Scheduled Maintenance and Patch Notes 12/08/2020

  • 11 / 08 / 2020

Hello, Metal Gladiators

Maintenance is scheduled for August 12th, from 12:00 to 16:00 (UTC+1), to apply an update that brings the 10th Season of the Metal Pass, the Mute Player System, the return of the improved Quick Chat, and more.

Version: 10.00.100

Metal Pass Season 10 – Across the Multiverse

Check out all the rewards on our website.

  • 7 Heavy Metal Models for the following Machines:
    • Dirt Devil
    • Clunker
    • Photon
    • Rampage
    • Stingray
    • Peacemaker
    • Icebringer
  • 12 Emotes
  • 10 Sprays
  • 4 Score Effects
  • 2 Start Line Effects
  • 5 Rebuilding Effects
  • 1 Kill Effect
  • 2 Portraits
  • 1 Machine: Clunker

 

Mute Player System

A new feature has been added to the game, allowing players to mute other players, in two ways: Voice chat and Social interactions.

  • Mute Voice Chat: When this option is activated, only the voice from the blocked player will be muted.
  • Mute Social interactions: When this option is activated, Chat messages, Quick Chat, Emotes and Sprays from the blocked player will no longer appear in the game.
  • All these options can be used at any time during a match, or in the game’s menus.

 

Quick Chat

The Quick Chat has returned to the game, with improved messages, allowing players to communicate in an easy and speedy way.

Press the ALT key (or D-pad’s right button in your gamepad) to activate the chat wheel, move the mouse (or Right Stick in your gamepad) over the desired message, and release ALT to send the message to your Team. As a reminder, only your Team can see the Quick Chat messages – use it in your advantage to win matches!

Chat’s Bad Words Filter

The list of banned words is now active while chatting in the custom match lobby, and during a match. Banned words will be replaced by asterisks.

Narrator Improvements

Several improvements were made to the Narrator, applying better ambience effects to the voices, reducing some long lines, and removing unnecessary lines that may be confusing to some players.

New Voice Chat Platform

The native game Voice Chat platform has been changed to Vivox. This platform greatly improves the quality of voice in the game, without changing any of the current commands.

Custom Match Codes

The copy and paste process for players using Gamepad was improved. Now it’s possible to copy the code from the Chat and paste in the Custom Match menu by pressing the assigned button.

Welcome Screen

When the game starts, the first screen that appears is the welcome screen. Press any button to continue to the main menu.

Champions’ Banners

The Champions’ Totems in the Arenas were updated, and this time there are three banners from the following champion Teams:

  • RMS
  • ROLL
  • NEON

 

Performance Improvements

Several performance improvements were added to the game, especially for computers with lower specifications.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug in the Ranking section of the Metal League menu in which the “See Finals Details” was not appearing.
  • Fixed a bug with Vulture’s soundtrack at the match’s ending screen.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the selection box to disappear in the Emote section on the Inventory, when equipping/unequipping an item.
  • Fixed a bug with the time format in the Metal League menu. Now, all times are displayed in 24h format.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the match time to appear negative in the Spectator menu.
  • Several localization fixes for all languages available.

To share your feedback, please post in our Discord or the General Discussion forum.

Heavy Metal Machines Team