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Some stuff kinda pops out in different menus, so it expands left → right. If we had stuff on the right it would kinda end up being weird and squash in and overlap, especially in different languages that are wordy.

Hey everyone,

As usual, we'd love to hear your feedback on the game - any comments, questions, concerns, etc. are all welcome here; your feedback is extremely valuable to us and helps us massively with development. In addition to feedback, we'd like to share a bit on what's been going on behind the scenes! Like always, please keep comments on topic - and please be courteous to others.

As for feedback, this week we looked at quite a few things, although a few notable talking points this week were:

• We touched on a bit of feedback about annoying objective designs, such as one defender being able to hold up the trebuchet on the alternate Grad INV map, and how to make things a bit more consistent across the board in terms of gameplay.
• We discussed a few potential issues that were raised about nobles, and a general lack of counterplay for them against ranged opponents. At the moment, no particular decision on this but we are exploring some option...

FYI:
appeals and stuff should go through reddit modmail/ discord dms, not discussed in public - it doesn't help with appeals to clutter the sub with this kind of thing, and imo it detracts from subreddit as a whole. I'm free to discuss it but let's do it in a private chat.

Like I said above, apologies for this one being a little light on info. I'll add more stuff to this post if I can get more stuff to share with y'all. :)

Hey all,

As usual, we'd like to hear your feedback - and share some insight on what's going on behind the scenes! Please be sure to ask any sort of question you might have, give feedback, constructive criticism, or suggestions - they're incredibly helpful for us, and we appreciate all of them. Now, onto development!

Like before, we're keeping a running list of known problems:

• The sky-building stuff is being investigated; for now, our moderators will be removing people who use this method to be disruptive or grief matches.
• The scimitar will be getting nerfed a bit!
• Team switching restrictions will be changed; after the first few minutes, teams will be unlocked. This should help to prevent people stacking a specific team initially, but allow people to swap sides afterwards to keep things balanced. If this doesn't work, we'll look into further fixes.
  

Development update:
Mostly, we're just working on Ari...

The mods have banned like a couple of thousand of accounts for griefing / exploiting/ votekick abuse, some temp, some permanent. We just need a report with evidence (screenshot of the player list and pic/video of whatever they're doing) to log it and take action.

Edit: reddit/discord mods are in-game admins as well, so a report here will do. They're usually a bit more responsive to DMs via discord since that's kind of the main hub for them, but you'll get reports taken care of from here too.

I think we'll probably be looking at some tweaks for Arid sometime after we release it, so if we're already rebalancing one map, might as well do another then as well.

AFAIK, all the map people are working on Arid, so I don't think we'll see major updates to Noria's objective design in the next patch - but it's something we can definitely take a look at in the future.

It's one of those things where it's relatively easy to get a system working like this prior to release, but once the game is out... it's not trivial to implement. Hindsight is 20/20. We're doing the best we can, trying to leverage content updates with backend improvements. I'll be sure to let everyone know if we can figure out a solution.

We can look into some new cosmetics for sure. As I've mentioned in a few past threads, we can't really hotfix after a few weeks, which is something we've looked at changing.

IMO the bows need to just be more fun; they're not terrible in terms of their effectiveness, they're just... unsatisfying to use. Animators are tied up a bit with the melee stuff animation reworks that are ongoing, but it might be something good to look into afterwards!

Fair point, if I have to guess we'll probably have a minor update after Arid and before the next major update; we could probably knock out quite a few for that. I'll bring it up to the team!

Some historical emblems have unfortunately been repurposed by some... unsavory political ideologies, so a few aren't able to be added. Considering how some of the community has gained a pretty bad reputation, we have to err on the side of caution. This being said, there are a ton of historical emblems that are possible for us to add, and we can definitely look into getting more heraldry in-game in the future.

At the moment all of the artists that would make emblems are either making Arid, or working on the Armory update. After Arid, we might have a bit more freedom for smaller additions to the game, but as of the past few updates we've been trying to focus on the biggest bang for our buck when it comes to content. Hope this helps!

i have no idea if is sarcasm or not

but thanks!

or uhh sorry you feel that way :(

Hey all!

As you might know, we've switched to dev meetings every two weeks, and people have seemed to want us to also shift these posts to bi-weekly as well. Like usual, we'd love to hear any feedback on the game, whether that be comments, suggestions, constructive critiques, etc. Please keep things on-topic and be nice to one another.

Also, we'll be keeping a bit of a running log of some known issues and prominent planned changes, as per feedback on the last post. Some of those are:

• We're aware of people building stuff in the sky; while some of this isn't disruptive to the game, unfortunately people are abusing it and griefing matches. We're looking at ways to fix this for the next update, while removing disruptive players from officials for a little while.
• The scimitar will be getting tweaks to bring it more in-line with other weapons.
• Team switching restrictions will be changed; after the first few minutes, teams will be unlocked. ...

I've yet to see any actual evidence of him being abusive, if I get any I will be able to actually see what's going on and take action (if needed).

Planned for next update - after a few minutes into the match, teams will be unlocked.

Hi

Our version control doesn't really allow us to hotfix past a few-weeks window.

When we release an update, there's about 2-4 weeks where we hold off on putting in-progress stuff into the 'code', which allows us to fix issues. Once we've past that point, we start adding development, WIP kinda stuff back into the game. Once we do that, we can't really go and fix things from the old build, because there's no guarantee that we'd be able to port that stuff back and make it functional.

I'm doing a terrible job explaining this, but I hope it gives you some insight. We have looked at changing how we do things in the past, but we didn't finalize that due to some technical issues.

Shields with fists aren't something we're really looking into, since fists are actually an OP weapon that's held back by the fact you can't parry :D

Those issues have been addressed + fixed internally, I think I posted about it about 3 (?) weeks ago. That being said, I should keep them rolling over into each post, as sort of a 'planned fixes'/known issues kind of deal. Good suggestion!