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: ...

Queue changes

• The Ranked Wipeout map list has been updated, Crystal Cove, Refinery have been removed, and Arcol, Habibi, Morpheus, Prod have been added.

Audio

• Fixed an occlusion issue where sounds would not be played or would abruptly cut out.

Performance

• Fixed an audio occlusion issue causing performance issues, most noticeably in Survival (previously released in a minor update).

Survival

• In Survival the initial Shop now shows up as soon as the warmup starts (previously released in a minor update).

Editor

• Fixed the low framerate issue in the editor (previously released in a minor update).
• Fixed the slow block manipulation issue (previously released in a minor update).
• Fixed an editor crash (previously released in a minor update).
• There is now a command called /editor_block_mode that tweaks the internal metrics used t...

Go to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Diabotical\CloudSave you can paste %AppData%\Diabotical\CloudSave in the windows explorer address bar to get there or type /homedir in the console in-game (enabled with the button above tab, to the left of 1) and then close the game, once you are on that folder delete the bindings.txt and settings.txt, start the game again, and if you have Cloud Saves enabled on Epic then choose the option to use your local save instead of the cloud stored save.

Survival

• New map! Tropic
• Coins dropped by bots now stay available for 30 seconds instead of 7 seconds.
• Fixed the weeball selection indicators in the warmup shop not being updated correctly between matches.

Visual changes

• There is now an option to make weapons invisible in Settings-Weapons-Weapon display-Hidden.
• Slightly tweaked the materials of most weapons (released in the previous patch but unannounced)
• Fixed the position of the Hot Katana melee weapon skin in 3rd person.

Performance

• Fixed a hiccup happening when someone joins an ongoing game (ameliorated yesterday in a hotfix, fixed further in this patch).
• Fixed the hiccups that happened in between browsing different cosmetics in the locker.

Audio

• Various fixes to unintentional audio changes (published the day before yesterday but unannounced).

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You do not have to set the netcode to clientside since the last update.

We believe the servers are working correctly again now, the update is live.

We are having some server issues after the update, the game will be down for a bit. I'll update when we have a ETA. (Also forgot to put say in the patch: shout-out to Netborg for lots of testing and suggestions and bug reports related to performance.)

Diabotical is 1 year old today!

Happy August 34th! Diabotical officially turns 1 today, and we figure it’s as good a time as any to throw a birthday party. Game updates, events, free stuff! This is our way of saying thanks for being a part of our first year.

Free Stuff

Some brand new birthday themed loot is in the store, and it’s all free! Grab yourself a new birthday candle melee weapon, a celebratory shell, and a brand new birthday themed spray. Get it now before it's gone forever!

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It has been fixed now on v0.20.460k

A framerate issue has been fixed in v0.20.460e if you restart the game to get it

A framerate issue has been fixed in v0.20.460e if you restart the game to get it

The double chat box and crosshair hit color have been fixed in 0.20.460b if you restart the game to get it

Masterserver and matches

• Fixed the issue where the “No datacenters have been selected” error message would show up when queuing right after starting Diabotical while datacenters were already selected.
• Passworded public matches now show up at the bottom of the match list, above ongoing pickup matches.
• Pickups with skill restrictions that don’t match your current skill rating no longer appear on your list.

Replays

• Fixed an issue that would prevent server-side replays from being played.

Gameplay

• In the Quickplay list, 5v5 CTF Hook Instagib has been replaced by 5v5 Brawl.

Performance

• General performance improvements in multithreaded input mode.
• Fixed a micro-stutter that could happen rarely when shooting.

Visual changes

• Fixed a screen flicker that could happen rarely when the player is pushing against an obstacle.

Sorry, your account has been unbanned, you were meant to have been kicked due to your connection to the anticheat timing out but there's an issue that caused the system to ban you instead.

If you restart the game there is now a fix for that issue available for download, version 0.20.459d

Gameplay

• When being pulled by the Hook it is no longer possible to grab the flag/macguffin.
• When activating the Hook while holding the flag/macguffin, the flag/macguffin is now dropped.
• FFA Hook Instagib has been returned to FFA Instagib with the knockback weeball and without the hook.
• 5v5 Hook CTF has been added to the Quickplay playlist for the next week. Matches are formed when at least 6 players are searching and then listed on the match list.

Performance

• (Regression fix) Fixed an issue introduced in recent changes to the input system causing a buildup of input latency over a session. Thanks to netborg.
• Further micro-optimizations for smoothness related to the handling of input.
• Fixed a microstutter associated with dropping weapons.

Input

• Added support for binding the Print Screen key (“print”).
• Added support for the Hiragana/Katakana switch key on...

There's only a variable for pull speed, phy_hook_speed