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Stratus Status #27, 2019-09-02

StratusNetwork Edited 5 years ago

Hello everyone! Welcome to the twenty-seventh issue of Stratus Status, the official biweekly newsletter. Are you interested in recent network changes and what the community has been up to? If so, read on to get up-to-date about all things Stratus!

Event News

Yesterday we saw the conclusion of the Conquest Reloaded tournament. After a rough first weekend, we saw ZUU beating Flank Warning 4-2 to win the tournament. Congratulations!

This time around we're also hosting a competition to make a highlight reel with your clips from the tournament. If you want to submit your clips, check out bYuri 's post here.

Development News

Over the past two weeks, the Operation Ares codebase received the following changes:

CTF/KotF is almost done

A number of bugs related to spectator actions were fixed

UHC performance improvements

More work on the API in preparation for rolling out OA

Some internal changes were made, which were needed for the domination gamemode

Overtime was added to some gamemodes

New Maps

During the past two weeks, the following maps were added to the PGM repository:

Bulwark
, by mitchiii

Cursed Library
, by mitchiii

Desolate Gully CTW
, by mitchiii

Figure 8
, by Crazy_

Toca
, by Valky

Xerocoles

has invited the community to share their thoughts about the rotation in his Rotation Update #22 Discussion thread. Head over there to discuss what you would like to see added, removed, or changed in the rotations with the Map Developers and wider community.

Staff News

Eudaldca
and mitchiii were promoted to Administrator

Campeh
stepped down as Referee

Community Spotlight

Do you want a montage with your clips but you're not skilled enough at video editing? teagod has you covered. He's opened free commissions, check out his thread here.

We recently featured Qwuiblington 's "How to offend" thread, but have you wondered how he made the video? Check out the making-of in his new thread.

Admin Corner

We're happy to announce two new administrators, Eudaldca and mitchiii ! They will continue to do their previous roles as heads of their department, but with better access and further responsibilities. Congratulations! Read majjus_ 's post here.