33,333 Golfers and a Demo Update!

Hey Golfers!

A massive thank you to everyone who has been playing the demo, it's totally blown us away watching you play and hearing about your ball-based escapades! So far:

33,333 of you have attacked the course and become illegal golfers!

If you haven't played the demo yet, grab a friend and smash up some cameras/crates/buggies! If you've been having a good time, make sure to leave us a review! They help us more than you can imagine!

Demo Update!

To make sure you have the best time in the demo, we've just uploaded a little update to address those frustrations we kept seeing when watching streams and videos.

The biggest change is a rework of the downed system, so you can now respawn on your own without needing a revive, at the cost of some points. This means no more full level restarts or getting "left behind". We've also made some changes to the diving/ragdoll button, so it's much more useful as a dodge against guards!

Here's what's new:

Gameplay:

• Sped up dive recovery time to make it quicker to stand back up
• Allowed attacking and interacting with the level escape while diving or ragdolled
• Diving now puts out fire
• Increased iron club height power, and reduced its minimum shot distance
• Hitting guards into any bouncy object now finishes them off instead of only breakable ones, and they no longer instantly wake up after being golfed if they didn't hit anything
• Increased the distance guards can be golfed
• Rocks now have a chance to survive a throw and can be picked up again
• Slightly increased the delay between guard attacks
• Melee attacks can now destroy pumpkins and drones (if you can reach them)

Death and reviving:

• Players can now respawn when downed without needing someone to revive them; this costs -100pts and gets you up instantly at the nearest checkpoint
• Players will be automatically respawned if not revived before the 45-second timer expires
• Reviving a player gives you +20pts, getting downed by PvE or teamkilling another player removes -20pts. Your score cannot go below zero
• Increased the downed crawl speed

Levels:

• Increased the size of some of the level exit areas and made some of them more obvious
• Reduced the threat of cars on The Strip, and made the planter areas accessible
• Removed some gaps that players and balls were getting stuck in
• Added grass to Tanker and Shipping
• Fixed guards surviving the fall off the tall buildings on Rooftops
• Lots more general level fixes & tweaks

Misc:

• Added personal best score tracking on the main menu and loadout screen
• Added "Attack" to control list in the bottom-left
• Added camera and golf aim inversion options
• Added VFX to gear crates to make them look more interactable
• Added a suspenders cosmetic

Bug fixes:

• Fixed players getting stuck on the ground in ragdoll mode in some areas
• Fixed an issue where downed players would not be considered downed to other players and couldn't be revived under certain network conditions
• Fixed cameras continuing to toast players while they're downed or behind walls
• Fixed some occurrences of ragdolls getting stuck in the ground or stretching out
• Fixed characters sometimes getting stuck in place when walking on very thin objects like concrete pavers
• Fixed a soft lock when a player joins a match in progress during the end-of-hole score screen
• Retry creating a lobby if a previous Steam lobby creation attempt fails