After tallying 1 million in gross sales, the indie arcade golf sport Super Battle Golf’s first growth, Frozen Fairway, is releasing as we speak, April 9. The free growth provides slippery new circumstances, extra items–including the mega-powerful Rocket Driver–as properly as a bevy of quality-of-life enhancements followers had been asking for for the reason that sport launched in February. GameSpot lately caught up with Cal Rehnqvist, the co-founder of developer Brimstone, who instructed us extra in regards to the Frozen Fairway replace and the response to the sport usually so far. He additionally teased a little bit extra about what’s to return.
For anybody simply catching up, Super Battle Golf is an arcade-style golf sport the place as much as eight gamers compete to complete a hole–the twist is that everybody is taking part in collectively on the identical time. And not like in actual golf, you possibly can make the most of all types of offensive and defensive gadgets to assist get to the opening quickest.
The sport, which is revealed by Oro Interactive, launched in February this yr and sells for $8–though you will get it proper now on Steam for less than $5.60–the low cost runs by April 14. You may as well seize the sport bundled with a competitor title, Golf With Mates, by the “Golf With Your Enemies” bundle for $20.
Rehnqvist instructed GameSpot that he is been an enormous fan of get together video games his entire life, singling out video games like Uno and Final Rooster Horse. A part of the attraction of a celebration sport is that they are straightforward to select up and perceive, and the social element compounds the enjoyable. That is additionally true with Super Battle Golf, and it does not take itself too severely.
“It is quick paced, fast to leap out and in of, and simply tremendous goofy! Personally, it actually simply jogs my memory of the previous days of taking part in all these totally different get together video games with my pals, and I believe that is perhaps one thing which may be resonating with people. Typically you simply need a fast and foolish little sport with some buddies,” he stated.
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The Frozen Fairway replace is releasing on the identical day, April 9, that the Masters tournament–the pinnacle {of professional} golf–gets underway in Augusta, Georgia. Rehnqvist stated the timing was pure coincidence and never some kind of effort to capitalize on the hype surrounding golf usually this week. He stated he does not comply with golf in actual life, so the timing simply occurred to be that method.
Drilling down into the specifics of the Frozen Fairway replace, Rehnqvist stated the brand new Rocket Driver item–which you possibly can see in motion within the trailer above–can be used to smash the ball farther than beforehand potential. After all, it will also be used for chaos and mayhem.
“In case you energy it as much as 200% you possibly can ship your self flying throughout the map. Or ship another person flying throughout the map,” he stated. “It will additionally do a neat little spin, smacking every little thing round it if you happen to’re hitting your ball, so a well-timed shot can knock down everybody round you.”
One other new merchandise within the Frozen Fairway replace is the Freeze Bomb. Gamers can chuck it at opponents, their golf balls, and even carts to freeze them in area. Gamers can even lob a Freeze Bomb into open water to create a brief ice platform that may be strategically used to get locations others can’t.
“It has been plenty of enjoyable freezing people at an incline although after which watching them slowly slide off the map and into the abyss,” Rehnqvist stated.
The Frozen Fairway replace additionally provides a brand new wind system, so gamers might want to issue within the blustery circumstances to ship the ball flying the place they need it to go. There are additionally 9 new holes for the frosty circumstances and 9 extra for the sport’s coastal biome, so gamers are getting plenty of new content material. There are additionally extra cosmetics and achievements within the replace, together with bug fixes and quite a few quality-of-life updates. The sport has additionally been localized into extra languages, together with Ukrainian, Italian, Vietnamese, and Indonesian, amongst others.
Super Battle Golf has a “Very Constructive” combination overview score on Steam, however Brimstone is staying energetic in monitoring fan suggestions to assist enhance the sport as a lot as potential. Along with inner testing work that is still ongoing, Brimstone’s builders hop into public matches with the group to get a way for “what people are discovering irritating.”
“I believe with the ability to play the sport along with the general public and never simply watching them play by streams has been tremendous beneficial in that regard,” Rehnqvist stated. “Plenty of points are presently being addressed within the subsequent replace akin to extra anti-hard griefing measures, bug fixes, with the ability to see who’s chatting–and then simply typically including in additional maps.”
Lastly, Rehnqvist stated the group at Brimstone would “love” to launch Super Battle Golf on Steam at some point, however there may be nothing to share on that entrance for now. The group is, nonetheless, confirming that Frozen Fairway will not be the top of Super Battle Golf’s ongoing updates, as extra are coming this yr.