Hello Spearhead honorary members,

As you know, we've been really focused on improving our online tech and actually making Arena: Cyber Evolution work on dedicated servers in the last few weeks.

The feature is not fully ready yet, but it’s good enough to be tested and debugged!

This dedicated server architecture is meant to fix/improve the following issues:

• Lag: Your experience will no longer be affected by the host players.
  
  
• Stability: Will fix abrupt match ending issues happening when the host player quits the match or lobby.
  
  
• Competition fairness: No player is the host anymore - which was an unfair advantage.
  

This technology will overall help us to provide ACE players with a much more solid and clean gameplay experience.

While the feature is still in development, we have pushed an early version of it out and we are ready to receive feedback & data that will help us to debug it, which we will do intensively for the next 3 weeks.

You can help us by taking a look at the pre-release version of ACE and let us know of any bug/problem you encounter on our Steam forum.

As of now, the target date for the official launch of the dedicated server build is planned for late November.

It’s been a hardcore topic but we're getting there!

Current list of known major issues:

• Character skins are not carried correctly from lobby to game
  
• Vex’s Ultimate snaps at 45-degree angles
  
• Bots replacing players who left the game have dumb AI
  
• Party composition is disassembled after a match
  
• Party Booster Win bonuses are not working properly
  
• Character attribution switches between players and team
  
• Mission cards do not display an image at end of game
  
• Phuel (Grab Energy) states should be color-coded
  
• Lobby top row should show the bots (if there are any in the match)
  
• Currency balance is not displayed correctly
  
• Characters go down in Z axis when playing around the goal areas
  
• Default server should be EU for European players
  
• Emblems are not carried into the lobby
  
• Bots still play during match end sequence (and they dance while doing so)