Competitors! It's time for another update.

In this update we are adding player statistics, difficulty scaling, Eliminations toggle, bumped max Halo Rank and new emotes. Read on for more details!


Today we have added 6 new challenging levels to the pool. We hope you enjoy them!

Let It Rip

Comb

Merry-Go-Round

Hop Drop And Roll

The Raft

Beams Beyond


Last month we ran a survey on our Discord server to determine how difficult the community finds each level. Based on this data, we have been able to add a feature to matches where earlier rounds will feature easier levels and later rounds will feature more difficult levels.

When creating a custom game, you will also see the general difficulty indicator for each level so that you can pick the right selection of levels for your group. Green is "easiest" and red is hardest. You can also disable progressive difficulty in custom games using a new setting.


You can now go to your Customization screen and see your global player statistics. The data for these stats will start tracking from today onwards. We plan to implement Personal Bests here in the near future too so you can keep a track of your fastest times per level. Here are the stats we are adding for now:

• Games won
  
• Levels finished
  
• Win ratio
  
• Times jumped
  
• Metres travelled
  
• Jumps done
  
• Jump pads used
  
• Deaths by laser
  
• Deaths by falling

You can now disable Eliminations when creating custom games. This means even if you lose in a round, you will not spectate in the next one and will be able to play instead. On the final round, the first player to the end will still be deemed the winner. We hope this will make casual lobbies with your friends more enjoyable!


The maximum Halo Rank has been increased to 30. Good luck winning those next Halos!

• Arm Wave
  
• Finger Gun
  
• Arm Stretch
  
• Double Thumbs Up
  
• Twist Dance

• The number of players current in-game is now shown on the server browser
  
• Fixed a bug where the next level might not load correctly in a custom game when a low number of levels are selected
  
• Ahead of the price adjustment for the game (see link below) we have dropped the prices for all characters

For more details on what else we're working on, check out recent announcement: Roadmap and upcoming price adjustment.

Competitors!

Firstly, thank you to everyone who’s supported LASERS since its release. We’ve really enjoyed seeing players having so much fun with the game!


As you may already know, LASERS released on Steam as free-to-play. After much deliberation, we’ve decided to change this. From February 29th at 10:00 AM PST, LASERS will be priced at $2.99. If you already own the game, you will not have to pay anything to continue playing.

The reason for this change is simple: although we’ve had a small, solid community of people downloading the game and purchasing the optional cosmetics, it’s simply not making enough profit to allow us to pay for the servers to run it, or our developers to keep supporting it. That said, we don’t want to abandon the game, because we believe in it, and would like to continue developing it.


We already have 6 new maps ready to go and will move them to the public beta branch in the next few weeks. Make sure to join our Discord server[discord.gg] for further announcements regarding the beta release. For more planned new features, see below.

We’ve been asked by many of you about the possibility of community map creation. We’ve thought this through, and are now considering Steam Workshop integration. Please note, this isn’t a certainty - it’s a large amount of work, but we’d really like to include the community in map creation somehow. We know lots of you will have great (and punishing..) level ideas!

Once again, thank you for your support since LASERS’ release. We hope the decision to charge a small amount for the game make sense, and we look forward to bringing you more laser-dodging, limb brutalising insanity in the near future!

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