The Galaxy’s Most Violent Virtual Sport!
Check out our web site at Smashball.tv to learn more, watch video, or download the game!
Smashball is a fast-paced, ultraviolent first-person-shooter played as a highly structured team sport. Two teams use superhuman maneuvers, a high-tech grappling hook, and high-powered weaponry to try to get a single ball into their opponent’s goal.
What's it like?
5 comments by voodooc on Feb 5th, 2010 digg this super bookmark
This update contains a ton of new stuff, and major changes to address the large amount of feedback we've had over the past year.
We've spent several months radically changing the pacing, and focus of the game. There's now a much larger emphasis on combat. The knockout and auto-heal systems have been changed to actually give players a reason to do something other than kamikaze the goalie. The skills have been reworked to make them easier to understand and choose. While you still need to develop your technique to achieve top speeds, we've narrowed the mobility gap between new players and our experienced veterans. We think we've got a much better game now: one that is more accessible to new players, but at the same time rewards the real pro hookers.
Major Balance Changes
There are now two more arenas that you can smash balls in: Cargo Bay Six and Spiral. Cargo Bay Six features lots of large open spaces, and multiple routes through the chokepoint. Spiral is a smaller map more suitable for small games. Murderplex has also received a major facelift!
Instant Replay System
After every score and at the end of every round, the game is paused and the last few seconds of action are shown to everyone. This seems to make it a lot easier for new players to pick up on what's going on.
Every replay that you see is also now stored locally as a small demo file. From the in-game main menu, you can review and play them! Our current objective is to make a one-click process for generating video and uploading it to YouTube. For now, enterprising players could use FRAPS or Source engine movie making techniques to make their own video.
From the main menu, you can now pull up an in-game browser window that shows your player page on the Smashball.tv web site. This is just a quick way to check your season stats, or to look at the overall stats for that match you just finished.
We've got a whole pile of other features we're working on, and we plan on releasing them gradually over the next few months. Some of the exciting ones are:
You can find out more about Smashball from a bunch of different places:
Web Site, including fun and frockiling forums: Smashball.tv
YouTube Channel, with many violent videos, old and new: Youtube.com
Facebook Page, which doesn't get as much love as it should: Facebook.com
Our Steam Group, where chatty chatalots go to chat: Steamcommunity.com
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free) and do things you never thought possible.
Great mod,keep it up guys
for Half - Life 2?
or
for Half - Life 2 Deathmatch?
I played this mod yesterday... it's pretty fun, but I had one main gripe, and its about how the actions shoot and pass are on the same key. Too many times did I pass on accident when I was trying to shoot. The passing lock-on also made passing very unintuitive and cumbersome and made me start to favor ball-hogging. I think making plays would be a lot smoother if you dedicated one key to shoot, and another key to pass to the nearest player in view (maybe within an area on the screen). Smoother passing would encourage better teamplay.
forcifer: the limitation of that kind of a passing system is that you can't set up plays in advance. Experienced players usually pick a pass target before they even enter the enemy's goal room, so that player knows they need to get into position to receive a pass.
Thanks for checking us out!
I played the game and i had fun and all, but it feels kinda unbalanced....also, like in real soccer, EVERYONE blames the goalie
An update was just released that has some fixes in it, but I don't know if I caught all of the crashes. Follow this post if you still have crashes with the new version:
Forums.smashball.tv
cool im going to try playing today and see if it works*fingers crossed*
Oi every now and then when i am connecting to a new map in a rare moment it shuts down the game my background goes black and says that there is a error of some sort, then i try to run my avg scan and then that doesnt work, i ran a different program for a scan and it fixed that but the same thing happend twice... can you check into this bug I really dont want this to go **** with my anti virus..
Great mod but bad server
What do you mean? There are many servers available.