Overstep fans,

We would like to share with you an update and the decision to move on from Overstep. While we haven’t fully announced the new title yet, we do want to share an opportunity with you to help in the evolution of team-based, acrobatic, and adrenaline-fueled action.

We have shifted all efforts to an expanded and enhanced experience called Contenders: Arena and we would love to invite you to a closed playtest that is running from Friday, July 14 through Sunday, July 16. If you liked Overstep, you are going to love all of the improvements in Contenders: Arena.

We want you to be a part of helping to shape the future of this one-of-a-kind experience! Join us, if you think you’ve got what it takes to be a Gladiator!

We can’t wait to see you in the Arena!

https://contendersarena.com/beta-access/



https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445510/Contenders_Arena/

Fellow Overbots! We call upon you to take part in our community trials competition! Prizes, orbs, things, excitement! Best part? Competing is completely free!







Starting now you have 48 hours to participate in the competition and win a little something for your steam wallet ;) All you have to do is...

1. Get on our discord.gg/Overstep
2. Jump into #event announcements
3. Check out the latest announcement!
All the information you need is there! Happy collecting!

Here is a clip of the last competition winner "Target" who beat the Launch Control map in 40.1 sec!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjG2SALbYdw&ab_channel=Overstep

We can't believe it's already been a year since we launched Overstep on Steam Early Access. It has been a year full of hard work, new experiences and it's been awesome to meet our players from all over the globe!

Your feedback has been the secret weapon for traversing the land of iteration and dilemmas, from rail grind speeds to map sizes. It's like you're a part of the team - we couldn't be happier about it!

• New in-game currency: Credits
  
• Earn credits by playing matches
  
• Skins can be purchased by Credits, except for Legendaries which remain OB-Only
  
• Adding a selection of Nationality based skins
  
• Customizable avatars and banners
  
• Skins now show on Trials and HUB
  
• Combat Tutorial Level
  
• Two new trial levels: Processing Plant and Launch Control
  
• Trial Times - Personal Records
  
• First version of the HUB
  
• Text Chat
  
• New competitive level: Atlas
  
• 2 New weapons: Hailstorm, and Meltdown
  
• Special freerun practice area within the HUB
  
• Kill feed

• Improved lobby lighting
  
• Music during lobby screen
  
• Fixed and brought back Gauss Gun
  
• Adjust the PLAY menu layout to welcome the HUB
  
• Tens of new and improved sound effects
  
• Online elements now working for offline levels (i.e. weapons on the HUB level)
  
• Option to configure the keys to use abilities

• Missing SFX on "continue" button at purchase screen
  
• Trial HUD is covering a part of the settings menu while in Trials
  
• Sound Effects volume slider not updating orb collection volume
  
• Volume sliders do not affect certain character SFX
  
• Camera shoulder setting doesn't work
  
• Windowed fullscreen doesn't work. Looks like normal fullscreen.
  
• Changing the quality settings and hitting apply sometimes doesn't save the settings
  
• Escape doesn't take you back a step in the in-match menu.
  
• In the settings menu. When Quality is not set to Custom, the individual Quality settings are greyed out. This is confusing some players who try to change the individual settings and not being able to do so.
  
• When using the lowest resolution value, texts on the loadout menu become off-centered and the matchmaking menu is almost unusable.
  
• Infinite running when pressing ESC during a match
  
• CTF mode; the Flag stays in water in Resort
  
• If you enter matchmaking and choose the Overstep Classic game mode. You sometimes get client-side flags that can't be interacted with.
  
• Weapons with splash damage do double damage
  
• Dead characters have no ragdoll behavior at all. The game still has the old dying animation.
  
• In the settings menu, using ‘reset to default’ reverts all settings to default, except for the resolution setting.
  
• Pressing F2 in Trials mode breaks it
  
• In the main menu, you can click on the friends and settings icons but only on the very top edge of their icons.
  
• Parties permanently block Trials mode, until restarting the game
  
• In the main menu, the platform meshes that the robots stand on have a gap between the top and the sides, allowing you to see a bit of the background through the platform.
  
• Heat mode doesn’t register kills/deaths count
  
• Blank widget avatar when not party host
  
• CTF flags are present in other game modes in the resort map
  
• Fixed inconsistency of skin rarity color between skins shop list and skin purchase popup
  
• Colored the skin labels by rarity on the store.
  
• Skin store sorts skins by rarity, corporation then, and finally name.
  
• Solved issue with the flag in robot's back not being replicated if players are too far from each other
  
• One of the party members doesn't travel to lobby upon successful match found

Join our CEO Marten and CTO Flavio on the arenas and tune in for a chat! http://twitch.tv/overstepgame
6PM GMT!

Keep an eye on our Development Roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/pM6hdG56/overstep-development-roadmap

• Added the option to start MATCHMAKING DURING A TRIALS MATCH!
  (access in-match menu to trigger it!)
  
• Added rag-doll behaviour on death.
  
• Added hit vignettes and sounds to the abilities.

• Added Orion Bonds to the top menu bar.
  
• Decreased the volume of certain menu buttons.
  
• If an opponent dies via arena hazards or the Kill-Z within 3 seconds of you shooting them, you will now be awarded the kill.
  
• Improvements to drone VFX.
  
• Added support to the display settings screen, so attempting to change graphics quality will automatically switch the quality preset to Custom.
  
• Improved the matchmaking status widget and added marquee animation to 'searching'.
  
• Bound shortcut keys to in-match matchmaking widget.
  
• Added feedback to the main 'Play' button so it becomes clearer that it can be pressed while matchmaking.

• Updated Blur and Ghost VFX, and fixed concurrency giving priority to the Ghost ability.
  
• Weapon VFX now works correctly with Blur and Ghost.
  
• Resolved miscellaneous code-based performance issues.
  
• Fixed player and party-member avatars displaying incorrectly in main menu.
  
• Fixed Friends icon number inconsistency.
  
• Fixed buttons not being clickable in some menus.
  
• Suiciding in Trials mode broke the game (administered anti-depressants to the code).
  
• Main menu avatar and invite fixes.
  
• Fixed size discrepancy with the flag in the Resort level (no more shrinking shark).
  
• Fixed minor issues with the matchmaking widget.
  

Keep an eye on our Development Roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/pM6hdG56/overstep-development-roadmap

• Game mode voting before map vote
  
• Team Deathmatch
  
• Flexible matchmaking in increments of 2 (Waits for 10 seconds to find a 3v3, then 10 seconds to find a 2v2 and allows 1v1 matchup after that)

• Finishing a trials level now shows your time and provides the options to retry or exit to main menu
  
• Power Drain damage/heal amount changed to 30 instead of 25
  
• New top center HUD element for the classic HEAT mode
  
• Audiovisual feedback with void/Kill-z deaths
  
• Removed collision on Resort plants
  
• Health pickups now give 40 HP instead of 20

• Look sensitivity doesn't save
  
• Drone not camouflaged during Ghost ability
  
• Rocket appears on the back during Ghost
  
• Smokescreen drains all heat
  
• Electroblast distortion persists after death
  
• Electroblast distortion does not affect heat bar
  
• Blue shark has a wrong texture applied
  
• Visual settings not working fully

Keep an eye on our Development Roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/pM6hdG56/overstep-development-roadmap

• The ability system first pass!

• ARTED VERSION OF RESORT!
  
• Starport map blockout version!
  
• Temple of Boom map blockout version!

• Respawn timer is increased from 3 to 5 seconds
  
• Visual feedback for player death on KillZ (void)
  
• ESC now closes settings, friends, and Orion Bond store screens.
  
• The Quick Game card got a simple re-design for better readability
  
• Width of keyboard bindings window was too small in some situations, it's wider now
  
• Added resolution settings
  
• Added windowed/full screen options
  
• New desktop icon
  
• Added Early Access text to loading screens
  
• A party widget so you can see who is in your party and their status (top right)
  
• Re-design for the Orion Bond Store purchase message
  
• Clicking the 'Purchase' now has a confirmation pop-up with the price. Before, it auto-purchased, players shouldn't be punished for a misclick.
  
• If a player clicks the empty space in the 'Redeem Code' area to select the input field, it does not work
  
• When finishing a run of Trials, the text should be tweaked from "You have found all the orbs!" to "You found all the orbs!

• Half of the enemy weapons show no VFX to the player.
  
• Rockets always appear as red when being carried. When an enemy is carrying the player team's rocket it should be blue
  
• Player level on the scoreboard says CorpName
  
• Scrollbars should be outside the container for skin and weapon selection
  
• Devastator has an incorrect icon
  
• In the Skins sub-menu, selecting 'Get Skins Now!' takes you to the Store page, but does not update the heading tabs at the top - it remains on 'Loadout' instead of switching to 'Store'
  
• After you have invited someone, the free slot retains the '+' symbol. Should have an invitation cooldown.
  
• OB Store button - wrong highlight color
  
• Settings Button - default state is currently "hover". Friends Button - hover state is wrong. Both buttons are missing an Active state
  
• The 'Coming Soon' needs to be more prominent on the League and the Hub options
  
• Sub-Menu Active button gray background should be the same as default
  
• After you click 'Capture the Flag' to start matchmaking, it greys out and looks like you broke something
  
• Friends Button - Statically showing 5 friends online
  
• Sub-menu (everywhere) Sound Cue plays twice, On click and on release
  
• Slight errors in Quick Game CTF description: "opponents" should be "opponent's", and "return to your spawn point" should be "return to your flag zone".
  
• While looking for a game, if you click the 'x' to cancel, the timer briefly flashes "00:-1"
  
• Turntables shouldn't be visible without more players in your party
  
• Controller buttons shouldn't be visible without a controller
  
• Starting QP lacks feedback on the queue starting successfully.
  
• Players will get stuck without being able to move if they shift + tab in an ongoing match
  
• The back button has the incorrect design
  
• If both players send and accept an invite, it will bug out the party system
  
• All party members should receive a notification when a player has joined or left the party
  
• No indication as to whether they non-party-host has entered matchmaking or not. Non-Party Hosts don't see matchmaking status
  
• Invite Button - default, and hover state are wrong
  
• When a player closes the game, the party is not disbanded on either side
  
• Sometimes, not all players show in the lobby before map selection display
  
• Settings - Pressing 'Reset to Default' does not reset all to default, it only affects Resolution Scale
  
• OB Store - There is a horizontal scrollbar due to sizing of the package buttons
  
• OB Store - Spaces between cards can be smaller
  
• When finishing a run of Trials, the text should be tweaked from "You have found all the orbs!" to "You found all the orbs!
  
• After you have invited someone, the free slot retains the '+' symbol

Keep an eye on our Development Roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/pM6hdG56/overstep-development-roadmap





This community challenge contains two perk levels, one at 100 matches, and one at 200 matches. As it's a community challenge, ALL games matter, and everyone will earn the perk rewards. If the community reaches 100 matches, everyone will be rewarded with 200 Orion Bonds. And at 200 matches, all players will earn the exclusive Vector Pearlshift skin! (...may or may not contain real pearls...). You have 14 days, so get Overstepping!




Every week, every Friday, our community comes together to bring the HEAT to the Overstep arenas. This time our CEO Marten and CTO Flavio are taking over the event!

Starting TODAY at 5 PM UTC!

Marten and Flavio will be streaming the game on Overstep Twitch channel and answering all of your questions.

• Party system - queue together with your friends!

• Voice-overs!

• You can spam invites repeatedly with no limit.
  
• The main menu is laggy, compared to the gameplay itself.
  
• Party system: Sometimes the player that gets invited will not join a found game and be left in the main menu.
  
• If you join someone's party when they are joining you the entire system breaks.

Keep an eye on our Development Roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/pM6hdG56/overstep-development-roadmap

Every week, every Friday, our community comes together to bring the HEAT to the Overstep arenas. Tonight, our CEO Marten is taking over the event!

⚡️Starting TODAY at 6 PM (UK time)!⚡️

Marten will be streaming the game on Overstep Twitch channel and answering all of your questions.

We also have a challenge for you - If we hit 30 concurrent players during the event, this legendary skin will be released with a price of only 50 OB, on Monday!



See you in the arena!

And tune in at https://www.twitch.tv/overstepgame

• Loadout system for weapons - choose which 2 weapons you take to battle!

• New main menu track, movement sounds, weapon sounds!

• Players sometimes spawns facing away from the level, on Comms Array.

Keep an eye on our Development Roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/pM6hdG56/overstep-development-roadmap

• Both stealing and delivering the flag now have VFX
  
• Ledge slide boost nerf! Max speed from sliding and jumping from an edge reduced from 2900 to 2400 units.

• The tutorial timer isn't working properly
  
• Item models don't load properly, even though the item itself is there
  
• Switching weapons can remove a round from them

• 2 new weapons! LMG and Shotgun.