Patch 0.33.1

Patch 0.33.1 was a minor patch, which introduced MCCI's 3rd Birthday, as well as changing the Queue Penalty System and fixed many bugs.

MCCI's 3rd Birthday

• Players can the command /redeem birthday26 to obtain a Birthday Slice cosmetic.
  • The more birthday events the player has attended, the more slices the player will get on their cosmetic.
  • This command is redeemable until June 30, 2026.

Queue Penalty System Changes

Queue penalties have been overhauled to avoid false punishments and to intensify punishments for users who are being intentionally disruptive. Various holes have also been patched that allowed users to escape punishments.

• The system now has two separate punishments:
  • Queue Timeouts prevent you from joining queues for some time. These are not held against you and are just a short timeout from queuing again.
  • Queue Penalties will take away ranked points as punishment. This ignores demotion protection and will cause you to be demoted to a previous rank.
• The reason punishments are handed has changed:
  • If you repeatedly decline competitive matches, you will get a short queue timeout.
  • If you repeatedly leave competitive matches before joining the server, you will get a short queue timeout.
  • If you disconnect from team games frequently you will receive a long queue timeout.
  • If you disconnect from competitive games you will receive long queue timeouts and ranked penalties.
• In Battle Box Quads & Arena, players now have 100 total seconds to reconnect, and can disconnect multiple times as long as it does not exceed 100 seconds in the whole game.
• There is now a remake system active until the start of round 3.
  • During the remake period, players only have 30 seconds to reconnect instead of usual 100 seconds.
  • If any player is offline for 30 seconds during the remake period, the game is instantly cancelled. Any offline players are given a disconnect punishment, any online players are sent back to the hub and lose no RP.
  • Players in parties are not eligible for the remake system. They still only have 30 seconds to rejoin during this period of the game before receiving a punishment, but they cannot cause the game to be cancelled.
• The kit selection timer is now extended by at most 30 seconds up to 40 seconds. If a player needs longer than that to reconnect they can miss a round.
• You can now leave the queue after accepting in Battle Box Arena if necessary, but both frequently declining and frequently leaving after accepting will eventually result in punishments. If you have to leave, this is a better time to cancel the queue than leaving after it starts, but if done too frequently this disrupts other players.
• You are now awarded priority queue if your game is cancelled or remade. The background logic for priority queue has been improved which should make it more effective at getting you into a game first.
• Improved the accuracy of estimate waiting times displayed while in queue.

Bugfixes

• Fixed inventory layouts not saving between maps in Battle Box Arena. Previously saved kit layouts may be reset due to this change.
• Fixed offline players being eligible direct message targets.
• Fixed walls dodged statistic shown in post-game recap not matching actual walls dodged in Hole in the Wall.
• Fixed XP bar going missing after respawning in games.
• Fixed rejoining in the Twilight Trials causing inventory contents to go missing.
• Fixed rejoining in Battle Box causing inventory contents to go missing.
• Fixed rejoining in Battle Box allowing you to duplicate arrows.
• Fixed cobwebs desyncing if placed before the round in Battle Box.
• Changed name of Major Spark of Absorption to Spark of Absorption+.
• Fixed Twilight Trials servers sometimes becoming very laggy.