Custom Game Expansion & AI Enhancements — Smelogs Playground News

Hey everyone
Get ready to experience more chaotic and thrilling battles as Custom Games now support up to 8 players! This update also brings numerous improvements to the AI, UI, and various gameplay mechanics. Dive into the details below!

In recent updates, we’ve focused on optimizing performance and refining base spawn logic to ensure smooth gameplay as we expand Custom Games to support up to 8 players. Our efforts also included UI adjustments to seamlessly accommodate the extra players. 😊

We’ve also made significant improvements to AI strategy profiles and behaviors, alongside various bug fixes. While there’s still room for perfection, this update marks a big step forward.

What’s Next

The HUD ability buttons need some attention—they’re currently too small and often overloaded.
Collision/Avoidance will remain turned off for now as we’re working on a better solution, which will take some time.

Here is the full list of updates:

Improvements

Custom Game now allows for up to 8 Players various UI Improvements and changes to support up to 8 Players
Custom Games are now created with tags for game mode and rank. For filtering and will adjust lobby size on the creation
AI Improvements Behavior and Strategy profiles
Cannon attack range indicator
Steampunk skin Baller rotation and z offset corrected
Steampunk skin Cannon walk animation speed now matches the movement speed
Particle Performance

Bug Fixes

Same set of AIs after an AI game not correctly reapplied
Units entering the cave lose their upgrade. Upgrades will now be canceled automatically and energy is refunded
AIs not using the Trap Crystal Codex spell to build out their base
AI not activating Watchtowers when an enemy unit in its attack range is attacking
AI using Fire and Comet shower on Pansy
Toggle Attack mode logic not working correctly for selected Watchtowers

Testing

Guardian Strike Ability requires the final spell to be learned
AI Medium Expander
AI Hard Balanced

Balancing

None

Note: Unit avoidance will remain turned off in this patch.

🔍 Found a Bug 🐞 report it 🤓👍

You can report bugs directly in-game
On Discord
Or here on Steam where you also can see a list of known bugs.

Happy Weekend and Enjoy 🙂

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