2nd patch with no notes..?

[Dodon]

I was quiet about the first one when people said they'd probably "release the notes later" but we still have no idea what was in that patch, and now there's another one with no patch notes dropped with it. I'd really prefer if the devs communicated what they were patching...

And yeah, I know "it's probably just bugfixes and not balance or anything 'important' like that" but believe it or not I'd still like to know when they fix bugs affecting me/others, like when we're finally going to be able to use the Taunts we unlocked.

[Vic Viper]

I can already confirm that:

1- Left taunts are usable.

2- There's a "ding" when you get matched online.

3- Maybe the matchmaking preference got an overhaul, as I got matched 4 times in a row to a city called Manama, which is around North East Africa/South West Asia, despite all my server preferences being European. Manama is about the same distance as US East/Newark for me, and it doesn't appear in the server list. It's weird.

4- Some graphical menu additions in the stage select screen (you can see what characters the players are using). Apparently in casual there's no banning stages anymore, but that's not the case in Doubles at least.

5- The main menu now has both the release main menu theme, and demo main menu theme. The latter just cuts abruptly, then 10 seconds of dead air, then switch. This extends to the character select versions.

[Umbreon™]

Not happy with the lack of public patch notes on steam. They should just post them here, no matter how small they are. I'd even be okay with seeing "Version 1.104612: Fixed a few bugs" and not much else. I just want to see what's going on with the updates. It's really not fun to see an update and scramble around in hype to see what changed, no matter how small, only to find literally nothing and hope to find someone reposting the changes from the official discord of all places.
It's a bad practice that dismisses the average user.

[HighLanderPony]

I'm tired of devs putting their game on Steam but then ignoring everything that goes on here.

They should look around here from time to time.

They should post their notes here, not just as community announcements.

They should let us bug report through here.

They should let us give feedback through here.

What's the point of multiple communication channels if you're just going to cram everyone on to Discord?

[Umbreon™]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

I'm tired of devs putting their game on Steam but then ignoring everything that goes on here.

They should look around here from time to time.

They should post their notes here, not just as community announcements.

They should let us bug report through here.

They should let us give feedback through here.

What's the point of multiple communication channels if you're just going to cram everyone on to Discord?

Man, I really do wish it worked this way. I would love if steam game hubs had a real bug report system of sorts, like real issue threads, instead of a simple subforum that goes unnoticed. Feedback also goes unnoticed most of the time.

The reason devs love to use discord now is because they gain full control of the community, without a middleman (like Steam). Discord allows devs to have diehard fans as their volunteer mods that silence anyone with criticism, either through actual mod abuse or by speaking loud and harshly enough like to bring the ire of the community upon that person and make them feel extremely unwelcome.
Simply put, Discord gives power to those that wish for it. In the case of a feedback channel, it is largely used to minimize the amount of real feedback received, while excusing it as it being "more direct". The worst part about discord is that if you post something a mod or a group of people don't like then you can get your entire account banned if you bring upon the sheer hatred of bad people, without even doing anything bad yourself.
Discord is the end of online communities, as dreadful as that sounds. Reliance on it has degraded the internet massively, for several reasons.

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by Umbreon™:

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Yeah, I'm also tired of Discords often becoming echo chambers.

[Songbird]

There are no patch notes on Discord either, or Aether Studios' website; in general, I haven't seen patch notes get released only on Discord and not Steam, so I'm not sure where all those complaints are coming from. I'm assuming these are all hotfixes rather than proper patches, and they're likely in a state of scrambling for post-launch updates to the extent that no one's been tasked to release hotfix notes.

[2cide]

i will lose my mf mind over this

[Miku Installman]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2217000/view/4545913355788878203?l=english

[Dodon]

Originally posted by Miku Installman:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2217000/view/4545913355788878203?l=english

Well, happy to see it pop up 9 hours later, at least. Hopefully they get into a habit of showing us the patch notes as they drop.

Can no longer quit back to CSS in Casual Singles/Doubles/FFA.
Players now properly suffer the consequences of their actions.

Also really wish this also included "FFA won't kick out the other 3 players when someone quits," but I guess that would require reworking a lot more backend code.

[Umbreon™]

Originally posted by Miku Installman:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2217000/view/4545913355788878203?l=english

thank god they finally posted the notes properly, it eases a lot of my worries about this game's future.
Most games that go discord only for community interactions get pretty messy over time.