This Kickstarter campaign main objective if to build the extended experience of Judgeball. Our game has been available in playtest for over a year now and players gave some crazy ideas. We enjoyed that so much that we really wanted to bring those into the game.

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Even though we have the money to finish the "base" game, we'd really like to let you guys get involved in the development of the extended experience of the game, which would include:
More champions ;

• More items ;
  
• A better ranked system ;
  
• New gameplay mechanics ;
  
• Cosmetics ;
  
• And much more...

This Kickstarter is also a great opportunity for us to reach out to new players and develop this amazing community.

Every Kickstarter backer will get an opportunity to get involved in the development of the game. It can range from joining us on Discord... to creating every aspect of an upcoming champion with us!

Judgeball: Lethal Arena - Update 0.5.2 - Patch Note - Wednesday September 13 2023

### New features

- New equipment menu UI
- Goal keeper's best friend
- Hero pose in end game score screen
- Redeem code
- Angel's fly kick (during lift off and landing)
- New tutorial objectives UI
- Demon's ability with ball in hands
- New light armors
- Mind ultimate friendly fire

### Improvement

- Forbid mapping several actions on the same input
- Hide ingame control helper panel with a controller
- Improve tackle's feedback SFX and VFX
- Improve gamepad navigation in menus
- Copy player's username in clipboard on click
- Show tackle/punch cooldown on reticle when down/fatalizable/invulnerable
- Add ultimate duration cooldown in UI
- Fatality sequencer shows score has changed
- New death game VFX (lava)
- Add message in client lobby indicating which players must be ready to start the matchmaking when being in a team
- Remove pass VFX on ally when player is in shooting animation
- Improve Balog's catch collider
- Disable and cancel all inputs when player is in "Warming up the crowd" state
- Keep teams composition in private after a game
- Remove draw column from leaderboard
- Disable private panel UI once leader started matchmaking
- Mind ultimate target's empowering
- Spectator mode set to automatic mode after respawn
- Preserve equipment choices after a game
- Add a setting to hide the controls helper on a match start
- Add social icons in game stats results screen
- Forbid ultimate cooldown less than 10 seconds inside the practice mode
- Cyborg's shockwave does not make loosing the ball anymore
- Cyborg's shockwave range decreased (half of the arena)
- Make demon eligible for a pass when invisible
- Forbid punch/tackle during invulnerability state
- Add bonus tooltip inside the "Equipment" panel
- Clearer information when an item cannot be equipped because of the gear score
- Dynamic punch/tackle cooldown according to the character's corpulence
- Grant score to Mind during ultimate control
- Make the camera movable when character is down
- New characters portrait
- New ingame gamepad helper image
- Hide automatically the crowd if graphic quality is not set to ultra
- Dynamic AI combat cooldowns based on the difficulty
- Make AI GK less strong against magnus shots based on the difficulty

### Bug

- Character spawn looking at his goal's direction before turning around
- BAAW boomerang sometimes does not trigger
- Ready poises are not correct after having done a game
- Goal splash screen displayed after the sequencer
- Player can do a pass to a teammate which is behind or down
- BAAW goes through the enemy even if punched
- Angel's fly small wings sound is not spatialized
- Character is ramping quite fast when put down for a fatality
- Character's tackle animation "cancelled" by a punch
- Names of new players are not displayed in the top UI until a global respawn
- Teammate has its name displayed in red after a first spawn
- Mouse not available on in game "Options" menu if it was displayed before/during a sequencer
- BAAW sometimes does not rebound back on character's hit
- Player is joining the second spectator slot first in the private panel
- Fatality VFX not completely displayed if graphics are set to low
- Camera in the wall when being on the left/right side of the goal death zone
- Substitute and end game score panels are overlapped
- "Shop" and "Equipment" menus overlap inside client lobby if pressed next to each other
- Character's description is not displayed in server lobby
- Player's camera movement is not working after a respawn if not moving the character first
- Gail and Cymoril not on the floor during Mind's normal fatality
- "Unbound" gamepad key displayed on the "Position" button inside the server lobby
- Pass is not caught by a teammate in tackle animation
- Tiny Balog seeing the pass indicator on teammate
- Mind does not have the control UI if taking damage/falling down during the previous control
- Gail's vibroblades stay active after the ultimate if a tackle has been done
- Character is playing the "fall hit" animation twice
- Cymoril falling from fly to "down" position after having received a cyborg's shockwave
- Backward arm animation when character is trying to catch a ball which is going over
- IDLE breaks are not played for the first start of the game
- Game frozen and not responding after having pressed the "Lobby" button from the end game screen panel
- Character seen as standing in the air after death in death game mode
- Exiting death zone while still inside another death zone cancel damage
- Server crash because of "Error: Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff"
- Trajectory of magnus shoot cannot be changed anymore
- Pass indicator displayed on player when the pass is changed recipient tardily
- Premade private teams are not kept after a game when going back to the lobby
- Spectator sees all players as dead in the top UI
- Player having a POV camera in the middle arena when there is 1 minute left in the game
- "ConnectionTimeout" failure on matchmaking request
- Charged shoot from Cyborg is falling directly on the floor after release
- Player game is blocked if Mind is closing the game while controlling him
- MVP player displayed with a black armor in the end game screen panel
- Main menu "Exit" button is skipped when navigating with a gamepad or keyboard arrows
- Top UI displaying a player that joined during the game as dead until the next global respawn
- Client game is crashing when a player is accepting an incoming invitation
- Camera in the wall if player is going along the wall from the GK zone
- Pass interception lead to a decisive pass
- Ultimate Gail tackle with neural booster has wrong cooldown color
- Stu is in the floor during the victory's sequencer pose
- Punch animation not correctly played when character is in disturbed or unbalanced state
- Light following the ball inside the arena is not displayed anymore
- Player having his name set to "Player" even after respawns
- "None" difficulty is displayed for AIs inside the practice mode
- AI characters list is not ordered inside the practice mode
- Goal sequencers camera not correctly positioned in practice mode
- "Missions" button is not displayed inside solo server lobby
- Overlapped "Equipped" and "Sold out" text if equipped item is not buyable when going inside the "Equipment" menu
- Pressing "Options" button from the "Shop"/"Equipment" applet does not open the options panel
- "Leave Party" button is not disabled when leaving a party from the "Shop"/"Equipment" applet
- FTUE equip item is not working anymore with the new "Equipment" panel UI
- "Display unowned" unchecked checkbox still displays unowned items inside the "Equipment" panel
- Cancelling item purchase from the "Equipment" panel does not give any focus back
- Shockwave's VFX still goes through enemy character while code logic is not
- "Bonus" section from the "Equipment" panel cannot be accessed with the gamepad if another item has been equipped
- Player spawns with another character than the one selected inside the server lobby
- Mind does not have the control VFX on enemy if previous control was "cancelled" because of mutual control
- Mind keeps the speed boost after having been controlled by an enemy Mind
- Character cannot jump if being controlled by Mind during a tackle
- Player spawns with another character than the one selected inside the server lobby
- Left joystick control is lost if player cancel home/quit from the server lobby while being the in equipment panel
- Respawn countdown going on during sequencers
- Movement is abruptly stopped when Mind control is lost
- "Home" and "Quit" popup confirmation message default option from lobby server is not working with the gamepad
- Mind controlled tiny Balog is taking damage when entering Mind's death zone
- Mind controlled character gravity is only decreased for the first double jump
- "CTRL+TAB" displayed in the shop panel when using the gamepad and then the mouse
- "Not enough NX" not correctly positioned in the shop panel item confirmation box
- Shop item information not displayed when pressing "A" after having switched from another tab
- New shop item in the list is highlighted when player is closing the current item information box
- Scoring with a Mind controlled tiny Balog shows goal sequencer with Balog's player
- Ball is not caught by ally on cyborg's BAAW during a Mind control
- Locked BAAW is not working anymore
- Player respawns without the low life red screen inside the tutorial mini arena
- No automatic fatality on Gail's ultimate tackle under Mind's control
- Player spawns as Cymoril with current loadout inside the tutorial
- Can validate sprint step without updating tips
- Impossible to move camera after receiving a hit
- Scoring and dying at the same time implies player without controlled pawn
- Using Mind control on throwing character while goalkeeper does not clear spline
- Golden helmet and armor are displayed by default even if not owned
- Stu is in the air inside the solo victory screen
- AI gets stuck on speed plate
- Player can do a tackle during the GK diving
- Old tutorial tips are still displayed
- Armor is not updated on the fly in the server lobby upon equip
- Gail is doing her fatality sequencer in the floor
- All menus/buttons stay disabled on FTUE item equip
- Player blocked at ultimate step of the tutorial
- New equipment panel inside the practice mode does not allow to equip unowned items
- Ingame helper displays the keyboard image when pressing the "Select" gamepad button
- Character does not have the correct equipment for the first online game
- Lobby automatic gamepad inputs are taken into account when remapping inside the options panel
- Disabled angels characters can be "selected" using the gamepad