Blood Sweat and Pixels - Update Log

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0.3.4 Update Log (3rd January 2024)

Changes related to 0.3.3 based on community feedback.

  • Mobile backpack buttons are bigger
  • Round time is now 7 and a half minutes, rewards changed to reflect new round time (max bits is now 150 at 3000 points)
  • Cherry bomb pie and wheelie bin throwing now uses the most recent mouse position by default
  • Fixed private servers showing end screen rewards
  • Changed six shooter fan damage from 30 to 15
  • Increased six shooter fan bloom
  • Fixed pummel seed throw cooldown

Update Log:

0.3.3

Revamp to all current items for better mobile controls, controller support (coming soon), quality of life changes and future proofing. As well as lots of general item buffs and bug fixes. Also hit markers

Item System Revamp

  • Holding down Mouse button 1 on pc while equipping an item now auto activates
  • All items perform better on higher ping
  • Mobile Controls now primarily use annotated buttons instead of tapping the screen, for items that require the player to tap the screen anywhere (eg: LightDisc), going into Shiftlock will activate its primary use button
  • Support for items that have more than two functions/buttons
  • All items that have a reload/consume function (eg: Super Shotgun/Sub-Zero Soft Serve) no longer have to play out their animations to reload/consume
  • Other under the hood improvements

Item Rebalancing

  • Metal munchers can now grab physics objects (eg: bombs, bins)
  • Increased Spellbook healing rate
  • Linked Sword lunge has new controls
  • Removed delay on Linked Sword lunge
  • Ink roller ink recovery sped up
  • Ink roller rolling speed increase from 4 to 6
  • Ink roller attack cooldown lowered
  • Ink roller attack damage lowered from 20 to 15
  • Increased max cherry bomb pie damage from 30 to 40
  • Decreased cherry bomb pie splodges time on screen
  • Cherry bomb pie splodges have new sprites
  • Increased health potion heal amount from 50 to 150
  • Increased health potion max health amount from 25 to 50
  • Pummel Seed now does 15 damage on pummel
  • Lowered rubber duck explode squeaks from 40 to 25
  • Increased swap ray hitbox
  • Increased swap ray speed

Bomb Rework

  • Bomb throwing cooldown lowered
  • Bomb max damage radius increased
  • Unequipping the bomb while it’s lit will drop the bomb at your feet
  • Bomb now begins glowing red when getting near to exploding
  • Bomb now explodes on teleporting with the swap ray
  • Bomb now explodes after grappling it to your feet
  • Bomb no longer damages the owner player after interacting with it with another item

Other changes/fixes

  • Damage you have done when hitting a player is now visible
  • Fixed mobile mouse shift lock CFrame being offset
  • Can spam re-equip on some items to do insane damage
  • Fixed issues related to Sledgehammer
  • Super Shotgun bullet randomness would be a straight line depending on the angle
  • Wheelie Bin projectile’s owner didn’t change when interacted with
  • Updated topbar buttons to new sizes
  • Attempted fix for mobile extreme saturation bug
0.3.2

Bug fixes and general changes

  • Metal Munchers Damage can stack
  • Getting forced to unequip Metal Munchers mid grab would cause the grabbed player to lose collisions
  • Poor connection could cause backpack to error and soft lock the player
  • Cross hops emote has wrong animation
  • Crystals on Cart Cavern have funky collisions
  • Unequipping items at certain times will cause the applied effects (eg: walkspeed/jump power) to get stuck
  • Players had collision with umbrella part
  • Lowered knockback from Home-Run bat to forcefield players
  • Mobile shift lock got blocked by the health bar when on screen
0.3.1

Buffs to some of the new items and general quality of life changes.

Changes

  • New quicker death screen
  • Removed unneeded loading screens
  • Umbrella shielding now bounces players and physics object, Shielded umbrella can be temporarily broken by damaging it
  • Umbrella now closes if ability activated immediately during floating
  • Increased umbrella swing damage from 24 to 27
  • Increased umbrella swing hitbox
  • Pie splats fade faster
  • Pie splats are less bright
  • Increased Home-Run Bat Hitbox
  • Removed bat charging slow down

Bug fixes

  • Map death floor doesn’t kill players with forcefields
  • Plane from soaring skyline shakes lobby
  • Character sometimes gets tilted
  • Confirmed sticker has wrong icon
  • Attempted fix for players rarely not getting teleported to the map
  • When first spawned, screens in the lobby are shown as turned on
  • Pie splats don’t clean after death
0.3.0

Additions

New Items:

  • Home-Run Bat (Legendary, Melee)

  • Umbrella (Uncommon, Melee)

  • Cherry Bomb Pie (Uncommon, Ranged)

  • Cloud Bottle (Uncommon, Special)

  • Sub-Zero Soft Serve (Common, Special)

New Map:

  • Soaring Skyline

New Cosmetics:

  • Bashful (MVP Animation, Uncommon)
  • Slick (MVP Animation, Uncommon)
  • Jumpin’ about (Emote, Legendary)
  • Cross hops (Emote, Rare)
  • Switch up (Emote, Rare)
  • Rise and Grind (Emote, Awesome)
  • Electro Shuffle (emote, Legendary)
  • Mercy Flush (emote, Rare)
  • Sturdy (emote, Rare)
  • Carlton (emote, Uncommon)
  • Siiiip (Sticker, Uncommon)
  • Tomato (Sticker, Uncommon)
  • Elf (Sticker, Rare)
  • Agony (Sticker, Rare)
  • Confirmed (Sticker, Rare)
  • Tippy Toes (Sticker, Awesome)
  • WANNA HANG OUT (Sticker, Rare)
  • Firebrand (Icon, Uncommon)
  • Ghostwalker (Icon, Uncommon)
  • Icedagger (Icon, Uncommon)
  • Venomshank (Icon, Uncommon)
  • Sob Story (Icon, Rare)
  • Sprite (Icon, Rare)
  • Zombie (Icon, Rare)
  • Intergalactic Epicness (Icon, Legendary)
  • Quack (Icon, Rare)
  • Manly Wink (Icon, Legendary)

Rebalancing

  • Made atompick swinging easier to hit
  • Made chainsaw easier to hit
  • Increased linked sword swing damage from 12 to 24
  • Increased linked sword lunge damage from 25 to 30
  • Increased metal munchers swing damage from 24 to 34
  • Increased light disc damage from 17 to 26
  • Increased super shotgun max damage from 63 to 84
  • Increased pet whistle thrown pet damage from 29 to 35
  • Increased pet whistle range from 25 studs to 32
  • lowered cooldown time on switching spells with the spellbook
  • Increased spellbook poison hitbox
  • Change revolver body damage from 25 to 30
  • Revolver headshot damage now does maximum 100 damage, amount falling off to 60 depending on distance

Changes and Fixes

  • Remade item system to support console controls in preparation for console support
  • Rolling Soul temporarily disabled due to Roblox physics updates
  • New mobile controls UI
  • Mobile item controls have pixel scale size
  • M.A.X shopkeeper animations fixed
  • Pet whistle errors with some pets
0.2.1

Small update to mainly fix issues related to the shop.

Changes:

  • Atompick attack damage increased from 40 to 50

Bug Fixes:

  • Animated icons on the pinboard shop page are not animated
  • MVP Animation shop previews have the wrong camera positioning
  • players can get kill credit from their own duck explosions
0.2.0

Our second major update brings 2 new maps, 1 new item, a handful of new cosmetics and a lot of general changes!

Additions

New Item:

  • Atompick (Awesome Melee) - ???

New Maps:

  • Cart Cavern
  • Temporary Fourtress

New Cosmetics:

  • Power level (Emote, Legendary)

  • Major League Frog (Icon, Awesome)

  • Divine Duck (Icon, MVP)

  • Gold Ring (Icon, MVP)

  • 123 (Icon, Common)

  • Apple (Icon, Uncommon)

  • Pineapple (Icon, Uncommon)

  • Pear (Icon, Uncommon)

  • Orange (Icon, Uncommon)

  • Bombo Knife (Icon, Rare)

  • Buster (Icon, Rare)

  • Evil Eye(s) (Icon, Rare)

  • Joy Boy (Icon, Rare)

  • Boy Genius (Icon, Rare)

  • Missing (Icon, Common)

  • Nostalgic (Icon, Common)

  • Rage (Icon, Legendary)

  • Retro (Icon, Rare)

  • Rose (Icon, Uncommon)

  • Shocking (Icon, Rare)

  • Sobbing (Icon, Legendary)

  • Take It (Icon, Legendary)

Changes

  • Awesome Rarity Item Rebalance - The chance to get an awesome rarity item is now based on the players current game ranking, the further they are behind first, the higher the chance of getting an awesome rarity item. A maximum of one awesome rarity item will be obtainable per minute.

  • Rubber Duck explosion now does 100 damage instead of hit players max health

  • Rubber Duck no longer leaves activated player at 1 health if exploded at max health

  • New Rubber Duck explosion sound

  • New buttons for shop pages

  • Awesome Sauce damage multiplier increased from 1.5x to 2x

  • Character accessories no longer fall off in death animation

  • New screen indicator for when a player is pummelled

  • Daily shop page renamed to main page

  • MVP Shop page now refreshes daily

Bug Fixes

  • Player will rarely not get teleported to the stage after joining a game

  • General improvements to asset loading

  • Rubber Duck rarely gets stuck quacking after activated player dies

0.1.4

Patch to fix issues related to 0.1.3

Bug Fixes:

  • Player score would sometimes be reset after respawning
  • Player gets stuck on black screen after map intro plays sometimes
  • Death floor will kill players before they spawn on certain maps
  • Swap Ray and Pummel Seed auto activate on mobile
  • attempting to activate an item in the time between pressing the equip button and it equipping will cause the item to be stuck activating
  • Super Shotgun pellets angles are in a line rather than around a radius
0.1.3

Patch to mainly fix the long respawn time bug.

Bug Fixes:

  • Not skipping the map intro will cause the black screen to go away for a second
  • Respawning sometimes will cause the player to be stuck on a black screen for long periods of time
  • Six Shooter/Super Shotgun UI text is wrongly sized
0.1.2

This update is mainly to move our current items to the new system that greatly improves their performance on moderate to high ping! This also brings huge improvements to the mobile user experience.

Changes:

  • All items involving mouse position (Grappling Hook, LightDisc, Bomb, Wheelie Bin, Spellbook, Pet Whistle, Six Shooter, Super Shotgun) have been updated to the new system improving ping and mobile UX
  • New Awesome Sauce Invincibility theme by @RiverThree_47
  • Awesome Sauce Invincibility time changed from 25 seconds to 24 seconds
  • Gacha-Pod use indicator is now always visible

Bug Fixes:

  • Awesome Sauce no longer can be charged while character is in motion
  • Pummel Seed/Swap Ray wouldn’t update aimed mouse position if held down to activate
  • Attempted fix to player characters sometimes getting stuck in shift lock
  • Fire particle from Spellbook aren’t cleaned up after death sometimes
  • Bombs disappear when thrown at bouncers
0.1.1

Small update to fix minor issues related to 0.1.0

Changes:

  • Warmup emote now has sounds
  • Pummel Seed planting sound has been changed
  • Currency prices in the shop have been slightly altered for readability

Bug Fixes:

  • Portside Plaza intro camera has been fixed
  • Bomb does not explode if not thrown before exploding
  • Pummel Seed UI text is wrongly sized
0.1.0

Our first content update for Blood Sweat and Pixels introduces 2 new items and 10 new cosmetics! These new items are using an altered system to our previous items which should both improve how well they work on high ping and on mobile. All previous items will gradually be updated to this new system over the next couple weeks.

Additions

New Items:

  • Swap Ray (Rare Special) - Charge up the Swap Ray to swap with other players and physics objects such as bombs!

  • Pummel Seed (Common Special) - Throw down up to 3 Pummel Seeds to create traps for your opponents to fall into!

New Cosmetics: (Releasing into the shop over the next week)

  • Pop The Sauce (MVP Animation, Awesome)

  • Warmup (Emote, Uncommon)

  • PBJT (Emote, Rare)

  • :3 (Icon, Common)

  • Normal (Icon, Uncommon)

  • Eyeball (Icon, Rare)

  • Baby Face (Sticker, Uncommon)

  • Manly (Sticker, Uncommon)

  • Demon Mode (Sticker, Uncommon)

  • Farmer Egg (Sticker, Rare)

Changes

  • ‘Revolver’ has been renamed to ‘Six Shooter’
  • Newly released cosmetics now have a ‘New’ tag in the shop
  • Thrown bins are now physics object and can be interacted with by certain items (eg: Swap Ray)
  • Thrown bombs Physics Object hitbox size has been increased
  • Thrown pets from the Pet Whistle now do 29 damage instead of 26

Bug Fixes

  • Bomb particle sometimes not cleaned up
  • Whistle UI meant to be red when commanding 0 pets
  • Statue on ‘Temporary Sandbox Toys’ cant be interacted with by items
0.0.3

Another small update mainly to fix an issue with datastore errors causing some servers to break. We also have added a donation board to the arcade if you would like to support us! Expect content updates soon.

Additions:

  • Donation board - Top donator has their currently equipped MVP animation play in the lobby across all servers!

Changes:

  • Playercards no longer have a few pixels of transparency around their icons
  • Super Shotgun does 7 damage per pellet instead of 9 (total max damage per shot is now 63)
  • LightDisc now does 17 damage instead of 22
  • Revolver now does 25 damage on body shots instead of 19

Bug Fixes:

  • Datastore errors will cause the game to break
  • LightDisc aiming is inaccurate
  • Mute button doesn’t mute all game music
  • End of a round gives unintentional amount of MVBs and Bits
  • Metal Munchers will cause the grabbed player to fall through the map if the user dies while grabbing
  • Metal Munchers kill the user if the grabbed player is killed while grabbing
  • Wheelie Bin wont be usable after breaking
0.0.2

Thank you all for your patience as we fix any standout bugs after release! This should hopefully be the last minor bug fixing update before we focus on bigger changes and additions to the game. We hear you about the problems with high ping and we are hard at work on fixing it.

Additions:

  • New Awesome Rarity Playercard icon ‘Mirage’ can be found in Gacha-Pods

Changes:

  • New Mobile controls for gun items
  • Re-sized top bar icons to fit alongside CoreGui
  • Clicking on shop page indicators now takes you to that page

Bug Fixes:

  • Respawning sometimes gets stuck on a black screen
  • Loading Screen will sometimes go on forever
  • Death Floor on maps don’t ignore player forcefields
  • Epic Sticker has wrong image
  • LightDisc/Gappling Hook/Rolling Soul/Spellbook don’t get cleaned up properly if certain conditions are met
  • Revolver and Sledgehammer wont allow you to change items while activated
  • Gun Recoil is affected by framerate
  • MVP Shop refresh times not synced correctly
0.0.1

Quick update to fix issues related to release 0.0.0

Bug fixes:

  • people own contraband cosmetics when they first join
  • Portside Plaza collision bug
  • attempted fix on lighting for certain devices
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