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New Features

What's New?


Environment Realism

 feat_realism_thumbThe most prominent feature of Marble Blast Fubar is the realistic landscapes portrayed in each level. Originally, Marble Blast Fubar was intended to release as a custom level pack, providing new challenges with a sense of realism. Ever since converging the level pack into a full-scale Marble Blast Gold mod, the development team strives to maintain world-like qualities in each level you'll experience in this mod.

 With these new world-like levels comes new textures and terrains to test your maneuverability. Various levels ranging from the frozen landscapes of the north to the depths of hell itself. As intimidating as this may sound, we've carefully incorporated similar worlds into each difficulty bracket of the game, ensuring players of all skill levels get a chance to explore the imagination of the development team.

 Marble Blast Fubar also features destructible blocks (which is currently under heavy development). When fine-tuned, these blocks will act as normal chunks of the map unless acted upon by an explosive power-up. When used, the explosive power-up initiates a three second countdown. At the end of the countdown, the terrain (if destructible) is destroyed, allowing your marble to pass through that log in the road. Of course, just like a real marble, there may be some difficulties if you're marble is too close to the explosive when detonated.


Tutorial & Professional Levels

feat_tutlvl_thumb Unlike the original Marble Blast, Marble Blast Fubar features a Tutorial Level genre. These levels are aimed at the new players, providing them the tools and hints to quickly master the art of platformer gaming. These levels guide the player through various obstacles, providing step-by-step instructions on how to overcome challenges they may face in the Marble Blast Fubar universe.

feat_prolvl_thumb If you're an advanced player looking for new challenges, we've got you covered. Marble Blast Fubar also features another difficulty for users to put their rolling skills to the ultimate test. Professional Levels are designed to be unbeatable. Only the elite marble-blasters successfully complete these levels. This level genre will provide new challenges and various obstacles that will require the player to wrap their heads around. If that wasn't enough, the further into the Professional Level list you go, the longer each level becomes. For example, Professional Level 1 has an expected duration of one minute, whereas Professional Level 20 has an expected duration of two hours.


Tokens!

feat_token_thumb Tokens are similar to their Easter Egg counter-parts, with an additional twist. Tokens are collected in a currency form, and may be used in a multitude of ways.

 Currently, the only functionality of Tokens are used as 'property points'. These points may be used to adjust sliders for your marble, located in the profile menu in-game. There are currently three sliders; Size, Speed, and Weight. You can use these property points to increase or decrease any of these sliders, and are set to 50% by default. You may only use up to 10 tokens on property points, however, so choose them wisely.


Particles & Weather

feat_particle_thumb Marble Blast Fubar is also credited with being the first Marble Blast Mod to experiment with Particle Emitters. In conjunction to realistic terrain, Marble Blast Fubar features realistic particle effects. In addition to particles, experimental coding for lightning is also in the works.

 Bonfires around every corner in the shallow crypts, torches suspended from ceilings of ancient kingdom halls. Volcanic fissures spurting bursts of lava as your marble passes by. Molten copper falls from the ceiling of the mechanical courtyard, releasing a cloud of green vapor. Massive air bubbles float to the surface past your marble as you sink to the depths of the ocean. Particle emitters throughout Marble Blast Fubar provide an additional touch of environment for Marble Blast.

feat_weather_thumb A more prominent version of particle emitters are used to form weather effects. Several levels are even designed with these weather conditions in mind. Slide across the icy lakes as snowfall envelops your marble. March down into the depths as hell as lava showers the area. Swing from vine to vine as rain falls through the treetops. Clouds passing by as your heroic marble leaps from plane to plane. There are no limits in the Marble Blast Fubar environment.

 


Achievements


Achievements are unique tasks that are earned by playing Marble Blast Fubar levels, and completing the requirements of the achievement. Marble Blast Fubar features a variety of achievements, ranging from completing every level in the game, to finding every token, to falling Out of Bounds 10,000 times.


System Requirements

In order to run Marble Blast Fubar smoothly, your computer system must meet the recommended criteria below;

- A valid FULL VERSION of Marble Blast Gold already installed on the machine. The Demo will not successfully run MBF.
- 2 GB of free space on your computer's hard drive.
- Pentium II 400 Processor with a minimal 256 MB RAM, 1 GB RAM Recommended for best results.
- OpenGL or DirectX Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator
- DirectX Compatible SoundCard
- DirectX V.8.0 +
- (Optional for Leaderboard compatibility) Recommended 56KBPS + Internet Cable/DSL Connection

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