Season 3!

Season 3, Matchmaking and Matches

• Season 3 has started, a new Battlepass is available in the Shop.
• For the next week the FFA Instagib queue has been replaced with FFA Hook Instagib which includes the hook ability and does not include the knockback weeball. It uses the regular FFA Instagib map pool, with the addition of the Wee-Bow Instagib maps Treehouse, Coastline, Stronghold and Egg-plant.
• The skill ratings from the previous season have been kept.
• The leaderboards have been reset for Season 3 (players will be placed on the leaderboard of a mode after completing 25 ranked matches). Season 2 leaderboards can now be viewed through the season dropdown in the Leaderboards screen.
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EggCup is happening every week, one map is selected and people have to submit a run before the 1 week deadline. You can submit times in one physics, more than one, or all. This week's map is Hven, the deadline is today 2021-05-20 19:00 CEST, after that the map for next week will be announced. The runs and results will be streamed on Sunday at 20:00 CEST (typically on Saturday 20:00 CEST) https://diabotical-racing.com/eggcup

Edit: the deadline for this week has now been reached, the map for next week is Crystal Rush, deadline is 2021-05-27 19:00 CEST

Changed in this patch https://www.reddit.com/r/Diabotical/comments/mmhrov/patch\_notes\_version\_020457\_april\_8\_2021/

The match starts immediately after all players have voted.

Hah, last year reddit made a big thread about preferring just patch notes over monthly updates. So I was like, You mean I get to work less ???? ez out. ;)

Only if you play a map that only has the Diabotical powerup, which spawns at 3 and 7 minutes in a regular 8 minute match, then every 4 minutes after that if the match is longer.

Official maps that only have the Diabotical powerup, on the FFA list: Alchemy, Ancient, Frozen Decay, Huracan, Hurt Locker, Icefall, Oxide.

That way to set teams with one player each is the way to do it.

The damage has been fixed now

Masterserver and matches

• When a match finishes the Game report screen now displays the map vote tab instead of the scoreboard.
• Added a new option under More settings to pick which game report tab is opened when a match ends: map vote (default), scoreboard, statistics.
• After an unranked match finishes the new match will start immediately after everyone still on the server has voted instead of waiting for the countdown to finish.
• After a Ranked match finishes, the rematch will now start immediately after all players have voted for a map (the map vote option becomes available after a player has pressed the rematch button).
• The Game report map voting tab and custom lobbies now support up to 9 maps.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players join custom matches while being connected to a ranked match without manually leaving their match first.
• Fixed a timing issue that could result in players being pulled from one match into...

Custom game map voting

• In the Custom Game lobby’s more settings menu there is now a setting to allow players to propose a map vote, which has the option of being enabled always, or enabled only during warmup, or disabled.
• When the option is enabled, players can press Escape to go to the Match menu, press the “Create a map vote” button, and select a map for the current mode from the official or community map lists.
• The vote options are Yes or No, in order to vote it’s possible to bind Vote Yes and Vote No in Settings-Controls-Gameplay-General, by default the keybinds are F5 for Yes, F6 for no, it’s also possible to vote through the Match menu by clicking on the option you want.
• The name of the map being voted on and vote tally is displayed on the HUD through the new Vote HUD element, and in the Match menu.
• The vote is decided by the majority of players and spectators who vote (if only one person out of 10 in the server votes, that ...

Maps

• Collision fixes to Oasis, and Raya.
• Art improvements to Oasis.
• Fixed a trigger issue in the Tutorial (the previous fix was incomplete).

Maps

• Refinery WIP has been added to the Custom Games Wipeout map list for testing - this is a slightly smaller version of Refinery which is meant to replace the current Refinery.
• Collision fixes to Amberfall, Huracan, and Toya Fortress. Thank you to Torzelan for the report.
• Fixed a trigger issue in the Tutorial. Thank you to monke for the report.

Audio

• Added Time Trials Audio options to set the type of sounds that players on enemy teams do (enemy sounds, team sounds, or muted), and to set the type of sounds that players on the same team do (team sounds, or muted). By default enemies and teammates now use team sounds.

Content service

• In Custom Games there is now a Tutorial game mode. Community gameplay and mapping tutorials can now be uploaded through the Content Creation menu. For mapping tutorials it’s recommended for the map name to be the same as the map id so that players can more ea...

Last 2 Team tournaments are scheduled for payment in April.

2020 tourneys we did 1 month payments, 2021 tourneys we wanna do around 3 months

Lans prize money like Diabotical Factory, we send in advance, in case people wanna hand out winnings in cash. which apparently is what Russia enjoy doing

phys getting paid last. So once hes paid, then the TTS is wrapped up

Within that area you could have multiple spawns for team 5, spawns can also get the setting /forsel set %1 start true in order to only be used on the initial spawn, however I believe it will only work if all players are around when the match starts, not for people who join an ongoing match

If you wanted to create an FFA/Brawl/Warmup map with 1 player in each team you could assign spawns per team /forsel set %1 team 0 (1, 2, 3 and so on) with spawns for team 5 for example being in a different area which is closed off from the rest of the map, then if there's a player trigger in that area, the player that spawned there could interact with it and open doors/walls/teleporters around that area or in other areas that previously had teleporters to that area closed behind a door.

That issue should be fixed now.

Maps

• FFA, FFA Instagib, and Warmup’s Quickplay map lists now include Ancient.
• Wipeout, and Aim Arena Classic’s, Ranked/Pickup map lists now include Ancient and sunken.
• Freeze Tag, and Freeze Tag Classic’s Pickup map lists now include Ancient.
• TDM 2v2, TDM, TDM Classic, and Extinction’s and Ranked/Pickup map lists now include Sunken.
• In Sunken’s Wipeout version, the length of the dead end near the center map teleporter has been reduced (behind the waterfall/window/jail/below mega).
• Collision fixes to Amberfall, Overgrowth, and Sunken (Wipeout version).

Gameplay

• Improved the accuracy of the Time Trials’ timer - multithreaded input is recommended, without it there’s a higher likelihood of slower times than expected.
• Added the command game_wipe_out_timer_mode 1 for team based respawn timers in the Wipeout and Survival modes. A player’s death adds 4 second to the respawn tim...

Two people haven't been paid for the mapping contest yet and will be paid at the end of this month. The developers did not have ownership of the server (which is required to delete it).

The server was not owned or ran by the developers, it was created by a community member and deleted by the community member who owned it.

Maps

• A Wipeout version of Sunken has been added to the Custom Games map list for testing.
• A Wipeout version of Ancient has been added to the Custom Games map list for testing.
• A Brawl/FFA version of Ancient has been added to the Custom Games map list.
• Collision fixes to Ancient, Furnace, Oasis, and Overgrowth.
• Art improvements to Oasis.

Masterserver and matches

• Tentative fix to issues when launching Custom Games with community maps in some servers.

HUD

• There is now a command to toggle the scoreboard on and off instead of only being able to see it by holding the keybind: /bind KEY toggle_score (released on March 1st).