Beyond all Reason developer blog

Keybinds update: Damaged units selection and PiP

Chronographer — 2026-04-04 09:21:34

Easier micro! New keybind for the default layout gridkeys alt+Q will select damaged units. Also new keybinds for the picture in picture feature.

Now Available: Improved Map Browser

TheMooseIsLoose — 2026-03-31 06:36:33

The map browsing panel in the lobby has received a rework. It now has a better layout, improved previewing, and more searchable metadata including planets and terrain types. Thanks to PtaQ for the contribution.

This Month in BAR: March 2026

PtaQ — 2026-03-24 06:56:02

March focused on making BAR feel better: smarter unit control, major PIP rollout, and big performance gains. Alongside that came UI polish, balance updates, and many QoL fixes.

New Map: Argent Strata

TheMooseIsLoose — 2026-03-10 03:03:14

A frozen island with icey plateaus and multiple pathways to the center. 1v1 SW vs NE. Made by Moose and Beherith.

Now Available: Random Match Generator

TheMooseIsLoose — 2026-03-02 02:11:41

A new button has been added to the singleplayer panel that generates a skirmish on a random map with a sensible amount of AIs. Select AI difficulty for this feature in lobby settings. Also adds AI difficulty level to tooltip when hovering. Thanks to ZainMGit/G_GJeff for the contribution.

Legion development survey results

[Z]ecrus — 2026-02-20 12:43:22

The results for the legion development survey are now available: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNvI79XKw49xQwQOVOEjF8cXnKhwYBwwRkvwUpLvp8Wzrldw/viewanalytics

New Map: Boreal Falls

TheMooseIsLoose — 2026-02-17 07:32:26

1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 battle on ice and snow. NE vs SW. Made by pk76 and Anka.

February Balance Patch + Fixes (Release 2026.02.14-1) + Legion Survey!

PtaQ — 2026-02-16 05:30:11

February Balance Patch (2026.02.14-1) brings targeted unit tweaks, idle auto-heal standardization, QoL improvements to Area Mex queuing. Bonus Legion Balance Survey inside!

New Map: Digsite

TheMooseIsLoose — 2026-02-12 01:38:04

Fields of flowers and purple forests surround an abandoned excavation site. 5v5 NE vs SW. Made by Moose and IceXuick.

This Month in BAR

PtaQ — 2026-02-07 02:34:27

This Month in BAR brings bundled updates from 2026.12.10-1 to 2026.02.07-1, including major UI and mini-map upgrades, new QoL features, Easy-Tax experimental mode, a soft profanity filter, Legion balance changes, and more.

BARbarianAI difficulty profile now visible in display name

TheMooseIsLoose — 2026-01-29 10:20:10

A new feature has been added that displays the difficulty profile of the BARb AIs next to their name in the lobby. Thanks to Arcadiyyyyyyyy for the contribution.

Now Available: Individual and Average OS display in lobby tooltip

TheMooseIsLoose — 2026-01-29 06:28:36

A new feature has been added that displays individual OS values, and the room average, in the tooltip when hovering over a lobby in the battle list. This feature only works when "Show OS" is enabled in lobby settings. Thanks to G_GJeff for the contribution.

Update on the recent servers instability

PtaQ — 2026-01-05 03:32:49

Recent server outages are caused by several software issues, not a single failure, and are currently under investigation. We are improving diagnostics and fixing issues as they are identified, but cannot yet guarantee full stability. Read more for details.

New Starfall Model

ZephyrSkies — 2025-12-28 04:23:39

Hello all <@&1251086136521130016>s! The Starfall has received a new model to replace its Cortex-textured placeholder.

Gridmenu hotkey modifiers are now configurable

RebelNode — 2025-10-27 03:53:02

Gridmenu hotkey modifiers are now configurable

New Player OpenSkill Ratings Are Now Being Hidden

Damgam — 2025-10-15 04:59:33

To reduce confusion with how the balancing system works, new player OpenSkill Ratings are now hidden.

Two Factor Authentication

AuroraTheChocobo — 2025-10-13 11:41:42

You can now enable and manage 2FA at Account -> Security -> 2FA settings. You need to scan the QR code with your authenticator app, and enter the 6 digit code to confirm.

Victory and Defeat game end music is now possible

Damgam — 2025-10-12 01:15:18

You can now add Victory and Defeat custom music to your game! Two new folders will be created in your Custom music directory for this purpose, conveniently called 'victory' and 'defeat' Official Soundtrack for this new feature will come in the future. Please report any issues regarding this, if you find them.

Battle Intro Camera Retired, for now.

Damgam — 2025-08-19 09:31:32

The idea was cool, but the implementation left quite a bit to be desired. So for now, it's gone.

New Battle Intro Camera

Damgam — 2025-08-15 06:26:47

New battle intro camera has been added a couple days ago, and your feedback on that has been heard!

New QoL Feature Arrives + Spotlight on a Few Older Widgets

SuperKitowiec — 2025-08-13 05:55:30

Flameink added a new action that lets you set a persistently targeted unit type - read on for a link to the video presentation. Also, a reminder that Factory Quotas and Quick Share Unit exist.

Legion T3 & T2 Bots, Vehicles and Air Complete! Naval development begins...

ZephyrSkies — 2025-06-24 11:47:04

Attention all <@&1251086136521130016>s, Legion's entire Tier 3 gantry, as well as tier 2 bots, vehicles, and air is now feature complete, and naval development can officially begin full-force! Read on for more details!

Legion June Update Megamix!

ZephyrSkies — 2025-06-14 11:16:00

Attention all <@&1251086136521130016>s, there have been numerous additions made to Legion so far during the month of June. Read on for more details!

!bSet in Singleplayer!

Damgam — 2025-06-05 09:16:58

The `!bset` command now works in Singleplayer! Now the shared sets of !bset commands can be pasted into the formerly useless Singleplayer Chat, and be set in your Advanced Options!

Legion T1 is now complete!

ZephyrSkies — 2025-05-18 02:26:06

Attention all <@&1251086136521130016>s, Legion T1 is now (practically) complete + a feedback form for T1 Vehicles!

Regular release cycle

Sprung — 2025-05-13 06:40:07

We're switching development cycle away from "every change is immediately pushed to everybody, yolo" to a more regular cycle of (reviewed and well-tested) stable release patches

GUI is now at least twice as performant + unit icons are shown with more detail

[teh]Flow — 2025-05-10 05:04:00

Updated Visuals for Scavengers

Damgam — 2025-05-09 10:32:49

New Scav Clouds, Lights Update adapted for Scavenger units and more!

AI Namer Update

Damgam — 2025-04-29 04:17:37

AI Namer has been updated, fixing the names RNG, and making donators and contributors names appear more often

New Legion Floating Towers

ZephyrSkies — 2025-04-26 09:15:53

Hello again to all <@&1251086136521130016>s, Legion just received a new set of floating turret models. This has no impact on balance or general gameplay for now.

Legion Cacophony Remaster + Gelasma

ZephyrSkies — 2025-04-26 01:44:54

To all <@&1251086136521130016> out there, the Cacophony has been remastered and it has a floating version now.

Extra Units Split

Damgam — 2025-04-21 01:12:49

Extra Units have been split into Extra Units Pack and Scavengers Units Pack!

BAR Engine Update!

PtaQ — 2025-04-16 09:06:16

New BAR Recoil Engine update brings visual upgrades, gameplay tweaks, and bugfixes. Includes minimap improvements, better pathfinding, and more!

Now Available: Parties!

TheMooseIsLoose — 2025-04-07 11:59:38

A new tab has been added to the lobby interface for creating/managing parties and accepting/declining invites. This means making parties through the website interface is no longer required. Thanks to MasterBel2 for the contribution.

Legion and Random are once again available in the lobby faction selector in multiplayer

TheMooseIsLoose — 2025-03-23 10:51:45

You can now assign a Random faction selection while in the battle room to either a human or AI player, or Legion if the `experimentallegionfaction` modoption is enabled. Currently SimpleAI is the most functional when assigned to Legion but there is work being done for Barb AIs to make better use of Legion. Read more:

Feedback Needed! Faster Map Downloads?

[T0]Marek — 2025-02-25 03:29:30

We’re testing Cloudflare Pro to speed up map downloads—fill out this form: https://forms.gle/J2Ah8Uecfh2Zgb6y7 to let us know if it helped; otherwise, we’ll assume it’s not worth keeping.

Lobby balance algorithm should now try harder to respect parties

relaxbro — 2025-02-18 10:47:18

The default balance algorithm will now pick `split_noobs` as the balance algorithm when there is either at least one party, or at least one new player. This will have the effect that parties are now more likely to be respected. `split_noobs` will keep parties together if it can find a combination where team ratings are roughly equal and team standard deviations are roughly equal. The prior algorithm, `loser_picks` , would only keep parties if it could create a counter party of equal size and roughly equal skill and standard deviation. Often it couldn't create a counter party which meant disbanding the original party. If you are still experiencing your party getting disbanded, you can also try the command: `!balancealgorithm respect_avoids` This algorithm keeps parties together if it can find a combination where team ratings are roughly equal. It doesn't check for standard deviation so is even more likely to keep parties than `split_noobs`. It also tries to keep players you are avoiding seperate from you - but avoiding takes lower priority than parties. You can use `$explain` to see what algorithm is being used.

Legion and Random in the Choose Faction dialog have been temporarily gated to Singleplayer only

TheMooseIsLoose — 2025-02-18 02:43:18

An issue was discovered with multiplayer games that had a player or AI with the above chosen as faction swapped to another after pregame placement, and queued buildings removed.

Breaking Change: Widgets folder restructuring

WatchTheFort — 2025-02-17 03:10:41

luaui\Widgets folder has had all non-widget Lua files moved out of it

Legion and Random now available in the Choose Faction dialog

TheMooseIsLoose — 2025-02-17 02:53:35

If you enable `experimentallegionfaction` in modoptions, Legion will be added to the menu that appears when you right click a user or AI and Change Faction. This means AIs can now have Legion assigned as their faction, however AI performance when assigned to Legion is still a work in progress, as this faction is still in development.

Simple Skirmish interface is now available in the lobby

TheMooseIsLoose — 2025-02-06 07:23:04

Simple Skirmish is an interface that offers step-by-step guidance to setting up a Singleplayer game. New installs will get the new simplified mode when the Skirmish button is clicked, existing installs can opt-in via the "Simplified Skirmish" lobby setting. Read more:

New Recoil Engine release is LIVE!

PtaQ — 2025-01-13 03:55:39

Discover the latest Recoil Engine release featuring the new RmlUI framework, enhancing UI design with web technologies. Explore major graphical upgrades, improved gameplay mechanics, and key bug fixes. Special thanks to the dedicated contributors! Check out the full patch notes for detailed insights.

December Lobby Changes Roundup

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-12-29 11:00:51

This is a summary of significant changes to the lobby made this month. Read the full post for details. Thanks to kroIya, Damgam, FIr3baL, and robertthepie for the contributions.

Links clicked in the lobby chat will now ask for a confirmation before opening the URL

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-12-15 01:17:17

The lobby has received an update that makes it so raw links clicked in the lobby chat will now ask for a confirmation before opening the URL.

Replays will now download any content needed to launch

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-12-07 07:08:58

The lobby has received an update enabling the download of any required content to launch Replays, including correct versions of Game, Engine, and Map. Previously the correct version of engine would have to be manually obtained if not already installed, now this is no longer needed. Thanks to Fireball for the contribution.

Openskill win prediction added to player tab in teiserver matches

relaxbro — 2024-12-06 07:21:26

Openskill library win prediction added to player tab in teiserver matches. See full post for details.

New Map: Claymore

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-11-08 09:53:14

A volcanic island of black sand and sparse vegetation. 5-10-15 player FFA. Made by Moose and Beherith.

New features and bugfixes for lobby

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-11-08 09:46:07

The currently used legacy lobby has received several new features and fixes. Thanks to jere500, rlcevg, ryanbennitt, robertthepie, and ZackLK for contributions. See full post for a summary.

Desyncs have been reduced, but still there - Working on it

IceXuick — 2024-10-16 07:27:34

The last 4-5 days have been giving us a lot more desyncs, which we are trying to identify and fix.

New Map: Eclipsed

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-10-01 05:25:19

A macro style map. 1v1 recommended. 2v2s to 5v5s are playable. By AidanNaut.

Advanced Options Panel Update Released

Damgam — 2024-09-16 12:25:23

A few QoL focused changes have been made to Adv. Options panel.

Scavengers Update Released

Damgam — 2024-09-15 12:10:30

Scavenger Cloud can now resurrect wrecks (lore accurate!), also some fixes to Scav Decoy Commanders

Publishing matches datasets

[T0]Marek — 2024-09-14 04:53:52

Check out https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/data-processing for how to access the official matches datasets.

Scavengers Update Released

Damgam — 2024-09-09 09:38:50

We have changed a few things about how scavs are handling being overwhelmed by the players.

Moose Map Updates

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-09-03 10:39:15

I have released updated versions of Rustcrown Canyon, The Rock Jungle, Crystallized Plains, and Wanderlust focusing on improving pathing clarity and the aesthetics of features. Changelog below.

Scavengers Update Released

Damgam — 2024-09-02 09:06:50

We have changed a few things about how scavengers are defending themselves and how they're spawning in.

Bugfix Engine Release 2577

TarnishedKnight — 2024-08-13 08:24:59

Just bug fixes for the recent 2572 engine release. Click through the get the details.

Engine Release 2572

TarnishedKnight — 2024-08-12 08:04:47

The engine was updated recently. Click through to see the details. There are known issues which are also covered.

No Rush is back after a short absence.

Damgam — 2024-08-12 04:37:11

We've heard you, and we've delivered. No Rush mode, that used to be an experimental option, has been brought back to life, with new visual indicators!

SSAO and Bloom rewrites

[teh]Beherith — 2024-08-09 11:34:43

Better looks, less performance hits!

New Construction and Cloak Effects

[teh]Beherith — 2024-08-09 11:32:58

We have unified our shader pipelines to use the same rendering path for units under construction and cloaked units as well. This significantly cuts down on the performance overhead of cloaked units, as well as allows for a nicer animation for units under construction.

Experimental Modoptions phase-out

Damgam — 2024-08-09 11:18:56

We have cleaned up Experimental Options tab from old tests.

Changes to Voting and Boss Mode

DeviousNull — 2024-08-08 07:26:37

We have some pretty significant changes to how lobbies are managed in the pipeline: more settings can now be voted on, and there are changes to how boss-mode is enabled. Here's what you need to know...

Lobby ring sound replaced.

Fireball — 2024-07-22 09:52:49

As long as the in-game ring sound was the same as inside lobby, you couldn't determine if the ring was from the demo, that you watch, or from people in lobby, that are waiting for your readiness.

[Chobby] Replays show more info when hovering

Fireball — 2024-07-20 07:27:05

We extended the replay page to show all players of a demo when hovering. (Initial PR by robert the pie)

Engine 2555 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2024-07-12 08:49:15

A new engine version is available on the test servers, please give it a try and let us know if it is okay. Please read through the list of changes below and test as many of these changes

Game Design Team Update

PtaQ — 2024-07-03 02:22:17

Update on replacing one of the members.

Now lobby can show multiple boss-crowns.

Fireball — 2024-06-30 07:30:43

Now lobby stores the boss-tag per player not per battle.

Website: Map sorting & CoC index

IceXuick — 2024-06-27 02:33:04

The website just got some small QoL improvements. You can now sort maps based on their (first) publications date. And the CoC is a bit better structured and has an index now.

Cortex Dgun Fixed

Hornet — 2024-06-17 08:04:59

In a slightly belated update, Cortex players will likely have sometimes noticed that their Dgun appeared to simply ... not happen. This has now been fixed.

Update on PvE Modoptions Situation

Damgam — 2024-06-17 08:45:12

After seeing many suggestions from people unhappy about the previous changes (Removal of grace period modoptions), I have decided to take a bit different approach.

Legion Vehicles Update 2, now live (and has been for a little bit!)

ZephyrSkies — 2024-06-17 04:42:29

Thanks to the effort of Tharsis, Protar, Flaka, and myself, Legion's Tier 1 vehicle lab has been completely remodeled and made anew. Check 'em out!

Code of Conduct Updated

DeviousNull — 2024-06-15 04:23:05

Attention, Commanders! Several notable changes have been made to our Code of Conduct; read on for a list of the changes.

Season 0 Leaderboards - Hall of Lobsters!

Perfi — 2024-06-10 02:25:09

As promised before, here's the final leaderboard for Ladder Season 0, the long awaited Hall of Lobsters! We'll be sure to put that on the website sometime in the future, but for now, here you go. We'd have posted this earlier, but we were scrambling to finish some other improvements for this season. Now that they're mostly out of the way (announcement coming soon!)... enjoy!

Engine 2511 Released

TarnishedKnight — 2024-06-07 04:27:17

This release is mostly focused on bug fixes and improve the stability of games. Click through to see the details.

Important changes regarding PvE gamemodes modoptions

Damgam — 2024-06-05 04:04:33

PvE just got some of the modoptions removed or limited. You can no longer make these modes easier with the provided options, only harder.

Legion Static Defense Update 3, now live!

ZephyrSkies — 2024-06-03 06:16:01

There's been quite a few defence turrets in Legion's lineup that's either been remodeled or made anew entirely, mainly focused in T2! Check 'em out!

First wave of Legion Models!

Gulphagor — 2024-05-25 11:30:41

Thanks to the efforts of Protar, ZephyrSkies, EnderRobo and Myself(Tharsy), the first wave of legion unit models are complete for your viewing pleasure! - We highly encourage players to use Legion in PVP matches, as unbalanced as they are this is the best way to gather combat data and make the units fun to fight with and against! If in doubt set the match to unranked!

Player APM added to the playerlist ping/cpu tooltip

[teh]Flow — 2024-05-20 01:47:52

You can now view the APM (actions per minute) of a player when you hover over the ping/cpu number in the playerlist.

Engine 2503 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2024-05-15 02:03:49

A new engine version is available on the test servers, please give it a try and let us know if it is okay. Please read through the list of changes below and test as many of these changes

Engine 2472 Released

TarnishedKnight — 2024-05-13 04:42:01

New engine update has been released. Bug fixes and AI update. Click through to get the details of what has changed.

Now available: Search for any game lobby, map, or player

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-05-10 05:59:06

The battle list in lobby now features a search bar at the top to filter by any lobby, player, or map name. Thanks to jere0500 for the PR!

Engine 2472 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2024-05-06 08:06:46

A new engine version is available on the test servers, please give it a try and let us know if it is okay. You can test the latest release candidate by selecting “Engine Test”, under Config, on the Launcher, click Update, then click Start.

Now available: Detect and repair corruption in game data

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-05-06 12:32:47

Chobby's newest feature is something that you hopefully will never have to see; an extension of existing analytics that detects corrupt files and pushes a prompt to repair them after they appear.

Now available: Multi-line input support for commands in custom battles

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-04-23 07:29:53

Thanks to tetrisface for the PR! See contents for more info.

Huge Redesign for Legion, Now In-Progress!

ZephyrSkies — 2024-04-17 04:00:57

Textures for the Legion faction have been finalised, look out for new models and units in the coming months!

New UI framework, looking for frontend wizards to help out!

Hobo_Joe — 2024-04-13 10:19:50

Have you heard the rumors about a new UI? Those rumors are getting close to reality now, we're wrapping up integration of a new UI framework that will enable us to do an rewrite of the *entire* ingame UI. And good news to all you web devs out there, the new UI framework is HTML/CSS based, so you can use your existing skills to help out with BAR - we're looking for new recruits, so read on for more details!

Forgotten announcement - Liche dive removed!

Perfi — 2024-04-09 05:03:01

We forgot to announce this, but thanks to Hornet's deep dive into the mechanics of it, the Liche no longer dives its target if you use the attack command with it, instead of set-target. This removes a "trivia check" for successfully using the unit, while still keeping the set-target functionality as it was before.

Engine Sync Testing

[teh]Beherith — 2024-04-08 02:32:02

We will be running a short trial of falling back to a two month old engine release (2314), to help track down the source of an uptick in desync reports.

Now Available: Favourite maps

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-04-03 10:09:26

The map list in lobby now has the ability to mark your favourite maps with a star. These maps will appear on top.Thanks to yzch for the PR!

Hound weapon toggle no longer uses on/off

Hobo_Joe — 2024-03-26 02:39:51

This means you can toggle hounds weapons while having jammers selected, and it won't turn off the jammers anymore :)

Quicker game and chobby changes propagation

[T0]Marek — 2024-03-17 06:18:11

I've added an improvement to the game and Chobby repositories that reduces the time from commit to update being available for players from average time of 12min (up to ~23min) to ~10s.

New Map: Wanderlust

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-03-14 03:09:42

I have released a remade version of Wanderlust by FlorisXIV. It is a a small 1v1 to 3v3 map with grassy lowlands and dry central upper plateaus. It has a couple of bot only ramps on the northeast and southwest sides.

Minor lobby interface update

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-03-14 01:37:16

Choosing to spectate while in an active position in queue or game will now require a confirmation via popup.

New Map: The Rock Jungle

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-03-02 05:10:26

I have just released a new map, a remake of the classic TheRockJungle by SirArtturi. It is an east vs west teams map with spawns up to 8vs8 in mind. Lots of vegetation and shallow water.

Smart area reclaim limited

Hobo_Joe — 2024-03-02 08:07:00

Smart area reclaim has been the source of a lot of crashes and lag spikes of late, thanks to people accidentally (or not so accidentally) using it to queue up map-wide reclaim commands. It now has limits to the total area and number of commands it can issue to alleviate this problem. Read on for more details!

Stateful factory guard

Hobo_Joe — 2024-03-02 07:59:17

Factory guard has been changed from a global toggle in the settings to a toggleable setting per-factory, next to other factory settings such as move state and fire state. It defaults to off, so make sure to check each game if you're used to this feature!

New Engine version 2358

[teh]Beherith — 2024-02-29 12:44:25

This engine release is a set items piled up during the feature freeze, a large set of wonderful updates by ivand, Sprung, A-Lias, Loveridge, Lamer, Beherith and more.

Adjustments to Pawns, Grunts, Maces, Thugs and Demons!

Perfi — 2024-02-26 10:51:23

- Pawns faster - Grunts slower - Demon builds slower - Maces and Thugs learn to respect and enforce their personal space

Replay site now applies AND, not OR, to player list, thanks Jauggy & Jazcash!

Perfi — 2024-02-17 05:40:48

Go to the [replay site](https://bar-rts.com/replays/?page=1&limit=24&hasBots=false&endedNormally=true) and try it out!

Bugfixes and tiny features

Hobo_Joe — 2024-02-12 08:47:10

A bunch of small items were just merged, nothing groundbreaking but maybe these will give you some relief if you've run into them. Fixed mex handling on several metal maps (note, this won't affect AI), fixed some line drag behavior and added an option related to it, fixed not being able to place buildings on top of other commands (e.g. move), fixed pregame building placement not indicating when a spot is blocked. More details below!

New Dragons, Demons, and Salamanders migrated to base game, along with Fire and Lightning boats.

Hornet — 2024-02-09 10:52:55

After an extended testing period, Fire and Lightning boats from the T2 sea mod option have migrated into base game along with the updated 'carrier'/anti ship. My updated Dragons, Demons, and Salamanders from Release Candidates are now in base game, and Drone Carriers have now moved to Release Candidate Units.

Unbacom removed from BAR

Hobo_Joe — 2024-02-09 02:34:16

Unfortunately camels back has been broken by one last straw, and unbacom has been removed from BAR, and will remain removed indefinitely. In short, it is too unstable and causes too many bugs to remain in its current state. Read on for more details!

Moderation policy change - stricter actions for in-game actions in modded Raptors games

Perfi — 2024-02-07 06:49:27

Here's a slightly delayed update on a moderation policy change. Because we're volunteers with limited time on our hands, we're going to be skipping steps on the escalation ladder for in-game actions, such as griefing, in modded Raptors games, which take a very long time to watch and process. We thus want to dissuade people from doing so in the first place, and hope the modded Raptors community passes this along by word of mouth.

More epic tunes added to BAR soundtrack by our new authors!

PtaQ — 2024-02-07 04:40:30

Exciting news! The BAR soundtrack is leveling up with the addition of talented composers like Leon Devereux, Nathan Sharples, Matteo Dell’Acqua, and Russell Lucas-Nutt. We've been steadily enhancing both the menu and in-game track selections, so be sure to check out the latest tunes!

Mex and geo building completely rewritten!

Hobo_Joe — 2024-02-07 08:13:59

Much of this work was just under-the-hood work to improve some code, but players should also see a pretty substantial improvement to several mex and geo systems, like mex/geo snap, right-click build/updgrade for mexes, and of course area mex! Hopefully it should improve the behavior of Barb AI on some maps as well. Read on for more details!

New Map: Hide and Seek

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-02-07 01:01:12

A remake of the classic Zero-K map Hide and Seek is now available. It is a 1vs1 map that has the start areas closer to middle than the average map and demands players to expand on all sides to survive. Thanks to FlorisXIV for the original!

January's various changes summarized!

Perfi — 2024-02-01 09:51:14

There's been a fair bunch of recent changes that I thought could use summarizing in here :) Order mostly reverse-chronological, just looking at [the recent commits on the master branch of the main repo](https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/commits/master/). This, thus, excludes work happening elsewhere.

Engine Hotfix Released (2300)

TarnishedKnight — 2024-01-31 12:35:09

New engine update has been released. This focuses on addressing the issues identified with the last release. Many thanks for your reports. Click through to get the details of what has changed.

Engine Hotfix Released (2293)

TarnishedKnight — 2024-01-30 10:11:54

New update has been released. The key aspect of this update is fixes for unit movement, so units (especially submarines) shouldn't get trapped and movement should be a little smoother. Click for more information.

Engine Hotfix Release for Testing (2287)

TarnishedKnight — 2024-01-26 01:19:14

Resolved a desync issue with the last hotfix for testing. This has been uploaded onto the test server. If no other major issues arise over the weekend then we plan to release this early next week.

Engine Hotfix Release for Testing (2281)

TarnishedKnight — 2024-01-24 10:12:19

We've had a few more hot fixes in the background, sorry for not creating a blog entry for those! But with this release, I have prepared one this time. This hotfix engine is loaded onto the test server. We plan to release this after this weekend's tournament. So we would be grateful if volunteers would give this engine hotfix and try and report back any issues or whether every is fine. You can test the latest release candidate by selecting “Engine Test”, under Config, on the Launcher, click Update, then click Start. Click through to get the details of what has changed.

Quicker maps downloads from Asia, Australia and the Americas

[T0]Marek — 2024-01-17 10:48:17

I've deployed a change that replicates maps to two additional data centers: one in Western North America and one in Japan. If a map file is not cached in the CDN edge server near the player, it will be fetched from the nearest data center instead of always relying on the data center in Europe.

New Map: Hyperion Shale

TheMooseIsLoose — 2024-01-11 05:33:45

I have released a new map called Hyperion Shale. It is a 5-way FFA map for 5 or 10 people or North vs South for up to 12 people. Feedback welcome in #mapping.

New Launcher Release

[T0]Marek — 2024-01-04 02:16:35

Today, we will start the release process of a new launcher version. Your launchers will start the update process within the next few days.

Engine Hotfix Release (2193)

TarnishedKnight — 2023-12-31 12:09:31

Thank you to our community for reporting back issues with the current engine release. A hotfix release that addresses some of these issues is now live. Further work and investigations are still underway. Please report any issues you encounter with the game. Click through for more information about the issues addressed in this patch release.

Chobby theme update

TheMooseIsLoose — 2023-12-23 05:18:26

I just released an update to the lobby client that optimises image preloading of the theme and other areas. The load saved game menu has been cleaned up and rearranged with a minimap for each save now. Confirmation dialogs for deletion and interrupt loading of saved games have been fixed. Scrollbars are now a bit more vivid when selected.

Large new Heat & Burn Update

IceXuick — 2023-12-21 11:00:23

Legion Heat and Napalm stuff got a long-awaited update. More burn, better heat, and less performance cost.

Legion Air Updates

Hornet — 2023-12-19 01:24:12

Legion Air is now almost complete, along with a shiny new tower. Read on for details!

Benchmark scenarios updates

AKU — 2023-12-18 11:40:49

Reworked collision, pathfinding test.

Engine Hotfix Release (2152)

TarnishedKnight — 2023-12-15 12:12:25

Thank you to our community for reporting back issues with the current engine release. A hotfix release that addresses some of these issues is now live. Please report any issues you encounter with the game. Click through for more information about the issues addressed in this patch release.

Maps metadata organization project finished!

[T0]Marek — 2023-12-13 11:31:35

I can finally declare that the maps metadata project has reached 1.0! Now, when a new map is created, it takes only minutes and a single approval to push a new map to all players instead of days or weeks of the previous error-prone process.

New Map: Azurite Shores

TheMooseIsLoose — 2023-12-12 05:33:37

I just released a new map called Azurite Shores. It should support team games 2vs2 to 8vs8. Give it a try and let me know what your think in #mapping.

The Overwatch team needs your help!

Perfi — 2023-12-11 05:06:36

If you’d like to help us keep BAR a sane place and you’d be up for watching a few replays in a usual week, we’d like you to sign up for the Overwatch team. :) Head to https://discord.com/channels/549281623154229250/1097438343861649458, or read more below.

Looking for testers for gridmenu!

Hobo_Joe — 2023-12-10 11:19:47

I'm looking for people who use gridmenu, and are interested in helping design and playtest changes to it, being a developer is not required!

Areamex improvements

Hobo_Joe — 2023-12-09 01:12:11

Better controls, better flexibility, new features! Now works with any type of mex, supports upgrades and sidegrades and allied mexes, and can be activated by double-selecting any mex type in your buildmenu.

Naval Quality of Life Improvements

Hornet — 2023-12-07 02:19:52

In which Geos Exist, missile ships learn to drive, and air units can be repaired at sea. Read on for details!

Engine Hotfix Release (2142)

TarnishedKnight — 2023-12-05 01:10:18

Engine Hotfix Release (2131)

TarnishedKnight — 2023-12-01 02:18:14

Engine Hotfix Release (2127)

TarnishedKnight — 2023-11-28 10:34:33

Find Every Map!

IceXuick — 2023-11-23 10:19:45

Finally we can visually see the fruits of the long hard work from Marek in centralizing all map data into one location. It's already used to populate the maps in the Lobby, but now it also syncs with the main website.

Engine Hotfix 2118 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2023-11-23 07:53:15

A smaller engine test release to address important issues found in the currently released version of the engine (2113.) Please help us verify the engine version before we push it out as a formal hotfix release.

New engine released with better pathfinding, QoL features and unit behavior improvemets!

PtaQ — 2023-11-23 02:43:01

New game engine update live with QTPFS pathing for improved performance. Highlights include dynamic pathfinding resolution, better unit movement, and enhanced unit behavior. Graphics and quality of life updates, along with various fixes and stability improvements, are also included.

Shiny New Units

Hornet — 2023-11-22 08:22:53

I present some recent productions from the Hornet Halfbakery, for Extra Unit Pack and Legion, already all live and in game.

Improved Unit Compare on website

IceXuick — 2023-11-21 10:42:37

More features, more speed, less bandwidth - overall big improvements.

Incorrect aimpositions of naval units have been fixed

peopleofwalmart — 2023-11-16 08:08:29

A number of naval units had broken assumptions about their aimpositions.

Developers (Micro) Blog now also live on main website

IceXuick — 2023-11-15 12:43:30

As this new blog gained quite a lot of traction among our developers, we decided to also make these awesome blogposts available on the website.

Otago 1.4

TheMooseIsLoose — 2023-11-15 01:04:07

Otago Redux has received an update and a name change.

Unfair advantages - How we moderate spectator and stream cheating

Perfi — 2023-11-13 03:37:09

Let's talk about the spectator cheating point of the code of conduct. As a tl;dr, here's the policy update: In cases of spectator cheating, we skip the standard escalation ladder and go straight to a three weeks suspend. A second strike or any attempt at moderation evasion results in a permanent ban. But read the whole thing or at least skim to the end, and you'll be rewarded with the silliest spec cheating case I've seen to date :)

Engine Update 2097 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2023-11-11 09:08:27

Thank you everyone who took part in PtaQ's test event. Your participation and feedback was a huge help to us in ironing out issues before we launch the new engine. New engine release candidate (rc6) is ready for testing. Please feel free to give it a try and let us know how it goes, good or bad. This is your chance to check the game will run well for you before this gets released.

Raptors and Scavengers gamemodes getting a few significant changes

Damgam — 2023-11-10 01:38:29

Assist Drones and the Base Builder turret has been disabled by default to bring the default PvE experience to be more in-line with the rest of the game.

Discord bot got an upgrade

Teifion — 2023-11-09 03:20:56

Good morning beautiful people. I've spent a bit of time looking at the discord docs and the bot can now do slash commands. Given it is tied directly into the server and very soon will be easily tied to your user account there's a whole bunch of stuff that could be done. If you have any ideas please do post them in #suggestions.

Bosses avoiding players prevents them joining lobbies

Teifion — 2023-11-05 11:18:43

If someone you're avoiding tries to join a lobby you are boss of they are prevented from joining. Becoming boss will not trigger any auto-kick mechanism or similar; this will only affect players trying to join. You can avoid and block players both from the game client and the server website.

Player and Boss Permissions Update

[teh]Beherith — 2023-11-01 02:32:49

Many players have expressed a desire to have a boss in the battle room as a spectator, so that the boss can focus solely on managing it. Also, players still want to be able to vote for some things when a boss is present, and we want to enable that.

Relationship system

Teifion — 2023-10-30 10:53:10

Good morning beautiful people. Inline with the earlier post about server managed lobbies. I'm today posting about something we've had for a little while but wasn't so well known. Relationships! In addition to the obvious ignore you can also avoid and block people.

Dynamic Music of BAR - How does it work and why.

Damgam — 2023-10-28 08:48:36

Dynamic music in games, that is adapting to what's happening on the screen, is something I'm very passionate about. Today I'm gonna explain to you how it works, what kind of challenges have I encountered while writing our music player, and what is currently impossible to do.

Engine Update 2070 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2023-10-28 05:07:42

New engine release candidate (rc5) is ready for testing. Please feel free to give it a try and let us know how it goes, good or bad. This is your chance to check the game will run well for you before this gets released.

Help wanted - updating unit descriptions

Perfi — 2023-10-28 06:52:25

I'm finally picking up on a project I've started a while ago - updates for unit and building descriptions. This initially started because I kept being annoyed with newbies spamming Centurions. And you couldn't blame them - they were described as the "Medium Infantry Bot", sounds like a fine default choice! Back in June I added a PR that changed that to the "Anti-Swarm Bot", and this is now in the game. I don't have stats, but purely anecdotal evidence suggests it's a bit better now. This is a continuation of that - I'd like to ask for your help with it!

RSS Feed!

Perfi — 2023-10-27 05:35:44

Teifion has just added a RSS feed to this microblog! This allows you to subscribe to the blog and get updates whenever, even if you don't want to follow the Discord channel for these updates.

Server Managed Lobbies

Teifion — 2023-10-27 08:38:41

Good news everyone, I've invented a new type of lobby designed to bridge the gap between purely custom lobbies and matchmaking. Server Managed Lobbies have a [tei] bot in them and a lobby name starting with Preset. We even have an experts-only lobby designed for those wanting a more competitive experience. They've actually been here a while but it turns out most people didn't know about them!

Game Design Team update

PtaQ — 2023-10-25 03:56:20

There have been some recent changes within the BAR game design team. It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you of Teddy's departure from the team due to personal reasons, leaving a vacancy in our ranks. After conducting an election, we are delighted to announce the addition of a new member, the esteemed Zecrus! This development is particularly significant as Zecrus, who currently oversees the game's balance, will enhance our coordination efforts. This will help ensure that our gameplay aligns with the philosophy we've set, bridging the gap between daily balance adjustments and the overarching game design. We are confident that this will have a positive impact on the entire development process moving forward.

Engine Update 2060 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2023-10-24 03:26:20

New engine release candidate (rc4) is ready for testing. Please feel free to give it a try and let us know how it goes, good or bad. This is your chance to check the game will run well for you before this gets released. I'm hoping this will be the last test release candidate prior to release.

Moderation policy change - mutes replaced with suspensions

Perfi — 2023-10-24 01:10:45

Here's a slight change to moderation policy: we're completely moving away from applying mutes for now and we're replacing them with suspensions. This is due to technical limitations of the Spring protocol - hopefully in the future the Tachyon protocol will allow us to go back to them. Read more if you're curious about it!

Server update (v1.1.1)

Teifion — 2023-10-24 07:54:57

I'm going to start versioning Teiserver and trying to provide updates where possible, v1.1.1 adds...

Release Candidate Units Modoption now available!

Hornet — 2023-10-22 11:18:03

The 'Expanded T2 vehicles' option has been updated and expanded, into 'Release Candidate Units', which lives under the 'Experimental' tab. This will be a melting pot & balance testbed for units being considered for main game integration. There are two additional units, one of which is brand new to the game.

October 17th game updates outage postmortem

[T0]Marek — 2023-10-21 09:43:34

Last Wednesday we had an outage with downloading game updates. This post is a postmortem about what happened and also provides background on how game distribution works currently in BAR.

Engine Update 2048 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2023-10-20 04:43:10

New engine release candidate (rc3) is ready for testing. Please feel free to give it a try and let us know how it goes, good or bad. This is your chance to check the game will run well for you before this gets released.

Overwatch server improvements

Teifion — 2023-10-19 06:23:33

The Overwatch team are a group of volunteers reviewing player reports and working to enable moderation to work well within BAR. The release earlier this week (the one that went really badly) brought with it some big and some small improvements.

Raptors, Scavengers, and what the heck is going on with PvE development?

Damgam — 2023-10-18 09:05:16

I was taking a break from BAR development due to mild burnout and Autumn season kicking in with grayscale environment outside. But i'm back, and there are quite a few exciting things coming for our PvE crowd!

Server stability issues on 2023-10-18

Teifion — 2023-10-18 08:09:57

As you may have noticed there was a period of approximately an hour when the server went down.

Test Engine Progress

TarnishedKnight — 2023-10-17 08:58:41

Still working through the test feedback from the 2020 and 2031 engine testing so far. It is funny how a seemly simple issue can lead to uncovering a series of related issues. A new engine release candidate (RC) will be coming soon. I'd like to thank everyone who has helped with the testing thus far: you all have been a huge help! More testing and more reports (both good and bad) are welcome!

Playerlist resource sliders

[teh]Flow — 2023-10-15 10:10:01

The playerlist resource bars will now show the non-default position of the yellow energy conversion slider and the red metal/energy overflow slider. The idea came to me while playing in the 8v8 tournament where overflow slider sharing tactics see use.

Engine Update 2031 Ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2023-10-15 07:38:57

New engine release candidate ready for testing. Please feel free to give it a try and let us know how it goes, good or bad. This is your chance to check the game will run well for you before this gets released.

Onyx Cauldron 2.2

TheMooseIsLoose — 2023-10-14 07:06:01

Onyx Cauldron 2.2 is now available. This update addresses the pathing of the shallows being imbalanced between sides for some units, mainly noticeable with subs. These can now cross all shallows, and all water units can now cross the entire river and both loops.

EMP Rework, the Universe, and Everything

Hornet — 2023-10-14 05:54:02

I'm continuing to hack at an improbable number of things, including proper support for unrated games, creating new models and looks for the various Raptor strains, and also working on a motley array of serious and nonserious units, when time allows. My major focus is currently on testing and tuning the EMP Rework, based on feedback, replays and playtesting. Read on to learn more about that!

Engine 2020+ is ready for Testing

TarnishedKnight — 2023-10-13 10:59:11

Faction Design Sheet

IceXuick — 2023-10-12 08:04:10

First concepts done for Armada, Cortex and Legion Faction Design Sheet are done.

QTPFS - a new pathing system

TarnishedKnight — 2023-10-10 02:06:26

Currently in dev-testing, or more precisely I'm dev testing the engine that QTPFS will be merged into: a desync bug has crept up into the mainline engine somewhere, which is being investigated. Once addressed, I think we will be ready to look to deploying to the test server to start the next release cycle testing process (finally!)

Game servers managed with Ansible

[T0]Marek — 2023-10-07 07:28:57

Starting today, all game servers are maintained by the configuration management software, Ansible. This allows us to maintain the game servers more easily through automation, rather than manually handling each server, while minimizing the pesky configuration drift that leads to issues.

Volumetric Effects

[teh]Beherith — 2023-10-02 04:14:32

Ive been working hard on volumetrics, and after a weekend of screwing up color blending in raymarching, I finally got it right! Stay tuned for more :)

Microblog system added

Teifion — 2023-09-30 08:01:43

We've now got a microblogging platform. Players and non-players alike can use the server4 site to see updates from any member of the contributor team.

Beyond all Reason developer blog

Keybinds update: Damaged units selection and PiP

Now Available: Improved Map Browser

This Month in BAR: March 2026

New Map: Argent Strata

Now Available: Random Match Generator

Legion development survey results

New Map: Boreal Falls

February Balance Patch + Fixes (Release 2026.02.14-1) + Legion Survey!

New Map: Digsite

This Month in BAR

BARbarianAI difficulty profile now visible in display name

Now Available: Individual and Average OS display in lobby tooltip

Update on the recent servers instability

New Starfall Model

Gridmenu hotkey modifiers are now configurable

New Player OpenSkill Ratings Are Now Being Hidden

Two Factor Authentication

Victory and Defeat game end music is now possible

Battle Intro Camera Retired, for now.

New Battle Intro Camera

New QoL Feature Arrives + Spotlight on a Few Older Widgets

Legion T3 & T2 Bots, Vehicles and Air Complete! Naval development begins...

Legion June Update Megamix!

!bSet in Singleplayer!

Legion T1 is now complete!

Regular release cycle

GUI is now at least twice as performant + unit icons are shown with more detail

Updated Visuals for Scavengers

AI Namer Update

New Legion Floating Towers

Legion Cacophony Remaster + Gelasma

Extra Units Split

BAR Engine Update!

Now Available: Parties!

Legion and Random are once again available in the lobby faction selector in multiplayer

Feedback Needed! Faster Map Downloads?

Lobby balance algorithm should now try harder to respect parties

Legion and Random in the Choose Faction dialog have been temporarily gated to Singleplayer only

Breaking Change: Widgets folder restructuring

Legion and Random now available in the Choose Faction dialog

Simple Skirmish interface is now available in the lobby

New Recoil Engine release is LIVE!

December Lobby Changes Roundup

Links clicked in the lobby chat will now ask for a confirmation before opening the URL

Replays will now download any content needed to launch

Openskill win prediction added to player tab in teiserver matches

New Map: Claymore

New features and bugfixes for lobby

Desyncs have been reduced, but still there - Working on it

New Map: Eclipsed

Advanced Options Panel Update Released

Scavengers Update Released

Publishing matches datasets

Scavengers Update Released

Moose Map Updates

Scavengers Update Released

Bugfix Engine Release 2577

Engine Release 2572

No Rush is back after a short absence.

SSAO and Bloom rewrites

New Construction and Cloak Effects

Experimental Modoptions phase-out

Changes to Voting and Boss Mode

Lobby ring sound replaced.

[Chobby] Replays show more info when hovering

**Engine 2555 Ready for Testing**

Game Design Team Update

Now lobby can show multiple boss-crowns.

Website: Map sorting & CoC index

Cortex Dgun Fixed

Update on PvE Modoptions Situation

Legion Vehicles Update 2, now live (and has been for a little bit!)

Code of Conduct Updated

Season 0 Leaderboards - Hall of Lobsters!

Engine 2511 Released

Important changes regarding PvE gamemodes modoptions

Legion Static Defense Update 3, now live!

First wave of Legion Models!

Player APM added to the playerlist ping/cpu tooltip

Engine 2555 Ready for Testing