RoVerse Development newsletter #205

Hello everyone! Welcome to the 205th issue of the RoVerse Development Newsletter, where we keep you updated on the progress we've made over the past week.

This week, Idyllic put together two solid early versions of two new gamemodes, getting to the testing phase with a select few members of the community, and a new faction ship has been rigged and is ready to fly.

The two new gamemodes this week were voted on by the community a long time ago - Elimination and Gatecrash. Elimination is your standard last-man-standing wins, where survival is all that matters. As opposed to the Free-for-all gamemode where getting the most kills matters, that is not so in Elimination. Be the last ship alive and you take the pot.

And if two of the last three eliminate each other, the third person wins, as seen in this screenshot from testing.
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There are a few things left to polish off before the gamemode sees full rotation, such as a few targeting bugs for dead players, and dead players end up in a sort of 'paused' state where no other ships move, which doesn't look pretty. We'll tweak that a bit to keep showing the other players fighting it out if you are one of those unfortunate enough to have died.

The other gamemode, Gatecrash, involves flying ships through the opposing team's jumpgate, while also defending your own gate from your opponents. Points are scored by flying your ship through, and bigger ship classes are worth more points. 

This gamemode is a bit better off, with the major effects and coding nearly complete. We're looking at small changes, like coloring or adding waypoints to the jumpgate you're supposed to be flying into, in case you get turned around. We'd also like to make a special map just for this gamemode that is a little smaller and more chaotic, perhaps with 3 teams.

very hypnotic

Some bugs were also fixed this week, particularly the King-of-the-hill Hill mesh interfering with weapon raycasts. You can now shoot freely from within the Hill zone, as well as shoot inward from outside the Hill.
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The House of Akatana has a brand new ship on the line, the Hayabusa III. It is quite agile and fast, and a formidable foe in battle. It was rigged prior to the Community Dogfight, so we got to see first-hand how deadly it could be.

​​The Community Dogfight continued again this week, with members of the community coming together to blast each other out of the sky. Here are a selection of screenshots from the event - send in your own if you have them. Join us next week at 8pm EST and earn double credits for the duration.

​This week, there were 141 kills, 90 with beam, 30 with laser, 9 with auto, 7 with railgun, 5 with plasma, and 0 with torpedo. The most dangerous ship was the Hayabusa III, with 53 kills, followed by the Excalibur with 41. The most dangerous map was Classic with 60 deaths, followed by Pillarum with 41.

And now, the moment you've been waiting for...
The three players that topped the leaderboard were FangABXY, with 53 kills and 14 deaths and a 3.78 KDR; devOmegax with 16 kills, 25 deaths and a .64 KDR; and Phaytox with 
12 kills, 6 deaths, and a 2 KDR. They have unlocked the exclusive ship Stratus Sprite in the Alpha Dogfight. Nice work pilots!

 
​Each week we compile a Q&A section here whenever there are any new questions posted on the RoVerse Community group wall or in the Community Discord Server. Be sure to join if you have any questions about RoVerse:

ROBLOX Group: https://www.roblox.com/My/Groups.aspx?gid=2948290
Discord server: https://discord.gg/npxBGwJ

There were no new questions in the community discord this week, but if you have any we'll be happy to answer them.

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Remember, we are always looking for new, talented builders, scripters and artists! If you’d like to help us you can always get in touch with us through RoVerse_Official on the ROBLOX website, or by contacting an Administrator in the community Discord! Don’t worry, we don’t bite!