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The Front cheater/hacker ban list announcement

Dear Players:

The Front is committed to providing all players with a healthy, fair and safe gaming environment, and takes a zero-tolerance policy against all violations and cheating behaviors. In order to safeguard your gaming experience, we have set up an anti-cheat system to continually monitor behaviors that maliciously undermine fairness within the game (including, but not limited to, the use of third-party cheating software, unauthorized modifications, etc.). As of 2:00 UTC on November 1, 2023, after the verification, we have permanently banned some accounts in our official servers.

We promise to keep cracking down on all illegal cheating behavior, and also call on all players to abide by the rules of the game, thank you for your understanding and support.

We will also release the banning announcement from time to time to inform the punishment results openly and transparently. A healthy and fair game environment needs to be maintained by everyone, and we welcome all players to participate in this long-term action. If you find any abnormal behavior, you are welcome to report it in the game (click ESC - Feedback, or you can give feedback through the official work order system: https://thefront.zohodesk.com/portal/en/home We will verify and deal with it as quickly as possible.

The following is a list of recent banned users, these accounts have been permanently banned from the official servers:

The Front temporary maintenance notice (11/1/2023)

We plan to schedule temporary maintenance work on November 1, between 10:00-11:00 UTC. If we cannot complete the maintenance content within the estimated time, the server opening time will be postponed, thank you for your support!

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%