The Other Side of Time (Patch 1.6.0a)

***FEEL FREE TO DISCUSS BUT WE ASK THAT YOU PLEASE DO NOT REPOST THE ABOVE IMAGES AS THEY ARE FOR MAIDEN+ SUBSCRIBERS ONLY AT THIS TIME.***

Greetings everyone! We hope you are all having and amazing week! We wanted to keep you updated on our current and future plans for League of Maidens as we are wrapping up our work for the upcoming 1.5.7a patch. 

Our focus for 1.5.7a was to continue to address several critical issues that have been floating around some so extreme that players could not access the game at all. We have read some posts about the need to focus on other things and wanted to address those concerns. We definitely understand and appreciate the need for players to see new content. We are thankful that we have players that want to continue playing as this isn't a guarantee and we are extremely lucky and again thankful for it. We also understand the frustration of wanting to see new content faster. We'd like to ask for patience as we have multiple tasks to accomplish in order to achieve our goals to A) Carefully screen and hire staff to grow our team size and B) work on mission critical bugs before adding new content to solidify the foundation before adding to it. Issues like players not being able to access the game due to various bugs has been our number one priority in terms of development resources. Our second priority has been to continue our development work to continue the quality of life changes as well as fixing smaller and easier bugs to include in our patches.

We do however understand that seeing various cosmetics updates can be confusing in terms of our work load but rest assured that the staff dedicated to working on cosmetics both free and paid are working in parallel to other staff members working on coding and even level designing.

With that being said I would like to share some news about the most critical issue that we have had difficulty nailing down which turned out to be an engine bug that required a great level of creativity to work around. With that work completed and the individual testing with existing players experiencing the issue which we have also completed we are very excited announce that we have a confirmed fix for the cloud loading issue. For those that have reported the particular issue that has been widely reported know that we are excited to get this fix out in the next patch to allow access to everyone that has encountered this issue. 

We would like to thank @JenoraFeuer, @TitanWarfareTP and @NeoxX / beatdowncore from our Discord. Three amazing Maiden Nation Soldiers that stepped up to help us by providing clean and informative details on the bug, consistent repros and conducted testing for the many builds it took to get the issue fixed. Working in this fashion helped us to significantly speed up the time to resolution. Thank you!

Now on to the fun stuff! We couldn't be happier to share some preliminary photos of our next big content update for League of Maidens currently entitled "The Other Side of Time". Our narrative designer, level designer, 2d concept artists and 3d general artist have all been working together in parallel to our coding development path and we are very happy with their progress. Although it will take sometime to complete this work we look forward to keeping you all up to date on our progress as well as all of the awesomeness that will be in store. 

The champions of the world have been located and all hope has not been lost. As the heroes of tomorrow work to free them from Atonia's grip, a new threat emerges with orders to kill Major Frost putting mankind's future in jeopardy.

Above you will find concept artwork for content to be delivered in our 1.6.0a update entitled The Other Side of Time. This artwork features a new protagonist as well as concept artwork for the base of one of the Stronghold bosses as well as concept art for a mechanized version of the Swarm. Finally you'll find screenshots of two new underground base camps as well as 8 new Stronghold segments for the update. New Maps, Epic Crate cosmetics, Stronghold & World Bosses and associated drops, a replaced and brand new Battle Pass, New Mobs, Skills and more! Exciting!!! In the meantime we will continue to post patches as we update you all on the release of Patch 1.6.0a.

IMPORTANT: Please note that the 1.6.0a patch is NOT the next patch. We are previewing work for a much larger content update that will happen in the future with a currently unannounced date. We will update frequently on our progress and set a date only when we are confident that the patch is ready to deliver. We thank you for your patience in advance.

Last but definitely not least, don't forget to check out the updates and fixes coming in our next 1.5.7 Hotfix with a major fix to several critical bugs listed below.

PLAY LEAGUE OF MAIDENS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/557180/League_of_Maidens/

Join League of Maidens Discord: https://discord.gg/5TU2NX9
Like League of Maidens on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leagueofmaidens
Follow League of Maidens on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/maidengaming_net
Join League of Maidens on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeagueofMaidens

Revision: LoM v1.5.7a
Release Date: TBA
Patch Size: 18 Issues addressed

Review the build/patch/hotfix list below for a detailed list of resolved issues in the associated build/patch/hotfix.

1 - Fixed a bug that would cause Steam users accounts to get out of sync appearing to not show the correct purchases under specific conditions. 

2 - Added the ability for players to Factory Reset their account to wipe local data.

3 - Added the ability for players to Clear Steam Cloud data.

4 - Added a warning notification for players that enabled Streamer mode and run a streaming application while Nudity Everywhere and Nudity for All are enabled.

5 - Improved the warning screen that details if a players account does not meet the minimum requirements. 

6 - Removed a function that blocked users from entering the game if they failed the minimum requirements under certain conditions.

7 - Fixed a bug that caused Force Field to not work correctly with the new blocking logic.

8 - Implemented our more complicated fix for the cloud loading issue which will hopefully resolve the remaining users seeing the issue. For clarity we have found that this is a common issue for games that are playing .mp4 videos using the .H264 codec.

9 - Fixed bug that caused the base damage for all pistol skills to not scale properly when upgrading using the Load Out. This change makes it harder to balance this skill. We've selected a new base and will balance from there.

10 - Fixed a bug that caused textures to move on the body when using Bat Swarm.

11 - Fixed a bug that caused lower end systems to crash when using Bat Swarm.

12 - Fixed a bug that caused the new blocked logic to be applied to Stronghold Bosses.

13 - Fixed a bug that caused Large Projectile to deal more damage than intended.

14 - Fixed a bug that caused skills to not cast under specific conditions. Thanks to @Santiclause for providing this clean repro for us to fix. https://streamable.com/qpjbgo

15 - Removed the 4th Dual pistol attack animation that has players stuck in place for an extended period of time.

16 - Fixed a bug that caused the Dual Pistol reticle to always show as red instead of only being red when hovering over a valid target.

17 - Improved the Dual Pistol reticle to animate similar to the other rifles.

18 - Removed the forced camera zoom for Dual Pistols and all Pistol Skills.