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Full War of Rights update
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Hello everyone,
What changed
- UI and audio
- Server
- Performance
War of Rights changes
Today marks the day of the 159th anniversary of the battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg and so we are excited to be releasing a major update to the game in celebration and remembrance of the courage and sacrifices of the soldiers engaged in what would be America’s single bloodiest day in wartime.
Musicians
Musicians are (at long last) making their way into War of Rights!
Featuring a drummer and a bugler per regiment, the sole objective of the musicians in battle is to relay the orders of the officers to the men outside of hearing distance of the shouts.
On the Drill Camp level outside of combat, musicians (including the fifer exclusively available there) are also able to play a selection of Civil War period tunes should the company want to liven things up a tad while on the march or warming themselves next to the campfire.
When spawned as a musician, press Q in order to bring up a radial menu to select the call/signal or tune you wish to play. Note that you can only play while either standing still or at the quicktime speed.
Musicians can also sync up and play the same call or tune together. All it takes is both of the musicians being in relative close proximity to each other, both selecting the same call or tune and they will sync up with each other.
Note: With today’s update comes the very first musician class introduction into the alpha. Players should expect to encounter various bugs and issues tied to the class due to this.
200 Player Support
Much has changed since the early days of our technical alpha when we supported 32 players on a server and today we are happy to announce that the player cap supported is going to be increased from 150 to 200 players!
This has been made possible thanks to a large number of code optimizations implemented by our two programmers, Mike & Aleksi the past 4 or 5 months.
As an extra present for our community we’re very pleased to announce that the new 200 player slot option will cost exactly the same as what you’ve been paying for a 150 player slot server up until now - that’s 50 additional player slots for free thanks to Gportal’s willingness to work with us which we are very appreciative of.
The 200 player slot option is unlocked in the basic settings for anyone that rents a 150 slot War of Rights server at Gportal - no need to select a more expensive 200 player slot server via the slot slider when renting one.
If you wish to rent your own War of Rights Alpha server you can visit their website over at: https://www.g-portal.com/en/gameserver/war-of-rights-server-hosting
Demotion Systems
Today’s anniversary update also includes the very first implementation of the promised demotion system as well as the server-wide mute system in order to give the community a democratic means of policing non-admined servers. Below is a quick rundown of the workings of the demotion system as well as the server-wide mute system:
Downvoting
Downvoting is performed against another player on the tab screen. Here, you will find a down arrow icon located next to the player's name. Upon pressing the down arrow icon next to a player name it will be highlighted to indicate that you have downvoted the individual. When the player has started receiving votes a tally will appear next to the down demotion arrow showing how many “effective
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