Slapshot Rebound update 0.59.0 is now available to download on PC. According to the official Slapshot Rebound patch notes, the latest update 0.59.0 addresses some bugs and crashes.
Previously, a major update 0.59.0 added new changes, fixes, and gameplay improvements.
Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues since the release. Today’s Slapshot Rebound version 0.59.0 will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Slapshot Rebound Patch 0.59.0 Notes
NEW
- Added bots
— You can now find two new practice modes, one with a goalie bot and a full bot match where you decide the team sizes
— In the future, you will be able to add bots to your custom matches online too - Added an animation to the scorebug when a team scores
- Added several extra crowd sounds to improve the ambience relative to the map (you can turn it down in Audio -> Ambience)
— More crowd cheers during the match
— Crowd anticipates the end of the match, cheering the players on as the clock ticks down
— Crowd cheers for goals and the end of the match
— Added a slight delay to the goal horn to improve realism - Added an experience tracker at the end of a public match
- Overhauled the game info widget (in queue and in lobby), also made them accessible to controller
- Added a leave penalty of 5 minutes for leaving a public match
— Some of the matchmaking issues were people’s ratings being completely wrong because they left so many matches.
— Now, it’s faster to finish your match rather than to leave. Make the best of it! I’ve seen some crazy comebacks. - Added a sound for time warnings
- Added an icon of the item’s type to the store items
- Added controller support for the region selector
Matchmaking
Matchmaking has had a bunch of changes between the last update and now. Thank you to everyone that helped us finetune it so far.
There’s still a lot of improvements coming to it, we’re monitoring and balancing queue times, match quality and other factors.
- Capped the rating for the matchmaker, improving queue times for people on the extreme ends of the ratings without a large match quality penalty
- Made matchmaking in your own skill range faster by setting a default start offset for the rating range search
- Increased the soft cap of the rating search range to compensate for the wider range of ratings in the new system
- Sped up the search for the matchmaking range between your rating and the soft cap
- Slowed down the search for matchmaking range past the soft cap, increasing match quality
- Backfill is now entered into the matchmaker as its own entity, meaning it’ll do a search just like players instead of taking anyone in range
— This means that players that have been in queue for a hot second won’t have a disproportionate amount of backfills - Fixed an issue where backfills would cause everyone’s new calculated ratings to be way too high or low
Fixes
- Fixed occasional incorrect container panel rendering of dynamic lists in UI
- Periods toggle and match length options are now greyed out for non-owners of the lobby
- Fixed and improved the net physics interactions and added support for multiple pucks
- Fixed the call puck feature making the puck go to bots
- Fixed FPS cap not applying to main menu
Cosmetics
- Added hat trick and axe hats from the original Slapshot
- Added shark back item
Other
- Updated our Unity LTS version which may provide some performance enhancements (or break everything, who knows!)
- Updated the graphics texture of the goal nettings to make it look a bit more realistic
- Updated the ice scratches texture that fades in over time while you’re on the ice to be more visible