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