Hello everyone!
Apologies for the delay on this update, but it's here now! We're happy to bring you a new limited-time map for the Autumn season, Fall Manor! We've also added some new items, some themed for 'Back to School', but have not quite finished everything yet. Please be patient as we work to add the rest of the planned items for this season!
The most notable thing in this update is probably the new Bug Report feature! You can now send in bug reports directly from the game. This will make it easier on you and on us when coming across any issues. All you need to do is click on the red Bug Report button in the Social Lobby area, located at the top right corner of the screen (next to the VIP button). It will open a panel where you can type in a description of the issue you are facing and submit it to us for review.
We would like to let you know that this new form is only for bugs and not for reporting players. If you try to report a player using the Bug Report form, it will more than likely just be ignored. We will have a proper Player Report option in the future!
One last thing - We're opening two more servers! There will now be a server running in Asia and one in Europe along with the North America server. These new servers are temporary for the moment, but will hopefully become permanent. They will remain online for at least one or two months.
When playing on a different server, all of your progress (except Leaderboard status) will carry over with you on whichever server you select, so you don't need to worry about starting over. Your Leaderboard rank will not carry over between servers however, so you will have a different Leaderboard rank depending on which server you're playing on. The Daily Challenges will now be synced across servers as well. We hope that by having these additional servers that it will lower the latency for users in those areas to make the game more enjoyable!
On to the list of changes for this update:
- New Stuff
- There are now two additional servers to play on: Asia and Europe
- A new limited-time map for Autumn has been added: Fall Manor
- Players can now report bugs directly in-game by using the Bug Report panel (top-right corner in Social Lobby)
- There are now some sound effects for the match countdown timer before a match begins
- Bots will now send a notification when they are on a Painting Spree
- The zoom level will now be set to whichever setting you had it toggled to from your previous matches
- You can now view your previous match results by pressing the View Scores key (Tab) in the Social Lobby
- Added a small colored bracket next to chat messages for players that are part of your group
- Improvements to map loading have been made and added a loading progress bar
- 24 new items have been added, some themed for 'Back to School'
- Bots will now occasionally use teleporters (deliberately)
- Changes
- You may now bind the same key to multiple bindings in the key control settings
- Re-ordered some of the keybindings in the key control settings
- Modifier keys (Shift, CTRL, etc.) are now bindable in the key control settings
- The mouse wheel scroller up/down is now bindable in the key control settings
- Your paint will no longer regenerate while your weapon is on cooldown
- Lowered the minimum amount of paint score awarded on the Sniper weapon (no charge) down to 1 (previously 3)
- Lowered the paint cost of the Shotgun to 20% (previously 25%)
- Reduced the number of rays fired by the Shotgun down to 4 (previously 5)
- Increased splats per ray on the Shotgun to 4 (previously 3)
- The server list on the Title screen has been moved into a separate window, and it will remember which server you selected last
- Daily Challenges are now synced across every server
- Fixes
- The Leaderboard and Notice Board can no longer be opened while having a different panel open (shop, stats, etc.)
- Fixed an issue that caused Bombs to collide with the owner the moment they are thrown, pushing the owner slightly
- Pressing the Cancel key will now close (most) open windows
- The Sniper will now aim in the correct direction if it is fired without charging it
- Fixed an issue that prevented some weapons from awarding the correct amount of paint points per shot
- When opening the Custom Game room list, you should no longer be able to see a bunch of dummy buttons for a split second before the real list appears