Mordhau Dev Tracker

Hello everyone!

As usual, we'd love to hear your feedback, requests, and suggestions. Let us know what you want to see added, improved or changed in the comments below! Please keep things on topic and constructive, and thanks for the feedback - it's instrumental for the development of the game, and we greatly appreciate it.

As for our weekly dev meeting notes, here's a bit of an insight on what's been going on this week!

• As a general overview, the update is close! We're in the final stages of testing and fixing up some pretty minor bugs. We don't see anything completely broken, but there is still a little bit of tweaking and a lot of testing to make sure the patch deploys smoothly. Soon™
• We've discussed quite a bit of feedback on engineer gameplay, gameplay cues, objective and gameplay improvements, and more. We also had a chat about increasing readability of perks, and that's something we are looking into (probably for the next update).
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Kickstarter helmet can't be obtained - it was only available through the kickstarter.

yeppers

We'd probably go a bit east with Arab/Russian stuff, however i don't think we'd go as far as asia proper, ie Chinese / Korean / Japanese gear. There wasn't really any armed conflict with medieval Europe, so adding that stuff would make the game look quite a bit more like fantasy a la For Honor, which is something we'd like to avoid.

The crowned barbute, yes!

ranked duels was something we did first because it's easier matchmaking wise, and there are tons of people who duel. it kind of worked in that regard, but having duelyard servers can negate ranked to a degree since there is 0 queue time and you spend more time playing than you would in a ranked setting. team ranked should be better since it's much harder to set up a 3v3 match randomly, aside from scrims and events, so hopefully it goes well :)

Yeah, fighting over vehicles is annoying.

In regards to netcode, red parries, instant accels etc. - we're looking into these things. Unfortunately we can't just flip a switch and fix them, as there are a lot of factors leading into this. That being said, this is one of the higher priorities for the team to work on, and we hope we can have some solutions soon.

Balance is always subject to change, and crush has been making some good changes, so we'll see how those turn out. Glancing blow is a bit of a contentious mechanic, but we do need it to limit some weird sh*t people do with swing manipulation. That being said it's always a balance between player freedom and preventing unreadable/strange attacks, but we can find a good middle ground and ideally have mechanics like glancing blow only kick in when they're needed, and not interfere with normal engagements.

i like both ideas

we're not really able to add more cosmetic slots without impacting performance, unfortunately. Although as for the stream, hopefully soon™ :)

maybe ;) and we're not really looking to add extra cosmetic slots - the ones we have atm are enough, we don't want to mess with performance too much, and cloth coverings would obscure armor tiers quite a bit.

We're not currently set up with version control to be able to easily hotfix, unless it's right after an update. We're looking into some things that might help, but we're having to juggle a few priorities at the moment - spending time to change our workflow and some boring technical stuff will prevent some progress on development until it's sorted, so it's a matter of timing.

The beards are intended to be this way - they're not actually "broken". The style for the times was more of a groomed look, like what you see on the landsknecht styles. We could look into adding more full beards though in the future.

Lots of points here, thanks for this comment! I'll try to answer these as best I can:

1. Would be cool in the future to have
2. This is something we've discussed, I think it would help with consistency.
3. This is another consistency based QOL thing that would be nice, we could look into it for the future.
4. Probably unlikely due to clipping, but we could see if it's viable.
5. Hmm, interesting point. We can look into that, although this may end up a bit lower on the to-do list.
6. That's kind of the billhook's gimmick, but we could potentially expand it to other weapons as well.
7. Horde is something we are looking to improve once some other goals are complete. Last week we talked about why the Horde meta and bot behavior can be a bit stale at times, and while we don't have a date set to start working on it, we want to improve the mode relatively soon™
8. Flails would be interesting, but there is a LOT of work that would be nee...

There is an effect present, we could look into ramping it up a bit :)

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Hello all,

As always, let us know your thoughts on the game! We'd love to know what you're interested in seeing come to Mordhau in the future, as well your feedback in general on Mordhau. Please keep things constructive, as well as keeping minor suggestions etc. to this thread.

As for this week, we've knocked out quite a bit of development work in multiple areas, and made headway into others. Some notes from our meeting, in no particular order:

• We've talked quite a bit about server stability, and some issues going on with them. While we haven't found any specific reasons for instability, we're closely monitoring the situation and looking for improvements in this area.
• One topic for this week in our meeting was on mods, specifically how we can support content created by the community. In regards to this, we brainstormed some ideas for better visibility of modded servers, and more accessible ways to discover great mods. We also discussed potenti...