Hey everyone, Carnage here, just wanted to give you guys a little update on V2. I’ve been constantly working on Battlegrounds recently, as you can tell by the number of news articles, and I can’t wait till you guys try out V2!

As of now, it has:

• Brand new currency system in preparation for shop (now renamed to Bits) (can only get from chests)

• Chests (get bits from them, higher rarity = more bits!) (they are also client-side)

• NPCs! (they talk to you via the normal chat with conversations, also added in preparation for merchants aka shops!)

• Freddles are now significantly stronger

• “Players Online” text now indicate how many players are on a server

• More tooltips to inform people on how to use the map and whatnot

• Minor changes to character select

• HP numbers shifted in Battles w/ new font

• Fixed bug where players would move even in a battle

• Nerfed AI

• Redid level and speed system

• No more level caps

• DMG and SPD now has a limit of 35

• Fixed sound/music bug which caused it to constantly repeat

• Ranking system based on overall levels of ALL characters (This took ages!)

• Slightly smaller world size (from 5,000x5,000 px to 4,000x4,000 px)

• A brand new viewable map!

• More loading screen puns!

• Performance and stability fixes

• ???

Possible upcoming features:

• Shops

• Bosses

• Matchmaking by region

• More attacks

• More characters

• More GJ trophies

• More Sounds

To summarise about the currency system: Bits can only be earned from the Overworld, through chests. The reason for this is to emphasise people exploring the Overworld other than fighting and levelling and ranking up. Bits can then be used to buy stuff from merchants, also located around the world, similar to NPCs, but they don’t talk and have a shop menu instead. You can buy things to increase your HP, etc.
This is basically how the system will work for now. Other NPCs (who aren’t merchants) don’t do anything other than talk with random lines and conversations and provide helpful tips.