Mordhau Dev Tracker

Yeah, we've been getting reports and trying to track down the issue. No luck yet but we're working with our providers and trying some new things out on the server side.

Server issues can be a mix of the server hardware, stuff going on network wise in the server, routing issues, client network issues, client computer issues, DDoS etc. so it's not always a very obvious solution. The engine update should also have a bit of network optimization, which may or may not help as well.

tl;dr netcode is witchcraft, but we're throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks

We're shifting from development on this update to testing it - I can't say that we'll know when we've found and fixed all of the bugs, but starting this week we should be able to get a better reference. Usually, our testing phases take a few weeks, and I'm going to take a wild guess that it's gonna be on the longer end since we're talking about a new UE4 version. Once we start getting deep into the testing we'll be able to give some more accurate estimates, though.

We've got to get our current update (engine upgrades, fixes + some content) out, and then our next goal is the EI expansion!

Hey again!

As always, we're eager to hear your feedback and any suggestions, critiques, etc. that you might have. Last week's feedback was great - I wasn't responding to things due to being 'away from the office' a bit, but I'll be going back and answering those as well, and I'll be making sure the team sees pertinent information from both this week and last's at our next meeting.

As for our meeting notes, a big takeaway is that we're beginning to transition from the usual development grind into testing/bug fixing, so a little bit of progress is always great. Some meeting notes are below:

• As for testing, we're investigating crashes with DX12 on the new build. Not sure why exactly, but we're looking into it.
• Noria (new desert map) is still being developed.
• Some initial work on new impact/blood visual effects. Ours at the moment are a little hard to see, and we'd like to make them a bit more cinematic.
• More tweaking to th...

Hey all, you know the drill - please post any feedback, suggestions, concerns etc. that come to mind! As always, please keep things civil and be respectful to one another. Thanks a ton for all the feedback you provide us, and we appreciate your patience as we work on the engine update. <3

This week was a catch-up in terms of our meeting, as we had quite a few people not able to make it last week. Feast your eyes on our meeting notes below!

• We're switching 80 player servers to 64 player servers. This should help with client performance (your fps) and may or may not help with packet loss/network issues on the server side of things.
• We're looking into engineer spam. We don't want to ruin the engineer playstyle, but we're looking to balance things to prevent D-Day levels of fire-ballista machinegun spam. We're looking into ways of keeping the impact of the fire pit and mounted crossbows but limiting how oppressive they can be, as right ...

It's a low priority thing, but it's something we're aware of and would like to do eventually :)

yeah, we should fix this 👍

we were actually going to show one off, but the artist had a lung collapse

monkaS but he's fine now

we should start testing in a few weeks, if I had to guess. once we get into testing we'll have a better idea on how ready the update is 👍

yeah - we plan on releasing this w/ this patch. the only reason we hold back some cosmetics is to bundle them into specific themed updates, this stuff isn't part of one of those themes 👍

This will be rectified soon - we should have in-game reporting for chat behavior, with info on how to do reports for things that require more evidence.

We have been investigating them since we swapped NA servers, but we mostly get reports like "EU servers are bad" - we already know there's a problem, but we don't have any concrete details to go off of. This should change once we have in-game lag reports, as those will send us server stats.

Not currently. Things could always change, though.

We are making all new combat animations at the moment - this should help massively.

So our general plan right now is new animations/fixes to the existing combat first, and then we'll start looking into some ideas in the future.

We are re-doing all combat animations, yes.

We've talked about adding the 'ol goomba stomp in, but it's such as random thing that wouldn't bring a huge benefit. Unfortunately, we have to focus on bigger priorities.

We talked about it, at the moment our animation workload is maxing us out. We are thinking about potentially changing the ragdoll timings based on the Cat perk in the future, though.

Having all the characters on-screen and relatively close to each other kills performance - that's why on maps like Camp for example, we try to branch out where players are fighting. I do agree that we could benefit from another open map though :)