- Friends system. Use the friends tab on the main menu to find your friends and play with them.
- Spectator mode if you join a full server or game in progress of Battle Royale. If you join a friends server and it is full you will be put in spectator mode. As soon as a free slot opens you will join your friends server.
- Various tweaks to bullet speeds to improve the feel of shooting at people when they are running perpendicular to you. This should make firing at people in the short to medium range feel better.
- Removed the floatiness of the player in the game by increasing the gravity. Parkour can still be done as we increased the jump speed to compensate for the gravity increase. You will now be able to jump a little higher than normal.
- Added top live twitch streamers to bottom of the server menu. It will show the streamers profile pic as well as their nick. If you click on the pic it will take you to their stream. Support the people streaming War Brokers.
- Bots have gotten together and decided they have been a little mean. They have made a pact to us humans that they will be a little kinder. They will no longer head shot us and when emerging from cover they will give us a little extra time to respond before they fire at us. :-)
- 2x scopes on AR, AK use ADS mode now. In BR, 2x, 4x, 6x scopes on AR, AK, Hunting Rifle use ADS mode. The benefit is now you see the gun and shadows on it when moving through shadows.
- Fixed the bottom clipping of the .50 Caliber Sniper.

- New items will be available for St Patrick's Day (starts March 4th, 0;00 and ends March 18th, 0:00)
- Steam version of War Brokers will be on sale for 55% off during the St. Patrick's Day event
- Give turret 7 seconds of vulnerability after a player exits it. No longer can people hop out to save it from a BGM, airstrike, etc
- If you click on your base spawn box you will spawn on the ground with 10 seconds invulnerability instead of parachuting
- Reduced the initial download size of the browser client from 38MB to 28MB
- Fixed .50 Caliber Sniper ammo counts in Battle Royale mode
- Server side optimizations for better performance
- You will be in the top lists only if you played in the past 30 days
- Possible fix for loud noise that happens in the tunnel of the office level

- Fixed fog on Temple, Tomb, and Escape
- Disabled shadows on player in menu
- Fix bug where if level changes when you just join, it will still load the proper level
- If a level fails to download, put user back at main menu instead of empty level
- When you first join a new server, you will have 10 seconds of invulnerability (requires server update, coming soon...)

- New map: Tomb.
- Fixed transparent boxes in Southwest map.
- Fixed nick overflowing leaderboard and wrapping text.
- Tweaked team balancing.
- Improved Elo display to include tenths.
- Fixed Air Strike vs. vehicle.
- Level 3 Heli now has homing missiles.

- Holiday Crates are available starting at ~5PM CST on 12/7/18 and until 6PM CST on 12/31/18.
- Replaced daily rewards with holiday crates.
- Earn one Holiday Crate for every half hour played.
- 12 items in the Holiday Crate.
- After you earn all 12 items (12 crates needed), you will get 25 coins for each crate opened.
- New VSS and .50 Cal Sniper weapons!
- Fixed bug in team balancing after game vote.
- Tweaked weapons values
- AK damage fall off increased.
- Rifle damage increased slightly.
- Rifle max damage falloff reduced slightly.
- RPG damage versus players reduces greatly.
- RPG damage versus vehicles increased.
- SMG damage reduced slightly.
- Homing rocket damage versus players reduced greatly.
- Homing rockets damage versus vehicles increased slightly.
- Miniguns damage increased slightly.
- New VSS gun introduced. Close range sniper.
- New .50 cal sniper introduced. Damages vehicles.
- Grenade damage versus vehicles increased slightly.
- Revolver damage versus vehicles increased slightly.
- Minigun damage versus vehicles increased slightly.
- Any Death Match mode is now 10 minutes long.
- Iron Sight mode in regular gameplay on Pistol, Shotgun, Grenade Launcher, and Minigun.
- Added option to clear all game storage and cookies from support menu.

- New game mode, Vehicle Escort, available on City Point, Desert, and Pacific maps.
- Grenades do not cause damage through vehicles anymore. So you can hide behind a vehicle if a grenade is near.
- Reduced grenade count that a player has from 15 to 7 in regular game mode.
- Fixed floating vehicles that could be seen in the distance on the City Point map.
- Improved Russian translation in help file.
- Improved Spanish game translation courtesy of Gabu.
- No bots on Death Match or Pistol Death Match modes.
- Swedish translation of game courtesy of Sauna.
- Forced SSL to be on for all players, it can be turned off with the checkbox in the server select screen.
- Fixed bug where CJK font would not always be downloaded.

Today marks the first birthday of WarBrokers!

It has been an amazing journey so far. What started out as a browser based 2d top down tank game turned into an amazing FPS built around an equally amazing community. This could not have happened without your support, feedback and positivity. Normally you celebrate a birthday on one day, but we will be celebrating War Brokers' birthday through the end of the year. We plan a series of updates between now and then.

Kicking it off today you will see:

- City Point - Map
- an exciting mix of Escape and Desert style gameplay
- Takeover - Game Mode
- you must raise flags spread around the map while defending already captured flags
- earn points every few seconds for each captured flag
- captured flags provide spawn locations for your team
- available on City Point, Remagen, and Southwest
- Free for all deathmatch - Game Mode
- available on City Point and Escape
- all weapons available for use
- fight it out to see who is the ultimate deathmatcher!
-Cosmetics sale
- limited time cosmetics available for purchase
- Biker Skin
- Cowboy Hat/Face
- Welding Mask

In the next week we will release some screenshots of other levels coming before the end of the year, new weapons, and new cosmetics! Again, thank you for all your support, feedback and love!!!! There is no better gaming community in the world!

War Brokers v225 (going live today 11-15-2018)

- Adjusted aim of War Bots to hit your head less.
- New map, ""City Point"".
- New gameplay mode ""Capture Points"" on ""City Point"", ""Southwest"", and ""Remagen"".
- Free For All Death Match (with all weapons, not just pistols) now available on ""Escape"" and ""City Point"".
- Fixed bug where player's parachute would not close.
- Fixed BGM/Air Strike reloading if you did not die.
- Leaderboard now scrolls.
- New items for sale for a limited time only!
- Cut and paste in chat. Click on battle scroll or chat scroll to copy to clipboard (Steam and https only), use CTRL-V to paste in chat.
- Reverted back to old parachuting in regular game mode.

- Parachute altitude bar in Battle Royale mode
- Continuing to work on ELO system issues
- Stats system records top 10 in every category, improved page coming soon
- Improved map quality in browser version on Pacific level
- WebGL game now has stereo positional audio
- Steam game now has 3D positional audio
- Empty icons for health, BGM, and Air Strike
- Must drag health from inventory to the health quick use slot to equip it
- Fixed bug in display of max people in Battle Royale game
- Fixed bug in positional audio volumes not getting set properly.
- Fixed bomb beep audio ramping.
- Fixed starting weapon showing fists but firing like a gun.
- Potential fix for ""ghost player"" bug.
- Potential fix for getting kicked to main screen during server update.
- Warbots updated to version 0.02 firmware. Each server will have two bots on each team. You can tell a player is a bot if they have a beginning 6 and an ending 6 in their Guest username. In addition the bots will not move through the level.
- War Bots(R) upgraded to firmware version 0.3. You have tormented them for long enough. They kindly stood there and took damage from you but they are done with that. Now they will roam the levels seeking out your coldless heart to get revenge! If the name is ""Guest6XXX6"" it is most likely a War Bot unless someone is trying to be a War Bot(R).
- War Bots(R) will be assigned two to each team unless replaced by a human.
- Continuing to work on the cause of negative ELO scores
- Invisible ghost players should finally be fixed. Please let us know if it is still happening.
- The Parachute bar will not get stuck on.
- Parachute bar will show altitude over ground always now.
- Turned off all other weapons in Pistol Death Match.(edited)
- WarBots (tm) are now in Battle Royale mode. 50 for your killing pleasure...
- Fixed intermittent connection issues to servers with bots.
- Tweaked volumes of sfx in Battle Royale mode.
- Improved pathfinding ability in War Bots in regular mode.
- War Bots are nicknamed ""Guest6XXX6"".
- Removed the ability to choose a nickname when playing as guest to limit abuse.
- Added ability for moderators to moderate players in game.
- Smoother server upgrades, you should always be connected to a new server now and the process should be finally seamless.
- Fixed holes in Escape and Office levels where you could get killed from below.
- Fixed ladder in elevator in Office level where you could get stuck.
- Numerous other bug fixes.
- Pistol bullet speed reduced by 50%, damage fall off increased by 50%.

- Improvements and bug fixes to ELO system/game balancing.
- Don't consume First Aid item in Battle Royale game mode if health of player is already full.
- Don't repair armor item with duct tape if armor is not damaged.
- Disabled punching while parachuting.
- Throttle sfx network data after it attenuates 95%.
- Fixed bug where footsteps were not played going up or down slopes.
- Convert Facebook login to force https.
- Fixed focus of buttons on Battle Royale results screen.
- Made yellow dot 25 bigger because Discord users wanted it that way. Feedback does work! :-)
- Fixed crash in client with too many grenade trails.
- Made chat text 10% smaller.
- Tweaks to formatting and colors in the UI.
- Added countdown timer that is displayed in HUD for when you get your next BGM or Air Strike after using it.
- Fixed bug showing 16 players in Battle Royale mode instead of 60 players.
- Show proper distance to pin when in the plane in Battle Royale mode.
- Show package location and distance on compass.
- Added trails to hands and feet while freefalling in battle royale mode.
- Fixed filtering on inventory items in UI.

- Added parachute controls help message on screen when parachuting.
- Updated the inventory images for weapons, items, and attachments.
- Fixed flickering on the inventory scrollbars in Battle Royale mode.
- Improved the performance of the ping jitter bar graph (press 0 to enable/disable).
- Fixed issue where the Steam ad would get stuck on after the results screen. (WebGL version only)
- Fixed disconnection bug when a server update is pending.
- Push player to a new server if current one is updating at end of round instead of quitting to menu.
- Made yellow dot on the mini-map 50% smaller.
- If you quit a game during results, we turn off the people.
- Pushed plane farther onto red zone in Battle Royale mode so you have more time to decide where to drop.
- Made sure at least 2 areas are in the jump zone for Battle Royale mode so there is more variety of choices when dropping.
- Made sure you have full hit points when entering the plane in Battle Royale mode. This won't stop someone from punching you on the way down though.