Hey all, this is a super massive update I put together over the past week as a thank you to you guys for sticking around through the lack of updates in my exam.

This update was released in two parts (but I'm writing this announcement now) so you may have already noticed some of the changes!

Introducing a new Point Capture map!
Fight building to building on the most vertical map yet! Its based on the apocalyptic decaying ruins of a metropolis.

Improved all of the existing maps with some new stunning vegetation, flowers and bushes :)

Introducing the flare gun, a very powerful secondary explosive gun

• It has a slightly smaller blast radius than the launcher, but sets enemies on fire and has a faster fire rate
  
• It's also useful for grenade jumping! Shoot at your feet to get launched up, or jump and shoot at a wall to get launched sideways.

• The black hole gun is also an explosive gun, but works pretty differently to the other explosives in the game
  
• Left click to fire a black hole, and right click after you've thrown it to freeze it wherever it is
  
• From there it will suck in and trap enemies. It can be escaped by running if you're not too close or grapple/dash
  
• After 5 seconds it explodes killing everyone in its radius, but be careful as it works on you too!
  
• Useful for protecting flags, bases or areas

Banana Gun

• You can now right click to rapid fire the banana gun (it's a lot less accurate at long range though

Freeze Gun

• Fixed a bug that caused the recoil to go crazy and make it un usable

Burst

• No more camera shake/recoil on this gun either

Mine launcher

• Now deals 2X more damage

This is an always active ability. When you are damaged, your opponent takes 22% of the damage they deal to you, which lends you the advantage in every gun fight :)

This ability works super similarly to the med-kit in that it's excellent in both free for all and team modes (and in fact you can equip both the med kit and ammo kit!).

• All allied players within its radius are granted a massive 1.5X fire rate and reload speed boost

You'll now rank faster because only a small proportion of players get to the final ranks and experience everything the game has to offer.
There's now 20 ranks instead of 15 (with less XP per rank). - Your rank may change/increase this update based on the total amount of XP you have.

• New winter menu and music
  
• New directional walk animations
  
• Improved Russian, Spanish and Portuguese translations significantly

• Strengthened the anti cheat measures
  
• Coop minigame renamed to co-op for clarity
  
• Added a tutorial for buying/equipping abilities
  
• Fixed a bug where every ability was unlocked in the respawning armoury
  
• The water gun/pressure washer stream now always faces forward
  
• Fixed a bug with the smoke/bubble grenade where throwing it at your feet midair would cause it to explode on your feet
  
• Fixed a bug with the costume (DLC) equipping in the armoury where it would get reset each time you loaded into the menu
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the fire and freeze gun effects to not be applied
  
• The maps shown in the map votes will now show up slightly more evenly

Finally...one last note
To celebrate the holiday season, until next update I've dropped the prices of all coins by 60%, which means (if you really wanted to) you could unlock every weapon skin in the game right now for $6.40 ;)


As always, enjoy the update & head on over to our discord server[discord.gg]!

Hey everyone, here's another big patch! Next update will be a pretty awesome content update.

1.28.3 Changelog:

• Localised coin pricing (coins are now cheaper/more reasonably priced for people in Australia, brittain, etc.)
  
• Added 3 new achievements
  
• New art for all achievements
  
• New streamer/recording options in settings!
  
  • You can now enable/disable ingame UI. All thats visible is a square crosshair which can be edited out by overlaying a white square with 50% opacity
    
  • You can now enable/disable player name tags
• Fixed the ingame global leaderboard
  
• Your place in the world is also now displayed in the stats in your profile
  
• Slight improvements to the armoury
  
• Fixed a bug where the controls options menu would open scrolled fully down
  
• Added a new translation system
  
• Added a cool new effect where the speed of the game slows down 8 seconds before it ends
  
• Fixed a bug where voting for the castle map wouldn't disable the buttons for voting for other maps
  
• Improved the DLC banner UI
  
• Fixed various UI bugs
  
• Fixed more out of map bugs in the castle map

Hello everyone! It's been a while since the last big update...and that's because I've been hard at work polishing up the game and implementing a bunch of really small features/ bug fixes

It's time for another huge content update!

The screenshots really don't do this map justice—the amount of detail I put into this one is incredible :)

Play Capture the Flag on two sides of the same castle! There's huge verticality, bridges, hideouts, and parts of some towers are even enterable!

Other

• I've also bumped the number of maps in the map vote to 6 to accomadate

This is a new always active passive ability

• The first bullet of the mag deals 1.5X damage. For example, the damage for the AK is something like [48, 23, 23, 23 etc]. For the shotgun pistol, one of the pellets is randomly chosen to do 1.5X damage
  
• Overall it's a pretty unique ability, there will be more abilities soon that modify game rules or centre around combat rather than movement. Let me know on the Paint Warfare Discord[discord.gg] if you have ideas!

• This replaces the old 'Heal' ability with something that's also useful for cooperation team-based modes. If you bought the old heal ability, you'll have this automatically unlocked
  
• You can throw the medkit down to your feet (instantly drops) or anywhere you like
  
• It deals a small explosion where it drops where it heals 30HP for you/teammates in the radius
  
• It then heals 10HP every second for 8 seconds for you/teammates standing in the radius
  
• So essentially if you see one of your allies are low, you can throw the medkit at them and heal them :)

The glider has been due for an overhaul for ages, it's been hardly used because it was weak and it also wasn't very fun to use.

• Momentum: if you fly downwards for long/fast enough, you build up momentum in your glider which you can use to fly up really fast as well
  
• Buffed the overall speed of the glider
  
• Added wind SFX depending on the speed, and the camera now zooms slightly depending on how fast you're going
  

• The radar was very weak, so now on top of showing enemies through walls, it now displays directional arrows around your crosshair to reveal nearby enemies to you

• Super speed boots now increase speed while midair as well

This was the suggestion of some of the members on our community Paint Warfare Discord Server[discord.gg]. I've only added it to the new castle map for the time being.

• Reworked a lot of the code base to minimise bugs and speed up future development time
  
• Fixed the consistency of double jumping—sometimes double jumping would not always work
  
• Fixed the glider not activating correctly
  
• Fixed the equip buttons not updating in the respawn armoury when changing from primary -> secondary weapons
  
• New quality option: Max (increases shadow rendering distance and makes them look a lot nicer by smoothing them)
  
• Smaller bug fixes

• Fixed performance issues
  
• New invert Y/X mouse options
  
• Organised keybinds menu
  
• New curated featured video feature to support Paint Warfare creators
  
• Fixed the grapple being "locked" respawn armoury
  
• Fixed a bug where the ingame pause/options menu would become broken and not show up
  
• Fixed some interactions in the menu so you can use the [esc] key to exit more menues

I feature quality videos I genuinely like—they can be in any language Paint Warfare supports and I'll show it to that game audience.

Most likely I'll find it on youtube but if you've made something you're genuinely proud of, send it in the Discord server or email it to me and I'll check it out!

alex@paintwarfare.com

I've been pretty busy doing a lot of freelance work and studying for exams recently so I apologise that the patches have been small incremental improvements.

My goal is to get the game into a super polished, bug-free state at the moment so we can grow our player base and then I'll add features :)

However, some exciting news is that I'll be dropping 1-2 new maps later this week