Hell Let Loose Dev Tracker

Hey everyone,

If you haven’t had chance to read the AMA last month or tune into the recent Dev Interview, we’ll be summarising both in this week’s dev brief, as well as sharing a sneak peek at progress with the British forces rework.

But first, we want to thank everyone who took part in the PTE this weekend and joined us for a few games! Your feedback is much appreciated, and we’ll now be looking at what we can consider for Patch 14.3, as well as for future development.

Patch 14.3 PTE Feedback
Micro-Stuttering
Over half of those who took part felt that there was an improvement with stuttering, experiencing less micro-stuttering on most maps. We are aware of some reports about FPS drops in the live game since the last patch, and we will continue to look into this.

Ultrawide Monitor Compatibility
Three-quarters of those using an ultrawide monitor felt that there was a marked improvement, and the experience was what most players would ... Read more

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Hey everyone,

The Patch 14.3 PTE Session is now live!

Join us today for your opportunity to try out improvements to the British weapons and explore using the Practice Range, from now until Monday.

Finding a Server
For this session, you may need to refresh the server list on the Enlist screen in order for a server to show, or alternatively, toggle through the Favourites, Friends, and History tabs.

Additional Content Hub
As our additional content hub will be offline for this PTE, we thought we'd share a look at what you can expect when Patch 14.3 goes live!


Additional Content Screen


Available for Purchase Screen

Your Feedback for Patch 14.3
As a reminder, this P... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hey everyone,

We’ll be running another PTE session from this Thursday until Monday, where you’ll have opportunity to feedback on some of the bug fixes and new content coming in Patch 14.3!

For this open testing session, we’re looking for your feedback across a range of different items, including the new Basic Training and Practice Range environments, as well as your experience with the British weapons.

While we’re still working on improving the British forces for a future update, improvements have been made to some of the British firearms, including better zeroing the weapon sights and reducing sway when ADSing.

Patch 14.3 PTE Changelog
Patch 14.3 is packing a number of optimization fixes for certain maps, as well as a list of bugs that have been tackled. We are still working on some items, and will share the final changelog when Patch 14.3 drops.

New Environments

• Basic Training
  
• Practice Range...

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Hey everyone,

As part of our investigations into server performance, we have identified another potential cause for some of the recent server crashes being experienced and have now been able to verify a further fix.

While this fix may not resolve all instances of server crashes - as there are many different factors that could be causing crashes for different servers which we are continuing to investigate - we believe it is the likely cause for some of the recent crashes due to the way in which the server handles new RCON connections.

Previously, the Hell Let Loose server would create some data directly in response to receiving an RCON connection request. Since changing servers to run multi-threaded, as part of a previous improvement to rubber-banding in vehicles, that request could come in on any thread.

This meant that it could happen while Unreal Engine is doing what is known as a garbage collection. It is not valid to create objects while garbage... Read more

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Hey everyone,

Thanks for joining us for the dev interview that premiered on Saturday!

RazBora and The Fresh Baked Goods did a fantastic job of capturing some more of your questions so we could go into depth around topics like the British rework, meta considerations, and future content.

If you haven’t checked out the video yet, you can tune in here.



In this week’s developer briefing, we’re going to take a closer look at the upcoming Practice Range!

The Practice Range
It has been designed for players who want to improve their aiming skills, better understand the building of defences, or even learn the different seats within a tank.

Originally posted by author: We wanted to give the player, rookie, or seasoned veteran, ...

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Hey everyone,

Patch 14.2 will be going live later today at 2pm BST!

Guided by your feedback and our attempts to limit balancing issues, this patch will primarily be removing the increased player locomotion added with Update 14.

Slowed and tested in our latest PTE session, the general consensus from players was that they felt player locomotion in the PTE session was better, however, we understand that some players felt the speeds were still too fast. In order to ensure we are striking a better balance, we can continue testing the speed and based on feedback from today's patch, could consider testing a slightly slower speed in a future PTE session. There will also be a PTE session on the 17th of August for the next bug-fixing patch, 14.3.

If you want more control over the direction we take in the future, please join us for these PTE sessions, as this is where we will be collecting feedba... Read more

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Hey everyone,

Thank you all for taking the time to ask your questions in the AMA last week!

The team has been really eager to respond to as many as possible and will be looking to elaborate further during the dev podcast[discord.gg] with RazBora and The Fresh Baked Goods, which will premiere over on Twitch[www.twitch.tv], and on ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hey everyone,

Thank you to those who have already taken part in the PTE and shared your feedback!

While the announcement went live in Discord yesterday, we’re keen to action on your feedback around the timings of this first PTE session, and will now be extending it over the weekend.

The PTE servers will start to go offline, Monday, 24th of July, at 11am BST.

Patch 14.2 PTE Changelog
Changes

• [Change] Changed the players movement speed back to the original values pre-Update 14.
  
• [Change] Removed the “Dive to Prone” feature.

General Bug Fixes

• [Fix Submitted] Throwing a grenade has a chance of not being thrown

Your Feedback
We want to make sure that we can be flexible and adapt where necessary so that you can share your thoughts and feedback on the player speed within the PTE, as well as the speed in the live game, and hope that this extensi... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.