Greetings Soldiers!
We are happy to announce a big step towards the full Mini Royale release completed! We now have a new partnership with a premium server provider. This allows us to have servers in all regions with the same management. We can deploy updates faster, better debug bugs and better optimize server performance. Additionally, we integrated an advanced DDOS protection system that will greatly help us fight malicious attacks on release (like we experienced on Early Access Launch). The new servers should also help us address the routing issues some players had in SA that lead to a MUCH higher ping than expected.
We also switched to the modern replication system Iris that will help us keep server performance under control with many players on a server.
Patchnotes
Server
Integrated complete new server system for the new provider
Integrated advanced DDOS protection
Cross Platform Progression
For the consoles we reintegrated the cross platform progression login workflow. We integrated a new optional way to link your Epic Games Account (which is our Cross Platform Provider) via the Account Settings to your already existing Mini Royale account. When you have done that, you can use it to login to your account on any other platform!
Replication
Switched our replication system to the modern Iris system from unreal - in our internal tests this massively improved server performance when a server had lots of connections. We are able to disable this new System at runtime, so if there are any netcode related bugs we will be able to revert to the original system till we fix those bugs.
Maps
Reworked Lighting and Post Processing on all Maps
Fixed some small map areas
Misc
Faster login due to parallelization of initial requests
Fixed some missing icons
Small additional server performance optimizations
Fixed connection issues with the server when optional services are down (like so many times in the last time)
Integrated new system for our server registration, this will allow us to increase our total active servers significantly
Fixed server issue resulting in unexpected shutdown while active
Crashes
Fixed rare crash related to Item Drop Skins
Anti Cheat
Anti Cheat updates
More granular Client Validation