Hello Folks! The last update changed some fundamental parts of game to introduce many new features. That cause problems to many users and like we discussed over Discord and foruns, we are working as fast as we can to make it stable again.
This update should fix most of these problems. Others can take a little longer and may be fixed in a next update.
Game doesn't open
Ballistic now saves all user preferences in local files, which is great because you won't lose your graphic or control settings each time the game updates. For some reason, some systems were not able to write the correct resolution and fullscreen settings for the first time, making the game display just a black screen. We pushed this detection a little further to avoid problems. If you still can't run the game, try to edit BallisticConfiguration files in the instalation folder.
Editing the file outside the game with Notepad should now have a more consistent behaviour as well.
For Linux Users: If you're still having problems to launch the game, add this command to your Steam launch options.
-screen-fullscreen 0
Wrong loadouts in Soldier Screen
By introducing the Sledgehammer, the unlock order of all Tank weapons changed. That caused the Soldier screen to display completely wrong loadouts. We were forced to reset everybody's loadouts to fix this problem. Don't worry, your player progression is unchanged.
Performance regression
Detect performance regressions can be tricky sometimes and we may never be done optimizing the game. A few things that would help:
For design and performance reasons you will now see your teammates identified by an arrow instead of their outlines in the distance. This is not just a cleaner solution but prevent the characters to be rendered all the time.
Since your resolution was reset to your monitor's maximum resolution by default, you may have to revisit the settings screen and decrease the resolution to something more suitable to you video card.
We belive there are still possible optimizations. Let us now if your game is still slower compared to version 1.3.5
Bug fixes
We fixed lots of bugs related to the queue system and spectator mode. All the flow should be smoother now.
We will keep you informed of new bug fixes and improvements.
Thanks for playing Ballistic Overkill!