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Hey everyone,
As usual, we'd love to hear your feedback on the game - any comments, questions, concerns, etc. are all welcome here; your feedback is extremely valuable to us and helps us massively with development. In addition to feedback, we'd like to share a bit on what's been going on behind the scenes! Like always, please keep comments on topic - and please be courteous to others.
As for feedback, this week we looked at quite a few things, although a few notable talking points this week were:
- We touched on a bit of feedback about annoying objective designs, such as one defender being able to hold up the trebuchet on the alternate Grad INV map, and how to make things a bit more consistent across the board in terms of gameplay.
- We discussed a few potential issues that were raised about nobles, and a general lack of counterplay for them against ranged opponents. At the moment, no particular decision on this but we are exploring some options.
- A few general discussions about combat and potential timing issues, etc. also occurred. As always, more specific feedback is massively helpful to us - so if you've got any issues, please let us know!
Development updates:
The new Armory is more or less finished! We'll be showing off various features of it in the coming days, but here's a quick overview. Not only does it look objectively better, but it's also much easier and quicker to navigate. You might notice some loadout folders on the left-hand side too :)
A first look at the new Armory.
It's probably not a surprise, but the main focus remains on developing Arid. After completing the first art pass, we're now working on a few tweaks to models/textures etc. which should be a bit less involved. Currently, there's a focus on tying the buildings into the roads and terrain, so things don't have abrupt edges etc. Some architectural details are also being added, such as a few arches, columns etc. as well as pumping out windows, doors, etc. Lastly, the palace is nearing its initial art completion within a few days, and then art development will move over to the outside gardens and palace grounds.
As for the gameplay element of the map, that's essentially completed. Our goals going forward are finishing the art and doing further optimization to increase frames. As a plus side, the assets we've been creating are good looking but also relatively low-impact in terms of performance, and the layout of the map also should help with regard to performance. We'll be monitoring this as we go and keeping frames as high as possible.
We've been putting a bit more work into the female characters, and we'll be testing out an initial implementation for the body poses and basic animations. Work on the character models will pick up more in the future, but most of our art team is focused on Arid for this patch.
Of course, that's not all we've been up to - there's quite a bit of behind the scenes work on various technical aspects of the game and various other changes that help to keep the game running.
And that's it for this week! If you'd like to see our last post, you can find it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/twygb7/biweekly_feedbackdiscussion_thread_45418/