TrenchesWIP News & Patch Notes

Hey guys, Long time, no see. We've been pretty quiet on the development side of things recently. We'd like to say it's because we've been hard at work, but honestly we've been experiencing some troubles on the development and personal side of things, so we thought we'd finally drop a line about the state of things and where we plan to go from here. So the most important thing to address I think is the performance. We've heard everyone's feedback and we've been seeing a rumor circulating that the game is a bitcoin miner or a virus. The actual issue is a lot more boring, we discovered a memory issue in the game's environments after the latest update caused by the additional fidelity we added to the levels. This causes the game levels to use SIGNIFICANTLY more RAM than it has any right to. We can confirm that we've fixed this issue on our side and when we release the next update (no ETA) it'll include a fix for this issue. We're incredibly sorry for the frustration this issue has caused and didn't intend for it to persist for such a long time. Things we have done So one of the reasons the game hasn't had an update in a very long time is that we've implemented a new movement system for the player and bots. This has unfortunately caused a variety of snowballing issues as the character controller is tied to a significant amount of mechanics and systems, which means that upgrading those systems to work with the new controller is no easy feat. The upside is that once we're done with this, the player will be able to vault terrain (no more getting stuck in trenches), play in third person and handle much more realistically! The bots are also getting this treatment, meaning they'll be able to navigate terrain more intelligently. Another huge addition is a complete rework for all the character models. Our plan is to prepare them for when we add in character customization, so all their clothing is modular and relatively easy to interchange. Currently we have a preview of these new models and animations below! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/5d9e40f523a2f5f641828cc09274b8c71237cd4e.png And finally we have the situation on a more personal front. As a 2-person team, TrenchesWIP is very affected by the circumstances of it's developers. Currently both of us have experienced a relatively turbulent time due to Covid and a change in our personal employment, meaning development has been turbulent and infrequent. We hope to get back into the flow of things ASAP, but we don't want to offer a timeframe for when that will be. We both are 100% set on continuing development of Trenches, as we both believe it to be a very promising game concept. We have an update in the works, but at this stage we don't have an ETA for when it will be released. We thank everyone for their patience and apologize for our lack of communication and the state of the game. As repayment, we present you some lovely pictures of our new German character model. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/10e300c15833310c269ec5e4c6a27b1396461055.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/270802eb437a524c502ad4e04ce801f6bccfb5c2.png -Big OOF Games

Hey everyone! We've been pretty quiet recently, so we thought we'd give everyone a bit of a rundown on the state of the game. Recently our Coder has been hard at work redesigning our AI in order to make them much more responsive and fun to fight, but this has taken quite a large time investment. Our ultimate goal is to have a game system that is fun to play both in solo and with a sizable player count. To do this, we've needed to essentially re-write our AI. But from our initial tests with the new system (which you can find over on our Patreon), the AI is shaping up to be a lot more dynamic and interesting to fight against. On the art side of things, I've been focussed on 2 different tasks: The first being that we discovered the latest update causes Trenches to use a severely large amount of RAM, which we believe we've found the cause of. So the next update should improve load times for just about everything (hopefully). The other task I've been working on is improving the character models. As we approach our next milestone of character customization, we needed to look at adding a bit more detail to our existing characters. Fortunately, we've picked up a copy of Character Creator 3 which has been significantly improving the workflow for creating new models! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/192b11888102e913a10d1dd3b27d26ffbdf7e003.png For now we can't give people an ETA on when we expect these jobs to be complete, as they require quite a large amount of work, but we can assure you we're working hard to get them to you ASAP! If you want to discuss development with us or just meet the devs, we're always active over on our Discord. We'd like to thank everyone for their continued patience <3 Until next time -Big OOF Games

Hey everyone, Long time, no see! We hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday and a happy new year! In-between having some desperately needed time off, we've been hard at work to bring you all some very exciting features! Dedicated servers THEY'RE FINALLY HERE! Dedicated servers have been a thorn in our side for a VERY long time, but our coder has been down in the trenches working tirelessly to get them up and running! Players will be able to host a server by selecting 'Launch New Dedicated Server' when launching the game. Our coder has also prepared a handy guide on how to host one! Map redesign We always felt that the default map was a little empty when compared to our older last stand map (which unfortunately doesn't play too nicely with terrain deformation) so we've been looking to see what ways we can emulate the look of that original map, but still work neatly with dynamic terrain. After a bit of tweaking and some reworks to the foliage, we're finally happy to present the rework of our map! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/c996a412994b8e9eb8403a16c579db300a81901e.png This rework features 2 ravines that split the map into 3 sections. These should make for some interesting combat scenarios as the bridges crossing them are destroyable (and can be repaired!) Additionally, there's a lot more battle damage and detail! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/6d8a3583e0f60d135827236edbe99faa02519e5e.png New Visuals We've also been laying the groundwork for new and varying locations for future maps. In doing so, we've made a nice, chilly version of our original map as a late christmas present! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/47d58578fd845f8ba713bc7d47a272a8764969a7.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/4613524267bf1708a3e7ff468dc0c5eced5a419f.png While the maps don't feature any gameplay differences, it's definitely nice to mix up the look of the map now and then! SOUND ISSUES We've been getting a lot of reports of missing sounds for the game and after some help from our community, we discovered you can fix the bug by verifying the integrity of game files! To do this, right click on TrenchesWIP on your Steam list and select Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game files. Changelog - Fixed tesselation setting so it actually turns off tesselation - Added more detail to map AI1 - Fixed material bug that caused patches of grey - Added dedicated server support - Optimised materials - Reworked material visuals - Removed water plane that was destroying FPS - Added snow variant of AI1 map - Weapons now eject casings onto the environment - Touched up some sounds So our current plans are to continue with the roadmap detailed in this post, although we're looking at potentially improving the AI first (we've got an idea of how we could do it, but need to test before we commit to it) We'd just like to thank everyone for your patience as we sort through the slower parts of development. TrenchesWIP has been a massive labor of love from two Australian developers. We're currently looking to see if we can host an official TrenchesWIP dedicated server, but for that, we need your help! We're currently operating off of crowdfunding such as Patreon and require a fair bit of money in order to keep a server up and running. Any amount you could help support us with would go a long way towards hosting expenses. Either way, we're super greatful for the support we've had from our community! If you'd like to talk to the devs or organize games with fellow members, we're super active on our Discord. We're still very new to the world of dedicated servers, so expect the occasional bug to rear it's head (feel free to let us know on our Discord) And now, we leave you a special gift: pictures from our latest stress test! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/67ac1fd1bff1fd2a790574c4a96f209683a2e2b5.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/dc07cd38ad49e832d010ac6eeadba79bf2075ca9.jpg Until next time! Big OOF Games.

Heya everyone! With the release of our latest update, we figured now was a good chance to organize our upcoming priorities and where we plan to take the game! So we've put together a short roadmap for the next couple of updates so people have a better idea of whatever next! ---------------------ROADMAP----------------------- 1. Engine/voxel upgrade - Work on maps when complete (Add battle damage) 2. Dedicated servers! 3. Discord rich presence/ integration ----------- Update Release -------------- 4. Cosmetic customization 5. Weapon customization + Melee (bayonets wink ) 6. 3rd person animations (shooting, crouching, prone, etc) 7. Mounted 3rd person mesh (when player embarks MG, using artillery, etc) ----------- Update Release ------------- 8. Player Progression (unlock equipable buffs/cosmetics by levelling up after a match (balanced with advantages and disadvantages)) ---------- Update Release -------------- 9. Bot AI - Mounted MG, Planes (player-controlled planes will be coming later on wink ), AA 10. Bot AI - Infantry behavior (cover system for bots, Potentially basic commanding) 11. Binoculars - Marked arty strike, Supply drop, pings, airstrike If you'd like to discuss the upcoming changes with the devs, we're super active over on our discord! As always, if you'd like to help support our development, don't forget to stop over at our Patreon! Thanks again for your continued support and patience as we make the the game the best it can be!

Heya Everyone! It's been a while since we announced our next update, but after a LOT of unexpected work and the nightmare that is crunch, we can FINALLY bring you a new update! If you'd like to help support our development, we're super greatful to anyone who joins our Patreon So what's in this update I hear you ask? NEW GAMEMODE Nuclear war has two teams competing for resources to build their own nuclear cannon which will allow them to unleash nuclear annihilation on their enemy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/d9f46c9c490be3d4b4a31de8f7fb6bbc011e5ffa.png Reworked Tunnels We've changed the way players build and navigate tunnels! Now players can stand up and more clearly construct large tunnels with multiple exits! New Goodies We've added a new trench mortar to the game which allows players a cheaper, shorter range alternative for all their bombardment needs! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/e9a99390a0a5e98448a56d1562abae1390c6fce2.png Landmines have also made a reappearance and are back with style! New Buildings We've added a couple new buildings to the mix! the main ones being a medical station and ammo bay which will allow you to heal and replenish ammunition respectively! Quality of Life Changes The vast majority of our work has been centred around bugfixing and improving the user experience and we're happy to say that it's really paid off! One big change we're super excited for is a fix for interaction, which means that clients should now be able to purchase weapons from the munition factory! Additionally, we've added in loading screens and win/loss screens to clean up a lot of awkward freezing! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/22dcc539fa66b614f1df6229ce5f057bb689ce01.png (Also as a little test, AI are now able to pilot and fire artillery. So let us know what you think over on our Discord ) Changelog -Added muzzle flash to all weapons - Fixed audio - Changed the prices and Health of most buildings -Added some more destroyed meshes - Fixed mountable guns from firing on their own when dismounting. - Added one artillery and effects. - Added destroyed variant to artillery and the ability to repair. - Fixed terrain when mounting guns. - Fixed bullet trails. (We didn't realise their orientations were wrong all this time!) - Added bots to AI map. They target enemy HQs to move to, it's their only change (for now). - Tweaked health of some mountables. - Touched up some Hammer and Axe animations to look less weird - Fixed up the way shading was rendering on some weapons - Fixed the trenches position on complete build, and made sure it didn't interfere with tunnels. - Polished the nuke cannon more with some fallout effect logic. Particles / screen fx. - Tweaked fire rates for artillery, but it does need representation for loading times etc which doesn't exist yet. - The artillery being attacked by bots when destroyed should be fixed. - Removed "Kill me" text on game end. - Attempted to save frames a bit by reducing the particle effects that spawn when trees die by explosions. - Added a reset button to the input mapping screen of the exit menu. - The double exit buttons might be fixed now. - Fix to HQs built by players. They get assigned their team and show a number instead of A,B,C etc. The territories get updated again now. - Tweaked interactions to work better for clients. - Fixed interaction / repair / build UI showing when dead and in map screen preventing respawn. - Landmines now a thing again. - When repairing the nuke cannon it costs resources and gives back some money for the effort given. - When repairing structures, you now consume resources and gain money. - Added something I call Battle Influence to the conquest games. - Added Iron Ore minable objects (they give 50 supply per hit) Lowered tree resource gain to 5 supply per hit (was originally 10, subject to change) - Flipped team indicators to show only on allies with a green triangle instead of red. - Added point gain indicator system to when you repair, upgrade, build or destroy buildings, hit an enemy, gather resources or cause explosive damage. It's the thing that pops up when you kill enemies (but only the small text part). - Added new Nuke game mode to the host game options. - Made conquest UI only visible in those modes. - Added one brum to each side of the nuke GM map for fun. Tweaked a bit, but definitely not final product. Lol. - Heavily reduced the mounted MG recoil. - Tweaked explosion influence on terrain. Was a bit too severe before. - added SIGNIFICANTLY more optimised collision meshes for all trenches Made the SMLE a bit lower on the screen as it took up a lot of screen space - Made the 1911 hipfire animation recoil SIGNIFICANTLY less intense (no more spring-loaded wrists) - Reduced and smoothened out camera shake on cannon fire. - Crosshair hides on mounting cannon types. - Smoother terrain change on explosive crater creation. - Reduced jeep replication demand - Patched win conditions so the game ends when you hit zero points or if a team has zero HQs. - Made a bit nicer post game screen when game finished. - Added loading screen images to lessen the confusion when loading a bit. - Increased the priority of the HQs spawning on clients first so that they can spawn in faster when joining a session. - Rockets don't blow up in your face now. - Changed location of some UI elements. Health bar / stats and further reduced screen space impact of the chat window. - Nicer terrain transitions, no gaps and cracks! - Fixed double exit buttons on in-game menu. - Main menu apparently loads faster now. Mystery optimisation? - Tunnels are now invincible till destroyed mesh is created, etc. - Patched interact UI still showing after entering something as a client. - Bots are now "a bit" more responsive. They attempt to destroy enemy HQs if no enemy bots or players are around and should very occasionally throw grenades again. Touched up depth of field on all maps. - For the most part, bots seem to be doing a bit better. Touched up their targeting and abilities a little. - Fixed leader board bugs in post game and for host. - Fixed some more game end conditions for PvP modes. They were still getting stuck at a end game countdown which was looping on itself indefinitely. - Increased priority of exit menu UI so that it shows when you're in the post game screen. - Touched up mortar projectile arc and artillery arc. - Added ammo dump. - Added medical dump. - Projectile for client now replicates from further away. We just wanna thank everyone again for their patience as we carve out the game we want to see! It really does mean a lot to hear from our wonderful community. If you'd like to join that community, we're super active over on our Discord Thanks again, and GLORY TO THE EMPIRE! - Big OOF Games

Heya everyone! It's been a while since we posted any updates on Trenches regarding our plans, so we thought we'd drop drop by with a recap and some assurance that we're still working hard! So, what've we been working on? Recently, we've entered a period of the project where we need to reflect on the content we currently have and focus on fixing up our core gameplay. This has meant we haven't had a whole lot to show people in terms of big changes or new things. To counteract this, we decided to work on adding a new gamemode using existing features that also allows us to fix up some of our content as we work (artillery ballistics for example), which is where the idea for the nuclear gamemode came from! Once we finish tying up this new gamemode and a list of fixes (which we're super close to doing!) We'll be going into research mode for a little bit as we impliment a major rework to our networking which should fix up a HUGE number of network-based bugs! After that, we'll be looking into adding more features for lower-player game sessions which will most likely mean... BETTER BOTS! But rest assured, all the devs are working hard to get the game to a state everyone expects. That being said, we'd love to hear from the community about what they'd like to see ingame, feedback is the cornerstone of TrenchesWIP and we wouldn't be where we are today without it! As always, we're most active over on our Discord TrenchesWIP has been a labour of love by 3 Australian Developers working in their free time, if you'd like to help support the project, we have both a Patreon and Ko-fi Thank you again for you patience ːpraisesunː - Big OOF Games {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/5dec7d07addb1f4e2bc5cbf689f40757f7175772.png

Howdy Everyone! We've Just released a new trailer for our next content update which showcases our new upcoming gamemode: Nuclear War! This gamemode will feature two teams competing for resources to build their own nuclear cannon which will allow them to unleash nuclear annihilation on their enemy! This update will also feature a rework to Tunnels as well as the greatly requested ability to stand up inside them! If you've got suggestions for how we could improve or grow TrenchesWIP, we'd love to hear from you over at our Discord: https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 We've also got a Patreon for those who would like to help support our development endeavors: https://www.patreon.com/TrenchesWIP As always, all the lads at Big OOF Games thank each and every one of our community for helping us get to where we are and continue to look forward to seeing both our community and TrenchesWIP grow! - Big OOF Games

Hey everyone Today we've got a small but very important update for the game: Artillery! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/6f6fccc26670a4281add34fb878df9fe09ba1d93.png Finally players can tear apart the terrain and detroy their enemies from afar! Additionally we've fixed up Anti-tank cannons and added bots to our PvP mode! This is our first big step in tightening up the gameplay, and from our recent public playtest, we can say for certain that it worked super well! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/08a3b48cb2bd8494af2540eb04949b976a15cd50.png Changelog: - Added one artillery and effects. - Fixed AT guns - Added destroyed variant to artillery and the ability to repair. - Fixed terrain when mounting guns. - Fixed bullet trails. (We didn't realise their orientations were wrong all this time!) - Added bots to AI map. They target enemy HQs to move to, it's their only change (for now). - Tweaked health of some mountables. - Changed the prices and Health of most buildings - Added some more destroyed meshes As always, if you'd like to help support us while we work, we've also go a Patreon and Ko-fi and if you'd like to have a chat with the devs, we're super vocal over on our Discord: https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TrenchesWIP Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/trencheswip Thank you to everyone who's helped us throughout development, we really do love swwing how our game has evolved over time and the ways in which everyone has helped shape it! - Big OOF Games

Hey everyone! After a long period of bugfixing and polish, we're finally able to bring to you a new content update! This update brings with it some pretty neat new features. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/2f88f14ebb6ac4a2a97b6edcef19b9eb1ec601da.png New Map The island map has been replaced with our first iteration of a proper map! The map features a large open field with two small (completely destructible) neighbouring towns for players to fight over. Our hope is that with so much open space, it'll encourage players to construct their own cover and fortifications. Of course, we'd like to hear what you have to say about the map as from now on, we'll most likely be looking to make tweaks to the existing layout based on player feedback. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/70ce95c5a4383bcf8fcf8d9864c60aeb58143cfa.png Weapon Handling A massive upgrade that we've been working super hard on is the gunplay. We always felt that the shooting was really floaty with a massive lack of feedback. Therefore, we've added elements such as weapon sway, accuracy penalties, hit marker feedback, headshot feedback and indicators and some reeeeeally nice camera shaking to even out the shooting experience. We recently previewed this in a previous post Visual Tweaks We've added a bunch of visual tweaks and optimizations to try and squeeze every bit of detail we can get out of the game. One of the most notible changes will be the addition of tesselation (which can be toggled from our reworked settings menu) This should help bring some added detail to your trench building experience {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/652ba279a3a2aab9cabb737c70873d0cd47df774.png Wave defense WAVE DEFENSE IS WORKING AGAIN WOOO! We've finally ported over the old map to work with our terrain deformation, this means that building is now enabled on the map! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/594ea93534a4bce6a5ab70c55e96f1ca4a2cbb49.png Changelog - Added building upgrade and repair abilities. - Fixed map camera lock-up when there's no flags available to swoop to (When pressing closest flag). - Made territory markers visible in first person when you equip the hammer. That way you can tell a bit easier where you can build. - Fixed up the territory capture states, so it should be more solid. - Added Owens SMG to munition factory - Fixed crouch hit collider (players collider for being shot was below their waist when crouching) - Improved the border spline so that it now doesn't reply on raycasts which in turn reduces how much collision the world has to manage. - Fixed up the exit tunnel collision and materials. -Added structure for destroyed variants in buildings. When repaired to full health, the mesh is restored. - Added sandbags as obstacle to AI. They should move around them a bit more, but they seem to not care much. At least now they get hurt by them in secret. - Barbed wire now hurts players and bots. - Improved accuracy of bots nav mesh movement. Still looks janky, will do a complete bot pass soon. - Slowed bot movement down a little. - Increased tick frequency for enemy proximity checks. - Reduced grenade use on bots. They still seem to more than I'd like. Logic rework to come. - Fixed up nav mesh generation, however it may have a slight impact on server performance. Needs testing. - Made enemy indicator hide on dead bots and players as soon as dead. - Fixed kill feed showing unknown killed ~"bob" when bots kill other bots. - Improved to prevent bots running right over trenches and defences like they aren't there. - Artillery waves should track a players position and actually hurt. - Artillery can send characters flying a little bit. - Building deformation should remove unwanted assets in a radius. - Capture flags generate a no edit region to terrain. - Added new interact widget with delayed interact. Making way for future content. - Fixed up terrain disappearing when mounting a gun. - Fixed up not being able to dismount guns sometimes. - Added ability to retain previous position when dismounting things. (no longer fly into air) - Fixed up capture flag stopping interaction with things when interacting from within. - Added supply value to players. - Added warbonds value to players. - Added ability to purchase items by interacting with them in the world and spending earnt warbonds. - Added UI to HUD that tracks your supply and warbonds. - Updated resource nodes to give you supply instead of inventory item. - Turned off shadow on FPS hands mesh. - Made buildings constructible with supply. - Created new HUD design. - Added new Kill feed system that displays weapon used and whether a headshot was made. - Added cardinal direction. - Added hit direction indicators. - Added kill badges that appear only to clients on a confirmed kill. - Fixed chat window closing when user is still focused. - Made bots valid kills with the new kill feed etc. - Fixed tracers firing on hammer and pickaxe. - Added all main guns to starting area for test buying. - Polished hit markers and added headshot crosshair marker. - Added gain of warbonds on bot kills. Bonus for headshots. - Added gains to warbonds on structure upgrading. - Added helper text elements to the hammer when equipped, and to the building selection menu. Helper text on the hammer tells you when you're obstructed, not in owned territory, upgrading, repairing, no selection / how to access build menu and how to place structure. - Added helper UI icon to building progress element to show when you can't place a building. - Reordered the HUD so the building menu isn't rendered behind the equipment. - Added new details UI that appears when you go to purchase a weapon or convert materials at the HQ. - You can now convert Supply into Warbonds and vise versa. Eventaully the cost / reward values will be tied in to a stock price, like a trade post seen in RTS games. - Fixed collisions and scale of the upgraded HQ mesh so that you can enter it. - Added wave survival UI back to that mode. Made some visual tweaks. - Applied specific health to all buildings so they are no longer all 100pts each. Depending on the size of structure and it's material, the hit points are different. - Reduced ally bot count to 10 try make enemy waves a little more threatening. Will be adjusted proper later. - Tweaked building restrictions on the ramps. - Trees now give you 10 supply rather than 5. - New crosshair and recoil addded. Shooting, jumping, moving in any way, as well as changing weapons effects recoil and the crosshair state. This makes it a lot harder to shoot things, but feels more natural. - Added slight gun lag as you rotate your view and move. - Added blood burst to bots when hit in body and head for feedback testing. - Fixed hit scans not spreading properly. - Tweaked specs of some guns for spread etc. - Added blood hit effect to player also for testing feedback. - Added a weapon testing map. - Added multiple types of camera shake for walk / run / shoot / reload. Will be adjusted over time. - Fixed crosshair not showing in builds. - Added crash reporter. - Added 90 degree corner trench - added tessellation - Added new in-game settings menu that features key-binding that works, graphics settings, input sensitivity, volume control and a save/load tab that makes saves, but not saving anything useful yet - Made enemy markers and name badge not show when too far away. Known Bugs -Player built munitions factories currently don't allow you to purchase weapons -We're already working on a hotfix that should be out in a couple days What we're working on now We still have a lot of polishing to go, but our plans are to look into getting artillery up and running, as well as having a look at bots. If you wanna get in touch with us or report a bug, head on over to our Discord, where we're super active: https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 If you'd like to help support us while we work, we've also go a Patreon and Ko-fi Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TrenchesWIP Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/trencheswip We thank you again for joining us on this journey of development and thank every single person who's spent their time giving feedback or talking with us and the community, it genuinely makes a world of difference! We hope to hear from you all soon :) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/5dec7d07addb1f4e2bc5cbf689f40757f7175772.png -Big OOF Games

Hey everyone! We thought we'd drop a quick line about where you can follow our development. The best place to contact the devs or just have a candid chat with them is over on our Discord: https://discord.gg/X6az5tY It's by far the best place to get in touch and discuss what you'd like to see out of TrenchesWIP, we're also super active there (The community is also really awesome!) Twitter: @TrenchesWIP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trencheswip/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9rH_Vy-14AFPIPRHFjJdrg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trencheswip If you're interested in helping us fund development (and get your names in the credits!), We also have a Patreon over at: https://www.patreon.com/TrenchesWIP And if you're only interested in a one-time payment, we have a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/trencheswip We cannot stress enough how much we appreciate all the help we've had during development and the support from our community is the motivation that fuels us to keep working so hard! We hope to hear from you all soon :) Big OOF Games

Hey everyone! With our next big update right around the corner, we wanted to show off a video of our reworked weapon handling alongside our upcoming firing range map! p.s These changes can already be accessed in the testing branch This can be accessed by going to Properties > Betas > Testing {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/651cf0203cc2818909ff1e3b47a4c82860139e17.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/e087634f1098e3d20b8ad4498eeac26a6f2780df.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/acb3dad43b63400606babd440884d8637a039871.png

Heya everyone! We've noticed a LOT of the same questions popping up over our Discord and Steam, so we thought we'd drop in to answer the most common ones. Q."Is this game WW1 or WW2? I've noticed things from both wars in the game" A. So when we first planned out Trenches (we're a couple weeks off our 1 year anniversary!), we decided to set the game in a fictional alternate-historical setting. The reason for this was primarily a personal one, all the devs are huge nerds for the history of both wars and because of this we didn't want to limit our creative freedom to just one of them. A big advantage to this is it allows us to flex our creative muscles a LOT during development and introduce all the cultures and technology we want to the game! Note: At the current time of this post, we haven't really looked too deeply into the narrative/political/lore side of the game. But as we finalize the gameplay, we'd like to explore the backstory of the setting alongside out community! Q."This weapon, uniform, etc isn't 100% historically accurate" A. One of the core pillars of Trenches development has been to prioritize gameplay over the historical accuracy of it's contents. While we are huge fans of history and want to see it represented, we want to prioritize the balance and gameplayof our weapons and mechanics over anything else. That being said, we do want to preserve the *feeling* of the setting and represent the visuals and technology of the era as much as possible. A good example of this is the Owens SMG, which was modelled to represent the actual gun, but features a lower firerate in order to diversify our SMG range. Q. "How do I build?" A. To build, players must capture a zone on the map (You can see the borders of these zones when you view your map). To capture a zone, you must construct a Command post within the zone. Only zones adjacent to a currently owned zone can be captured*. To construct buildings, press F to bring up your hammer and hold F to open your build menu. You can navigate the build menu with the scroll wheel, LMB and RMB. All buildings require Requisition, which can be acquired by harvesting trees using your axe. Once a Command post is constructed, all other buildings can be built within that zone. Q. "How do I get weapons?" A. Players can craft weapons from the Munitions factory NOTE: We plan to change this in an upcoming patch. This will remove the crafting element and players will be able to purchase weapons by grabbing them off the tables in the munitions factory. Q. "It won't let me place buildings anywhere" A. Currently the PvE map is really outdated and for the time being, building does not function in the mode, this is due to the addition of the terrain deformation system, which required us to alter our building system. Q. "How do you fly the planes?" A. Currently you can pilot the planes by controlling the speed with W and S and the nose with the arrow keys. We do intent to change this in the future. If you have any other questions, I'm more than happy to answer this in the comments or have a discussion over on our Discord: https://discord.gg/BZ45sDE We're super active over on there and love to hear from our community! Trenches has come a long way since our first release, and has an even longer way to go! (I'd say we're roughly 10% through development) But we're excited to be taking this journey alongside our wonderful community, so a big thanks from all of us at Big OOF Games. If you'd like to help support the development of the game, we have a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TrenchesWIP Every dollar helps us push the game closer to completion! Thanks again for everyone's help -Big OOF Games

Howdy everyone! Despite the awful period that is Covid-19, Big OOF Games have still been hard at work developing Trenches. Over the last couple of weeks, we've spent a lot of time going through the game with a fine-tooth comb and fixing up every little bug and issue thats constituted to lower performance and high network lag. The good news is, we've made major strides in our tests! So what are some of the major changes in this update? PVP MODE The PVP mode now has a full gameplay loop! Players are tasked with capturing territory by constructing Command posts; once built, the regions can then be fortified with a variety of defenses and production buildings. If a team can destroy all enemy Command posts, they will win after a short period of time (the enemy team will be able to construct another Command post during this time, but will be visible to all players) Owen SMG We've added a new SMG to the roster, this one comes from our very own homeland of Australia (The Owen SMG is the only 100% Australian designed and manufactured gun of WW2). We decided to give the Owen a much slower fire rate than their real-life counterpart to give the machine gun roster some variation. The Owen SMG can be crafted from the munition factory. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/156d80f6156506fcc72959ad831b8d68166fdbac.png AUDIO We've been working with an incredibly talented audio engineer to finally bring the quality of sound to a higher standard! Currently a couple weapons and explosions will sound a LOOOOT nicer, as well as some more subtle effects such as footsteps and ambience. Over the course of the next couple months, we should see a massive change is the sound quality! Biplane We've finally given a mesh to the planes! Currently we're still in the super early phases of implimenting planes, so expect many bugs. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/4638d426d271ac63a2a4f04811737519cf47f2ee.png Major network fixes Over the course of development, we've created a lot of small networked elements that've slowly piled up into a LOT of unnecessary network traffic. We're in the process of ironing out as many of these as possible. As of this build, you should encounter a LOT less network lag or connection issues (also way less framerate issues) There's still plenty to do on this front, so expect to still encounter lag here and there. SNEAK PEAK We've also been working a bit on the upcoming cosmetic customization! You can see a cheeky sneak peak at our new French character model (keep an eye out as we'll be uploading sneak peaks now and then) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/93584a13512807168d816199c46dcf2a3aa3f2ea.png Detailed Changelog - Added some UI to warn a player's team that they have no territory and are about to lose. - When a player's team is about to lose a game over countdown begins, and their positions are marked for the enemy to see. - When a loss timer expires, a post game screen appears and shows the player leader board. At which time a small on screen 30 sec timer starts that restarts the map on expiry. - Fixed discord menu link to be unlimited users, unlimited timeframe. - Fixed spline on sandbags - Added Blockades (above ground trench walls) - Added LoDs to a BUNCH of assets that were missing them (this should improve performance a fair bit) - Map camera improvements. It's a lot less buggy, but we're still finding and ironing bugs. - You can now open and close the map while mounting a tank or emplacement. - At the end of a map session, players successfully travel with the server to a new game. - Tank turret no longer spams shells. Needs property tweaks, but otherwise works well. - New build progress indicator for when placing and constructing defences etc. This is set up with states that I can later use to test building upgrading and repairs on stuff. - Removed old 3D text on buildings while building. - Seem to have inadvertently fixed a lot of hammer bugs. Not all. - Client-sided the blueprint planning placement of structures so that there is no lag when planning where to place a building. - Optimised net code on a lot of various actors for less network lag. - Aim down sights now instant on clients. - Added conditions to the build menu to disable and mark red the structures you cannot build while in a territory your team doesn't control. A step towards telling people why they can't build sometimes. - Fixed a game breaking bug, where players would teleport across the map based on the lodding of the server player. - Fixed interaction with production buildings. - Removed 3D text on players and added a proper 2D text that only appears when you look at someone. - Added a red indicator on enemy players when in LOS. - Fixed up some server logic for hosting. - Fixed some buildings not loading on clients. - Patched hot bar and inventory not showing on start for some clients. - Added Owens SMG to munition factory - Fixed crouch hit collider (players collider for being shot was below their waist when crouching) Known bugs - Network response on some objects and actions is still a bit slow - Survival mode is still super broken - Players are launched above mountables when they disembark - Long load time on launch - Spawning will occasionally drop players into the map (press M if this happens) - Spawning will occasionally require a couple clicks in order to spawn WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON Our biggest priority right now is polishing the existing systems, so we'll most likely be focusing on network stability for a while, alongside tweaking a couple features to be more functional. Once that's sorted, we'll be focusing on adding a couple things that can deform the terrain! (artillery, tanks, planes, etc) If you wanna get in touch with us or report a bug, head on over to our Discord, where we're super active: https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 We recently hit 1000 members! If you'd like to help support us while we work, we've also go a Patreon and Ko-fi Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TrenchesWIP Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/trencheswip Thanks again for joining us on this awesome journey of development, we genuinely appreciate all of the feedback and helping hands we've had along the way! More to come soon! - Big OOF Games

UPDATE 0.184 See Testing Branch Update V0.184 for more details Please note: There's been a change to the building system. Players need to capture a zone in order to build within it. To capture a zone, build a spawn flag anywhere within it. We're still in the process of creating tooltips for this. CHANGES - New Map - Terrain Deformation - Simplified economy using only requisition - Restored PvP mode - Added SMLE bolt-action rifle - Added tunnel system - Refined spawning system - New Crafting UI - Added depth-of-field effect when aiming - Added OWENS Service Carbine FIXES - Fixed Spawning bug!!! - Quitting to menu functions correctly - Fixed texture issue on larger rocks - Pickaxe no longer fires tracers lol - Building noise fades with distance KNOWN BUGS - Survival mode is temporarily broken (it didn't survive the transition to terrain deformation) - Can't harvest some very specific trees - Currently no win condition for PvP mode - Vehicles and mountables aren't very stable - Quite a few latency issues - Voxels can occasionally be a bit funky and do some weird things - Some performance issues on higher settings - Spawning occasionally doesn't work for clients (press 0 if this occurs) - Bots are still pretty dumb as heck - Long load times WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON - Making tanks more functional - Artillery - Adding in some more weapons If you happen to find anymore, we'd love to hear from you over on our Discord. All the devs are super active in talking with the community on how to make the best game possible! https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 We'd like to thank everyone who's given the game a test and given us their honest feedback, we hope we can deliver a game that we all want to play! - Big OOF Games

Hey everyone! We've been pretty busy over the last couple of months working on the foundation of the game. Long story short: we wanted to add terrain deformation, but it altered the fundamental way a lot of existing features worked. Due to this, we haven't been in a position to push any hotfixes or updates to the games main branch for quite some time. BUT, we're in a position now where we're able to show off a pretty stable WIP build of the new game foundation. Of course, we're still in the process of adding in a couple of much needed mechanics and there's a host of exciting new bugs for us to test and iron out! :/ Due to the super unstable nature of a lot of the updates we're making, we've added an optional testing branch with all the fancy new features! You can access this by right-clicking on TrenchesWIP, going to Properties, selecting the BETAS tab and choosting 'testing' So what's in this fresh new testing branch you might ask? Terrain Deformation Well buckle up because we've finally added working terrain deformation! most buildings will alter the terrain in some way, from just flattening to cutting into it! Over the coming months as we update our artillery and ordenance systems, there should be some new fun and exciting ways to turn the environment into a muddy hellscape! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/1f551d6610363012825026000a6e69e3a6bcdd57.jpg New Map With the addition of terrain deformation, we needed to create a new map to work with it! so welcome the lush vallies of -*Working Title*- island! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/a4668a07c9849ed955d10abded27a14f38e2f511.png One of the major advantages of all this tinkering to the foundation, is we can now put together maps and alter the playable area super easily, which means we can eventually stretch the playable area of this bad boy to encompass the whole map if we'd like! But what good is a new map if you're fighting against those dang bots? they don't even know how to build! PvP IS BACK Heck yeah! you can now blase away your friends in the new version of our PvP mode. The major difference between this mode and the older ones is that we're incorporating a more dynamic territory control system into it. Now the map is split into sectors and players will need to capture a sector by building a spawn flag within it in order to construct defenses and other buildings. We hope this'll lead to more 'frontline' style combat with teams launching attacks on one anothers entrenches positions. Harvesting resources We finally had a chance to iron out all the kinks in resource harvesting and decided to simplify the hell out of the economy. At the current time, everything uses a single resource now, Requisition. This can be harvested from any trees within the environment. Currently, there's a limited amount that can be harvested from the map, so we're still sorting out the best approach to providing players with a reliable amount in the long term, but this means players can build some really nice structures super easily now! (you also don't need to convert things at the pesky HQ anymore) THAT BLOODY SPAWN ISSUE IS FIXED So we did a huge blunder, when we released our last major update to the main branch, we were aware of an issue with the spawning. Unfortunately in our eagerness to get into terrain deformation, a majority of the base features were broken in the same update that would fix spawning. Due to this, we weren't confident in pushing a hotfix that broke a LOAD of other features until we ironed all of the new content out. BUT REST EASY, FOR THAT DAMN BUG IS NOW PURGED (super sorry to all the people who had a bad time due to this!) Keep in mind that anything is subject to change as we keep refining the player experience, but we hope you have fun with all our hard work! As of this post, there are a couple of known bugs and unfinished features that we're in the process of ironing out (and a lot that were brought to our attention thanks to our many testers). KNOWN BUGS - Palm trees can't be harvested - There currently isn't a win condition in the PvP mode - Vehicles and mountable objects are broken as heck for the time being - A massive variety of latency issues we still need to fix - Voxels can occasionally be really funky and do some very weird things - Occasional perfomance issues on higher settings due to some LoD bugs - Spawning occasionally doesn't work for clients (currently you sometimes need to press 0 to fix) - Bots are still dumb as heck, but they shouldn't clip through barbed wire and structures anymore - Survival mode is preeeeeetty broken in this one, we still need to port the mode over to the new voxel map - Load times are still a bit long If you happen to find anymore, we'd love to hear from you over on our Discord. All the devs are super active in talking with the community on how to make the best game possible! https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 We'd like to thank everyone who's given the game a test and given us their honest feedback, we hope we can deliver a game that we all want to play! - Big OOF Games

Hey hey everyone! So the Team at Big OOF Games has been pretty hard at work since our last update, and we're finally ready to show off some of the spicy new features! We've wanted to add terrain deformation to the game since day 1 (the game is called TrenchesWIP afterall) And so we've been quietly working away at them over the last month of two. To show our progress on how it's all coming along, we've put together a video of us building a small defensive line to show just how easy it is to put together a working base with the new system! There's still plenty more to be done before we're ready to say it's done, but we are aiming to release a very rough build in the coming weeks.

Update - Added tank: Bob Semple - Added friendly bots to the last stand mode - Bots how shot the correct weapons - Updated main menu Known Bugs - Tank physics are pretty unreliable and have a high tendency to flip - Harvesting resources currently isn't working until the pickaxe is implemented

Hey hey everyone! So truth been told, we've been pretty radio-silent over the last couple of months, but the good news is that it's not from a lack of work! So we wanted to go over what we've been working on, and where TrenchesWIP will be going from here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/e6af373555340f1cfef3871b5162f39cbeaa8e7e.png SO WHY THE SILENCE? About 3 months ago, we were invited to present TrenchesWIP at an Unreal Engine meetup in our home city of Brisbane. We realized this was a good opportunity to give us a deadline to get the game into the state we really want. But to make something that'd really "wow" people, we needed to do some pretty big modifications to the core of the game, meaning we wouldn't be able to push a stable, working version of the game for quite some time. BUT ALAS, we did manage to get what we envisioned done by the set time and were pretty damn happy with the outcome. So what exactly was changed you ask? A BIG OL FACELIFT Well the most obvious change is the look of the game. We'd had a pretty good idea of what we wanted TrenchesWIP to look like from the very beginning, but getting it to that look was easier said than done. In the end we have Quixel to thank for implementing their Megascan library into UE4 at the perfect time! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/a9f7cbea43fd79bd5eb0f49d77397ea52f98b692.png WOAH WHERE'D ALL THESE SOLDIERS COME FROM? BOTS, we'd discussed implementing bots into the game for ages, and over the last couple months, we've seen that come to fruition. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/39a6a456b781371a1d62554629a795c2c2fa99ca.png WAIT, WHY CAN'T I FIGHT OTHER PLAYERS ANYMORE? So one of the temporary casualties of this HUGE update is the original PVP mode. In order to get something that was fun and engaging for a presentation build, we decided to pool our efforts into the creation of a wave defense mode. But due to this decision, the original mode has temporarily fallen behind (but not for long) The new mode sees players work together to defend several capture points from increasing waves of AI attackers. Fortunately this mode plays well with less players, allowing us to test mechanics while our current player count is low. WHERE TO FROM HERE? So we've got a big road ahead of us, the first steps being to polish up what we have to make it even better. Additionally, we're experimenting with some terrain deformation (thanks to our wonderful patrons!) That'll hopefully form a big part of the PVP mode. Speaking of which, the PVP mode will be updated back to a playable state shortly! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35438430/4d88dc1044353373148f937d544b3924a34da68d.png THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE We'd just like to thank everyone for their patience and positive reviews. TrenchesWIP has been a rollercoaster of a time and an absolute blast to work on (it's been our dream game tbh) and we hope you'll continue to stick with us while we morph this game into something everyone will love to play! HOW TO STALK US So the big twist is while we haven't talked much on social media, we've been VERY vocal on our Discord (a little bird also told me it's the best way to give the devs your suggestions) Join us across all the social media channels: Discord: https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/trencheswip Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trencheswip/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trencheswip Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrenchesWIP/ We also have a Patreon and a Ko-Fi: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TrenchesWIP Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/trencheswip

Howdy, everyone! Due to the last month being pretty hectic, we’ve been keeping our patch notes in the discord, but now we’re going to post them up here. The latest and current patch on live (0.181) is posted at the top, and then the rest, 0.175 -> 0.180) are posted below that chronologically. =========== 0.181 (CURRENT) =========== - Added a co-operative horde style defence game mode. AI spawn in waves of increasing difficulty until capturing all available flags. How long can your team hold out? - Added a new map to support the new game mode! - Inventory system rewritten for additional flexibility and performance. - Fixed building wrong team flag. - Made some bots for both teams. - Improved bot targeting. - Made bots move to centre of map to hold flag point, till they see enemy to eliminate. - Bots replicate movement to clients from server. - Bots now replicate when they fall into dead state. - Bots rag on death, but rag position is not replicated to everyone. - Bots drop a dog tag on death. - Fixed bots not playing gun fire sound. - Bots de-spawn on death after 60 seconds, so that new bots can take it's place. - Fixed bots not targeting player. - Bots now face movement direction properly. - Added second character mesh - Added hammer and pickaxe mesh - Added first person animations for weapons/tools - Altered some weapon textures - Added first person Pistol animations - New character mesh added to AI. Visual aid differential. - Bots now receive damage from grenades and tank shells. - Bots now throw grenades at both humans and tanks. - Fixed up bullet smoke trails for everything. Previously it would sometimes spawn pointing towards world zero. - Added FPS-Hand animation logic for the Kar98. Equip/Unequip, reload, shoot, run and idle states with some rough audio - Fixed sound attenuation on bot body hits so they can not be heard from all over the map. - All first person meshes are skinned to the same rig now - Added visual effects to hit locations from bullet trails. - Added visual decal effect to hit surface types. - Added random modulating sounds on material hits. Grass / Stone / Metal / etc. - Made AI less accurate. - Made 20% chance to spawn ppsh AI - Tank is set up with material type in order for metal hit effects to fire from bullet trail. - "Single shot magazines" now reload as expected, and their reloads will be shorter the fewer rounds you need to reload. - Buffed kar98 shot cooldown from 1.6 to 1.4 - Replaced physics actor on AI so they flop more realistic and without mesh stretching. - Modified collider on AI so that the bullet trails can go through to the mesh layer and not get blocked by the standard capsule. - Made held weapon actor hide when bot killed. - Bots no longer keep shooting when killed / if they were in the process of it. - Bots can get squished by tank. Still a bit rough, but it works. - Added Panzerfaust anims to project - Re-Added older some map visuals. - Clients now see ballistic visuals. - Added surface material based left/right footstep sounds, for bot walk and run states. - Added surface footstep sounds to player character. - Added a very slight camera shake to player movement. Intensity driven by movement speed. - Reduced jog speed and run slightly, to reduce floaty movement a bit. - Made an indicator that shows up above all teammates including bots. - Indicators hide when obscured from vision. - Added panzerfaust and pickaxe anims - Raised friendly unit indicator height. - Added hammer anims - Fixed memory leaks causing massive built up lag over time on ballistics and grenades. - Clients will now see a third person mesh of the other players instead of floating hands. - Third person mesh no longer red / blue, but instead display proper texture. - Massive refactor of file structure as well as a big project clean up which needed to happen. - Debugged and optimised existing UI at the time. - Debugged AI and explored ways to optimise them. - Upgraded to Unreal Engine 4.24 - Fixed the hot bar which stopped working as desired - Made player auto equip first slotted weapon on spawn. - New spawn map and map visuals. Camera now flies in and out of the soldiers head when viewing the map or spawn map. You can now see the entire 3D field from a top down perspective, rather than a texture. - Laying the groundwork for UI that doesn't look like hot garbage - Gave the main menu scene and main menu UI a bit of a face lift - Set up an out of bounds field that we can use to auto kill / warn the player with. Players will die after 10 seconds of stepping outside of the field and ignoring the warning. - Optimised the input handing to save a good 2ms per frame. - … however, it means our keybinding system has been broken. - Removed legacy code, players shouldn’t notice this change. - Removed the "Ouch that hurt" text - Barbed wire doesn't block bullets again. - Made the hammer build faster. - Made a better mountable Vickers. - Added some effects to the map, such as smoke, embers and wind. - Adjusted spawn map camera starting position and tightened it's logic so that if you try to move it too far from the established world zero, it'll pull you back. - Added some new spawn logic, so that when you're dead and in the map you can click-select a controlled flag location and spawn in a random point around it. - Added some visuals to the main map to make it more alive. - Fixed an error on the minimap component - Buffed m1 garand to 4 shots per second - Buffed m1 garand clip size from 5 to 8 - Shotguns can now reload round by round similarly to the kar98 - Added an artillery strike region that can be spawned in via the AI wave spawner - Removed shotgun red rays. - Improved artillery spawn and effect colouring / duration to better suit the dirt colour. - Fixed damage on the mountable guns, so they can now be destroyed (at least by bots. Yet to test player) - Improved the spawn in around the flag to not clip through mesh as much when spawning in. - Updated the wave spawner with more detailed bot count / wave tracking and patched a death event that was being called more than once (causing odd numbers). - Added some UI elements to reflect the AI wave state - Fixed client spawn in ability and "some" terrain clipping. Still needs some details. - Set up mesh visuals for hands / third person per client basis. Clients mesh was not showing, only the steam name. - Fixed the session ready-up to work on clients machines. - Added random bot title/first/last names for kill cards when they die by a player. You also receive score from killing bots now. - Finalized ingame scope visuals. When aiming down sights with the Mosin Nagant, the screen will be obscured by the scope. - Fixed bug where bots were incapable of receiving regional damage (headshots) - Buffed the crap out of the mosin nagant in terms of reload time and base damage - Can no longer fire while sprinting - Guns no longer fire while dead, or can be fired while dead - All weapons recoil will now be 40% less intense when aiming down sights rather then firing from the hip. - Players move 60% walk speed when aiming down sights - Buffed the 1911 pistol fire rate from 0.175 to 0.125 - Changed the M1 garand, shotgun, and Mosin Nagant to no longer be "automatic" fire rates, and instead be semi auto (one mouse click per round) - Fixed head wobble applying to all clients regardless of it being relevant to local player or not. - Updated / fixed high score board for new mode. - Added more spawn points for bots / waves. - Added a scalar to bot spawn count based on player count. - Set up new game state conditions for a full session loop. It tracks total player deaths, total bot deaths, rounds complete and time elapsed. - Bots auto die if they get stuck or do nothing for too long, to keep the game moving forward. - Capture flag spawn in buttons now refresh state depending on team owned. - Bots get kill recognition when they kill a player. - Vickers now only are considered a player's when they are mounted only. - Bots can now capture flags easier. === OLD PATCHES === =========== 0.175-0.178 =========== - Many trees/other map props can now be destroyed/harvested - Fixed collisions on palm trees - All trees on the map are now harvestable for requisition, as of yet, they don't respawn - All resource nodes are now destroyable via damage (including trees) - - Tanks and planes (and by extension all vehicles) should bloody be able to see everything around them now, without players/buildings vanishing or disappearing. - Nerfed Anti-tank gun to 1500 HP - Made camera in anti-tank gun more "first persony" - Changed mountable component to position characters more appropriately - Added 15 shells to starting inventory of AT gun - Buffed AT gun Max traversal to 16 degrees - AT Guns can now rotate the entire gun by pressing A or D at a rate of 6 degrees per second - Added team scoring and global target score functionality. - Added capture points that display a ring of control. When uncontested, it grants the representing team points every 5 seconds. - Added UI to display current team scores and total score required to win the game. - UI animates to congratulate the winning team. More reward and feedback will be going in later, we have some plans to try out. ;) - Artillery/tank shells no longer fly through meshes/other vehicles - Added meshes+textures for the 2 Farmhouse models - Added reward of an item in conjunction with points when holding capture points. - Fixed change teams / re-spawning at enemy flags bug. - Made the textures sharper on buildings =========== 0.178 =========== - Added MUCH nicer farmhouse meshes - Munition, Light, Heavy and Jeep factory meshes replaced with proper ones - Made some buildables use their proper meshes for placement (StaticMG) - Prevented team damage from anything to reduce griefing - Added credit in our credits section for our Patreon heroes - Removed the 'Y' to destroy HUD that was left in a commit by accident. - Pickaxe no longer has iron sighting. - Medpack works as intended again. You can heal others or yourself. Though atm I don't have a way for healers to tell what another's health is at, so not so useful for healing others yet. - Sticky bombs work again. - Fixed minimap visuals and desync. - Added a basic stroke of color to the minimap to help identify water areas, roads, cliffs and trees. - Removed all starting vehicles apart from the Boats. - Moved the capture points closer together and in a formation that should promote moving up the mainland from the beach. - Removed all flags except the spawn points on carriers to start the game off. - Planes are buildable from a "very rough" airport structure. - Made boats take damage when away from carrier and unpossessed so that they can de-spawn and respawn back at the carrier. - Fixed collision on production building mesh. - Planes can now be easily shot at too deal damage. =========== 0.179 =========== - New networked tank controllers. Driving tanks should “feel lag-less”, we do however need to adjust the tank handling physics and turret turning. -Tank wheel physics to move over terrain; and with track animation. - Implemented effects and sounds to placeholder tank mesh I purchased for testing (needed a specific skeletal setup to test with). - Tanks have weapon fire effects. - Tanks have hit effects. - Tanks have engine smoke. - Implemented some additional and temporary UI - UI tracks tank head rotation and displays as an offset to body forward direction. - Tank UI displays a cardinal direction along top of screen. - Tank UI displays elevation of turret as value. - Tank UI displays speed of vehicle as value. - Implemented ricochet and smoke trail to tank shells. Ricochet works when shot angle is wide. - Implemented destroyed variant of tank which spawns on death, along with explosion, fire and sound effects. - Tank impact sparks on hitting other objects. - Added art for the Tank code rework (specifically the KV1 tracks/suspension meshes) - Added collision meshes for the KV1 body, turret, gun, and sideskirts - Added code for detecting of dynamic damage for tanks. Armor plating and weak spots, shell angle of entry/deflection, and relative armor thickness constitute our “tank damage and penetration” framework - similar in style to other more “sim like” tank damage gameplay you may have seen in other games. - Set up default entry parameters for dedicated servers (not available yet) - Added configuration .INI files for dedicated servers, allowing hosts to launch maps/player counts etc from text files without having the game open (not available yet) - Enabled logging on dedicated servers (not available yet) - Added projectile tank penetration mechanics. - Shells will bounce off a tank if landing at 70 degrees or more - Shells will fail to penetrate if the relative armor of the area it hit is greater then the shell caliber - Shells will penetrate and deal flat damage if their caliber is greater than the relative armor of their hit location - Made tank damage scale by caliber - armor thickness. So that certain hits deal more. - Changed map to be set up as more tank battle team deathmatch for a tank test. - Removed points UI bar for now. - Patched replication distance on tanks. - Tank UI now removes on disembark or death. - Added new map based on the idea of "frontline combat" (A map that is longer then it is wide, hopefully communicating more clearly where the core action will head from each teams perspective) - Added an out of bounds actor that will hurt players if they step outside of it - Added better explosion visuals for the kv1 - Made tank less glitchy on dirt and rock terrain. - Added bots! - They spawn, have health and region damage, minimap markers, movement animation, movement and attack logic, equipped weapon with shooting animations and effects, Ragdoll death, drop dog tag on death and are associated with teams for damage and color consideration. - Fixed hammer not working. - Added tracer effects to weapons, but excluded things like pickaxe, hammer and bombs for example, that do not want it. - Added crosshair with hit-target feedback. - Collision on tank head working. - Production buildings should now not get blocked by building pads message if placed sensibly. - Added simple sounds to hit locations on bots. Headshots spawn a metal tink sound - Simplified crafting of all items. - Removed foundry, in the interest of short term simplification. - Removed drop inventory on death, and replaced with dropping dog tags that can be exchanged at flags for Requisition. - Requisition is only gathered from flags or HQ buildings now in exchange from wood/mineral/dogtags. - Wood gathered from trees. - Minerals gathered from nodes. - Fixed network issues with the tank audio/effects and possession of players. - Removed old tank assets from craftables till they are implemented in the new system. - Fixed tank head collision. - Patched tank shells to radially hurt other players. - Profiled and fixed a major lag spike in the level. - Items can now be crafted/refined in much bigger batches. =========== 0.180 =========== - Added flak cannon mesh - Resized Mosin Nagant to correct scale - fixed up the iron sight locations for some weapons - Added rifle blend tree for animations, characters now strafe while holding their hands out in a gun pose - The new character art is now the default mesh, no more base UE4 mannequin asset. - Added crouch anim instead of TPOSING into the floor - Added second-team texture variant ========== Thanks to everyone who played during our recent indie dev game showcase! It was a fantastic showing all of yall the new content. As always, we’ve still got heaps of bugs to fix especially due to this new content. As of 0.182 our patch notes will return to a more regular and less frantic schedule.

Howdy everyone - our playtest will be up and ready go soon, here's the count down: https://countingdownto.com/?c=2768145 We're primarily testing some new animations for the new character model, the new tweaked economy/crafting changes, and the new KV1 tank controller. Plus shooting each other a whole bunch ;)

Howdy everyone. Ok so, patch 0.173 and 0.174 uncovered a bunch of issues with our game that we really wanted patched and good to go before announcing to the world the list of changes, considering they were frequently changing. Most of the major issues were fixed, theres still some pretty glaring ones we need to address right now, but here are the patch notes for 0.173, and 0.174: 0.173: - Trenches now cost 60 requisitions (as opposed to 4) - Factories now cost 600 req, 200 steel, 150 copper - Tank factories now have 2000 HP - Jeep garage now has 2001 hp - Bridges now cost 150 req and 10 steel - Old Blue Jeep removed from the crafting menu. - Fixed construction blueprint "outlines" scaling incorrectly and totally jank - Tanks can no longer fall through walls - Grenades no longer fall through floors - Resource respawn rate nerfed to 1 node per 30 seconds instead of 1 node per 1 second - Requisition nodes nerfed from 1500 resource to 900 - Copper node nerfed from 300 resource to 50 - Steel node nerfed from 1000 resource to 300 - Tanks now drop requisition nodes to the world when killed - HQ flags are now no longer destroyable - Tracer rounds orient properly when fired - GUN REWORK - We've rewritten how our guns work under the hood to better let us extend them with unique functionality, new types of guns, multiple guns per entity (tanks, battleships ;) etc ). As an end-user, you won't notice a change immediately, but we should be able to make more dynamic gun content in the future. - Gun rework totally erased the old bug where reloading and swapping weapons would destroy the new gun's ammunition. - Gun rework allows guns to now hold ammunition in their magazine when not in use, so if you fire 3 rounds out of a pistol and swap to the shotgun, when you eventually swap back the pistol will still have 3 rounds fired. - Gun rework fixed sticky bomb spam - Gun damage is now shown on the HUD - Fixed bug where players spawn with no gun in their hand - Buffed 1911 pistol to 20 damage - Added the Renault FT, a cheap light tank. It has 300 hp, deals 60 damage per shot, and has a respectable fire rate. Don't expect to be sieging any bases with this thing :wink: It's made of paper and hits about as hard as wet tissue, but should contend with foot soldiers relatively well. Buffs/nerfs according to playtesting to come! - Light tank factory. Currently can only build the Renault FT, but will be where light tanks are built for the immediate future. Much cheaper to build than the standard tank factory - Flag cost increased to 1000 requisition, 600 copper, 400 steel - Changed grenades from dealing "water" damage to explosion damage (so they now no longer 1 shot a bunch of stuff) - All soldiers are now loosely tracked on the map. You won't know precisely where anyone is, but you can roughly see where the fights and troop movements of the map are occurring. ======================== END 0.173 ==================== 0.174: - Can no longer reload guns that aren't active. Swapping weapons during a reload will cancel the reload (however the reload sound file still plays) - Guns cease firing when swapped out - Some buildings now drop 25% of their resource cost on death, more to follow. - Updated flag pole mesh to make our lives easier developing. - Updated spotlight mesh for the same reason. - Added "reload pose" for when a first-person gun is reloading - Added Aim Down Sights - Added Renault FT (light tank) mesh - Doubled the resolution of all textures (for finished meshes) - Fixed orientation of KAR98 - The Previous patch introduces building blueprints that couldn't be destroyed. This is fixed now. - The previous patch introduced a few build menu related bugs that have since been fixed. - VEHICLES - Vehicles are now getting a slight rework under the hood to be more unified and easier to extend, similar to the gun rework in the last patch. - PLANES! - We now have basic planes in the game. They can shoot unlimited machine gun ammo, and drop bombs. Ballence to follow TM. - Added new map! - We're experimenting with Island-based gameplay and what that means for TrenchesWIP. We've had a lot of good feedback from the community and this maps content will change as needed. - Landing Boats! - We've added a driveable "landing boat" for several players to hunker down in when approaching an enemy shoreline. - Aircraft Carrier! - We've added an Aircraft carrier to the new island map that each team can spawn off of. Aircraft carriers will spawn planes and boats when old planes/boats die. The point of this is just to expose players to the new mechanics and check what the gameplay implications are at large. - Removed almost all items from player starting inventory, players are now required to construct their equipment and ammunition pretty heavily. - Changed several crafting costs. - Medikits - Medkits no longer work, they now fire shotgun shells. :( Will fix this in the near future. - Added M1 Garand mesh - Adjusted the main menu scene to have art more reflective of the current patch, and will likely keep this pattern in the future. Sorry for the long-overdue patch notes everyone!

Hey everyone! Thanks to everyone who came along to the playtest and helped us break the heck out of the game. We got to see the new artillery art in there (which was crazy awesome), along with sticky bombs and a new equipment bar, and a few other quality of life changes. Most of the bugs since the test have since been patched. We will be sneaking in a few cheeky hotfixes to 0.172 to get these changes into live before too much damage is done ;) Here are the 0.172 Patch notes: - Bit of cheeky code refactoring to make the subsequent building nerfs way easier - Made all bunkers cost 400 requisitions and 200 steel - Set all factories to 600 HP - Set all trenches to 2000 HP - Set light post HP to 200 - LMG's now cost 50 steel and 200 requisition - AT Gun now costs 50 copper, 100 Steel, 100 Requisition - Set wall HP to 12000 - Tank factories cost 1500 Requisition, 900 Steel, 150 Copper - Replaced all broadleaf trees with pine tres trees for now (to squeeze some extra FPS) - Added massive section of flatland map rich in resources - Guns now fire "Tracer rounds" on occasion when fired - Hammer "tink" on buildings sound distance significantly reduced - Added Dynamite mesh, fixed the shininess of a lot of assets - Replaced placeholder mesh for KV1 and Artillery (THE THICC BOI ARTY HAS ARRIVED) - Reduced size of mini-map on screen. - Moved old player data to the leaderboard. - Weapons are now craftable and equippable. - Added corresponding weapon items/crafting setups. - Items can now be stored on a players 'Equipment bar' - This equipment bar has been designed to be used in tanks/vehicles/other types of players etc, so expect that functionality a few patches down the line - Equipment bar fade hides inactivity (1s) and shows on scroll or 1-6 key input. Selection to another weapon via LMB when highlighting the desired item. Selection different from main hand item swaps and closes bar visual immediately. - Added stickybombs. Stickybombs are thrown with Left mouse Button, and detonated with right mouse button. - Added Medkits. Medkits will heal either yourself, or a player you're aiming at depending on which mouse button you press. - Medkits have infinite ammo. - Added Medkit mesh - Added UI sound effect when navigating equipment bar. - Made equipment bar stay open when UI is focussed / mouse is visible. Hover tooltip now works with these items too. - Items from slots in the inventory can now be moved to the equipment bar for use! - Items can be moved from the equipment bar to the inventory. - Items can now be dropped to the world from the equipment bar. - Patched glitchy KV1 collision. Not perfect, but at least it isn't the most anxious tank in existence anymore. - Fixed dupe bugs and drag / dropping / swapping of items from the equipment bar to the inventory and vice versa. Should be good to go for next patch - Smoothened out main terrain areas and fixed a lot of the tilted trees. - Dead players drop equipment slot items as well as inventory. - Coloured the high score player entries by their team colour. - Added a simple sound effect when placing the sticky bomb TnT, when triggering TnT and health pack sounds so that players know something is happening. ----------------- Phew. Big patch lists are what we like to see! Thanks again for anyone that got to come along and blow some cheeky brums up with those stickybombs, and explore the large new flatland area we added to the game. We must have had over 50 people come and go across the course of the night - after we left the server running into the late evening ;) The moment we opened up larger flattish areas suddenly everyone began spamming vehicles more. It would be fantastic to see that trend continue to the other types of vehicle content we want to add in the future. Happy Trenching!

Hey there everyone, we're going to be uploading and testing 0.172 in a few hours, we would love for you to come along. We've got a number of new mechanics we're playing with, equipping weapons, sticky bombs, MEDKITS! All highly experimental, all UNTESTED. Hopefully, we don't break anything too much ey?

Hey everyone, thanks so much for playing the test! Everything went (mostly) smoothly, and we had some pretty awesome base sieging and firefights with 15+ players. Was an absolute blast. Here are the 0.171 Patch notes: - When canceling a message in chat, you can move fully again. It would get you stuck till you click once before this change. - Fixed the mag dry sound playing on the hammer and pick. - Re-Added and fixed building scuttling functionality to work with the new inventory setup. You can now "deconstruct" buildings currently in progress by pressing and holding 'Right Mouse Btn' to scuttle incomplete structures. - Most trees and rocks are now harvestable via the pickaxe (we have some bugs associated with this resulting in not all rocks being harvestable, and sometimes awarding 0 copper) Trees give you requisition, rocks give steel. There's a random chance of getting copper when harvesting rock (it a 10 in 100 chance). Harvestable item types are placeholder and will be set up correctly in the future, such as wood instead of requisition and stone instead of steel. Steel will be a special rock type. - Fixed the 'm' key while chatting so that it won't cause a loss of focus of the text entry field. - Fixed barbed wire damaging each other. - Gave AT guns ability to rotate left and right. Tidied up turn logic on this gun so it's smoother to interpolate and clamps appropriately. - Added our Discord invite link in the main menu as a tester for hyperlink use. It opens the Steam overlay web browser, so it's not as overly intrusive as an actual browser. - Landmines are no longer invisible (if they weren't frustrating enough before ;) - Items can no longer be duplicated between inventories (hope you had fun with this while it lasted ;) ) -------------- Excited to keep adding polish and features to the game! If you haven't dropped by the discord yet, feel free to here: https://discord.gg/ns7QZp6 - We would love to hear from you!

Hey everyone, 'Monkey' is now hosting up our 0.171 build for playtesting. If you want to come along, make sure to force steam to update your copy of TrenchesWIP (give it a cheeky restart). We've added a few experimental features like the ability to gather requisition, steel, and copper from the different surface types of our world - so rocks and trees will be able to grant resources. We also touched up the AT gun a bit - more patch notes to come post playtest. Hopefully, we see yall there!

Well, that playtest was AWESOME! Thank you so much for everyone who came along, we had a few big fights, tanks sieging a trench line, lots of cheeky harassment by the blues. As always, we found bugs so thanks for that. Here are the 0.170 Patchnotes: - Removed some old floaty mesh around the map and some null objects for clean up. - Polished the main menu layout a tad. - Polished the spawn map a tad. - Added indicators when connecting/failed to connect. - Added logic that should allow jumping to another server when already connected to another. Bit unsure as to the reliability till live. - Collapsed ping for now, as the service is borked with "presence" servers. May also affect player count, but Idk for sure yet. - Fixed layout of spawn map widget for different resolutions. - Reduced the pickiness of vehicle pads. - Added/Fixed armored plates crafting. - Added/Fixed Bullets/Rifle Ammo crafting. - Fixed a critical error from some bad casting logic. - Buildings no longer vomit walls of red text when damaged by barbed wire - Added dev color to chat log - Added PPSH and Vickers MG mesh to their respective weapons - Removed the horrid 'TAB' to cycle/change focus of UI. Tab no longer targets text box input. - Revamped the leader board UI and included ranking by K/D score. - Leader board should (hopefully) show your avatar and ping. I need to test this on a build to know. - Made the chat window show a "Press 'T' to send message" placeholder while the actual text field is disabled; Only till 'T' is pressed. It disables again on loss of focus. - (Needs online test) Added an experimental way for the server browser to display current player counts. - Made resource nodes spawn on the contour of the landscape. - Mines no longer have a red outline and do not use a sphere collider for physics anymore. The mine falls to the ground in a manner you would expect. - Rocket launcher should no longer launch you. - Mines no longer interact with pawns on a physics level due to dodgy behavior when walking over them. - Found a pretty good way to have both middle mouse click to release or lock the mouse, along with the ability to simply open some UI and have the mouse present till closed where it then goes away. - Opening the inventory or spawn screen unlocks the mouse once more! You can, however, hide the mouse again with the middle mouse if you want to run around with it open. Toggling 'I' will once again close the open inventory and hide the mouse. - The mouse is unlocked once again on spawn screen startup. - Fixed generic leaderboard bug. Whichever bug specifically that was, nobody will ever know ;) - Map is now only open while holding 'M' - Added a proper grenade explosion effect! It changes slightly depending on the surface that it detonates on. So far things like metal, concrete/rock, grass, mud and wood. Still no water detonate effect, but soonTM. - Added Watchtower to buildable structures. - Added AT gun to blueprint mesh and updated old mounting code to behave as tanks do currently. Only up/down rotation and gun data, as it's a stationary gun at this time and does not move-- yet. Woot! (ALSO currently quite bugged) - Fixed up the production building's UI and logic for displaying blocked builds and the missing required items. - Cleared some unnecessary urgent debug messages to reduce player confusion. - Made grenade damage environmental based, so that it should damage anything disregarding teams. (It's just too weird not to receive damage from an explosion you're standing on) ;) - Made "AUTO CRAFTING" way more reliable. Build orders that need items will properly updated when new required items are added to the crafting building. - Further fixed UI toggling and cleaned up old code for efficiency. - Optimized framerate some more - Tweaked PPSH and 1911 gun textures to have more accurate reflections - Made bullets cheaper to craft. - Made rifle bullets cheaper to craft. --------------------------------------------- Lots of changes this week! Plenty of quality of life changes. Our playtests over the last few weeks have really helped highlight just how frustrating some of our UI related bugs have been for everyone, so we fixed those asap. We've optimized the framerate a fair bit, both in art visuals and CPU logic, so players should observe some speedups there (more to come). And we've also been doing a lot of dedicated servers related RnD, so those will be around the corner in the next month or so. Thanks again for everyone that came along to the playtest.

Monkey is hosting v0.170 for playtesting right now! Make sure to force steam to update TrenchesWIP! Would be awesome to see you all at the playtest. p.s (Server is in Australia, so anyone outside Oceana might be a tad laggy, so apologies)

Hey everyone, cheeky patch in here getting ready for our playtest. Quality of life changes + team wide pings. I sat down and did a chunk of optimization for our level, so players should see a bit of a speed up there. Here are the 0.166 Patch notes: - Significantly optimized building rendering (7-10x speed up) - Significantly optimized key trees that were crazy expensive. - Started laying the groundwork for inventory inspection, currently pressing "K" will inspect the inventory of tanks. - Added the first iteration of inspecting code, pretty sure it's exploitable but it'll work - Added "Press E to interact" widget for tanks/guns (anything marked interactable should show it) - Added bloom light shafts to the sun, shrank sun size, removed the expensive volumetric fog, for now, to try and get the framerate somewhere decent on mid-spec machines - Added team-specific "pings" to the game, Numpad 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc will ping the team where your mouse is pointing with notifications like "Fortify this area!" "Attack this area!" etc. Thanks for playing! We have a lot of new faces playing the games these days, so that's exciting.

Howdy, everyone! The playtest server is up! Please join AnonymousCheese's game. Good luck!

Hey everyone, uploaded 0.165 for tonights playtesting to live. I will also be doing another announcement when we've hosted the server. We have a lot of new faces around, so hopefully, you can make it. It will also be hosted in Australia, so we're sorry for that :'( The ping will be pretty bad. There is also a known issue where if you die with your inventory open its impossible to close it unless you drag it onto the chat. Make sure you force steam to update! Here are the 0.165 patch notes: - Players now drop items on death HELLA DAB - Fixed item duping bug - Cranked tank replication distance up - Made buildings update more frequently; players spawning in a new area dont get buildings when it replicates slowly, investigate - Set new bunkers replication distance to the massive distance all other buildings have - Players can no longer shoot while dead - Veteran tanks now require 2 Armor plates, costing 20 steel each - IMPORTANT - Middle mouse button now toggles Input between Game and UI, making it possible to have inventories open while in-game, this change and the accompanying code changes should make it impossible to become locked out of the UI - Visually differentiated m1 and kar98 - Buffed m1 Garand to 50 damage(from 45)(is now capable of 2 shotting a full HP player provided shots are well placed) - Zoom right click is now based on Gun Data - Added Mosin-Nagant, has Zoom FOV of 25 (as opposed to rifle default of 45), deals 30 damage per hit - Players can now equip mosin-nagant - Nerfed Kar98 zoom fov to 55 - Nerfed shotgun zoom fov to 65 - Nerfed 1911 zoom fov to 70 - Halved pistol recoil - Set m1 garand zoom FOV to 40 - Added PPSh-41 Machine gun, 71 round magazine, automatic fire, 8 damage per shot, 0.06s shot cooldown - guns now play dry fire click when out of ammo and attempting to fire - ABOUT TIME, FIXED THE WHITE ICON BUG, icons now actually display their icons - A few keybinds are displayed on the UI now along with an Icon - Game now shows when you toggle between UI and between GAME (Currently bound to middle mouse click, no more getting locked out of the game by the UI) (hopefully) - Deleted river sounds - You can now open the inventory of guns/vehicles you are in, but the behavior of dropping their inventory items is buggy atm - Fixed bunker window height (you can actually shoot through it now lol) - Added Barbed wire field -Made barbed wire less T H I C C -Removed some meshes from level logic that were left over from AGES ago - Added large bunker to buildables - Refactored scroll wheel to look up an array of available weapons - Nerfed Mosin Nagant shot speed

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