Update 341 Released!

Update 341 is now available on steam and includes multiple updates to maps and a bunch of bug fixes and tweaks to both the game and matched play. There are also additional updates to the balance which you can find in the in-game menu.

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Changelog

Tweaks / Improvements

• Death screen has been made smaller in overall size, hides when the map is opened, the fade to black lasts only 2 seconds, and the killfeed is no longer hidden. This should be more in line with the previous deathscreen experience over the years. Thanks everyone for your feedback on this feature!

• Re-added text drop shadows to the in-game chat text elements.

• Changed the text drop shadow rendering feature to fix severe FPS losses on certain graphics driver and hardware configurations. (Thanks, Axtel!)

• Added Drop shadow text to damage numbers

Matchmaking Fixes and Changes

• Individual players are automatically kicked from a lobby after 1 hour has elapsed without progressing the lobby state beyond Waiting for Players. This prevents long term AFK individuals propping up a potentially bugged lobby that acts as a trap for everyone else matching.

• Fixed Steam Authentication potentially failing when waiting in a lobby for more than 30 minutes.

• Fixed multiple players ending up being on an unassigned team and therefore being kicked from the server.

• Fixed rare occurrence of a client not progressing through the lobby stages with everyone else.

• Fixed a lobby failing when a server request returned error 500.

• Fixed the Matchmaking Rewards menu’s Queue button being active all the time

• Fixed Steam Offline status triggering too easily. It now counts down over multiple seconds before considering you having lost connection and can roll backward to a reset state over the same time frame if the offline status did not get reached. This ensures that a momentary loss of internet does not trigger kicking you from the game or lobby.

• Fixed client script errors during certain lobby stages.

• Fixed skill offset miscalculation between the teams [Drey]

Mod System Changes

• Added an option to the create local server page to enable mounting UWE hotfix mods when creating a server.

• Maps from non-active mods are now included in the Listen Server map list and are automatically mounted on the server when it is created.

• Hotfix mods are no longer hidden in the menu mod list.

• Duplicate Mod ID entries in a server’s map cycle are now handled properly.

Fixes

• Fixed being able to receive Matchmaking invites while playing in a public server already.

• Fixed Auric Clog not being able to be selected or used once unlocked.

• Fixed Chroma Resource Tower not being able to be selected or used once unlocked.

• Fixed when earning the Battle Gorge calling card, it's not available. And instead two items of Turbo drifter are granted.

• Fixed a potential server crash when fetching hotfix mods fails.

• Fix -game command line option not handling absolute paths for the Linux dedicated server.

Sounds

• Client hitsounds files are no longer constrained by our file validation rules.

Maps

• Biodome: (Thanks psyk!)

• • Moved Agri RT to the north of Agri (New room, thanks