Hello everyone,
We’ve rolled out a small but significant patch that should cross off most of the remaining high-priority bugs on our list. I’m sure a lot of you will be happy to hear that we’ve finally patched up the infamous “P90 reload bug” which actually wasn’t such an easy fix as we uncovered a few other issues with ammo and reload handling along the way. After going through several iterations, the system is now far more reliable. In addition to that fix, the issue concerning jump pad audio and the inability to hear other players using them has been resolved. This fix ended up being a bit more involved than we thought, so patching this one up is a great relief.
We’ve also made some welcome adjustments to plasma stage and prequeue times. While it’s never a good thing when lobbies don’t fill up completely, this has given us the chance to make some improvements that specifically affect games with small lobby sizes. We’ve made a number of tweaks to the prequeue which should result in matches starting faster and requiring fewer players. These are just quick fixes ahead of more significant prequeue improvements that are in the works. We’ve also tweaked the dynamic circle system to move much faster when few players are alive, especially when a match starts with a small number of players already.
Finally, now that we’ve patched up some of the more critical bugs on our list, we can shift more of our focus towards the substantial improvements and juicier features on our roadmap. We’re busy putting the finishing touches on our design specs for them and will be rolling out a dev blog going over some of them in more detail in the next few days.
Stay tuned!
Bug Fixes
- Fixed gamesparks error showing for new players without a loadout
- Fixed jump pad 3p audio! YAY!
- Fixed reload bug.
- Fixed being able to trade after getting downed. (Still rare chance it could happen if using a pistol).
- Fixed not being able to bind the DELETE key.
Level Design
- Fixed fort misplaced building
Gameplay & Misc
- Improved voip audio (*NOTE* Might want to turn down your voip audio settings)
- Reduced drone HP.
- Shortened prequeue timer and reduced minimum number of players for timer to start, from 15 to 10.
- Tweaked plasma field timings and safe zones for lower player numbers.
- Reloading while aiming now applies hipfire sensitivity while the view is zoomed out.