April Developer Update + Roadmap News

Hey everyone, got some news regarding the project and the rocky month we've had.

First up i wanted to address the Roadmap we published some time ago and the progress, or lack thereof.

The first item on the Roadmap was this which ended up taking way longer than originally expected due to several issues with uploads on the Asia Region.

However as of today we've already covered 3/4 items on this list having fixed our asset management for the Region, added the Spanish Localization and completed the Art mod for use across all of our current maps, with plans to add more assets for upcoming maps.

New Website

Besides this we've spent a considerable amount of time working on our new site which we've shown breadcrumbs of in our discord's donor chat

This is all with the intent to expand what we can show in our website and make our patch notes more easily readable at a glance as well as a little prettier to look at.

The initial features for the site are mostly complete and the plan is for it to go live along with our balance update 1.16

Blizzard Technical Difficulties

Speaking of the upcoming update, Blizzard has disabled mod uploads for a while, we're not 100% sure when the service will return but as soon as it does our regular update cycle will continue.

New Models

We have good news however as we have a few models in the works that just might be finished in time for our update 1.16, originally the plan was to save these models for the campaign but since this is shaping up to be quite the large update we wanted to commemorate it with some new models.

These two models are mostly complete and are already scheduled to be added to 1.16 but we have a few more in the works currently.

There's no ETA for these currently but if they're finished between now and when the battlenet upload services are restored i'll be sure to put some time into them to release them.

Ladder

The Ladder has been largely set aside due to all these other priorities rising as well as the requirement of the Art Mod to be finished before any development could continue, but several critical bugs have been addressed in preparation for Ranked Play implementation.

Development time will be committed towards the next update during the month of March as we resume our original Roadmap schedule.

Italian Locale

The Italian locale has been completed with only its implementation being pending across all mods but its scheduled to be included in 1.16