April 2021 Community Update Blog
Hello Gamers™,
Another month is gone already, and with it we saw some pretty major announcements and releases.
We announced 1.10, had our 1.10 CTE, Update 1.9.2 was released, and we are under three weeks away from the full release of 1.10!
Here at NWI we are chugging along, reading through thousands of points of feedback from our Update 1.10 Community Test Environment. We appreciate everyone taking the time to fill out the survey (available here if you haven’t yet), post on Reddit, and/or filling out an in-game bug report.
The new mode, Survival, seems to be a hit, and it plays just perfectly with our new weapons. What’d you think? Let me know in the comments below - we are still taking feedback and iterating. I can say one thing we’ve been looking into is the quantity of suicide bombers in the mode.
What about the new sidearms? The pistol optics? The new map; Citadel? We want to know. I promise to read every comment. Even the mean ones.
The CTE is integral in our development cycle, so thanks again to everyone who partook. If you missed out, don’t worry, we will have another one before the release of 1.11.
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The DAY after our CTE for 1.10 ended we launched our newest minor update - 1.9.2.
The meat of this update is our HD Texture Pack. I’ve seen a lot of screenshots being taken with these higher resolution textures, and they are looking _clean_. Some noticed there was an issue with the texture pack upon release, but we have since pushed a hotfix and we are back to melting GPUs! If you have any great shots, send them my way.
The rest of the update (patch notes available here) was largely focused on small quality of life improvements (looking at you, server browser) and bug fixes.
While these minor updates aren’t super flashy, they go a long way in improving the day-to-day life of our game, and often contain initiatives driven by you as a community.
If there’s something specific you all want, keep posting, and I will see it. That’s not to say it’s guaranteed, but I guarantee I will at least pass on your ideas and we will discuss as a team.
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Eighteen (!!) days until 1.10.
This will be our first major release since December and I am very excited. Like we said in the past we are giving ourselves more time between releases to allow us to focus on polish. While some people are frustrated that they aren’t getting content as often, I think most of us would agree that improving the quality of our releases is an area that needed some improvement.
If you’d like to see what’s coming in 1.10, you can watch our reveal stream here, follow along with our social pages (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter), or call me at home. I won’t give out my number, but if you have it, feel free to call me.
We will also be updating our Operation: Exodus website as things are revealed on social media, so if you prefer to avoid social platforms, just check back regularly to that site.
Our next stream will take place on 1.10 release day, May 18th, at 2:00pm MST on www.twitch.tv/NewWorld. I will be playing some games with the community, so stop by, hang out, and play some games with us.
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The new Community Associate starts Monday, so you’ll likely see them in the Discord or on the subreddit in the coming weeks.
I really hope their online name can not be as easily changed to daddy as mine. Right before I started this job, I knew it was my last chance to change it from fatherHank… we all make mistakes.
We will be creating a community survey in the coming weeks that should be coming out near the end of May.
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[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]We are leading off this month with a super in-depth guide to the weapon upgrades available in Insurgency: Sandstorm (sacrilicious__ on YouTube).
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]Did you do that? Yes you did. You really did it (mestari_tikku on Reddit)
Although it's (sadly) been fixed, I have to shout out the dude who set the entire first act of Shrek as his in-game name.
I just love this shot. Shout out to Electrical-Dealer-74 on Reddit (and ISMC for that matter).Also, shoutout to Gat for the image we used for this post 📸
Next time we chat you’ll be rocking an MR 73, fighting past an ancient amphitheatre, and frantically grabbing random weapons from crates. Honestly, that sounds like a good month to me.
See you all for stream on the 18th
fatherHank