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Halloween Event - Get Spooky with the New Halloween Helmet!

Happy Halloween!

The Front’s Halloween event is here! This event will begin on October 31, 2023 at 00:00 UTC and last until November 7 at 00:00 UTC.

New Halloween Items

During the Halloween event, players who have received Wave 10 and higher supplies from their Spacetime Beacon will have a chance to obtain different types of Halloween event items from subsequent supply waves. The more waves from which you’ve successfully received supplies, the more supplies you will receive. Halloween event items you receive can still be used after the end of the event.



[h2]Halloween Helmet[/h2]
Don this spooky helmet and cause some mayhem. This helmet does not have any level restrictions.

[h2]Jack-o-Lantern[/h2]
Jack-o-Lanterns come in three different styles, and each glows in a different color. Jack-o-Lanterns can be lit and used to cook food like bonfires, so why not hold a party and celebrate Halloween with your squadmates?

[h2]Coffin[/h2]
This item functions like a sleeping bag, and can be used to respawn after death, much as a vampire would.

[h2]Tombstone[/h2]
This decorative item can be used to spook-ify your surroundings.

[h2]Pumpkin[/h2]
These pumpkins are purely decorative, and don’t have any function beyond making the atmosphere a little more festive.

The Front 1.0.10 patch notes (10/30/2023)

We plan to schedule maintenance work for the version 1.0.10 update on October 30, 2023 between 08:00-09:00 UTC. The opening time might be postponed If the maintenance can not be completed within the estimated time. Thank you for your support.

The following content will be updated in version 1.0.10:

Limited-Time Halloween Event!

1. Event detail: As long as you successfully receive supplies for the 10th wave or higher, you can participate in the event. Every time you receive supplies, you will have a chance to get Halloween rewards; the more waves from which you’ve successfully received supplies, the more rewards you will get.
2. Event time: From 00:00 on October 31 until 00:00 November 7 UTC
3. Halloween Rewards: Halloween Helmets, Jack-o-Lanterns, Coffins, Tombstones, and Pumpkins

How to activate: face your Spacetime Beacon and hold the F key, then choose Receive Supplies.

New Electrical Equipment and Character Talents

1. Expanded Coupler, featuring 10 input ports and 1 output port
2. Expanded Splitter, featuring 1 input port and 10 output ports
3. New character talents, with effects including shortened crafting time, reduced vehicle fuel consumption, reduced material requirements for vehicle repairs, reduced vehicle fall damage, and more.

Adjustments and Optimizations
(quality of life, balance, geometry/models, etc.)
[h2]Quality of life[/h2]
1. No-fly zone alerts will appear while piloting helicopters over restricted areas

[h2]Game balance[/h2]
1. Increased "Annihilator" Sniper Rifle’s damage against human NPCs and animals by 25%
2. Molotov Cocktails now only damage wooden and stone structures
3. "Annihilator" Sniper Rifles are the only firearms that can damage helicopters

[h2]Geometry/models[/h2]
1. Fixed some points on which models could get stuck, crevices, textures, weather, lighting, floating resources, model collisions, and more
2. When vehicle tires are blown out, their models will now appear as damaged

Other

1. Optimized standby performance of some in-game human NPCs

Game and Server Bug Fixes

[h2]Game fixes[/h2]
1. It should no longer be necessary to reactivate followers working at workbenches when servers are restarted
2. Fixed issue in which Logging Trucks could not collect resources from certain trees
3. Fixed issue in which a Territory Flag’s Durability would be shown as 0, but the structure would not be broken
4. Fixed issue in which cables and pipes could not be removed after the total connection spanned a certain distance
5. Fixed issue with Work Clothes Preservation and Combat Clothes Preservation talents
6. Fixed issue that would cause some structures to float in the air
7. Fixed issue in which Spacetime Beacons would spawn an abnormal number of monsters when placed in certain areas
8. Fixed issue in which dropped crates would disappear when blimps were destroyed
9. Fixed known terrain issues
10. Fixed Steel Tri-Floor collision issues
11. Fixed display issue caused by using scopes when the game was set to a high resolution
12. Fixed issue in which characters would not sprint normally when the sprint setting was set to Toggle
13. Fixed inconsistent Stone Foundation 2x2 and Stone Foundation textures

[h2]Server/client fixes[/h2]
1. Fixed some known issues that would cause servers to crash

[h2]Solo/hosted game fixes[/h2]
1. Fixed issue in which Future Supplies would not appear normally
2. Fixed issue in which server hosts could not rescue other players
3. Fixed issue in which server hosts would eat an abnormal amount of food when eating
4. Fixed issue in which loaded ammunition would disappear when server was restarted
5. Fixed issue with firearm and tool model collision
6. Fixed issue in which crops would disappear when server was restarted

As always, we are continuing to optimize the game on a daily basis. Thank you again for your support!

Introducing the Brawl Mode Test Servers!

Are you tired of preparing war assets? Or frustrated by the PVP protection timer?

In order to enhance the current PVP experience in The Front, we plan to open 6 [Brawl Mode Test Servers], you can find these servers by searching [Brawl] in the server list.

Server opening times:

1. 2 ASIA servers on 15:00 Oct 29 UTC Capped on 80
2. 2 EU servers on 15:00 Oct 29 UTC Capped on 80
3. 2 NA servers on 15:00 Oct 29 UTC Capped on 80

Server details:

1. All servers will have a 15 days wipe
2. All space time beacons will not have PVP protection timers
3. All player’s beacon location will be shown in the map
4. There will be PVP items and construction related items sent to players upon each revive
5. 50 slots in the character’s inventory
6. Item stack ratio x2
7. Character experience rate x10
8. Resource gather rate x5
9. Mine shaft, oil well and Fish Basket produce rate x15
10. Supply beacon’s cool down reduced 50%

Streamer Event (10/27)

Greetings streamers!

We're here to announce an event for Kick and Twitch streamers, and you're eligible to sign up for this event as long as you have your own channel and community. To sign up, DM wickthesniper on The Front Discord channel, send a link of your channel, and make sure your Discord account is linked to your stream account (this is mandatory, and for those streamers who have completed the account linking, the sign up time will be recorded as the time you sent the link to wickthesniper), and the event is live at this moment.

Starting from October 28th, 0:00 UTC, every Saturday and Sunday, if you start The Front streaming on your channel, and the stream time reaches 6 hours, you can contact wickthesniper to receive some of The Front Steam game keys as a reward by the following Friday, and the number of keys awarded will be based on the following criteria.

1. 1 game key for 6 hours of live streaming;
2. Separate streams on Saturday and Sunday, and the total stream time has reached 10 hours you will be rewarded by 2 keys;
3. Separate streams on Saturday and Sunday, and the total stream time has reached over 12 hours, average views reaches 20 will grant you 3 keys.

We recommend that the streamers to use the Game Keys for Giveaway or community raffle, of course, you have full controls of the keys you get.

This will be a long-term event, and every weekend (Saturdays and Sundays) will serve as a testing period during the event, and enrolled content creators will need to reach out to wickthesniper by the following Friday to claim their Key.

Don't worry, we'll soon be launching a campaign for streamers who prefers to stream on weekdays. As an early preparation, we will be adding a new set of featured servers for all influencers next week, whice will have higher experience and supplies multipliers, and items in your shortcut bar will not be lost upon death! Stay tuned!

Dev Log 1 (10/30-11/12)

In order to give you a clear understanding of the future of The Front, we have decided to share the latest development plans of the game on a regular basis, including the schedule for fixing known issues, adjusting and optimizing the art/AI/server, and what new content and activities we plan to add in the near future.

At this point, it is important to protect and improve the basics in the game, we are aware that there are still a lot of issues that need to be resolved in the current patch, and the team is focusing on these issues.

For the upcoming week, we will focus on the followings:


1. Regarding solo/hosted games, we will fix the problems of no supply crates, unable to load instances, server admin can not heal players, as well as the problems of loaded ammo disappearing from weapons and crops not being saved after server restart.
2. Fix the problems of terrains and game scenes, such as stuck points, cracks, materials, weather, lighting, resource floating and model collisions.
3. Fix the problem of after selecting "switch" in character advance mode does not take effect.
4. Fix the problem that the indestructible 1 hp territory flags.
5. Fix the problem that the use of explosives may cause the server to crash.
6. Fix the problem of not being able to remove some cables or water pipes.
7. Fix the problem that logging trucks cannot collect some palm trees.
8. Fix the problem that the blimp does not show the loot box sometimes.
9. After server restart, it will no longer be necessary to reactivate the follower in the workbench.
10. Game balance adjustments, including the Annihilator sniper rifle, Molotov Cocktails, helicopters, and so on.
11. Other fixes and optimizations.

The actual update content is subject to the official announcement, and some urgent issues will be included in the update plan after they are resolved.

New game content


Meanwhile, in order to ensure that players can have new experience at different stages, we are following the steps of the established roadmap, and these new game content will be available to you in the next two weeks.

1. Halloween event, which will reward you with limited-time items such as pumpkin helmets, pumpkin lamps, coffins and tombstones.
2. New power-ups, including the Extended Splitter (1 in 10) and Extended Coupler (10 in 1).
3. New character vehicle talents, including shortened manufacturing time, reduced vehicle fuel consumption/maintenance consumption/fall damage and other effects.
4. The buildable Warhammer Base Vehicle, which will be revealed in a live demo video in the near future!
5. New NPC: Flying Soldier, it can carry machine guns in the air to provide fire support for players.
6. Introducing the skin use function, and there will be several new skins, which can be obtained from the steam drop box in the game lobby.
7. Wiki has been added in several new languages, which can be viewed by pressing the [F1] key in the game, making it convenient for novice players to quickly understand the game.
8. NPC performance optimization, including better melee attack animations, tamed NPC will follow the player in a smoother speed. (We have planned to optimize the behavior of NPCs in the upcoming patches, their behavior will no longer be stiff and stagnant, and will have their own characteristics, this work will be carried out for a long time).

Zero tolerance for cheaters/hackers and we will continue to fight against it!


We have a zero tolerance for hackers/cheaters, we have organized an anti-cheat team to follow up all the cheater reports gathered from the players. We have permanently banned more than 300 cheating accounts, and will continue to do the same to all cheaters. The Front is committed to improving the in-game anti-cheat mechanism, to create a fair and healthy gaming environment for everyone.
If you find anything suspicious during the game, you can press [ESC] - [Feedback] to submit, Our customer service team will follow up the report and verify the situation with you.

Your suggestions will influence the future development of the game!


We have created a [suggestion] channel in our Discord for player’s suggestions. If you are dissatisfied with the current situation and want to improve them, or you are looking for support for new features, or if you have your own ideas about the gameplay mode, you are welcome to speak freely here, and we will organize them in real time and answer them with regular replies.

For some of the high-quality suggestions, we will provide specific skins as a thank you gift when the skin feature is launched. Your suggestions are very important to us, and they will be an important reference for the future development of the game.

Lastly, we will be opening up 12 sets of 80-player PVP servers starting on October 27th, UTC at the following times:
1. October 27th, 11:00 UTC, 2 groups of ASIA servers, 80-player PVP
2. October 27, 15:00 UTC, 2 groups of EU servers, 80-player PVP
3. October 28, 1:00 UTC, 2 groups of NA servers, 80 people PVP
4. October 28, 11:00 UTC, 2 groups of ASIA servers, 80 people PVP
5. October 28, 15:00 UTC, 2 groups of EU servers, 80 people PVP
6. October 29, 1:00 UTC, 2 groups of NA servers, 80 people PVP

Thank you again for your support!