[2020] State of Development v2

Thanks for all your support, it’s been a crazy two weeks since we launched on September 26th :-)

We’ve picked up steam on the development side and have strike teams working on the below features and improvements:

Gameplay

• Team communication incl. voice chat!
• General squads / duo polish
• Ongoing shooting and balance tweaks
• Map POI (points of interest) and loot density improvements
• Spectating improvements
• Inventory improvements
• Quality of life bug fixes

Controller

• Alternate configurations
• Controller revamp
• Input latency improvements on console
• Aim assist improvements

UI

• 10’ console experience of HUD
• “Invite system” polish
• MOTD system improvements
• QOL features for streamers and content creators (hiding HUD elements, etc.)

Progression

• Stats
• Leaderboards
• Cosmetics / loadout
• Progression
• Compendium / mission logs

Engine

• Anti-cheat
• Console performance, stability, and memory
• Server performance and hitch optimizations
• Reduction of initial download size and ongoing patch sizes
• Level streaming to allow variation for cosmetics
• Low end PC compatibility support / improvements

Online

• Spinning up more data centers to reduce average ping times
• Public test realm

Our general planning horizon is around 4-6 weeks and we hope to accomplish a decent percentage of the aforementioned in that timeframe. Having said that, life is not free of surprises and here is my favorite post on software development estimates ;-)

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