Aug 1, 2018
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Botten Hanna
Yesterday we did some server maintenance that made some players unable to connect to the game. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused, we will all wear the helmet of shame to beg for your forgiveness.


(Bigger image for full shame https://imgur.com/a/Insa9kF )

We just restarted the servers and hope to have the game working in all regions as soon as possible.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Botten Hanna
You just received a notice to update the game, it was us updating the servers to hopefully decrease server crashes! :)


Make sure to restart steam and verify the integrity of the game-files.


More substantial updates to come as soon as the crew is back from summer holidays.




Jul 4, 2018
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Wilnyl.
Added further cheat protection.
First ban wave issued.

Fixed the issue where you would sometimes teleport to ruins when launching from the trucks
Jun 28, 2018
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Botten Hanna
Patch Notes

- The first iteration of anti-cheat (more is coming).
- New region, South America!
- Renamed regions. US_West renamed to NA_West, US_East renamed to NA_East.
- Removed regions US2, EU2 and AS2. They are no longer needed with the new servers.

Please keep questions to the forums or email info@landfall.se as we cannot answer here.

Make sure to restart steam and verify the integrity of the game files, the server may take a few minutes to update.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Wilnyl.
We know cheating is currently a huge issue. Unfortunately this is not the patch that fixes that but we are very close to having a first line of defense that will be going live before the end of the week.


This patch aims to fix the issues a lot of players have been experiencing with the ring.
We’re adding more time to the end game and increasing the amount of bikes and motorcycles in non-main areas. This should give players a bigger chance against the ring even if you don't jump a high action area. Thank you all for the feedback on patch 8!
Please let us know what you think of the new ring speed.

New regions:
-US_West
-US_East
-AU

(South American servers have been ordered and are on the way)

Changes:
-Made the first ring (Not the one that is already moving when you start, the one after that) start quite a bit later.
-Added a bunch of bike and motorcycle spawns to smaller compounds
-Fixed a bunch of audio bugs ("shoot! shoot!")
-Lowered volume of Tripoloski
-Added the names of the two new areas to the map interface
-Fixed issue where the Two Shot would bug out if you put scopes on it.
-Hopefully fixes issue that was causing blurry visuals after the first wall is placed
-Limited amount of parrots that can be thrown per second
-Made it impossible for hackers to spawn parrots on other players.

Performance:
-Optimized inactive cars
-Dead players are now removed after 10 seconds


Please keep questions to the forums or email info@landfall.se as we cannot answer here.

Make sure to restart steam and verify the integrity of the game files, the server may take a few minutes to update.
Jun 16, 2018
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Wilnyl.
-Fixed issue where characters could not propery leave vehicles and would get stretched out
-Fixed issue that was causing motion blur
-Made the rings a bit slower
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Wilnyl.
We are currently migrating servers and therefore EU1,US1 and AS1 will take a bit longer to update.
If they dont work, please try EU2, US2 or AS2 instead.
These might however be somewhat unstable because of the increased load while the main servers are down.

Features:
-Added vehicle: Bike
-Added vehicle: Motorcycle
-Added vehicle: Motorcycle with sidecars
-Added weapon: Rainmaker
-Added weapon: Two Shot
-Added weapon: Inflatable hammer
-Added weapon: Fish
-Added weapon: Smoke rocket launcher
-Added weapon: Taser minigun
-Added weapon: Sniper shotgun
-Added weapon: Winchester shotgun
-Added: III
-Added a tall castle
-Added an outpost near mountain town

Fixes:
-Shields now actually protect you from bullet. Both on your back and in you hand
-Bullets now make a metal sound when hitting shields
-Fixed issue where downed players would not get downed on some clients
-Fixed issue where a teammate sometimes would not be revivable
-Grenades no longer show the message "You downed yourself"
-The final ring will no longer trap you while closing (Probably)
-Made players skydiving super smooth
-Added extrapolation that should help smooth out lagging players
-You will now be thrown off if you attempt to stand on the wall. (Inwards)
-Fixed issue where winchester was one handed
-Fixed invisible walls next to industry
-Most likely fixed dying when entering cars (again)

Changes:
-Double barrel shotgun has been made one handed
-Double barrel shotgun now fires 8 pellets instead of 10
-Single fire Crossbow arrow speed increased
-The first ring is now visible as soon as you start flying on the trucks
-The ring speeds have been tweaked to make the game a bit faster and promote more action.
-The final ring is now a mix between the moving walls and the lava arena.
-Helicopter has been given more mobility.
-Removed a collider that usually made the helicopters tail get stuck
-Doubled cage time of cage grenade
-Reduced knocked down time when landing
-Slightly increased saturation
-Changed color of musket ammo to further distinguish it from shotgun ammo
-Increased the amount of loot in low tier houses


Performance:
-Removed lots of small objects that were heavily impacting performance without adding to the gameplay.
-Testing out GPU instancing for world objects
-Optimized the player character

Shoutout to Joel
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Wilnyl.
Features:
-Added 90 more spawn spots for vehicles. They should be much more common now.
-Added Squad and Solo matchmaking

Changes:
-Decreased time between rings for the last 3 rings.
-Made ring 2 slightly slower.
-Made it so that countdown starts at 40 players instead of 30
-Trying out a new final showdown
-Footsteps volume increased
-Slightly reduced AA12 damage
-Increased AOE of rocket launcher
-Increased reload time of rocket launcher
-Slightly increased damage of rocket launcher
-Reduced zeroing of BAR. Sorry shroud. You should have hit them
-Greatly increased the coolness of the revolver reload animation

Fixes:
-Melee weapons: Fixed issue where hitting static objects would play the hit sound many times and cause too much screen shake.
-Fixed issue where Mossberg shotgun had no spread.
-Greatly improved the vehicle syncing.
-hopefully fixes issue where cars would kill you on entering them

Performance:
-Removed particle effect when pillar slam the ground which were causing lag spikes.


Upcoming things we are working on:
-Vehicle: Bike
-Vehicle: Motorcycle
-Vehicle: Motorcycle with sidecars
-Vehicle: Cardboard box
-Big performance improvements (Should be coming before the end of the week)


Please keep questions to the forums or email info@landfall.se as we cannot answer here.

Make sure to restart steam and verify the integrity of the game files, the server may take a few minutes to update.
Jun 11, 2018
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - Wilnyl.
Changes:
Testing out 50 players per game

Balance:
-Minigun damage slightly decreased

Fixes:
- Squad matchmaking improved, should not split into different servers

Audio Notes:
- Slightly raised volume and tweaked distance settings for player movement
- Sligthly lowered overall gun volumes and tweaked levels between gun types
- Tweaked gun distance settings
- Lowered suppressed sounds
- Raised some explosion distances

Keep questions to the forums or email info@landfall.se.

Make sure to restart steam and verify the integeity of the game files, the server may take a few minutes to update.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

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