Update #15: Trials, Chat and new content!

Hey folks! Hope you are ready for the holidays! We just added a bunch of great stuff to the game for this update! You can now play “Trials” (available in the main menu) in single-player mode and set your score! It gets to very challenging levels! Also there is a chat system in the game now that you can activate with the D-pad and send in-game messages to the other players! Hope you enjoy playing Havocado during the holidays!

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Webble Games

Hey folks! We have a free weekend this weekend so expect an influx of new players. Mostly bug fixes this patch but we did add a new tutorial at the start of the game and a sweet new melee weapon, the ice axe.

New Stuff

• Ice Axe
  
• Mine Launcher
  
• Moon level with lasers
  
• New tutorial

Bug Fixes

• Invite-Only games should work properly now
  
• Fixed a bunch of non-networked props in various levels
  
• Fixed some weird sound bugs with music stopping and Mute enabling itself randomly
  
• Fixed issue where player gets stuck on a vehicle if another player grabs it

Known Issues

• In some rare circumstances invited players don’t notify the server when they are killed (exit and re-joining should fix this)
  
• Hands and feet sometimes get stuck in various objects.This is a PhysX bug and we can’t fix it. BUT it is fixed in the next unity update so it will be fixed as soon as we update to Unity 2019.3.

Again, the game is FREE to play this weekend (December 7th and 8th)! Do not hesitate to invite your friends to try out the game, the whole point is to bring more players in the game for you to enjoy!

Have a nice weekend everyone!
<3

Webble Games

Hey all! We’ve been updating the build a bunch. The tuning has been in flux but it’s settling in now. Thanks to everyone who took the time to give us feedback!

• Added a lot more air control to allow players to recover from falling off the level
  
• Prone ‘butt slide’ doesn’t allow you to spin or move
  
• Added wall jump for fast traversal
  
• Base player speed down, acceleration up
  
• Simplified kicking

1. Added a crown for currently winning player
   
2. New beam weapons and laser guns
   
3. Added slow motion ending to rounds
   
4. Player scores now tracked and shown on screen. 10 points = win.
   
5. Player health is in, shown on screen with simple health bars and on players with Heart icons
   
6. Added Seeker rockets, halberd, and a few other weapons
   
7. Player spawn points randomized

• Fixed problem with friend list joining. Should work now; let us know if you have any trouble!

1. Made lots of levels bigger to accompany improved movement and tuning
   
2. Added 5 new levels
   
3. Moved prespawned weapons further from spawn

Thanks for playing! Be sure to stop by the discord if you have any thoughts about tuning or ideas and suggestions for new levels and weapons!

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-Webble

Hey everybody! The massive GUI update is live! We’ve completely redone the interface for creating and joining games of Havocado. This should make it easier to find a game to join and to generally get around in the game.

We’re also trying a totally different tuning for the game: it’s fast fast fast! You now automatically pick up weapons. You also HUCK stuff when you drop it now. Anything can be a weapon if you throw it accurately. We’ve added a dash move to the basic punch which helps to move around quickly and to dodge. We’ve also added a wall jump to make it easier to climb large structures and to make getting around easier. It’s pretty different. Let us know what you think!

Also due to multiple requests we’ve added a mouse-centric control scheme. If you join as a keyboard and mouse player, your character now aims at a cursor and uses WASD to strafe and move.

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-Webble

• Total GUI overhaul with better server hosting/creation and online game joining
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 4 new levels
  
• New mouse-aim control scheme for players without controllers
  
• New moves; throwing, dashing, wall jump
  
• Total tuning overhaul - much faster movement
  
• Screen shake and hit effects added

• Base player movement now done with joint movement rather than forces
  
• Player speed up
  
• Player friction much higher on the ground (can stop quickly even though you move faster)
  
• Fire time down
  
• Stun time down
  
• Guns fire faster
  
• Melee animations redone
  
• Retuned jetpack

• Fixed a million bugs we caused by redoing all this stuff
  
• Fixed mid-game joining while other people are loading the game (shouldn’t break now!)

Hello everyone!

This is an announcement to let you know that in a few days a new price is about to be set for the game, and this is the last chance to get Havocado for the price of $9.99!

Since the Early Access launch in April 25th, we have added 10 updates including new features, levels, weapons, items, events, game modes, and a boss fight (to be discovered after passing secret levels!)

If you have wishlisted the game or you were waiting for proper updates to be added since Early Access release, it might be a good time to purchase the game before it goes to full price ($19.99) next week!

Hope you enjoy the game!

Webble Games

Burnables and breakables are live on the main branch. Woo! This includes the new Bridge level as well as a bunch of fixes. The progress of making all the game objects breakable and burnable is ongoing so expect stuff that isn’t breakable yet to get there eventually. We’ve also altered the player on fire state.

We’ve also retuned the Havocado form, Backhoe, and Jetskis since they were feeling a bit weird after the PhysX upgrade. Feedback on those most welcome.

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-Webble

• New Suspension Bridge Level (burnable and destroyable, naatch)
  
• Lots more objects converted to flammable/breakable
  
• Wharf, Docks, Beach, Turkeyshark level all converted to be more breakable and flammable
  
• Added Flamethrower Objects
  
• Reworked Flare Gun to catch stuff on fire
  
• Fire propagation matrix
  
• Standing in water or spraying objects with water particles extinguishes them
  
• Player On Fire state
  
• Added a Slope Assist force so the player won’t fell sluggish running up ramps and inclines.
  
• Testing different shader for environments
  
• Added SSAO post processing
  
• Visual tweaks to lots of levels
  
• Testing some color changes and improvements
  
• Shipping containers now breakable with openable doors

• Tuned turkeyshark up a bit so he should chase people around more
  
• Player main rigid capsule size reduced to help with get-up explosions and general stability (may cause players to fall through cracks more)
  
• Retuned Tank, Backhoe, Jetskis, and Drones - physX upgrade messed up all the tunings so they had to be redone. Tried to make them faster/more brutal
  
• Rotation lock doesn’t engage when grabbed on to heavy things to prevent physics explosions. May have some unintended consequences - keeping an eye out.

• FINALLY fixed grab angle of melee weapons! :D
  
• Fixed ‘yeet’ player explosion bug aka “Taffy Mode”
  
• Fixed Transition textures not displaying properly
  
• Fixed issue where laser wouldn’t knock people out
  
• Fixed issue where getting a mushroom after bunny ears copied the player

Hey all! We’re ready to start rolling out two new, big, intertwined features: BURNING and BREAKING.

Breakables
Our intention has always been to make the environments destroyable. For this first version, we’re using a hand authored approach. That is, for each breakable object we design and build the broken version and hand tune it. This gives us a lot of control over how things break, though it is very time consuming. We’re investigating procedural mesh shattering but for now this method is stable, good for physics, and feels good. The main downside is time: it takes a while to authour broken versions of levels by hand.

Burnables
Flammable objects have come to Havocado. This system is really neat; each burnable object has a Propagation Matrix that determines how fire spreads through the world. This should lead to intuitive fire spreading throughout the level. We think it looks really cool! Leon has done a fantastic job authoring this system :). In addition, the player can now catch on fire. The player can also spread fire to other objects. The whole thing is a hilarious burning mess. We hope you enjoy it and find a bunch of new interactions we haven’t thought of yet.

As we work our way through the levels, we’re maintaining a Burn and Break playlist with levels that are currently being worked on. This will be set by default when the game boots, but you can switch back to All Levels by changing the playlist.

Note that this update is on the EXPERIMENTAL branch. We’ll push it to the main branch once it’s stable. Comment or hop on the Webble Games discord if you need help switching to this branch.

Right Click Havocado in Steam and go to ‘Properties’
Click on the ‘Betas’ tab
Click the dropdown and select ‘Experimental’


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-Webble


New Stuff
New Suspension Bridge Level (burnable and destroyable, naatch)
Flammable Objects
Breakable Objects
Added Flamethrower Objects

Reworked Flare Gun to just catch stuff on fire
Fire propagation matrix
Standing in water or spraying objects with water particles extinguishes them
Player On Fire state
Added a Slope Assist force so the player won’t fell sluggish running up ramps and inclines. May be a little too crazy. Feels better in general, though.
Testing different shader for environments
Added SSAO post processing
Visual tweaks to lots of levels
Testing some color changes and improvements


Tuning Changes
Player main rigid capsule size reduced to help with get-up explosions and general stability (may cause players to fall through cracks more)
Retuned Tank, Backhoe, Jetskis, and Drones - physX upgrade messed up all the tunings so they had to be redone. Tried to make them faster/more brutal
Rotation lock doesn’t engage when grabbed on to heavy things to prevent physics explosions. May have some unintended consequences - keeping an eye out.




Bug Fixes
Fixed Transition textures not displaying properly
Fixed issue where laser wouldn’t knock people out
Fixed issue where getting a mushroom after bunny ears copied the player

Hey all! This week’s updates is mostly art improvements and bug fixes. We’ve also tried out a new way of doing climbing - let us know what you think! It’s still not quite there but it feels like a different and good direction. We’ve also done some bug fixes and some improvements for the networked version of the player.

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-Webble

• Upped the stun threshold again for players to make grappling more viable and reduce accidental stuns
  
• Changed the climbing to be applied at a point at the top of the player which gives climbing a very different feel
  
• Removed the ‘forward’ force for climbing - may add it back at some point but for now it’s disabled to make climbing more stable
  
• Increased upwards climbing force
  
• Reduced rotation speed while on ground slightly
  
• Reduced gravity slightly

• Crusher level new art
  
• Trying out a ‘shark boundary’ on the minisub level
  
• Hole in the center of jetpack level larger
  
• Revised Aero ‘floating island’ level

• Fixed issue with spawn points being incorrect in some levels
  
• Fixed issue with Super Kevin’s blue flash not being networked
  
• Fixed boat in cave not properly networked
  
• Fixed cart in jetpack level not being properly networked

The first Havocado has been found! Team Aqua’s leader, Kevin, has arrived. Can you find Kevin? Can you defeat him?



With this update Aqua has invaded. The weapon spawners are brimming with team Aqua’s favorite weapons: Shark Launchers, Water Sprayers, Crabthrowers, Eel Guns, and the elusive Sea King’s Trident. Enjoy!

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-Webble

Full Changelog:

New Content

• Havocados now added to the regular spawn rotation!
  
• Aqua Havocado Form activated
  
• Added secret Super Kevin level and boss fight
  
  
  
  
• Aqua Transport Submarine has surfaced on many levels
  
• Clam Traps are everywhere
  
• Secret Aqua doors are everywhere
  
• Submarine sequence in Moon Pool level now functional
  
• Rain of Sea Creatures event

Tuning Changes

• Upped the stun threshold for players to make grappling more viable and reduce accidental stuns

Level Fixes

• Rearranged hot air balloons in more of a flat plane

• Fixed some issues with weapon spawner shufflebag
  
• Fixed some issues with Crabs when they break their joints

We decided to do a small update this week and push back the big Aqua update just a little bit so that it doesn’t overlap with E3. We have a new level featuring a water wheel, some new secrets, and two new Aqua weapons for this week.

Next week….
KEVIN.

<3

-Webble

Full Changelog:

• Added Water Wheel level
  
• Added Hot Air Balloon secrets
  
• Added Crab Thrower weapon
  
  
  
  
• Added Sea King’s Trident weapon
  
  
  
  
• Added SFX to eel electric explosion
  
• Turkeyshark now attacks players more aggressively

• Reduced firing speed of eel projectiles

• Fixed hot air balloon exit height
  
• Removed some of the vines and left hand section from Secret Cave level for network stability and clarity reasons
  
• Improved and simplified art in Jetpacks, Mountain Top, Plane Crash, Turret, and Turkey Shark levels

• Fixed stuck camera issue in Turret level
  
• Fixed a bug where ice wand sometimes didn’t freeze players
  
• Fixed multiple local players being able to hit Play button on title screen