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Genre: Shooter, Indie

Mini Royale

Update 0.47.0

Deathmatch

  • Added endgame screen to showcase the top 3 players
  • Added progression to deathmatch - kills and top 5 grant xp
  • Added after game summaries to deathmatch
  • Added new Map Sandbox
  • Deathmatch is now round based (15 mins for now), and after each round the server restarts with a new random map
  • Added medkits, they also drop when you kills someone
  • Removed the instant reload of weapons and heal after a kill
  • Added some logic to the spawn locations instead of just picking randomly
  • Added replays for deathmatch
  • Fixed invincibility effect for spawn protection
  • Added ingame quest progression notifications


Misc

  • Fixed runtime sanctions not applied correctly
  • Added a new sanction “Under Review” that is meant for really suspicious players. Moderators will take a look at that account to decide the action.
  • Added dynamic elements in game summaries
  • Fixed small game summary preview
  • You now see a notification of new items and other collectibles you earned
  • Increased stability & maintainability of bare metal server
  • Only show the pre game text when actually starting the game up
  • Showing better errors when kicked from server due to anti cheat
  • Fixed initial installation of EAC when installing the game
  • Fixed not updating your inventory correctly after leaving the game too quickly
  • Added some controller navigation for certain UI’s
  • Added virtual keyboard support for gamepad
  • Fixed EGS friends list showing invalid steam friends
  • optimized game performance
  • fixed inactive tourney data leading to unexpected results


Weapons

  • Slightly increased the impact of movement based inaccuracy when scoping
  • Increased italian shotgun damage on lower tiers

Hotfix 0.46.1.3 - Deathmatch 24/7

You wished to play deathmatch even outside of playtests - thats now possible!

You can join via the direct deathmatch button or even use the browser to list all servers currently online.

Have fun soldiers!

Hotfix 0.46.1.2

Fixed performance issues for some CPU's

Patch 0.38.0

Twitch Drops

  • You can now link your Mini Royale Account to your Twitch Account. This will be used to grant Twitch Drops.
  • You can see pending drops in the Twitch Overlay (Main Menu bottom right) and claim them there.
  • We will do our first public Drop Campaign for the steam next fest in ~2 Weeks.
  • Crashes
  • Fixed Crash when syncing party data
  • Fixed Crash when server was trying to store replay


Quests

  • Fixed bug where quest progress would not be granted after a game
  • Added season free & premium quests
  • WIP: Worked on the Iron Toy Challenge - which will be X quests you have to do after each other to receive a big reward


Localization

  • We now support the following (beta) languages on Steam & Ingame
    English
    German
    Arabic
    Chinese Simplified
    French
    Italian
    Korean
    Portuguese, Brazilian
    Russian
    Spanish
  • We are still working on getting the fonts ready for ALL languages


Misc

  • Fixed bug in build pipeline that lead to “bigger than needed” updates
  • Fixed bug where an invalid steam avatar would lead to undefined behavior
  • Increased performance for backend communication
  • Added some details & missing cases for all backend transactions (eg granting skins, coins etc)
  • Slightly reduced bullet drop
  • We noticed Player Tickets are broken and are working on restoring that
  • Fixed the color of bullet tracer, trail and impact not correct for other players


Anti Cheat

  • Added server sided Anti Cheat that works by collecting gameplay data and processing it via AI. This will help us not rely on Reports & Replays to catch cheaters. It will NOT auto suspend players, rather mods will get a hint for manual reviews eg “This player may be using Aimbot”
  • Added different complexities for encryption - this increased performance for the game
  • New Themida Version

Patch 0.37.0

Gameplay

  • Slightly increased hip fire inaccuracy
  • Added the moving Train back to the map. It contains a chest with very rare items.


Backend

  • Massively decreased time in matchmaking “waiting for server”
  • Fixed error when leaving a party & not joining a new one


Crash

  • Fixed crash when joining a game and other players were reloading


Matchmaking

  • Decreased time until you actually got a matchmaking ticket (few seconds)


Misc

  • Fixed weapon trail, trace and muzzle flash color
  • Some UI fixes
  • Fixed train sound
  • Added warning when for low disk space as this leads to undefined behavior
  • Slightly improved performance by optimizing compiler options


Anti Cheat

  • Fixed wrong detection
  • Increased encryption
  • New Easy Anti Cheat Version

Patch 0.35.0

Balancing

  • Decreased size of magnum magazine
  • slightly increased hipfire spread
  • slightly increased both shotguns damage
  • slightly increased bullet drop
  • fixed inconsistencies for green & blue weapon rarities of AK


Backend

  • Fixed issue where maintenance check would error due to backend timeout
  • Fixed “Encryption Error” message shown on other errors


Performance

  • Decreased asset loading time, eg when loading into a match (this will lead to a BIG update)


Misc

  • Added command /screenshot that make two screenshots, with and without UI
  • Fixed friend id lookup fail
  • Fixed bug where some replays would be deleted earlier than expected. Replays are now available to download 30 days after the recording
  • Added ability to force client updates
  • Added reasonable error messages to many backend errors
  • Added better texture encoding
  • Increased Proxy Chat quality (16.000 Hz to 24.000 Hz)
  • Fixed mantling for moving objects
  • Fixed some issues for spectating
  • Fixed some issues for replays


Crashes

  • Fixed crash when joining a match
  • Fixed crash when getting local player id
  • Fixed crash from animations


Anti Cheat

  • More encryption
  • New Anti Cheat Version
  • Upgraded dependencies to increase protection

Patch 0.35.0

Reports

  • When you report a player, a moderator will review the footage and may issue a sanction. You will receive a notification if a player you reported is sanctioned within the same category (e.g., Text Chat).
  • Cross-category notifications (e.g., reporting for Text Chat, sanction for Cheating) are not handled.


Party

  • Fixed a bug where the Party Leader would join the game but other party members would not.
  • Updated the way the party is synced to reduce concurrency bugs.
  • The matchmaking status is now fully synced with clients, so they can also see the estimated queueing time, regions, etc.


Localization

  • Added more languages with Machine Translations.
  • The goal is to have all current localizations professionally proofread before early access.
  • Fixed numerous instances of text in-game that were not localized or were localized incorrectly.


Matchmaking

  • Adjusted matchmaking to function effectively even with low player counts.
  • Stress-tested matchmaking and servers with 20,000 virtual players.


Achievements

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Steam Achievements from syncing.
  • If you still don’t receive certain achievements, please contact us.


Map

  • Fixed some buggy areas
  • New Light Build
  • Gameplay
  • Slightly increased bullet drop for all weapons.
  • Increased maximum fall damage from 40 to 60.


Miscellaneous

  • Added chat command /togglewidgets to hide the UI for a specified number of seconds.
  • Fixed a bug where in-game quest progress was tracked incorrectly.
  • Fixed some older UI elements.
  • Updated to a new EOS version.
  • Fixed proxy chat functionality.


Anti-Cheat

  • Improved game encryption.
  • Updated to a new Easy Anti-Cheat version.

Mini Royale - Upcoming Playtest

We are exited to announce a new upcoming playtest!

Start Date: August 16th at 8:00 PM CET
End Date: August 19th at 8:00 AM CET

See you on the battlefield 🪖

Patch 0.34.0

Matchmaking

  • Fixed a bug that caused you to join a game server that was not your target ping range
  • Added a hint for high mmr players that finding a game will take longer. This will get better once we do bigger playtests
  • Fixed a bug that Autofill settings would not be send to the server properly
  • Worked on the party following for matchmaking. If you experience the bug where the leader finds a game but the members do not follow, please gather all logs of the party and share them in the discord.
  • Adjusted matchmaking rules to slowly widen the mmr range


Movement

  • Fixed a bug that would sometimes cancel grappling right after starting (when jumping or falling down)


Localization

  • We started the localization process. This means we added some languages as text with AI translated text. This will be proofread by humans before early access and we will add more languages


Weapons

  • Increased shotgun damage
  • adjusted italian rechamber time
  • Slightly decreased hip fire inaccuracy
  • Reduced compensator impact
  • Adjusted AR damage


Audio

  • We went through all the sounds and tried to match the volume better.
  • The attenuation for player actions has been slightly reduced
  • Bunny Hopping now makes sounds too


Map

  • Fixed a lot of collisions regarding climbing
  • Adjusted some areas of the map
  • Converted dynamic lighting to static where possible and adjusted settings to improve FPS


Misc

  • Fixed a bug that caused the display of an invalid game summary
  • Fixed Playstation 5 controller input
  • Added ability to dynamically set the text when prompted with Old Game Version in case of hotfixes etc
  • Changed the bullet trail particles
  • Fixed a bug that caused negative player count on custom game servers
  • Removed old UI’s
  • Added the origin of quest XP in the game summary
  • Fixed a bug where the loading screen would not show up when the playtest ended
  • Fixed a bug where the bug reporter would not do its job - reporting a bug
  • Added easy access the invite & friend id in the friends overlay
  • Added a Damage per Second measuring soldier to the tutorial
  • Fixed a bug where Auto-Reloading and Rechambering would cancel reviving and other actions


Achievements

  • Worked on a bug affecting the transmission of the achievements to steam. If you did not receive an achievement in steam when you should have, please save the log and contact us


Anti Cheat

  • Improved Game Security

Mini Royale - Upcoming Playtest

We are exited to announce a new upcoming playtest!

Start Date: August 2nd at 8:00 PM CET
End Date: August 5th at 8:00 AM CET

See you on the battlefield 🪖