We are happy to finally release the last two online game modes for Nothin’ But Net; Team Speed-Ball and Knockout!

In Knockout, two players will be selected to compete to see who can make the first basket to either eliminate the other player or save themselves. The player who is in jeopardy must make a shot before their opponent, otherwise they’ll be eliminated from the match. If the player in jeopardy makes a basket first, they are safe and move to the back of the line. The mode continues until only one player is left standing. Knockout can be played with between 2-4 players and the order of players is randomly determined.

Each round will function as follows:

• The first two players are moved to the court while the rest will spectate above.
  
• The player who is in jeopardy (player 1) gets one chance to make a basket before the player attempting to eliminate them (player 2) can begin taking their shots.
  
• If player 2 makes their shot first, then player 1 is eliminated from the match.
  
• If player 1 scores first, then they are safe and move to the back of the line.
  
• The next two players are selected, with the original player 2 being put in jeopardy to defend themselves and a new player taking position of the eliminator.

Movement
Movement functions the same as in Speed-Ball, in that if you do not have the ball you can freely teleport around the court. If you do have the ball, you can throw it down the court to move with it. You’ll automatically be teleported to the new position and rotated to face the ball so that you can catch it. Beware though, the game will not teleport you automatically if it detects a high probability that you will make the basket so plan your movements wisely or waste precious time chasing the ball.

Team Speed-Ball is the first 2v2 real-time pick up style game in Virtual Reality! This mode functions like regular Speed-Ball, with the exception that you are no longer automatically teleported when throwing the ball down the court. Instead, you’ll need to join forces with your teammate to move the ball and score your baskets.

The rules are simple:

• First team to 20 points wins.
  
• You can only hold the ball for a total of two consecutive seconds. Dribble the ball to hold it longer or toss it to your teammate.
  
• Toss the ball to your teammate to move it down the court.
  
• Try to steal the ball when your opponent throws it, misses their shot or tries to dribble.

Ball Handling
To keep the game moving at a fast pace, you can only hold the ball for up to two consecutive seconds. There’s a power meter on around the ball, which will tell you how much time you have left to hold it. If you’re running out of power, consider dribbling the ball while you decide your next move.

Scoring
Team Speed-Ball follows traditional scoring rules – anything below the key is a 2-point shot. Anything beyond it is a 3-point shot. The first team to 20 points wins the game and bragging rights.

We’ve also included several smaller fixes:

• Updated Speed-Ball leaderboard scoring to factor in time played, in addition to total points made.
  
• Moved the custom assets folder from the game install location to the users directory of Windows.
  
• Updated the tutorial so that you no longer need to click "okay" before starting the action.
  
• General tutorial text updates.
  
• Fixed several bugs.

Even though these two game modes are the last that we have planned, we’re still very committed to making sure it’s a great experience while playing them. Please send us your feedback! Let us know of any issues you run into, any part of the game that feels off or even anything that you love. You can reach out to us via:

• The community Forum on Steam
  
• Tweet to us at @whatupgames
  
• Message us on Facebook[www.facebook.com].
  
• Email us at support@whatupgames.com

Today we’ve released an update that adds support for online lobbies, push-to-talk, gives you access to your statistics outside of the end of the game mode and contains many performance and visual enhancements (among other things)!

We’ve added support for push-to-talk in voice. You’ll need to enable this by default in the menu. To turn it on, push the lower half of the touch pad on the Vive controller or the X button on the Touch controller.

You can now choose to create a lobby, choose a lobby to join or connect to a random lobby. When creating a lobby, you can set the max players (up to 4) and the visibility. This gives you the ability to make a friends-only lobby or keep it public and meet some new friends. If you’re interested in only playing Speed-Ball, make sure you set the max players to 2.

You still need to click the ball icon on the top right to access the online panel. Instead of having it automatically connect you to a game, you’re given a lobby screen:

It’s important to note that the lobby screen does not automatically refresh (yet). We’ll be adding support for that in an upcoming update/patch.

H.O.R.S.E. has finally gotten a much-needed update to the scoreboard. You’ll now see how far along you are in the word progression, instead of the raw score.

We’ve also addressed an intermittent bug that sometimes caused a turn to not end when a shot was made or missed. Please let us know if you still see this occur.

Speed-Ball is a very fast paced game mode. Sometimes, it’s difficult to tell where the ball is located. To help with this, we’ve added little green arrows that point the direction of the ball when it is just out of your field of view.

Please let us know if this helps or if you’ve got any other suggestions on how we can improve on this game mode.

Last, but certainly not least, we’ve added your 2-point and 3-point overall statistics to the Game mode selection screen. We’d considered adding an entirely new screen to browse through your statistics, but once we started to build it we felt it made the most sense to be on this screen.

We've also included several smaller fixes:

• Aligned the hoop ring size to regulation.
  
• Scores now show up on both scoreboards, instead of just one.
  
• Corrected lighting and reflection errors.
  
• General performance and visual improvements.
  
• Gave Kevin a new set of facial expressions..
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the backboard power meter to look distorted.
  
• Fixed several bugs.

Tutorial

• Fixed a bug that prevented the tutorial from shutting down when transitioning to online mode.
  
• Changed the settings screen so that the settings that need to be adjusted are more obvious.

Speed-Ball

• Defending players can no longer steal the ball before the advancing player has thrown it for the first time.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes-caused players to spawn twice.
  
• Online leaderboard now takes into account time played in addition to overall score, as everyone would always have a max of 20 points.

• Sometimes you are not automatically teleported when advancing in Speed-Ball. This happens when the toss goes near/through the net of the hoop.
  
• The spin pad does not always shut off when online. This does not impact game play.

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