Circus (Nucleus Event) b4

b4

• Replaced the spells inside the clown core with medium health kits
• Removed the small health kits from the clown core
• Removed the max health buff from the clown core
• Adjusted clipping in spawn
• Adjusted glass at jump pad locations
• Reduced some jump pad trigger sizes so you're less likely to approach them from an unideal angle
• Fixed some jump pad particles activating when they weren't supposed to
• Adjusted hoop core reward trigger to reduce duplicate pass-throughs
• Added more team color across some interiors

Circus B3

• Massively improved FPS
• Fixed props popping in and out
• Changed color of underworld smoke particles to better fit the gas
• Slightly reduced laughing gas damage
• Shifted geometry around each team's battlements to make stairs less campable
• Detailing tweaks

Circus B2

• Improved FPS
• Added a sprite above the mid portal, pointing players to where they should take cores
• Reduced max health buff in the Clown Core
• Added steam that boosts players up to the exit portal when the Clown Core closes
• Added red fog that signifies the Laughing Gas
• Reduced DPS of the Laughing Gas
• Updated the HUD to make it compatible with custom HUDs (Thanks Aar!)
• The Clown Core now stays open 15 less, and downtime is active for 15 seconds longer
• Added new HUD icons for when the portal to the Clown Core is active and inactive
• Fixed erroneous clip brushes that caused players to bump their heads when using jump pads

Circus b1​

• Remade the hoop
  • The hoop is no longer the capture area
  • The hoop now grants cores for successfully jumping through, like a6
  • Replaced the large health kit inside The Hoop with a model of the new pickup, "Funny Bones"
  • The Hoop now provides a quickheal buff
• Remade the underworld
  • The underworld is now the capture area
  • Fight enemies in a big arena with increased fire rate, reload speed, run speed, max health, and spells
  • Deposit Funny Bones at the Clown Core in the center of the are
  • Enter the Clown Core's portal to exit the underworld at any time
  • When the underworld closes, all pickups are disabled, and players must exit to avoid being choked by Laughing Gas
• Changed the Jump Pads
  • Added green gradients around active jump pads
  • Adjusted jump pad triggers to prevent bumping your head as often
  • Jump pads now give knockback immunity for 1.5 seconds
  • Added green steam particles when jump pads are used, so you can more easily tell where jumping players are coming from
  • Added handrails that appear/disable when the jump pads disable/enable, respective
• Replaced the fortune teller with a large screen that displays the underworld like a cage match
• Changed event timings from 45 seconds to 60 secon
• Points per player requirement changed from 4 to 6
• Doubled the speed of the bridges at mid
• Replaced stun-roofs with proper clipping and slopes
• Removed janky halloween fences that were restricting air movement
• Reclipped some railings across the map
• Widened a few gameplay spaces
• Detailing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Added music to the kart race
• Fixed some displacements clipping through the track on the kart race
• Fixed incorrect fog being enabled when dying in the kart race
• Fixed poles at mid being too dark

• Redid scoring mechanic and the hoop
  • The capture zone has been replaced with an underworld portal that occasionally lets players into the bumper kart race underworld
    
  • The hoop is now the capture zone, which is always active, taking 5 cores at once
    
• Removed the hoop effect re-roll mechanic
• The hoop now applies a universal quickheal and speed buff
• Reworked the jump pads
  • The pads on each side of the map now alternate every time the portal to hell closes
  • Active jump pads now have a green outline
    
• Redid middle platform
  • Replaced the control point container with a pole that raises and lowers
  • When the pole lowers, the Kart Race portal takes its place
    
  • Removed ghosts
• Changed environment lighting and fog to aid team recognition
  
• Replaced hammers in race track with more pumpkin bombs
• Fixed incorrect respawn room triggers on red team

• The score requirement per player has been decreased from 5 to 4
• Stun duration from roof ghosts is now much shorter
• Added push triggers and clips around some of the jump pad destinations
  • Players will enter the destinations a little easier
  • Prevents snipers from standing in unfair spots
• Added collisions to underworld circus tents to prevent players flying through them
• Moved underworld exit teleporters further up to prevent cores sometimes being dropped
• Reduced height of some fences to make air strafing easier
• Adjusted fog to aid player visibility

• Replaced hell with a custom kart track
  • The track is full of hazards, health, and boost pads
  • Avoid getting knocked off by enemy racers
  • Reach the end of the track without dying to gain a bonus duck and buffs
• Tweaked the capture zone
  • The control point will now sound an alarm before closing
  • Added more cover from the rooves while capturing
• Brightened some lighting across the map
• Remade the bonzo pit
• Added more team coloring to each side of the map
• Added a roof above some of each team's bases to make bombing harder
• The score requirement per player has been increased from 3 to 5
• Nobuilt the bridges that connect the center point
• Fixed bongos only playing their launch particle only once
• Adjusted some stun triggers to reduce unintentional spooking
• Added some fences on some rooves to reduce cheesing
• Fixed the capture zone roof not always stunning players

Circus A4 Notes

• Added more spawn exits for each team
  • You now spawn outside the map in front of 3 traincars
  • Each open cab on the train represents a spawn exit you can select, including two new spawns for each team
  • Stepping in a train car will teleport you to the appropriate spawn and give you a brief duration of ubercharge and speed to combat spawn camping
  • You can walk backwards in any spawnroom to take yourself back to the traincars
• Lowered respawn times from wavetime 4 to 3
• Added arrow sprite above the point and a cap base prop when the core capture zone is open
• Extended the time the capture zone is open to 45 seconds (previously 30 seconds)
• The Hoop will no longer start with an effect, so players have time to acclimate to it before the random effects start happening
• Added more ghosts that will spook you if you try to camp on various roofs on the map
• Fixed up various clipping, collisions, and stuckspots
• Adjusted hoop re-roll text to be a bit more descriptive
• Changed the "Ubercharge" hoop event to "health", which gives you a burst of healing and can overheal. Go thru the hoop multiple times to stack it!
• Widened some jump pad holes to make landing in them easier
  
  

• Map is now Player Destruction
  
  • 30 second capture period, 45 second fight period
    
  • At the end of every capture period, the point will close and suffocate anyone inside
    
  • There will then be a re-roll that determines an effect the hoop will provide
    
    • Speed (6s)
      
    • Mini-crits (6s)
      
    • Underworld Portal (surviving hell awards you with a buff and a core)
      
    • Bonus Ducks (gain a core)
      
    • Ubercharge (4s)
  • Each effect has a text prompt on the screen and a unique outline inside the portal
• Undid respawn room visualizer changes
  
• Fixed cubemaps
  
• Updated stairs to use block bullet colliders instead of player clips
  
• Updated Railings to be non-solid and have player clip colliders
  
• Removed some large walls added in a2
  
• Fixed some floating balloon bombs
  
• Fixed a broken trigger causing players not to be hurt when standing inside the hoop
  
• Fixed missing overlays on the jump pads
  
• Various details