Due Process News

Hey folks! We've been blown away by your amazing reaction to the Beta (join here)! It's been a truly incredible experience receiving so much praise and love for the game.

We also received a great deal of very valuable feedback. Based on this feedback, we've been able to determine the following points as our top priorities for the Beta. When all these issues have been addressed, we will move to Early Access.



The number one complaint we've been seeing is overall game performance. People are not getting the FPS they would expect, and with Due Process being a competitive first-person-shooter, this is a serious issue. Our goal is to optimize the game to the point where it runs at consistent 120 FPS on high-end machines.



We have multiple reports of the game crashing in the loading screen. This is obviously a game-breaker and thus must get resolved.



You know what is even worse than crashing out of a match? Not even being able to connect to it! There are various issues with matchmaking, which have to be ironed out.

Additionally we have noticed, that with the removal of the global chat feature, it got really hard to get people to queue up for a Ranked match. We are working on a feature to increase the Ranked-queue population.



Hey folks from the other side of the world! We heard you loud and clear. You are very excited for Due Process. We'll get you some servers near you as fast as possible.



Speaking of servers, sometimes our networking code does not quite work as intended, which can lead to failed hit-registration and similar issues. We'll tinker with it to make it work more reliably.



Every game is better with friends. This is especially true for a game like Due Process that relies so much on teamwork. With that in mind, we want to make it easier for you to not just play with your current friends, but add new ones as well! We'll be making is easier to find and create friends as part of our Beta updates.



When we did our network refactor a few months ago (you can read more about it here), we unfortunately lost a lot of features in our animation controller. This has led to all kinds of issues like animations playing choppy and weapons having no sway when moving. Animations are very important for how the game feels so we want to get them back to the level pre-refactor.



Glass breaking is another feature lost in the network refactor. Since we added decals, this now creates huge visibility problems. So expect glass to break again in the near future.



Sound is very important for a tactical shooter. Reworking and balancing the sound design has been on our todo-list for a while now. Now is the time to act on it.


These are the things we will be working on over the next few weeks. If you have the feeling that we are missing something absolutely critical, please tell us either in our Discord or post a thread on our Subreddit.

Thanks again for the amazing support from you all, please keep it up!

-th_pion

Update 436A is being pushed out for clients. Maps, hit registration, friends list and matchmaking are the primary focus.

==== MAPS ====

• This week we are taking out all of our maps, and replacing them with 20 new ones. All old maps will be removed from rotation. This means less maps in the pool, but also only new maps.
  

==== GAMEPLAY ====

• Windows, the back of the fan, and freezer shelves can now all be shot out. Glass does not break when you walk into it yet. Some other minor objects also break but not many. Shooting out lights is not yet fully implemented so you cannot shoot out lights.
  
• We've changed the way inputs and networking works. Now, you can play the game if you have above 200 ping (before you would just get LAG DETECTED) but you will get some amount of input latency if you are playing outside of 200 ping. This change also majorly affects hit registration, making hit registration much more consistent on players with high ping.
  
• Another change to latency prevents ping spikes from pervading your average ping for 20 seconds, and instead resolves this issue immediately.
  
• Fix for a bug that caused you to erroneously get kicked during Planning. This is a temporary fix where we stopped kicking players who have not yet loaded the map, so in the case that for some reason you actually do not load the map, there might still be an error.
  

==== GECNET ====

• Friends fetching should no longer be blocked by having your friends list set to private!
  
• We've changed how the Join In Progress flow works to reduce the amount of messages that are sent when failing a match join because someone else stole the slot you tried to join. We also don't check already full matches which slightly speeds up matchmaking times.
  
• Ranked min team size is now only 4, so 4v4s can form in ranked
  
• Fix to protect against double queue joins errors when joining a match
  
• Fix for telling players about other people who leave squads inside matches
  

Hotfix 430A is being deployed for an update to the game servers and backend to increase stability of matches.

• A fix to reduce the amount of broken matches in total.
  
• Speed up finding a match in progress.
  
• Hide the unnecessary "You Left" messages.
  
• Users who were getting LAG DETECTED when playing on high ping servers should have a little more buffer to play with.
  
• Fix for clients "double matchmaking" and ending up in two servers.
  
• Number of users in ranked/casual queue is now total users matchmaking and not number ofsquads matchmaking.
  
• Possible fix for dead players walking in place.
  

We are bringing down the servers temporarily to update the game at this time. This update will include a set of new maps to supplement the existing matches and continue with our promise of delivering new maps each week. We are only removing one map that has a lighting error that we deem to be a candidate for removal.

This downtime is expected to last 10-15 minutes.

This was a small technical update sent overnight to improve quality of life in the game by fixing several issues that have shown up after our first day after launch.

• Improvement of player interpolation to reduce amount that players skip or jump around
  
• Improvements to aim interpolation to improve the registration of hits
  
• Reduced performance hit caused by unnecessary simulations other players
  
• Removal of a debug scoreboard that allowed players to change teams
  
• Bug fix for some cases where join in progress would fail