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Greetings! It's been a while since the last Wiki Update and a ton has happened since... from a host of Changelog Updates to quite a few bold innovative new projects, the Wiki (or is a Fandom?) has been changing in so many ways, so start reading!


 * -|Changelog News=

Arras.io
CX has added a note that you must go to and adjust your private server if you want to keep it working. Another server has also been obtained through Patreon, although further optimizations are required, and a few gamemode polls were also made.

Changelog excerpt

 * PATCH 2018.08.22.01
 * Added Open 3TDM to replace 2TDM.
 * Added 4 Teams Domination to replace Mothership.
 * Take over three of the five dominators to win the game!
 * PATCH 2018.08.20.01
 * Added Malefictor, upgraded from Underseer.
 * Press R to stop the drones from moving and turn invisible.
 * Added Swarmer, upgraded from Destroyer.
 * POLL: Which flavor of Domination do you like the most? [CLOSED]
 * 2 Teams Domination - 725 votes
 * 4 Teams Domination - 1332 votes
 * POLL: Which flavor of Open TDM do you like the most? [CLOSED]
 * Open 2TDM - 265 votes
 * Open 3TDM - 627 votes
 * Open 4TDM - 389 votes
 * POLL: What game modes do you like? [CLOSED]
 * FFA - 552 votes
 * TDM - 597 votes
 * Open TDM (TDM without bases) - 673 votes
 * Domination - 978 votes
 * Mothership - 658 votes
 * PATCH 2018.08.17.01
 * Added more base protectors to 2TDM.
 * Increased map size of all gamemodes.
 * Nerfed Triplet.
 * Buffed Mega-3.
 * Buffed Spreadshot
 * Nerfed drone range again.
 * Buffed Booster acceleration but nerfed speed.
 * PATCH 2018.08.16.01
 * Changed AIs' range mechanism.
 * Nerfed drone range.
 * PATCH 2018.08.07.01
 * Removed 4TDM to help with lag issues because the server is less powerful than expected.
 * PATCH 2018.08.06.02
 * Added 2TDM and 4TDM!
 * Thanks to our patrons on Patreon for allowing us a second server!
 * PATCH 2018.08.06.01
 * Added mobile support!
 * Various balance changes.
 * PATCH 2018.07.19.01
 * Added Rifle, upgraded from Sniper.
 * PATCH 2018.07.12.01
 * Nerfed Shotgun.
 * Replaced Portal 4TDM.
 * Added an experimental gamemode Portal Mothership.
 * Motherships spawn on opposing sides of the arena.
 * In the middle of both is a portal.
 * Motherships cannot enter the portal.
 * PATCH 2018.07.04.01
 * Replaced 4TDM.
 * Added experimental gamemode Portal 4TDM.
 * One side of the arena is normal 4TDM, the other is Maze 4TDM.
 * In the middle of both is a portal.
 * Nerfed certain bosses.
 * PATCH 2018.07.03.01
 * Added Eagle, branches off Tri-Angle and Pounder.
 * Moved Shotgun to upgrade from Pounder at Tier 3.
 * Moved Conqueror to upgrade from Destroyer instead.
 * Changed Conqueror to have Destroyer bullet but with slower reload.
 * PATCH 2018.07.02.02
 * Renamed Hepta-Trapper to Septa-Trapper.
 * Renamed Snipe Guard to Bushwhacker again.
 * Renamed Tri-Builder to Architect.
 * PATCH 2018.07.02.01
 * Various balance changes.
 * If you have a private server, make sure to go here and do the required changes to keep your server working!
 * PATCH 2018.06.29.01
 * Moved Bulwark, now upgraded from Twin and Trap Guard.
 * Optimizations so the servers will be less laggy.
 * You should now be able to restore scores even after disconnections from server overloading.
 * PATCH 2018.06.28.01
 * Increased knockback.
 * Changed FFA Maze back to FFA.
 * Added Bulwark, upgraded from Twin and Trapper.
 * Added a limit on how fast you can respawn.
 * PATCH 2018.06.26.03
 * Prediction & other debug information are now hidden unless L is pressed.
 * Latency and client/server speed are still visible by default.
 * PATCH 2018.06.26.02
 * Added Trapper, upgraded from Basic.
 * Added Tri-Trapper, branches off of Trapper.
 * Added Hepta-Trapper, branches off of Tri-Trapper.
 * Added Auto-Overseer, branches off of Overseer.
 * Made Conqueror barrels smaller.
 * Renamed old Trapper to Builder.
 * Changed class tree.
 * PATCH 2018.06.26.01
 * Fixed bug where leaderboard and upgrade choices are missing.
 * Reverted keybinds due to confusion. Click view options for detail.
 * PATCH 2018.06.25.01
 * Buffed Skimmer range.
 * PATCH 2018.06.25.02
 * Made upgrades three columns.
 * Changed keybinds. Click view options for detail.
 * PATCH 2018.06.25.01
 * Replaced Mothership with Maze.
 * FFA except there are obstacles everywhere.
 * Added Pounder, upgraded from Basic.
 * Moved classes like Trappers and Destroyers to upgrade from it.
 * PATCH 2018.06.24.01
 * Fixed UI zoom glitch.
 * Added Patreon page!
 * PATCH 2018.06.23.01
 * Nerfed Trappers.
 * Increased knockback.
 * PATCH 2018.06.11.04
 * Nerfed Mothership.
 * Nerfed Barricade.
 * PATCH 2018.06.11.03
 * Temporarily replaced FFA with Mothership.
 * Destroy the enemy mothership to win the game!
 * PATCH 2018.06.11.02
 * Tanks now last for 15 seconds instead of 8 seconds if a player disconnected.
 * Added experimental tank recovery feature.
 * If a player joins back during the time before the tank is automatically destroyed, they will spawn as their old tank.
 * PATCH 2018.06.11.01
 * Buffed bosses.
 * Added Barricade, upgraded from Minigun and Trapper.


 * -|Event News=

Featured Videos Project
Earlier this month we held a Community Vote about whether to get for the. There was a landslide in favor, & progress is already well underway, with the first batch of dialogue scripts completed & approved by. Because FANDOM has changed their policies about who can get Featured Videos in the past, the overall modus operandi of this project is to prioritize getting videos for as many of the as we can. Since we would likely be able to get videos for higher view-count pages later, we can hold off on those; additionally, should the videos turn out bad, it won’t be a huge problem because we can abandon the project altogether if quality is too low. This is why we are only submitting the only 10 or so scripts first.
 * Rewards
 * This project entails many for users who write scripts (as in, dialogue for a video, not a code script) for video production, including additional rewards for those who write many scripts or the highest quality scripts. These rewards are issued as soon as the video for a given script is produced.


 * Production roadblocks
 * While we the Wikians are ready to submit scripts, there was a legal complication on FANDOM’s end regarding attribution that prevents them from producing the scripts just yet. We are waiting to hear back from FANDOM’s legal counsel before moving forward, but no matter how that turns out, we will end up submitting scripts & getting Featured Videos of some quantity.

New Medals

 * Already added
 * In order to recognize the usefulness of edits,  called  Bot Wielder . Anyone with the skill, including non-Staff, can get a bot & use it to contribute to the Wiki; so, for every 10,000 bot edits contributed, this Medal will be awarded to the operator. If you have the ability & would like to contribute,.


 * Coming up
 * Medals for the Fanon Template standardization project will be awarded as soon as possible to and  for their efforts.
 * Per Thread:180251, numerous Medals will be awarded to contributors to the . As mentioned earlier, video production has been temporarily halted while we wait for a response from FANDOM’s legal counsel, but Medals will be distributed once videos start being produced, so feel free to keep scripting!


 * -|Policy News=

Discord
has finally been completed! It, in addition to the  channel within the server itself, serves to document the  Discord server; it covers server channels (including secret channels), roles, bots, & Guidelines, while also advertising affiliated Discord servers. 

Fanon template consumes all
After the latest Sandbox discussion, it has been decided that all Fanon would be replaced by the Fanon Infobox. The project was performed primarily by with help from  and. Medals will be rewarded to the primary contributors as mentioned earlier.

The end of Fanon notice templates
Since Templates  on, & since Fanon can substitute all of these notices, it has been decided to remove all Fanon Notice Templates (Author, Collab, & Adopted) while also adding the appropriate info to Fanon. To this end, has, using a powerful regex, removed Author. Meanwhile, other users have been manually doing the same to Collab and Adopted.

File Cleanup
The cleanup is going strong, led by  and. So far, all and  files have been mass deleted, reducing our file count by 2,000. After that, was added to every file page. The final step, which will follow shortly, will result in Talk Pages for every Image. After that, will draft some brief policies.

Promotions and Demotions

 * — Demoted to regular user for inactivity.
 * — Promoted to.
 * — Demoted to regular user for inactivity.


 * -|Tech News=

New Gadget!
Thanks to, we have a new gadget, ! This handy script adds a link to quickly create a Talk Page with Talk; if the user is an Administrator, it also protects the talk page. As a bonus, both actions have informative summaries, & the script can be customized to input different wikitext; helpful on occasion. If you create talk pages now and then, it might be worth enabling this gadget, which is accessible to all users! Read more about it.

JavaScript changelog

 * now only loads.
 * The Editor of the Month Tag link was.
 * The Staff Artist Tag no longer appears when a user is On Hiatus.
 * Installed scripts
 * (great title/10)
 * Gadgets
 * now adds.
 * now adds the following:
 * now adds the following:

CSS changelog

 * General
 * was.
 * were.
 * Lists in threads.
 * Header sprites were tweaked.
 * The  is.
 * was &.
 * Light spring cleaning occurred.
 * Bug fixes
 * WikiaNotifications (boxes in the bottom right) were.
 * The join chat button.
 * Infoboxes
 * tags now have.
 * Infobox  tags were  in areas where  does not apply (namely ).
 * Infoboxes now have.
 * Gadgets
 * & were both tweaked.
 * now has:
 * A.
 * Infobox aesthetics.
 * tables.
 * Category Galleries.
 * tables.
 * Category Galleries.

Templates changelog

 * Page
 * The button was replaced with a  button.
 * The “Take the Wiki with you!” Android button to the FANDOM App, rather than our personalized Community App.
 * Template function
 * Infobox now has a parameter to signify when a concept was added to a game.
 * In WDS, you no longer need to prefix links to or File  pages with a colon.
 * Bot updates
 * Author was replaced with Fanon.
 * All Fanon Infoboxes were converted to Fanon.
 * PA, equivalent to, was  on most pages.


 * -|FANDOM News=

All shall perish on the altar of FANDOM
FANDOM has announced that Wiki domain names will change from  to   in early 2019; e.g. the  will go from   to.
 * For those worried
 * Now, many folks do not like this change, & feel that it makes Wikis feel like fan clubs rather than encyclopedic websites with authoritative content. To allay those concerns, it should be noted that this Wiki will not be changing. We are still the, & we will always be a Wiki before everything else. This is merely a formality, the conclusion of the original rebrand in September of 2016.  links will continue to work, so there is no need to update any bookmarks & the like.

Other news

 * The  was completely overhauled.
 * The Android FANDOM App can now be used to &  from your phone, like you can with iOS FANDOM App & our Android Community App.


 * -|Opinion Polls=