RoVerse Development Newsletter #291

Hello everyone! Welcome to the 291st issue of the RoVerse Development Newsletter, where we keep you updated on the progress we've made over the past week.

This week, we've continued to work on the ship modification menu reprisal. Things are continuing well, with new code being added to fill in the unforeseen gaps in the prior code, and old, buggy systems getting entire remakes to do things in a more logical fashion - for instance, instead of passing a server-requested dictionary through 8 different functions and subfunctions until it is finally used by a bit of code, we're instead just requesting that table in the function that needs it. Before, this table had to be specially delivered because the later functions wouldn't know whether it was the table for Fighters or Capitals until it got there, whereas the newer version will always know exactly which type of ship it's handling at any given time.

This week in the dogfight there were 1138 kills, 21 with auto, 41 with beam, 11 with laser, 282 with plasma, 31 with railgun, and 752 with torpedo. The most dangerous ship was the Silencer with 932 kills, followed by the VSa1-1_Kazan with 155. The most dangerous map was Pillarum with 579 deaths, followed by Blue_Spaceway with 385.
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And now, the moment you've been waiting for...
The three players that topped the leaderboard were tygrys202, with 532 kills and 0 deaths and a N/A KDR; Phaytox with 294 kills, 29 deaths and a 10.13 KDR; and FangABXY with 184 kills, 18 deaths, and a 10.22 KDR. They have unlocked the exclusive ship Stormfront Armaments Centaur 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 133)

Now, for the overall cycle stats!

Pillarum was the most dangerous map, with 926 kills, followed by Blue Spaceway with 616. The top ship was the Silencer, with 1172 kills, followed by the VSa1-1 Kazan with 416, and the Ritojin Kai OH with 205. The top weapon was the Torpedo, with 1214 kills, followed by Plasma with 691, and Auto with 101. Laser marked up to 88, Beam with 71, and Railgun with 48. Overall, 26 pilots participated this cycle and earned at least one kill, while 10 players died at least once. The lowest KDR belongs to The Outpost with a .006 KDR. The dogfight has seen 8,621 visits, with an 83% approval rating (156-30) and 393 favorites.

This cycle there were 1,833 kills total. Topping off this cycle's leaderboard was tygrys202, with 532 kills, 0 deaths, and a NaN KDR. He was followed by FangABXY with 491 kills, 42 deaths, and a 11.69 KDR, and Phaytox with 333 kills, 29 deaths, and 11.48 KDR. These three pilots have unlocked the exclusive Golden Centaur 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 19)

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: Will atmospheres have bullet drop?

A1: An interesting scenario that we hadn't considered just yet. Of course, it would make sense for our physical projectiles to feel the effects of gravity and atmospheric drag, so we'll have to look into how to best make that happen. Might want to avoid shooting straight up until we do.

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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!