Team balancer

• Fixed several issues with AI tier balancing that was causing nonsensical AI selection e.g. all tier 3s in a tier 1 match. The selection is now stable but still slightly randomized to allow a controlled bit of tier mismatching to occur

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• Fixed issue where the team balancer would not use the mid-match-joining logic during countdown, allowing players to get stacked in unfair teams if they joined during the countdown stage just before a match start

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• Balancer is now more precise in the way it despawns AI to make room for new players, it will select whichever AI despawn would make the teams the most even

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AI opponent issues

• The nav meshes for the AI have been broadly improved in particular to avoid AI trying to path over edges around ramps and bridges

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• Simplified a lot of the AI code to make it easier to debug and improve

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• Fixed several issues in fight pathing logic which would usually lead to the AI completely stopping whenever in combat. AIs will now always engage to a preset distance when fighting. The exact movement pattern will vary from one to another.

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• Removed dynamic obstacle avoid logic since this was mostly not working and making pathing more buggy

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• AI can now use recovery mode when flipped upside down

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• Solved several issues related to movement input which were making it erratic and slow

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• Fixed issue where AI could repeatedly try to path to a healing station then abort because its recharging and no healing is available

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• Fixed issue where AI taking damage from multiple opponents would repeatedly switch targets, they will now only switch to a target that is significantly closer than the current target

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Switched to dedicated PlayFab tickets for Steam login, which should finally fix the Steam servers rejected bug completely!

Disabled Unity vertex compression which was messing up a lot of the new 3D models, deforming them and often causing z-fighting issues especially in Snow Pass map.

Fixed bug where raycasts (and aim) would break in common circumstances where the gun tip is near the bounding box of the bot, this was introduced due to another fix for aiming on bubble shields not registering the underlying bot at all. At this point both bugs should be fixed.

Fixed several bugs related to a road generation system that were wasting resources, file size and loading times

Fixed issue where player reveal color would sometimes appear z-fighting on nearby teammates who are clearly visible

Fixed issue where minimap would not always refresh properly when changing levels

Vote prompt will now automatically be closed when re-entering the menu

Fixed rare null ref that would happen due to bubble shield suppression in post-match fase

Changing matchmaking preferences will now force the recommended match to update, so you can be guided to a better match according to your new preferences

Maximum player count will now update properly when a server changes match rules. Modes that would reduce the maximum count under the current player count will no longer be available for a map vote

Removed voucher exchange buttons from inventory display since these are not functional anymore

Removed inverted box colliders on snow pass map which were spamming console warnings