WOC Update Log

[SirBots]

I will be experimenting with tables to see if a targeting system via a table of all the enemy coordinates would be faster in more populated lobbies.

[SirBots]

Update 12.5.1 - Hotfix and Balance

Release Date: TBA

What’s New:

UI

• Replaced the Find Game feature with Patch Notes.
  • Patch Notes will only reflect on major or key changes. They will not show the full notes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug which caused Airstrikes and Lightning to kill players offscreen, respectively.
• Made a second attempt to vix severe rain audio and visual issues.

The next update will focus on improvements to AI targeting, and measures to discourage spawn camping.

[SirBots]

12.5.1 has been released!

[SirBots]

Update 12.5.2 - Hotfix Update

Release Date: TBA

What’s new

Weather

• Fixed a bug where the rain and sound effects play while the map loads
• Fixed a bug where rain effects wouldn’t play.

[SirBots]

Update 13.0 - Howitzers and Prying Night Fighting Pt.1 - Seasonal Major Content Update

Release Date: TBA

What’s New:

AI

• Removed the code which caused bots to flash upon taking damage

UI

• Added 4 new Battle soundtracks
• Added one limited time Soundtrack
  • This will be used in the upcoming Halloween event

Technical Changes

• Added “Base Defenses”
  • Base defenses are a set of long range artillery. Upon getting too close to the opposing team’s spawn, the artillery will fire, and being within range for too long result in an elimination.

Weather

• Reduced how dark the map is when it is Night time by approx. 5%

Maps

• Added a new time limited map: Hurgen’s Forest

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the player would not take damage from lightning or airstrikes

Development Notes

This update is targeted towards preventing spawn camping, fixing some small things, and updating the music.

After attempting to fix a bug which resulted from the brightness changes caused by weather, it was decided to keep the bug as this could potentially affect users with photosensitive issues.

Some new soundtracks were added, and one being for the halloween event in the near future.

After some time, it was decided that players could also get decisive victories just by sitting inside of the spawn point of the enemies and killing large numbers of them. Thus, a mechanic was added to make sitting in their spawn much more risky.

Lastly, a new Halloween map was added for use in the event and some small weather changes were made.

[DreamSMP_Luck]

@sirbots may I get a game link?

[SirBots]

@dreamsmp_luck Sure. Forgot to put the TBA release date in there.

[SirBots]

@dreamsmp_luck play.creaticode.com/projects/679b952fe83001fc08dae8bb

[DreamSMP_Luck]

@sirbots thank you, it’s so fun! my friends can’t stop playing it XD

[SirBots]

Update 13.0 is planned to release later this week to early next week!

[DreamSMP_Luck]

@sirbots yay

[SirBots]

A project with the new soundtracks will drop this week! Additionally, the Artillery is being buggy, so it will not drop with the update as work progresses.

[SirBots]

One last thing, as a replacement for artillery, each match can be in either realistic or standard battles after your first game of a session. 50v50 games will be a guaranteed realistic battle.

[SirBots]

13.0 has dropped. Patch notes for 13.5 will drop later next week.

[SirBots]

Update 13.5 - Originality - Major Content Update

Release Date: TBA. Editor lag is being a massive problem currently

What’s new:

UI

• Major Revamps to the UI screen to be more clean and modern.

• Removed several old songs and replacing them with new music.

  • This music will be AI generated via Suno’s v5 model. Thus, it won’t be taken from another producer.
  • Some old songs will remain. Overall, there will be less songs in the music rotation. See dev notes for more detailed reasons.

• Similar to the Battle Music, the lobby music will see similar changes, but the number of songs will still be the same.

Gamemodes

The following gamemodes have received specification changes

Frontlines

• Reduced the number of tickets need to win a score victory to 500.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the message of a successful elimination would remain frozen on screen should it appear during the victory chime.
• I am aware of a bug that causes incorrect collision and roof rendering on some maps despite it being correctly placed in the costume editor. This is currently being investigated.

Developer Notes

This update is made to update the UI and make major changes to the music, along with a gamemode change.

First, the UI screen will receive some changes, including button layout and appearance, along with cleaner placement.

For the battle songs, changes have been made to the music rotation to remove low quality and somewhat boring music, add some songs which is more fit for the game’s genre, and overall for general originality. The same will happen for most of the lobby soundtracks. Overall, there will be less soundtracks. Some old songs will still be in the game

For context, all of the new songs will be AI generated using Suno AI’s v5 model. As part of a subscription to access said model, the songs get copyright protections, thus making these new songs the first soundtracks ever to be fully original to the game. These songs will be dropped shortly before the update as Volume 2.

For the Frontlines mode, the amount of tickets needed to win is reduced to 500 to reduce match times. This is targeted to the Standard variant of the gamemode where the only way to win is by tickets.

Lastly some small bug fixes were made as well as an investigation of a bug is underway.

The next update will add a new gamemode.