I’ve been saying “It’ll be here soon” for over a month now, But now It’s finally here!

Alright, so what do we get out of the box…

Opening scene - Faster loading! The opening scene should start displaying and connecting to the network the instant it’s loaded, rather than waiting for everything else to load. This doesn’t make much of a difference, It loaded really fast earlier. But hey, it was just a simply checkbox and it might help in the future; so why not?

Also in the opening scene - Room select will display whether the room is Default or soccer mode. When creating a room, the soccer toggle will now work, and does what you think it does, I hope.

Not much changed in the default map. There are two more boosters on that really tall mountain, but other than that nothing.

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the Soccer mode.

When you first join the room, you have a full view of (almost) the entire field, and all three scoreboards. The chat box is in the lower left where it should be - Talk to other spectators and even the players on the field (If they have time to type). If you wish to join in on the action, the button for that is in the upper left.

Team assignments are decided automatically. Your tractor will be colored either off-blue or red. (The original blue was a little too blue.) You’ll start on your end of the field, and then go for it! Smash the ball into the other team’s net and do a victory dance.

Known issues: I forgot to put the options menu script on the main camera. I’ll throw that in there and update next time I can, which might be a while.

When I do work on the game, It’s in roughly one hour time blocks. So while adding the options menu I’ll probably throw in some other stuff as well.

And thus ends the changelog. What’s happened so far outside my little office?

I went online one day and learned from a pro how to do a wheelie. Drive backwards, then hit space to tilt onto your back wheels. Go forwards, and if you timed it right, You’ll now be on your back fender and wheels. There isn’t any steering when you do this (The front wheels are off the ground) so it can be quite amusing.

And Finally, as We are always moving forward, What’s Next?

Short term goals: Polishing. Make the chat nicer, remember user settings, little things.

Longer term major goals: Missiles and/or Capture the Flag. As of now there isn’t much player interaction in the default map other than ramming each other, I think some missiles would liven things up a bit.

Potential Idea, Tell me if you want this: Giving the tractors a rocket engine and wings, and flying around a space station? Should this be a thing? (say yes:P)

A couple other ideas: Changing your tractors color? Changing your Wheel physics? Maybe a leaderboard for most seconds performing a wheelie.

Last time we updated, I was astounded with over 150 plays the very next day. I was even more shocked the day after that, when we spiked to over 1.6 Thousand plays. That’s roughly 22% of the game’s traffic over its entire lifespan in One day. Wow.

Hitting that number again would be a blessing and a curse, The exposure would be great but our license can only support 20 people at a time right now, and I don’t want people leaving unhappy.

Soccer, Missiles, most of the stuff in the game came from inspiration via You guys, the players. Please make any suggestions you have. If you want pancakes for wheels I can make that happen.

Thank you all very much, and Tractor forever onwards,

~Navi