Jul 13, 2023
The Anacrusis - notthatwillsmith
Matchmaking into pre-game lobbies has arrived. Here’s how it works:
When you press the Choose Mode button from the home screen, you first have to select the mode you want to play then select whether you want to Find a Game or Start a New Game. If you choose Start a New Game, you’ll be prompted to select an Episode and then you can choose between hosting a public game, which will be available for anyone searching to join, or private games, where you can adjust further settings and play with your friends.
If you choose Find a Game, you’ll first look for available joinable lobbies. If the game doesn’t find a suitable lobby, it will look for a joinable game in-progress. If it doesn’t find a suitable game-in-progress, it will ask you if you’d like to start your own game and take you to the Start a New Game flow. If you set that to public, other players will be able to queue with you.
A couple of notes. When you choose to leave a match or lobby, the game assumes you don’t want to be in that game anymore, so you won’t queue into the lobby you were previously in. If you want . We assume if you leave a match, you don’t want to matchmake into that game again. If you left accidentally, you need to close and re-open the game in order to match back into a previous game.
If you are kicked from a game, you won’t be able to rejoin that game until it’s over. If you kick your for lulz, you’ll have to restart your game. It’s hilarious to threaten to kick your friends, but it’s a pain in the ass for everyone if you actually do it.
Up next in Update 41: Team and character selection are coming! Bots that don’t steal health kits from players!
When you press the Choose Mode button from the home screen, you first have to select the mode you want to play then select whether you want to Find a Game or Start a New Game. If you choose Start a New Game, you’ll be prompted to select an Episode and then you can choose between hosting a public game, which will be available for anyone searching to join, or private games, where you can adjust further settings and play with your friends.
If you choose Find a Game, you’ll first look for available joinable lobbies. If the game doesn’t find a suitable lobby, it will look for a joinable game in-progress. If it doesn’t find a suitable game-in-progress, it will ask you if you’d like to start your own game and take you to the Start a New Game flow. If you set that to public, other players will be able to queue with you.
A couple of notes. When you choose to leave a match or lobby, the game assumes you don’t want to be in that game anymore, so you won’t queue into the lobby you were previously in. If you want . We assume if you leave a match, you don’t want to matchmake into that game again. If you left accidentally, you need to close and re-open the game in order to match back into a previous game.
If you are kicked from a game, you won’t be able to rejoin that game until it’s over. If you kick your for lulz, you’ll have to restart your game. It’s hilarious to threaten to kick your friends, but it’s a pain in the ass for everyone if you actually do it.
Bugs
- Vote kick now works properly in 8-player games. You’re able to see all players in the game and can vote to kick all of them but the host. You can still initiate a vote kick against the host, but it won’t succeed. If it did, it would end the game
- Fixed several bugs related to vote kicking
- Made some adjustments to bot task priority that should help them be better contributors to humanity’s survival
Up next in Update 41: Team and character selection are coming! Bots that don’t steal health kits from players!
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