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back date: 10/27/23 news

Dev Log 1 (10/30-11/12)

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.

For the upcoming week, we will focus on the followings:

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 part of the terrain in the scene, such as stuck points, cracks, materials, weather, lighting, resource floating and model collisions.

3. Repair the problem of after selecting "switch" in character advance mode does not take effect.

4. Repair the problem that the indestructible 1 hp territory flags.

5. Repair the problem that the use of individual explosives may cause the server to crash.

6. Repair the problem of not being able to remove some cables or water pipes.

7. Repair 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.


New game content

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).

 

Zero tolerance for cheaters/hackers and we will continue to fight against it!

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.
 

Your suggestions will influence the future development of the game!

We have created a [suggestion] channel https://discord.com/channels/1061915520703668265/1163414955358425138 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!

 

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