RoVerse Development Newsletter #287

Hello everyone! Welcome to the 287th issue of the RoVerse Development Newsletter, where we keep you updated on the progress we've made over the past week.

Up this week were some bug fixes to the Capital Update Beta, a shiny new effect for the deploy button, and further work on the planetary chunk terrain system.

​First up, the deploy button has a shiny new hover animation to really emphasize what that big orange button does. No more confused new players not knowing how to launch their ship into the running gamemode.

Besides a simple new button effect, Idyllic worked on fixing up some broken code, from the radar pinging mechanic, to turret obscuring, to outpost turret health being reduced by half to speed up player-outpost engagements.

On the chunk terrain front, a new planet has been painted, but there are a few bugs to work out in the saving/loading system. Here we have chunks overwriting small parts of existing chunks with air, making the surface very bumpy and unusable. 

 We've narrowed it down to the part that reads whether there is an existing voxel of terrain where the new chunk is trying to write air, which appears to work correctly in most scenarios, but in a few, it doesn't recognize that there is terrain already there.

We will continue investigating this issue and continue on our way with this cool feature.

This week in the dogfight there were 119 kills, 1 with auto, 6 with beam, 7 with laser, 64 with plasma, 7 with railgun, and 34 with torpedo. The most dangerous ship was the SSA3-2_Ritojin_Kai_OH with 64 kills, followed by the VSa1-1_Kazan with 33. The most dangerous map was Pillarum with 80 deaths, followed by Blue_Spaceway with 40.
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And now, the moment you've been waiting for...
The three players that topped the leaderboard were TheUnderseer, with 64 kills and 1 deaths and a 64 KDR; FangABXY with 33 kills, 0 deaths and a N/A KDR; and wegbhap with 11 kills, 0 deaths, and a N/A KDR. They have unlocked the exclusive ship 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 129)

Calexian Community Challenge
​​The challenges are: 10,000,000 Kill Distance, and 100 Outpost Victories

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

Q1: If we have house sigils that are assigned to each player based on their ancestry, can we have them appear on the sides of our ships based on whos flying?

A1: It might be possible to customize ships if we are provided a list of icon ids and a corresponding rank in your Roblox groups, or possibly the possession of a badge. We'll keep you posted.

Q2: In the Juggernaut gamemode, will there only be one capital allowed? Or will we get to choose what capital we play as when we get chosen? Could there be major differences (stat allocations) between capitals that would pose similar differences in capability to that of fighters (per size class)?

A2: Currently, more than one player can be selected as a juggernaut with a 1-10 ratio. They are dropped into a modified Bolitho with better stats, but this could easily change in the future. Stats will definitely play a role in the performance of a juggernaut capital.

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​​​You can support us by joining our Community Group or Discord server! So far, the community has been absolutely amazing, supportive, and very friendly. We are very appreciative of all the support you guys show us!

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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!