[2022] Bi-Weekly Feedback/Discussion Thread: 3/22-4/5

Hey all!

As you might know, we've switched to dev meetings every two weeks, and people have seemed to want us to also shift these posts to bi-weekly as well. Like usual, we'd love to hear any feedback on the game, whether that be comments, suggestions, constructive critiques, etc. Please keep things on-topic and be nice to one another.

Also, we'll be keeping a bit of a running log of some known issues and prominent planned changes, as per feedback on the last post. Some of those are:

• We're aware of people building stuff in the sky; while some of this isn't disruptive to the game, unfortunately people are abusing it and griefing matches. We're looking at ways to fix this for the next update, while removing disruptive players from officials for a little while.
• The scimitar will be getting tweaks to bring it more in-line with other weapons.
• Team switching restrictions will be changed; after the first few minutes, teams will be unlocked. This should help to prevent people stacking a specific team initially, but allow people to swap sides afterwards to keep things balanced. If this doesn't work, we'll look into further fixes.

As for our meeting, we discussed a bit of feedback regarding:

• Spawn banner balance and possible tweaks - we've seen (especially on the Discord) quite a bit of complaints, so we're looking into ways to tone it down if needed.
• some issues with double parries (which we think might be more of an issue with super slow release weapons)
• DLC sabatons having a hole with certain leg armors; we'll be fixing this shortly.
• Picking up weapons being a little too finnicky in some situations, which we're investigating.
• More frequent double XP/gold weekends - we're looking into ways to automate it for potentially each weekend, plus UI stuff to actually show there's double XP. We'd like to know your thoughts on this!
  

In terms of development progress:

Work continues on Arid! We're cranking out meshes for buildings, creating art and also propping a bit as well. The objectives and base structure of the level is pretty much complete, but now we're doing art passes; going from pretty basic (slightly ugly) looking buildings and objects (first pass) to refining and improving the quality across the board. We'll keep doing this, doing art passes until the map looks like a map, as opposed to having a few buildings as grey boxes.

What's different compared to our previous maps is the workflow; before, we kind of did art passes while adjusting the layout and objectives all simultaneously, which led to all the different parts of what makes a map fighting each other and kind of slowing down progress. This time we worked first on the structure, objectives and then doing art; this makes things a lot more efficient and has saved us a lot of effort, and more importantly time.

Other notes:

• Crush has been doing a little work on female characters, working on tweaking proportions and some initial setup. Female characters are not planned for this upcoming update, but we're laying the groundwork for the next major update after Arid. Just to clarify so we don't set some false expectations - female characters are still in the early stages, and the stuff we showed off in the past was very much a non-playable prototype. tl;dr - next major update after this one, most likely.
• Some work on Arid buildings, etc. as explained above - we'll be showing off a snippet most likely with the next post! We're trying to improve the quality of all buildings as we go, instead of making one or two buildings super polished - much more efficient this way, but also leads to us not having amazing looking screenshots.
• Console work, which is going along pretty well - we found an issue with texture streaming and optimization, which we've taken care of.
• UI fixes for the new armory, especially for some input stuff with gamepads. Really all that's left now is importing some equipment thumbnails which are getting a few tweaks here and there, as well as a few more QA passes and finding bugs. The armory is pretty much done, and once we have the thumbnails finalized, we'll be sure to show of some snippies :)
• Some work on the new animations, this time for polearm idle/walking animations currently.
• The Arid's smaller, non-unique buildings have been receiving a lot of love from our artists, Urs and Zocky.
  

That's all for this one! If you'd like to read the last post, you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/tb81wn/weekly_feedback_thread_3822/

External link →

Hey all!

As you might know, we've switched to dev meetings every two weeks, and people have seemed to want us to also shift these posts to bi-weekly as well. Like usual, we'd love to hear any feedback on the game, whether that be comments, suggestions, constructive critiques, etc. Please keep things on-topic and be nice to one another.

Also, we'll be keeping a bit of a running log of some known issues and prominent planned changes, as per feedback on the last post. Some of those are:

• We're aware of people building stuff in the sky; while some of this isn't disruptive to the game, unfortunately people are abusing it and griefing matches. We're looking at ways to fix this for the next update, while removing disruptive players from officials for a little while.
• The scimitar will be getting tweaks to bring it more in-line with other weapons.
• Team switching restrictions will be changed; after the first few minutes, teams will be unlocked. This should help to prevent people stacking a specific team initially, but allow people to swap sides afterwards to keep things balanced. If this doesn't work, we'll look into further fixes.

As for our meeting, we discussed a bit of feedback regarding:

• Spawn banner balance and possible tweaks - we've seen (especially on the Discord) quite a bit of complaints, so we're looking into ways to tone it down if needed.
• some issues with double parries (which we think might be more of an issue with super slow release weapons)
• DLC sabatons having a hole with certain leg armors; we'll be fixing this shortly.
• Picking up weapons being a little too finnicky in some situations, which we're investigating.
• More frequent double XP/gold weekends - we're looking into ways to automate it for potentially each weekend, plus UI stuff to actually show there's double XP. We'd like to know your thoughts on this!
  

In terms of development progress:

Work continues on Arid! We're cranking out meshes for buildings, creating art and also propping a bit as well. The objectives and base structure of the level is pretty much complete, but now we're doing art passes; going from pretty basic (slightly ugly) looking buildings and objects (first pass) to refining and improving the quality across the board. We'll keep doing this, doing art passes until the map looks like a map, as opposed to having a few buildings as grey boxes.

What's different compared to our previous maps is the workflow; before, we kind of did art passes while adjusting the layout and objectives all simultaneously, which led to all the different parts of what makes a map fighting each other and kind of slowing down progress. This time we worked first on the structure, objectives and then doing art; this makes things a lot more efficient and has saved us a lot of effort, and more importantly time.

Other notes:

• Crush has been doing a little work on female characters, working on tweaking proportions and some initial setup. Female characters are not planned for this upcoming update, but we're laying the groundwork for the next major update after Arid. Just to clarify so we don't set some false expectations - female characters are still in the early stages, and the stuff we showed off in the past was very much a non-playable prototype. tl;dr - next major update after this one, most likely.
• Some work on Arid buildings, etc. as explained above - we'll be showing off a snippet most likely with the next post! We're trying to improve the quality of all buildings as we go, instead of making one or two buildings super polished - much more efficient this way, but also leads to us not having amazing looking screenshots.
• Console work, which is going along pretty well - we found an issue with texture streaming and optimization, which we've taken care of.
• UI fixes for the new armory, especially for some input stuff with gamepads. Really all that's left now is importing some equipment thumbnails which are getting a few tweaks here and there, as well as a few more QA passes and finding bugs. The armory is pretty much done, and once we have the thumbnails finalized, we'll be sure to show of some snippies :)
• Some work on the new animations, this time for polearm idle/walking animations currently.
• The Arid's smaller, non-unique buildings have been receiving a lot of love from our artists, Urs and Zocky.
  

That's all for this one! If you'd like to read the last post, you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mordhau/comments/tb81wn/weekly_feedback_thread_3822/

External link →