Version 449
The major change in this update is going to be our matchmaking. While there are other improvements, the focus of this update is pushing towards improving our matchmaking. The region selection method used in this update is a placeholder for now, but we didn't want to wait to get region selection in your hands.
Matchmaking Update
The goal of this update is that you can click different region selections to toggle off regions that you don't want to play, and you should never be put into a game for a region you do not have selected.
- Region selection is now more granular, and is now used as an absolute instead of a suggestion
- Region selection supports PREFERRED regions and ALLOWED regions
- Left clicking a region toggles allowing that region (blue)
- Right clicking a region toggles PREFERRING that region (yellow)
- Region selection is squad based
- Can now queue for both ranked and casual at the same time
- Client should remember their own selections after leaving squads
- Minimatch messages will no longer be spammed at the client, you will see Searching for Opponent instead
Gameplay Updates
- Casual now ends if one team gets 4 rounds, still max 6 rounds with tie at 3-3
- Updates to how clients handle networking for other clients to reduce load (resims)
- Bomb does not beep during planning phase (can't hear it in nearby truck)
- No simulation during loading to reduce loading stress
- Several small rendering based optimizations
- Uncrouching is slower, making it hard to spam crouch
- Firebell is quieter (most of the time) and stops after 30 seconds of ringing
- Weapon wall items attempt to return to the wall in their original position and orientation
- Bullet hit FX optimizations
Content and UX Updates
- Matches now show the proper amount of score on the menu sidebar
- Escape skips prologue without opening the quit prompt
- Escape rejects confirmation prompt (like Close game Y/N)
- Version is now Beta, no longer has A to signify alpha in version number
- Return to multiplayer menu when leaving a match instead of home screen
- Server sends game score, should not be able to JIP on what could be the last round
- Update UI language for casual 4 rounds = win
- Fix for round GUI leaking over menu when menu is open
- Player puck for local player description changed for both teams
Hotfixes included...
Additionally, several hotfixes were deployed since the last patch, here are those changes:
Add region selector for AUS
Fix for refresh button bugging out when sitting in lobby for a while
Raised ping limit for interpolation to 233 instead of 133 (input lag correction)
Fix for guns not playing audio or FX during certain network conditions