[2021] Patch #21 - Hotfix 1 | Mordhau Dev Tracker

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Patch #21 - Hotfix 1

This hotfix addresses some of the critical issues that came with Patch #21. Regarding performance issues caused by Patch #21: while we expect performance to improve with this hotfix, we are still looking into the cause of some of the performance issues and we will be following up with more hotfixes to address them. Thank you for your patience!

Patch #21 Hotfix 1 Changelog 16/04/2021

General

Castello Frontline: Fixed some stuckspots and extended some out of bounds kill volumes
Castello Frontline: Adjusted blue spawns on Keep Capture Point to reduce run times.
Castello Frontline: Clamped Y max rotation to the minimum on ballistae.
Castello Frontline: Lowered aggro radius for nobles to prevent them from ascending/descending stairs
Castello Frontline: Moved top spawns on blue side to the outer balcony
Castello Invasion: Fixed being able to pick up treasure chests even after enough of them have been delivered
Camp: Fixed a material that could not compile
Contraband: made kill volumes less overzealous, added missing ones.
Feitoria: Attacker spawns adjusted to not be in the LoS of ballista & turd spawn fix
Feitoria: Adjusted exit points for ladders, added Falx & Partisan spawners
Grad Skirmish: Added more OOBs to prevent camping/stalling
Taiga Horde: Added OOB volume in the secret cave to prevent Horde cheese *Fixed rogue spawn on Moshpit
Partisan added to Horde maps (cost: 400)
Slightly reduced speed of fastest Horde enemies
Destroyables no longer receive decals
Fixed a performance regression involving sky textures
Chat: Fixed some chat commands
Chat: Added whisper command (only for community servers - off by default)
Chat: Added command to send announcement to all players
Chat: Added config options for admin chat and whisper chat (Adminchat is on by default, whisper is off by default)
Chat: Added modding hooks for chat commands
Chat: Added /help command (Gives info on commands)
Chat: Renamed chat commands, see /help for explanations
Fixed couch not being parried
Parrying projectiles at 0 stam no longer causes a disarm/stun
Fixed kick vs kick block range being too long
Fixed kick followups being slow
Jump kick 25ms faster
Kick combo 25ms faster
Lunge increased 25ms
Flinch parry mechanic window reduced to 150ms from 200ms
Movement momentum mechanic now much less aggressive and only slows extreme cases
Can now suicide in Horde again
Can now kick with bows/xbow, ranged equipment, etc again (known issue: xbow isn’t using the correct kick animation)
Noble kick now ragdolls again
Improved flourish animations
Fixed ability to use emotes that don't belong to the equipment currently used
Fixed a stamina/health display error that could cause a 1-off absolute error in some cases (e.g. spamming 4 feints in a row)
Fixed a crash that could happen if requesting a Steam auth session ticket times out, also increased timeout from 10 to 30 seconds
Fixed community servers trying to access a user's inventory when they unlock gear
Fixed server browser favorite and recent servers not working
Fixed servers crashing if a desired port is already bound
Fixed a server crash related to horses
Adjusted horse footstep mixing
Adjusted human footstep mixing
Replaced dirt footsteps
Tweaked player vs enemy footstep audio balance: Your own footsteps now have slightly lower volume than the enemy.
Changed flourish sounds to be more like the original ones
Lowered footstep volume for players’ own horse
Small and big axe equip sounds volume lowered
Removed Jiggly smoke on mortar
Fixed server browser entry favorites button not being clickable
Fixed crosshair angle indicator failing to lock angle on attack morphs
Fixed parry shield UI popup persisting during flinch
Updated armory speed bar to be accurate to the new changes to movement speeds

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Originally posted by MemeExpert

I was waiting for the hotfix to see if it would be patched before I mentioned it, but I tested it and it seems like there's either an undocumented extreme heavy nerf or an accidental bug regarding throwables + shields that ruins a really particular meme loadout I really enjoy. Previously, the behavior of throwables was that you'd drop it if you got hit, but if you were holding shield + throwables, then you could take a hit while still holding your rocks.

Unfortunately, the patch made it so that if you have rocks + a shield, getting hit will both drop the rocks and unequip the shield, causing a really long delay as well as both of your weapons to be unequipped. I'd really like to hope this is an unintended behavior (none of the devs really intended to program a shield that goes away when you get hit, right?), because it really only affects meme builds that were already kind of bad.

I know this is kind of a long post for a comment on a bugfix, but to me, these sorts of meme builds are the essence of Mordhau and part of what makes it blur between being a medieval slasher and a real-time-comedy genre that everyone has come to love. I'm fine with nerfs & playstyle adjustments (I've been abusing a jump kick build and have advocated for kick/jump kick nerfs the whole time, adapting along the way by using techniques like kick drags post-nerf), but this one is really sad to me because there's not really much I can do as a player to play around it besides totally swapping my loadout to something less fun, because it effectively makes it so that you have 1 hp at any given moment with said meme build. For example, this clip would have totally ended when the default archer got one lousy hit on me, because it would have completely disarmed me, dropping my weapon to the floor & unequipping my shield.

I genuinely have so much love & passion for this game both as a competitive test to get better and beat more difficult opponents, as well as a way to express myself, be it through the voice lines, armor styles, emotes, and most importantly to me, fun meme playstyles that bring out the inner child from both people. I've never laughed so hard at video games than when I swapped over to my meme rocks+buckler+jumpkick build, and I see that sentiment expressed often by the people who fight me, who will even sometimes reciprocate with their own meme techniques like only jump kicking me back and whatnot.

I've already typed a lot, so I'll just end it with one final plea- Triternion, it would mean the world to me if you would consider re-implementing shields allowing players to keep hold of their throwables, or at the very least, to not unequip the shield upon being struck.

Intended. There's no reason the shield should change the outcome (disarm). However we do agree disarming throwables is probably unnecessary, so we plan to change that. Didn't make it into this hotfix though!

[2021] Patch #21 - Hotfix 1

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