Despite a rocky start, Alpha 11 wound up being one of our busiest weekends in quite a while! We finally implemented a much-needed feature: Join-In-Progress. Since we're in Alpha, crashes can come at any time for any number of reasons. Once disconnected from a game, you had no way to rejoin, leaving the remaining players to continue their game down a man. Missing a player always ended poorly.

Join-In-Progress has been a badly needed feature since the start of Alpha, but server stability took priority. Hard to reconnect to a game if servers are constantly crashing! Now that we've smoothed things out and servers are far more stable, reconnecting to a game you've disconnected from became next on our to-do list.

Luckily for us, we ran into an incredibly stupid error that gave our Alpha Testers ample opportunity to test the new reconnect feature. When the server is reading map files for selection, all files are separated by commas. Unbeknownst to us, a Killhouse randomly generated the name of "Bagel Fire," which included a comma in its name.