Today’s announcement is on a shorter side, but very important for us nonetheless.

The BUCKSHOT ROULETTE T-Shirts are back on menu via our beloved friends and partners at Fangamer

If you ever wanted to have the Dealer close to your heart and you mean that literally, consider getting one right now since apparently the stock runs out fairly quickly. We’ve also infused a third of the T-Shirt stock with a special power to always have a live round whenever you saw off a shotgun. Who knows, maybe you’ll get one of them?

It’s a gamble and you seem to love it, right?

But that’s not all. We also now have The Dealer Pins.

Featuring both The Dealer AND The Shotgun from the BUCKSHOT ROULETTE Computer Game. You can even aim the shotgun straight at the Dealer’s face. How fortunate!

If there’s ever going to be a live adaptation of BUCKSHOT ROULETTE by Mr. Beast, this is gonna be a part of the dress code for sure. And the T-Shirt of course, so start preparing in advance.

Anyway, that’s all we have for you today. We’ll return to you soon enough with more messages, but for now here are the handy links to the merch:


If you're having a bad day, just remember that tomorrow could be a good day. It's a gamble. And once you realize you're gambling, you'll be happy again.

Because gambling is awesome.

Until next time,
Mike Klubnika, CR Channel & Fangamer

Hey, High Rollers! Just a small hotfix should be available for download now.

- Fixed the bug where the phone was giving incorrect information to players in multiplayer.

- Fixed the lobby list refresh button resetting range to near

It feels incredibly sentimental to write another one of these posts.

After all, underneath our ruthless and greedy personas of Illegal Gambling Ringmasters are still just a bunch of nerds who love seeing people enjoy our video games. Even if some of the time they’re mad at us for getting blasted with a hand sawed shotgun in the face.

So we want to thank each and every one of you for taking part in our dance between life and death and bringing BUCKSHOT ROULETTE to over 4,000,000 sales. Our dream of making 1 Million 4-People-Lobbies is now achievable!

But we don’t want to stop there.

We too are High Rollers at heart, so we declare that we’re aiming to double that number yet again no matter how much it takes!

So today we are launching one of the most requested features for Buckshot’s Multiplayer – a Public Lobby Search.

Hey guys! We've noticed an influx of reports about connection issues. Unfortunately, this is not on our end, and we can't fix it; however, we have a fix! Thanks to Bruno from Discord.

You can try port forwarding UDP ports 4379 and 4380 to allow outgoing traffic. Keep in mind, that not every router allows for port forwarding. More info at: https://portforward.com/

With it you can have your dance between life and death with people all across the world with no need for such old-school techniques like ‘Finding Friends’ or ‘Joining Discords’. The progress is inevitable and our partners at Volta Standard Electronics did their best to keep up with the times and we hope you’ll love this new feature.

Whether you are a newcomer in our night club or a long-time regular, we hope to see you back again and again and again and again and then some more.


We’re happy to announce that THRESHOLD, a solo horror project by Julien Eveillé is OUT NOW on Steam. If you’re craving more horror with gritty PSX aesthetics and devastating story, give it a go, wontcha?

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2580020/THRESHOLD/

No matter how crowded the club gets, there’s always a seat for you.
The night is coming to its end and a new day shall bring new terrors.

Thank you. And see you again soon.

Mike Klubnika & CR Channel

Firstly, we’d like to share some development news. The voices requesting matchmaking in Buckshot Multiplayer overwhelmed even the nightclub’s music and the gunshots in the basement — we’re working on adding matchmaking into the game in the next update!

Now we don’t have a concrete release date for it, but Lobby selection will be available soon and currently is in testing.

Speaking of. It’s almost the end of the year, and you’ve probably noticed something thawing out from its slumber (besides festive songs). It’s the Steam Awards, baby! We won’t be pointing any shotguns at you, but might we suggest nominating Buckshot Roulette for “Most Innovative Gameplay Award”? After all, the game gave birth to a small sub-genre of other games! “Best Soundtrack” and “Better With Friends” would be pretty cool as well.

Or maybe you dig the visuals of Buckshot Roulette so much that it deserves “Outstanding Visual Style Award”! Or maybe it was your personal “Game of the Year” (and if so, we’re very humbled!).

[store.steampowered.com]

In any case, consider nominating Buckshot Roulette, or other Critical Reflex games, like Mouthwashing, Arctic Eggs or THRESHOLD!

And if You’re not familiar with them, here’s a quick link to every single one:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2475490/Mouthwashing/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2763670/Arctic_Eggs/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2580020/THRESHOLD/

Vote! Or else… Jk, jk!
Mike Klubnika, CR Channel & Volta Standard Electronics

[discord.com]

Hope you’ve missed us – been a while since the multiplayer launch after all. We sure did.

Today we are bringing you our first substantial update for the multiplayer with some of the most requested features (that were easier to implement than the public matchmaking) and neat QoL improvements.

Thank you so much for giving us your feedback – both Mike and the CR Channel Crew wanted to make sure you all know that we see everything and we’re building a roadmap for future updates as we are writing these patch notes. We’ll chat about that later when we’re ready though, stay tuned for that in the near future.

And now, let’s get to the topic at hand:

• The starting health (or random) for each round.
  
• Up to 12 shell sequences in total (4 x 3 rounds) - any number of blanks or lives (up to 10 shells), or set specific sequences to be random. The number of items to grab per shell load can also be adjusted, or set to random.
  
• For each item, in any round: max item amount per player, max item amount on the entire table, and whether or not the item is used in-game. This allows games where there won't be enough items for everyone. Item grabbing will now be cut off for players that, in the middle of grabbing items, no longer have anything to grab from the available pool of items.
  
• By default, all match customization settings are set as the default that were used in previous versions. Changes can be reverted to default at any time.
  
• Players in the lobby will be informed of match settings that have been changed by the host, but will only see the category instead of the specific values.

By default, holding down the right mouse button, or the left trigger on controllers, will now let the player look around. Free look is enabled throughout most of the game unless the shell sequence or the round indicators are shown, or other similar events take place.

• The second volume of the soundtrack (mastered, with metadata) can now be found in the game files.
  
• Greyscale death can now be toggled under audio/video settings.
  
• Fixed a visual bug related to the basement window.
  
• Fixed the game softlocking when a player that is grabbing items disconnects, and all other players have finished grabbing items.
  
• Steam nicknames are no longer public.
  
• Fixed the disconnection message not working properly in most locales.
  
• Fixed the game crashing when stealing an item from a player that has disconnected.
  
• Fixed the cursor not being visible in some cases when exiting the options menu in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed a softlock for when a user disconnects during shell loading.
  
• Fixed a number of localization issues.

Your next favorite horror game with gritty aesthetics and a gruesome story is here. We’re happy to announce that THRESHOLD, a solo horror project by Julien Eveillé, is live now on Steam!

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2580020/THRESHOLD/

That’s all we have for today. You know the drill by now: let us know your thoughts about the patch and multiplayer in general on Steam Forums or at the CR Channel Discord and we’ll be back with a new volume of multiplayer improvements shortly.

No items, 1v1, Final Destination.
The competitive BUCKSHOT ROULETTE experience is here.
Enjoy.

Mike Klubnika & CR Channel

[discord.com]

The time has come. You can’t even possibly imagine how much we wanted to say these words ever since Buckshot Roulette was launched.


Featuring:

• New items for strategic mutual annihilation. No pills included.
  
• Brand new music to bop to while staring at the barrel
  
• A bunch of new faces kindly provided to us by Volta Standard Electronics
  
• And the special sting of betrayal from your friends and loved ones

Now, last time we spoke, we said, quote, “we don’t underestimate the capacity of you, High Rollers, to break games in half”. Turns out, we still sort of did.

Here’s the thing: due to the peer-to-peer nature of the multiplayer, we have identified a few issues throughout the beta, so we’re already working on patches and fixes for those. Throughout the coming days we’ll be closely monitoring the community reports and react accordingly, so if you’ve got any thoughts to share — make sure to leave them at the Steam Forums or at our Discord server[discord.gg] and we’ll certainly take them into consideration.

That goes not to just bug fixes, but game balance and even content ideas, so stay tuned for the future announcements for BUCKSHOT ROULETTE when the time comes.

We’re running a 15% sale on Steam right now, so if you have friends you’d want to play BUCKSHOT ROULETTE with, make sure to let ‘em know, wink-wink, nudge-nudge.


Since you've already gathered your friends together, we collabed with a bunch of awesome horror creators to bring you the ultimate Halloween night of thrill and terror.


Available now on Steam:
And if you’re looking to play BUCKSHOT ROULETTE (or any game from the bundle above, really) with random strangers on the Internet, you can use the matchmaking bot at our Discord server[discord.gg]

Embrace all the chaos and blood and rust and pain.
Welcome back. We missed you.

Mike Klubnika & CR Channel.

[discord.com]

Hey there, High Rollers!

Sometime ago we promised you more merch options and to fulfil that promise we have collaborated with amazing folks from Fangamer. You craved Buckshot Roulette fashion? Well, it's here — and it's glorious! A T-shirt isn’t enough? Don’t forget you’re also getting an exclusive 2.5 inches tall Digita sticker to slap anywhere you want.

Possible applications:

• Pure unadulterated 𝖋𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖔𝖓
  
• Scaring old ladies on the street with “Satanic Imagery”
  
• Flexing that you know a bit more about Kurt Cobain than an average 'Nirvana' t-shirt haver
  
• Signalling to fellow Buckshot enjoyers that you’ve survived 8 blanks in a row
  
• Reminding the Buckshot with Friends crowd about their roots
  
• Getting jump-scared by a mirror image of the Dealer in a dimly lit room

Okay, okay, I’ll stop yapping and just drop the links!


Mike Klubnika, CR Channel & Volta Standard Electronics

[discord.com]

We are extending our guest list for the BUCKSHOT ROULETTE Multiplayer Beta — and you are invited. So we’ll do the honors and say:


And here’s how you can get access to it:

• First of all, you need to have Buckshot Roulette in your Steam Library. An obvious step, sure, but we wanted to point that out just in case.
  
• Then right click ‘Buckshot Roulette’ and open Properties
  
• Select ‘Betas’ and enter the access code into the ‘Private Betas’ window. You will find the access code at our Discord server[discord.gg]
  
• Update the game if the download hasn’t begun automatically

Buckshot Roulette Multiplayer doesn’t have public matchmaking at the moment, so you will have to find people to play with the old-fashioned way — by making friends. You can invite other players to your lobby via Steam or with Lobby ID that is generated along with each lobby.

And if you still want to shoot (or get shot by) random strangers on the Internet, you can use the matchmaking bot at our Discord server[discord.gg]

We did our best to thoroughly test Buckshot’s multiplayer internally and among creators, but we don’t underestimate the capacity of you, High Rollers, to break games in half, so if you manage to encounter any bugs, please report them in this thread or at our Discord server, so it’d be easier for us to find. Feel free to leave your feedback over there as well.


We’re happy to announce that THRESHOLD, a solo horror project by Julien Eveillé, will be launching on Steam on November 19th. Your next favorite horror game with gritty aesthetics and a gruesome story is almost here.

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2580020/THRESHOLD/

And with that, we’re done here for the day.
We’ll be back on October 31st with the full release. And now…

Let the games begin. Let greed and adrenaline consume and fuel you throughout the night.

Welcome back.
Mike Klubnika, CR Channel & Volta Standard Electronics

[discord.com]

Greetings, High Rollers!

First of all, important news: CR Channel Multiplayer Beta starts on October 28th, so mark the date! Yes, it’s gonna be open beta, because after taking a look at the enormous list of applications for the closed beta, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to not grant everyone the access — which will be provided on our Discord server, so don’t forget to join it!

And while you wait for the inevitable Buckshot Roulette Multiplayer release, why not vibe to some sweet music? Today we bring you a mini concert consisting of unreleased tracks by Mike Klubnika himself, and the composer behind Arctic Eggs — Cameron Ginex!

Listen to Bump 9 on repeat until October 28th or push through a tough task with Exhaust. And then take a sip of eggnog to the tunes of Ancient Humans and chat with your friends, while listening to Whale’s Domain. This mini concert has only the best of what you’ve yet to hear!

But wait, there are more tracks available in these albums over at Bandcamp. So definitely check them out if this is your vibe:

And if you feel your soul longing to become a certified Poultry Peddler — definitely check out Arctic Eggs as well:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2763670/Arctic_Eggs/

See you again, High Rollers.
Let the shells roll.

Mike Klubnika, CR Channel & Volta Standard Electronics

[discord.com]