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v0.9 Material Madness update

Skellysteam_community_announcements

106d ago

This update's main focus is Materials! Specifically, three new ones!

Paint balls

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Stone balls

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Wood balls

Wood are and come with a new hitbox {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45069500/8fd303726031120ccda3f5e3553fafdddb533144.gif And just to have a better visual distinction between stone and frozen balls, frozen balls have a new look {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45069500/3af5d81f22971a65a7dab2a46902371b520686b4.png These new materials are locked by default, and unlocked by defeating select pool sharks:

Stone ball items are unlocked by defeating Gorgon Ramsay
Paint ball items are unlocked by defeating Gennifer
Wood ball items are unlocked by defeating Vessa

Since materials are the star here, there's not many additional items added. But there are some! New sharks:

Hoodini
Gennifer
Vessa
Grim Rapper

New balls:

Acorn
Water balloon
Meteor
D20

New racks:

Pyramid
Palette
Tent

New pockets:

Cave
Paint bucket
Stump

New cues:

Pillar
Castle tower
Paintbrush
Mega marker
Really cool stick
Fallen log
Asparagus
Candy cane
Baseball bat
Mage staff

The ball info menus have also been reworked slightly to make them a little less overwhelming {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45069500/b8637de89124eaa47502728a023d9fd41c77e108.png Changed Gorgon Ramsay's medusa eyes to change the material of hit balls to stone Fixed numbering in preview balls during drink selection Fixed Hot Shot and Gold Intentions achievements Fixed Escape Artist's unlock requirement not showing properly Fixed an issue where Prize Pool would not reset if a run was restarted during prize selection Fixed an issue where the unlocked balls menu would not properly display balls For the few people who read all the patch notes, I want to thank you again for playing this silly little billiards game. It really means a lot <3 I also want to give you a heads-up that this is the final major update before 1.0. 1.0 will be the biggest update to the game and as such, will likely take several months to complete. I'll make a bigger update about 1.0 in the future so stay tuned!

The Happy Hour Update

Skellysteam_community_announcements

175d ago

This update adds two new gameplay systems to greatly increase run variety.

Pool sharks have feelings too, and now they can express themselves!

Shark moods add modifiers to the round. Some are good, some are bad. Here's an example of how a very moody shark can affect your round! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45069500/948a31184fe87e235305b4707bdd612a1d6c1207.png There are currently 19 moods to find, and there's always room for more! Every time you select a shark, you now have a 40% chance for a mood to be selected. (and then another 40% chance for a second mood, and so on.) So it's a little rare to run into a shark with the maximum of 4 moods. But if you want to maximize your chances, you can jump into the next new system...

Drinks!

Down a few shots and add significant challenges to your entire run!

This system comes loaded with 12 unique, scaling difficulty modifiers to keep your runs interesting. Briefly, these modifiers are:

Game length

Increase how many rounds are required to win, up to 30 rounds.

Max health

Decrease how much health you can lose before game over.

Max Stalls

Decrease how many stall turns can be lost before receiving penalties.

Point mult

This is the existing difficulty multiplier setting, which has also been removed from normal play.

Shop prices

Increases shop and prize pool prices.

Shark selection

Decreases how many options you have for the next round.

Shark moods

Increase the minimum amount of moods applied to every round.

Cue cooldown

Gives every cue a cooldown timer, which disables their special effects for a set amount of turns. You better hit your shots.

8 balls

Feel like having with one 8 ball in your rack isn't hard enough? Try five!

Paved pockets

Permanently disabled up to three pockets for the entire run. (Yes, this means on Neglected felt you only have one pocket to use.)

Friendly wager

If you're missing the sweet sweet dopamine of unlocking something but don't want to delete your save, you can use this drink to relock items if you lose.

Boss rush

Skips break phase. This system is unlocked by winning 5 runs. If you've already won 5 runs in the past, it will unlock automatically. Also in this system, you can now change your pool ball set and table border cosmetics! Just for fun! You can play with your favorite balls now! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45069500/9e5147604fd932f7761e2170c82bfb99b224af35.png You have to win a run on a felt to be able to use its cosmetics. And in the spirit of that, I've added a new one!

The Poolside felt!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45069500/bd613c011b1395673c36f2e6000b9a0ad07d6a1d.png Consider it Funky felt's older brother. Every rack ball starts as a random special ball, but this now includes shark-specific balls. Additionally, every ball is a random material and has a random effect applied. This felt is unlocked by winning a run at drink level 20 or higher. With a new felt comes just a couple other additions as well.

Unlocked by winning a run on Poolside felt: A Bigger Fish
All balls except cue cannot return
Unlocked by winning a run on Poolside felt: Pool Noodle cue
2x points for first ball scored this round
Unlocked by beating A Bigger Fish: Blowfish
Scores an additional time, 5% chance to poison any ball that hits it:

Lastly, (and kinda leastly,) there's a new ball unlocks menu. The previous menu had some errors displaying balls correctly, but since it was also annoying to use with a controller, I elected to simply replace it. Added two new achievements:

Win a run on Poolside felt
Win a run at drink level 20 or higher

Added small sound effects to many buttons throughout the game Added extra effects to the shotgun cue Adjusted cue preview line, it shouldn't get stuck in walls now Fixed 8 balls sometimes not costing extra health Fixed a typo in Did you see it?'s shark description Fixed Mercury's -50 points popup happening more than once Fixed Pluto's -30 point popup displaying the wrong number Fixed Pluto's 30 point bonus not properly deactivating

v0.8 - The Shark Bait Update

Skellysteam_community_announcements

211d ago

The largest content update for Drop Pockets has finally arrived!!

Also I'm not dead! I want to extend my gratitude to everyone who has played Drop Pockets, and who waited patiently for this update to arrive. This is a huge update and took a lot longer than I thought to put together. Thank you all very much, I hope you enjoy it.

TLDR:

Added 15 new pool sharks (+50% total shark count!) Added a bunch of new items All stackable ball effects no longer stack and now multiply base score. Items have been added to raise a ball's base score. This functions the same way as hot stacks, but is no longer limited to multiples of 10. Pocket effects has been similarly changed. To avoid confusion between sinks (score limit) and sinks (ball entering pocket,) sinks (score limit) have been renamed to health.

Spoilers below!

Proper patch notes:

NEW SHARKS

Unlocked by default:スイカ Drops a random fruit ball when any ball is scored
Unlocked by default: ]The Late Count Gerald Drops a cursed candle ball. Candle is snuffed if sunk. Snuffing candle permanently curses cue ball
Fat Goblin Princess Enlarges half the table balls every turn
Unlocked by winning a run on Classic felt: False Idol Girl The first ball sunk is removed from stash (cue and 8 balls excluded)
Unlocked by winning a run on Honorable felt: The Allegations Cue ball is shot backwards
Unlocked by winning a run on Exhibition felt: Yellow Paint Points to two random pockets every turn, only chosen pockets score sunk balls
Unlocked by winning a run on Secondhand felt: Loan Shark Changes the table into a realtime stock tracker, multiplies all score based on stock prices
Unlocked by winning a run on Neglected felt: Escape Artist Closes all pockets if the cue is shot with too much power
Unlocked by winning a run on Tournament felt: Photo Mode Stops all ball movement after 1 second
Unlocked by winning a run on Funky felt: Did you See it? Drops a random number of invisible 8 balls
Unlocked by defeating HE'S GOT A BOMB: Bunker Bunnies Bombards the table with air strike missiles
Unlocked by defeating Mind Goblin: Updog Adds reversed gravity to the cue ball
Unlocked by defeating John Souls: Hazmatthew Drops two Chernoballs. Chernoballs permanently disable sunk pocket.
Unlocked by defeating Step-Shadow: Renaissance Fairy Places teleporting portals on the table
Unlocked by defeating Government Drone: Job Application Locks inventory, cues and chalks cannot be swapped

NEW ITEMS

Unlocked by default:

Food ball: Olive - 8 ball with return scoring
Space ball: Demon core - 1.5x to all points, 10% chance to lose 2 health when hit, 8 ball
Junk ball: Magic Eight Ball - Increases a random pocket's points by 8 at the start of each round
Polish: +10 points to a selected ball
Polish: +$5 to a selected ball
Pocket modifier: +5 points to selected pocket
Pocket modifier: +$2 to selected pocket
Chalk: All returns score an additional time
Chalk: All shatters score an additional time

Unlocked by defeating Fat Goblin Princess: The Fattest Goblin, junk ball: +3 points when scoring food balls - junk ball
Unlocked by defeating Job Application: Jawbreaker, food ball: Also scores as an iron ball
Unlocked by defeating Renaissance Fairy: Pom-pom, sport ball: +2 base points to every racked sport ball at the start of each round
Unlocked by defeating Photo Mode: Fountain rack: all balls return at the table center
Unlocked by defeating Did you see it?: duct-taped cue rack: 40% chance to reform shattered balls
Unlocked by defeating Hazmatthew: Headstone rack: 2x all sink points, no return scoring
Unlocked by defeating False Idol Girl: Blasphemous glowstick cue: Adds a random pocket scoring when any ball shatters
Unlocked by defeating The Late Count Gerald: Candle cue: Hot balls now triple base score
Unlocked by defeating Yellow Paint: Trident cue: 3x points if at exactly three sinks remaining
Unlocked by defeating Updog: The Square Hole pocket: +2 base points when scoring
Unlocked by defeating Bunker Bunnies: Bunker pocket: +5 base points to a random ball when any ball shatters. Cannot be opened
Unlocked by defeating Loan Shark: Tornado pocket: 2x points, only open during shark phase
Unlocked by defeating The Allegations: Chalk: +$1 when balls hit the table walls
Unlocked by defeating Escape Artist: Chalk: Increase base pocket score by 2 when sinking, only when shooting at low power
Unlocked by defeating スイカ: Chalk: Adds ball cash to base points when scoring

BALANCE

Hot ball now doubles ball base points and is no longer stackable
Gilded ball now doubles ball base cash and is no longer stackable
Poisoned ball now halves ball base points and is no longer stackable
Stinky ball now halves ball base cash and is no longer stackable
Cursed ball is no longer stackable
Curse has been added to the pool of stall penalties
Base point reductions have been added to the pool of stall penalties
Base cash reductions have been added to the pool of stall penalties
Oba Doball now has return scoring
Fireball now increases pocket base score by 5 when sunk
Gold nugget now increases pocket base cash by 2 when sunk
Sun now increases pocket base score by 5 when sunk
Venus now increases base score by 10 at the start of each round
Rack slots now start at $5 and increase by $1 with every purchase
Hot pockets now double pocket base points
Gilded pockets now double pocket base cash
Washing machine pocket now only removes stinky, poisoned, and cursed from sunk balls.
Rot pocket now nullifies negative multiplier and triples base cash when scoring stinky balls

MISC

The score limit has been renamed from sinks to health. Functionally the same thing, changed to be less confusing and let "sink" exclusively mean "when a ball enters a pocket"
"Thanks for coming" achievement has three new guest shark requirements
Added difficulty and game time to results screen
Added a new music track to the unlocks menu

FIXES

Fixed some items not properly showing their unlock requirement
Fixed an issue where reloading into a round would prevent balls from returning on a scratch
Fixed an issue where the game would lock up when viewing more details on a stinky ball
Fixed the small ball info displaying inaccurate numbers
Fixed a typo in Mercury's description
Slight tweak to the tutorial to account for shop overhaul

And finally, to everyone who made it to the bottom of the patch notes, I want to thank you one more time. There was an adjustment period to this little game's reception, and I've just been learning as I go. (For example, I've learned that bulk adding sharks like this is not a good idea for consistent updates) You all have blessed me with a successful year that I never thought I'd see. Here's to the next one.

Drop Pockets news & patch notes

Drop Pockets 1.0 will be the next major update!

...but it will also take a while to finish.

Nearly double the current ball count, totaling 128 special balls 14 new Pool Sharks, for a total of 64 A truckload of new items, for yet unknown totals A handful of new felts Special challenge runs And full translations into multiple languages

I can only promise that if it's not out yet, I'm either still working on it or I'm dead. -SkeletalGadget

Drop Pockets news & patch notes

Drop Pockets 1.0 will be the next major update!

...but it will also take a while to finish.

Nearly double the current ball count, totaling 128 special balls 14 new Pool Sharks, for a total of 64 A truckload of new items, for yet unknown totals A handful of new felts Special challenge runs And full translations into multiple languages

I can only promise that if it's not out yet, I'm either still working on it or I'm dead. -SkeletalGadget

This update's main focus is Materials! Specifically, three new ones!

Paint balls

Stone balls

Wood balls

This update adds two new gameplay systems to greatly increase run variety.

Pool sharks have feelings too, and now they can express themselves!

Drinks!

Down a few shots and add significant challenges to your entire run!

Game length

Max health

Max Stalls

Point mult

Shop prices

Shark selection

Shark moods

Cue cooldown

8 balls

Paved pockets

Friendly wager

Boss rush

The Poolside felt!

The largest content update for Drop Pockets has finally arrived!!

TLDR:

Spoilers below!

Proper patch notes:

NEW SHARKS

NEW ITEMS

BALANCE

MISC

FIXES

Space ball overhaul

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