[2022] Weekly Feedback Thread: 3/8/22

Hey all!

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. Like always, please keep comments on topic - and please be courteous to others. Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/4y2w0zy56mm81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=29c4085fd3ffd06d9d8db3a0f2e1db231d7ccbee

As for development, here's a screenshot of what we've been working on for the past few weeks! Arid is coming along pretty nicely, especially with some improved workflows and also getting all hands on deck in terms of artists for development.

As you might be able to tell, we've hid a few things behind that gatehouse and castle wall; there are a bunch of buildings back there which are being developed. A good amount of them are modeled and textured, but a few are still just gray boxes. Work continues on creating models and textures based on reference pictures, tweaking the map layout in small ways, and improving certain objects on the map. For example, some of our artists are reducing the poly counts on the exterior rocks to improve performance, post processing on the skybox and lighting is underway, so on and so forth.

Arid is a pretty ambitious map, but we're absolutely seeing good progress on our end; we can't predict exactly when it will be ready, but we're working as hard as we can to get it finished.

Last thing: with the size of our team growing, we've been making a big push for more efficiency; part of this is that we'll be splitting our weekly development meeting into smaller meetings for relevant developers, in time zones that work for them. This also means that we will be doing our main development meeting every two weeks from now on.

I've actually got a question for you all, since the whole point of these posts is to help keep you in the loop on development; would you prefer weekly posts (with every other post having development notes), or would you rather have a post every two weeks instead? Please let us know down below - thanks!

Thanks for reading! If you'd like to read last week's post, you can find it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/t4n7zb/weekly_feedbackdiscussion_thread_3136/

Hey all!

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. Like always, please keep comments on topic - and please be courteous to others. Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/4y2w0zy56mm81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=29c4085fd3ffd06d9d8db3a0f2e1db231d7ccbee

As for development, here's a screenshot of what we've been working on for the past few weeks! Arid is coming along pretty nicely, especially with some improved workflows and also getting all hands on deck in terms of artists for development.

As you might be able to tell, we've hid a few things behind that gatehouse and castle wall; there are a bunch of buildings back there which are being developed. A good amount of them are modeled and textured, but a few are still just gray boxes. Work continues on creating models and textures based on reference pictures, tweaking the map layout in small ways, and improving certain objects on the map. For example, some of our artists are reducing the poly counts on the exterior rocks to improve performance, post processing on the skybox and lighting is underway, so on and so forth.

Arid is a pretty ambitious map, but we're absolutely seeing good progress on our end; we can't predict exactly when it will be ready, but we're working as hard as we can to get it finished.

Last thing: with the size of our team growing, we've been making a big push for more efficiency; part of this is that we'll be splitting our weekly development meeting into smaller meetings for relevant developers, in time zones that work for them. This also means that we will be doing our main development meeting every two weeks from now on.

I've actually got a question for you all, since the whole point of these posts is to help keep you in the loop on development; would you prefer weekly posts (with every other post having development notes), or would you rather have a post every two weeks instead? Please let us know down below - thanks!

Thanks for reading! If you'd like to read last week's post, you can find it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/t4n7zb/weekly_feedbackdiscussion_thread_3136/