Welcome to WinterTag!

BoomTag goes festive with this Winter Holidays themed update!

New Cosmetics and new ways to play awaits you!

See what's new along this post.

🎄Festive Village 🎄

A small snowy village full of confusing streets. Surrounded by a forest where it is easy to hit your head against the branches. Run Away or Chase other Players under the snow in this new Map!

🔧Game Modes🔧

Introducing Game Modes! Change the rules of the game every time you starts a match! Jump in and choose between:

• Tag & Run: The standard game mode of BoomTag! Run away from the Players with the Bomb and don't explode!
• Reversed: What if BoomTag rules were swapped? Take the Bomb from the Players or you'll explode!
• Zombie Madness: Everyone has the Bomb except you! Survive a Round of pure chaos!
• More to come: Others Game Modes will be added in future updates!

🎩New Cosmetics!🎩

Up to 32 new Cosmetics wrapped in this update:

• 4 Festive Costumes: such as Santa, the Reindeer, the Elf and the Tree Costume.
• Suggested Cosmetics: such as the Astronaut and Duck hat.
• A whole new type of Cosmetics: the Bombs! Now you can personalize the Bomb in your hand!

🐛Bug Fixes and Future Plans🐛

Here some deeper changes:

• Removed grass on the water in the following maps: Peanut Island, the Lobby and Volcano Beach. Peanut Island still has an issue where a triangle is missing from the mesh (The model in Blender is correct so it's very strange).
• Fixed a bug where the countdown timer in the lobby would display incorrect text.
• Changed how character sounds were sent to other players. It should be lighter in terms of bandwidth and packets sent/received. There may still be some problems that will be resolved in the future.
• Other minor changes.

Future Plans coming in 2024:

• Expanding BoomTag's player base, with improved multiplayer features. Getting rid of ngrok and any port forwarding related things.
• Fix the "Third Time's Right" bug where an error would occur when attempting to connect to other players. It's an internal error related to the way Mirror and Network Animator work. Somehow the second or third time the connection goes without problems.
• Optimize and lighten the game in terms of graphics and space. Something has already been done with ambient occlusion, but the weight of >1GB decompressed is a bit too much.
• Introduce an additional reason to play, such as rewards or in-game currency to buy special cosmetics (to be modified and made balanced based on what players think).
• Fix the bug that requires saving data to be deleted with each update (under "LocalLow/TheMistMakesGames/BoomTag/boomtagsave.json").
• Different effects and sounds for the bombs.
• Others...

Said that, I thank each one of you for playing and supporting BoomTag! The player base is still small, but I hope to introduce the game to as many people as possible. You can suggest features and cosmetics in the (italian) discord server.  And for now, I can only tell you:

Stay safe, enjoy the Holidays, and have a wonderful 2024!