Hello everyone!
The Europa Island map has been opened for two weeks since the Adventurer Season Two major update on January 16. Thanks again to the new and veteran players who joined us to celebrate this new update to experience the beauty of Europa Island!
During this time, we received countless feedback and suggestions for the new season, and the feedback almost covered all aspects of the game. The development team has also been paying close attention to your feedback, researching and discussing various strategies to improve the game.
Therefore, we would like to make a summary post for some of the in-game phenomena and issues that players have been discussing recently, and share our thoughts. You are welcome to post your suggestions and feedback in the comment section below, let us know more about your ideas!
I. Europa Island map - some interesting data since its launch
- More than 40,000 simultaneous viewers on Twitch.tv
- More than 1000 simultaneous broadcasters on Twitch.tv (this is a new record!)
- More than 1,000,000 game rounds!
- More than 2,000,000 players boarded the helicopter!
- More than 10,000,000 hours total time played, this is about 1200 years!
- The total distance of Glider travel distance can circle around Europa (the Galilean moon orbiting Jupiter) for 202 times!
- The total distance of BMX bike travel distance can circle around Neptune for 229 times!
- And the total distance of Grappling hook travel distance can circle around the Earth for 111 times!
- More than 1,300,000 players got eliminated by the volcanic ash!
- More than 150,000 players got eliminated by falling (we wonder how many of those players fell and died while using the BMX bike and the Grappling hook?)
- The number of players who got eliminated by drowning and jumping out of a vehicle is surprisingly close
- The M4A1 was the most fired AR
- The MP5 was the most fired SMG
- The MK12 was the most fired SR
- And more than 20,000 players got headshot and eliminated from a desert eagle, ouch!
- More than 2,000,000 players took the sightseeing submarine and witnessed the stunning scenery and the giant octopus underwater!
- More than 500,000 vehicles and boats got blown up and destroyed!
- Nearly 100% of the playerbase experienced the heavy fog, typhoon and thunderstorm weather effects!
II. Europa Island Map - Balancing the three traversal equipment
Traversal equipment balance is something we really care about. According to our current statistics, the BMX bike is slightly more popular than the Grappling hook and has become the most used traversal equipment, and the "ex-most popular" Glider during the Mt. Dione era, is currently used lower than our original expectation. Considering that the BMX bike and Grappling hook are completely new designs, players may prefer to use them due to the novelty, but not enough people using the Glider is still a very concerning issue for us.
We have always hoped to achieve a certain balance between tools by buffing the weak ones instead of nerfing the popular ones. While we strive to make the three tools unique, we also want to give players a great experience using each of them. Therefore, we are looking for a way to improve the Glider and we want to do it soon. Let us know your ideas and leave a comment below on how you think we can buff the Glider!
III. About Anti-Cheat
After the update on January 16, some players encountered cheaters in their games which really harmed the game environment and their game experience. We sincerely apologize for this.
Although from a statistics point of view, the number of cheating players has not significantly increased, but many players told us that the cheater situation has become much worse in the new season, we believe this is caused because cheaters were behaving way too rampant. The fact that so many cheaters appeared right when the season begun and aggressively disrupted the game's environment and legitimate players' game experience makes this an organized and premeditated attack. We will continue to improve our security measures and when necessary, take legal actions to defend the legitimate rights of players to enjoy a fair and healthy game environment.
In order to further improve our Anti-Cheat effectiveness, we did a server maintenance on January 27, upgraded our security system, and increased our efforts to crackdown cheaters. Since the Anti-Cheat update on Jan. 27th (this includes both technical upgrades and cheater behavior pattern analysis upgrades), a total of 5306 cheating players got banned. In addition, the amount of daily in-game reports dropped by 41%, and the number of convicted cheaters who got reported by more than 3 players dropped by 64%, the game environment has recovered to a healthy level similar to early January. This shows that the Anti-Cheat update has effectively alleviated the cheater problem and successfully protected the game's fair play environment.
In the future, we will continue to delve deep in this direction, keep updating our Anti-Cheat system, and assure a high-standard, healthy game environment for all players. We hope that everyone will continue to help us by taking stand against any type of behavior that harms the game environment; report suspicious players via the in-game report system or our customer support email: [email protected].
IV. Optimization relating to TenProtect and administrator privileges
We noticed that some users are very concerned about the administrator's permission pop-up window when launching the game, therefore, we plan to remove the permission pop-up and continue to optimize the TenProtect Anti-Cheat system to provide better Anti-Cheating effects.
V. Our future development focus & plans
We will be focusing on the following areas in the current development stage:
- Polish and improve the quality of the game
- Upgrade the game engine to bring new high-quality features
- Optimize the overall game experience, such as sounds gameplay balance
- Continue to fix all kind of bugs
- Continue to deepen the playability, balance and depth of the design and content of the current island map
- Continue to enrich the game experience
- For example, continuous optimization of gunplay, show network latency, death cam system, all kinds of QOL changes, etc.
That sums up this post. We hope that everyone can express their opinions in the comment section below. We will continue to pay close attention to your valuable feedback! Let us help each other and build a bright future for ROE!
Thanks for reading,
ROE DEV Team