Watch the Last Year Devs play & share their protips - TONIGHT on Twitch from 7-9pm EST. http://twitch.tv/LastYearGame

PLUS if you share a clip from the stream on Twitter with the hashtag #LastYearGame and follow @LastYearGame, you’ll be automatically entered to win TWO Steam keys for Last Year: Afterdark; one for you & one for a friend!

Enter by Sunday December 15th at 3:00am EST. Winners will be selected on Monday December 16th, 2019 at 9am EST.

Come join us for a Friday the 13th Dev Stream of Last Year: Afterdark!

Come watch the Last Year Devs play & share their protips - TONIGHT on Twitch from 7-9pm EST. http://twitch.tv/LastYearGame

Want the chance to WIN a copy of the game for you & a friend?
Share a clip from the stream on Twitter with the hashtag #LastYearGame and follow @LastYearGame, to be automatically entered to win TWO Steam keys for Last Year: Afterdark!

Enter by Sunday December 15th at 3:00am EST. Winners will be selected on Monday December 16th, 2019 at 9am EST.

I bring you more news from the Dev team & Brother Justin!

Greetings Brothers and Sisters!

We’ve just pushed another update to improve matchmaking. You should restart your Steam client to ensure the update is working. We’ve optimized the fix that went out yesterday, and the community should be seeing even quicker matchmaking results, as well as fewer “hangs” or long loading time for entering lobbies.

There are two known issues with this update that we're currently looking at:

• Canceling and restarting your lobby searches in rapid succession could cause the game to crash.
  
• If you are in a party and are experiencing long load times into a lobby (especially when your party-mates are not), you may be stuck in a hang. The only solution is to quit the title and restart.

We’re diligently observing and listening to the community and are committed to improving the Last Year experience. However, the kind of issues we’re facing right now are only discoverable and testable when tons and tons of people test the system simultaneously. Our Dev and QA teams are small, and are doing everything to ensure the fixes we’re pushing out work, but it’s only once the community engages with the title that we can be 100% sure the issues are fixed.

As such, we ask for your help, support, and patience as we work through these issues. Your support has always been what makes this game and community special, and this is even more important now that we’re on Steam. Every issue we identify and tackle together takes us all one step closer to having the best possible Last Year experience.

We’re prioritizing matchmaking for now, as this is the most important issue: making sure players get into the game.

However, we have identified other concerns from the community, and will be tackling them in the following order over the next few days and weeks:
- Matchmaking
- Optimization/Performance
- Balancing
- Bug Fixes

We’re going to keep communicating with all of you to ensure you’re up to date on all the latest progress.

As always, we thank you for your love, support, and faith in our team.

Sincerely,

Brother Justin

I bring good tidings from the Dev team!

Greetings, Brothers and Sisters!

We are happy to announce that Last Year Patch 1.0.5 is up!

With Patch 1.0.5, we’ve made two major changes to improve your Last Year experience:

1- Matchmaking: We’ve increased the range of available parties, ensuring that players will be able to join more available lobbies than before. Additionally, we’re prioritizing fuller lobbies first, which means that lobbies will fill up to completion before beginning to populate another. This should result in quicker matchmaking and more matches for everyone!

2- VOIP: We’re adding our V1 version of VOIP. This will allow players to enable VOIP in the Audio Settings, allowing them to communicate directly to other players in their match. There is also an option to Mute players in both the “Tab” and “Esc,” in case you’re stuck with a screamer.

There are two known issues with V1 of VOIP:
- Fiends will be able to hear/speak to Classmates
- It will not function if the user unplugs and replugs while in the application, or if they plug their mic in after entering party/lobby/match.

If you do not see the prompt to update, you may need to restart your Steam client.

We thank you for supporting Last Year, and your patience while we worked to resolve these issues! This is but the first in improvements to the game to come.

Sincerely,
Brother Justin

Hey everyone! We've identified the causes of game issues that some players are having, and are working on fixes.

1. Amazon Game Services is our backend, and it's currently blocking more users from playing together. We've reached out to Amazon Game Services about this, and they've assured us they're working on increasing the number to accommodate our community. This should resolve some of the long load times.
   
2. Once this is done, we'll be able to create a patch for the matchmaking issues. We'll be finessing the lobby prioritization to account for both region and current size of lobby, so people should be placed in closer lobbies with more players in them first. This should resolve the matchmaking concerns we've seen.

We're hoping to have this resolved today, ASAP, but are currently blocked until the issue is resolved on Amazon's side. We appreciate the patience you're showing, and will keep you updated on progress throughout the day.

Thank you!

Thank you all so much for participating in our launch yesterday! We're blessed to have such an active and engaged community.

We're aware of the matchmaking issues many of you are experiencing at the moment, and we are working on turning around a fix today.

We appreciate your patience in this matter, and will continue to update the community as to our progress.

Stay tuned for further updates!

In the meantime, one of our community members, @Pappus, has found a temporary workaround that should alleviate some of the issue until the fix is in place:

Open your steam settings and go to downloads.

• If you are near the US, select US - New York.
  
  
• If you are near Europe, select UK - London.
  
  
• If the problem persists, keep cancelling the search and re-queue.

Thank you! We're working on a permanent solution ASAP.

Find them all on https://giphy.com/channel/LastYear!

We're excited to announce that Ohmwrecker/Maskedgamer, the master of multiplayers,
has your EXCLUSIVE sneak preview of the newest Chapter in the Last Year Universe…
LAST YEAR: AFTERDARK.



Last Year: Afterdark is launching on Steam December 10th, 2019.
Wishlist NOW and be first to know when it drops: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1195460/Last_Year/?snr=1_7_7_popularcomingsoon_150_1

The Last Year team is holding another AMA on Friday December 6th, 2019 from 3-4pm EST to answer questions submitted by the Discord community!


Join us on Discord this Friday at 3pm ET to find out more about the upcoming launch of Last Year: Afterdark: http://store.steampowered.com

.✫*ﾟ･ﾟ｡.☆.*｡･ﾟ✫*. WISHLIST NOW .✫*ﾟ･ﾟ｡.☆.*｡･ﾟ✫*.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1195460/Last_Year/

Did you miss our AMA with the Last Year Devs on November 27th, 2019? No problem!

Check out the entire Q&A on our Discord server in #lastyear-dev-ama-nov27
https://discordapp.com/invite/lastyearofficial
(just click on "Pinned Items" to jump to the start of the AMA!)