I know we have been a little quiet over the summer but it has been that way because we have been working super hard on the new Battle Royale mode. Check out the list of changes for this new build:
- All new Battle Royale Mode! Fight with up to 60 other players on a 9km square map!
- New UI/HUD.
- New lighting for many of the levels.
- New obstacle course (orange blocks) around teh training base starting area of Battle Royale mode.
- Improved crowd control in Battle Royale to try to group more players together.
- Added plastic crash test dummy in football field to kick around. Right click to kick. Hold right kick for stronger kick.
- Added top 6 results to end of Battle Royale. If they leave they do not show in the results.
- Selection of regular War Brokers or War Brokers: Battle Royale when starting
- Fixed reloading of heavy ammo (RPG, Grenade launcher, Mini-gun).
- Tweaking of shotgun damage. Each pellet was reduced from 42 damage to 32 damage. There are 9 pellets in a shotgun blast and head shots do 2x damage. So 576 max damage if all pellets hit the head. 288 max damage if all pellets hit the body. One shot kill if three pellets hit the head and the rest hit the body. The shotgun may be tweaked further after more testing and we look at the data.
- Fix buffer overflow causing 3 servers to restart over the weekend.
- Fixed pressing ENTER to chat. Now you do not have to hit enter twice to get into chat! Rejoice! :-)
- Make red death zone ring taller. Now when you are on a mountain top you can actually see the edge of the red zone.
- Make how to exit the airplane in BR mode clear for new users.
- New Team Balancing - Teams are now balanced by game ELO as opposed to previous matches K/D ratio.
- Numerous other small bug fixes.
New Features coming soon!
Very soon (1-3 weeks) we are going to test some new features for the game.
- 60 player server limit. At first we will try it on Pacific.
- Friends list/squads. Play with 3-4 people together.
- A new game mode:
Squad Death Match: It is your team of 3-4 people against the other squads on the 60 player server.
You can parachute anywhere in the map when you spawn.
You can pickup/drop weapons, bullet proof vests, scopes, etc
This is all experimental and we will be testing it out on Pacific only.
As always we are about pushing the limits on what the game can do and constantly experimenting with gameplay. Every new map we have developed was to try something new (southwest was elevation, Escape was close quarters outdoor battles, Bridge was linear battles). This new game mode will be again trying something new. To support 60 players we will be adding more interiors to buildings on Pacific so you can run inside places like the warehouse, crates, shops, garages, etc
War Brokers v165 (Live 2018-06-08)
- New level The Bridge! Fight to take control of the bridge and kick the enemy team off!
- ELO ratings (view on results screen and in main menu on stats tab)
- Smoothed rotation for other people's characters/vehicles
- Package will highlight again when you can pick it up
- Rocket particle trails match rockets better
Buffed minigun:
- Reload time reduced by 25%.
- Swap time reduced by 25%.
- Run speed increased by ~ 75%
Buffed Hunting rifle:
- Rifle ammo increased to 10
- Firing speed increased from 2.5 bullets per second to 4 bullets a second.
- Reload time reduced by 40%.
- Swap time reduced 10%.
- Vertical recoil reduced 15%
- Horizontal recoil increased 30%
Smoke Grenade:
- Increased ammo count from 5 to 10.
- Accelerating Rockets will now fly faster than the jet.
- Player should face the enemy base when parachuting in
- Fixed bug assigning teams in squad battles
- Fixed 17/16 players from printing
New level called The Bridge coming out very soon!
Lots of close quarters battles and also long range sniper shots!
War Brokers v162 (Live 5:00 PM CST 2018-05-25)
- New vehicle! Jet Planes on Northwest, Southwest, Flooded, and Pacific! Rein terror from the sky!
- Adjust audio on APC. Now it hums even louder!
- Improved stereo panning on PC/Mac/Linux so you can hear the enemy right before they knife you in your back.
- Fixed parachute sound bug.
- Improved larger round mini-map rendering.
- New super large map, press N to zoom to fill screen with entire map.
- Increased purchased nick size to 20 characters.
- Improve mouse sensitivity. We care about the mouse’s feelings.
- Fixed customized keys for helicopter.
- Draw barrier when flying plane or helicopter near edge of map. No more feeling what a bird feels like flying into a window.
- Support for more empty vehicles instead of the previous 3 max. No more shooting your team mate in the knee to get to the last vehicle first.
- Death cam improvements. Admire your lifeless body rag doll across the level.
- Doppler effect for vehicle sounds. Hear the change in pitch right before you get run over!
- Fixed wrong number with smoke grenade weapon switch time. You can now switch to it as quick as the frag grenade. Smoke away!
War Brokers v152
- Updated spawn points and drop off points for Southwest level.
- All control keys based on letters can be remapped now in the settings section.
- Tweaked when new servers open up when other ones are busy. Should make it easier to get into a server during busy times.
- Fixed a bug that would turn fps display on/off when typing in chat.
- Attempt to fix stuttering in latest Firefox 60.
- Fixed self destruct (SHIFT + ENTER).
- Removed Y to chat, only ENTER now.
- Improved performance on Chrome and Safari.
- Fixed slowdown on RUSSIA server.
- Improved death cam when you die.
War Brokers v151 (going live May 4th, 2018)
- New Southwest level
- Improved control of BGM
- Increased the shot speed of the revolver from 1 shot a second to 1.5 shots per second
- Increased the damage of the revolver by 5 hp. Now it is a one head shot, one body shot kill, or three body shot kill.
- Reduced the damage fall off for the revolver by 100%.
- Reduced the the damage of the Hunting Rifle from 125 a bullet to 90 a bullet.
- Increased the shot speed of the Hunting Rifle from 1/1.35 to 1/2.5.
- Increased the bullet speed of the Hunting Rifle by 15%.
- Increased the ammo of the Hunting Rifle from 5 to 7 rounds.
- Increased the the damage fall off for AR/AK rifle at distance by about 50-60%.
- Reduced the speed of the heli/tank machine gun by about 40%.
- Increased the damage fall off for the heli/tank machine gun at distance by about 50-60%.
- Increased the reload time of the APC, heli, and tank guns by 100%.
- Increased the bullet damage of the mini-gun by about 25%.
- Increased the damage of the grenade in the grenade launcher by about 30%.
- Update the scud missile positions more often
- We now turn off unavailable weapons like Air Strike and BGM from the bottom help bar
- Chat can handle much longer messages now
- Added Keyboard configuration of basic movement keys
- Reduced the download size by about 30MB
- Changed color of the text for people with unique nicks
- Grenades fired from the grenade launcher have trails now
- Your previously equippped grenade time is now remembered. So if you had the smoke grenade equipped previously and hit 5 you will pull out the smoke grenade.
- Fixed the missing weapons in the player customization menu when in the server select screen.
- The Air Strike will now hit a highlighted target
- The Air Strike will now not fire if it is not hitting anything i.e. pointing at the sky
- Heli will not rotate while chat is open
- Missiles launch into space and don't float in the sky anymore
- Sniper image on help
- Fixed bug with Unity on Chrome 66 where sound does not play.
- If less than 8 people are playing, include ""Escape"" and ""Office"" in random rotation
- Added server in Beijing, China (it will be slow outside of China)
- Possible fix for logging out of Steam cleanly when game exits on PC
- Human translations for Chinese
- In game ping now registers up to 511ms from 255ms
War Brokers v150 (Available only via USA_BETA server)
To access the beta server hop onto any server. Open the in game chat and type "client testing" without the quotes.
Exit back to the server select screen and now you should see the USA_BETA server. Connect to that server to try the new weapon changes
- New Southwest level. Has three tanks on each side, no APC's and no heli's.
- Improved BGM camera control.
- Increased the damage fall off for AR/AK rifle at distance by about 50-60%.
- Reduced the bullet speed of the heli/tank machine gun by about 40%.
- Increased the damage fall off for the heli/tank machine gun at distance by about 50-60%.
- Increased the bullet damage of the mini-gun by about 25%.
- Increased the damage of the grenade in the grenade launcher by about 30%.
- Increased the reload time of the APC, heli, and tank guns by 100%.
- Increased the damage of the revolver by 5 hp. Now it is a one head shot, one body shot kill, or three body shot kill.
- Increased the shot speed of revolver from 1 a second to 1.5 per second
- Reduced the damage fall off for the revolver by 100%.
- Reduced the damage of the Hunting Rifle from 125 a bullet to 90 a bullet.
- Increased the shot speed of the Hunting Rifle from 1/1.35 to 1/2.5.
- Increased the bullet speed of the Hunting Rifle by 15%.
- Increased the ammo count of the Hunting Rifle from 5 to 7 rounds.
Latest screen shots of new Southwest level
Hi Everyone, here are the latest screenshots of the Southwest level. On this level each side will have three tanks. There are ladders on four of the Buttes surrounding the middle messa.
On top of the mesa there are many paths between the different outposts.
This new level should be going live in about a week along with some weapon balancing for the revolver, mini-gun, grenade launcher, and hunting rifle to make them more useful.
War Brokers v149.2
- Added a bar graph and color coding to the ping jitter display. blue/green is good, yellow is meh, red is bad. You can toggle this display with the 0 key.
