A patch for Crash Commando is now available to download. The patch makes a lot of game play and UI improvements to the game (details below). In addition, a demo of the game will be available to download from the PlayStation Store after today’s update. The demo will let you try a level in the single player offline mode. Olof Gustafsson, CEO at EPOS Game Studios, has also announced that downloadable content is on the way.

Game Improvements:

• Home Game Launching Support
• BGM, custom soundtrack functionality
• Team auto balance
• Increased auto balancing intervals
• Rankings
• Added a Friends filter
• Added Country flags
• Matchmaking
• Added Country flags on found games
• Improved matchmaking game-browsing functionality
• Match details now displayed when selecting a game, so the player knows more of a game before choosing to join

Game play & UI enhancements:

• OSD icons are now pointing towards players carrying blocks in Espionage
• We now show icons for players with enabled mics
• We now display player ID labels when using the turret gun
• We now show health icons above team members
• Only team members with less than 100% health have the icon
• Only visible to team members equipped with the CAB
• We now show hostile mines
• Red flashing light turns on when activated
• “Blip” sound when in vicinity with volume increasing when the player gets closer to the mine
• Includes enemy mines and mines placed by the player
• The killed & suicide messages display icons instead of (“KILLED”,”DIED.”)
• Players can now see which weapon or vehicle that was used
• We now show icons for when the player is speaking
• Ingame next to ID label
• Lobby next to player slot
• We now show icons for when you are taunting other players
• Symbol above player ID label
• Aimline/aiming improvements
• Prevents vehicle aimline to go beyond aim limits to better illustrate where a vehicle can aim
• Voice Chat enabled by default