Character Art (Patreon)

For the Path of the Devoid we commissioned 8 artworks from Juan for each allegiance and character:

• Aegis - Agaman Scavenger
• Corahk - Agaman Heavy
• Devoid - Human Renegade
• Helix - Human Soldier
• Irridyne - Human Recon
• Nova - Agaman Engineer
• Soltec - Human Veteran
• Terra - Agaman Soldier

Here are the first three, with full resolution artwork available here. This art will display on the home screen based on your current allegiance, as well as on the Allegiance Info screen (teased in the Path of the Devoid post).

Development Update
The theme of the last month has been optimisation and less is more. The game now uses less memory and runs twice as fast, with more efficient memory management, multithreading, networking and more.

I also ditched the Epic voice chat servers as they were limited to 16 players and had all sorts of connection issues. VOIP data is now transmitted through the SE servers and successfully passed the Fora Fart Test.

For the past few days I've been rewriting the backend NodeJS API server in C# (because I love C#) and trimming the database from 1.26gb down to 664mb by deleting unused info and storing things in a more compact format. Previously the database had 512k players in it, and 313k of them never played a match!

This backend/database cleanup paves the way for Path of the Devoid and a revamped customisation system. Protons and skin/character costs will be reduced by 100x across the board because small numbers feel more valuable. Weapon skins will cost a bit more and will be unlocked globally rather than per-weapon, which means you can design a skin once and re-use it across all guns.

Crosshairs are now free, which means everyone will get refunded for the crosshairs they bought. I'm also cleaning up duplicate titles and categorising them better, as well as designing a new progression UI that integrates with Path of the Devoid to show everything you can do and unlock in SE.

That's all for now, thank you for supporting us here and I hope you enjoy the coming updates!