- Virtual Battlegrounds Forever - 17 August 2022
Hello Warriors! This is a final update and goodbye from the development team at CyberDream. Creating Virtual Battlegrounds with our community has been one of the greatest pleasures of my and our teams’ life. I am sorry to those of you whom had hoped that Virtual Battlegrounds could be more. But I am eternally grateful for the experiences we’ve had building and playing this game together. Battle on Warriors! If you’re a developer or are interested in learning about the development of Virtual Battlegrounds I encourage you to read this blog post here where I did a deep dive postmortem. It was quite the epic journey. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/wqa2ko/the_mystical_journeys_of_an_indie_game_developer/ UPDATE VERSION 0.7.4 Hound On a positive note we do have a final update to share with you all. Frankly speaking we’ve been sitting on this update for some time in hopes that we co…
- Season 2 - December 17th - 11 December 2020
Hello Warriors! We're excited to share with you the biggest update since the launch of our game back in April coming December 17th. Season 2 - Official Trailer Season 2 - Update We've got a lot of BIG updates to share with you about season two. They include warehouse district, new lobby system, shotguns, weather modes, art overhaul, new killroom, new gun range and a plethora of minor improvements including bug fixes, optimizations, minor features and design tweaks. Warehouse District Welcome to the warehouse district! It's our biggest and most thoughtfully designed location yet. Zipline across forklifts, traverse the inner workings of multi floor store rooms, or take cover behind storage containers. Pump Shotgun We built a new gun handling system for the pump shotgun with bullet spray, pumpable rounds, and loadable shells. Expect new shotguns to start popping up all of the map. The new…
- Virtual Battlegrounds - Water is Lava - 13 November 2020
Hello Warriors! Join us this weekend for a limited time only Water is Lava event! Are you ready for a brand new take on a battle royale? All of the water in the game has been turned into lava and its rising! Planned Matches Friday at 6PM ET or 11PM UTC Saturday at 1PM ET or 6PM UTC See you on the battlefield soon warriros!
- Spooky Weekend Event #2 - 6 November 2020
Hello Warriors! Because we had such a good time last weekend we decided to extend the spooky event into this weekend too! We'll have more matches planned this weekend the same times as last weekend! So join us Friday at 6PM EST, Midnight and Saturday at 1PM EST. See you on the battlefield warriors!
- Virtual Battlegrounds - Spooky Update - Mid Season Update - 29 October 2020
Hello Warriors! Welcome to our biggest update since the start of Season 1! It's EA - Racoon 0.7.2.0. On top of our limited time spooky update this week we're also releasing our mid season update. This comes with a lot of quality of life improvements, bug fixes and a few new features. We'll share it all in this post. New Parachute https://media.giphy.com/media/g8obRg88FUpRSthbn3/giphy.gif A lot of you asked for it and now you've got it! We've got a new physically controlled parachute in the game. You now how to pull your chute and control it by gripping the left and right handles. Make sure you pull the chute or you'll splat! Revolving Game Modes Starting with our spooky game mode this week. We're planning on releasing new revolving game modes every week for the rest of the holiday season! With the exception of the spooky event this week game modes will only be available during limited t…
- Virtual Battlegrounds - Spooky Halloweeeeen - 23 October 2020
Hello Warriors! Who's ready to get spooky? Not only do we have a big mid season update dropping next week (more info on this later) but we're also releasing our new spooky game mode for a limited time next week! This spooky game mode will run from October 29th to November 3rd next week! So hop in and lets get spooky. Teaser Trailer In case you haven't seen it already, here's the teaser trailer for the spooky update dropping next week. Exclusive Pumpkinman Skin Log in and play at least one game during the spooky event to receive an exclusive pumpkin man skin. bOooOOo Dark Mode Hope you're not too afraid of the dark. ːsteamhappyː Zombie Bots Zombies go brrrr. Events / Challonge Registration Because we know that lobbies aren't always full and we want you guys to have a shot playing the new game mode with lots of people we're planning some events during the last week of October! Make sure t…
- Spooky Update - Holiday Season Plans - Season 2 Information - 16 October 2020
Hello Warriors! It's been a couple of months since we've given you an update so we wanted to fill you in. We've got two of our biggest updates to date coming up soon. Number one is our spooky update which will release during the last week of October and number two is our season two update which will release in late November or early December. The season 2 update will be by far our biggest update to date! Spooky Update We promised you a "Mid Season Update" last time we spoke, unfortunately we were not able to finish it during September like we had planned. Instead we'll be releasing it with our "Spooky Update" at the end of the month. This update will feature everything planned for our mid season update like a new lobby and queue system a plethora of bug fixes, a few new minor features like physically controlled parachutes as well as a new spooky game mode. ːsteamhappyː Holiday Season /…
- EA Patch 0.6.9.0 (Cat) + State of VBG Update - 29 August 2020
Hello Warriors! There's a few different things we want to go over with you today. First is the current state of VBG with the player counts, second is a very quick overview of our immediately planned updates as well as the season two update we have planned. And lastly is the patch itself. If you only want the patch notes scroll down until you see the cat! Current State of VBG First off we want to thank you all for your continued support of Virtual Battlegrounds. Our team is still very excited for the future of VBG. We're aware that player counts are low right now but we're confident we can bolster player numbers again. We have a lot of quality of life and game play improvements planned for Virtual Battlegrounds and once they're in place we'll begin our marketing efforts again. Our goal has not changed from making the best VR Battle Royale that we can. Next Steps Mid Season Update We have…
- Alpha Patch 0.6.7.0 (Squirrel) Stability Update - 22 July 2020
Hello Warriors! Big stability patch coming today. After rushing to get season one out we decided to buckle down and focus on bug fixing and performance for our next update. We know that VBG while at it's core has been fun it hasn't been without its issues. This patch should tighten up a lot of those issues. More fixes coming soon. Full list of patch notes. New Features BHaptics Suit Integration Quality of life improvements Improved kill trading. Should be much less likely to occur, we found an issue in the code that made it twice as likely to occur as it should have been. Directional icon on map for helicopter trajectory. Double the points for winning / losing in ranked games. Should make for faster ranking up. Game uses about 15% less memory. Slight CPU performance increases. More coming soon. Visual improvements to the ladders. Bug Fixes We've confirmed fixed these internally Fixed en…
- 33% Off Virtual Battlegrounds to Start Season One! - 26 June 2020
Steam Summer Sale 33% Off! Virtual Battlegrounds Join Season One that Launched on 20th June! Buy Now! https://i.imgur.com/VhqjQfl.png https://i.imgur.com/Jv9Oc5g.png A quick list of some of the major features we've added this season, and a link to shiny photos and the full patch notes list below at the bottom. Air Drops Ranking Skins New Map Area: Sandford Tournaments New Guns and Grenades - R90 - Five-Seven SMG - BFP - 50 Cal Pistol - M2 - Grenade Launcher - Origen - Automatic Shotgun Full Season One Update List The Dev team invites you to join us in our Official Discord Server where you'll find LFG channels and get an inside view in to the development of the game.
- SIGNUPS: Virtual Battlegrounds Season One Global Tournament: June 20th 10AM PDT - 18 June 2020
Virtual Battlegrounds Season One Kickoff Tournament USD$1K in Prizes 20th June 10AM to 1 PM Pacific Rules and Signup at https://Valvr.com YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR AN ACCOUNT AND JOIN THE EVENT AT VALVR.com to be eligible for prizes Season One runs for the summer, and brings new weapons, new nades, new skins, new map area, optimizations and more!
- Season One Update Released - 18 June 2020
Hello Warriors! It's finally time to drop our first major update! Welcome to Season One. Season One We're going to go over some of the major features we've added this season as well as share a full patch notes list below at the bottom. Air Drops Ranking Hybrid Elo System: The ELO system wasn't working very well for VBG. The game being a battle royale and not having a large enough player base to do competitive matchmaking made for a system that wasn't very reliable, fair, or forgiving especially for players with very high elo. Instead we've opted in for a new system that combines a traditional point system with an elo system. We're calling it our hybrid elo system. New Rankings: With the hybrid elo system we've also shipped out new rankings to make ranking up more fun. Now you can flash your ranked emblems around proudly. Way cooler then an arbitrary number. Recruit - Bronze equivalent V…
- VAL Season One Tournament - 12 June 2020
Hello Warriors! As some of you may already be aware we've got some exciting news! We're hosting a tournament in cooperation with the Virtual Athletic League on June 20TH from 1-4PM EST. There will be $1,000 in cash prizes. It's time to find out who the real Legends of the Virtual Battlegrounds are. In order to receive a prize for winning YOU MUST SIGN UP. SIGN UP HERE: https://www.valvr.com/ How to Signup? Sign up as a player on the VAL page and then on the carousel on the right way for VBG to pop in and then select Opt in. Where to Watch? During the event we will be hosting a Twitch stream that anyone can hop in and view. We'll have a casting team that will be casting the feeds of several of our known top players compete. https://www.twitch.tv/valvr_esports The Casters Clipart A veteran caster who used to go by the name of KaboomTV. He's been playing VBG a bunch and will bring of lot o…
- Virtual Battlegrounds (EA Patch 0.6.4.0 BullFrog) - 8 May 2020
Hello Warriors! It's finally time for us to exit the insect kingdom and make our way to the ultimate bug hunter the BullFrog! Here's our patch history since January this year. Alpha Black Ant -> Physics Jumping, ProTube Support, Dynamic Lighting Alpha Fire Ant -> Underwater VFX / Swimming, Landscape rendering, Basketball Mini Game Alpha Lightning Bug - > Tutorial, Voice Overs, Bots, Steam Friends Invite Alpha Tarantula -> Squads Mode, Ballistics, Credits Screen, Youtube Player in Game EA Mantis -> Gun Range, Melee Weapons, Killroom, Helicopters rework EA Bull Frog -> Improved Loading times, Performance Optimizations, and better inventory management. The big focus for this patch has been performance improvements, loading times and better inventory management. We've heard everyone's complaints and we've worked rigorously the past two weeks to make Virtual Battlegrounds more accessible. Im…
- Virtual Battlegrounds Patch 0.6.9.5 Mantis - 24 April 2020
Hello warriors! This post. We want to go over two things with you today #1 our plans for EA, seasons, vehicles, more guns, more map locations, tournaments etc! And #2 talk about our patch today and review launch week. To the people that had bugs/fps issues on launch week. To be frank, we dropped with a lot more new and unexpected issues. We want to sincerely apologize to anyone that experienced any major bugs or performance issues during launch week. But there's good news! We've DEMOLISHED a ton of the bugs and performance issues people have been reporting and we also fixed a bunch of player exploits like levitating and wall clipping. Honestly without the support from everyone during EA though critical and positive it would have been so much harder for us to make the huge strides we did this week. It's obvious people love the core of our game. We only expect to go up from here. Here's a…
- Dev Livestream , 5PM Eastern - 24 April 2020
Dev LIvestream Q&A on the Road Map, Discussion on development, some background, and what's next. https://www.twitch.tv/Seanybaby2
- Virtual Battlegrounds Mantis Patch EA 0.6.2.0 - 15 April 2020
EA Patch Mantis 0.6.2 Hello Warriors, Here's our first big patch update that release today with Early Access! Expect us to be hot-fixing and update the game daily / weekly for at least the next month. After that we'll probably roll into an official update schedule. New Helicopter We've replaced the old helicopter with a model that is similar to an Osprey! Killroom In an attempt to make waiting for a match more fun, we've built a killroom to kill some time and your friends before the game starts. Cross Platform Leaderboards We know that the VR userbase is split up between Steam + Oculus. These players should be able to compete with one another, because of that we've rebuilt the leaderboard system to support cross-platform competition and multiplayer. Voting Board Players can now vote for the favorite features they want! We want to work our community to help us design the best VR BR that…
- VIRTUAL BATTLEGROUNDS RELEASES ON STEAM! - 15 April 2020
https://i.imgur.com/xwJ66r0.png Climb anything, blind fire corners, dual wield weapons, master melee combat, slide to cover, zipline across the map… it’s something special as a large scale multiplayer shooter in the dawning age of VR multiplayer FPS. Limited Time Release Discount, get good in the new CQC Arena or four other training areas, private lobbies available to all, new Leaderboards and ELO Ratings, load up in the new tiltrotor aircraft, and shoot it out across the 4 square KM map optimized to run ~20% faster than the Beta. What's considered mastery of Battle Royale in VR? Enter the Virtual Battlegrounds today and see if you got what it takes. VR BR in 30 Seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSE1E-pkrg Slap fights, throwing knives, magical apples, physical locomotion, full LIV and MR support, solos & squads PvP, and solo and co-op PvE. VBG has got you covered. https://media.…
- Celebrate Virtual Battlegrounds Launch Day and play with the dev team! - 15 April 2020
Launch day with the devs Time Wed Apr 15th, 2020 @ 6:00 PM EDT Permanent Discord Link https://discord.gg/tNwTx3g Drop in and chat with us in Discord any time. Another event is planned for 9PM PDT for the NA West Coast gamers!
- Virtual Battlegrounds Status Update - 7 April 2020
We’ve been through the 36 hour Open Beta and made some great memories here with the first large scale event for Virtual Battlegrounds. The last VICTORY was won, the lights went dim, and the Virtual Battlegrounds Open Beta comes to a close… with ragesaq still on the server. The feedback was immeasurably valuable, those who joined us in Discord can already see the bug fixes, tweaks added, and improvements made in rapid succession during this event. And with that being said I have some unfortunate news. Because of the current situation with this pandemic some of our partners are working from home and have been unable to complete some required steps that have to be done before we’re able to release tomorrow. Because of that we have to postpone our release date until further notice. ATM our target is April 15th, we believe that this date is attainable but it's currently out of our hands. If…
