Mordhau Dev Tracker

We're actually looking to make more variants like we have for grad, etc. They aren't super-fresh content, but they're still content and anything could help at this point. Annoyingly, things aren't as simple as they might seem, but we've definitely been focusing on hiring more level designers and game design folks to speed things up.

Some people have figured out how to mess with the UI - it's similar to the people that have like 100 million MMR if you see that in the leaderboard. This is limited only to the UI, the message is just them trying to scare people.

We're working on a fix.

Hey all,

As usual, we'd like to hear your thoughts on Mordhau and what you'd like to see in the game. We're aware of the general sentiment around here, and we're absolutely trying our best to get more content out to players as soon as we can. We've been talking quite a bit on how to get more information out about what's coming next, and I'll try my best to keep you all in the loop. Thanks for being patient, and we're exciting about what's coming for Mordhau in the future <3

• Good news! We have brought on a new developer, Jonathan, as the Development Director. He'll be assisting with the day-to-day stuff , organization, etc. and having him on the team should help to boost our productivity :)
• SDK update: we've heard back from Epic, and they have verified the mod tools! Unfortunately, we're not out of the woods yet - we still need to optimize a few things and squash a few bugs. At the moment we're figuring out those problems, and we may be deciding on bun...

It's our #1 priority 👍

We're actually working on a wooded map, kind of similar to this. More details once it's in a state that can be shown off ;)

We are working on getting things done - unfortunately we can't give exact estimates so that's why I'm primarily sticking to "we've done x y z this week" as I'd at least like to keep you guys informed on what we're working on.

As for your other points:

1. This would unfortunately slow down development - maintaining two separate version of the game would be kind of unmanageable for a team of our size.
2. So at the moment we're focusing on just releasing the official SDK - and once that's out, it should help a ton with making the lives of map modders, etc. easier. It's unlikely that we would add modded cosmetics in, as that becomes a pretty crused rabbit hole of trying to make sure things aren't the IP of some other company, compatibility issues etc. That being said, the SDK should be pretty huge - and we can look into the idea of map contests, etc. in the future as well!
3. Yep, something I'm talking to the team about. Like I said, we can't accuratel...

It's something we're considering. At the moment we're just focused on getting it released!

Hey all!

As always, we'd love to hear what you all have to say about Mordhau. Any suggestions / comments / critiques are welcome, as long as they're constructive! As for a general update, not too much is changed. We're mostly focusing on getting some last-minute improvements in, fix issues, and fix bugs that pop up from the fixes we do. Anyway, here are some notes from this week's meeting:

• Right now, our main focus is testing and bug fixes. recent changes have introduced some bugs which we're smashing.
• In terms of the mod SDK, we've heard back and the verification process should hopefully start this week!
• As for these bugs, we've found quite a few navigation issues on the new Brawl map, so we're getting that sorted. Should be pretty simple to fix those issues.
• Some work on console stuff is ongoing. (Side note: one of our dev's main responsibility is to do console stuff, so this doesn't detract from PC development.)
• New mo...

We're looking into some tweaks on repair stuff as a whole, so we'll see.

Maybe down the line, but not currently.

For one, we're getting rid of the 80p servers - but if we weren't the tickrate wouldn't really change anything. Yes, there would be more stuff recorded by the servers per second, but the downside is that the server would just die and things would be worse.

edit: for clarification, we're changing the 80p servers back to 64p servers.

I'm going to be doing another mod wave soon. The moderators have a lot of power and so I try my best to make sure the ones we add are trustworthy people 👍

EDIT: We should also be adding player reporting for chat features soon, and some instructions that players can visibly see for reporting other things as well. This should make the existing mods more efficient.

It's a cool idea, but we'd definitely have to design maps with it in mind. Imo, some longer ladders that are more stairs than the ladders we have now (hit e, climb, get body-blocked by a teammate and murdered) would be better gameplay and more fun :)

Doing smaller updates kind of kills efficiency, as we would need to work on a bunch of stuff, stop, test, fix bugs, release build, continue to work, etc. That being said, I 100% agree that for the players, it's best to have smaller updates. The issue is that it can end up making content take longer to reach people, but I think there's a happy balance of easier development and more frequent updates that we can strike in the future.

Not yet :(((

Brawl maps are meant to be very simple in terms of playable area, so that way the players are forced to fight instead of using pillars etc. to break the chase mechanic.

We're considering it a little, but really our current idea is to leave the old ones and make new and better versions. That way there are more options for people, and those who like the old ones get to keep em.

Usually, features take longer than a week to develop. I'm not going to lie and make things up, and I think transparency is the best approach. Sometimes things take a while to make, that's all.

We're not putting off the update, it's just taking a while. When you upgrade UE4 it requires quite a lot of things on the code side to be completely rebuilt, so that's taking quite a while.

As for autobalance, it's something we're looking into. There are a lot of little details that need to be decided on, such as what happens to friends who want to play together, what if someone wants to play on the attack side every time? Do we allow switching teams? Do we repeat the map twice so teams can play both attack and defense? What about FL versus Invasion? Lots of little things like that make it a bit of a pain to do, so right now we're taking our time and deciding on what's possible. In the meantime, we've been busy with other things as well 👍

1. No lol
2. Yeah, I think we have a few non-combat animations coming. They're lower priority but things like laying down etc. are being worked on, most likely for NPC use or something.
3. AI stuff is mostly focused on navigation/path finding - preventing the AI from doing a murder-conga-line and being smarter. As for their combat, it's not 100% finalized but a lot of the work Marox is doing is aimed at making them a bit more natural, so hopefully no weird pivot spin things that they do right now when they get confused.
4. As for the last bit, AFAIK we haven't added any sort of specific bot spawning functionality, but we are looking into doing practice modes to complement the existing tutorial stuff.