On netcode: yes, we are very familiar with the idea of mixing half/half BR/extrapolation. It has been our plan for a while to implement extrapolation as an option so that people can try the half/half approach in custom games for a while, and then based on feedback from the community we would use it in matchmaking as a default or not. My expectation is that this will be the preferred option and that we will end up making it a default.

On Vulkan, I don't want to talk with certainty about things that I haven't had the chance of testing empirically, but I suspect that whatever latency improvements we could get with Vulkan we can get eventually with a Direct3D 12 port (or at least roughly similar results) and that is much more feasible. For the time being we must support Direct3D 11-only GPU's (although it's a massive hassle) and maintaining two versions would be perhaps not a good idea considering our limited resources. I think a realistic path for us is waiting for the next ve...

Yes. Can't give you an ETA but we are very interested in having a decent clan system.

I don't think so, sorry. If you want to elaborate on the reasons why you'd like to see that happen, we can always try to improve the game in those certain areas. We are always iterating on performance, latency and stability.

We don't have plans for this at the moment but it's something that we have already discussed internally and that we'd like to do in the future.

If you have 15 minutes to spare, could you follow the "Create a MTR" procedure here?

https://kb.i3d.net/topic/Network/10/How-to-create-a-MTR-report-Windows/316

Except once you generate the info instead of emailing it to i3d like they say, DM it to me along with your IP, which you can check on http://ip4.me/ (You can DM me on Discord or Reddit) and I'll bring it to them.

Use...

Done, this will be on 349 that we'll push in a few hours. We'll add an option to enable the old behaviour in case somebody prefers it.

We'll add this as an option at some point. (Except for the melee).

I'm told that yes, we are planning something for 2021. We are not ready to announce anything more than that for now.

The Avatar submissions have been temporarily closed until we develop a better method for processing them, we don't currently have a date for when they will reopen.

I've removed that comment from the post saying that this was triggered by a Rocket League update because that was just my supposition given the timing and I can't know that for sure.

To be clear: while yes, EGS lacks an API call to modify the friends list, which is what we'd prefer in order to design the experience exactly as we want, it is still possible to do this inside the game by invoking the overlay which contains a friends list where you can do that, and we plan to do exactly this on the short term. Ideally we'd like to have all the calls we need to have a unified experience exactly how we would like it to be, and I'm sure we'll get all that eventually, as Epic have been quite forthcoming. (And to be perfectly fair, we haven't even been pressing them much on this yet because we had other priorities for them to address and we didn't want to overload them with requests.)

As you probably have noticed if you have been trying to play the game for the last few hours, the Epic store is undergoing some technical difficulties that prevent players from accessing the game.

We thought we'd use this opportunity to update on some ongoing technical concerns.

New locations

We'll be adding Madrid and Seattle servers pretty soon, hopefully this week. We are also going to add a Santa Clara location in a few weeks. This one may make for a slightly better hub for the North American west coast. Besides being a bit closer to the northwest, this location will also have better connectivity to many places on the region.

Windows 7 hiccups

Many Windows 7 users had been experiencing very annoying periodic stutters while playing. We traced this down to a very specific interaction between the anticheat, our game and Windows 7. The fix for this was rolled out today. (Would like to thank Int3 -EQU8- for d...

A similar fix for projectiles is coming shortly, thanks for your patience.

Sorry, child game.

Interface

• Added a message to the Battle Pass screen stating that Battle Passes can only be purchased within their season, rewards can only be unlocked during that season, and rewards unlocked will be kept by players after the season ends

Netcode

• Improved the reliability of hitscan registration

Audio

• Some adjustments to the enemy movement sounds

Visual changes

• All projectiles now visually spawn from their actual origin, with the exception of the Blaster's projectiles in first person, the visuals of which spawn slightly below the center of the crosshair - this indicates the origin and trajectory of projectiles more clearly which can be helpful when dodging them, and when tracking them relatively to the position of your crosshair and opponents

Maps

• In Perilous some spawns have been adjusted and 2 spawns have been removed
• Wellspring, Cryst...

It should good as of 0.20.347d from around 25 minutes ago

Interface

• When switching to the map vote screen, any pop-up submenus that are open will be closed
• Hovering over the Announcement image now makes a sound
• Fixed some missing customization names
• Fixed FFA match pages that didn't load due to players leaving left during the match
• The Leaderboards now load slightly faster

HUD

• Players connecting to a match are now shown on the Chat

Audio

• There is now a short victory music track and a short defeat music track
• Adjusted movement sounds of other players for better relative altitude hints

Gameplay

• Fixed respawning and immediately dying if you had died to falling out of the map

Spectator

• Fixed minimap in the spectator mode not showing the position of players
• Fixed the jumppad sounds in the spectator mode not playing in their correct location

An issue with /gg was brought to our attention so we disabled it temporarily, but we'll bring it back.

This is the final Top 8 of the first official Diabotical Tournament, featuring deathr0w, ballin, ddk, Pit, ZorakWar, rey, Julbars and davjs

Bracket: https://liquipedia.net/arenafps/Test_Tournament_Series/September_Duel/North_America

Congratulations to ZorakWar for winning the Diabotical TTS September Duel NA!

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