- Leaving Early Access! - Modern Ballfare v4.69 - 12 November 2023
THIS. IS. MODERN BALLFARE! That's right! We are finally leaving Steam Early Access! It's been a very wild few years and we believe we've added enough shiny new features and polish to officially call it a product! One we are proud of. There is always more we want to add, more we want to improve, and more crazy ideas that we want to try, so keep an eye out for that in the future. We've poured a lot of love, sweat, tears, and turds into this and it's come a looooong way from our first release. Thank you very much to everyone in the community that has helped and supported us throughout this process, you've all been amazing! NEW FEATURES There is so much to talk about! We've been busy, we've been having fun, and as always we've been finding as many excuses as possible to put weird silly things into the game. There is a lot to cover so I'm jumping in! Bosses From Hell The undead horde has som…
- Community Update - Modern Ballfare v3.5 - 23 December 2022
HELLO, CALL OF BEAUTY FANS! This started out as several seperate updates focusing around community requests. But just like in true Indie-Game-Dev fashion, the changes and improvements grew and grew and grew! So we've just wrapped 'em all up together instead. In summary, this update features a whole bunch of consistently requested features such as: Controller Support, Key Rebindings, flags from around the world and history, as well as a heap of bug fixes and improvements called out by you! NEW FEATURES Okay, so, some bad news first... The plugin we were using to help us keep track of the Steam leaderboard entries fell down, fell down pretty hard, and would keep falling down in a way that could cause the game to crash a lot. So we had to rip that out and make our own system. This means that hooray the game will crash a lot less, buuut it does also mean we have had to reset all the Steam l…
- Bots v3.0 - Modern Ballfare v3.0 - 13 April 2022
MEANWHILE, IN BALL OF DUTY... Today drops a major game update that completely overhauls the Bot systems in the game, adds many quality-of-life improvements, and sprinkles some bug fixes ontop too! How delightful! The main talking point this update is about how we've changed those baby-bot-balls you could beat with one hand into big-balled-bastards that deliver you pain! (But only if you ask them to by cranking the difficulty up ;) ). Read all about that, and more, below... BOT IMPROVEMENTS A massive overhaul of the PvP Bot system. The logic for how they target, how they move around the levels, and how they engage enemies in battle have all been completely rewritten. Bot IQ (difficulties) have been reworked and rebalanced to cater for a much wider range of skill levels of players and provide an intense (read: unfair) challenge on the higher difficulties. ;) All maps have been optimised g…
- Santa Season - Modern Ballfare v2.2 - 23 December 2021
Jingle Balls! Another big-balled update for ya just-in-time for the holiday break! It's got so much in it, like a new hacker game mode, unlockable weapon skins, poo leaderboards, a snow map, aaaaand an evil Santa that hunts down you and your dreams! What a delight! New Features A new experimental game mode launches today: Hacker Mode. This lets you fine tune your ball-stomping experience to match your own definition of 'weird and wonderful' through host settings like: Infinite Ammo, Instant Skill Cooldowns, Low Gravity, Flying Mode, and more! It's a chaotic mess that's just a joy to see, but don't take our word for it, here's what members of the community had to say about it in a recent playtest: Arizona Ranger "that mode is masterpiece" Mr.Abdlerahman TF2 "its pure chaos" Srebrny "True Eastern Europe Experience 10/10" Finisu4444 Is that Poland on a sled? The Valley map has become a fro…
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare 2.1.2 - 9 November 2021
G'day Ballstars! Another fine evening, and another fine Countryballs: Modern Ballfare update. Read all about update v2.1.2 below: New Features Canary Islands Ball has entered the game. ~Requested by people like "canarias caffe's" Five new achievements! This marks the start of us kitting out the game with achievements, and this is where we want to get YOU involved! Yes, YOU RIGHT THERE! To accompany each achievement will be a community drawn image. The first five you see right now were created by the lovely "Mr.Abdlerahman". Maybe some of the next five could be drawn by YOU ;). So dust off your crayons and get involved in our Discord if you like (https://discord.gg/xbseaXmM65). Extra details will follow soon! Tweaks Added a few more death text messages. ~Courtesy of "Thisnamesucks" Locked achievements now display a different image to the unlocked ones! Fixes Fixed an issue where the Paus…
- CO-OP ZOMBIE MODE BABY! - 26 October 2021
Hello again Ball of Duty fans, It's spooktober and Halloween is nearly upon us, which means it is time to release our ballsiest and spookiest update yet. We've been working mega-overtime on this one for many many moons and have had a lot of fun getting it ready for your grubby lil hands. Alright alright, so what actually is it? ENDLESS ZOMBIE MODE that's what. Oh, and you can play up to four players in online Co-op! It's a brand new way to play in Countryballs: Modern Ballfare! Journey to the dankest depths of hell alone or with your friends, mow down endless waves of the undead horde, explore and unlock areas of the map to find new weapon upgrades and perks, and finally prepare your balls for a good ol' boss battle for good ol' fashion loot! Does that sound awesome? Well it should, because IT IS! We also fixed and changed a few other small things whilst we were here too, check em out:…
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare 1.2.0 - 8 September 2021
Well Hello There Balls and Girls! Welcome to the latest for Countryballs: Modern Ballfare! In this update we wanted to focus on improving what the nerds call 'game feel'. This is us revisiting mechanics and systems that weren't quite up to the quality level we were happy with and to bring them more in-line with a game that is working its way out of Early Access. So, basically, this will mean the game feels a little bit tighter, a little bit more satisfying, and a lotta-bit more awesome! Everything from animations and fine gameplay details to network performance and perfecting that right colour of brown for the throwable poop - you are welcome ;) New Features: Our first historic flags! You can now dress your balls up as the: Soviet Union, Roman Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Kaiserreich Germany, Prussia, Byzantine Empire. Version 2.0 for the Bot AI is out! Now with improved pathing, performa…
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare 1.1.0 Update - 2 July 2021
Hello There Ballstars! We have been very hard at work over the last few weeks going through the game's systems to make it perform better for you all! Not only that, but we have a couple neat new features too. Check out the details for patch v1.1.0 below: New Features: Bot A.I. Version 1 is finally out! You can fill up your matches with bot enemies to fight until they get replaced by players as they join. Choose their difficulty and bully them right now in Free-For-Ball and Political-Negotiation game modes! (Bats n Balls AI coming in Version 2) There is now ambient battle music playing in the background as you, well, battle. Added a work-in-progress player spray system - press X to dump a temporary placeholder spray onto the map! Tweaks: Network Optimization: Enormous amount of work and effort basically redoing all the network functions so they are more optimised! Performance: Reworked a…
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare 1.0.3 - 14 June 2021
Hello Balls and Girls! Our last patch introduced a "situation" in which the police A.I. took over the server like Smith in the Matrix. We fixed that now and added several other things: New Features: - Server ping is now displayed - Added "Cycle All" to host games with shuffled game modes - Performance increases Fixes: - Fixed focus lose bug when joining Best regards The Modern Ballfare Team
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare - Hotfix 1.0.2 - 13 June 2021
Hello Balls and Girls! Content of our second hotfix: New Features: You can now use the Enter key to open the game chat Tweaks: Added two seconds of spawn protection Added more health to the Pinata so it gets a bit more punishment Increased the amount of knockback in Pinata game mode Fixes: Fixed another issue with the in-game chat closing itself Fixed an issue where the DeathHud would be visible after respawning Fixed an issue in Rooftops where the Perk spawner sometimes wouldn't display for some players
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare Release Weekend - 12 June 2021
Live stream of our release weekend! Showcasing the release of Countryballs: Modern Ballfare on Friday 11th June. Game will be streamed for one hour, demonstrating all game modes, abilities and levels. Join us for a night of smashing balls. If you haven't seen our trailer yet, check it out here! Come along and join our community on Discord, everyone is welcome! https://discord.gg/KqySE2Y6bc
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare - Hotfix 1.0.1 - 12 June 2021
Hello Balls and Girls, Hope you're enjoying our game so far! We released our first hotfix patch, you can find the details below: Tweaks: Hitting players in the Pinata game mode now knocks them back instead of killing them. The reload speed on the sniper has been reduced as a balance test. The size of the sword in the Dues Volt skill has been reduced. The health increase from the Iron Balls perk has been reduced. Fixes: Fixed an issue where the game chat would close itself whilst you were typing. Fixed an issue where the killfeed and game chat would be invisible for some players. Fixed an issue where the Slavic Disco toilets wouldn’t despawn if you died in the disco. Fixed an issue where the Slavic Disco toilet collisions could block the player. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please email [email protected] or join our Discord Server https://discord.gg/XpHy5V5sbK Best reg…
- Countryballs: Modern Ballfare Release Event - 10 June 2021
Live stream of our release day! Showcasing the release of Countryballs: Modern Ballfare on Friday 11th June. Game will be streamed for two hours, demonstrating all game modes, abilities and levels. Join us for a night of smashing balls. If you haven't seen our trailer yet, check it out here! Come along and join our community on Discord, everyone is welcome! https://discord.gg/KqySE2Y6bc
