Last Paddle Standing

Last Paddle Standing - Demo Update #3

Fresh LookNew main menu. It's built around a drawn arena backdrop. You'll see the arena before you even press Play.Steel UI everywhere. Every pre-match screen now shares the same steel look. The in-match HUD matches it. Text is in sentence case, so nothing SHOUTS at you any more.Lobby cleanup. Row controls are always visible, so you no longer have to hunt for them. We cut some redundant copy. The Rules drawer is now a match timeline, so you can see how a match will play out.Compact solo HUD. The solo choice HUD now lines up with the couch dock.Glow fix. UI glow no longer gets clipped at the edges. Skills & GameplayNeon VFX for Dash, Magnet and Nova. They look much better now. Dash lasts 0.3s.The ball remembers. The ball is tinted for the last skill that touched it. You can now see whose Nova just ruined your day.Magnet curves the ball. The pull now bends the ball's path. There are als...

Last Paddle Standing - Demo Update #2.3

What’s changed- Everything has a home. Browse five dedicated categories: Audio, Display, Accessibility, Controls, and Quick Play.- Room to breathe. Cleaner headings, consistent spacing, and aligned sliders replace the crowded two-column layout.- Important buttons stay put. Save, Revert, and your unsaved-changes status remain visible while you scroll.- Small screens, fewer gymnastics. Tighter layouts keep settings usable in smaller windows. The key-binding dialog now scrolls its bindings without hiding its action buttons.- Smoother exits. Fixed a layout error that could occur when closing settings on smaller windows.No gameplay or balance changes this time—just a tidier place to make the game feel right for you.

Last Paddle Standing - Demo Update #2.2

Online play: more updates, less dataWhen you join someone else’s match, the host sends updates showing where the ball and paddles are. This patch improves both how those updates travel and how your game displays them.- Twice as many updates: the host now sends 60 updates per second instead of 30—roughly one every 17 milliseconds instead of 33. Your game gets fresh movement information more often.- Much smaller updates: representative two-player updates dropped from 1,840 bytes to 132 bytes, and twelve-player updates from 6,240 bytes to 362 bytes. Sizes grow when more skill effects are active, but the measured examples fit within a single Steam network packet.- Less data to transfer overall: the smaller updates more than offset sending them twice as often in those examples.- Smoother movement between updates: curved shots follow smoother paths, and brief gaps in incoming data are handl...

Last Paddle Standing - Demo Update #2.1

Solo means one device - yours to pickPlaying alone used to hand you the keyboard and the mouse at once:- Controls device picker is live at one player: add the mouse, trade the keyboard for it, drop the controllers you don't want.- Shrinking the couch frees the departing seat's mouse instead of quietly handing Player 1 a second device.- A save that names no device is repaired onto the keyboard at load.Goals now land with the ballAs a guest, a goal used to be announced about a round trip too early: score chip, feed line, cue, camera shake, goal flash, life pips - then the ball froze mid-court and vanished while the ball you were watching hadn't arrived.Polish letters, everywhereStock Windows/macOS installs matched none of the UI's named families and fell through to the bundled CJK face, which lacks precomposed ą ć ę ł ś ź ż: ą ę ł drew as the wrong letter, ź ć ż ś drew with the accent f...

Last Paddle Standing - Demo Update #2

Bring the whole couchOne machine. Up to twelve players. Sorting out the seating arrangement is now your problem.- Up to 12 local players: build your party from the main menu and play together on a shared screen.- Your paddle, your setup: every local player gets their own name, bindings, loadout, color and skin selection. Edit paddles side by side instead of passing the menu around.- No controller? Two can still play: Player 1 can use the keyboard while Player 2 takes the mouse.- Pad-friendly nicknames: browse a selection of playful names without reaching for a keyboard.- Simultaneous perk and ability picks: couch players now choose together, with individual selections and previews. No more spending everyone’s draft timer on Player 1.Party planning: Online supports one local player in any mode, two locals in Pairs, or three locals in Trios. Parties of four or more local players are off...

Last Paddle Standing — Demo Update #1.2

Last Paddle Standing — Demo Update #1.1

Fixed empty music playlists appearing in Settings.

Last Paddle Standing — Demo Update #1

Demo Patch 1 — Perks, House Rules, a New Look & Smoother Online Play The demo's first patch is here, and it's a big one. This update rebuilds the systems that shape a match, perk drafts, ability drops and house rules, polishes the arena's visual effects, and fixes the two biggest thorns: rubber-banding on your own paddle, and balls slipping through paddles they should have hit. New ways to playTwo new abilities join the demo rosterNova — new active skill. A radial pulse burst that shoves every nearby ball away from your paddle for a moment. (8s cooldown) Powerhouse — new passive. Every one of your hits adds extra ball speed. The demo's ability roster is now a tight six: English, Last Stand and Powerhouse as passives, with Magnet, Dash and Nova as actives. The full game's arsenal keeps growing behind the scenes. Focus, Ice, Cold Snap, Bulwark, Split Shot and more are already in the wor...