The Front News

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!

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.



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.



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).



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.



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!

[h2]Beacon Maze Design Event is live now![/h2]

Share your Maze designs And tell us what levels have you reached! All participants will have a chance to win a game key for The Front!

[h2]Event details:[/h2]
You can take screenshots or upload Youtube videos of your well-crafted maze designs on various angles, and send them to [Discord Channel] #Maze-design-event https://discord.com/channels/1061915520703668265/1166639673561579570 to enter the event!

No restrictions, no limits, you can do it on any servers you like. And at the end of the event, we will review all the participant’s designs and we will DM the winner via discord to send out the game keys.

[h2]Event time:[/h2]
From Oct 27- Nov 3

[h2]Rewards:[/h2]
1. Team’s Choice [5 winners]
The Samar Studio staff will pick their favourite ones and each winner will get 1 game key.
2. Most popular maze [10 winners]
We will count the amount of single emojis reacted under your post to find out the most popular ones, each winner will get 1 game key.
3. Lucky Participation award [5 winners]
We will collect all the participants of the event and have a lottery. each winner will get 1 game key.

Overall, this is a friendly free-for-all event for all The Front players. We hope you will enjoy seeing each others creativity without taking this too seriously. We will try our best to have a smooth, fair and positive experience for every players. Looking forward to see your maze designs!

It has been two weeks since we launched the game, there are ups and downs but after all, we are really pleased with what we have achieved so far, especially the support we have received from the players! we will keep working on the bugs, feedback and suggestions gathered from all of you guys.

We would like to share some of the awesomeness created by The Front players

Discord Member @Ragvard steam map
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3049636514

Discord Member @Ahrim interactive map
https://tfim.rift.my/map

A series of ‘how to basics’ about The Front made by Discord user @drakonus
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Follower's guide made by @lolparagon
[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0-CMJN0QmU[/previewyoutube]

[h2]Also, a bit of fun and creative from：[/h2]

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]





@gabriel_peter- The Front video/screenshots

@artyom "first, we wait"

@.old_mate "how did u get here buddy?"

@plebtm "slow and steady"

All of these were captured by our awesome discord community here:
If you made something cool and wish to be shared here, please post it under the Discord Channel: The-Front-Moment https://discord.com/channels/1061915520703668265/1160485753055354960

Besides these, during the past two weeks, we have gathered more than 40 videos in our ongoing content creator event. Don’t forget to check them out! Here are some excellent examples we would like to share with you!

[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7N82BPbotQ&t[/previewyoutube]
Attempts on shooting down the BLIMP by VooDooJUJUTV

[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUoOBPmopY [/previewyoutube]
Some high-level players’ day to day routine by Androed

[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gM_u0vWfoM[/previewyoutube]
Brilliant combat footage by Dark Cat Gaming

We encourage you to go to our discord channel https://discord.com/channels/1061915520703668265/1064451657053782056 and help them by adding more emoji reactions.

If you are willing to be a content creator in our discord community, don't miss out the current ongoing content creator event we have announced earlier: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2285150/view/3704831246595344295

And we will have more content creator events coming soon!

In response to the feedback of The Front Early Access, we are sparing no effort to fix the problems and optimize the adjustments, and plan to perform a maintenance of version 1.0.9 update for all Official Servers on 07:00-08:00 October 25 UTC.

In order to provide a better gaming experience, we have made the following updates:


1. Increased the maximum distance allowed from the host when creating a solo/hosted games, the default parameters will be 600, and you can change it.


1. Squad leader's name will be moved to the top of the squad in the member list when the squad leader is transferred.
2. Ground vehicles can be started directly by W and D keys.
3. Optimized the default position order when entering the vehicle.


1. Increased the smoothness of vehicle’s handling under low frame rate.


1. Followers can no longer cause damages to steel and higher level constructions.


[h2]Game related[/h2]
1. Fixed the problem of wrong building ownership after beacon transfer (players who had this problem before the update need to perform the beacon transfer again after the update).
2. Fixed the problem of wrong level requirements of "Woodpecker" AA Rocket Launcher.
3. Fixed the problem that the "Woodpecker" AA Rocket Launcher cannot track the target correctly.
4. Fixed the problem that PVP server characters cannot be harmed under certain circumstances after going offline.
5. Fixed the problem that the Creature Lure may have an abnormal spawn location when receiving supplies.
6. Fixed the problem that the attack direction of helicopters rocket launchers may have a trajectory shift.
7. Fixed the problem that talent [Elite Lumberjack] and [Ore Analyst] might cause some resource gathering related abnormalities.
8. Fixed the some wrong translations of certain items.

[h2]Server/client related[/h2]
1. Fixed the problem that the special effects of vehicle bullets will remain in the scene and cause client lag.
2. Fixed the problem of server save data loss caused by closing the server when the server is not starting correctly.
3. Fixed some known issues that caused the server to crash.