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Prime Time

On the first Sunday of the year, Stratus' second Prime Time event was hosted, where Punishers and Pureblox, two old teams which got together for this special occasion, competed against each other on Race For Victory 2, Spaceship Battles: TE and Abandoned Zoo TE. Punishers won the first two matches, thus winning the event, but lost the third one on Abandoned Zoo TE. Check out the thread for more details, or watch the stream VOD if you missed it.

Yesterday, another Prime Time event was hosted. This time, Kiube and Impact faced off in Facility TE, Ascendance, Limbo II, Cake Wars TE, Ring Run and Fractal Descent TE. Kiube won the first two rounds (all three Conquest maps and Cake Wars TE), Impact won on Ring Run (a modified version of Ring Race), and then Kiube won on Fractal Descent TE, therefore winning this Prime Time event. You can read the announcement thread here or watch the stream VOD here, in case you couldn't watch it live.

Development News

Recently, UHC received the addition of 3 new scenarios: Blood Lapis, Enchantless and Barebones, coded by Vicei .

Regarding Operation Ares, we've seen fewer changes in the past two weeks due to ALM  shifting focus towards improving PGM private servers. These are the most important changes:

• Added base API which allows multiple rounds to run on one server


• All new settings system:
  
  • Settings have a name, aliases, short description, and long description (all localized)
  
  
  • Settings command is locale-aware, and searches are specific for each language
  
  
  • Settings lookup is now 26% faster


• Teams and FFA have been added


• Observers are now in adventure mode (they can fly)



• Removed Guice - it’s more trouble than it’s worth



• Respawn system is now more simple, making it 63% more efficient

Building a Smaller Rotation

Last week, mitchiii  posted an announcement describing the direction of the next rotation update in which the dynamic rotations will be adjusted to accommodate for a smaller Micro rotation. This aims to provide a more specialised set of maps specific for lower player counts. You can read more about these upcoming changes here. If you're interested in making a new map for the upcoming rotation, the Maps in Demand thread has been updated with the maps that are needed most.

Rotation update #18.1 and the subsequent #18.2 update were also released during the past two weeks. These changes remove maps which have been heavily criticised and addresses other bugs that were affecting gameplay. You can read about the complete changes in Jexel 's thread.

New Maps

Over the past 2 weeks the following maps have been added to the repository:

• 101 Rooms

  , by Frac 



• The Arena: Redux

  , by Gone52 

Staff News

This past Saturday, amactus  publicly announced the marketing team, formed by amactus , Crazy_ , Epicness , Scorpioon , Pibo  and Lucaslyoko . Congrats! Check out the thread here.

• Kiyara

    was promoted to junior moderator



• lvan

    stepped down as referee and moderator



• PhantomOrion

    stepped down as moderator



• DirkyJerky

    is no longer a Jr. Developer

Biweekly Question

This time we wanted to ask you about your new year's propositions, but since edwurd  got ahead of us, you can answer it on his thread. The link is above in the Community Spotlight :)

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