Welcome to version 1.9.1.12078 of Midair: Community Edition. This patch has taken some time, but features a massive amount of background work to make new features available. To coincide with this release, the midair.gg website has also had a huge overhaul and will be updated in the coming days. But firstly….

Bring ‘Em Back BYO5 Tourney Saturday Nov 14th

The community is hosting a Bring Your Own 5 tournament this weekend. This tourney will see pre-made teams compete in round robin bo1s format to decide seeding for single elimination knockout playoffs on Dec 5th.

• Tournament Rules
• Standings & Matches
• Community Prize Pool (Currently US$2,000+)
• Midair CE Competitive Discord
• Midair CE Official Discord
• Midair CE Tourney Stream

Midair.gg updates:

Competitive Ladders

Arena and Duel ladders are now live, the format is rankup (you will move up after defeating another team/player) and you are able to directly challenge any opponent. Ladders need serious testing, they are still in a very early stage and will have some issues, if you come across any bugs, please leave in the #bugs discord channel.

Arena Ladder (rules)
– Arena tournament mode is 3v3, best of 7x 1 life rounds, bo3 maps.
– Tempest/Grenade Launcher/Plasma, Hand Grenade, Energy Pack
– You can only be on one team for each ladder (can be in different teams for ctf/arena etc)
To sign up, you’ll need to login and then Create a team and Join the Arena Ladder. You can invite other players on their profile or players can request to join the team from the team page.

Duel Ladder (rules)
– DUEL ladder matches will be played as a best of 3 maps
– First to 10 wins the map
– Tempest/Grenade Launcher/Plasma, Hand Grenade, Energy Pack
Duel has no game mode and maps are currently being designed (play matches on CTF maps right now). To sign up, you’ll need to login and then Join the Duel Ladder.

The Capture The Flag Ladder will be unlocked after the upcoming byo5 tournament.

Midair.gg Store

Cosmetics are here! In total, over 130 skins, voice packs, sprays, trails are in the store for this patch.

Soon after this patch, every beta player will be given free credits to help test the store, and will have one week to use them. After a week has passed, all credits and cosmetic purchases will be reset. In a later patch, XP and rank systems will be enabled which will award players credits for playing matches.

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You will be able to exchange credits in the midair.gg shop or in game when you click the lock icon in-game next to the item in the customize menu (the UI will be changed in a future patch). Note: you will need to have the Steam overlay enabled to purchase ingame.

Midair: Community Edition Patch notes ver 1.9.1.12078

Demos

Demo playback makes a return. Demo playback originally featured in Midair before release, and through several engine upgrades became incredibly broken. Requiring a massive effort from our new team member, Bahke, and many hours of testing to bring it to functioning form.

It is very likely there are still bugs that need to be ironed out.

Demos will be available in-game to download from the Match History tab under Profiles in-game and via your match history on midair.gg. This whole process is still very much work in progress.

Art

• Introducing the male proxy skin! Both male and female player models now have several skins available in the midair.gg store
• Return of the Demonic skin for not only the Tempest, but also the Grenade Launcher and Chaingun, with other weapons to follow
• The Demonic skin set is joined by another version, Putrid
• The Plasma and Blaster have a new model with updated sound and projectile effects.
• Decreased Tempest projectile trail thickness.

Weapon Balance

• The following changes all need more thorough play testing, so please let us know your feedback
• Plasma: Reload has been removed, rate-of-fire is 0.75s and does 84 damage per shot.
• Blaster: ROF slightly slower, clip sized reduced, equip time reduced.
• Combo ‘nade: More impulse.

Arena

• Player input will be locked during the 5 second pre round timer
• When team lives are depleted each player will have 2 lives left each, once an individual player has run out of lives, they will be forced to spec a player on their team.

Maps

You’re now required to click or push any button to enter a map. This will allow displaying of map author, objectives, custom rule-sets, MOTD and more in the future. This will also stop an AFK player from joining the server after a map change. This display page is just a place holder and will get more updates in the future.

• CTF-Cerberus: Fixed bug where flag would fall under the stand
• CTF-Exhumed: Fixed bug where point blank tempest shots didn’t register on the side pillars
• CTF-Elite: More closely aligned collisions on the crane.
• CTF-FatalFortress: has had some optimizations
• CTF-Raptor: has had some spawn tweaks after community feedback
• CTF-RiftValley: fixed a gap on the flag stand that could make projectiles disappear
• CTF-Silvas: A new map inspired by an old classic

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Server

Changed some parameters in the dedicated server install that should increase network performance.

UI

• Credits you have earned or purchased will now show in the main UI.
• Server info has been added, click on a server, click info, and see live details on the players and map in progress.
• Match history returns, with demos being available for download for each match.
• Remove vehicle sensitivity from control settings.

General bug fixes

• Fix spectator name and speed not being shown in first person.
• Fix for an issue where the observer cam would rotate when focused on the flag (this will need solid testing to see if its truly fixed)
• Fixed an issue where players would have infinite energy if they died in an energy conduit (CTF-Authority).
• Fixed an issue where player and flag IFFs was blurry at lower quality settings.
• Fixed the FPS slider.
• Fixed an exploit where jetting into certain angles of buildings could give a player immense speed.
• Fixed an issue where colliding with tight corners of buildings or rocks could instantly kill the player.
• Removed checking for “Manaborn pass” that could cause a delay in spawning.
• Hide ‘Not Enough Players’ text when in local server.
• Removed Discord integration which should fix an issue where players ran Discord in Admin mode.
• Removed some background debugging which should give a general performance boost.
• Fixed an issue that made the flag hologram pop out of the flag when the grab animation was played.
• Added the ability to perma-ban users from individual servers or game wide.
• Tournament mode weapon restrictions should be fixed.
• Projectiles fired right before death by players with a higher ping should no longer go missing. Maybe.
• Applied some optimization to water which should see some performance bumps.
• Fixed a bug that would improperly display points awarded for certain actions while playing CTF.

Stats

Moved stats around on tab menu for better flow and grouped more categorically.

Flag play between teammates are now tracked for both Flag Passes, and Flag Catches among teammates, only if caught in the air.

Flag Capture Assists are now tracked, and added to the tab menu.

Changed Flag capture point system to distribute points to players who helped a flag capture.

• 750 points – If a player grabs from stand first, and captures flag without teams assistance.
• 400 Points – If a player grabs from stand first, team handles flag, and re-takes possession of flag and captures.
• 350 Points – If a player grabs from stand first, but flag is captured by a teammate.
• 250 Points – If a player assists its team in the flag capture (Touched flag at some point).
• 450 Points – If a player captures the flag, but was not first to grab off stand.

• Started collecting Weapon Accuracy Stats
• Added Midair Distance Tracking for both Victim, and Instigating player. (These will not be visible until UI overhaul).
• Added a counter for how many times a player was HIT with a midair.

Known Issues

• Demo play back of flag events can get messed up after using rewind.
• After dying in an Energy Conduit, energy regen is jittery until the next death outside of the energy conduit.
• Vote to make admin can still randomly choose the wrong player.
• Tempest was renamed in the code base and will not be in the default weapon set upon first loading the game with the new patch.
• Arena has a de-sync issue at the start of each round, which appears to be worse the higher the ping.
• Player speed not showing in observer mode when the flag is viewed.
• Match history, match detail pages and player profiles on staging.midair.gg are still a work in progress and will be updated over the next week.

Art

– The new intro movie has had its sound level dropped a bit. It wasn’t mentioned in the last patch notes, but you can also now click to cancel the intro should you wish.
– Fixed blurry UI icons (flags, iffs, death markers etc) at low/medium texture setting.
– Low HP alarm volume slightly reduced and number of beeps reduced to 2 from 3.

General bug fixes

– Fixed flag not being capped if a player picks up the enemy flag while standing on their own flagstand.
– Fixed UnPause timer only showing to the person who used the command.
– Fixed an issue with server performance when bots have been used on the server.
– Fixed typing in the middle of route trail description.
– Added scrollable menu for drills/routes list.
– Added buttons to disable tournament mode and practice mode.

Maps

Minora: Touched up terrain beneath bases.
Kryo: Fixed a floating tree.
Tolar: Moved Red OOB out a little.
NightFlare: Smoothed out tower interior a little, Added 25 health pickup to bottom of tower.
Crystalline: Terrain redo.
Authority: Removed water from the lower level (should improve performance a little).
Coral: Added some decals, fixed gaps in some rocks.
FatalFortress: Applied different glowy material on the bridge cables in mid (should improve performance a little)
Ingonyama: Fixed floating foliage (again lol)
Minora: Expanded OOB a bit
Outpost: Blocked off the mana crack in mid Rift Valley: messed around with the OOB a bit

Known issues

The “energy conduit” on some maps can create an issue where they give infinite energy

New Features and Bug Fixes

Practice Mode

Practice Mode has been added and is available in offline mode or when a server is set to practice mode. This feature includes Route recording and playback as well as Bot Defense Drills to hone your skills against.

5 Second Out of Bounds Grid Flag Timer

You can now take the flag out of bounds for up to 5 seconds before it will automatically return to the flagstand. The flag no longer bounces or instantly drops when touching the OOB grid. Map OOB grid sizes have been adjusted (reduced) to account for this change in mechanic. There is an on screen timer to count it down and an audio alarm component to this mechanic.

This change has been made to better suit LT style gameplay, as the old OOB grid mechanic was not intended to be used without a flag IFF, the goal of this new mechanic is to reduce in-bounds area for hiding and rabbiting with the flag without annihilating flag capper return routes.

If you have any feedback regarding this new mechanic please remember to include the map which you had a positive or negative experience on with the mechanic, as this is vital information for adjusting OOB grid sizes on a per map basis, try not to direct criticism at the mechanic itself rather than the map it is applied to. The first pass of this mechanic with the reduced OOB grid sizes does need testing via pugs.

A side effect of this mechanics change should also solve many bugs associated with the old OOB mechanic, such as getting the flag out of bounds, having the client think that a player dropped a flag when he touched the OOB when he in-fact still has it and other such jank.

Pause Updates

-Added new console command “UnPause”, which shows a 5 second countdown timer.
-Spectators can look around during pause.
-Removed chat spam protection during pause.

Console key

-Changed console to not always be ` (grave); can be bound to whatever now.

AFK Timer

-Added AFK Timer – 60 seconds AFK (no mouse movement) will force spectate, 5 minutes AFK will kick from server.

Changemap Command

-Added new single command to change map for admins – ChangeMap <mapname> instead of RconOverrideNextMap <mapname> followed by RconEndMatch.

New Intro Video

-Added new Midair Community Edition intro movie.

Removed Sniper Rifle from light loadouts.

Fixed a pair of server crashes

Stats

-Added Flag Passes, and Flag Pickup stats. Flags are now tracked by Grabs, Passes, and Pickups
-Fixed weapon kill points from being awarded to players on the same team
-Added point system for Flag Passes, and in field pickups.
-Added Teamkill, and Suicides stats
-Added stats to tab menu, rearranged a bit
-Bug fix for Assists, Deaths, and Kills when a player is shot by one or more players then evacuates. It will still award points for damage inflicted upon a player who evacuates.

-Added Evacuations stat

-Added Evacuations to Scoreboard.

Maps

New Maps

CTF, AR, TDM: Authority
CTF: CrushDepth
CTF: FatalFortress
CTF: Gloomlands
CTF: RiftValley
CTF: Tolar
AR, TDM: Cerberus

Map changes

Aquarena:
-Replaced the water with a variant that should improve performance a bit

BeachBlitz:
-Replaced the water with a variant that should improve performance a bit
-Added ivy to the bases
-Switched the positions of the health & ammo pickups
-Nerfed the strength of the health pickup

Brynhildr:
-Reverted the heightmap to a previous version, restoring many old routes that were no longer possible at the beginning of MACE.
-Chopped down the forest that was located near the flagstand and replaced it with a small hut with a health pickup inside.
-The map has been made a daytime map again, since two of our new snow maps are also night maps as well.
-Smoothed out collision on the flagstand

Coral:

-Replaced the water with a variant that should improve performance a bit
-Fixed blue team’s spawns facing the wrong direction
-Slightly moved a cliff

Chasm:

-Patched a hole in the wall

Drought:

-Removed all the rocks from middle
-The OOB grid has been fixed so that it is a single wall, rather than the weird double OOB boxing situation
-The outer red grid is now also hexagonal
-Revised player spawn density

Elite:

-Reverted the heightmap to a previous version, restoring many old routes that were no longer possible at the beginning of MACE.
-Cleaned up collision on the flagstand a lot
-Removed two front spawns from Elite
-Properly mirrored the map

Exhumed:

-Smoothed out the collision inside and outside of the top tunnel of each pyramid
-Removed collision from small pipes inside of the pyramid
-Properly mirrored the map

Ingonyama:

-Reduced rock outcropping quantity
-Balanced spawn positions on either side of the flagstand
-Properly mirrored the map

Kryosis:

-Fixed floating spawns
-Fixed floating trees

Minora:

-Reverted the heightmap to a previous version, restoring many old routes that were no longer possible at the beginning of MACE.
-Cleaned up collision around the flagstand a lot
-Removed some rocks and cliffs from the map that would commonly disrupt smooth gameplay
-Properly mirrored the map

NightFlare:

-Turned Bloom back on in the postprocess volume for this map
-Made the fog a lighter colour and less thick

Outpost:

-Reverted the heightmap to a previous version, restoring many old routes that were no longer possible at the beginning of MACE.
-Increased Z scale of the map by 8.33% (it’s slightly more vertical now)
-Improved collision on and around the flagstand a lot
-Properly mirrored the map

Raptor:

-Complete overhaul of flagstand area, everything is now much more simple with metal scaffolding mimicking the older versions of Raptor/Iguana
-Patched up a lot of holes and problem areas around the flagstand with blocking volumes
-Removed all roots that would hinder smooth gameplay
-Removed many rocks and trees in problem areas
-Added much more simple collision to the main flagstand trees, disallowing players from climbing up into the heavens
-Players should now be unable to stand still while on parts of the tree, sliding off unless jetting and moving on it
-There is now an invisible 5 second alarming OOB volume up the tree before the simple collision area, which should sound off when a player starts to climb the tree with the flag, giving away their position to players below and punishing them with a flag return if they remain up there
-Increased the heightfog on the map from the previous version which was basically no fog if you turned the volumetric fog off in the settings

Trailblazer:

-Reduced the Z scale of the map by 15% (it’s a bit less vertical now)
-Removed all rocks and cliffs from the map

Tribulus:

-Replaced the water with a variant that should improve performance a bit

Visual changes

-Yellow flag forcefields now no longer have a flag icon on them, this is because the icon was incorrect when compared to the current flag model and would stretch when the forcefield size was changed. These forcefields still act in the same way as previous; instantly dropping the flag, unlike the new OOB mechanic. These forcefields may receive a better icon later.

-The OOB grid has been made twice as transparent and fades out from a closer distance than previously, due to how much less of a threat they are to fast cappers on return routes and the requirements of the ability to play near them and see through them.

Audio

-Enemy flag returned sound volume increased
-Adjusted reward audio for skillshots
-Tweaked skillshot reward values to make higher star ratings more common
-Low HP alarm slightly louder and beeps multiple times

Known Issues

-New Intro Movie volume not tied to in-game audio sliders, sorry for blasting your ears.
-Still cases where flag isn’t capped if passed to a player standing inside their own flag.

Balance

Chaingun

Implemented chaingun overheat. Each bullet fired will heat up the barrel and slow the fire rate, moving faster will cool the barrels.

Nuggets

You are now all about that nuggie life. Health nuggets now heal much faster, heal up to 30hp (up from 25), and they also still stack

Combo Nades

Combo nade has been nerfed a little bit more (due to a fix further down in the patch notes).

-Removed impulse

-Doubled hitbox size

-Reduced explosion radius 33%

-Increased damage to 42

Maps

CTF-BeachBlitz, CTF-Cerberus, CTF-Icedance, CTF-Raptor, and CTF-Zephyr make their debut AR-Chasm has had a number of holes fixed

CTF-Brynhildr had that little rock gap out the back fixed

CTF-NightFlare has had light source increased a skootch

CTF-Kryosis has had a birthday

-Moved bases & flagstands approximately 3 meters to restore pre-MACE grab angles

-Finally properly mirrored, bases & terrain are no longer misaligned by half a meter

-Minor terrain modifications

-A couple of extra spawns (still 50/50 for each side of the base)

-Added more collision volumes to the ramps leading into the base to make movement around them much smoother

Added TDM versions of DM-Blitz and Skyway CTF-Minora, and CTF-Outpost have seen some performance optimisations

Art

Collision fixed on some tree models (looking at you, coral)

Updated nuggie model to show how much of a badass it is

Tempest reload sound adjusted

Skill shots sounds overhauled

General

Death cam has been removed, which should also fix the issue of sometimes staring at the ground on respawn

Implemented initial beta practice mode. Check the menu for the new keybinds.

Low health vignette shouldn’t show in observer mode. For reals this time.

Tab menu updated to show like, heaps more stuff.

Added low hp alarm sound that plays when taking damage at critical health.

Fixed an issue where shooting point blank at flags, powerups, or other effects could cause the projectile to spawn in a direction other than where the crosshair is aimed (nonreg on combo nade seems to be fixed with this, combo might need a small nerf now as it is much more predictable)

Fixed camera positions on a lot of maps

Playing maps in offline mode should now spawn you on a team making the flags work properly

Fixed an issue that was causing floating grass. Not all maps have been updated for this patch

Known bugs

Overheat graphic doesn’t always show for everyone. Apparently if you delete and fully reinstall MACE it comes good

Practice mode appears to be crashing the MA:CE client

General

– Implemented a UE4 feature that should reduce input latency.

– Fall damage has been buffed. You heard me.

– Added FPS FrameRateCap limit slider in the Settings menu via UI (experimental)

– Set Default FOV to 100 from 90.

– Discord Rich Presence should now show the current map.

– Players now correctly render high quality shadows on High and Ultra settings, and players’ own shadow is rendered in first person view.

– Combo grenade inheritance now matches regular hand grenades, hitbox reduced a skootch, players will now receive slightly more impulse at the expense of more self damage.

– CG projectiles are back to being a deeper red but are more colour-blind friendly.

– Railgun now costs 50 energy per shot, damage increased to 50, and can now shoot twice before reloading.

– Blaster hold to charge up secondary fire has been removed because uhh we broke it. Holding the fire button now fires at a fixed rate.

– Fixed an issue where spectator mode would show the “low health” vignette.

– Fixed an issue where sometimes flags were visible through buildings even when flag IFF’s are off.

– Fixed an issue that would cause splash damage to be incorrectly calculated in some cases. – Fixed an issue that was causing powerups to crash servers.

Powerups

– Heal over time heals more granularly over time instead of in chunks.

– Heal over time no longer heals past 200hp.

– Fixed an issue where powerup ammo was only being added client side.

Audio

– Added basic in-game music to each map.

– End game announcer now no longer talks over the final cap announcement.

– End game announcer now always says if your team won or lost.

– Friendly flag carrier killed alarm sound adjusted.

– Power up sound tied to Game Events volume slider in audio options.

Quickvoice Menu

– [VGE] is now ‘Oops!’

– [VVN] [VVY] are now team ‘No’ and ‘Yes’

Maps

– AR-Aquaarena has had an art pass. Added DoubleDamage powerup, more spawns, changed some powerup locations.

– AR-Vertex has had an overhaul including an extended playing area, upper catwalk, quarter pipes and different spawn and powerup locations.

– AR-Skyway gets some updated art.

– AR-Chasm a brand new map has been added to rotation. Check it out and let us know your feedback!

– CTF-Kryosis: Fixed a spawn point that was underground.

– CTF-TwilightGrove: Sun has been repositioned from behind a base to the side. Spawns tweaked.

– CTF-Nightflare: QoL art changes.

– CTF-Trailblazer: Revamped the flagstand and platforms, added building to the centre of the map, updated some artwork, lowered flagstands so they aren’t floating, heavier fog.

– CTF-Outpost: Smoothed out the lip on the flagstand doorways.

– CTF-Drought: The inside of the flagstand is now smooth so players shouldn’t pinball around inside, the OOB should no longer do funky things to a loose flag, and some spawns have moved.

– CTF-Minora: Blocked part of the flagstand where a flag could get caught but a player couldn’t get to it.

– Clouds on most maps now move slower.

– And finally, let’s welcome CTF-Coral back to Midair:CE, ready for play testing after getting its makeup done.

General

– Fixed Map Rotation

– Discord user profile will now display some info about the server a player is on

Maps

– CTF-Outpost: flag position updated

– CTF-Drought: Removed some rocks & cliffs from mid area

– CTF-TwilightGrove: Fixed some lighting issues

– CTF-TwilightGrove: Tweaked Spawns

– CTF-Kryosis: Tweaked spawns

– AR-Skyway: added multishot powerup for testing purposes

– AR-Skyway: Fixed small gap

Audio

– Removed long trails from flag event sounds

– New friendly and enemy flag toss sound

– New friendly flag carrier killed sound

Powerups

– Added Double Damage

– Added Multishot

– Tweaked Fast Energy Regen

– Removed area heal over time and area damage over time

– Added Heal over Time

– Small Health now gives 25 HP

– Health Large now gives 100HP

– Powerups will no longer persist through death

Hotfix for CTF

  – Removed midair/kill distance stat until further notice.

Known Issues:

  – MA C.K & MA C.D will not display a count until midair/kill distance is functional.

Hotfix for CTF server crashing

General:

Powerups

-Multiple powerups/pickups tweaks, fixes and changes (still heavily WIP)

Arena Mode

-Fixed “last life left” game message

Combo Grenade

-Damage decreased from 50 to 35
-Inheritance decreased from 100% to 75%
-Hitbox increased by 15%

Stats

-Increased collection of player statistics
-Added multiple new stats to the scoreboard that are now recorded by the game
-Points changed or added for multiple actions

Art:

-Modular assets received some art upgrades
-Water improved
-Updated Desert Terrain rock textures
-Added warm up desaturation effect
-Changed chaingun & grenade launcher effects

Audio:

-Flag events audio changes and fixes

Maps:

CTF-Drought

-OOB Grid Expanded
-Scale of base structures increased 25%
-Added more spawns
-Increased fog & changed skybox
-Terrain modifications
-Fixed some weird collision out of bounds
-Changed middle area (pillars/rocks)

CTF-Elite

-Added some cacti
-Fixed an issue that was causing the map to be incorrectly bright on low settings

CTF-NightFlare

-Minor base modifications

CTF-TrailBlazer

-Added new platforms for defense players to stand
-Removed some spawns

CTF-TwilightGrove

-Fixed floating foliage

TDM-Calypso, TDM-Crystalline, TDM-Speedway:

-Added modular pads for powerups/pickups to sit on, they should now be much easier to find from range

New Map: TDM-Tribulus

General:

Fixed an issue with powerups crashing AR/CTF

Powerups should now play a sound when you walk over them

Maps: 

Added CTF-Drought

Added AR-Skyway

Fixed collisions on CTF-Trailblazer base

Known issues:

Powerups don’t do a hecking lot rn