We made the AI easier to beat — Kraken Smash: Volleyball Steam update #218133

We heard your suffering The game has been out for more than a year, and we had time to analyze videos of people playing it. We realized there were two...

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Kraken Smash: Volleyball (1391050)
Event type
patch note
Published
22 May 2022 - 07:35:34 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
We heard your suffering The game has been out for more than a year, and we had time to analyze videos of people playing it. We realized there were two huge pain points: - It is very hard to control the ball with the body of a squid - Our AI is a bit too skilled at the game Make squids bouncy again For the first issue, we tried a bunch of solutions and decided to mix them together: - Squids now have a bigger collider - We now add some upwards and forwards forces to the ball when a squid touches it with its body - There is a small vaccuum effect centered around each squid to slowly attract the ball This will avoid the number one mistake we noticed players were doing, being a bit too far away from the ball when it is above them, and letting it fall just in front of them. Dumb down the AI We heard you. We know we messed up. It was not fair to publish a game with this AI. To be quite frank, I...

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