[2022] Bi-Weekly Feedback/Discussion Thread: 5/31-6/13

Hey all,

Like always, we'd like to hear your feedback on the game - any comments, questions, constructive critiques, feedback, whatever - we'd like to hear it, as it absolutely helps us out with development. In addition to general feedback, we're looking for a bit more specific stuff in a few areas (which you can read about down below). Like always, please be nice to each other, and we absolutely appreciate your comments!

If you haven't seen it already on our other platforms, here's another shot of Arid - this time, the palace area! This has come together pretty recently; while there are a few areas that need some tweaks, we're mostly focused on testing and getting things all ready to go. Expect some more snippets as well!

As for the meeting, we had a bit of a talk about our objective design; a few areas we'd like to focus on more is objectives that are interactable and involve more of the team, but we'd also really appreciate your feedback to help out in this area too! We've also identified certain objective-related exploits on maps as well, and will be fixing them.

Additionally, some tweaks have been made to combat to reduce the ability for a defending player to parry too early, and then be able to parry again (double parry) - which was causing defense to be a little too strong. To help out, we've made feint lockout windows a little smaller, which should definitely help with opening up an enemy's defense.

We discussed ways to tone down some instances of the spawn banner. What we've pretty much agreed on internally is that banners are used sparingly they're pretty fun, but when there are too many banners it can lead to a spammy, cheap feeling. We talked quite a bit about this and we're looking into some potential restrictions on how close spawn banners could be to one another, as well as looking into some utility items that specialize in destroying structures. We'd absolutely love to hear any feedback on spawn banners, as well as suggestions on how you'd like to see us tweak them!

As for the patch, there's a little work left on Arid, but it's mostly testing at this phase. We're looking to do another internal test or two, then upload another private version for testing with a few more people - after that, we should be done with the map. We have one tiny, non-critical visual bug for the Armory, which isn't a deal breaker and should be absolutely fine. Aside from that, a few tweaks for the SDK being updated to a new patch will be needed, but that's not a back-breaking amount of work either.

While we can't give an exact timeframe, we're looking at (hopefully) getting Arid out in a timeframe of weeks, as opposed to months. Unfortunately we can't be more specific than this, but we're excited for you all to get your hands on the update as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, and we absolutely appreciate your patience. Have a great week!

If you'd like to read our last feedback post, you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/us08dk/biweekly_feedbackdiscussion_thread_517530/

Hey all,

Like always, we'd like to hear your feedback on the game - any comments, questions, constructive critiques, feedback, whatever - we'd like to hear it, as it absolutely helps us out with development. In addition to general feedback, we're looking for a bit more specific stuff in a few areas (which you can read about down below). Like always, please be nice to each other, and we absolutely appreciate your comments!

If you haven't seen it already on our other platforms, here's another shot of Arid - this time, the palace area! This has come together pretty recently; while there are a few areas that need some tweaks, we're mostly focused on testing and getting things all ready to go. Expect some more snippets as well!

As for the meeting, we had a bit of a talk about our objective design; a few areas we'd like to focus on more is objectives that are interactable and involve more of the team, but we'd also really appreciate your feedback to help out in this area too! We've also identified certain objective-related exploits on maps as well, and will be fixing them.

Additionally, some tweaks have been made to combat to reduce the ability for a defending player to parry too early, and then be able to parry again (double parry) - which was causing defense to be a little too strong. To help out, we've made feint lockout windows a little smaller, which should definitely help with opening up an enemy's defense.

We discussed ways to tone down some instances of the spawn banner. What we've pretty much agreed on internally is that banners are used sparingly they're pretty fun, but when there are too many banners it can lead to a spammy, cheap feeling. We talked quite a bit about this and we're looking into some potential restrictions on how close spawn banners could be to one another, as well as looking into some utility items that specialize in destroying structures. We'd absolutely love to hear any feedback on spawn banners, as well as suggestions on how you'd like to see us tweak them!

As for the patch, there's a little work left on Arid, but it's mostly testing at this phase. We're looking to do another internal test or two, then upload another private version for testing with a few more people - after that, we should be done with the map. We have one tiny, non-critical visual bug for the Armory, which isn't a deal breaker and should be absolutely fine. Aside from that, a few tweaks for the SDK being updated to a new patch will be needed, but that's not a back-breaking amount of work either.

While we can't give an exact timeframe, we're looking at (hopefully) getting Arid out in a timeframe of weeks, as opposed to months. Unfortunately we can't be more specific than this, but we're excited for you all to get your hands on the update as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, and we absolutely appreciate your patience. Have a great week!

If you'd like to read our last feedback post, you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/us08dk/biweekly_feedbackdiscussion_thread_517530/