This weekend April 5th-6th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.9.0

Additions

• Line of sight audio occlusion
• Moderation tools for tracking players connected to servers.
• Moderation tools for blacklisting players from all servers. Community servers can opt out.
• Server property useGlobalBlacklist
• Server property timeoutTime
• Player reporting
• Graphics setting for cavity curvature
• Key bind settings for hand slots
• Key bind settings for opening lobby settings UI
• Tutorial button in main menu play screen
• New lobby settings
• G43 gun item
• L249 gun item
• Smoke grenade item
• Sword melee item
• Point Hold gamemode
• Secrets

Changes

• Increased first person camera height
• Improved chat UI visibility
• Improved smoothness of crouching transition
• Improved audio - Ship map environment sounds - Sliding sounds - Air/wind sounds while flying - Different footstep sounds (Wood, grass, metal)
• Stopped held items from avoiding walls when aiming
• Improved flag item model
• Flag item is now also a melee weapon
• Improved flash grenade effects
• Reduced Glock recoil V 5 > 2 H 2 > 1
• Lowest max frame rate setting is now `30`
• Improved player HUD
• Hide death UI using the Primary key
• Improved melee item hit registration
• Improved lobby settings UI
• Improved race finish checkpoint
• Improved gamemode images in lobby
• Improved lobby environment
• Tweaked Testing Grounds race course
• Improved bot AI
• Improved gun kickback to include rotation

Fixes

• Camera not correctly aligned with axis of rotation
• Footstep audio continued to play when dead
• Spawning inside walls
• Colliding with other players in Race gamemode
• Able to slide while in mid air
• Sliding should feel less jittery
• Able to fly through walls while in respawn free fly

This weekend Sept 21th-22th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.8.0

Additions

• Max frame rate setting
• Field of view setting
• Elimination gamemode
• Player scores are saved when disconnected mid-game
• Player stat tracking - Head kills - Body kills - Assists - Deaths - Games played - Games won - Flags captured - Infections survived - Fastest race times
• Item info/stats in the loadout radial UI
• Edge cavity curvature post processing effect
• Tutorial
• Item inspection
• Item cosmetics
• Player cosmetics
• Customize screen in the main menu
• Achievements - Good Sportsmanship - Death Wish
• Camera shake upon impact when falling from a distance

Changes

• Decreased the amount of ready votes required from 100% to >50%
• Improved sliding
• Split scoreboard UI when playing team gamemodes
• Easier to find yourself on the scoreboard
• Improved player spawning system
• Multiple gun stats have changed
• Lighting Improvements
• Tweaked player model
• Tweaked player hitboxes (Head hitbox is smaller)
• Increased max ADS multiplier setting from 1 to 4
• Attachment UI uses icons
• Removed proximity chat
• Decreased ADS speed for all guns
• Improved hand item wall avoidance

Fixes

• Issues when reloading a gun while attaching UI is open
• Loadout radial UI remains open after respawning
• Issues with spawn protection for bots
• Players sometimes spawn in the same location or very close together
• Flag picked-up/returned/captured feed messages missing translations

This is a smaller update that focused on fixing bugs from v0.7.1 and adding Player hosted lobbies.

Update v0.7.1

Additions

• Proximity voice chat
• Player hosted lobbies

Changes

• Main menu play screen UI improvements - Server list headers - Server list includes player hosted lobbies via Steam - Direct join screen to join via lobby ID or IP - Host game screen to start player hosted lobby via Steam
• Allow volume settings to be increased to 150%
• Decrease default music volume
• Improve network performance/optimization
• Improved vaulting smoothness
• Slight increase to initial sliding speed

Fixes

• Issues with vaulting (Able to infinitely climb walls)
• Camera falls through map on death in lobby map
• Spawn protection not applied on first spawn
• Loadout changes during respawn not applied
• Loading screen animation background not transparent

This weekend May 11th-12th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.7.0

Additions

• After respawning players have spawn protection for X seconds or until they attack
• Health text value on health bar
• Death UI - Killed by player Steam Icon - Killed by player health
• Localization - English - French - Spanish - Simplified Chinese
• Network metrics in debug UI
• AI Bots
• Steam friends list rich text Playing in [map name]
• Crosshair improvements - Circle crosshair when R870 shotgun equipped - Setting to set crosshair color - Setting to set crosshair thickness
• Player movement - Vaulting - Sliding
• Free fly (spectator mode) when respawning

Changes

• Space Station map - Added details/props - Added flat textures - Tweaked low audio zones
• Lobby - Removed team selection (Was never really used) - Tweaked map/mode voting layout - Added vote to fill extra player slots with bots
• Allow loadout editing while respawning
• Improve network performance/optimization
• Scoreboard elements are greyed out when a player is not alive
• Movement speed when crouching reduced by 25%

Fixes

• Player positions not always synced correctly after respawning
• Players sometimes spawn in the same location
• Scoreboard not scrolling correctly using `page up` & `page down` keys

This weekend Aug 19th-20th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.6.2

Additions

• Space Station map (Early prototype)
• Lobby ready up voting to start a game or skip the auto starting timer
• Settings - Toggle Aim - Toggle Sprint - Toggle Crouch

Changes

• Race gamemode - Player collision is disabled - Tweaked remaining game time adjustment when first player finishes - Clear items from hands when players finish
• Scoring depends on new XP system - Kill = 10 xp - Assist = 5 xp - Flag capture = 50 xp - Team win = 250 xp - Race placement = # checkpoints passed + (# total players - # players finished) * 10
• Game auto starting pauses when no players are connected to the server

Fixes

• Shooting target dummies with the R870 shotgun created UI hit markers on all clients

This weekend July 15th-16th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.6.1

• Steam profile image displayed in the scoreboard
• Player level displayed in the scoreboard
• Electric Unicycle (EUC) movement mode
• Command /euc to change to EUC movement mode
• Race gamemode

• Health pickups are now green

• Timeout issues when loading maps
• Rare case where you were unable to re-connect to a server
• Cursor was being disabled when it shouldnt have

Welcome to the first playtest of X-Mode on Steam! This weekend May 6th-7th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.6.0

• Weapon attachment system
  • M4A4 - Acog sight - Iron sight
  • AWP - Red dot sight
  • UMP - Iron sight
  • R870 - Red dot sight
  • Glock - Red dot sight
• Player progression through a leveling system. You can gain player XP through getting kills, assists, and game wins on official servers
• Steam profile image in the main menu
• Discord link in the main menu
• Temporary player screen in the main menu
• Setting to enable item swaying while aiming
• Admins are able to spawn items from the loadout menu
• Command /spawn [item id] [amount] to spawn items into the world
• Command /givekills [amount] to give yourself kill score

• Game is now launchable through Steam
• Infected gamemode - Infected have a random chance of dropping grenades on death - Infected are prevented from dropping/grabbing items
• Switching items in your hands will now be more responsive
• Ammo UI will now be more responsive
• End game camera now zooms out to view the entire map
• Default end game time from 10s to 15s
• Valley map terrain is now flat shaded
• Valley map tweaks to add extra cover
• Gun muzzle flashes now emit light
• Flash and frag grenades now emit light when triggering
• Throwables now emit a trail when thrown
• AWP fire animation
• Team score UI is now always visible
• Tweaks to the spawning system to make spawning more distributed
• Player footsteps now emit particles

• Timeout issues when loading maps
• Frag grenades did damage through walls
• Player positions sometimes didnt sync correctly