Ahoy! We've gone ahead and pushed some changes ahead of schedule as we wrap up all the changes that will land us at 2.3.
Here's what's new:
- Annley, cutlass, and various other weapons should now properly contribute to medals.
- Opposite factions tickets have been hidden, an experimental change as we've noticed it has positive effects in other games.
- Kickstarter badge is now available as an overwrite for those of you who backed stowaway and above.
- Stat medal values have been adjusted.
- Grunts added for melee swings (better impact sounds on the way for the victim of a nice slice, too!)
Our main change for this patch is our brand new win screen which is still in it's early stages that will display your player avatar and a chosen (not yet implemented) medal to display, if you should feel the need to flex.
We've also introduced noob-friendly marked servers. When custom servers rose in popularity we phased out our official servers because it was unrealistic for us to keep them moderated, the community is usually best at doing this themselves. Recently we've been noticing reports of many toxic servers in negative reviews and in our discord, so we contemplated introducing official servers again and putting customs in a separate tab. We felt that this would hurt all custom communities as a whole, which we did not want to do.
Instead we've opted to recognize those servers that foster positive, well managed communities and endorse them. For a long time we would play on servers as developers but admins/mods continued to recognize us and be on their best behavior. Over the past couple weeks we've been playing on servers undercover with freshly created Steam accounts to get an idea for how the most populated servers were representing our game and treating new players.
These servers will come and go, as we along with our moderation team will always keep an eye out for those that deserve it. They will take up a maximum of 5 top slots, and can be various communities.
The goal here is to funnel new players into these servers to gain experience in a positive environment. We know some players are completely fine with toxicity and find it more fun and competitive especially with rival veteran filled servers, but sadly that is not the kind of environment that welcomes new players.
As with any update we will definitely improve how this system works in the future.
-OneEyeTyler & Dakota