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Originally posted by Verdun:

Players of Verdun, we have some great news!

Today we have concluded most of the work of conversion to the brand new unity 5 engine. We are very excited as the new engine is a lot faster and better looking. Unity 5 uses so called "Physically Based Shading" (short: PBR), this means that surfaces are lit and reflect based on actual physical properties. This is most evident in the characters and really makes the all the details really come out more. Overall lighting and shading improvements can also be seen, most notably on the Flanders map. More advanced Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) and motion blur are now also noticable and bring the graphics to live. Unity 5 also offers a new way of audio management and this enhances the immersion even further, we hope to expand its use in the future. First reports indicate that the performance has increased dramatically for the participants of the beta branch which we deployed in the past month for the testing.

But that is far from all.
Besides working on the conversion to the new engine and all effort that went into that, we also continued to upgrade the gameplay. Some major improvements have been implemented in this area:

Supression
Players will now receive suppression when they are under fire. Their screen becomes fuzzy and desaturated and aiming becomes tougher.

Shell shock
When an explosion occurs nearby, the screen will be shaking and aiming will be thrown off. In addition the particle FX for grenades and mortars has been greatly improved as well as the audio effect.

Weapon sway overhaul
Weapons now have more realistic sway with the front sight (the arm that is holding the rifle or gun) now sways as a whole.

Private Matches
This long awaited and requested feature has now been implemented as well. it is possible to set up a private server (both Frontlines and Rifle deathmatch), with administrators and several commands as well to organize clan matches (such as restarting a round, changing maps).


Besides these new features we have also put a massive effort into fixing bugs. Most notably the many connection and matchmaking issues have been addressed. The changelog can be found below, it also includes smaller features such as a brightness/gamma setting and gas lethality increase.

While this was a major step forward in the development of the game, we are not 'dun yet and the current build will undoubtedly include some bugs or missing features . We greatly appreciate all the players who have put faith in the project and participate in the the early access program. We would very much like to work with you to prepare the game .

For those who want a Q&A with us, we will be holding a live twitch stream event. Today, 15th of Jan, 8PM GMT 1. http://www.twitch.tv/verdungame

With the soon to be implmemented(fingers crossed) private match system this opens up many avenues for competitive play.

All's been quiet on the Verdun Community front but behind the scenes it's all been happening! I've drafted together a few ladder system templates of which I will upload some samples shortly.

So, to the point. What competitive game modes would you all like to see?

Fire away!

As the title suggest, the developers are looking for individuals to help test the new Unity5 versions of Verdun.

Originally posted by M2H_Mike:

We've been very busy with the Unity5 update and it;s starting to look awesome.
Graphics have improved a lot and the engine brings many performance improvements as well.

Please help us test U5: You can switch to and from the unity5 testing branch, but the live version and the untiy5 vresion won't be able to play together.

Warning: switching from/to another Verdun branch will force a redownload of about 1Gb! Also: switch at your own risk (saving of playerdata should not have changed, but who knows)

How to switch to the unity5 branch
- Optional: check your average FPS in-game currently
- Steam Library -> right mouse button on Verdun, select properties
- Go to the Beta tab
- Enter the code "testingunity5" and CHECK CODE
- Now select the unity5 branch.

Please report your issues only in this topic so we don't confuse Unity 4 and U5 bugs.
I only really want to know about Unity 5 specific issues, so you can ignore (existing) Unity 4 issues.

Questions:
A) Do you have any crashes or other critical problems?
B)How has the performance changed?
C) Any new issues?

The original post can be found by clicking HERE!

Get testing!