This time, we’re starting something new!



The weekly Community Update aims to give captains a summary of what’s going on in the world of Dreadnought, both in-game and out. We’ll be highlighting everything from awesome player activity to when you can expect new updates to the most important issues in-game. So let's get started!

The Meridian Wars, a first-ever competition of which side of the world is better at Dreadnought, is live now and running throughout the weekend. If you haven’t already jumped in and thrown your support behind your region, they need your help (Red Team especially)! Huge shout-out to everyone already participating. We at home are loving the constant back-and-forth going on, and also gaining some pretty spectacular data as we prepare the special community rewards for a bigger and better in-game event coming soon!

For the PC players out there, last week you probably noticed we patched Dreadnought to 1.9.1 and introduced a ton of balance improvements to Tier-III, an update to the in-game reticule, and separated Score from XP gain. That last item, however, didn’t exactly work properly right out of the gate. Mike Donatelli provided an update on the situation and the game was patched to restore proper XP gains last Friday. While this is a constant balancing act, we feel pretty comfortable about the progression speed now and would love to hear your thoughts!

Dreadnought is packing it’s dancing shoes and heading to TwitchCon 2017! If you, like me, are stuck at home be sure to tune in at 7:30pm PDT (2:30am UTC) and check out BadNewsBaron talk shop with Mike on what the horizon of the game holds for us. If you’re at TwitchCon, come say hi!





In The Studio

game updates &

game updates &

game updates.

Item number one is hot off the presses for PlayStation 4 players: we will be pushing an update on Tuesday morning that will introduce the long-awaited Battle Bonus, Onslaught Mode, new Career Progression, and so much more! Keep that radar tuned to our Twitter page for updates on exact maintenance times leading up to this patch. We are likely going to have a two-part maintenance; first taking the game servers down for a few hours on Monday the 23rd to update our back-end infrastructure, then again for the game update on the 24th.

On the PC side, our team is hard at work on the spicy meatball that is Game Update 1.9.5, planned for next month. Here’s a preview of what you can expect: 4-man Squads, an increase in XP for Hero Ships, continued improvements to the Orbit screen, and the option to show Damage Numbers! We will have more details on these features and more in the coming weeks.

Speaking of awesome features coming soon, we updated the Dev Roadmap again. The developers both at Six Foot and YAGER are hard at work on improving the End of Match screen, making modules great again, a new way to unlock ships, and more. We have all the juicy details on their progress here!

A new hero ship, the Zilant, will be making an appearance soon and will be a Tier-II Medium Dreadnought. This is the first release of a Tier-II hero ship into the Market and will show how the pricing per tier experience plays out. We're continuing to look at different classes and sub-classes, not just tiers, when making awesome new ships that fit nicely with the game's progression.

Troubleshootin’

Here, we give the mic to our friendly neighborhood Customer Support team so they can inform us of any critical info; nasty known issues, common workarounds and fixes, hot topics, etc. This week they wanted to remind everyone of the Minimum Specs for playing the game on PC. We updated them recently:

Minimum

Recommended

Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz or AMD FX 6300 3.5 GHz - AMD APU A10-7890K 4.1 GHzNVIDIA 750 Ti 1GB or AMD Radeon 7850 1GBHDD with 20 GB free space availableWindows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64-bit)4 GB of RAMIntel Core i5-6600K 3.5 GHz or AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHzNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 390 4 GBHDD or SSD with 20GB free space availableWindows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64-bit)8 GB of RAM

If you have any issues with your game or account, these super-smart guys and gals are here to help! Contact them here.

Community Creations

We have a lot of ground to cover here, so let’s go through some staff highlights rather than focusing on just stuff that came out last week. If you have art, videos, haikus, or to-scale-Dreadnought-cosplay you’d like to share let us know! Reach out on social media or PM a CM :)

V_Raid illustrates perfectly what every Tactical Cruiser must feel like.

Willis has us all jealous of the awesomeness of Tier-V ships.





William C. builds a Dreadnought out of LEGO.

Duffman takes a bug and reminds us disco is not dead.

And that about sums it up for this week, captains! Remember to keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter accounts for the latest info about Dreadnought. Many of us hang out in the community-run Discord from time to time as well, if you’re new to the game or looking to find a squadmate everyone there is super helpful! While you’re at it there’s a lot of awesome new activity on the Dreadnought subreddit, give it a look.

We’ll be back next week with another update but don’t be a stranger. If you need a CM for anything just ping us, we’re here to help :)

See you in orbit,

EmptyTuxedo



