PIPEBALL Pipe Balle RC4

[The Asylum]

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Pipe Balle - Ye Olde Time Game of Balles and Pipes

Ho! NEW AND EXCITING! Tis a new build of Pipe Balle, B3!

One morn I awoke
from my royal slumber
to roars and cheers
t'were they as thunder


To my window I took
and saw quite a scene;
Strange men in my court
in garb most obscene


Half them robed red,
the other half blue,
fighting and killing
to push a rock into


Two holes in my court,
one each for an end,
with fence and wall
erect to append;


There below my sill,
a squire stood about,
there i leaned forth and
then i did shout...

Behold now, and attend my words! Forsooth, I bear good news, for Pipe Balle, ancient game of yore, rises forth again anon! Asylum, our baron of all things wod, decreed forthwith for Pipe Balle to fetlen, crafted to its former glory!

.... so yeah, Pipe Balle is getting an update after like 10 years or something, mostly just to fix the Lava Ball not setting people on fire anymore.



And also to properly decorate the spawnroom entrances. The tapestries are no longer magical floating fabrics!

CHANGES FROM b2
- Fixed the Lava Ball not keeping players it touches on fire
- Fixed issues with the braziers not reliably setting the Sniper's arrows on fire
- other stuff idk

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[The Asylum]

The Asylum updated Pipe Balle with a new update entry:

b3 again

yeah it might help if i uploaded the right map

doiiiiii

i should get some sleep

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[The Asylum]

So apparently the EU server got to play this long before my first night off in awhile, and things went pretty good without me there to explain things. Some things:

- Resupply room tapestries being too big and hiding Snipers. Yeah, I don't know about that one. It's medieval mode, Snipers are going to be OP in any situation. Valve's okay with it, so I am too.

- Respawn times being too long. Yeah, you've made a convincing argument. I think 9 or 8 for next build

- "Hot Ball," "Spicy Ball," lmao I love it

Now with the "Spicy Ball" finally fixed, I think all that remains is making things look prettier- especially the spawnrooms. And then I think we're finally done!

.... until I make Pipe Balle Ultra

xfddddddd jk thats never happening. You're welcome.

 

[The Asylum]

WE'RE IN RC1!!

...well, not releasable RC1, but making everything prettier and smoother.



Starting on the backrooms first. The loneliest little anvils now have a proper smithy shop!



LOOKIT THE CUTEST WIDDLE GRINDSTONE

And yes, the forge will set you on fire if you jump into it. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.



The sidewall that the ball launches into now has an additional log on it, so it'll be impossible for the cannon to overshoot it. Also, the spawnrooms now have a little lip on the bottom, to help keep the ball from being accidentally reset.



And here's BLU's goal, now with a tar bucket to go along with the feathers bucket. Just in case it wasn't 100% clear what that whole deal was. Done me some additional playerclipping, respawn wave time is chopped down to 8.

Once I call it a day and release the final build, I guess I have to stop putting off trying to get a HUD score display working for Pipeball Ultra.

 

[The Asylum]

The Asylum updated Pipe Balle with a new update entry:

RC1

CHANGES FROM B3
- Added extra log to the "catching" side of the rink. No more balls having to be re-re-re-re-re-served
- Fixed some clipping issues
- Made the tapestries in front of the spawns semitransparent
- Prettied up the spawnrooms and backrooms
- Added a little ramp in the spawnroom exits. To keep the ball from rolling in so easily? Sure, we'll go with that. Don't "trip" on your way out... *wink wink*

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[The Asylum]

o h h e c c



So yeah no more rushing out blind anymore






Spytech, in MY medieval maps? It's more canon than you think!

PIPE BALLE RC1 FUCK YEAH!

CHANGES FROM B3
- Added extra log to the "catching" side of the rink. No more balls having to be re-re-re-re-re-served
- Fixed some clipping issues
- Made the tapestries in front of the spawns semitransparent
- Prettied up the spawnrooms and backrooms
- Added a little ramp in the spawnroom exits. To keep the ball from rolling in so easily? Sure, we'll go with that. Don't "trip" on your way out... *wink wink*
- other stuff like shit i dunno man fuck

 

[The Asylum]

The Asylum updated Pipe Balle with a new update entry:

RC2!

CHANGES FROM RC1:

• Fixed issue with balls not being served
• Added Vscript and turbophysics. No more getting trapped in the ball!
• Some minor optimization tweaks

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[asylum]

asylum updated Pipe Balle with a new update entry:

RC3!

CHANGES FROM RC2:

• WE HAVE MODELS! Thanks to Goobert for those super sexy rock ball models!
• Made the ball a wee bit lighter

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[asylum]

So it's pretty good! Other than somehow the ball sometimes scores a two for one which I've never seen before, I think we're just about done here.

One other thing that just sprang into my mind while testing the new scoring system- what if the lava ball had a thick smoke cloud that trailed it? And as player hit it and run after it, the smoke would act as a- well, a smokescreen of sorts, to make the tiebreaker round even more chaotic. I've got that bit "sort of" working- the smoke rendering is a 50/50, so wether or not that'll make the cut is dubious. Otherwise, it's just a matter of aligning textures, and testing the goal system for a veeeeeeeeeeery long time, and then that's a wrap!

 

[asylum]

asylum updated Pipe Balle with a new update entry:

RC4!

CHANGES FROM RC3

• Made extra extra sure the ball won't count a two-fer when scored
• Made the balls a little heavier
• Added a smoke trail to the Lava Ball

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