Hey all,
Welcome to FAQ-ing Fridays number 8!
If you didn’t know, what we’re doing every Friday is combining all of the juicy dev replies we’ve done during the week into one central space so no-one will be out of the loop with anything we say. As always all feedback is welcome and if you can think of a way to improve this further let us know.
Here’s the Facebook Live version too!
So here we go:
Dirty Bomb Forums
Mc1412013 - what was update the day after the Season 3 update for?
We had an urgent issue which needed to be resolved which included Sparks. We didn’t post notes as we wanted to make sure the issue was resolved on live as if there were still occurrences of it, now more players would know and would potentially exploit it too.
JonBongNoJovi - I managed to get through the 10 placement matches and got Silver so why am I matched up with Bronze and unranked?
Coming up against unranked players should just be a temporary issue as so many people are unranked. As the season progresses this will become less and less and balance will improve as the system equals out.
JonBongNoJovi - No auto-kick for AFKers is the reason there is no balance in matches
After 50 seconds a ‘Vote Kick’ is called, and after 2 minutes of inactivity (including the initial 50 seconds) they will be kicked from the match.
Mc1412013 - Is the Katana broken? It goes through Mercs and hits the wall with out damage to Merc.
In the Ranked Season 3 updates there were some improvements to melee weapons so they couldn’t damage players through walls so recent changes have been made. Could this be having an effect on what’s going on here? Potentially. If you can, record some footage and send it our way so we can review.
Splash Damage/Warchest Forums
The.Architect - Is there a way to play with a squad or as duo?
Sadly there isn’t a way to party up with friends apart from in Ranked (which is returning tomorrow (June 13th). We are still working hard on Casual Matchmaking (CMM) though which will replace Quick Join as the main way to play DB. With CMM you’ll be able to party and search together, much like in Ranked. For this, we don’t have a release date, but we are hoping to have another test in due course.
Flong - Here’s my custom HUD
Whilst we allow you to use your own custom configs, we don’t recommend them as we often make changes which could cause you to have reduced performance. Use at your own risk!
REA987 - How about a Linux client?
Our current focus is making Dirty Bomb the best it can be on Windows PC. We’re not ruling out Linux or Mac versions however.
Major_Slapnuts - Ranked in EU is so much better than in US. Why?
As other commentators have suggested, there’s more peeps playing in EU which means more players to balance matches across. The updates for Ranked Season 3 should improve this though. But still, need to pick up your game USA!
Chronicler - Will scrapping/removal of ranked Loadouts be forthcoming?
We have no plans currently to add this as a feature I’m afraid.
wrightosaur - When and how will weapon kits be more accessible?
We’ll reveal more about this when we talk about the changes to the Crafting system.
wrightosaur - This sub has brought forth many great ideas regarding multiple players repairing, but this is a difficult issue still? Were player’s suggestion tested at all? What was the issue?
We’ll be improving this in the next update
wrightosaur - Is each season’s ranks dependant on the previous season’s rank?
Yes. We said this in our Ranked Season 3 video too!
wrightosaur - Why don’t we have a system to deal with duplicate event cards – this has been a problem for nearly 2 years ever since the Containment War where concerns were voiced
We’ll reveal more about this when we talk about the changes to the Crafting system.
wrightosaur - Why did it take so long to put out a balance patch for Thunder that still did very little in balancing him out? For other Mercs, are we to wait months just to see any sort of balancing?
A lot has been happening behind the scenes. Aside from just gathering data and growing the team we’ve also put a heavy focus on future-proofing any upcoming balance updates; things don’t only have to be in harmony with current content, but also with upcoming content. Additionally, with a heavy focus on improving our content pipelines (better and faster release cadence), we’ve been dividing our focus across the entire title (not just the balancing of one merc).
Tekedo - Dirty Bomb is Sick video response
Thanks for putting this video together, and also your passion and dedication to Dirty Bomb! It’s so key for players like yourself to let us know how you feel so we can make corrections and improve development for everyone. That being said, you raise some good points, and the great thing is we’ve already been working to improve in these areas.
We’re very focused on changing the way we’ve been handling content completely. Our goal is to improve the frequency and cadence of content, as well as the quality of it. The proof will be in the pudding and over the next month you’ll be seeing a number of juicy updates. This includes bugs too. We can and need to get better at dealing with them, and are in the midst of changing our QA practices significantly in the hopes of doing this
As for transparency, this is as important to us as it is to you. And while we have a way to go until we’re where we want to be, keep doing what you’re doing as that will help guide us on our journey.
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UnPerfekt - What happens, when i buy a bundle/starter pack, which include a merc i already have? Will i get anything instead?
Nope. But if you own one of the Mercs it’s still a bargain!
Thanks!
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