Remember, as always, unless specifically stated as confirmed, please take everything with a grain of salt.
News:
- Major updates are now on a 2 week cycle, so the next merc is 1st-3rd September. Shoe clarified it will NOT be ‘next week’, in spite of previous speculation.
- Confirmed: There WILL be a report button coming. – No ETA on this though.
- Vote-kick may get some tweaking in the future, like the match-shuffle did in the most recent patch.
- There will be more loadout cards coming in the future – no specific details on this though, but Shoe talked about the idea of have “series” of cards with different types of skins/properties, etc.
- More maps will of course be coming in the future! (They are more than likely talking mainly about Dome of course, but, who knows…)
- No time-scale on when Dome will be completed. It is still being worked on at current time.
- Turret and deployable hit-boxes are a KNOWN issue. These are definitely being looked into currently (confirmed by guest QA tester) and are being worked on/fixed.
Possible changes/updates:
- Localisation for the game will be coming in the future. (Spanish was a given example)
- No further ETA on the colourblind mode/support. It will be coming, but not currently being worked on. (This makes me sad. We need it soon :c PLEASE Splash Damage ;-; )
- NO changes planned for the Grandeur SR rifle. (If any changes were to happen, there would likely be damage reduction too, which they don’t want to do)
- Question: When Dirty Bomb leaves beta, will there still be more mercs and maps? – “There is definitely more stuff being worked on, as well as ideas and concept work for mercs no one has even heard of outside of Splash Damage yet.”
- Phantom may be receiving a “viability” buff in the future. They are currently analysing the data provided upon his current performance before making any changes.
- Question: When will we be able to create private servers? – “Soon.” -sigh-
- Question: When will we get 5v5 pubs? – Never. There will never be 5v5 pubs as it is considered too low for a viable pub setting.
- Stopwatch “victory conditions” are currently being looked at and worked on. No ETA for fixes to this.
- Fragger grenade auto-throw bug still being worked on.
- Question: Will you ever make it so that deployables show up on Red-eye’s IR goggles? – “They are designed to be infra-red. This picks up on heat, so it’s possible we may see some addition to show up a Bushwhacker turret after it fires (due to the hot barrel), but items such as the healing unit and ammo station do not emit any heat… so, no.”
Discussion about update:
- Crotzni was considered FAR superior than every other SMG. The warranted the heavy nerf to the accuracy to off-set the “overpowered” nature of the gun.
- “Effective range” clarified to be before the drop-off of the weapon’s damage.
- Spawn camping should be less of an issue now. Like anti-cheat, among other things, there is NO “silver bullet” for this issue, but it should be more balanced than before.
Extra info:
- Guest: Naxxus – QA tester.
- When asked about the next merc, Shoe said he couldn’t say anything. He was then asked about the FEL-IX sniper rifle and he said “Phoenix”, instead of Felix… May be nothing, of course, but I felt it would be worth mentioning, because Twitch chat freaked out. c:
- I wanted to see Nader’s wife in the game… I wanted it to be Javelin. Shoe said this was unlikely… -sadness-
- Clarified: Users are allowed to create their own YouTube videos AND monetise as they see fit with any footage of Dirty Bomb they wish.
Enjoy… Until next time! #roundup
- Faraleth
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