It’s been a fantastic week, and it’s been great to see the enormous interest there is for First Class Trouble. We have let through over a 2000 players to the playtest. Almost a thousand games have been played, and we have gotten a huge amount of invaluable feedback already.
We are painfully aware that a lot of you spend time searching for a game, because not everyone is here at the same time. Until the backfill works as intended, and until we get join-with-steam-friends working, this will continue to be a challenge.
Until we get everything working, as we want it, we have created an experimental work-around allowing you to create your own lobbies over the holiday. Using this feature, you and 5 friends can choose a code, that you share, to get in the same game together. We can recommend you use our Discord to share codes among you.
For those of you, who still want to play with strangers and get to know new people, we want to promote playing in two slots, which will make sure the most amount of players are online at the same time. The two slots will be from 18.00-21.00 (CET) and from 6am-9am (PST) every day. You can of course still play whenever you want, but this will ensure you are more likely to get a game.
Use these links to add the peak play times to your calendar - if you like:
18.00-21.00 (CET)
6.00-9.00 PM (PST)
And please keep the feedback coming, it is very valuable.
The full list of changes can be found below:
- Added experimental private matchmaking.
In order to use it you will have to have 5 other players to play with. When you have your 6 people, go to find a game and type in a phrase which will be made into a string - the phrase is case-sensitive.
One example could be typing in the code "personoid" and it would give the code "02,517". When your 6 friends have found a game it should transfer you to the game. Due note that this is a temporary and experimental feature, but should help people to play with their friends.
- Keycards are easier to find in the Restaurant.
- Fire spawn rate reduced in the Restaurant.
- Reworked the audio for Emergency Meeting
- General audio mix and especially mix for main menu (no more annoying vacuum cleaner robot sounds)
- Fixed crash to desktop when pressing find game.
- Fixed freeze when pressing find game.
- Text for Quit is now correctly called Quit to Menu.
- Fire Extinguisher is now audible to all players.
Stay tuned while we update the game.
The latest updates can be found on our Discord here.