apes.io change log

2024-02-28

Leaderboards updated for latest game mode
Show round/total kills in in-game leaderboard
Round kills are what determine winner of wave
Changes to the world
Blue blocks are no longer climbable
Dirt grenades
Soft blocks can be destroyed with normal spells
Auto-recharging shield
Fall damage for very large falls
Watch a video ad to double your QB reward
Less downsides to Oto's Mist
Hoil's Farsight is only zoom-granting spell now
General balancing of capacity stat
Spawning at ground level instead of sky
Stamina bar for climbing

2023-12-05

New terrain-destroying grenade item
Circle takes longer to close, has pauses
Skins shop, skins purchaseable with new currency reward
Currency reward at end of round
Normal maps fixed
Chrome is fast again on apple silicon

2023-11-07

Bullet sounds reflect circle behavior
Madness kills notification doesn't interfere with circle is closed notification
Players active in current circle highlighted in list
Previous winner indicated in server member list
Circle destroys items left from last round
Apes remaining greyed out when in lobby
Fix circle turning black immediately when you die
Lighting differences between closed circle and outside circle

2023-11-04

Battle royale game mode
Trials shelved temporarily
Remove drop-in invincibility
Apes are all the same size, with the same health
Essence replaced with health
Spawn with an empty wand
Blue spires have been exploded
Apes have ears now
Fewer crablins
Buff triviux
Remove heart spawns
Damage done by madness increases as circle shrinks
Death animation, dead apes fall to ground
Leaderboard replaced with server member list

2023-09-24

New skins
Options menu accessible in-game
Mouse sensitivity option
Options are saved between play sessions
Join specific server using apes.io/join/CODE

2023-09-08

Game loads extraordinarily much faster
New main menu
New skins + skin system
Removed respawn ad watch mechanic, would conflict with next update

2023-07-05

Wands shown on apes' backs
Leaderboard
Screenshake while shooting
Reloading is quieter
Music and sound volume sliders
Chests are gone
Crablin mob enemies

2023-05-15

Initial release of trials system
More trees in the world
Wands with rare parts glow purple now
Hovering players with crosshair will show name and pip count
Healing juice heals 3x more
Higher resolution map with 100 meter grid

2023-03-30

Update gallop animation
Hit marker sound effect
Seasonal change in world palette and textures
Gallop sound matches animation
Particles made smaller and transparent
Smooth edges on world blocks
Show the "Play as guest" button after making an account
Sensomatic ring temporarily disabled
Rename "Friend Code" to "Join Code"

2023-03-16

Share code from in-game to allow friends to join same server from login screen
Normal maps for the world
World construction no longer happens on GPU / should be faster and more compatible
Framerate cap for lower-end machines
Main menu has quality settings in bottom right
Foliage appearance improvements

2023-03-02

Level 2 cards are back in rare ground loot wands
Screenshake when getting hit
Equippable health kit
Constant size mana bar
Bone spell accuracy tuning
Scale ape sense rumble size with ape size

2023-02-24

weapons only reload while equpped
increase health more with size
sensomatic
triviux power increase simplified
aim retargetting slower
new logo/landing page
massless disabled by rain spells, bone tuned
new ape pose in start screen

2023-02-20

Fixed bug where cards randomly fall to the ground when you're editing inventory
Fixed particles rendering wrong against skybox
Four interchangeable cards instead of 4 square + 4 round in wand
Rebalance magic system completely
New particle fx for spells
Mana doesn't recharge until wand is depleted (reload early with [R])
Stats bars with green+red deltas showing what each card does
Fix bug where people get stuck frozen with no end screen after dying
Fixed strange ape aiming animation poses
Spells can affect crosshair behavior
Hide crosshair when the player can't shoot
Temporarily removed loadouts, recovery, level 2 cards, alignment cards

2023-02-06

PBR Materials/Rendering
New Skybox/LUT/Dither
Shadows
Baked AO (Especially Caves!)
Point lights on bullets and ape
New Ape Model and Skins
Volume-preserving animations
Updated Bullet Trails
Shots show up on Compass
Shot spread varies based on context, shown with dynamic crosshairs
Some audio ambiences triggerable in the world
Kong now gold, no hat
Mana recharge rate fixed at one value for all ape sizes
Health difference between smallest and largest ape signficantly reduced
Base cooldown reduced
Base ammount of essence dropped by apes significantly increased
Skin selection in starting screen
Ape max size reached with a reduce ammount of essence (around 20,000)
Base running speed increased
Fix card typos
Fix some instances of desync
Height-based fog
Multiple foliage billboards

2023-01-05

Player indicator on map is more contrasty color
Cards require fewer pips to level
Show how many of a card you have while levelling
Font improvement

2022-12-15

Select where essence goes in card leveling screen
Watch video ad to recover your inventory after death
See other people's loadouts/recoveries in world
New style on main menu screen
Right click to instantly move item to inventory
Re-focusing the game doesn't fire wand
Names on health bars when you damage people
Show damages numbers when you do damage
Common cards cheaper to add to loadout

2022-12-10

Snowy world with new kong skin
New scoreboard overview
Add personal card deck for building custom wands
Chests drop cards, and loose cards spawn in the world
Circle is bigger
Compass visible at the top of the screen
Account password reset implemented

2022-12-01

Camera position improvements
Ape dithers out when camera gets close to not obscure view
Climbing and walking improvements, especially for the big apes
Server performance improvements
Increase max players per server from 16 to 32
Fixed healthbar showing sliver of health after other apes death
Fix falling through the world when performance dips
Can no longer fall through holes in the geometry

2022-11-17

Sounds shouldn't get distorted after playing for a while anymore
Remove large circle hit indicator, crosshair X shows hit, enemy health bar confirms
Item respawn rates depend on number of apes on server
Show daily pip and kill record
Bone spell spread decreased
Health bars show how much damage your shot did
Added small spear buildings with items for small apes only
Make green spells more powerful, triviux doesn't spread green spells as much
Circle moves slower
Small ape amount of health regenerates automatically over time
Press Q to toggle between weapons
More loot in mud buildings

2022-11-03

Ape size/power is determined by collecting pips, apes drop their pips, balloons drop pips
Can't shoot through walls by standing close to them anymore
Latin alphabet approximation of international unicode usernames in-game
Sounds from other apes are easier to hear
Fixed kong icon on the wrong player in kill feed
Dither fade grass between camera and player ape
Show healthbars of other apes when you damage them
Looping background audio doesn't randomly stop playing anymore
Fixed inert ghosts of previous AOE explosions haunting the map

2022-10-19

Climbing closer to how it used to work, but won't cling while holding jump
Change log
Fix double/triple jump fall animation not playing
Don't idle kick people who are just in their inventory
Show connected apes in the player count rather than alive

2022-10-18

CLIMBING MECHANICS UPDATE: Need to hold space to cling to walls now
Verified hit and kill indicators on crosshair
Splash damage kills show up kill feed
No longer showing hits on dead apes
Fixed some cases where enemy bullets don't show up
Players should no longer ever respawn as kong
Apes in the menu don't show up in the sky
Confirmation dialog when closing the page
Not playing the madness warning if the kong leaves the circle