This week, we’re back online and ready to roll out!

Roll out updates, that is! Ha. We’ve got patches hot on our heels we can’t wait to give you, but more on that in a minute.

Over this past weekend we had to take an emergency global downtime while we investigated, and ultimately resolved, an issue that was affecting many of our players on both PC and PS4 where their currencies would appear as ‘0’ or not get their match rewards. This started manifesting very rarely around late Tuesday-ish and as we continued to diagnose how it was happening became more frequent as the week progressed. It reached a point Friday afternoon where so many were seeing their Credits and GP disappear that we decided to go offline to prevent the experience from worsening.

We brought the servers back online Saturday afternoon and, apart from a very minor hiccup Sunday morning, haven’t had a single report of this since. The entire team wants to give a massive thank to everyone for being patient with us and vocal about what you were and weren’t seeing so we could get this issue resolved as soon as possible. Our next step now is determining the compensation for this downtime.

Everyone who logged in from Monday, January 15th to Monday, January 22nd (0:00 UTC) will be eligible for this compensation. We are still in the process of pulling all the data from the matches during that time and double-checking our math, as we will be rewarding everyone the same values on all platforms. Our process for this is to look at the average number of matches a normal Dreadnought player would play in a day, multiply that out for the entire week, add a lot extra, and then assume you won every single match as the MVP of that game. We’re adding onto that some hearty Elite Status time.

It’s going to take us a little bit of time to churn all this out (not nearly as long as Corporate Takeover did :P), so please bear with us as we generate everything to grant to everyone. Expect a solid timeline for delivery next week.

PC Community Leaderboard

This week we’re taking a look at the 25 players with the highest win rate of the last 30 days.

We will release these leaderboards on a weekly basis, rotating 4 different criteria. Last week, we covered the Kill-Death-Assist ratio, this week it’s the ratio of won games. In the next two weeks we’ll provide you with the top 25 players based on the number of games played and then damage / healing done. After that, we’ll start over with the KDA leaderboard and so on.

Tap/click the image to view it fullscreen.





In The Studio





We’re comin’ in hot on PS4 with our first major patch since launch targeting early next week! The team is finalizing everything for this amazing update featuring everything from PC’s 1.9.1 and more. The wildly popular Zilant is making its console debut, the crosshairs are getting an overhaul to be more clear what exactly you’re aiming at, Havoc mode UI is receiving a facelift, and we’re taking our first steps at dramatically improving the module details with updated stats and descriptions. We’re dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s on the patch notes now and hope to have those out ASAP. Stay tuned!

PC’s game update is slated for just after that, and has a super sick End of Match screen coming with it. Seriously, this thing is bananas.





Maybe I need to lay off the gas, that ‘Energy Used’ value is way above average! There's more tabs detailing your full rewards breakdown and showing off more about your progress that we’ll continue to leak next week. Deejayknight broke the news on secondary loadouts being added as well, which adds a slew of depth and options to any combat you warp in to.





And you’ll soon be able to chat with fellow captains in the Hangar to discuss strategy, coordinate squads, or even talk trash.





Keep your radar tuned to social media and our News section, breakdowns of these features and upcoming balance changes are on the way!

Community Creation of the Week

The community made some awesome stuff this week. First up is this awesome First Look at the Ballista by Wosnot. This channel is full of videos like this for almost every class of ship in the game! If you’re curious what to add to your fleet, check here first.

GingerWizard? More like OrbitWizard! Check out his instagram for a whole suite of amazing snapshots from in-game.





And we can’t leave out ol’ RandoyMaBob with another highlight video of his time in the Vigo!

We’ll continue sharing previews and details on Twitter so give us a follow. Keep supporting all the cool folks streaming Dreadnought, we’re seeing new channels every day and it’s awesome to witness. Be sure to tune in to the Dreadnought subreddit, we’re looking to increase developer activity there soon too. If you're in the Houston area we’d love to see you at our LAN party next weekend, I know Grimmhammer and RandyMaBob will be attending! Until next time captains, keep being excellent to each other.

See you in orbit,

EmptyTuxedo



