hot Sauce! Play a few matches to unlock these two characters fresh off the grill.



[h2]NEW ARENAS[/h2]
We added six new arenas to the playlist. There are some fun tricks and traps in there that we think you'll really like.



[h2]UNLOCK COSTUMES[/h2]
Every time you play a match, you will now earn experience points that let you unlock hats and costumes to garnish your favorite characters with. There are over 20 unique outfits to collect while you slice and dice your friends with boomerangs.





[h2]FEATURES:[/h2]

• Added unlockable outfits!
  
• Added new playable character to unlock: Hot Sauce
  
• Added new playable character to unlock: Burger
  
• Added 6 new arenas!
  

[h2]BALANCE TWEAKS:[/h2]

• Sudden Death: the final position when Sudden Death activates is now on a random location on the map instead of dead centre
  
• Coffee looks 5% smaller (but physics and damage colliders are still the same)
  
• Golden Boomerang: golden timer fills up at 1/3 speed while players are out of bounds (to nerf players running straight out of bounds to buy more time)
  
• Golden Boomerang: maximum cap on collected power-ups increased by 33%
  
• Golden Boomerang: maximum cap on collected power-ups continues to increase with every round
  

[h2]BUG FIXES:[/h2]

• Fixed players with Move Faster double-dashing in mid-air (and then falling through the floor afterwards as a result of these shenanigans)
  
• Fixed visible dead body after dying out of bounds while Disguised
  
• Fixed slightly wonky menu navigation for custom power-ups
  
• Improved collisions with rotating obstacles
  
• Stopped rotating obstacles squishing players at extreme speeds
  
• Switched "Taunt" button on single Joy-Cons from bumper to trigger to reduce accidental "Taunt" presses
  
• Fixed Watermelon's double shadow
  

As always, if you'd like to ask questions, request features or report bugs for future updates, jump into the Steam Discussion or join our Discord community:

This month's update comes with a bunch of balance tweaks and bug fixes that have been requested by the community. Want more chaos in your matches? Crank the power-up spawn rate to 2x and find out what happens when you read too many magical glowing recipe books.



[h2]NEW FEATURES:[/h2]

• Added adjustable power-up spawn rate to Modifiers menu
  

[h2]BALANCE TWEAKS:[/h2]

• Golden Boomerang: players don't cause slow mo effect unless they are holding the Golden Boomerang
  
• Golden Boomerang: in matches with 2-3 players, players must hold the Golden Boomerang for longer to win
  
• Players spawn in slightly faster at the start of each round when there are 5+ players in a match
  

[h2]BUG FIXES:[/h2]

• Fixed slow power-up spawn rate with default Modifiers
  
• Fixed friendly fire making teammates' dead bodies disappear
  
• Fixed auto-balance shield replacing earlier power-ups after collecting a 3rd power-up
  
• Fixed pause menu freezing if opened during in the final second of a Golden Boomerang round
  
• Stopped Boomerang trails disappearing after several matches are quit early on rare occasions
  

If you'd like ask questions, request features or report bugs for future updates, jump into the Steam Discussion or join our Discord community: