Hello! The previous month has been rather eventful for us, @Cptnight00 has been busy with moving to a new house, @Ellie was working on her master’s and I had to take an urgent medical trip to Germany!

Despite that I’m happy to report we have been making progress on both the game and something new for Discord!

The Crouch & Prone mechanic

@Encodic has been an absolute GOAT and worked hard on finalising the code for the Crouch & Prone mechanic. In terms of gameplay, it’s pretty much done and has been implemented in to the game. There’s really not much to say about this, so I’ll let @Encodic’s videos do the explaining:‘

Discord Bot

In the light of our recent community growth (once again, thank you all for joining and helping us reach over 1000 community members ❤️) @Ellie has been developing our own Discord bot! After carefully considering a wide range of free and paid discord bots we realised none of them offer the flexibility and granularity we need to help us manage our growing community.

The first set of features that’s being worked on will help us track our community growth, flag suspicious accounts, and let us see deleted and edited messages to ensure somebody doesn’t try to hide their bad actions in order to avoid scrutiny for misbeheaving.

Additionally we are planning to program special filters in to it that will help automatically block spam, advertising and raid attempts while giving us full control on how these situations should be handled on an individual case by case basis. That way we can avoid the situations where the bot is too aggressive when it comes to filtering as well as allow trusted community members to be exempt from some filters (for example somebody posting an invite to their Warbound discord clan won’t be filtered, but that attractive blonde in your area inviting you to her OnlyFans server will get booted off instantly.)

Furthermore, later in development of the bot we will code specific tools for our moderators that will help them issue issue warnings and automatically track misbehaving community members while allowing everybody a chance to be forgiven for their previous actions if enough time has passed.

We will not describe the last system in detail in order to avoid misuse, but do know that the main intent is to treat everybody fairly and equally.

What’s coming next?

• Finalising animation code
• Weapon Equipping and Unequipping
• Shooting mechanics
• Development of our first FPS map

That’s about it for this month! I’m delighted to see some familiar faces from H&G joining us recently, big thanks to everyone for joining us on our adventure! I have some veeeery exciting documentation backlog to do and I’ll see you here in the next month’s devlog. In the meantime feel free to ask us anything (game-related) in # |questions and chat with us in # |general! We have also added an option to opt-in to @Devstream Announcements which you can do by clicking on Channels & roles. Do tell us what other roles (cosmetic or functional) would you like us to add!