RoVerse Development Newsletter #268

Hello everyone! Welcome to the 268th issue of the RoVerse Development Newsletter, where we keep you updated on the progress we've made over the past week.

This week, Idyllic worked on a requested feature for the dogfight: Gamemode Voting. This feature has been requested a few times by the community, and due to Idyllics recent work on UIs and experiments with code, it was finally feasible to attempt.

A simple menu was added to the lobby guis, showing three randomly selected gamemodes and 3 randomly selected maps, and everyone has until 10 seconds remain in Intermission to select which one they'd like to play. Players who played the previous round will be able to vote on the next mode and map they'd like to play on.

We will be adding a countdown timer to show how long you have until voting ends, to make that clearer, but for now the system is live in the Alpha Dogfight. Give it a try today.

And just to verify it works, here is a player voting for KOTH, and the resulting selected mode.

There are still a few bugs when voting ties, but we'll have those worked out in no time.
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This week in the dogfight there were 271 kills, 37 with auto, 13 with beam, 7 with laser, 69 with plasma, 5 with railgun, and 140 with torpedo. The most dangerous ship was the VSa1-1_Kazan with 184 kills, followed by the SSA-3-2_Ritojin_Kai with 24. The most dangerous map was Blue_Spaceway with 137 deaths, followed by The_Great_Hollow with 126.

And now, the moment you've been waiting for...
​The three players that topped the leaderboard were FangABXY, with 154 kills and 14 deaths and a 11 KDR; IdyllicDestroyer with 99 kills, 20 deaths and a 4.95 KDR; and TheUnderseer with 13 kills, 2 deaths, and a 6.5 KDR. They have unlocked the exclusive ship Cosmos Asimov in the Alpha Dogfight. Nice work pilots!

If you'd like to check out the rest of our data, you can find the spreadsheet here: Phase 1 Data (Week 112)

Calexian Community Challenge
​​The challenges are: 6000 Outpost Turrets, and 3000 Non-Torpedo kills

Now, for the overall cycle stats!

The Great Hollow was the most dangerous map, with 806 kills, followed by Pillarum with 798. The top ship was the VSa1-1_Kazan, with 1164 kills, followed by the Excalibur with 280, and the Koguun with 196. The top weapon was the Torpedo, with 1208 kills, followed by Plasma with 382, and Auto with 246. Laser marked up to 219, Railgun with 112, and Beam with 106. Overall, 25 pilots participated this cycle and earned at least one kill, while 31 players died at least once. The lowest KDR belongs to The Outpost with a .06 KDR. The dogfight has seen 8,239 visits, with an 83% approval rating (151-30) and 382 favorites.

This cycle there were 2,273 kills total. Topping off this cycle's leaderboard was FangABXY, with 1123 kills, 38 deaths, and a 29.55 KDR. He was followed by IdyllicDestroyer with 311 kills, 58 deaths, and a 5.36 KDR, and CptJaller with 197 kills, 8 deaths, and 24.62 KDR. These three pilots have unlocked the exclusive Golden Asimov Skin, coming soon to a dogfight near you.

If you'd like to check out the rest of our data, you can find the spreadsheet here: Phase 1 Data (Championship Series 16)

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 questions in the discord this week, if you have anything you'd like explained in more detail ask away in the #dev_questions channel!

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