Super Monday Night Combat update allows for Steam trading

by: Nathan - posted: 5/11/2012 11:50:00 AM

184 Hours.... thats how long I have been playing Super Monday Night Combat since the open beta that went live about a month ago. Needless to say game has been taking up all my time as of late. If you loved the original Monday Night Combat on Xbox Live then you will love Super Monday Night Combat which is a free to play game on Steam. 

Every week the game is updated and now rule change 5 for Super Monday Night Combat is live and with it bring steam trading. Players now have to trade items with other characters. For those who don't know the game offers tons of way to customize your characters but at the price of real world money. There is one other way to earn cosmetic items which is to earn them in after game prizes however these drops are extremely rare. The game does offer some free cosmetic items so if you have any lying around you don't want then you may be able to trade the items with other players for something you are interested in. 

Trading pros currently isnt available so players don't accidentally trade away their only available pro, but this may be available in future updates. Uber has stated that if it becomes available only duplicate pros will be available to trade. Currently I have 2 Combat Girls. One I bought for $0.99 and one came with a Pro Pack I purchased for $14.99 which came with five different pros.

A plethora of new rules and fixes have been added as well. Check out all of the updates below 

New Rules
Added Steam Trading. Information can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=55&t=23414
Added the ability to change chat rooms.
Added trading specific chat rooms.
Greatly reworked main menu, store and locker room UI.
Improved the UberNet login page with password recovery tools.
Added new Annihilator console art.
Added a time out for Training Bots so that they don't get stuck and lag the server and clients.
Added headshot icons to replays.
GG Stack and Chip Valvano: Reduced the amount of Kill Streak and Multikill announcements.
Reduced the amount of Kill Streak and Multikill messages.
Added new icons for all weapons.
Added indicator for all 'placed' skill items, seen by allies.
Added language filter to chat.

Bug Fixes
Fixed typo "+$" at the beginning of a Kill Streak message.
Fixed tracers from sometimes being the wrong color.
Fixed incorrect spawn time increases after the 25 minute mark.
Fixed friends list invite window spilling off the side of the screen.

Bundles
New bundle: Hippies

Products
All Magnet: Improved how it pulls pickups. Will not pull juice or oranges if you have full juice. Will not pull armor if you have full armor. Will not pull churros if you are at full health and full skills. Will not pull bacon if you already have it. You can still walk on these pickups to pick them up normally.

Downtown Spunky Arena
Continued art revisions.
Fixed a small ledge on the side buildings where players could unintentionally stand.

Training Camp
Fixed not allowing uniforms, taunts, weapons, endorsements, and products.
Added more instructional VO.

Assassin
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Leap: Slows that shorten the distance now only use 50% of the slow rather than the previous 75%
Smoke Bomb: Now interrupts enemy lock on skills.

Assault
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Fly: No longer protects you from grapples if you are 'close to the ground'.
Grenade Launcher: Full Damage Radius: 64 -> 128
Grenade Launcher: Damage Radius Falloff: 128 -> 256
Grenade Launcher: Maximum Explosive Damage: 99 -> 90
Grenade Launcher: Minimum Explosive Damage: 50 -> 45
Charge: Removed slow from upgrade level 4.

Captain Spark
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
New Uniform: Hot Rod
Arc Flash: Slows that shorten the distance now only use 50% of the slow rather than the previous 75%
Megahurtz: Range: 2048/2048/2048/2048 -> 1792/1792/1792/1792
Megahurtz: Now interrupts enemy lock on skills.

Cheston
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.

Combat Girl
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
New Uniform: Engineer - Received through achievement, Team Fortress 2 crossover item
Combat Healer: Heal Money: 0.025 -> 0.0375

Gunner
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.

Gunslinger
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Knee Cap: Range: 1792/2048/2304/2560 -> 2304/2304/2304/2304

Karl
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Bouncing Buddies: Added explosive falloff: Full Damage Radius: 128, Fall Off Damage Radius: 256, Minimum Damage: 35
Bouncing Buddies: Now properly team colored.

Leo
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Mona Laser: Damage: 70 -> 55
Mona Laser: Explosive Damage: 60 -> 45
Mona Laser: Full Damage Range/Fall Off Range: 2560/3072 -> 2048/3072
Balestra: Damage: 40 -> 45
Adoration of the AI: Cooldown: 20/14/10/7.5 -> 40/27/20/15

Megabeth
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
New Uniform: Soldier - Received through achievement, Team Fortress 2 crossover item
Derby Disku: Now has a very short weapon firing lockout, like all 'throw' skills. This keeps Megabeth from accidentally shooting the ground while she throws the Disku.

Sniper
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.

Support
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Air Strike: Fixed Airstrike sometimes, rarely, doing double damage.
Heal/Hurt Gun: Heal Money: 0.05 -> 0.075

Tank
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Jet Gun: Damage: 23 -> 25
Rail Gun: Damage: 80 -> 85
Rail Gun: Reload: 2 -> 1.5
Rail Gun: Fire Interval: 1 -> 0.9
Rail Gun: Full Range: 2560 -> 2048
Tank Charge: Removed slow effect from upgrade level 4.
Product Grenade: Now interrupts enemy lock on skills.

Veteran
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Freight Train: Non-Grapple Push Impulse: 75000/75000/75000/100000 -> 50000/50000/50000/50000
Freight Train: Removed slow effect from upgrade level 4
Freight Train: Fixed Non-Grapple Freight Train doing more damage than intended: Damage: 100/200/250/300 -> 50/100/125/150

Wascot
New Uniform Head: Chickey Hat - Post-Game Prize only.
Party Pooper: Now interrupts enemy lock on skills.
Shifty Shuffle: Lifesteal Amount: 0.025/0.05/0.1/0.125 -> 0.05/0.1/0.125/0.15
Coin Launcher: Fixed them from timing out randomly. Will now live 5 seconds after they land on the ground.
Coin Launcher: New effect for same-team coins.