Halloween Survival

• The availability of the Halloween Survival in match-making has been extended beyond the initially planned period. Documentation about creating survival scenarios will be released soon.
• Survival is now also available in Custom Games.
• Fixed an issue with the item shop sometimes showing the incorrect amount of money (fixed earlier today).
• Fixed an issue with the “Ammo buff” upgrade being erroneously granted to the whole team (fixed earlier today).
• The coins in Survival now start flashing 3 seconds (up from 2) before expiring to be consistent with the rest of drops.
• The Item Shop now displays descriptions of the items within.
• Collision fixes to the Halloween survival scenario.

Performance

• Minor rendering optimizations.

Visual changes

• All drops now start flashing intermittently as a warning 3 seconds before they expire or are restored in ...

Halloween Survival

• The Ammo refill shop item has been changed into Ammo Buff which refills your ammo and increases your maximum ammo.
• Slowfield Weeball is a new item in the item shop which gives you a Slowfield Weeball that slows down bots to 40% of their speed.
• Second Wind is a new item in the item shop which is a one-use health refill that activates when your health reaches 0.
• Berserker is a new item in the item shop which gives you 50% additional damage when you have less than 50 HP.
• The shop menu now visually indicates unavailability of Survival and Siphonator when either has been purchased for the current wave.
• The shop menu now visually indicates unavailability of Slowfield and Second wind when the player already has them available.
• Some collision fixes to the map.
• The ammo box now has PnCR ammo.

Audio

• The enemy footstep sounds have been changed.

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I've loosely suggested it might be fun if he spoke on a Dev stream in the past. He is fascinating in his answers & perspective. He's also very funny at times, though I don't know if he knows this. Maybe some time in the future he will talk directly to the egg republic. For now the team want to focus on improving the game/engine. Thus I have to continue being the politician of Diabotical, hopefully you can vote #Frog in the future.

Unfortunately over the 8 years, we have become somewhat intertwined on keeping this game studio alive. I am however the evil one.

Hey Eggs!

Firstly, thanks for the feedback & suggestions (troll, serious, etc) about the queues & game modes.

It's quite obvious we let the queues sit too long without change. Hurting smaller regions and now effecting larger regions.

I let the Dev team focus on polish for a better engine/core (which was the first round of feedback we got from core players on launch). There is still work to be done here. But we should change our focus to the queue/game mode tasks rather than wait for Season 2 to fix it (Season 2 is planned for December).

Frog, Noctis and myself will start implementing a new mm list/features and game play changes. You may see some changes that could be experimental before Season 2 starts. I will keep an eye out for your feedback.

The new animal programmer is working away on finishing the community content server (first step is to get community maps uploaded and playable). Hopefully that lines up nicely with our changes. I fir...

Halloween Survival

• Between each round the Item Shop is now available for 15 seconds. Accessible with H by default, the Item Shop includes items that can help you survive. More items will be added in the future.
• Fragged bots now drop coins which can be used in the Item Shop, these coins will disappear if not picked up within 7 seconds. Coins collected by one player are distributed to every player’s individual coin counter/wallet. Dying results in the loss of half of your current coins. Huggers drop 1 coin, Boomers and Chuckers drop 2 coins, Bosses drop 10 coins.
• Tweaked the health and damage of bots to balance the new Item Shop.
• AI navigation improvements.

Statistics

• The statistics pages have been fixed so that statistics from past and future Survival matches don’t appear combined with stats from other modes.

Masterserver and matches

• The Warmup mode now prioritizes finding matche...

Interface

• The “Menu Framecap” option in Video Settings has been expanded to also limit the framerate when the game is not in focus to avoid hogging resources when a player is on the desktop or in other applications. It’s now named “Menu & Background Framecap”.
• In Settings-More Settings there is a new option “Minimize when alt+tabbing”. When selected, the game will minimize when alt-tabbing instead of staying maximized in the background.
• In Settings-More Settings there is now an option for the Chat keybind to remember the last chat channel that was in use (whether team chat or all chat which have their own separate keybinds and can be switched between by pressing Tab). Note that the Team Chat button retains its function of selecting Team Chat.
• The Chat window now displays a tip on how to switch between chat channels.

Masterserver and matches

• Fixed an issue where the masterserver wouldn't add a reconnect option...

Halloween Survival

• Added Chucker bots (orange).
• Fixed an issue causing bots to receive excessive knockback upon impact when multiple ones were hit with the same shot.
• Fixed some AI navigation issues on the map.
• Bots now have hurt sounds.
• Boomers will sound a warning taunt when getting close to a player.

Interface

• Players that are part of the Twitch drops avatar campaign now have a Twitch link on their Diabotical profile pages.
• Updated translations.

Audio

• Fixed the announcer line for 100 damage PnCR shots which was happening in FFA Instagib on every hit.
• Removed frag streak and impressive announcer lines from the Aim Trainer.

Customization

• Some new avatars from the Twitch drops avatar campaign have been added for streamers and their viewers.

-The Shop has been updated.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue sporadically causing grenade damage to be done far away from the actual location of their explosions. Thank you to VEDMEDIK and hhoyt for a reproduction video.
• Fixed an issue causing damage wrapped over obstacles to be incorrectly calculated for grenades exploiting due to expiration.
• Minor improvement to the accuracy of several combat metrics.
• Added a mechanism to prevent ping spamming.

Halloween Survival

• Added a maximum speed cap to survival enemies.
• Added a maximum HP cap to survival enemies except the boss.
• Increased enemies per round.

Servers

• A peering issue with the carrier Liberty Global has been fixed that will increase the ping to the Frankfurt location for customers of some Southern European internet service providers.

Audio

• There is now an announcer line when you hit a PnCR shot that does 100 da...

Halloween Survival

(Some of these fixes were released to the servers throughout the day.)

• Fixed issue with a stairs prop’s geometry causing bots to not be able to traverse them.
• Fixed some minor bot navigation issues. More improvements in this area are planned.
• Implemented a more elastic flocking behavior so that bots don’t get stuck while going in different directions. More improvements in this area are planned.
• Fixed issue causing bots not to be affected by knockback.
• Tentative fix to a server hang related to AI.
• Increased the number of bots in the first round.
• Tweaked the health, damage and speed progression of bots.

Interface

• When a match is found the taskbar icon no longer flashes if Diabotical is already in the foreground in order to prevent some issues in Exclusive Fullscreen.
• The daily challenge countdown until new challenges are available is now updating li...

Sorry we made you worry :) The patch had been ready for a bit but we had some last minute server issues stopping us from publishing.

There was an issue related to those stairs that should be fixed in any new games started in a few minutes.

Diabotical Halloween Survival

• From now until November 10th, Halloween Survival a Co-op survival game mode will be available in Quickplay: 4 players try to survive waves of increasingly tougher enemies. Our PvE support is experimental and issues will probably be patched frequently throughout the event.
• After November 10th it will remain available in Custom Games and documentation will be provided for map makers to be able to create their own PvE experiences.

Interface

• Added an announcements section to the main menu.
• Right click on a chat tab (user name) now gives you the options to join party (if public), invite to party and invite to lobby.
• Right click on a player in a lobby now gives you the option to send a message (if friend) or send a friend request.

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It will go down after some time if you have left a ranked match in a while

There's a progression similar to that, 1 hour means it's the third time you have disconnected from a ranked match recently