GDFireFrog

We'll try to include sticky pointers in tomorrow's patch.

At some point, yes.

No, projectiles spawn from your logical origin which is always horizontally centred and independent of the presentation settings of the weapon model.

Shaft is more sensibly sized since 353b. We'll keep tweaking them all. Also, there are some particle effects that were done assuming rightward positioning and will need specialised versions.

This is one of our top priorities now.

Yes, that'd make a lot of sense. Noted.

Removing Rotterdam would be a bit mean to UK right now :)

We are currently working on trying to get a good Paris location. It's easy to just get a consumer-grade dedicated server or a cloud location, but for important locations like that we want to stick to something proper with a support crew on-site that understands our gaming concerns (minimal routes, latency stability, etc). Also we want companies for those locations with a level of support where we can take to them any traceroute of a user having problems and they can address it, contacting this users' ISP or whatever it takes. This is why we have some important holes in our coverage right now, but don't worry, we take coverage very seriously and we are not willingly ignoring certain areas.

Yes, this is a frequent request. I'll try to prioritise it.

I've made a note to do this soon. But I have written it down as "way to add recent teammates as friends" instead, rather than part, any objections to that?

On netcode: yes, we are very familiar with the idea of mixing half/half BR/extrapolation. It has been our plan for a while to implement extrapolation as an option so that people can try the half/half approach in custom games for a while, and then based on feedback from the community we would use it in matchmaking as a default or not. My expectation is that this will be the preferred option and that we will end up making it a default.

On Vulkan, I don't want to talk with certainty about things that I haven't had the chance of testing empirically, but I suspect that whatever latency improvements we could get with Vulkan we can get eventually with a Direct3D 12 port (or at least roughly similar results) and that is much more feasible. For the time being we must support Direct3D 11-only GPU's (although it's a massive hassle) and maintaining two versions would be perhaps not a good idea considering our limited resources. I think a realistic path for us is waiting for the next ve...

Yes. Can't give you an ETA but we are very interested in having a decent clan system.

I don't think so, sorry. If you want to elaborate on the reasons why you'd like to see that happen, we can always try to improve the game in those certain areas. We are always iterating on performance, latency and stability.

We don't have plans for this at the moment but it's something that we have already discussed internally and that we'd like to do in the future.

If you have 15 minutes to spare, could you follow the "Create a MTR" procedure here?

https://kb.i3d.net/topic/Network/10/How-to-create-a-MTR-report-Windows/316

Except once you generate the info instead of emailing it to i3d like they say, DM it to me along with your IP, which you can check on http://ip4.me/ (You can DM me on Discord or Reddit) and I'll bring it to them.

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Done, this will be on 349 that we'll push in a few hours. We'll add an option to enable the old behaviour in case somebody prefers it.

We'll add this as an option at some point. (Except for the melee).

I'm told that yes, we are planning something for 2021. We are not ready to announce anything more than that for now.

I've removed that comment from the post saying that this was triggered by a Rocket League update because that was just my supposition given the timing and I can't know that for sure.

To be clear: while yes, EGS lacks an API call to modify the friends list, which is what we'd prefer in order to design the experience exactly as we want, it is still possible to do this inside the game by invoking the overlay which contains a friends list where you can do that, and we plan to do exactly this on the short term. Ideally we'd like to have all the calls we need to have a unified experience exactly how we would like it to be, and I'm sure we'll get all that eventually, as Epic have been quite forthcoming. (And to be perfectly fair, we haven't even been pressing them much on this yet because we had other priorities for them to address and we didn't want to overload them with requests.)

As you probably have noticed if you have been trying to play the game for the last few hours, the Epic store is undergoing some technical difficulties that prevent players from accessing the game.

We thought we'd use this opportunity to update on some ongoing technical concerns.

New locations

We'll be adding Madrid and Seattle servers pretty soon, hopefully this week. We are also going to add a Santa Clara location in a few weeks. This one may make for a slightly better hub for the North American west coast. Besides being a bit closer to the northwest, this location will also have better connectivity to many places on the region.

Windows 7 hiccups

Many Windows 7 users had been experiencing very annoying periodic stutters while playing. We traced this down to a very specific interaction between the anticheat, our game and Windows 7. The fix for this was rolled out today. (Would like to thank Int3 -EQU8- for d...