Egg Scramble

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**Egg Scramble** is one of the rounds in *Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout*. This round is a Team round and was first introduced in the beta version.

According to the game website, *Egg Scramble* was designed by Meg Ralph.

## Course description

### Standard version

Egg Scramble is a team game. In this game, the players are divided in three groups: blue, red and yellow. The arena is triangle-shaped, divided into three sections, each of them with a big nest. In the middle of this arena, there are 43 normal eggs (worth 1 point each) and 3 golden eggs (worth 5 points each). Two rotating hammers are positioned near each nest, and they can either aid (by knocking players or eggs into the nest) or hinder (by knocking them away from the nest). Players have to bring eggs to their team's nest; when the time runs out, the two teams with the most eggs collected qualify for the next round. Eggs are collected by grabbing them to pick them up. Players are given free rein to go to the other teams' nests to steal their eggs.

#### Overtime

If two teams are tied for the lowest score as the timer runs out, 15 extra seconds will be added. If after 15 seconds there is still a tie, 15 more seconds are added and this repeats until one team has the outright lowest score.

### Alternate versions

Starting from 10 November 2020 Season 2 (Legacy) mid season update, these variants can appear instead of the standard one:

* Donut bumpers have been added to annoy the players
* Golden eggs and regular eggs will switch so there will be 43 golden egg 3 regular eggs.
* A giant golden egg (like the one that can appear in Fall Ball) may be added on top of all the others. It cannot be picked up, but it can be pushed around by players. Despite its size, it is still just worth 5 points, like the normal-sized golden eggs.

## Course Strategy

The most common strategy is to always go after the team with the least eggs. If your team has the least eggs early on, you will likely lose.

As with all team games, you have to hope to be placed on a team with other good players. Observe what your teammates are doing - if there are enough people attempting to steal eggs, defend your own, and vice-versa. Defending the golden eggs is of a higher priority due to their high value, but defending the normal eggs should also not be neglected either.

To defend the nest, grab or push other players, and in general try to block their (or the eggs') way out of the nest. Grabbing a player from the back while they are holding an egg, and holding on until you eventually let go, will make them drop the egg - a useful tactic for either attacking or defending. The nests are lower relative to the rest of the arena, so it can be challenging to get out - but people may attempt to jump and dive while grabbing an egg to throw it out instead.

As of Season 3 (Legacy), the physics of the eggs have changed slightly, making egg throws a far more powerful tactic (both offensively and defensively). While grabbing an egg, jump, and simultaneously dive while releasing the grab. This technique can take a while to perfect, but once mastered, it becomes easier to throw eggs into or out of the nest. This strategy was momentarily nerfed in Season 4 (Legacy) due to some slight changes in the physics, but is now almost back to its maximum efficacy as of Season 5 (Legacy).

As there are 58 points in total, the minimum number required to avoid elimination is 19 (due to how the remaining 39 can possibly be split among the other two teams - when the timer runs out, in the worst case a 19-20 split would trigger an Overtime). Because there are so many points on offer here, however, such Overtime cases are incredibly rare.

## Course changes

From 15 September 2020 Season 1 (Legacy) mid season update:

* Lowered the player requirements, making the game likely to appear even late-game. With the reduced number of players, this puts a larger emphasis on teamwork.

## Known Bugs

**Camouflaged Golden Eggs\***

For some reason, golden eggs would appear exactly the same as normal eggs, making it completely impossible to tell which is which, other than by throwing in or out a normal-looking egg and directly observing the score change by 5. **This bug was exclusive to only one variation of Egg Scramble, and *it's been fixed as of Power Party Update, however, the map has yet to return to Squads and Duos, which is very likely.***

**Infinite Points\***

As of the Fall Force update, it is possible to get infinite points on both Egg Scramble and Egg Siege by repeatedly grabbing and letting go of an egg by the corner of a nest, which is likely to be the reason that Egg Scramble was removed from Squads and Duos, as it is exploitable. **This has been fixed as of the Power Party Update, but only after Classic Knockout ended, so it wasn't in the show. However, *the map hasn't returned yet to Squads and Duos, but it's likely to return soon.*** (see the Bug Fixes section of the blog post)

## Medal thresholds

* Gold - Team has the most eggs
* Silver - Team has the second most eggs
* No medal - Eliminated

If the two qualifying teams are tied for the highest score, the tie is probably broken by whichever team reached the score first (*unconfirmed*)

## Trivia

* During development, this level was known as "Egg Grab".
* During beta, this level had an splash screen image that showed animal baskets instead of normal baskets, it was later fixed on release.
* The original splash screen image for this map was taken in the Fall Guys Release Date Trailer (Timestamp - 0:18)
* At the start of the Summer Breeze Update, this round was only added back to Duos, however in a later content update, it was added to Squads. Egg Scramble is also the first team round to be added back to Duos, after team games getting vaulted from said playlist. It formerly required exactly 6 players, and since finals in Duos are chosen at 8 players, or less, it was rare to have 6 players before a final. However, when there was only 6 players left in Duos, the round was surprisingly common to get. This is no longer the case, when Fall Force Update launched, since the player count was reduced to 6-24, making it still possible to get it pre-final in rare occasions, but available normally during the round, usually as the third round. However, it got vaulted soon after this change, due to a bug.
	+ Pegwin Pursuit and Volleyfall, two other team rounds were also added to Duos, as of Tool Up Update, and they can appear normally in this show, but similarly to Egg Scramble, they are also common to get with a very small amount of players, despite having decent player counts in Duos. This makes team rounds technically available in Duos again.
	+ This makes Fall Force Update the only update of Season 4, where Duos didn't include Team games at any point, after Egg Scramble was removed.
* As of Summer Breeze Update, it can appear with a lower number of players, with a minimum of 12 players. This could be noticed in both Squads Show, and The Vault in Custom Show.
* Much like every Season 1 (Legacy) map, Egg Scramble was also added to Classic Knockout, when it returned to Custom Show. This is also the first time it has reappeared since it was vaulted. But this map was still bugged in said show, so it didn't appear in the fourth appearance of Classic Knockout as a limited-time show and was temporarily removed from the Custom Show version of the show as well until the bug will be fixed. This also applies to Hoarders, Rock 'n' Roll and Tail Tag.
	+ The bug was only fixed after Classic Knockout ended as a limited-time show as of the fourth appearence.
* As of 14 December 2023 in Power Party Update, Egg Scramble was confirmed to have been fixed, along with Egg Siege, and it's likely to be added back to Duos and Squads soon.
* As of 16 January 2024, Squads Show has lowered the minimum player requirements, to 8-9 Squads (32-36 players in total), and due its high maximum player count, Egg Scramble can possibly appear as the first round of an episode, although it has to be unvaulted in order to know it for sure.

## Gallery

* Original splash image (used until launch of Season 1)

## See also

* Egg Siege, the successor of this round.

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDmgvRqyhbY