New patch incoming this Wendesday, March 8, Commanders!
Coming soon
- The CONTRACT system will be online soon and comes via the Transmission UI! Contracts are limited-time PvE (player vs. environment) missions that strive to show you new aspects of Dropzone, while giving you the chance to show off your skills and collect rewards.
- "Open Season" is a Pandora-focused Contract
- There is a 7-minute time limit to complete three goals, each with their own reward:
- Upload 2 Cores (Reward: 500 Jovians)
- Upload 4 Cores (Reward: 1,000 Jovians)
- Upload 7 Cores and survive (Reward: 2,500 Jovians)
Feedback on "Open Season" and the Contracts system is welcome and greatly appreciated!
Gameplay Notes
- Increased minimap ping duration to 5 seconds
- Adjusted timing on in-world ping effects for 2v2
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash in Infestation matches with a very large number of Kavash
- Reduced Dropzone’s memory usage
- Fixed an issue where the Password Protect option in the Custom Lobby screen was using the Private Match tooltip
- Fixed an issue where clicking the Jovians amount did not take you to the Shop
- Fixed an issue where Builder hotkeys were not blocked while typing in Friend Chat
- Fixed an issue where 16 character names were cut off in the Custom Lobby screen
- Fixed an issue where players could right-click themselves to produce a chat options menu with no options
- Minor language localization fixes have been added
- Fixed an issue where the transmissions detail panel had misaligned reward text
- Fixed an issue where Fury’s Special Move was causing a brief but severe performance drop for certain players
- Fixed a rare crash where users playing in fullscreen would sometimes alt-tab out of Dropzone then crash when they tried to return
Known Issues
- There are known issues with words bleeding outside of their bounding boxes for every language other than English. Fixes are on the way
- Locking Observer slots in Custom Matches only works when both slots are empty
- The Private Match setting only works when the game is already created, so someone can join in-between
- Hive Link does not have a cast ring around hives to show where the ability can be cast
- The ‘Easy Pickings’ achievement does not count Hives killed by a teammate towards the goal
- Global Chat does not reflect your changed name until you have restarted the game
Let us know your thoughts about this week's update in the forums!