Battle Royale mode added! Along with some fun Katana effects

New Game Mode: Battle Royale

I haven't updated the store listing yet, but I've spent the last week adding a new game mode that I hope everyone will find fun: Battle Royale! This will be in addition to the Deathmatch and Elimination modes that are already there.

In Battle Royale, any map can have a hazardous liquid such as water, acid or lava start rising after a configurable amount of time. I've set the default so that the entire map will be flooded after just 5 minutes, so it should make for a pretty fast-paced game. But if that's too fast or too slow for your liking, it's all configurable in the custom game settings.

Also, just for fun, if there's enough open space after the map floods, there will be sharks swimming around trying to dine on some of those juicy giblets. Because why not?

Katana Updates

I also spent some time playing around with the Katana. It was always possible for two katanas to have an epic clash before, but the timing was really hard. Impossible in all my attempts, actually. I don't have the hand-eye coordination anymore... So until now I had to script it just to test it.

I've slightly increased the size of the katana and added a little more leniency to the collision detection. After that, I was able to reliably block about half the katana blows my beta testers were firing at me. So katana duels should be a lot more viable now.

I also made it possible to deflect an incoming shuriken with a katana slash. It's super fun, but also super hard. I was only able to get the timing right about 1/10th of the time in my testing. But that's just a skill issue on my part...

Lastly, I was inspired by the anime Kenshin to add a lunge slash, similar to the Battōjutsu attacks in the anime. If you rapidly click the mouse, you'll just do two normal slashes: a downward slash followed by an upward slash. But if you hold down the mouse button instead, you'll charge up and then lunge through the air for an unblockable attack.

Well, mostly unblockable. If another katana user does a Battōjutsu at the same time, you'll cancel each other out. ... I just realised that I should probably add some delayed blood splurts for if that happens to keep it authentic. I'll do that next update!