Birth of a Game

The name of the free DLC 1 is “Spunky Cola Special”

• Added IceMen Pitgirl to updated level intros/outros

Ok so who is under all those mysterious strips lying on a bed of bacon?  One way to find out.  Click here for American Bacon.

Happy Halloween from all of us at Uber Entertainment!  Spunky Cola Special will be out in November for free!  We’ll announce dates and show off the DLC in more detail closer to release!

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Here’s part two of our Halloween Unmasking.  We’d like to start off with winners from our Wallpaper Contest where we solicited ideas from our community and picked the most interesting ideas that we created into wallpapers.  We picked a total of five winners and here are two of them.  The other three will be revealed tomorrow.  Enjoy the sweet eye candy.  Yum!

Wallpaper Contest Winners:

from Uberent.com Forum Member “Manouso”

“Have an assassin with her back to the ‘camera’ (for lack of a better word) with her mask flipped up or in her hand. Then the entire MNC cast facing her with confused looks on their faces.”

from Uberent.com Forum Member “SirZaxxon”

“I’d love to see the Tank with his tongue stuck to a shave-ice turret.”

Congrats to both Manouso and SirZaxxon for having their ideas picked for the contest.  You’ll both recieve MNC t-shirts of your choice, a signed print  of  your choice, and several copies of Monday Night Combat to share with your friends.

Now on to more changes that will be in our first Free DLC which comes out in November.

Bug Fixes and Gameplay Changes

Arenas

• All Arenas:
  • Added game clocks to spawn rooms.
  • Added new opening and closing cinematics.
  • Added heat vents to top of spawn room tunnels.
  • Changed all jump pads to be non-enabled at the start of a match.
• Steel Peel Arena
  • Added glass walls to break some long lines of sight.
  • Moved turrets in each base.
  • Moved some jump pads to help getting ‘stuck-in-jump’ loops.
  • Added game clocks to the inside of the dome.
• Ammo Mule Arena
  • Added bridge supports to better protect turrets.
  • Fixed issue that caused AmmoMule to show up less often than intended.
• Lazer Razor Arena
  • Added extra jump pads to get to the top level of the left side of both ends of the arena.
  • Fixed Bot Spawners showing usable by wrong team.
  • Fixed jump pads not lighting up green when active.
• Grenade Arena
  • Reduced the number of juice machines so there are the same amount as other arenas.
  • Fixed Bot Spawners showing usable by wrong team.

• Sprintz Arena
  • Added game clock to spawn room.
  • Added multiple round displays in the arena.
  • Added two more digits to round displays so that they show up to round 9999.

Tank

• Fixed Rail Gun from being able to shoot through nearby walls.
• Fixed various issues with the Jet Gun.

Sniper

• Sniper Traps will now only freeze enemy Pros caught in the initial freeze trap explosion. An enemy Pro entering the area while the effect is active after the initial explosion will only be slowed. Traps work the same on bots as they did before.
• Changed Flak visual effect to include team color and to have better performance.
• Fixed issue where Sniper’s Flak would damage players inside their spawn.
• Fixed Snipers disappearing in the other view port in split screen when they are zoomed in with the Sniper Rifle.
• Using bot spawners as a Sniper will now spawn two Scrambers.
• Fixed issue where the sniper rifle, in certain instances, could shoot through walls .

Gunner

• Fixed Minigun getting stuck with no ammo and not reloading.

Assassin

• Assassins no longer make an audible hum to allied players.
• Fixed an issue with the cloak sound not going away when the Assassin dies.

Support

• Fixed an issue with Firebases that caused them to focus on a Moneyball they can’t hit.
• Reworked Heal/Hurt Gun code to make it more reliable.
• Fixed griefing with Firebases: Firebases placed on an active jump pad or activating a jump pad with a Firebase on it will now destroy the Firebase.

Other Fixes and Changes

• Fixed GapShots in Blitz from moving on clients when they are stopped on the host.
• Reworked reload to greatly reduce the occurrence of having to restart reload when the reload animation was interrupted near the end.
• Reworked the death UI so that it now displays the endorsements of who killed you.
• Fixed players assisting in their own death.
• Fixed Tank’s and Gunner’s jump jets staying on after a jump.
• Fixed getting charged multiple times when using hazards and juice machines in high lag situations.
• Changed money, kills, assists and deaths font in the scoreboard to add more emphasis on money making.

• Fixed new round music riff and crowd cheer to play during Crossfire.
• Changed formatting of numbers in the ticker to make them more readable.
• Fixed seeing two Moneyballs in the end-game cinematic if the game ended without one being destroyed.
• Fixed Bouncers playing their grapple animation when they charge at a player but hit a Blackjack.
• Fixed Moneyball sometimes showing its shields when it has none.
• Fixed players recovering health very quickly while juiced.
• Various audio tuning for frequency and balance of sounds and voices.
• More improvements to host migration to make it faster and more reliable.
• More improvements to the party system when joining games and after host migration.
• Reworked how random maps are chosen to be less repetative.

More to come this week…

New Features and Additions
Wallpaper Contest Winners

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Scared of speed, stealth and cunning? Hand to hand combat not dumping your dump truck? Afraid of light bending around your enemies? Hate the confusion of wondering where your prey went? Not appreciative of blades? Like words? Then Assassin is what you need to watch out for! The Monday Night Combat Assassin is the scalpel in a world of chainsaws. She is the answer to those annoying questions. She is the reason Pros wake up in a cold sweat. She’s a ghost, an enigma, the whisper of something sinister coming and she’s a chick. This season the Assassin is why you need to watch your back.

At the horn the Assassin is equipped with a deceptively deadly dagger and a shuriken launcher. The dagger seems silly for someone so awesome right? Heck no! Alternate fire on that sharp lil sucker is a grapple. If she grapples you from the front, it’ll hurt. But it won’t hurt as much as a grapple from behind! Let her do that and you’ll find yourself in the respawn spa before you can say ‘Bullseye’. But there’s more to that little sucker than just amazing acrobatic death blows. The Monday Night Combat branded titanium, steel and tungsten blade can cut through metal as easily as flesh. As if that wasn’t enough ass-kicking for one woman, upgrading the Assassin all the way makes that dagger turn on to an even more deceptively deadly sword. As you know a sword is bigger. And more lethal. And way cooler! But that’s just but one weapon. Did you know that shurikens can bounce off of walls and around corners? Did you know that it fires fast? Did you also know that it gets a bigger clip when you upgrade? Well if you didn’t know before you do now!

By now you’re probably thinking “Bacon is yummy” or “Wow, the Assassin sounds lethal”.  Whereas both would be perfectly accurate the latter doesn’t tell the whole story. Not only is she wicked fast with a blade, she also has her old blue skill standby, Dash. Whenever you think you are a safe distance don’t! With her wickedly fast dash she can cover a lot of ground very quickly and wreck your day. It may not seem like much after the opening horn but as she upgrades her Dash she can run for much longer, allowing her to frag you faster. And, don’t forget, Dash is a favorite skill of the Sprintz corporation!

So you’ve learned that you need to take her out before she takes you out. Oh that’s all fine and dandy if you could see her! That’s right, she cloaks. She can disappear right in front of your eyes. Gone. Kaput. Now, it’s slightly helpful that her cloak isn’t perfect. The cloaking armor shimmers when taking damage, glimmers a bit when she’s moving, has an apparent warble when you are close to her, and being on fire is just impossible to cloak. Really try to keep her from collecting money because when that armor gets upgraded, the cloak lasts much longer. When fully upgraded the cloaked armor will instantly turn on and slowly regenerate if she stands still, which means she may be hiding in plain sight. Bring your Jet Guns!

Think the dash and cloak combo makes her slippery enough? Wait till you think you have her on the ropes and then there’s a quick bright flash and she’s gone. Poof. This season, Assassins are equipped with a smoke bomb for their red skill. Not just any smoke bomb, a new high tech, Monday Night Combat approved smoke bomb! Kill her fast because when her hand hits the ground you won’t see anything. No big deal, right? Just find her again and take her out! Sounds like a plan except her training allows her to jump super high right after the use of the smoke bomb making it an extremely useful escape mechanic. Scary huh?  You bet it’s scary! It gets even more frightening when you realize she can use it more often and affect a bigger area as she upgrades it. Be afraid.

So lets recap, hero. You want to avoid being another notch on the Assassin’s hilt, right?  Remember these things:

1. Her blades are deadly, keep her distance. If she’s shooting shurikens at you, keep your distance, watch wall bounces and hope for the best.

2. You can’t out run her. So kill her fast!

3. Be observant, watch for the warble and listen for the hum of her cloak. If all else fails, get a Tank and light her up!

4. If she smoke bombs you, look to the skies. Better yet, take her down before she has a chance to smoke bomb you then laugh hysterically.

Most of all remember that chicks with swords are deadly. Chicks with swords who eat bacon are just plain scary.

Brought to you by:

“Now with 10% less liver damage! (and the sweet smell of lemons)”

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So, you want to be a Sniper? Well you better bone up on the tips and tricks because there’s a better Sniper out there than you and he’s looking for newbie meat.

The Monday Night Combat Sniper isn’t your run-of-the-mill sniper. You won’t go lying in a puddle getting your ghillie suit wet and muddy. You’ll be ducking behind unbreakable glass barriers, avoiding assassins and looking for crowd approval. You need to stay alive and be effective because you’re the sniper and what will the rest of the team do without you?

First there’s your sniper rifle. Know it. Love it. Caress it, but not too much. Look through the scope and take down the biggest athlete with a single head shot. But, be careful, that gun’s way too heavy for shooting from the hip, good luck hitting anything but some unlucky spectator in the business class seats. If someone actually manages to get past your ever-watching eye and you might need something a bit more effective at short range. This is where the SMG comes into play. Your second weapon has a small clip but can dispatch combatants quickly. Now, what to do if some agile assassin avoids your assail? Well then the alternate fire mode on that SMG is a handy little grapple maneuver that smacks your SMG upside her head. Think this is enough? Heck no it’s not enough! Upgrade your passive skill to level two and your sniper rifle rounds will go right through enemies! Upgrade to level three and they create a explosion every time they pass through an enemy for maximum explosions, maximum juice and maximum damage!

Now, if that wasn’t enough for you to pwn your enemies game in and game out, there’s more! The Monday Night Combat approved blue skill for the Sniper is Flak. A slight modification on the original version, that puppy gets thrown out and it’ll create a nice little sphere of death. Very useful for keeping opponents at bay, destroying piles of robots, tearing apart enemy turrets or just plain messing with people. Upgrading the Flak will increase it’s range and lethality to the max!

Tired of those pesky assassins? Can’t watch your back? Flailing about failing on your flank? Behind on your rent?! Sniper Traps are the new yellow skill solution for this season! Throw these little detectors out and back away. Any opponents that get in range will trigger an eruption of frost that will slow those enemies down. But you can’t stop there, upgrade those traps to level two and watch those enemies freeze in place! How awesome is that? Not as awesome as freezing your enemies in place and draining their skills! That’s what you get for upgrading to level three.

Just when you thought the Sniper couldn’t be more of an unstoppable force, learn the ways of the Sniper Grapple! The Sniper’s red skill starts off with a quick boot to the head, spinning your prey around so their back is to you. And what better place to shoot someone in the head than the back of the head? But, training comes quick and awesome in Monday Night Combat.  Upgrade the sniper grapple to level two and you’ll learn a move to kick or throw your target around. Line it up correctly and you’ll unleash a crowd pleasing Ring Out! Upgrade to level three and you’ll do even more damage so just in case you don’t line it up correctly, you can still take out your target. That way you don’t have try so hard to be superb.

Remember these few points for being an elite Sniper:

1. Head shots rule. Double head shots are even better.

2. When in doubt, SMG them to death. When in doubt about the SMG, grapple their $#@!

3. Flak is good against turrets and robots. Guns are good against players. Taunts are good against everyone.

4. Traps can protect your sniping spot. Pay attention for the cold chill in the air and the amazing urge to frag someone who can’t move.

5. Grapple kills are crowd pleasing, throwing an SMG at your enemy as the kill shot is just embarrassing.

Boom. Head shot.

Brought to you by

“The eye. The hunger.  The attraction. The shot placement. Iturba by Martell Pierre”

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