🏹 Aztec Update 🏹 New map, gear and more

Hello hello welcome welcome, please please come in, take a seat. 

Alright here we go, we proudly present to you:

( 📯📯📯📯📯 distant horn sounds)

AZTEC UPDATE 

New map:

Can you believe it, this is the 12th map, WE HAVE 12 MAPS! Such a big  batch of maps, such a nice number, 12, Say it with me, 12. 

(It would be a shame if we decide to make another map) 

But let's talk about the map, in our discord, after we had a vote about what should be the next map, the winner was a jungle Aztec style map.

And so we started working on the Jungle map. This was one of the most ambitious maps so far, with many custom assets, scripts and sounds. That's why the map took us a little longer than it usually does. We wanted to make the map feel like it's deep in a damp jungle with many plants and overgrown paths. It was quite a challenge to achieve the feeling of a jungle without overdoing our polygon budget. 

The map also needed a custom soundscape because the crows wouldn't do it in this situation. 

So we recorded this little bird, shout out to Rocky: 

To make the foliage thicker we needed a new type of colliders, which slows down the player movement when you walk through the dense bushes. 

This update also has quite a lot of new gear, in total 12 pieces. 

• Aztec Ollamalitzli outfit  (hat, body)
• Aztec Warrior outfit (hat, upper arm brace, wrist guard, body, leg brace, shin brace, shoes)
• Aztec Executioner outfit (hat, hat + earrings, body, leg decoration)

Map selection

With 12 maps, hoping for the map you want turned into quite a frustration. 

We finally got to adding a map selection option. Open map selection by pressing the word map in the main menu. It's not perfect yet, but will do for now. We plan to give more options to this screen, future stuff....

Flag changes

The flag has a timer on returning. The time it takes increases the longer the match takes. We hope that it fixes the forever matches with teams that match each other so much that eventually people just leave the match. If a match would take an hour it would take 10 seconds to return the flag. So just keep touching the flag and eventually you'll win. Also the flag has physics now, after you shoot the enemy you can catch the flag mid air or it might drop into a pit. 

And the most important thing is: the flag has a cool animation when you grab it.

Private squads

You can now also make private squads! A new gear icon has been added over at the squad screen. If you are the squad leader you can toggle a squad setting that allows you to join a map without any other players in it.

Thanks for reading, have a good day!

Cheers,

Pelican party Studios