New version incoming, in honour of a very special day!

• Upgraded to 3Dception v1.2.4 (significant performance improvement)
  
• Upgraded to latest version of Unity / SteamVR
  
• Various bugfixes and performance improvements

As always, please continue to post any bug reports and feedback in the Discussions area of our Community Hub. Remember, if you die in the game, you die for real.

Hi Everyone,

Firstly, many thanks for everybody's patience. We've been very busy over the last few months working on the next update and are pleased to say an online multiplayer mode has now been added. It's a free update, so existing owners can log into the Steam console to download it, and new owners will automatically receive it as part of the full game.

To clarify, all the standard offline game modes are still available, so you now have the option to choose from one of the many stylish A.I. opponents, or go head-to-head on the same machine with a friend, or online against other players. Online and offline modes are kept completely separate.

In order to make way for multiplayer, the physics engine did require an overhaul, and so saved shots, breaks, and speed pool times will need to be reset again, since the data format has changed. It was completely unavoidable, and many apologies for this. However, all game progress data has been preserved (trophies, unlocked opponents and membership cards).

To get started, choose 'Multiplayer' from the 'Game Mode' menu and enter the lobby. Here you can chat to other players, select the game type and number of frames, and send and receive game invites. You can also chat to other players in-game. If no players are currently active, then to save you waiting around, select the 'Push Notifications' option before you exit the lobby. Then you can go off to play against the computer, or practice, and the game will tell you when other players have joined. Or you can 'Alt+tab' out, and a bell will ring when someone appears.

If you have friends on Steam with the game then this is ideal, since you can invite them to play. However it's also possible to connect with other players both in and outside of Steam too.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and thanks again for supporting the game!

Multiplayer features:

• Choose from 8-ball (US or European rules), 9-ball or 6-ball pool, Snooker (with 15, 10 or 6 reds) and Killer Pool. Single game, best of 3 or best of 5.
  
• Lobby and in-game chat.
  
• Earn 'Reputation Points' for a win, and improve your ranking.
  
• New trophy to collect, and a new Steam Achievement.

Additional improvements:

• More responsive physics engine allowing for better cue ball control and trick-shots.
  
• Introduction of European/UK 8 ball rules (in addition to American 8 ball), which are fully customisable, with separate ball sets and table design settings for these game types.
  
• Left mouse button now cancels a shot that is being set up.
  
• Visual improvements to main menus and in-game menus.
  
• Visual improvements to pool and snooker tables.
  
• Difficulty of top level AI players has been toned down slightly and is now more realistic.
  
• Various other minor bug fixes and enhancements.

Ok - thanks to all the beta testers we've just pushed V0.2 (build 135) onto the main branch. WOOT!

We finally made it! So much has gone into this update it won’t actually fit into this announcement so I've put the bullet points below and will link to a change log asap

Battle Seas – completely overhauled this and changed it to Crusades
Crusades now includes the following activity types:
• Battle
• Race
• Fleet Battle
• Survival Battle
• Siege
• Challenge – these come in various sub-forms like treasure or hill climb.



Crusades 1 & 2 are available, we’re working on 3 & 4 and hope to roll 3 out within a couple of weeks or so with 4 coming a little time after that.

Save data – as we’ve changed the game so much all your current save data is now redundant unfortunately. Your ships will be fine but your star ratings will be deleted. Sorry.

Good news everyone: you get to beat them betterer in our new crusade mode – We’ve lifted the restrictions here so you can play any challenge with ANY ship you like. Oh yes.

Blades – these now actually do Melee damage which meant a change in their collision data, which may give some of your ships issues. If your ship gets instantly destroyed when you set sail, remove these blades and try again. Essentially you are not allowed to put anything underneath the actual blades now, before we you were.

Joints – any block not actually attached via an actual attach point (i.e. cheating) will drop off.

Localization – Players can now make their own translation mods! We've added the instructions to the "Localisation and You" Sub-forum so go check it out if you fancy translating our little game into your own language or even just a comedy language version!



Mechanical Blocks – We’ve added a bunch of cool mechanical blocks including a pivot joint, grabber, spring detonator, winch & chain and various rotating blocks. We’re hoping these will fuel your collective creative genius and manifest into some simply jaw dropping ships!

We did a few videos but I'm reasonably sure you guys will do much better:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZlXWBVcK-ijREuC7wW68Q

Melee – Melee weapons now do damage to other blocks and we’ve added a number of new melee blocks to boot. I think you’ll like the spiked roller of doom….

Harpoon – YES! It’s in finally! You can collect ‘things’ with it and use it to pull your enemies closer before you hit them with a devastating massive spiked ball to the peanuts.

Rockets / torpedoes – new blocks, try them and see. We like to put the mine on the end as a warhead…

Key Assignments – you can now change all blocks and controls to whatever you like via the new key assignments windows. Press ALT whilst hovering over a block to bring it up.

AI improvements – yes we’ve done some of these too



There’s a load of other smaller tweaks, changes, rewrites, fixes & improvements but I’ll let you experience that yourself as you play

Ok, get playing and give us your feedback!!

thank you!
SPG.

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