Foxhole Dev Tracker

No. They can still be produced at Factories.

The team currently uses Github projects for issue management (but not for source control).

In terms of how long it takes to make modelling changes, it heavily depends on the nature of the changes. Sometimes small changes can take deceptively long and seemingly large changes can be quicker than expected. Things like animations, collisions, and gameplay interactions can really complicate and make the modelling process longer. Open topped or vehicles with lots of moving parts are usually harder.

For example, ships are very complex across the board and take the longest. The larger ones can take up to multiple months to model, test, and polish. Basic closed top tanks can usually be done over several weeks in the optimistic case.

It'd be tough to change Jave Cove at this point due to it's player history.

The current rule is 1-2 days depending on various factors. While there are some exceptions (e.g. a Major update which has a more rigid release date), this has been the protocol for many years.

While we understand that more engaged clan players desire longer breaks, the game is played by thousands and a large portion of players are either new or play more casually. We have heard from those players being upset when they bought the game new or just wanted to play on their day off or weekend and couldn't. So the balance that has worked is 1-2 days. There is some break, but not so long that there is a high chance for someone who just bought the game to walk into a dead server and get confused.

Now you bring up a good point that Charlie shard exists now, but its uncertain how long term that will be.

At least not until after the next Devstream. A lot of work is being done for that update in the background but none of it is ready to show yet.

We'll be answering questions here for the next few hours. Update 60 specific questions will be prioritized.

The next Devstream is on Tuesday, Feb 11th at 2PM ET (previously 1PM ET). Join us on Twitch for a live preview of what's coming to Foxhole in Update 60: https://www.twitch.tv/foxholegame

Update 60 will be a minor update focusing on small scale improvements and features.

EDIT: The Devstream start time has been pushed back by 1 hour to 2PM ET

It's on Sunday. We're fixing it now.

Oh I really hope so. There are many at the studio excited about more uniforms.

We are still iterating on the controls, but overall we are aiming for a balance between a flight sim and action game experience.

There aren't any immediate plans to rework border bases, but we will of course continue to address issues as they come up in future wars. When discussing border base, I want to make sure their historical context is communicated so any feedback takes into account all prior issues, which will help us find better solutions to new problems. Here's a post I made awhile back.

In the first few years of Foxhole and World Conquest, a problem that became known as "border lockdown" emerged. It would cause region borders to be closed off by players and heavily defended. This became a desired strategy (understandably) from players but it had some negative effects.

First, it would cause major issues with player queues. During peak hours, "border lockdown" would essentially subtract regions from the frontline conflict (e.g. bringing the frontline from 7 to 5 or even 4 regions). This problem wasn't easily visible by players and would manifest itself in sudden complaint...

Live servers will be patched with the new build several days before the 18th (for the "Pre-Patch" war). This is done to ensure major stability issues are caught ahead of time.

So in short, downtime should be minimal on the 18th unless there are unforeseen technical issues.

We're still iterating on the experience to find the right balance but right now it is on the realistic side. It takes some skill and effort to consistently navigate to a target and engage it. This will obviously be refined over the coming months of development.

Implementation started early 2024 and I'd say it took about half a year of on/off development to reach a stage where we were confident. The most exciting part of the process was the first time we were able to climb into a c*ckpit and take off and fly around the world on our internal servers. The flight model started off really realistic so it took quite a bit of skill to even take off at first.

It wouldn't be technically feasible to port Foxhole to the R² Engine at this point as the game's codebase is too mature. However, we are continuing to invest in optimizations to help the servers take on more load. While R² Engine tech can't be directly adopted, the R&D knowledge can be shared across teams at the studio.

Skins and customization options would be neat, but we'd want to do it in a way that benefits the game's goals. It was a foundational requirement at the start to not sell microtransactions in Foxhole to ensure that design decisions (whether everyone agrees with them or not) were always towards the betterment of the creative goals of the game as opposed to financial incentives. We believe strongly that in the long term better games are made this way.

Most likely yes