Hi all,
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Gavin and I am a Publishing Producer for Warface PC in the West.
Two months on from my previous letter in the latter half of May – a lot has happened and we have been restructuring our internal processes so that we can operate more effectively.
Such a process naturally comes with challenges and causes a ripple effect across certain areas of development. One example is taking time from the team to participate in our planned development diaries.
We are always listening and we are aware of areas where we can strengthen, such as hackers in the game and this is one of our biggest challenges to overcome. The anti-cheat team had been impacted by recent changes so as a temporary solution – we have added the much requested majority vote-kick feature. When you have 6 or more players on a team, the 60/40 rule comes into effect.
Quick Development Update
The first Nevada Team Deathmatch map “Trailer Park” went live on July 31st – a little later than originally planned in order to make the new environment the best it could be. I hope you’re enjoying it so far along with “Mine”. Keep the comments coming!
We've been excited to see our user base grow following the release of Warface on Steam, and on that front we also recently added Trading Cards and retroactive Achievements.
The lag improvements I spoke of last time were partially applied to the game so we could first see the results. The changes will be fully applied as soon as possible. To keep expectations in check, while this is an improvement – some users may still encounter some latency. Rest assured that it remains a high priority for us along with anti-cheat.
Pesky Bugs
One issue that is “bugging” me and you is the Brazilian Cup smoke grenades in Co-op, where they do not respawn after reaching a checkpoint. We’ve not yet fixed the problem but we know how important they can be when in missions. So we’ve decided that we will be compensating all users who have purchased these grenades in-game with the yellow smoke grenade for a rental period of at least 2 months*. We are aware that this is only one of your main concerns based on the reports we’ve received. We are changing our tools and ways internally so that we can debug these pesky bugs better than before!
Warface Hub
Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have seen the teaser images of the Hub. We will be posting articles closer to release that will go into full detail but for the mean time here is a taster…
- Dedicated forums
- Account management – uses your existing GFACE account
- Discussion section on articles
- Responsive design
Upcoming
The items I had communicated previously are still in progress but may be a bit behind schedule as we prioritize certain areas of development. The buildup will start closer to each items release.
We have many configuration changes upcoming as part of our efforts to align the different versions of Warface so that we have better synergy across all regions. I hope these changes will be well received and, as with any changes to the game, we want to maintain a dialogue during this transition and the WF Hub will help with this.
Lastly – I want to say thanks to the passionate community members that continue to send feedback. It is valued and you can continue to do so via the usual channels on GFACE, Facebook and Twitter or you can message me directly @gavlam88.
Gavin Lammin
*While the tri-colored World Cup grenade works fine (and looks awesome) on the battlefields of Versus mode, there are issues with it not respawing at mission checkpoints in Co-op. These grenades make a difference in Warface’s arsenal against Blackwood, so here is what we are going to do: Everybody who owned the World Cup smoke grenade at one point in time will receive a minimum of two months for the yellow smoke grenade (Smoke Grenade III). Additionally if you still have the World Cup smoke grenade, we will match the time for this as well and give you the yellow smoke grenade for the same amount of time on top. This means for example, that if you owned the World Cup smoke grenade from the beginning and you still have it for 3 more months - you will have 5 months of the yellow smoke grenade and if you already own the yellow smoke grenade, this 5 month period will be added on top of whatever amount of time is currently left for those grenades. We are planning to implement it this week.