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[RatskyWatsky]

So are any of these new characters and updates being released for the XBLA/PSN versions, or are those versions no longer supported?

 

[SAB CA]

So are any of these new characters and updates being released for the XBLA/PSN versions, or are those versions no longer supported?

We'll probably get them all together as a pack, once enough has been released.

 

[Professor Beef]

Raelynn is playable now. She seems pretty fucking awful. Her main attack has pitiful range and slows her down while moving; her snipe shot takes FAR too long to fire for what seems to be her main source of damage, and her forcefield wall doesn't seem worth putting any points in.

 

[Card Boy]

I wouldn't say awful but underpowered is how i would describe it. At first I thought Snipe was OP during the early game stages but late-game it doesn't do jack, unless the enemy never buys a Health upgrade. I found Time Rift to be the best when you turn it into a full CC ability (lasting longer, more slow).

I would probably avoid using a 360 pad with Raelynn.

 

[Professor Beef]

So after using Raelynn more, my opinion hasn't changed completely. Her Snipe still needs tweaking, but as Gez mentioned, her Time Rift is really good when you upgrade it correctly. I've gotten more kills and assists using it than I have when upgrading other things. It's really worth it.

 

[Card Boy]

Acouple small bits of news

Patch 1.8.1 (Hotfix)
06-11-2012

Character balance/fixes

Voltar
-Suicide drones, shot range decreased from 14 to 10
-Suicide drones, warpgate overdrive cooldown reduction decreased from -2 sec. to -1 sec.
-Suicide drones, warpgate overdrive price increased from 190 Solar to 250 Solar.

Raelynn
-Snipe shot, cooldown reduced from 10 sec. to 9 sec.
-Snipe shot, charge up time reduced from 0.67 sec. to 0.5sec.
-Snipe shot, damage increased from 30 to 35 damage.
-Snipe shot, flashy glasses, Solar/damage percentage reduced from 15% to 10%

Also the Mac beta is happening this week.

 

[Professor Beef]

Yeah, I was totally confused when I decided to use Voltar and I bought his drones. I miss being able to get all of them available at once.

 

[DiscoShark]

Awesomenauts free weekend finally giving me a chance to play the PC version of the game. It's crazy how much more natural the game feels on Mouse+Keyboard and characters like Voltar and such are just way more enjoyable to play. Just leveling up and unlocking some of the new chars one by one and went a couple rounds with Gnaw today as well, super fun character. Definitely gonna have to pick this game up.

 

[Professor Beef]

Awesomenauts free weekend finally giving me a chance to play the PC version of the game. It's crazy how much more natural the game feels on Mouse+Keyboard and characters like Voltar and such are just way more enjoyable to play. Just leveling up and unlocking some of the new chars one by one and went a couple rounds with Gnaw today as well, super fun character. Definitely gonna have to pick this game up.

So that's what the update was for. I should tell some of my friends about this.

Have fun with Voltar's nerfs, btw. He's still as deadly as ever, he just takes time now.

 

[DiscoShark]

So that's what the update was for. I should tell some of my friends about this.

Have fun with Voltar's nerfs, btw. He's still as deadly as ever, he just takes time now.

Yeah, the nerf to his base heal amount was a little odd to adjust to but Im LOVING the increased range of heal bot in general.

 

[Gilby]

Bought this yesterday, logged 6 hours already even though I had to look after my nephew last night and par of today. It's been forever since I've been this enamored with a game! Froggy G's killing spree theme is so great! One of the best game soundtracks this year for sure!

 

[Professor Beef]

Bought this yesterday, logged 6 hours already even though I had to look after my nephew last night and par of today. It's been forever since I've been this enamored with a game! Froggy G's killing spree theme is so great! One of the best game soundtracks this year for sure!

Curse that frog!

 

[Gilby]

Curse that frog!

It's the Froggy G
Every toad would like to be
Such a playa, can't you see?

 

[Douche McBaggins The 3rd]

It's the Froggy G
Every toad would like to be
Such a playa, can't you see?

Froggy G? He's the fucking lag tastic bastard that ruins many a game. I call that thing LAGGY G. Laggy G's theme song is the Lag Anthem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEM1yWQsNaQ

 

[Card Boy]

For those that don't have it i recommend people pick up Swords and Soliders HD on Steam for both an excellent game and the free Voltar skin. It's currently 75% off.

The sales have done the game well over the past week. The Steam version doubled it's userbase by the looks of it and is now sitting at over 227000 on the leader-boards.

 

[Professor Beef]

I joined a game in progress, single-handedly broke the stalemate that was going on with my Voltar and help destroy two turrets...and I get disconnected.

 

[Shoogoo]

I'm looking for friends to play this, anyone interested?

I pick Voltar most of the time.

This game is tough when you got no friends to play it with :<

 

[Professor Beef]

I mainly play late at night, but you can add me if you want. I won't be available much the next couple of weeks since school is about to end and we're in the final section of everything.

 

[Card Boy]

New Awesomenaut (nauts?) coming.

Looks like it may be a Cait Sith/Nunu like Awesomenaut I'm guessing. I assume the bigger part is a Fish.

 

[Professor Beef]

I kinda hope it isn't another tanky character. There's 3 already.

 

[Professor Beef]

If they ever decide to nerf Dreams of Greed, I think that might finally get me to stop playing Voltar. :lol

 

[Card Boy]

Awesomenauts is now Steamplay with Mac. For those unaware of Steamplay if you own the PC version, you own the Mac version free of charge (and vice versa)

http://store.steampowered.com/news/9530/

 

[Professor Beef]

Awesomenauts is now Steamplay with Mac. For those unaware of Steam if you own the PC version, you own the Mac version free of charge (and vice versa)

http://store.steampowered.com/news/9530/

Whoa, that's pretty awesome.

 

[Card Boy]

I think they made they fish ugly on purpose so we can buy a skin. At least we get free Awesomenauts! The game is the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[Killthee]

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/17908_467091046666530_724498339_n.jpg

I think they made they fish ugly on purpose so we can buy a skin. At least we get free Awesomenauts! The game is the gift that keeps on giving.

Hope they also offer DLC VA cause TotalBiscuit's VA is really annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhzw8Stj3rI

"Nya"

 

[Card Boy]

Hope they also offer DLC VA cause TotalBiscuit's VA is really annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhzw8Stj3rI

"Nya"

Thats hilarious. I hope Dodger Lee and Jessie Cox do some upcoming Awesomenauts aswell now.

edit: Actually the fish looks better in that video, it has different facial expressions and it gets mad lol.

 

[Andiie]

Hope they also offer DLC VA cause TotalBiscuit's VA is really annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhzw8Stj3rI

"Nya"

lol. The character looks pretty fun though.

 

[DiscoShark]

I actually love the voice of the new character, right up my alley and totally a character I want to use. Is he already released in game? How is he?

 

[Professor Beef]

I actually love the voice of the new character, right up my alley and totally a character I want to use. Is he already released in game? How is he?

Not yet, just the debut trailer has been shown. Hopefully he gets released soon, I wanna use him already.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I think they made they fish ugly on purpose so we can buy a skin. At least we get free Awesomenauts! The game is the gift that keeps on giving.

I take it Vinnie and Spike are PC exclusives like the last few DLC characters? :/

 

[Killthee]

I take it Vinnie and Spike are PC exclusives like the last few DLC characters? :/

I believe so. The title card at the end of the trailer only has the Steam logo and it seems like they've stopped console patches due to certification fees, MS patch size limits, and their publisher for the console version going kaput.

The console patching situation

There have been a lot of questions about whether another console patch is coming, after July's patch which already added Coco and Derpl for free. We cannot give a definite yes or no to that, but what we can say, is that right now we are not working on a console patch, and it would be very difficult to do another console patch. We hope explaining why will make our console players understand the situation a bit better. We cannot go into some details, because agreements with publishers and consoles require confidentiality, but we hope this gives you an idea.

Here's an outline of the problems:

• Console patching/DLC is very expensive (although the reasons are more complex than simply that a certain console manufacturer may or may not charge a certain amount of money).
  
• Console patching/DLC is not just expensive, it also has some very severe technical limitations on certain consoles. We cannot go into details, but creating a console patch with the amount of changes we have would just be incredibly complex and thus a lot of work. For example, all the characters were remade for the PC version to allow for free-aim and we would need to use the new versions to get Raelynn working on console, making the patch very big, which is problematic on certain consoles.
• Steam patching is ridiculously easy. The patching there is so easy and inexpensive that it would be almost weird not to patch on Steam. Seriously, Valve did a fantastic job.
• The game sold fine on console, but it took us three years to make the game and thus a lot of money. Some people say we should spend our money to create console patches, but as a company we also need to make back our investment for development of the game in the first place.
• There needs to be a certain balance between how much it costs us to do a patch, and how much extra money through sales/DLC that patch makes. Because the whole patching story is so expensive on console, it is difficult to make it work financially.
• The Steam version is owned entirely by Ronimo, while the console version is done together with a publisher (DTP). That makes the finances and practicalities a lot more complex, and DTP being insolvent right now also adds more complexity to the whole situation. We cannot comment on any details, but let's just say that it is a lot simpler to make business decisions for the Steam version.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I believe so. The title card at the end of the trailer only has the Steam logo and it seems like they've stopped console patches due to certification fees, MS patch size limits, and their publisher for the console version going kaput.

Well, shit. That's terribly disappointing. Hopefully my PC can run the Steam version.

 

[Card Boy]

Hopefully my PC can run the Steam version.

You don't really need a particulary good PC to run it. Its after all a 2D game. Any PC from the last 10 years can run it.

With Steams Big Picture mode you can put Awesomenauts on a laptop, hook that laptop up with a HDMI cable to your TV and then hook a 360 pad up to it.

OS:Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
Processor:Any processor with 2 Cores
Memory:2 GB RAM
Graphics:ATI or Nvidia Videocard with at least 512MB

As you can see its not graphical intensive at all. These are the recommend specs, the minimum only requires a 64MB graphics card lol.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

You don't really need a particulary good PC to run it. Its after all a 2D game. Any PC from the last 10 years can run it.

With Steams Big Picture mode you can put Awesomenauts on a laptop, hook that laptop up with a HDMI cable to your TV and then hook a 360 pad up to it.



As you can see its not graphical intensive at all. These are the recommend specs, the minimum only requires a 64MB graphics card lol.

My PC doesn't have a video card at all. :/

 

[Card Boy]

My PC doesn't have a video card at all. :/

Every PC has a video card including laptops. It's just a interated video card.

Go to this website and see if you can run Awesomenauts.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Every PC has a video card including laptops. It's just a interated video card.

Go to this website and see if you can run Awesomenauts.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

Sorry, your computer does not meet the minimum specifications required to run this product.

But then again, all of the little circles have green check marks through them. :/

Thanks for the link though.

 

[Professor Beef]

But then again, all of the little circles have green check marks through them. :/

Thanks for the link though.

There's also quality control options. My laptop (which isn't a gaming one by any means and is already a couple years old) can run it pretty well on Medium settings.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

There's also quality control options. My laptop (which isn't a gaming one by any means and is already a couple years old) can run it pretty well on Medium settings.

I'll see if I can give it a shot then. Thanks.

 

[Card Boy]

Vinnie & Spike is out

http://www.awesomenauts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2440

Good news for Mac users and much needed Gnaw nerfs

Patch 1.12
18-12-2012

New Playable Character: Vinnie & Spike
(voice by Total Biscuit)

Vinnie and Spike are notorious partners in crime and BFF's. Wanted on numerous planets including their homeplanet Okeanos where the largest crime syndicate Shisu has put a reward on their head for stealing the Kullinan koi, the biggest golden koi ever known to fish and worth 4.8 Billion Solar. Unfortunately the duo lost the koi somewhere in the Atlantic ocean on earth while fleeing from Interpool.

Abilities:
-Spike dive - Dive through enemies and shoot spikes in a circle at the end.
-Smoke screen- Leave a cloud of smoke behind to blind your enemies, while you escape.
-Bubble gun - Shoot a burst of rapid piercing bubbles.
-Inflate - Spike gasps for air and floats upwards.

The following skin has been added to the game:
&#9830;Vinnie & Spike - Cap'n Vinnie & Seadog Spike

New features
-Added controller support on Mac.
-Added three player splitscreen support on Mac.
-Sorona, Ribit IV and AI Station 404 have been given a cheerfull overhaul for Christmas!

Character balance/fixes
Clunk
-Explode, Thermonuclear cleaner removed the ministun on both stages.

Raelynn
-Timerift, Higgs grenade height increased
-Timerift, Damage upgrade now works across the whole height of Timerift.
-Timerift, throw speed increased
-Instant jump power decreased to create more control (instant jump is triggered when you tap the button)
-Timerift, Damage will no longer be blocked by collision.
-Protoblaster, increased base range by 2.
-NEW! Protoblaster, replaced range upgrade by attack speed upgrade. 2 stages, +15%, 135 solar a piece.

Leon
-Slash, Clover of honor flavor text changed to reflect correct price
-Leon bot, fixed a bug where Leon bot wouldn&#8217;t attack turrets.

Lonestar
-Throw dynamite, Rubber sleeves increased range

Voltar
-Suicide drones, Drone army text changed show correct amount of drones
-Instant jump power decreased to create more control (instant jump is triggered when you tap the button)
-NEW! Passives, replaced Piggybank with Solar krab burgers

Gnaw
-Acid spit, split spit will now only trigger on enemy Awesomenauts
-Acid spit, split spit, it is now visualised whether a spit will be split if you walk over it.
-Acid spit, duration reduced from 6 to 4 seconds.
-Acid spit, cooldown increase from 7 to 8 seconds.
-Weedlings, the maximum amount of weedlings you can carry with you is now 2 standard.
-Weedlings, bag of seeds now adds a single weedling, cost has been reduced 220 > 150
-Weedlings, Gnaw already holds a single weedling when he buys the upgrade or when he respawns.
-Weedlings, health upgrades for Gnaw also increase weedling health, Power Pills Light adds 6 health per stage, Power Pills adds 8 health

Yuri
-Laser, Giant monocle price reduced from 280 Solar to 160 Solar

Derpl
-Siege mode, Derpl is immune for status effects when in siege mode.
-Siege mode, nuke can now be detonated with a second press.

Coco
-Instant jump power decreased to create more control (instant jump is triggered when you tap the button)

Skølldir
-Earthquake, height of Small volcano increased, 2.5 > 3
-Earthquake, movement speed increased by 25%
-Earthquake, changed damage into non stacking damage over time, to make the amount of damage dealt more reliable.
-Earthquake, doubled the damage, to compensate for the change mentioned above.

Major fixes
-Decreased processor usage significantly. This should improve framerate for those computers where the processor is the limiting factor. On other computers this will probably have little to no effect.

Minor fixes
-Fixed a small issue where bots get stuck in the neutral area on Ribbit IV
-Improved readability of Raelynn&#8217;s Snipe ability for colorblind players.

Also pirate skin

 

[Professor Beef]

Yuri
-Laser, Giant monocle price reduced from 280 Solar to 160 Solar

Raelynn
-Protoblaster, increased base range by 2.

THANK GOD. I'm curious as to what those burgers are for Voltar, since Piggybank is super-important for my loadout.

 

[Professor Beef]

I got to play as Vinnie. He's weird and pretty slow, and using the mouse to fire is a bit busted since the aim is off, but he's fun.

And Voltar losing Piggy Bank and gaining Solar Krab Burgers hurts in the beginning, but dear god does it stack well with Dreams of Greed.

 

[equil]

Kind of funny everyone person that chose vinne on my team while i was playing yesterday either did really bad with him or ended up quitting.
He needs a damage buff.

 

[Professor Beef]

Kind of funny everyone person that chose vinne on my team while i was playing yesterday either did really bad with him or ended up quitting.
He needs a damage buff.

His damage is fine, people just wanna go all in with him. It was the same with Raelynn when she was released. Give it a week and people will find Vinnie's niche.

 

[Card Boy]

Good news for you equil Vinnie got a buff!

Patch 1.12.1
20-12-2012

Character balance/fixes

Raelynn
-Protoblaster, Joe doll now actually increases attackspeed
-Protoblaster, range of shots decreased from 7.4 to 7

Vinnie & Spike
-Smoke screen, Mammoth sock with holes stealth time increased from 1.5s to 2s per stage
-Smoke screen, Mammoth sock with holes now also applies stealth to Vinnie & Spike
-Smoke screen, Rubber mask reduces the cooldown of spike dive with 4s instead of resetting it
-Smoke screen, Raelynn and Gnaw now cancel their invisibility when they attack
-Smoke screen, fixed that characters sometimes remained half-transparent forever after getting Smoke screen’s invisibility
-Bubble gun, Al Carper added a third stage
-Bubble gun, Al Carper price reduced from 220 Solar to 190 Solar
-Bubble gun, Scarfish will now actually increases attackspeed
-Air speed increased by 20%
-Spike dive, base damage increased from 20 to 30
-Spike dive, Chrome file damage increased from 4 to 10 per stage
-Spike dive, Bag full of gold fish damage increased from 10 to 15
-Spike dive, Rigged casino games price reduced from 135 Solar to 115 Solar

http://www.awesomenauts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8241

 

[Professor Beef]

Did they fix the cursor not matching where Vinnie is aiming too?

 

[DiscoShark]

Just picked this up during the Steam Flash Sale today (66% off, $3.39) along with the Disco Voltar DLC as well. Played a few rounds with a friend running a team of Voltar, Skolldir, and Raelynn and had an absolute blast. Add me on Steam GAF so we can we get some games in!

Steam ID : DiscoShark

 

[Professor Beef]

Just picked this up during the Steam Flash Sale today (66% off, $3.39) along with the Disco Voltar DLC as well. Played a few rounds with a friend running a team of Voltar, Skolldir, and Raelynn and had an absolute blast. Add me on Steam GAF so we can we get some games in!

Steam ID : DiscoShark

Send me an invite whenever you want to play.

"ProfessorBeef"

 

[DiscoShark]

My friend and I have been running a team of Froggy / Vinnie / -Random- and my god is it effective. Froggy and Vinnie both specialize at burst damage and these guys together just leave the other team running in the opposite direction in most cases. He'd weaken them sufficiently and with spike dash I'd almost always tag them as they tried to flee behind a turret. We're not even using the invisibility function of Vinnie's smoke and its just stupid good.

 

[Professor Beef]

I hate Froggy's stupid damage.

 

[Nester]

36 hours to get this at $3.39 on Steam! Get a 3-pack for $6.79 and give them out to friends. I've only played a few games so far and I'm enjoying it a ton.