Spectre Divide News

• Based on community feedback, we’ve enabled a basic version of Spectator Mode for Custom Matches to support competitive play.
  
• Spectator Mode is currently in early Beta. You will encounter bugs and known issues.
  
• We don’t intend to make many updates to Spectator Mode right now – most change/feature requests will be queued up for the future.
  
  • Known issues:
    • As a Spectator, your Sponsor Help (F1) menu is blank
      
    • If you start a Custom Match with a Spectator and no Attackers or Defenders, the match will be canceled
      
    • As a Spectator, the Map (M) will only show Sponsor logos for the team you’re actively spectating
      
    • As a Spectator, sometimes a player in the top HUD will show as disconnected when they’re not (reconnecting to the match typically fixes this)
      
    • As a Spectator, at the start of the round, the Minimap will briefly show the player arrows as dots
      
    • The color indicators above the player portraits at the top of the Spectator HUD are incorrect
      
    • Some equipment cooldowns don’t update properly when observing individual players
      
    • The colors used to highlight teams through walls use different color values from the minimap
      
    • Voice-over lines are sometimes incorrectly attributed to the Spectator
      
    • There are some issues with Spectator + Widescreen. For example, if you’re observing a player scoped using a sniper rifle and then you change players, you may be stuck with black borders
      
    • This corrects itself after a short amount of time.
      

• Fixed an issue where spamming Ping repeatedly could cause an unexpected performance drop
  
• Fixed an issue where your camera would sometimes remain stationary when being eliminated by an enemy (instead of showing your 3rd-person death animation)
  
• Fixed an issue where enemy outlines would sometimes look incorrect when overlapping
  
• Fixed an issue where you could not purchase Endorsement tracks for various items
  

• After a patch that requires a client update, you’ll now see End of Match results before being returned to the Press to Play Screen
  
• Various performance optimizations
  

• Fixed a bug where you could become stuck in a reconnect loop if you disconnect during Sponsor Select
  
• Fixed a bug where weapon sights could appear detached when playing with FXAA anti-aliasing enabled
  
• Fixed a bug where you could sometimes see enemies pop into view during a swap
  
• Fixed a bug where certain anti-aliasing settings could cause flickering on the Press to Play Screen
  
• Fixed a few crashes related to older graphics cards
  

Hey everyone!

This week we have a lot of weapon updates and bug fixes. We’re doing our best to continue pushing bug fixes and reducing the amount of bugs that crash or hinder match progress. We’ve also made some optimizations on weapon reloads and equipment animation updates.

• Improved the overall snappiness of weapon draw and holster
  
  • Weapon holster animations can now be skipped when equipping weapons and Sponsor Kit utility
    
  • It should now be easier to understand when a weapon is ready to fire
    
  • Weapons now always play their first-time equip animation when drawn
    
• Weapons now support reload canceling
  
  • Reloads will no longer use checkpoints if canceled with a partially full magazine
    
  • There are still protections to prevent timing-related exploits
    

• Fixed several spots on Commons where the ZEUS wouldn’t reset appropriately
  

• Players who you’ve blocked will now be removed from your Friends List
  
• Various performance optimizations for both CPU & GPU
  

• Fixed an issue where players sometimes received an Online Services Error when logging in
  
• Fixed an issue where Ghostlink’s Partition (Q) could be deployed at the incorrect location in rare cases
  
• Fixed a bug where Alchemist Spray was the wrong texture when used
  
• Fixed a bug where Alchemist Knife’s internal liquid was sometimes misbehaving
  
• Fixed a rare crash related to Surrender
  

Hey everyone- Joe here, Brand Manager for Mountaintop Studios. We’ve got another set of patch notes this week, mainly focused on optimizations, performance improvements, and a few bug fixes. Plus- as a little treat for our players- anyone who logs in to Spectre Divide starting today will receive a special set of free cosmetics!





🎃 Trick or Treat! Give me something good to… wear?? As a thank you to our players, we’re giving everyone four free Halloween-themed cosmetics- including the Bones Outfit- just for logging in to the game. I mean, it’s Halloween—you can’t just run around without a costume!

Starting today, everyone will now have the following in their locker room:

• Bones Outfit
  
• Bones Facepaint
  
• Bones Earrings
  
• Haunted Grenade Spray
  

These cosmetics will be granted to anyone who logs in to Spectre Divide.
💀 There is no planned end date for this positively petrifying promotion! 💀

• Updated to the latest Vivox SDK, which allowed our team to implement minor Voice & Text Chat fixes
  
• Minor optimizations and performance improvements
  
• Optimizations to Bloom’s Hex Barrier visual effects
  
• Server/Client CPU optimizations
  

• Fixed an issue where you could get stuck in a desynchronized state in rare circumstances
  
• Addressed additional instances where you could be kicked for ‘Suspicious Network Activity’
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from picking up weapons when inside a vision blocker (e.g., Bloom’s Swarm Grenade)
  
• Fixed a few rare crashes
  

We have identified the issue and are working on determining the best way to resolve it.

One identified workaround is to:

1. Make sure the Spectre Divide client is closed.
2. Open a Windows Command Prompt (press the Start button, type 'cmd' - choose "run as administrator")
3. In the open Command Prompt window, type the following:

curl https://game.live.spectre.mountaintop.pragmaengine.com/v1/info

Afterwards, you can close the Command Prompt, and try logging into the game.

Note: If you run into any errors running the curl command above, try temporarily disabling your anti-virus and running the command again.

Updates will be light for a little while. We believe the workaround above will let players get in as fast as possible.

Alternatively, we also believe that the issue will resolve itself after the necessary cache expires. We'll continue digging into the issue over the weekend and will provide updates if we have any.

Our apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your support!