Matchmaking represents another big step forward towards release!

Note there are some known server stability issues were working to fix ASAP!

Official game modes & matchmaking overhaul

The way official matches and matchmaking works has been overhauled completely, as the player you now only need to set some basic preferences and a builtin matchmaker handles the rest.

• Official matches can now have any combination of gamemodes and tiers

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• The allowed tiers in a match will dynamically change to make sure all players stay within 2 tiers of eachother, i.e. a T2 restricts a match to T1-T4, if then a T1 joins the range becomes T1-T3 etc.

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• When an official match ends the players get to vote on the next map and game mode, the game creates a selection of repeating the same match or 2 randomly generated alternatives.

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• A player can now override an empty dedicated server into their preferred game mode, that means we dont need seperate servers for seperate game modes anymore.

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• Although not yet implemented the game is now compatible with a future matchmaking service that will take skill level into account

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Minor changes

• Defined new achievements and their icons, functionality is not yet complete

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• New graphics for end-of-match win state

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• Players will now get half the win reward for ending a match in a stalemate. Win rewards will be removed for matches shorter than 3 minutes and halved between 3 and 6 minutes.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed problem with UI anchoring of the first play / tutorial start overlay, also added a vignetted background to make it slightly more interesting

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• Tutorial getting blocked by the dialogue window blocking the shop buy button; the window is supposed to snap to another position to make room but this feature broke at the last second

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• Tutorial getting stuck if a person unlocks rocket tech or buys a new core before clicking trough the dialoge first, players will also start with 3 vouchers in case they accidentaly waste one e.g. by unlocking the wrong tech

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• Another attempt at making steam login more reliable (this is a bit hard to debug since the problem is hard to reproduce)

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• Resolved conflict with right-click hold to orbit the camera and right-click to delete parts, which overlap when using (the now default) simplified builder controls.

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• Fixed problem where the physics clone for a mesh collider would not be scaled and flipped properly leading to bad physics shapes for plain plates

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• Removed the Pinkwall AI build since hoverblade balance changes have made the design too difficult to control for the AI pilot

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• Fixed problem which caused raycasts to almost always miss on allies when they have their bubble shields up, making it difficult to continue healing them

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