September 3rd, 2022 (August 34th, 2022) will be the second anniversary of Diabotical's release.

On that day there will be a stream with James at 19:00 CEST on https://www.twitch.tv/2gd and after that Season 5 will start.

19:00 CEST (UTC+2) in your timezone...

When the screen is black are you able to press Escape to return to the menu or open the console with ~ or the button above Tab to the left of 1?

Which video mode are you using in Settings-Video-Display Mode, and have you tried others (requires a game restart)?

Does the same behavior happen if you go to Practice-Practice Range, or if you open the console with ~ or the button above Tab to the left of 1 and type /edit and then press Enter

Have you tried verifying the game files in the Epic Games Launcher-Library-3 dots button next to Diabotical-Manage-Verify Files

Are you able to play other games and are you using the latest drivers for your graphics card?

To play a game mode that is based on using the Shaft it's possible to select the game mode called Shaft Arena when creating a custom game or when creating a pickup. If you would like to play Wipeout with Shaft as the only weapon, you can create a Wipeout custom game and inside the more settings button place the command game_weapons: shaft 999; in the commands box, additionally you can use this command if you want unlimited ammo game_unlimited_ammo: 1;

It's possible to do it manually with files, you settings are saved to settings.txt and your bindings are saved to bindings.txt in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Diabotical you can get there by pasting %appdata%/Diabotical in the Windows explorer address bar or by typing the command /homedir in the console in-game, then you can move those files to another folder or rename them to something other than "settings" and "bindings" such as "settingsbrother", "settingsme", then make a copy of one of those depending on who is playing and rename it to "settings" so that it's read by the game when you launch it afterwards.

Are you able to launch a custom match on that map in any server?

Try verifying the game if you can't load the map anywhere (click the 3 dots button next to Diabotical in the Epic Games Library)

What was the server of that pickup?

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue that disabled PNCR knockback (released in an earlier minor patch).
• Fixed projectiles becoming stuck in moving props like doors or weapon clipped props when fired from within.
• Increased the Rocket Launcher’s secondary attack (grenades) ammo usage from 2 to 3.
• Increased the time before being able to switch to other weapons or fire primary after firing rocket launcher secondary to match the old stand alone Grenade Launcher values.
• Decreased the horizontal radius of rocket and grenade projectiles from 2 to 1 unit for hit detection.

Audio

• Added impact sounds for the Shotgun’s secondary attack.
• Added a hum sound to the Void Cannon like the Shaft and PNCR have, which is audible to other players nearby.

Visual changes

• Fixed an issue causing a part of the Cyclops shell to be rendered incorrectly in maps.
• Fixed the PNCR beam’s visuals not...

We've fixed this in 467b.

Matchmaking and matches

• The Birthday Mapping Contest has concluded and the winning maps are being added to the official lists (Announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/s3upbm/birthday_mapping_contest_results/ ):
• The Duel ranked map list is now Axiom, Cathedra, Darkness, Machine, Pavilion X, Restless, Sanctum.
• The Wipeout pickup map list is now Ancient, Arcol, Caliburn, Dynamo, Furnace, Rekiem, Sunken, Toya Fortress, Wellspring.
• Axiom, Cathedra, Darkness, Machine, Prism have been added to the Duel custom game ma...

You still have this issue in 466d? (Check the link Raven posted for context)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/rog1st/patch\_notes\_version\_020466\_december\_25\_2021/hq2qimf/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

Update: We just released a minor version (466d). This keeps the same improvements mentioned in the patch notes but adds a small grace window of time that also allows rocket-jumping with the previous shoot-first timing. From our testing this also improves rocket jumping in this scenario compared to the situation pre-466. (Update update: Sorry for update right before finals, eggwp, we have been testing this all evening and forgot to check.)

Yes, of course. Go ahead.

If you were pressing fire before pressing jump that will not work correctly now (even if just slightly before), you have to press fire and jump at the exact same time or press fire after pressing jump.

Edit: it's safer to press jump right before fire so that you're in the air when the explosion knockback is applied

We had an issue rolling out this update, the new mode should start working in about 10 minutes. (From 21:05 CET*)

Gameplay

• Christmas Miniguffin is now available in Quickplay. Take the MacGuffin through the goal to score points, frag opponents to earn weapons (mode based on the Brawl mode with logic entities in the map "mod_miniguffin_christmas" and hp and armor settings externally).
• Improved speed of application of knockback effect (improves rocket jumping and blaster wall climbing). When rocket jumping do not fire and then jump, make sure you first jump and then fire.
• Fixed an issue introduced in a previous patch causing power-ups in Brawl and FFA to spawn at the same time instead of in cycles.

Editor

• Fixed a crash while editing related to logic entities (rolled out earlier in a minor update).
• Fixed an issue where actions triggered by 'on_player_spawn' were having no effect (rolled out earlier in a minor update).
• Fixed an issue where tag-related actions were ignoring their ‘delay’ setting.
• Fixed a typo...

As of version 0.20.465g the leave game button should no longer be bugged in the rank up screen.

HUD

• Fixed splits being affected by players joining the game.
• The Team score left behind by disconnected players is now cleared when someone joins the empty team which had the lingering score.
• After your first run in a Time Trials match on a map with splits, the Current column of the Race Splits HUD element now displays the difference between that run and your best run by the time you reached that checkpoint (total time relative to checkpoint: if your run is 10s slower than your best run then the last split diff will be +10s), instead of comparing the time between checkpoints with each other (split time relative to split time, independently of total time: if your run is 10s slower than your best run but you performed the last split/time from last checkpoint to the end 0.5s faster than in your best run then the last split diff will be -0.5s). To change the Race Splits HUD element to display split times relative to split times use the command /hud_rac...

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Season 4

• The Season 4 Battlepass is now available.
• Skill ratings from Season 3 have been preserved, showing up on a leaderboard requires 25 matches played in the specific leaderboard mode.
• Aim Arena 2v2, Wipeout 4v4, TDM 2v2 have been removed from the ranked search function.
• Leaderboards for Aim Arena 2v2 and TDM 2v2 have been removed (Wipeout leaderboards remain which are based on Pickup matches).
• TDM 2v2 has been added as a Pickup option.

Tournament system

• An in-game tournament system is now availabl...

Less than 1 month remains until the submission deadline for the Diabotical Birthday Mapping Contest (23:59 UTC on 31 December 2021).

Original announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/pha0to/happy_august_34th_diabotical_anniversary/

Diabotical Birthday Mapping contest rules: ...