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Summer Update

Aug 19, 2022

Music!!

No longer are the games going to be silent! The current system has a unique song for each map, it may change in the future.

Lift & Acceleration Cannon Sounds

The lift and acceleration cannons got some nice punchy sound effects!

Bots Can Use Lifts

Been working on this one for a while. They still aren't 100% using them when they should but are a lot of the times. Still going to be tweaking this one.

New Fire System

Yes another new fire system... This time you shouldn't really notice a huge difference but under the hood there's a lot that's been changed. This will make changing firing stats much easier on my end. On the user side you'll notice a more consistent speed to charge correlation.

New Knife Detection System

Again on the user side it won't be greatly noticeable. The new system does use less network data so lag should be reduced.

Engine Update!

Balloon Blast is now running on Unreal 4.26! Maybe one day I'll get it up to 5...

Bunny Hops

A new jump system is in place allowing players to perform a sort of bunny hop out of speed boosts or acceleration cannons. By consistently jumping a certain amount of momentum is preserved.

Debris Icon Animations

The debris UI icon will now animate while changing states.

Actual Loading Screens!

WOW

Thank you everyone for your support! I know updates are few and far between these days, I'm becoming more and more limited on my free time. But I will keep addressing bugs and feature requests as much as I can. I do have more features in the backlog that'll really spice things up!

See you out there!

-Leland <3

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Winter Update!

Dec 17, 2021

Winter Map Visuals

Every map has been given a winter/holiday look! Enjoy!

Speed Boost Sound

Speed boosting will now result in a fancy new sound effect.

Score Update Animation

Score increasing will now result in a fun little animation of the score text. It seemed to work perfectly on the first try... I'm either getting more reliable at programming or I've completely broken everything. Only time will tell.

Thanks everyone for your continued support! It's been quite a hectic year so I've had little time to work on my own projects. I really hope to have a more regular schedule in the new year.

Thanks again, have a safe and happy holidays.

-Leland <3

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Fixes & Minor Changes

Jun 1, 2021

HUD elements will be properly cleared if a player is forced to spectators.
Added background to server list.
Added "No Servers Found" text if no servers are found.
Made the scores bigger and added stroke to the text.
Added score to the spectator HUD
Added scores to replays
Set an FPS cap. This will reduce GPU use without effecting performance.

Thank you everyone for playing and for all your feedback. I'm hoping to keep quality of life updates coming as long as I can. Thanks!

-Leland <3

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Free To Play Update!

May 1, 2021

New Knife Fire System

The fire system has been overhauled. The knife movement has been smoothed on clients. Prior to this update the knife would jitter considerably on clients but now it's buttery smooth.

General Changes

Removed mini map. People weren't really using it and it felt weird and out of place. If there's demand I'll work it and see about re adding it.
A draw condition. Draws were very unlikely but they did happen. Now a draw results in an actual draw condition. Prior it would give the win to blue team since they were first to get checked in the win check functions.
Rotation speed scalar removed while charging. Prior your rotation speed would scale with however long you were charging your shot for. Now it's a set value immediately after starting the charge.
Did a lot of network optimizations, in general gameplay should be smoother.
Updated translations
Max fire range has been reduced by 30%. It was far too easy to camp double point zones and snipe people as they were approaching.
Decreased the distance at which you could pickup your knife.
Pressing escape will now clear all HUD elements and rebuild necessary ones.

Bot Changes/Fixes

Bots are generally far more aggressive.
Bots will now have a 50/50 chance to target players who have popped their balloons.
Bots will now retrieve their knife before returning to spawn.
Bots now have a 1 in 3 chance of continuing to chase players once they (the player) leaves the double point zone.
Bots now have a 1 in 3 chance of continuing to chase players after their (the bots) balloon has been popped
Fixed a bug that could cause a bot to switch between going to spawn and the double point zone in rapid succession.

Some New Sounds

A knife pickup sound.
A knife swoosh sound as it flys passed the player.

Fixes

Fixed a scoring bug that could cause a team to gain extra points if there were too many bots on the opposite team.
Fixed a bug that could cause a fired knife to fall through the ground.... Mostly.
Fixed a bug that could cause a knife to not despawn after pickup.
Fixed the warning beeps if a player doesn't have a balloon after 70 seconds. The sound will now destroy itself properly and will now stop if a player obtains a balloon during the sound.
Made all clients display whether they have a knife or not more consistent.
Fixed jump pads causing some FPS drop.
Fixed a bug that could cause joining clients to not get a gameplay UI.

Thanks again for all your support! For those of you who bought the game check your knives for a special skin. Thank you!

-Leland <3

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Balloon Blast Is Going Free To Play!

Apr 20, 2021

Balloon Blast will be going free to play May 1st!

Thanks to everyone who purchased Balloon Blast! For you, you'll be getting a unique in game skin as a token of my appreciation.

Hope to see you all out there!

-Leland <3

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Some Fixes!

Apr 18, 2021

Fixed some duplicating UI bugs across clients
There's still some issues of UIs getting stuck on screen. Now if you press escape it will clear all HUD elements

Bots

Fixed a bug that would cause bots to not be able to path to spawn

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Super Small Patch

Apr 17, 2021

Made the console available in the main menu. Access the console by pressing "/"
Some more groundwork for a future update. Had to push to Steam to test some stuff

Updates are going to get a little slower and smaller for a bit while I work on this bigger update that's upcoming.

-Leland <3

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Minor Changes And More Update Groundwork

Apr 14, 2021

Spawn Blueprint

Created a blueprint for spawn points. This shouldn't effect gameplay (as long as I didn't break anything) but will allow me to more quickly add the spawns to new maps
It may also be useful for a super secret update... Stay tuned

A More "Modular" Text Chat

Again shouldn't effect gameplay but the text chat UIs and function calls have been added to separate interfaces. So if in the future we needed different player pawns adding the text chat to them will be much easier

Other Stuffs

Added a debris icon to the main gameplay HUD. If you made the balloons too big you weren't able to see the indicator lights
Fixed camera rotation for spectating clients. Before if a client were spectating their player models (which were just floating cameras) wouldn't rotate with with players
Custom knives now show up in replays
A save game fix on startup which contained some graphical settings

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Minor Changes And Hint System

Apr 12, 2021

Hints!

I've noticed quite a few players not using their abilities
A new hint system is now in the game. It will prompt key presses for speed boosts and debris drops
More will be added later like for firing. I jut wanted these two released as quickly as possible since they're your main abilities

Other Stuffs

The replay menu will no longer be locked if there are no replays in the folder
There's now a refresh button in the replay folder
Some behind the scenes tweaks to customization and saving functions for future updates

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Yet Another Update!

Apr 8, 2021

Replays... Again

Seems like this always needs improving
Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing 2 replays to be recorded per game
Changed the naming convention of replays to make a little more sense. "#_'mapName'_'playerName'"

Host Settings Screen

The host settings window has been in need of updating for a while, not just in function but in style and looks
All settings set by the host will now save for each session of Balloon Blast
Score limit and invincibility time will now save without having to press enter. Previously taking focus off the text box without pressing enter would cause it to revert to its old value

Other

Fixed a bug that would cause the player list to remain on screen after round end
Still working on customization functions. Some players may end up seeing some special knives appearing on their rides in the coming weeks ;)

Thank you everyone for being so patient with development. I wish I could work on Balloon Blast all day but my "real job" takes up most of my time. Thanks again! I hope to keep updates rolling as much as possible.

-Leland <3

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