Suggestion: add visual changes to weapons and equipment when adding and leveling modifiers. For instance, if you add +armor on a jacket, it has additional armor plates or other protection elements. If you add decreased chambering time on pump action shotguns and sniper rifles, the bolt is wrapped with cloth or electrical tape (preferably blue one).

requires a lot of time. We'd need to create concepts of these additional elements for each modifier, then create 3D models and set up their positions for every weapon and equipment piece. Even if we had resources to add a feature like that, it would be better to spend the time of our 3D artists for something better (like adding to Survarium new weapons, equipment or modules). Moreover, changes like this one require programmers, who also have more important tasks.

Suggestion: small balance changes to maps. - London, Battery Retrieval. Remove team A spawn points from the battery room, leave them only in other rooms. It gives too much advantage when defending. - Vector, Slaughter. Restrict team B from shooting from the second floor of their base into team A base (through the left side crack in the wall) while staying not visible from team A base window (see screenshots via the link) - Mamayev Kurgan 1) Remove possibility of looking through smoke and fog from point C 2) Remove possibility of going into the tree textures near point A (see screenshots via the link, I hope for a reward) - Cologne Bridge. Restrict team B from climbing on the upper bridge beams on the border of the map (see screenshots via the link) - Rudnya, Battery Retrieval. Either move the team B battery station away from the base or move team A battery station closer to their respawn, so it takes the same amount of time to reach it from a spawn. - Chemical Plant. Restrict sniping on the hill over point A, since the sniper can see through grass and green fog while staying not visible (screenshots via the link,on all of them the sniper sits on the same spot, but try noticing him on at least one screenshot). - School. Change the penetration of the handrails to normal. - Cooling tower (outer one). There are too many objects beyond the map plus the rain, so fps drops a lot. You can either make the map bigger or remove unreachable places. Perhaps there's more, but these are the most скшешсфд things. Screenshots to the specified spots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wZv0ksTA1JmhVZ-T1-DJK-7XwrtD6-zb?usp=sharing

anges that you call easy in fact require a lot of effort, especially when changing map geometry is required. Of course, we will see what we can improve, and we will try to make at least some of the changes.

Suggestion: turn on the "Stolen parts" event over weekends. You no longer run it because it doesn't increase the number of players. But this mini-event can at least try to hold back active players in the game.

re, we will enable it.

Suggestion: On the "Rating history" tab where you see all your shoulder straps in every season, display your number/place by the end of the season next to the strap. For instance, in the same way as on the ranking list. The first three places on a specific background (bronze, silver, gold), and the rest on a neutral background. 1) It would be interesting to see all your places and the dynamic of it. 2) Other players (friends) could see your history and analyze it if needed (clan leaders, for instance) 3) Among the first three players, when you struggle for places 1-3, the situation changes constantly. But it's not always possible to log in and check if you lost your place. This way you could always see your place even after a season has ended.

's possible technically, we will see what we can do.

Suggestion: add an option to move the collimator along the picatinny plank, closer or further away.

e position of collimators and the camera (when aiming) was set in a way so it's comfortable to play. We understand that certain collimators on some weapons might look worse than the others, but even if you could move the collimator, it wouldn't fix the issue. Moreover, some collimator positions might cause serious issues with the camera, including not being able to see the collimator or its center not aligning with the center of the screen.

Suggestion: fix the issue when you're slowly sliding down when sitting on a staircase.

have already identified the issue causing this and are working on fixing it. We will add the fix to the public server in one of the upcoming updates.

Suggestion: create a new map for Slaughter or other modes based on the Duga Radar Station location. This map is unpopular since it requires a good PC, the spawn points are not protected, the map is missing in ranked mode and also has low battle dynamics. So, in order to save a lot of really pretty content, it's possible to make smaller maps based on the Duga. It's easier than creating a map from scratch. These ideas come to mind: 1) Smaller maps are easier to create by simply dividing the map in two: lumber mill (point А) and the resp point below it, or garage (point C without the tower) and the resp point over it. 2) Slaughter maps could be made at almost any point, and the developers could find optimal places themselves.

eating a new map based on an existing one is indeed easier than from scratch, but it's not enough to simply take a map and cut it in two (though it already is a rather hard technical task). For every game mode we need to set up key areas (for instance, control points or battery spawns), respawn points for the players and bots, and navigation routes for the bots. In truth, creating a map for a game designer doesn't depend on its size too much, it's still a lot of work even for small Slaughter maps. And that's exactly why we don't introduce new maps as often as we'd like.

Suggestion: more sounds and animations. Description: when disassembling mines and traps there used to be a specific quiet sound (I wrote about that on the forum); animation: I'd like to see how the character, at least symbolically, picks up items (artifacts, ammo from the boxes and disarmed explosives), I see it as a simple hand movement. And I am still waiting for fixed L85A2 animations: the hand moves through the head when changing the weapon, and it's noticeable from the first person view. Also the hand moves through the receiver when reloading, not always, but sometimes, and it ruins the atmosphere (I wrote about that to the support).

already fixed some L85A2 animation issues in the recent update, but it's unlikely we will be able to fix them all. This has to do with the weapon itself (bullpup configurations) and the way the animation works in the Survarium engine. "Symbolically" picking up items was never planned. It's a really complex task from the standpoint of animations and correct positioning of the character's body parts. Even games with extremely high budgets which have thousands of people (including dozens of animators, programmers, and technical artists ) working on them have issues with correct arm positioning when picking up an object. For instance, The Last of Us Part 2. And this is a singleplayer game with fixed character models (there's not that many different equipment items) and no network synchronization! If we add a "simple hand movement" that will look so-so, and will irritate you more than help or provide any useful gameplay information.

Suggestion: Add a 30-40 ammo magazine for H&K MP7 (often you don't have enough ammo to kill an enemy in a light set after killing an enemy with a heavy set).

obably we would do that.

Suggestion: Weather is one of the main parts of the atmosphere, but instead of gloomy and cloudy weather we have a sunny one. I think that it's needed to finish the work on the weather to "freshen up" the game with the atmosphere and don't have issues with that in the future.

anging weather on a map requires a lot of time and effort, because to do that we need to rework the lighting. Unfortunately, Survarium engine can't make that automatically, and all lighting sources, particle effects and other changes need to be done manually. This is why we don't often add new weather even on the existing maps. But there's another thing to consider. In an online shooter you need to be able to quickly locate enemies, and that's more important than atmosphere. If there's a lot of gloomy dark locations in the game, you will quickly get tired. We mean, physically tired: it's hard to aim at grey enemies inside grey environments. This is why the majority of locations are bright, and for the same reason part of the equipment is also colorful (even though many players don't like that). We can tell even more: a couple years ago we created a night version of one of the locations. And it was completely unplayable: you simply couldn't see enemies. And this is why we didn't even release this version on the PTS. Finally, there's no nuclear winter in the world of Survarium, so why can't the weather be sunny?

Suggestion: I think many players remember stocks, x2 optics for AKS-74U. There are many modules that were removed from one another weapon, why won't you bring them back? We remember that the developers told many times that they can't balance the modules. And we can understand that. But Survarium is not a project where you can assemble a lasergun. I don't think that a -5 recoil stock will make AS-VAL too powerful.

inging them back essentially means creating them from scratch (we can only reuse the existing 3D models, but they could require changes to display in the new renderer correctly - the modules were removed in 0.51, the renderer introduced in 0.52). Besides, there are more than 300 modules in the game, and we wouldn't want to add even more just for the sake of quantity. It's possible we will add some more modules with specific functions (for instance, those x2 optics), but we don't think that increasing the number of modules will do the game any good. And this has to do not only with balancing, but with the fact that it's hard enough to get the modules you want already. And if there are more modules, it would be even harder.

Suggestion: At the moment the game is not developing, all we see are new decals and weapon skins, and also bugfixes. Is this really all the studio is capable of in a year? I am not talking about something global, but at least something. I am one of those game fans who still believe in the project, believe in the studio.

didn't want to reply to this, because regardless of what we say, it will be considered an excuse. On the other hand, we don't want to avoid answering this. For starters, let's recap what was done in less than a year. Four major updates. Custom matches, clan battles. A new weapon: H&K G3SG1. Paintball game mode, changing the rules of other game modes. Rework of artifacts spawn logic. Updating several character skill trees, including adding completely new skills. Special weapons (chance to get as a reward for PvP). And also five game events, numerous balancing changes and bug fixes. Perhaps this note is about the last few months? But a software development studio is not a factory, so we cannot produce wares and send them to the clients all the time. Some features require a lot of work for development (a year of even more), some have to be postponed or reworked, some – scrapped. This is why not all numbered Survarium updates are equal in terms of new features. And this is true for every online game. Aforementioned bug fixes are an important part of any software development. As well as reducing technical debt as a whole. If we don't do that, Survarium will quickly become unplayable. And what's the point of adding new features, if the old ones don't work properly or are not fun? This also means that we do work that is invisible to the players but takes a lot of time (say, code optimizations, server and database maintenance, and generally supporting the backend). Moreover, some things that have only a couple lines in the change log take dozens or even hundreds of hours to develop. And then to test. And then to bug fix and optimize. We could make a change log a few times bigger by mentioning every single small change and fix, but do you really need it? Finally, during the summer all members of the team were on vacation, and we also released the summer event, so that's why Survarium 0.68 is relatively small. But we think it's better to release at least something than to wait until more features are done. What do you say?