Game backend is broken again. Will this new update address this? I’m regretting paying for this game more and more every day.
The game goes down every Tuesday due to Steam maintenance. It also goes down on other days of the week because things on our end break, which is exactly why we're focusing on a boring engine update before big content drops. :)
One thing that continues to happen to me a lot is if I'm holding held-shield directly behind a friendly player if they do an overhead it will hit my shield and basically get cancelled immediately which really messes up both their combat and the combat of anyone who was expecting the swing to actually come out.
Could there maybe be a grace period of the early release window where during it it's impossible to interact with a friendly held shield or something similar? It just really doesn't make sense when it happens in game and it looks crazy to onlookers
There is a period of early release, but it's weird. New animations might help in this regard, but this is kind of a pretty niche suggestion - it's still an entirely valid point though, so we can take a look at it when we're able to 👍
Are there plans to get a few new voice actors for upcoming Arabic and black character creation options?? I think forgoing new voices would make the characters not feel very fresh or well integrated,just like how women require new voices. German, Italian, and French accent voices would also be excellent additions! Voice acting is one of the few things that you encounter every second of gameplay there is, and adding even a handful of new sets would make the game feel incredibly expanded upon.
It's a good idea, I'll see what we're able to do.
Grator mentioned multiple of these "chad" armour sets.
I'm not sure if they're the same ones you're referring to but either way I'm really excited to see them.
On that note, will we see any changes to the tint system?
The level 110 tint really isn't worth the grind it takes and majority of the others (not including the level 70 tint) look identical.
We've been messing around with tint stuff, out current system is weird though. If we increase saturation too much the armor turns lime green due to grass reflections, etc. We are probably looking at a different method of doing tints that could allow for more color variation without looking ugly as sin.
Any reason why your maps have set pathing for frontline/invasion and leave the rest of the map completely unused? A prime example would have to be feitoria where there is a whole section outside of the city walls that's more or less untouched unless you decide to get a horse and explore. Castello also has many rooms/areas that nobody would go to unless they went looking for the fun of it
TLDR: please utilise more of the maps because they are great and you could make use of the terrain already created with new objective pathways - would tide us over until new maps are created ;)
Okay, yep there is a reason for this.
The old maps were designed with BR in mind, so they needed a somewhat circular playing field, whereas frontline/invasion just need weird rectangles. This results in a lot of dead space on the maps. We are going to do more objective variations, especially on Feitoria, and we're probably gonna get some variants for existing maps too.
Also with Castello, most of those random areas are getting deleted for performance, we've been cooking up some FPS in the oven :)
2 questions for you this time:
I'm assuming that most effort is currently going into Eastern Invasion now, so I have a question about what we've been shown so far. How much of the cosmetics shown during streams. How much will we be receiving in the upcoming patch rather than Eastern Invasion? I think a lot of people might be expecting this update to have almost nothing and Eastern invasion to have everything so I'm just curious.
Does the engines update give us better optimization and reopen the posibility of cloaks or similar stuff, or is readability still going to stop such cosmetics from making it into the game?
There will definitely be more stuff than what's been shown in the Eastern Invasion update, but yeah this patch will be a little light on cosmetics. What we've been trying to focus on is the engine stuff and tech side of things, since there have been quite a few problems.
As for what comes with UE4.25, we'll have native DDOS protection, and more importantly whenever epic updates UE4 they tent to not only fix a ton of things, but make it easier to work on actually making games. This means that going forwards
On the tech side of things, pretty much every weekly meeting notes (you've all probably gotten bored of it) say something about optimization. Optimization rarely means that we can fix some issue and everyone gets 5 more fps, instead, it's a ton of little changes that end up resulting in like a quarter of an fps gain in performance. While that sounds lame, if you do enough of those you actually start to see some big improvements. Aside from DDOS protection, th...
Read moreMaking it a monthly weekend thing could probably work. Not to often but still a reason to come back.
Yeah, I think scheduling around holidays/updates and having regular ones would be nice. Definitely weekends too!
Good joke, he posts a few messages on discord every other week. Which is odd, as I would have thought a community manager would be much more involved on the primary platform the community uses.
I've been busy af recently (I'm doing full-time college+mordy things), gotta split my time up. I'll be around more though, got most of my time-intensive classes out of the way.
also discord can be a little annoying in terms of the 'value' of my time on it (nothing to do with the people, they're lovely). I answer something and it gets buried and that info doesn't spread easily, and then i end up getting repeat questions. Posting on other platforms that are a bit more easy to access old stuff tends to be a little more efficient.
What's happening with double gold/xp weekends? You mentioned before that the devs had coded in an 'on/off button' for this feature but we've only seen it once since the last patch dropped 4 months ago.
Yeah, we're gonna get more fast and loose with it. Atm we're having lots of weird issues with the backend and 2X XP/Gold would probably exacerbate that. I'll definitely talk to the team and schedule some dates for it going forwards.
You promised to show ornamental armorset weeks ago. Where is it, Jax?!
The armor set is something we're figuring out - atm we could make it super expensive in terms of gold, or do some different kind of unlock system for it. We're leaning towards the latter, but we're not sure how exactly we want to do it. Once we figure that out it will be shown, but we don't want to string people along by teasing it and then not releasing it.
Hey all,
Some good news - testing is going pretty well, and we're not finding any major issues! We're tentatively planning on an update by the end of this month if things keep going smoothly, and at the moment we're mostly wrapping up a few odds and ends that need addressing. Because of this I won't be doing development notes today as we're mostly just bug fixing and optimizing.
Either way, please let us know what's on your mind - any questions, comments, constructive criticism suggestions or whatever are welcome! I say this quite a bit, but we definitely read them and they're extremely helpful for us when we're looking at what to address going forwards with development.
P.S. - we'll be showing off the rework of Castello either tonight or early tomorrow - check Discord or here for that!
You can find last week's post here: ...
Read more External link →Jax...... when someone who has been beartrapped falls to the ground the change in hitbox has made it infuriatingly inconsistent and harder to hit please revise it back to how it used to be....
Sincerely A bear trap main
We're working on it. :)
That's good! I'm kind of interested which ones were problematic. Concerning your public perception - I feel sorry for you. Maybe add "Please don't make hitlers" in the patch notes or something.
that would make it worse, but thanks for the support :)
i don't like these posts but they're a great motivator to unleash the patchie
Read more- Add a COMBAT LOG that shows the timestamp for the client and server for each action. Ideally it highlights any mismatches between the client and server (i.e. red parries)
- Remove or rework Stun. Why is there no perk to counter it? Should it only be available if the Tank park is also taken? Should it just be removed entirely because it doesn't make sense to have a one-off loss of control mechanic that knee-caps the combat in such an insane way all in the name of a practically non-existent scenario where high level players are complaining others are too good at recovering their weapons in team modes. So SO many better ways to solve that problem.
- Add a SEARCH bar to the loadout screen. Literally copy/paste it from the server browser.
- Lack of content is not really your problem. You'll never release enough content fast enough to solve the problem that way. You need to fix your game. If most players join a public game and half their attacks/parries don't wo...
The last point is kind of what the engine update is addressing - server fixes, improvements, bug squashing, etc. It might not fix everything, but it should have a noticeable impact.
What does the upcoming patch even add? Is it literally just the engine update?
Cosmetics, balancing, map optimization and engine update stuff. Engine update isn't super sexy but it should fix a ton of little issues, and hopefully we'll have lots of FPS improvements and server stability improvements as well.
Mrodhua
yes
Add so you can spawn bots with different AI things, like expert bots that is really good at the game or atleast make like a difficulty system to the bots, like Easy, Medium, Hard, Harder & Expert - Since it could be a good idea for new players to improve, also make bots more harder in horde, they are not that hard if you think about it.
-OliveeerG
Yep, we're adding stuff like that in the training scenarios. Ideally, custom bot behavior stuff to set difficulty or aggressiveness, etc.
Give us Bagpipes and a 200k Super Fancy Billhook skin.
Or at least some billhook skin please.
We're looking into Billhook skins, eventually™
Let us play the lute with numpad and let us rebind that
We're looking into more octaves and better direct support, the mouse thing is annoying and sounds bad
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