Hello Humans!

Apologies for the server connection problems lately, and thank you immensely for your patience as we work to get things resolved.

The servers have had stability issues because right now we're trying to upgrade how they work.

Toward the end of last year, we hired a new server engineer who’s working hard to get everything back on track. (You may have already met them; say hi to ButterOverflow in our official discord[discord.gg]!)

We’ve got a mix of work we’ve done, work that’s almost done, and plans to improve things in the long term.

• Clearing finished matches: Fixed an issue where we weren’t properly cleaning up “old” games from our list of games to connect to. This would cause you to try to connect to a game which was no longer running, which was a major cause of failing to connect to public matches in late December/early January

• Prepared for futured updates: Internally, we’ve cleaned up a bunch of issues that have been making it hard to release new updates to the game as fast as we want. Hopefully, this should make it faster and easier for us to release hotfixes to address bugs in-between our feature releases.

• Dynamic server capacity: We’ve upgraded our game server hosting to use a new system that will auto-scale our capacity. Some of our connection issues have been due to our servers being “full”; moving forward, it will automatically spin up a new game server host as needed.

• Fixing Invisible Enemies: We’ve got a tentative fix for the annoying “invisible enemies” bug that is happening due to game clients getting out of sync with the game server. Alongside that fix, we’ve also added additional logging and metrics to our backend so we can track down if/when it’s still happening and have more info about what’s broken and how to fix it.

• Rebuilding our “Matchmaker”: This is the program running on our servers that helps your game client find a game server to connect to whenever you play online. It’s missing a lot of features that could make it more robust and better at handling errors. And as we want to build out more features for CDDZ, we want a more solid foundation to build upon!

• Better Error Messages: Right now, whenever you have connection issues, the error messages we present aren’t very helpful. They’ll often give some generic troubleshooting advice like “make sure you’re on the latest game version!” even if you already are. We’re planning to make them more specific, and also to include more information on the error screens so that, when you send us a screenshot asking for help, we have more info to work with so that we can provide much better help and troubleshooting.

• Better Server Metrics: (Don’t worry, we don’t mean your personal data! We’re just talking about on our servers.) We’re planning to add more logging and metrics around when server connection issues happen. That way, we can more proactively find issues that are occurring and squash those bugs. Also, this ties back into our previous point about better error messages: on our error screens, we’re hoping to include things like a “request ID” that we can use as part of our customer support to be able to look at our logs and figure out exactly what happened for you, specifically, as our player, when you run into issues. And if we notice things like a big increase in connection failures, we can jump on it right away without having to rely on players reaching out to us before we find the issues.

• Upgrading Unity versions: this isn’t multiplayer-specific, but it will probably help with stability and performance in general. Right now we’re still on a rather old version (2019) and we’re looking to make the upgrade to the latest version soon.

If you do see multiplayer connection issues, you can still let us know by emailing [email protected] or posting on our official discord[discord.gg].

Thank you!

The Doborog Team

Hello Humans!

To celebrate the release of the Ride or Die update we’re running an art competition! Do your friends ride and die for each other in Co-op and battle it out in Last Bot Standing? Do you try to look fashionable on top of a Rip Rider? We’re giving away skins to the winners of 4 categories of artists! If you have screenshots or art of Clone Drones then enter them into the Ride or Die competition!

• The competition starts now! (January 7th)

• Submit your art through this form[inj5jehpdl0.typeform.com] or email https://[email protected]

• All except Best Dressed accept any form of art.

  • Best Dressed will only accept screenshots from the game.

  • Examples of accepted art: Pencil drawings, Clone Drone screenshots, 3D renders, photos of Lego, animations and many more!

• New art only, if it was submitted to previous competitions, it isn’t allowed.

• Art can be disqualified for any reason. 

  • Examples are: being offensive or being made with AI.

• You can work together in groups, if a group project wins, all participants will have the option of a prize.

• You can submit as many entries as you would like, you are only eligible for one prize.

• The competition will end 1 month from now on February 7th at midnight UK time!

• Best Dressed - A screenshot only category. Send us a picture of your favourite bot part combination!

• Your Ride or Dies - A group screenshot or drawing of you and your friends as clone drones!

• Need for Speed - Clone Drones riding stuff, Riprider, Raptor, The Emperor, a hot air balloon, anything!

• Community Pick - All shortlisted art will be entered for this prize and the community will vote for their favourites. The top 3 with the most votes will be winners.

The winners will be picked by Community Judges and the Doborog Team. Entries will be judged on creativity and originality!

The judeges will take 1 week to look at all the entries and decide on winners! At the same time, the community will vote on the winners of the Community Pick category!

• All entrants will get the “Everyone Wins” Emote.

• There will be 3 Winners in each category who will get a choice of one bot skin and one weapon skin.

• The "Good Luck, Have fun" Emote.

• All Winners will have their work featured on Doborog social media!

• If more than one person worked on a submission, they will also get the same prizes!

When you're ready, submit your art here![inj5jehpdl0.typeform.com]

If you have any questions or want to look for friends to work with, join us on discord:

https://discord.gg/doborg

Good luck!

The Doborog Team