Forts News

Has it been two months already?

Today's update features balancing of Buster. His depleted uranium (DU) projectiles can now be blocked by 3 layers of armour, or 1 layer for Heavy Mortars and Thunderbolt bombs. On the other hand, they are more potent, including some bonus damage to weapons.

The Harpoon and its Decoy ammo have also received some adjustments. The Decoy projectile now doesn't collide with other projectiles, including missiles, but its effective radius is much reduced. It can also be destroyed with Firebeams and manipulated with Magnabeams. The Smoke Bomb is now less hazardous to your health, producing a smoke cloud of only 3 seconds when destroyed.

We've made some quality of life improvements, including better controls of the console and having new lobby popups appear during replays. The options screen can now be accessed from instant replay.

For modders, the ammo system has been extended to some important weapon parameters such as FireDelay and FireStdDev.

There are some important bug fixes such as a join desync, physics destabilisation, and several crashes.

Check out the full change list below.

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Add: 'Block' DamageMultiplier applies to PenetrationDamage, allowing materials to have variable resistance to penetration
Add: TriggerFireEffectForDelay ammo value to prevent fire effect when FireDelay is non-zero (defaults to true)

Balance: (Buster active) DU projectiles continue if they overkill a device
Balance: (Buster active) DU rounds are blocked by 3 layers of armour/door, including the terminating layer
Balance: (Buster active) Increase 20mm DU damage from 0 to 10, weapon damage bonus from 0 to 5
Balance: (Buster active) Increase base DU damage from 36 to 50 (+38%) and weapon damage bonus from 0 to 20
Balance: (Buster active) mortar2 and thunderbolt bomb DU rounds are blocked by 1 layer of armour/door, including the terminating layer
Balance: (Buster active) Reduce thunderbolt bomb DU max distance to match mortar2
Balance: (Buster active) Remove +25% DU damage multiplier to bracing
Balance: (Buster active) Rocket DU maximum travel increased from 400 up to 600 (+50%)
Balance: (Decoy ammo) Reduce energy cost from 2000 to 1500
Balance: (Decoy ammo) Reduce metal cost from 100 to 80
Balance: (Decoy) Decoy projectiles don't collide with other projectiles
Balance: (Decoy) Decrease decoy radius from 2000 to 450 (-77.5%)
Balance: (Decoy) Firebeam instantly destroys Decoy projectiles
Balance: (Decoy) Reduce decoy gravity from 0.25x to 0.15x normal
Balance: (Decoy) Reduce DecoyMinTargetAge from 3 to 2 to compensate for shorter radius
Balance: (Harpoon) Increase build cost from 1200 to 2000 energy (+67%)
Balance: (Harpoon) Increase hitpoints from 90 to 200 to take two sniper rounds (+122%)
Balance: (Smoke Bomb) Reduce smoke effect duration when Smoke Bomb weapon is destroyed from 10s to 3s (-70%)

Fix: (Up & Down 2v2 MS) Asymmetry in terrain near the forts
Fix: AA keeps its doors open if a player joins while the door close is scheduled
Fix: Commander modification of population cap is ineffective
Fix: Crash caused by long strings of periods in the lobby chat
Fix: Crash when control ammunition is used through an environment portal
Fix: Crash when using the mute button during instant replay
Fix: Crash when workshop download completes while waiting in ranked
Fix: Desync when the AI is scheduled to close a door when a player joins
Fix: Invalid camera speed calculated when delta is 0
Fix: Linked portals still operate when one is warming up
Fix: Physics destabilisation in flying forts
Fix: Refire deviation is one sided
Fix: Shields deduct current hitpoints instead of initial hitpoints from projectile penetration damage
Fix: Some info toggle keys don't always work
Fix: Team members/commander in the replay menu can overlap
Fix: Translations for Team and All allow the lobby edit box to exceed its panel
Fix: When CollidesWithProjectiles is false projectiles can't be affected by magnetic fields (set MagneticModifierFriendly = 0 to restore behaviour)

Improve: Added a button to the console to toggle its fullscreen mode
Improve: Added a handle to resize the console
Improve: FireDelay, MinFireSpread, FireSpreadMultiplier, FireStdDev, FireStdDevSpray and FireStdDevAuto work with ammo
Improve: Lobby popups show in replays
Improve: The options screen is available in instant replay

Remove: Debugging during ranked connection
Remove: Obsolete hotkey 'Toggle weapon tags'

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Improve: View doesn't zoom when wheel-scrolling the console

Fix: Crash when chat line buttons scroll off the top of the chat
Fix: Mouse wheel can't always scroll the console

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Fix: Crash in client when host detects that the client has timed out
Fix: Crash when replay files are cleared
Fix: Crash during desync handling while projectiles exist

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Fix: Some players hang during loading due to syncing of featured replays

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Cheers,
EWG

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Congratulations to Folium Viride! Winners of the fourth season of the official Forts Pro League, sponsored by Alienware




EtaN and Dranistian (team Greenleaf veteran) went the distance in a series of heavily contested games against Runner-up Gunners United. (MVP Der Benzinpreisvergleicher and Kriegseule) rallied down 1-3 facing elimination to level the match and force a deciding game 7. And after winning the first game of their Bronze matchup, team GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAT (butterdog and Gengar) were declared the winners when Cannons Winner were disqualified. We apologize for any unsportsmanlike conduct on display.




Der Benzinpreisvergleicher of team Gunners United was named the playoff MVP for their consistently excellent performance throughout the finals.

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[h3]1st Place - $100 in Steam Gift cards[/h3]
$50 to each teammate
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Headset, mouse and pad prizes provided by Alienware

Folium Viride

• EtaN
  
• Dranistian
  

Folium Viride leveraging a howitzer and 20mm combo to excise a core
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[h3]2nd Place - $50 in Steam Gift cards[/h3]
$25 to each teammate

Gunners United

• Der Benzinpreisvergleicher
  
• Kriegseule
  

Gunners United brilliant shotgun setup holding the howitzers at bay
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[h3]3rd Place - $20 in Steam Gift cards[/h3]
$10 to each teammate

GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

• butterdog
  
• Gengar
  

GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAT employing a suspicious strategy in the traditionally meme-filled Bronze match
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[h2]Replays and VODs[/h2]

Replays from the FPL Finals will be available in the Featured tab of the Replays menu in-game and viewable until the next update.

[h3]Playoff Quarterfinals[/h3]
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[h3]Playoff Semifinals[/h3]
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[h3]Playoff Finals[/h3]
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Cheers,
EWG

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[h3]Across the night sky
Atop flaming warheads
Witches screech and cry
Aiming straight for your forehead

Hidden by skull-bags
Ghosts emerge in your face
Bullets miss the old hags
A hole replaces your base
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[h2]Hallowe'en Party Crashers[/h2]
Skullbags, Witchy Warheads, Ghost clouds and Cobweb cladding & cables join the hallowe'en party!
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[h2]Demented Reactor[/h2]
Souls burn for eternity in the demented reactor, unless unleashed if their tomb is destroyed!
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[h2]Blood & Studs[/h2]
It's raining blood in the Cursed Landscape. Which team are you on? Team Gargoyle or Team Skull?
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[h2]Haunted Main Menu[/h2]
Halloween themed front end image!
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[h2]Cursed Landscape* & Corrupted Console**[/h2]
*Cursed landscape replaces 'Canyon' environment set.
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**Haunted HUD replaces 'Default' HUD skin. Toggle theme and HUD on/off in options.
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Wishing you a happy Hallowe'en,
EWG

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Congratulations to klaualles, winner of Season 31. Capping off a stellar year in which they also won FPL S3 (with partner I am myself) and Tournament XXIX. Notching their 3rd Silver is Poolboy, and taking Bronze is another familiar face, I am myself.

While the top 3 places receive Gold, Silver, and Bronze, every player finishing within the top 20 will receive a Season 30 Medal. Congratulations to all medalists as well!

Season 31 trivia:

• Split lives up to its name with the playerbase divided between doubling down on missiles vs instantly selling them off
  
• Overdrive's popularity has surged with the update but OD optimized builds are still in their infancy
  
• While the AA improvements have definitely been felt, a critical mass of mortars still wins matches
  
• 20mm have always been ubiquitous, except now they're winning too, particularly with Hurricane
  

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[h2]1v1 Leaderboard[/h2]

1. klaualles
   
2. Poolboy
   
3. I am myself
   
4. [BOG]#Kriegseule
   
5. Kriegsseule
   
6. Domy
   
7. butterdog
   
8. Timo
   
9. gnituynehc
   
10. [LV20]IIOBELUTEL
    
11. 不当了，我不当高手了
    
12. Not Poolboy
    
13. guy from amongus
    
14. 酪陌泽
    
15. Alesio
    
16. cyrv
    
17. Hier könnte
    
18. Julian sein
    
19. Nokimia
    
20. Nils
    

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[h2]Season 32[/h2]
Season 32 is already underway and will run through November 30th. This season's map pool consists of the following battlefields:

• Abyss
  
• Crevice
  
• Desert Ruins
  
• Hang Time
  
• Moorings
  
• Vanilla
  

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Cheers,
EWG

This update introduces some changes to the chat system. We have decided to give you the tools to deal with those few salty players. There is already an avoidance system, but we have now added the option of muting specific players, including mid-game (press F6 to access this). Also added is an option to receive chat from Steam friends only, for the safety of young commanders.

There's also a bunch of other quality of life improvements. This includes the ability to toggle and enter team-only chat from the lobby prompt rather than the console only. Open lobbies in the lobby selection screen show the currently selected map. A new 'Lock forts' lobby setting allows the host to lock teams independently of players being able to select their own fort. As a bonus, lobby settings are now saved between sessions.

Check out the full change list below!

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Use the buttons to individually choose who you do and don't want to hear from.
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1. You have muted this player
   
2. This player has muted you
   
3. Toggle player context menu
   
4. Mute/un-mute this player
   
5. View this player's Steam profile
   
6. Send a Steam friend request to this player
   

Set global chat mute settings in the Online tab of the Options menu.
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1. Manage the players you have muted and un-muted
   
2. Receive chat messages from Steam friends only, by default
   
3. Receive chat messages from everyone, by default
   

Game information and player list with mute controls.
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1. Information panel showing time, fps, etc. (F8 to toggle)
   
2. Player panel showing connected players, ping, and state (F6 to toggle)
   
3. Mute or un-mute this player (icon shows current state)
   
4. This player has muted you
   

[hr][/hr][h2]Bundle Sale[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41810/Forts__Moonshot_DLC__High_Seas_DLC_Bundle/

Now you can complete your Forts DLC collection with this limited time bundle. Pick up Forts and/or the DLCs for a 20% discount until Monday October 7th and explore the campaigns or take your multiplayer game to the next level with additional arsenal.

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Add: 'Lock forts' lobby setting, independent of 'Lock teams'
Add: New Halloween special theme content
Add: Option in Online tab for receiving chat from friends or everyone, defaulting to friends

Improve: Allow players to be muted mid-game
Improve: Avoidance dialogue also has a mute function
Improve: Display current ban status/duration for players with chat/ranked bans
Improve: Double the width of medal popup rows to mitigate off-screen clipping
Improve: Increase avoidance list max capacity from 20 to 40
Improve: Increase maximum beam reflections/teleportations from 30 to 100
Improve: Lobby settings are saved between sessions
Improve: Mods and maps can't be suggested while a match is in progress
Improve: Remove retired options from the report dialog for offensive behaviour
Improve: Reorganise player buttons into dropdown, show mute status, new actions
Improve: Show current selected map in open and full lobbies
Improve: Team chat works via the lobby chat prompt
Improve: Tooltip on lobby host icon

Fix: (Co-op on Elimination) No invitation to select another fort if last Shockenaugh barrel is destroyed by last reactor
Fix: (Orbital Laser) Clearance test rays pass through open doors
Fix: Chinese characters in usernames cut off on loading screen
Fix: Crash or heap corruption when mods delete controls in response to button presses
Fix: Crash rolling over upgrade menu in context menu when dlc2_ammunition table is empty
Fix: Crash when ammo is missing at time of firing
Fix: Crash when connecting more than 40 struts to a joint
Fix: Desync when Co-op on Elimination is used immediately after a player starts joining
Fix: Devices with % in the SaveName fail to save, causing desyncs
Fix: Dropdown misplaced on observer HUD customisation screen
Fix: Fort selection panels can be misplaced on some maps
Fix: Graphical pause button on HUD doesn't work in map editor
Fix: Ground devices can't be selected while one is previewed for construction
Fix: Howitzer shells of opposite sides don't collide within 0.5s of being shot
Fix: Lobby menu skin doesn't update after change in the Options screen
Fix: Map editor is unable to create separate structures with the same tech devices
Fix: 'Mute chat' button can overlap edge of console in some languages
Fix: Players are notified of being kicked via popup message
Fix: Players can be allocated to forts on the other side when using fort selection
Fix: Randomize teams crashes fort select
Fix: 'Set refresh rate' in Options gets out of sync when clicking it quickly
Fix: Simplified Chinese tooltips and first list items are cut off at the top
Fix: Slow fort select screen refresh when TDM + AI mode is selected
Fix: Special themes are active while using the map editor, showing in preview screenshots
Fix: Storage can remain when a device being moved is destroyed
Fix: Tool tips show over lobby dialogs
Fix: Video recording is cut short with OpenGL
Fix: Wind efficiency arcs and weapon firing arcs are not shown when extruding as opposed to single strut preview

[h2]Change List dlc2 35 r17507[/h2]

Improve: Ignore existing Receive Chat setting, change default to Everyone

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[h2]Make Sure To Join Our Discord[/h2]

If you haven't already, join our Forts Official Discord server to connect with other players, share strategies, create maps/mods, and receive advance notice of upcoming events.

Cheers,
EWG