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Update 0.30.0 is here, with the launch of Battle Box Arena: Ranked and Part 2 of the Winter Event! We've also had time to sneak in a bunch of other fixes and changes for you to enjoy whilst you're climbing that ladder. Missed the start of BBA: Ranked? Heard about the Winter Event Part 2? Check out the launch article for more info! Queue Changes With the start of the ranked season we have made some changes to the matchmaking queue system to address problems brought up by the community since Battle Box Arena’s release: For Battle Box: Arena you now have to accept the match whenever one is found. A pop-up will show up on screen with an accept and decline button. The match is only confirmed once all participants have accepted within a...

We're back from our winter break and are jumping straight back into development with the launch of 0.29.3; a giant bug fix patch! Missed the new game launch? Check out the Battle Box Arena launch article for more info! Features You can now preview your Weapon Skin cosmetics, adding them to your hotbar to show off to your friends or other players! This can be done by right-clicking a weapon skin in your wardrobe and will be visible in your hotbar in the main/game lobbies and whilst fishing too. Removed the Arcane Anvil cost from the Style Shard cosmetics sold at the Peak of Fashion. Bug Fixes Fixed one source of the problem where Teleported! is shown despite no teleport happening. This issue can be caused by multiple sources, so keep...

We have just relaunched the network with version 0.29.2 containing a bunch of bug fixes and stability improvements. Matchmaking During the downtime we made major background changes to the matchmaking system, it had a lot of issues related to the new systems made to ensure competitive integrity within Battle Box Arena games. These systems had to be made to properly detect leavers, track past matches, and fairly determine player skill, but these systems did not perform well with the amount of players on the actual server. There will still be some issues, but we should be able to fix these behind the scenes now and have most users not experience problems because of them. Added new “No Servers Available” message in boss bar when the...

0.29.1 has just gone live, containing a whole bunch of bug fixes and some large reworks to the matchmaking system to make the queues faster and provide more information to players whilst they're queuing. Check out the Battle Box Arena launch article for more info! Matchmaking Changes In order to support the new multi-queue and soft SBMM (skill-based matchmaking) systems, we had to effectively rewrite our matchmaking system from the ground up. As you may have encountered, the new system hasn’t met our expectations. We also had to remove the player counts displayed in the queue, which has rightly caused some confusion as well as not providing all the information that you like to have. The team has spent most of the day reworking the...