Your assessment of the HV40 is correct. It's more of a temporary fix. There are larger changes relating to Field guns coming in the future.

I'm colonial and even though there are some balancing issues its still the best game I've ever played, in-game is luckily not as toxic as the reddit.

I'm going to use this as a pull quote for the game

Definitely have this discussion Reddit, but please also include as much detailed feedback on #devbranch-bugs-feedback on the Foxhole Discord. The team will review that channel, but won't necessarily read through posts on this subreddit. I'm not promising any change one way or another, but just want to make sure that feedback reaches the right channels.

Thanks!

No plans.

We have been testing some experimental changes to make the game's basic functions work on Steamdeck as a side/hobby project (as there's much bigger fish to fry) and its pretty cool to run logistics with it. I wouldn't recommend frontline combat. We hope to tinker more with it in the coming while but its definitely low in priority. Hopefully we can push some of these changes out in the coming weeks with the release of the Steamdeck.

We try to have clear roles for different communication tools. Regiments are intended for persistent social grouping (i.e. clans) while Squads are intended for war time communication and coordination of assets.

Allowing regiments to queue orders isn't out of a question, but we'd like to avoid overlap in functionality if possible.

We overall appreciate how the logi community has conducted themselves. It has resulted in positive outcomes and their feedback has contributed to Update 48.

The changes will hopefully smooth things over in a few areas, but there's still a lot we hope to work on in terms of logistics. It will take time though.

Unfortunately not. The refinery wasn't designed for Squad use so it would have to be reimplemented to support that use case. We aren't closing the door on the possibility but its doubtful that would fit into any near future update schedule. For now, resources will still have to be carried over to a Storage Depot if they are to be shared.

One thing that will help in tracking down these cases is to note exact details of scenarios under which it happens. I understand it might feel like its happening "everywhere", but if specific times/locations can be cited we can try to load the data from those maps on our internal servers to reproduce the exact issue. A simple bug report in the future on FOD with this information would be very much appreciated in the future.

You will always have one "active" Squad and that's where voice chat will go. You can choose your active Squad by clicking on a button (this UI was missing from the dev stream videos, which was using an older version).

I believe we made a late change to show the Squad name in text chat lines so you know which Squad it came from.

We're always looking to address as many issue as we can across all player groups and types (which includes logi union feedback), but we try not to talk about potential future changes until we are very confident we can deliver those things into player hands soon.

We don't want to mislead anyone or setup false expectations, which we have done in the past. In those cases it wasn't fair to players and it was our fault for disappointing people. These days, when feedback comes in we just try our best to listen and get to work to address issues in a concrete way that can be delivered in a future update.

Walls are straight as they looked unnatural when curved.

I believe you can enter from any position as of now.

Please add the issue of friendly fire against your own faction to the dev branch feedback and we'll take a look.

We'd like to do another comprehensive pass on comms tools in the future, but it unfortunately won't be happening anytime soon due to the schedule being quite full for the foreseeable future. We tend to do things in waves so we'll come back around to some of these issues eventually.

No. Friendly fire is tricky. We'd love to allow anyone to dismantle any structure (that would make building a lot more fun and sandboxy), but the unfortunate reality is that we always have to account for griefing edge cases.

For example, all it takes is for 1 player in the future to build a huge bunker base, have the front line reach it, and then destroy it on their own during a critical battle. That's unlikely to happen but as we often see certain players will try their best to test the limits of what can be done so we have to constantly think of all the possibilities and be careful.

Having said that, we'd like to hear about the specific scenarios and pain points to help guide future development of builder features.

We'll be answering questions here over the next few hours. Feel free to ask any questions and we'll try to get to as many as we can but those pertaining to Update 48 will be prioritized. Thanks!

This one will be light on flashy content. More focus on small tweaks, balance, and improvements. If you were waiting for a big feature update to return to the game, this won't be it. If you are playing regularly these days there will hopefully be a few beneficial things for you.