Formicide Is Free
- Formicide is now completely free! For more details, see our previous announcement here.
Class Updates
Engineer
- Added secondary ultimate Shield Wall: Creates a shield wall in front of a turret to block incoming projectiles.
- Increased pulse missile movement speed.
Biomite
- Added secondary ultimate Gas Trail: Creates a trail of deadly gas behind the Biomite, while also hastening movement.
- Added spawn timer to Crawler (ultimate ability) after activation.
- Reduced particle density for Caustic Gas to improve performance.
Hunter
- Added secondary ultimate Caltrops: Drop 3 caltrops that slow and damage enemies who touch them.
Soldier
- Increased Health Bot heal to 18/tick from 13/tick.
Visual Updates
- Destructible background objects added to Valle Luna, Lost Temple, Frostbite, and Ice Caverns.
- Visual updates to most maps, desaturating "doodad" background layers to improve interactive entity visibility.
- Visual updates to various class particle effects.
Server Manager Updates
- A system message command has been added to the Commands tab. System messages are sent to all connected players.
- The map rotations window in the advanced section of the Settings tab has been created, where custom map rotations can be created and edited.
- A switch map rotation command has been added to the Commands tab which immediately ends the current match and switches to a map in the new rotation.
- Server stats giving information about the current run of the server have been added to the Status tab.
- A list of maps from the chosen map rotation is now displayed on the Status tab. The name of the current map is highlighted, and a button next to each map name can be used to immediately switch to a given map.
- Connected and recently connected players are now displayed in a grid on the Status tab. Players can have account access added for them or can be kicked from the server using the actions column of this grid.
- A map selection mode has been added to the advanced section of the Settings tab. The available options are to choose each map in order or to shuffle them.
- The Status tab is now automatically selected when the server is launched.
- The hosted map rotation can now be changed while the server is running. A map in the new rotation is immediately switched to when choosing a different rotation.
- Added a command line option --launch which automatically launches the server when the server manager is opened.
- Fixed a bug on the account access window that caused the currently selected row in the account grid to become de-selected if modifying account access while the server is running.
Client Performance Updates
- Considerably improved overall performance on some hardware profiles.
- Added an option to the display menu to disable antialiasing. Disabling this option can improve performance if running at a lower frame rate.
- Added an option to the display menu to disable terrain outlines. Disabling this option can improve performance if running at a lower frame rate.
- Improved networked player responsiveness.
- Fixed a bug that could occasionally cause the game to run at a reduced frame rate for the first several seconds after exiting the loading screen.
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that would occur when choosing a different resolution in the display options menu with the up or down arrows instead of the mouse.