OpenFront

Balance · 1

• Nations now save up for hydrogen bombs and stop overreacting to a single warship.

  ai behavior

Content · 3

• Two new music tracks are added.

  music track

• New Dutch province flags are added.

  province flag

• A new Steam exclusive skin drops every month with a popup at launch to claim, equip, or preview it.

  exclusive cosmetic drop

Controls · 3

• Players can hold a key to place a new building instead of upgrading a nearby one.

  building placement

• Mobile now features a permanent quick-build bar for structures, warships, and missiles with tap-to-preview placement and a smaller unit bar.

  quick-build barmobile

• Pressing J sends troops to the ally or teammate under the cursor, and pressing O sends them gold.

  shortcut keybind

System · 10

• The new replay viewer is now the default, allowing players to stop a replay at any moment and carry on playing from there.

  replay feature

• Custom games have received a Win threshold setting which is off by default.

  win threshold

• Ranked FFA has been rebuilt from the ground up with OFstats, making every public FFA game played while signed in rated.

  rating system

• Reworks to nukes, SAMs, MIRVs and range checks made the simulation about 15% faster with a third less worst-case lag and faster click-to-build placement.

  performance

• Players can save their host-lobby and singleplayer settings as named presets and load them from a new button in the header.

  preset system

• Players can now send and accept friend requests, with a new notifications panel on the bell.

  friend request

• Signed-in players can save singleplayer games from the in-game menu and play, rename, share, or delete them from the Solo screen.

  save system

• The O-FAC anti-cheat system continues to receive improvements with banned accounts counts having more than doubled.

  anti-cheat system

• Friends are now kept on the same team in public Duos, Trios and Quads.

  team assignment

• Spectators no longer count towards lobby player numbers.

  spectator count

UI · 10

• A bigger spawn glow is added to make it easier to spot teammates.

  spawn glow

• A new Atlas tab was added to the map picker along with new London and Mexico maps, new greener terrain for Africa, and fixes or reworks for several other maps.

  map picker and map

• Players now receive a thank-you message if a player they reported gets banned.

  ban notification

• Clan tags now show as team names on the team leaderboard.

  clan tag

• The game timer now stays in the corner during Overtime and the Doomsday Clock.

  game timer

• The nuke range circle turns yellow for an alliance-breaking strike and flashes red for a traitor-marking strike.

  nuke warning visual

• Rail previews have been improved.

  rail preview

• Keybinds now display properly on AZERTY and other regional keyboards.

  keyboard support

• Share buttons are added to the top bar and end-of-game screen.

  share button

• An option to hide all cosmetics is added.

  cosmetics option

Fix · 1

• Fixes are implemented for desyncs and disconnects on laggy connections.

  connection stability

Also in this patch4

• Everyone starts at 1,500 rating, and ratings go up or down based on match outcomes and lobby difficulty.

  rating calculation

• V36 lands on Monday 9 November.

  general

• The Ranked FFA queue is retired and replaced by Elo FFA.

  ranked queue

• Season 1 starts with V36, carrying over previous game counts and filtering out banned accounts from the Top 100.

  seasonal ladder