Hey Super Animals! All the love in the air is about to shift back to the scent of gunpowder as Duos Weekend comes to a close, so if you or your favorite Duos partners haven’t earned the Duos Day Rose yet, now is your last chance until next year! The rose has a 10% chance to drop after every duos game you play, or you’ll be guaranteed to get it if you reach the top of the food chain and earn a win. The event ends in about 4hrs, at 12am PST tonight!
Weapon Switch Speed Improvement
Once the clock strikes midnight and the Duos Day Rose departs, we’ll also be dropping a new update (without any downtime) that adjusts the weapon switch time. We think the new weapon switch animations were a really important improvement to the meta to make sure each category of guns can be used effectively and situationally, and no single combo takes over, and we really appreciated all the feedback you provided on it!
Taking all of that feedback into consideration, and doing a bunch of testing, we think the most important weapon switch for speed is pulling out your melee weapon / grenades. Having melee at the ready quickly is really nice for chopping tall grass to find items, or moving around the map a bit more quickly (at the risk of being unprepared in your next engagement, of course). So we’re making those faster. In addition to melee/grenades being really quick and snappy to pull out, we did a bunch of testing around how low we could bring the weapon switch time without breaking the meta.
In the end, we've decided to drop weapon switch time to 0.4s, down from 0.5s, and reduced melee/grenade swap time to 0.25s, down from 0.5s.. This makes switching weapons feel super fluid and snappy, while still ensuring a healthy gun meta. We hope you all enjoy the change, and welcome more feedback in Discord!
Foxy Clip Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7skh--5DyzM
Lastly, thanks so much for all of the foxy submissions so far!! They're looking great, and it's quite the feat to be able to grab such good clips with no HUD turned on ;). We have two quick updates on the Clip Challenge from last post:
1. The deadline for clip submissions is this Wednesday at 11:59pm PST, so get your clips in by then, and all the selected clips will earn your choice of the golden jacket, or one of the SAR Tonight items (which can only be earned in video contests like this one).
2. In addition to the clips we previously listed (included again below for reference), we're also looking for some clips of players nabbing a mole crate. For those, the ideal clip that we're looking for would include the entire animation of the mole popping up, tossing the crate out, and the fox would open it up right away to get its loot. If some action and shooting ends up breaking out around it, that's all the better, but it's important that the mole himself is clearly visible in the shot.
Those are all the updates for today, but we have more newness coming very soon, so keep watching Steam and our social media for the next updates after this one! We're including the full clip contest details again below for reference in case you missed them in the last update:
Challenge Details
We created this first trailer way back during our alpha, so now we're looking to refresh it! To qualify, you’ll need to play as the orange fox, with no cosmetics equipped and with your HUD turned off (press F1 to turn off all the UI). If you watch the linked YouTube trailer above, the whole video is done from the perspective as the fox, so in these clips you’ll be acting as that fox and replacing each of those clips.
(Feel free to submit as many as you like, as long as you’re playing as the orange fox)
Action scenes / kills in each of these biomes:
- S.A.W. Welcome Center
- S.A.W. Bamboo Resort
- Each of the three Research Facility buildings
- Pete's Swamp
- Super Saharaland
- Thomas's Tundra
Specific actions referenced in the trailer (clean/clear is best for these):
- Melee Kill (with katana)
- Grenade Kill
- Hamster Ball Kill
- Mole crate (seeing the full animation and opening the crate)
Requirements:
- 1080p 60fps video
- Play as the orange fox, with no cosmetics equipped
- HUD turned off (press F1)
- Clips should be no more 20s and we'll be using up to 10s seconds out of each one so condensed quick action is best.
You can submit your clips here:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/taTd4NYfeIv5OYtdICQ3
