Hello everyone! Last week we updated the game to 1029 which allowed us to put the new Live Update system into play. This allowed us to quickly follow up 1029 with two sets of updates (toning down game conductor on the Hell on Earth difficulty as well as some Versus Survival balance changes).
I would like to show some before and after stats from player victories on Survival. This data represents teams playing the right difficulty for their level reaching the boss fight from before and after patch 1028.
Some key takeaways I want to highlight here:
- Winning is up across the board (except HoE on the chart above but I’ll swing back to that)
- 37% of Hard players reach the boss now from 17%, much more in line with what we would like to see
- HoE is down in this graph but thanks to the Live Update system we’ve already pushed changes that have roughly the same amount of teams reaching the boss pre and post the conductor thanks to data and player feedback
Currently we are looking at some further changes to push live over the next week or so and watch the stats and gather player feedback. These are across both Survival and Versus Survival game modes.
As a reminder players won’t see these as patches so they will need to watch the forums/news/announcements to keep an eye out for if changes have happened. For modders and those who love to dig into the code they will be included in the base code as changes in the next patch.