Hi,
The first update didn’t take long!
I’m excited to introduce Steam Leaderboards integration in Drone Perspective.
There are now many drone operators conducting missions worldwide, and while we all wait for multiplayer, it’s nice to have a way to compare our skills.
Leaderboards will help us to do that.
(They will also help to understand mission completion time to adjust difficulty in the future).
In your Connection Tool, you will now find a tab called "Best Employees:", showing the top 50 results for the selected mission.
(It is just me on the leaderboard for now, so come and claim your spot before the pro players do.)
Scores are calculated as "Level Completion Time + 1 additional minute for each casualty."
That feels like an honest and challenging compromise - we want to determine both the fastest and the most careful among us.
I was expecting Steam to use IDs instead of nicknames, but it seems they’ve changed their policy, and now we can see each other's nicknames there.
If you think this is a problem, please write to me, and I will add an opt-in/opt-out option.
Fixes & Stability
- I did small adjustment to make sure that your Squad Selection Tap always register. (it was conflicting with "Hold" functionality, which is a cinematic Zoom At Squad)
- Exotic crash in cover selection is fixed
- Level HELP was made a bit easier (it was good for the demo, but unnecessary for the full game).
- Unit Echo is now available in the Level Editor.
- Game is stable overall.
There are still some GPU and occasional Chaos Physics crashes happening.
These are largely between Epic, Nvidia, and AMD.
On my side I promise to update the game to UE5.5 in the nearest future.
Until then, make sure your graphics drivers are up to date - it helps!
If you experience a crash, hit "Send Report"—I do see them.
(You can also leave a message—it helps with troubleshooting, or just say hello.)
We also have a whole subforum here for your bug reports.
What is Next?
Next up: gamepad support and, why not, an additional level to keep the content flowing.
I will be adding these during my vacation, hopefully from some seaside spot - it's been a while.
You also can help me with prioritization, just drop your message here in Discussions, or on Discord.
Wishing you all a great start to spring.
Stay safe!
Always yours,
Demetri