On the surface, this update doesn't look like it did much. But, under the hood, we worked hard for one of the most important features when going to free-to-play: on-demand starting of game servers in regions.
In detail, this means that for regions that are less popular, we don't keep game servers running 24/7. We just couldn't do that with our budget. Instead, when the first players join, we boot up servers for them and keep them running a while until they are no longer used for some time.
As a reminder, this is the list of regions we try to support:
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Middle East
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South East Asia
- South Asia (India)
- Central America
And here is a list of other changes coming with this update:
- The matchmaking dialog was adjusted to work with the on-demand servers
- The launcher binary size was reduced significantly
- Some glitches with the chest videos were fixed
- A few edge cases in the party dialog that weren't handled properly have been fixed
- The duplicate option "Show Radar" has been removed
- When your ping is too high for all servers, we show the warning earlier now
- Fixed broken display for unusual characters in names
- Potentially fixed a reported problem where the masterserver wouldn't let you connect if you used a multi-byte utf character like 💲 in your name
--Marenz