WOC Update Log

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Update 5.5 - Balance Patch and Minor Contend Update

Release Date: April 10, 2025 @ 4:30 PM CDT

What’s new:

Weapon Classes
The Following weapon classes have received statistical changes:

Interceptor

Increased the movement speed boost by approximately 15%

Combat Medic

Reduced the angle at which bullets are fired from the point where they originate from the player by approximately 8% and tightened the dispersion.
Increased volume reduction when the player is dead in non-Realistic Battles by 5%

Specials

Punchdown

Reduced the cooldown of the special by approx. 5 seconds

Big Bubbler

Increased shield size by approx. 4%
- The appearance of the bubble when taking damage will be scaled accordingly with the size increase.

Gamemodes
The following gamemodes have received changes to their mechanics:

Frontlines

Achieving kills will now award points to the player’s team, and will take away points for losing members as so.
- When compared to Conquest battles, kills only give 2 points, not 3. 1 point will still be deducted for losing a teammate on either team.

Operations

In Operations, capture points will now become contested.
- This makes it so that Operations is the only non-Realistic mode to have contestable capture points.

Other Changes

Replaced 1 main menu soundtrack.
Increased the quality of one main menu soundtrack.
Replaced 1 soundtrack to play during battles.

Bug Fixes

In non-Realistic Battles, fixed a bug that caused a player’s special to enter the negatives if the special cooldown counter hit 0 while the player was still dead, and would continue to do so when re-spawning unless used the same time as re-spawning.
Fixed a bug causing the AI to not point at the player provided the player was closer than other targets.

This update is focused on making changes to the statistics of certain weapons, game modes, bug fixes, and atmosphere changes.

SirBots

Thanks so much for over 800 views of my game!

SirBots

5.5 is out!

Also, patch notes for an upcoming major content update, with improved organisation!

Update 6.0 - Danger From Above - Major Content Update

Release Date: April 15, 2024

Note, those who have made remixes of the game will now be greatly outdated upon release. It is best to backpack and/or import changed sprites and replace the old ones.

Bug fixes that don’t affect major parts or components of the game will be put into a separate section. Those that do will be under the appropriate category as if it was an actual change to a mechanic

What’s New!

AI

Fixed a bug which caused the AI to not point at the player, but would still shoot at them when they were in the appropriate range
Fixed a bug which caused the Combat Medic to not be factored in to player counts in Realistic battles, resulting in Realistic Battles ending early due to Combat Medics being unaccounted for in the counter. (Enemy team only)

Airstrikes

Added Airstrikes
- These were supposed to release in 5.0, but was pushed back due to more work being needed for proper balancing.
In Non-Realistic Battles, Airstrikes will appear infrequently. You will know if an area is being attacked by a yellow circle. If the circle is spotted, you have exactly 10 seconds to leave the drop zone before you take damage. Up to 8 bombs can drop in the zone.
- In Realistic Battles, these appear less often, but up to 10 can drop.

Maps

The Following maps have received changes:

Arrogone Forest

Changed the arrangement of trees near the C point

Weapon Classes

The following weapon classes have received specification changes:

Assualt

Reduced the angle at which bullets can point when fired from the player’s position by approx. 3% and tightened the dispersion
Increased damage by approx. 8% (32 to 33 damage)

Anchor

Reduced the angle at which bullets can point when fired from the player’s position by approx. 13% and tightened the dispersion

Interceptor

Reduced the angle at which bullets can point when fired from the player’s position by approx. 9% and tightened the dispersion
Increased damage by approx. 18% (21 to 24).

Combat Medic

Reduced the angle at which bullets can point when fired from the player’s position by approx. 11% and tightened the dispersion
Increased the interval between bullets fired by approx. 6% and reduced the rate of fire.

UI

Changed the appearance of the Home Screen when loading the game to a new background which will serve as the promotional art for the update

Other Changes

Removed the delay that occurred when the music for a match ending and the Results Screen music played.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug which, in Non-Realisitc Battles, capture points would cause large amounts of game lag and severe FPS drops when bots from both teams and the player were all on the same capture point
Fixed a bug where, if timed just right, the player could instantly enter a match while transitioning from the home screen to the Main Menu before the Main Menu became visible on screen, and the same when entering the Main Menu from the Match Results screen.

Developer Notes

This update is to add a new mechanic, perform balance changes, change the appearance of maps, and make some key bug fixes

The game’s AI is felt to be one of the major driving forces of making this game entertaining. A good game needs good AI to keep it fun. With the updated targeting system implemented in 4.8, it had some bugs which, frankly, were challenging to fix. This update is to fix 2 issues which caused incorrect counting with a weapon class, and to fix a targeting issue.

The focus of this update is the new Airstrikes. These are to make the game slightly more harder, and gives the player something else to worry about. Given that everyone in Realistic Battles has one life, the rate at which Airstrikes appear in Realistic Battles has been cut by 75%, but is more dangerous as a trade-off.

Lastly some important bug fixes were made.

The next update will be focused on adjusting the targeting system of the AI

SirBots

Update 6.1 - Bug fix and Balance Patch Update:
Release Date: TBA

What’s new:

Airstrikes

Reduced the size of the bombs by approx. 10%
- Because of this change, the rate at which bombs shrink before exploding is reduced.
Increased explosion size by approx. 15%
Bombs now instantly disappear if the come into contact with building walls or roofs, and will not explode.
Reduced the strike area size for bombs to drop in by approx. 8%, and reduced the radius for which bombs can drop within the circle.
The words Airstrike zone have been removed.

UI

The player counter can no longer be pulled up when in not playing in Realistic Battles.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where players killed by Airstrikes would not adjust the player counter in Realistic Battles.
Fixed a bug which caused Airstrikes to still occur even when a match was not in progress
Fixed a bug where the player would get kills from defeated enemy players with airstrikes.

Developer Notes

This update is targeted at balancing certain mechanics, primarily the recently added Airstrikes

Upon preforming battle trials with Airstrikes the day upon release, they were, surprisingly, modestly balanced. The current effect Airstrikes are wanted to attain is to help pick off enemies in large lobbies, albeit not kill players in large amounts, not having the airstrikes almost always not kill any players, and giving players a fair chance to dodge the bombs.

A bug that was noticed, and deemed unfixable, was that each bomb could still damage players before it even explodes. Since they were massive when initially spawned, their size was reduced, and to keep them visible, also reduced the rate at which they shrink. These bombs still explode at the same timings as before.

Furthermore:

To make the bombs more likely to kill at least one player, an explosion size increase was also made.

To further limit the area of effect, and tighten bomb concentration, the area at which bombs can fall has been reduced.

The words indicating what it is have been removed due to possible color conflicts.

To keep with realism, bombs will now disappear and not explode if they are touching a wall or roof, so players can utilize buildings as cover.

SirBots

Additional changes to game version 6.1:

Made so that roofs were still visible in spectator mode and when inside buildings. You can still see inside of them.
- This is so that the bombs can actually detect if they are touching a roof.
The AI will actually shoot into the B point when they get close. They can also attack enemies which are closer to them than the B point.

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Update 7.0 - More Classy Classes Update - Major Content Update

Release date: TBA

What’s New:

Classes

The following weapon classes have been added:

Infantry

The Infantry is a heavyweight variant of the Assault class, trading its excellent close-quarter combat performance and magazine size for excellent damage and accuracy, whilst maintaining some of it’s great versatility. When it calls for, toss those grenades at unsuspecting enemies while hiding in your Big Bubbler as you reload your weapon.

Statistics

Weapon: M1 Garand
- Magazine size: 8
- Reload time: 1.95 seconds
- Rate of fire: 4 rounds per second
- Damage: 39
Sub-weapon: Grenade
Special: Big Bubbler

Apothecary

A guerrilla warrior turned medicine expert, this is also a variant of the Medic class, more so designed to play a complete supportive role unlike the other 2 medic classes. While it’s weapon might not be the best choice for combat, it does pack a huge punch per bullet, and its poison gas should help with large armies. When your team begins to show signs of severe injury, your General’s Vitamins should boost their health regeneration.

Statistics

Weapon: OT-38 Revolver
- Magazine size: 5
- Reload time: 2.2 seconds
- Rate of fire: 2 rounds a second
- Damage: 41
Sub-weapon: Poison Gas
Special Weapon: General Vitamins

The following classes have received changes to their statistics:

Interceptor

Increased the general movement speed by approx. 3%
- The AI will have a 3% increase to movement speed when not actively positioning to shoot.

Marksman

Reduced the time it takes to reload the main weapon by approx. 5% (5.7 from 6 seconds)

Sub-Weapons

The following sub-weapons have received statistical changes:

MedBubble

Increased the radius at which allies can regenerate health by approx. 8% and increased the bubble size.

Grenade

Increased the speed at which the grenade travels by roughly 15% of its initial amount.
Added an explosion sound for when the grenade explodes

Poison Gas

Increased the speed at which the Poison Gas canister travels by roughly 15% of its initial amount

Maps

Added a new map: Port Morsby

AI

For the Enemy AI, removed large amounts of useless or unneeded code to reduce sprite size and improve FPS rates
For the Friends AI, removed large amounts of useless or unneeded code to reduce sprite size and improve FPS rates.

UI

Changed the picture of the main menu’s background to serve as promotional art for the update

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug which caused airstrike bombs to only not explode when spawning on a roof, instead of disappearing like intended
Fixed a bug which caused the AI to glitch when having a certain number of enemies nearby whilst being near the player and the B point
Fixed a bug which caused the results screen to appear when a defeat was issued while the defeat chime played at the end of a match

Dev notes are to be released upon update release. This is the games final update for work with the sequel begins.

SirBots

Update 7.0 Releases Tomorrow!

NotJaldolfYT

@sirbots epic

SirBots

Update 7.0 is out! A smaller update: 7.1, will be focused mostly on balancing, bug fixes, and quality of life changes.

NotJaldolfYT

@sirbots You might need to save the game to a .sb3 file since I think the servers are down right now

SirBots

@notjaldolfyt It’s already saved.