Scheduled Hotfix Update notes - March 13th, 2017

(Chris Mullins) #1

Hey all!

Today we’re pushing out a hotfix update with zero downtime to fix a couple of Ranked issues you’ve been reporting. We talked about this in our last dev video, but below are the full update notes:

When:

[list][] London (UTC): 11:00
[] Los Angeles (PST, UTC-8): 03:00
[*] Sydney (AEDT, UTC+11): 22:00[/list]

Cancelling Ranked Matches with Different Team Sizes

While we continue to track down connection issues, we’ve implemented a feature that will abandon a match if one or more players fail to ever connect to a Ranked game:

[list][] The match will be cancelled if all players have not connected to the server by the end of the initial warmup. All players are then returned to the main menu and the match will not count towards your match history
[] To account for this, we’ve increased the initial warmup period to 80s (from 60s)
[] The player who failed to connect will receive a temporary suspension from matchmaking as a Minor Penalty. These penalties will also stack to a maximum suspension of 60 minutes
[] As before, if a player has managed to connect during warmup and then later disconnects, the match will still go ahead and the final result will still be counted
[*] Players who abandon a game once they have connected will receive an automatic loss, no Rank Points, no Credits and a Major Penalty, which can stack up to several days[/list]
We’ve also added an additional check that will prevent people from re-searching for a Matchmaking game if they are already meant to be playing in one. If they attempt to Matchmake again they will instead receive a prompt to rejoin their existing game.

Logging Ranked Penalties

Due to reports of Ranked match penalties being either too long, too short or undeserved, we’ve added additional logging so we can investigate these issues further.

Improved EasyAntiCheat Support

We’ve made some more improvements to our integration with EasyAntiCheat, making it more efficient at handling player reports.

If you suspect someone of hacking, don’t forget to report them using the in-game tool.

Download it now and enjoy!
shoe.

(Melinder) #2

Can’t leave a game that you don’t find.

hehe xd

(NikolaiLev) #3

Eagerly awaiting a fix for the “disabling weapon switching via keyboard” and “randomly unable to do anything” bugs. Would give repro steps if I could.

Also, the frame hitches. Which I’ll be sure to get the logs for when I remember. Keep up the good work, guys.

(K1X455) #4

Downloading and crosses fingers 0.26fps goes away

(Chris Mullins) #5

[quote=“NikolaiLev;c-223375”]Eagerly awaiting a fix for the “disabling weapon switching via keyboard” and “randomly unable to do anything” bugs. Would give repro steps if I could.

Also, the frame hitches. Which I’ll be sure to get the logs for when I remember. Keep up the good work, guys.[/quote]

For the not being able to do anything bug, if you interact with something using ‘F’ it fixes it!

(Melinder) #6

Those got dayum dpc stacks, amirite or amirite.

(GatoCommodore) #7

Players who abandon a game once they have connected will receive an automatic loss, no Rank Points, no Credits and a Major Penalty, which can stack up to several days

(K1X455) #8

:frowning: Objective badges still not being awarded

(Chris Mullins) #9

This hotfix wasn’t supposed to fix any badge issues D:

(ZGToRRent) #10

Any chance to add 150 ping lock so africa won’t play on european servers to increase lag and ruin overall experience?

Also, why you don’t want to make ranked competitive with one merc rule? Everyone hate that idea when mercs are unbalanced and annoying to play with(3 fraggers meta etc.). I guess you r answer is “some players don’t have much mercs enabled to lock them” so then why we don’t have requirement to own at least 4 mercs? Every class based game has that…

Shoe pls make DB great again, not worse and worse.

(Postmann) #11

What about some of us whom ping 150+ to singapore servers and have no choice because they took away aus servers since the pop is too low, and asians ping 300+ to our servers?

(OwynTyler) #12

To account for this, we’ve increased the initial warmup period to 80s (from 60s)

please make a windows notification when warmup is finally over for people who aren’t participating in the warmup and are alt-tabbed :*

(ZGToRRent) #13

What about some of us whom ping 150+ to singapore servers and have no choice because they took away aus servers since the pop is too low, and asians ping 300+ to our servers?

[/quote]

There was a reason why I put “european servers”

(yard1e) #14

I think people should not be penalised for not connecting when the game starts because that is a bug and if the player who disconnects does it intentionaly mostly is on the lobby when they see players on enemy team and the game does not even start, since the game doesn’t count to the other players i don’t see people exploiting it other than leaving on the lobby, it happened to me once that i accept the match and waited forever and 1 minute later i quit the game and start searching again and it gave me a time penalty

(FalseLumpy) #15

So if you were to crash mid-game, would you still be assigned a penalty?

(yard1e) #16

If you crash midgame you pray your team paused the game and you can resume the game when you start the game again

(SnakekillerX) #17

[quote=“stayfreshshoe;c-223377”][quote=“NikolaiLev;c-223375”]Eagerly awaiting a fix for the “disabling weapon switching via keyboard” and “randomly unable to do anything” bugs. Would give repro steps if I could.

Also, the frame hitches. Which I’ll be sure to get the logs for when I remember. Keep up the good work, guys.[/quote]

For the not being able to do anything bug, if you interact with something using ‘F’ it fixes it![/quote]

This is the real bug fix I’m waiting for… can’t count how many times this has happened to me, and I’ve had to run around the map looking for an objective or MG to interact with… though it usually just gets me killed.

Pretty bad when it happens in ranked…

(Mc1412013) #18

@stayfreshshoe hot fix did nothing im still getting stuck on teams with 4 players on my team from start

(ParaPlayz) #19

And is the glitch of not getting all earned xp after ranked match also fixed or?