We’ve been working heavily on the Arena patch - which, full disclosure, we planned to release this week. Through a bizarre quirk of fate, we ran into a few problems that prevented that release - but you should already be feeling the effect of some of the fixes. One of those problems was server-side and resulted in major lag that was the source of some of the PvP freezes people experienced. How much of an effect it will have, we’re not sure; we’re still investigating other causes. We do know many are fixed.
Still, since we promised Arena soon and had to delay it because of bugs, we wanted to give you guys a snippet of what else we’re working on.
Everyone loves previews.
One of the biggest requests players have had is different boards. This varies from “make it look different” to gameplay changes per map. The second part is obviously pretty hard to implement on the short term, but making the gameboard look different on the whole? Well, that’s something we can do relatively quickly. The trick is making sure those boards fit the theme and the mood of Face Off.
For our spotlight preview today, I’m going to show you some of the WIP map improvements. Keep in mind that these are still very much ‘work in progress’ but already you can see an improvement from the one we currently have.
Like ‘em? Hate ‘em? Want to see something different? Comment on this news post for input and once we have some finished drafts, we’ll shoot ‘em your way.
Thanks guys!