New players will no longer spawn with the mustache equipped by default.
A few of you asked why this seemingly small bug took so long to address, so I wanted to give a quick explanation.
Right now, almost our entire engineering team is focused on our upcoming optimization update, which is being developed on Unreal Engine 5.7. The current live version of Rewind 99 is still running on 5.5, meaning this hotfix couldn't simply be rolled into our ongoing work.
Instead, someone had to jump back to the older branch, reopen the project in the older version of Unreal, make the fix there, then build and test it separately.
To make things even more fun, we currently only have one build machine, which is busy generating builds for the optimization update. That meant this hotfix had to be fully cooked, tested, and published from a developer's local machine instead.
Thankfully, the mustache menace has now been eliminated. 🥸
Optimization Update
The optimization update continues to make great progress and is still our highest priority.
Our goal is to have it ready by the end of July, though there are still a number of moving pieces. There's a chance it slips into early August, but we'll keep everyone updated as we get closer.
Thanks again for your patience while we work on what will be one of the biggest improvements to Rewind 99 since launch. We're excited to get it into your hands! 📼