Hello Warriors!
It's finally time to drop our first major update! Welcome to Season One.
Season One
We're going to go over some of the major features we've added this season as well as share a full patch notes list below at the bottom.
Air Drops
Ranking
Hybrid Elo System: The ELO system wasn't working very well for VBG. The game being a battle royale and not having a large enough player base to do competitive matchmaking made for a system that wasn't very reliable, fair, or forgiving especially for players with very high elo. Instead we've opted in for a new system that combines a traditional point system with an elo system. We're calling it our hybrid elo system.
New Rankings: With the hybrid elo system we've also shipped out new rankings to make ranking up more fun. Now you can flash your ranked emblems around proudly. Way cooler then an arbitrary number.
- Recruit - Bronze equivalent
- Veteran - Silver equivalent
- Warrior - Gold equivalent
- Elite - Platinum equivalent
- Hero - Diamond equivalent
- Master - Masters equivalent
- Legend - Challenger equivalent
Skins
We've added a bunch of new skins this season that can all be unlocked for FREE by completing achievements. Here's a couple that are unlocked at the end of the season as season rewards!
Legend Skin
How to get it: The skin can only be unlocked by placing in the Legend league by the end of the season for season one. It's the hardest rank to achieve so it will be an incredibly rare skin.
Warrior Skin
How to get it: The skin can only be unlocked by placing in the Warrior League by the end of the season. It's the equivalent for Gold in most other competitive games so it will be difficult to unlock but most players who play VBG regularly will be able to unlock it.
Sandford
Welcome to Sanford: The new location inside of Virtual Battlegrounds.
More Information: It features apartment complexes, bars, a shopping plaza, small gardens, a town hall, and some mid sized town homes.
Going Forward: Technically Sandford is actually a complete overhaul of what was Maetland main. In addition to building new locations, we want to redo locations in the world that we think can be improved. Previously Maetland in our opinion was dull with a lot of copy paste buildings that didn't offer much in terms of gameplay. Sandford is the first on our list of our areas we wanted to redesign.
Tournaments
Our First Tournament: If you haven't seen already we're hosting our first tournament this coming Saturday in cooperation with the Virtual Athletic League!
More Information: For more information on our tournament check out last weeks blog posts.
Val Season One Tournament
New Guns and Grenades
- R90 - Five-Seven SMG
- BFP - 50 Cal Pistol
- M2 - Grenade Launcher
- Origen - Automatic Shotgun
Watch them all in action here!
Full List of Patch Notes
New Features
- Added Air Drops
- Added 15 new skins
- Added new map location, Sanford
- Added new Ranking System
- Added 3 new guns (BFP, M2, Origin)
- Added front hand weapon gripping
- Added ability for players to go to separate helicopters
- Added ability for players to hold the gun by there front mount.
- Added ability for players to be to swap pistol main hands.
- Added 3 new Easter eggs
Design Changes
- Barrett 50 cal only spawns in air drops now
- Increased lowest lod setting from 0 to 30
- Leaderboards have been reset
- Games cannot be ranked in private lobbies and in games with less than 4 players.
- Replaced old map with an updated one
- Added VFX for when players enter/exit the killroom.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed weapons sometimes disappearing off hips
- Fixed guns sometimes spinning when picking them up
- Fixed an exploit people were doing to climb there bodies into the ground only showing their head
- Fixed no collision on trees with low LOD settings
- Fixed equipment dropping from others to other players feet when they die
- Fixed an issue where glass breaks no where near you when you toss a gun
- Fixed sprinting with knife not making the player the same speed as without one
- Fixed an issue where you couldn't create a private match after the first attempt
- Fixed an issue where players could grab backpack weapons from hips with backpack weapons on
- Fixed an issue where iron sights stay upright on m4 after putting on a scope
- Fixed an issue where the five-seven shoots a foot to the left
- Fixed an issue where the P90 ammo UI flickers
- Fixed an issue where toggle grip settings was not working for front hand gun holding
- Fixed an issue where sometimes players couldn't grab snipers in the upstairs lobby
- Fixed an issue where the hand would sometimes be open animated while holding a gun
- Fixed an issue where picking up a bots gun can sometimes eat your ammunition
Known new issues
- We're currently reworking the AI. They're a bit wonky right now, hotfix coming soon.
- Map on settings menu is disabled, use the forearm wrist map until we hotfix this.
- New skins UI can be unresponsive. This will be a part of our next hotfix.
See you on the battlefield warriors!