New update to Cowbots and Aliens!

HunterLaneSBVR

Hey everyone!

The Cowbots and Aliens put out an update recently that we thought had a bunch of awesome arcade features!

Here's a quick rundown of the changes. :smile:

The update includes:

Players can now switch teams prior to a team battle and are defaulted to be on the same team.

NO damage can be given or taken in social lobby areas now!

Player health now regenerates at 10% per second if out of combat for more than 5 seconds

Players entering a teleporter at the same time will no longer get sent to different instances of the same game mode.

Enemy bots will no longer teleport straight through walls.

Bug where player joining full match boots player should be fixed.

Some physics bug fixes.

They also added a feature where a launch option with a private key can be used to make it so every station with that private key is put on a private server associated with that key. The launch option looks like:

-multiplayerKey value

Where everyone with the same "value" will be split into their own server separate from the rest of the world.

Thanks and let us know if you have any questions!

arena.vr

private servers is an awesome feature!

DigitalWorldsVR

I see this frequently in the popular part of the Marketplace and I remember seeing in the Top 10 blog posts that SBVR used to make but I've never checked it out. Raw Data is the same $0.08 price and seems like it has more polish and such with character classes, so I've never bothered to check it out. I'm going to start trying to push Front Defense Heroes more at my arcade because of the price but also it's a really cool WWII shooter with some of the closest vibes to a CoD shooter. I just wish it was more streamlined and intuitive to get people into a match.

Maybe I'll check out Cowbots & Aliens one day.

thevrclub

This new update sucks. The bar area is far too small and players who don't know what they're doing will go to a new area before anyone has a chance to coordinate, wish I could roll it back to always starting in the town. It also crashes more often, I tried loading a bunch of players in at once and 3 froze on a black screen while 1 went straight to the town instead of the bar so they couldn't see their friends

William

thevrclub

That is good to know Peter, and I will gladly pass this on to the devs.

Rather than roll it back, if they we're to make any specific changes, what would they be?

Would it be to make the bar area larger?

Thanks for the feedback, happy to send it on!

thevrclub

William

Yeah besides the CTD bugs when launching, it was better to launch into the town since its still easy enough for players to find each other but with room to move so players learn the controls before they get to the blue teleport pads. Having a separate bar room starting area is one more place to get lost between loading screens. To be fair, I do like having no kills in the lobbies now.

PatrickRinaudo397065

does this game have glitches where tracking gets lost or white fuzzyness in certain parts of the game when three people are inside playing online?

thevrclub

PatrickRinaudo397065 that sounds more like a problem with your headsets not being tracked when in certain positions, rather than an issue with the game

PatrickRinaudo397065

thevrclub okay, just making sure that was the issue and not the game. thanks.