Ball Faces? Bomb Respawn Animation and 45 Degree Walls

We’ve made some strides in some of the backend work. The UDP implementation is going well and we hope to be testing it soon in a standalone client. As a reminder, UDP is a different network protocol than what your web browser uses (TCP). Using it in the standalone client will result in less perceivable lag than playing in a web browser.

While it’s not polished yet, we do have a rough draft of the bombs respawning:

We’ve also introduced 45 degree walls into the engine, however we still don’t have the walls rendering with final graphics. Hopefully we’ll have that wrapped up next week:

Community Feedback Request: Do you want faces on the balls?

We want the community’s feedback concerning faces on the ball. I myself use the googly-eyes addon when playing TagPro and love it. It gives the balls a little personality. A newer addon was posted to the subreddit recently that was well received. And it just so happens our artist sketched some face concept art for TagPro Next couple of weeks ago:

If we implemented faces, they would likely serve a revenue model for us. So along with being able to earn new eyes, mouths and facial hair (to mix and match), we’d have some that could only be bought. Since it would be part of the revenue model, it’s unlikely this would be a feature that you could turn off. Again, this isn’t something that is currently planned; we want to know what the community thinks and we’ll go from there – so let us know:

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