Posted on Behalf of SOF Studios President, Tom
Hello H-Hour Community!
Our Workshop released last Thursday, April 14th and I was very impressed with the reception the H-Hour Community gave the new community created custom maps. Having the map creators in a private beta for a few months allowed them time to get their creations ready for this first public testing and the effort was evident in the volume of downloads and the numbers playing on the Workshop gaming servers since release.
We saw download volumes ranging from 400-600 for the most popular maps. Congratulations to the mappers for a job well done. I also want to personally thank our Workshop organizers who come from the Dev Testing team for all their behind the scenes efforts in helping to get everything in place in time for launch and support it thereafter!
Now that most of us have had a chance to check out the maps, I strongly encourage all members to use the Rating system in the Workshop to help us understand which maps are your favorites. This will allow for:
- Better map rotation setups on our servers so you play those maps that interest you most.
- Reduced load times in UE4 as you will no longer need to download every map. The more maps, the longer the load time on start-up unfortunately.
Please, don’t forget to also provide constructive feedback to the map creators on their content so they can make improvements. They want to give you the best product possible and can only do so with your feedback and support of their efforts.
What’s Ahead?
- The team is working hard on getting all Workshop tools content ready for a public release. They hope to have this done by the end of this week or early next week.
- Bug reports are still being reviewed, retested, closed or prioritized.
- With Workshop tool release complete, next week’s focus will switch to reviewing what work can be done on the development side with our current resources.
- I will continue the search for investors, partners or other resources to help move H-Hour forward. I have a lot of leads I am working at the moment and will continue to follow up on these and seek new ones.
The H-Hour Community, the map creators and the volunteers have done an amazing job getting the word out, adding content and promoting H-Hour to the public. Your efforts inspire me and the team every day to continue to work hard to keep this project moving forward. Together we can do this. Keep playing on the servers and getting the word out as your efforts are bearing fruit with growth in the player base. Thank you for your efforts.
For those who have not had time to get on the maps yet, I am sharing pictures of the current top 3 ranked maps in the Workshop;
Ruins by Hype:
[img=http://sofstudios.com/Art2015/2016pics/workshop/ruins_hype.jpg]
Sub Rosa by SelflessOne:
[img=http://sofstudios.com/Art2015/2016pics/workshop/subrosa_selflessone.jpg]
Citadel by RMRanger:
[img=http://sofstudios.com/Art2015/2016pics/workshop/citadel_rmranger.jpg]
More next Monday....