July 4th-6th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.9.1

Additions

• Mountain Temple Map (Gray boxed)

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• Show/hide cosmetics setting

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• Auto vault setting

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• Back key bind setting

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• Change slot key bind setting

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• Chat profanity censoring. Community servers can opt out.

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• Alive count UI in Elimination gamemode

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• Store link for paid cosmetics

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• Buy button for paid cosmetics

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• Player emotes

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• Server list type filters

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• Re-enable voice chat

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• More achievements

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• Player XP visible on scoreboard

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• Mostly full controller support

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• Additional language support

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• German

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• Russian

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• Portuguese

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• Japanese

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• Polish

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Changes

• Removed bots from /playerlist command

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• Improved Death Wish achievement unlocking reliability

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• Decreased elimination border shrink speed

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• Infection gamemode team scores now represent the player count of each team

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• Physics objects are effected by low gravity

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• Fly through windows while in respawn free fly

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• Gamemode time/score UI remains visible in death screen

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• Kill feed now uses item icons

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• Improved valley map performance

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• Improved R870 reloading

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• Improved hit markers

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• Improved player/EUC movement on slopes

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• Testing grounds map tweaks

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• Multiple elimination border centers

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• Bot improvements

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• Use other items in their hand slots

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• Use throwables

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• Less likely to get stuck

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• Loose focus on their target when flashed

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Fixes

• Baby Herb was not visible

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• Errors on the server

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• Endless sliding sounds

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• Infection gamemode ended if a player died before the infected were chosen

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• Bot racing AI issues

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• Colliding with physics objects while in respawn free fly

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• Controller camera sensitivity not frame independent

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This weekend April 5th-6th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.9.0

Additions

• Line of sight audio occlusion
• Moderation tools for tracking players connected to servers.
• Moderation tools for blacklisting players from all servers. Community servers can opt out.
• Server property useGlobalBlacklist
• Server property timeoutTime
• Player reporting
• Graphics setting for cavity curvature
• Key bind settings for hand slots
• Key bind settings for opening lobby settings UI
• Tutorial button in main menu play screen
• New lobby settings
• G43 gun item
• L249 gun item
• Smoke grenade item
• Sword melee item
• Point Hold gamemode
• Secrets
  

Changes

• Increased first person camera height
• Improved chat UI visibility
• Improved smoothness of crouching transition
• Improved audio
  - Ship map environment sounds
  - Sliding sounds
  - Air/wind sounds while flying
  - Different footstep sounds (Wood, grass, metal)
• Stopped held items from avoiding walls when aiming
• Improved flag item model
• Flag item is now also a melee weapon
• Improved flash grenade effects
• Reduced Glock recoil V 5 > 2 H 2 > 1
• Lowest max frame rate setting is now `30`
• Improved player HUD
• Hide death UI using the Primary key
• Improved melee item hit registration
• Improved lobby settings UI
• Improved race finish checkpoint
• Improved gamemode images in lobby
• Improved lobby environment
• Tweaked Testing Grounds race course
• Improved bot AI
• Improved gun kickback to include rotation
  

Fixes

• Camera not correctly aligned with axis of rotation
• Footstep audio continued to play when dead
• Spawning inside walls
• Colliding with other players in Race gamemode
• Able to slide while in mid air
• Sliding should feel less jittery
• Able to fly through walls while in respawn free fly
  

This weekend Sept 21th-22th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.8.0

Additions

• Max frame rate setting
• Field of view setting
• Elimination gamemode
• Player scores are saved when disconnected mid-game
• Player stat tracking
  - Head kills
  - Body kills
  - Assists
  - Deaths
  - Games played
  - Games won
  - Flags captured
  - Infections survived
  - Fastest race times
• Item info/stats in the loadout radial UI
• Edge cavity curvature post processing effect
• Tutorial
• Item inspection
• Item cosmetics
• Player cosmetics
• Customize screen in the main menu
• Achievements
  - Good Sportsmanship
  - Death Wish
• Camera shake upon impact when falling from a distance
  

Changes

• Decreased the amount of ready votes required from 100% to >50%
• Improved sliding
• Split scoreboard UI when playing team gamemodes
• Easier to find yourself on the scoreboard
• Improved player spawning system
• Multiple gun stats have changed
• Lighting Improvements
• Tweaked player model
• Tweaked player hitboxes (Head hitbox is smaller)
• Increased max ADS multiplier setting from 1 to 4
• Attachment UI uses icons
• Removed proximity chat
• Decreased ADS speed for all guns
• Improved hand item wall avoidance
  

Fixes

• Issues when reloading a gun while attaching UI is open
• Loadout radial UI remains open after respawning
• Issues with spawn protection for bots
• Players sometimes spawn in the same location or very close together
• Flag picked-up/returned/captured feed messages missing translations
  

This is a smaller update that focused on fixing bugs from v0.7.1 and adding Player hosted lobbies.

Update v0.7.1

Additions

• Proximity voice chat
• Player hosted lobbies
  

Changes

• Main menu play screen UI improvements
  - Server list headers
  - Server list includes player hosted lobbies via Steam
  - Direct join screen to join via lobby ID or IP
  - Host game screen to start player hosted lobby via Steam
• Allow volume settings to be increased to 150%
• Decrease default music volume
• Improve network performance/optimization
• Improved vaulting smoothness
• Slight increase to initial sliding speed
  

Fixes

• Issues with vaulting (Able to infinitely climb walls)
• Camera falls through map on death in lobby map
• Spawn protection not applied on first spawn
• Loadout changes during respawn not applied
• Loading screen animation background not transparent
  

This weekend May 11th-12th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.7.0

Additions

• After respawning players have spawn protection for X seconds or until they attack
• Health text value on health bar
• Death UI
  - Killed by player Steam Icon
  - Killed by player health
• Localization
  - English
  - French
  - Spanish
  - Simplified Chinese
• Network metrics in debug UI
• AI Bots
• Steam friends list rich text Playing in [map name]
• Crosshair improvements
  - Circle crosshair when R870 shotgun equipped
  - Setting to set crosshair color
  - Setting to set crosshair thickness
• Player movement
  - Vaulting
  - Sliding
• Free fly (spectator mode) when respawning
  

Changes

• Space Station map
  - Added details/props
  - Added flat textures
  - Tweaked low audio zones
• Lobby
  - Removed team selection (Was never really used)
  - Tweaked map/mode voting layout
  - Added vote to fill extra player slots with bots
• Allow loadout editing while respawning
• Improve network performance/optimization
• Scoreboard elements are greyed out when a player is not alive
• Movement speed when crouching reduced by 25%
  

Fixes

• Player positions not always synced correctly after respawning
• Players sometimes spawn in the same location
• Scoreboard not scrolling correctly using `page up` & `page down` keys
  

This weekend Aug 19th-20th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.6.2

Additions

• Space Station map (Early prototype)
• Lobby ready up voting to start a game or skip the auto starting timer
• Settings
  - Toggle Aim
  - Toggle Sprint
  - Toggle Crouch
  

Changes

• Race gamemode
  - Player collision is disabled
  - Tweaked remaining game time adjustment when first player finishes
  - Clear items from hands when players finish
• Scoring depends on new XP system
  - Kill = 10 xp
  - Assist = 5 xp
  - Flag capture = 50 xp
  - Team win = 250 xp
  - Race placement = # checkpoints passed + (# total players - # players finished) * 10
• Game auto starting pauses when no players are connected to the server
  

Fixes

• Shooting target dummies with the R870 shotgun created UI hit markers on all clients
  

This weekend July 15th-16th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.6.1

• Steam profile image displayed in the scoreboard
• Player level displayed in the scoreboard
• Electric Unicycle (EUC) movement mode
• Command [code]/euc[/code] to change to EUC movement mode
• Race gamemode
  

• Health pickups are now green
  

• Timeout issues when loading maps
• Rare case where you were unable to re-connect to a server
• Cursor was being disabled when it shouldnt have
  

Welcome to the first playtest of X-Mode on Steam!

This weekend May 6th-7th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!

Update v0.6.0

• Weapon attachment system
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• M4A4
  - Acog sight
  - Iron sight
• AWP
  - Red dot sight
• UMP
  - Iron sight
• R870
  - Red dot sight
• Glock
  - Red dot sight
  

• Game is now launchable through Steam
• Infected gamemode
  - Infected have a random chance of dropping grenades on death
  - Infected are prevented from dropping/grabbing items
• Switching items in your hands will now be more responsive
• Ammo UI will now be more responsive
• End game camera now zooms out to view the entire map
• Default end game time from 10s to 15s
• Valley map terrain is now flat shaded
• Valley map tweaks to add extra cover
• Gun muzzle flashes now emit light
• Flash and frag grenades now emit light when triggering
• Throwables now emit a trail when thrown
• AWP fire animation
• Team score UI is now always visible
• Tweaks to the spawning system to make spawning more distributed
• Player footsteps now emit particles
  

• Timeout issues when loading maps
• Frag grenades did damage through walls
• Player positions sometimes didnt sync correctly