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Competitive going live!

So it’s nearly time! We know a lot of you have been waiting for our competitive game mode to launch officially and now we can announce that Thursday 15/02/18 our War Tide Game mode will go live. It will be at some time during the day.

There will be around 10 mins of outage time whilst we restart and deploy server + matchmaker updates. This means all players will need to update their clients to play. The update is planned to go live on Thursday 15th February 2018.

Players rank 10 and above will be eligible, please bare in mind that a user interface bug has meant that some players haven’t been shown their real rank and therefore don’t believe that they are at the rank 10 and eligible to play Competitive. However we are deploying potential fixes for these issues during this weeks update.

New Competitive Ranks

It is worth noting that we have updated our competitive ranks since we announced them. We have altered them based on community feedback to make them more appealing, eye catching, readable & consistent. Here’s the updated list of ranks we will be having when Competitive launches this Thursday.

Changelog:

Improvements
We have added a new run animation. Previously the third person run animation was very flat/horizontal. You’ll now notice that the character kicks his feet up a lot higher now. This is to help improve visibility of players in fast/high intensity situations. It will also help slightly improve visibility when jumping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjXRn0Bjyuk&feature=youtu.be

Future Server Plans & Intentions
Over the past two weeks we’ve been learning how to manage our server locations. There has been a huge amount of requests for matchmaking support in South East Asia, as a result of your communication with us. We will be adding servers in the SEA region in March. We made a mistake of separating NA players between 3 regions, our server code does not choose the best location for the players. The server predetermines where to go. As a result, we will be removing Central/East and merging them together to servers in Chicago, again in March. This will also show a boost in player numbers.


Bug Fixes:

Potential fix for XP displaying correctly on the endgame UI.
Potential fix for crash on startup.
Numerous Spectator Improvements.
Picking up a dead player’s weapon now correctly displays the dropped weapon skin of the dead player and not your own skin.
General server stability fixes.


Texture Streaming:

To help combat load times on lower end PCs - We’ve set texture streaming to be default ON for players who own graphics cards with less than 3GB vram. If you have a 3GB+ card texture streaming will be set to OFF for a smoother gameplay experience whilst in-game. Our art team are actively optimising their work.

The Week 1 Update is Coming Tomorrow!


Tomorrow we’ll be releasing our big ‘Week 1 Update’ with a host of balance changes, quality of life changes and small bug fixes that’ll increase the stability and enjoyability of the game.

There will be around 10 mins of outage time whilst we restart and deploy server + matchmaker updates. This means all players will need to update their clients to play. The update is planned to go live between 16:00 and 17:00 GMT.

We will also be delaying the launch of competitive play.
You can read more about this further down within this update.


Week 1 Update Changelog - Going Live Tomorrow


Features:

-Added ingame VOIP functionality.
-Added function to mute individual players via the social tab after pressing ESC.
-Added menu setting to entirely disable VOIP.

Maps:

-Collision fixes to prevent certain overpowered boost spots on competitive maps.
-Collision fixes to prevent areas players could get out of the playable area.
-Fixed certain spots where players could lean through walls for information.
-Fixed certain collision volumes affecting grenade bounces

Server Browser:

-New Feature: Filter servers by server name, player count, map, mode and ping.
-New Feature: Search for servers by name
-New Feature: Hide locked servers.

Bug Fixes:

-Players will no longer ‘fatal error’ to desktop mid game when a player is killed on the same frame a grenade is released from another player’s hand.
-Matchmaker Improvements - Players should see less "loading into a game then being taken back to the menu" errors.
-Skins can now be seen in community servers.
-The launcher now quits immediately after successful launch to save system resources.
-Headshot hitboxes now accurately match third person character
We put in a potential fix for the end of match XP/Rank bar to display correctly.


Heavy Weapons Buff:

BAR:

-New BAR ADS sight allowing for better visibility and aim potential.
-Damage falloff decreased - now takes 3 to 4 bullets to kill instead of 3 to 5.
-Decreased time before BAR ammo refills when reloading to allow fast reloading of the BAR.

STG44:

-STG44 can now 1 shot headshot.


Pushing Back Competitive Play

We’ve been hearing the reports of regular crashes. Whilst this is expected for an Early Access game and we have fixed many of the fatal error crashes, this is not acceptable for a competitive environment.

This is why we’ve decided to delay the competitive mode launch.

The goal of this delay is to fix 50-80% of the regular crashes that occur during general play. We can’t just fix the game magically overnight - this stuff takes time, which is why we’re pushing back the launch of competitive play.

Luckily after the fixes If players do crash out - you will have the option to reconnect back into the same match. This is to reduce the annoyance of crashing out of a competitive game. However - if players just decide to rage quit a game in progress they will be banned from competitive play for a period of time.

You won’t have to wait too long - we’re still looking at getting competitive matchmaking to you guys asap - we’re just giving ourselves more time to get to the game into a state we feel is acceptable for competitive play for a Steam Early Access title! We’ll have more updates on this soon.

News update coming later today regarding the status of competitive play, client fixes and updates and lots of other good stuff! Thanks for your patience :)


https://twitter.com/Battalion1944/status/961534189240836096

Maps:

-Collision fixes to prevent certain overpowered boost spots on competitive -maps.
-Collision fixes to prevent areas players could get out of the playable area.
-Fixed certain spots where players could lean through walls for information.
-Fixed certain collision volumes affecting grenade bounces


Bug Fixes:

-Fixed the issue where in some instances headshots would instead count as neck shots.
-Fixed ‘spin boosts’
-XP displays to the client more reliably.
-Fixed weapon skins not being enabled on distributed servers.


Server Browser:

-New Feature: Filter servers by server name, player count, map, mode and ping.
-New Feature: Search for servers by name
-New Feature: Hide locked servers.


Smaller Fixes:

-A host of less noteworthy fixes will also be going live with this update for general stability purposes.