v3.27.2-evr.304

Party Hotfix

• Fix: Party members no longer split across opposite teams in arena matches — buildMatch now detects same-ticket entrants on different teams and swaps them with solo players to reunite the party
• Fix: Regression guard for party followers being sent to social lobby instead of following leader into combat (extracted shouldFollowerFindOrCreateSocial with tests)

v3.27.2-evr.303

Changes

• Matchmaking: MinCount reduced from 4 to 2 for Combat mode, allowing faster 1v1 formation after queue delay. Fixed team rating lookup using ticket ID instead of User ID in Combat mode. (#432)
• Cosmetics: Unblocked 20 season/store cosmetic tags that were incorrectly restricted. (#433)
• Notifications: Fixed persistent 99+ notifications by setting correct BattlePass version defaults. (#434)
• Party System: Fixed infinite matchmaking when party leader transitions to social lobby. Refactored lobbyFind to resolve party state early and sync follower mode before authorization. (#435)

All changes authored by he_is_the_cat.

v3.27.2-evr.302

Combat matchmaking overhaul (even teams, dynamic queue timer, party splitting, pair-wise backfill) and infinite matchmaking fix for party followers in social mode.

v3.27.2-evr.301

Party Reliability, Combat Matchmaking, and Display Name Fixes

Bug Fixes

• Backfill race condition — fixed a race where multiple players tried to fill the last slot simultaneously, causing "lobby full" errors and party splits (#416, #425)
• Party slot reservation — leader now waits for followers before submitting matchmaking ticket, preventing solo placement (#410)
• Party persistence — party members no longer lose track of the leader when transitioning between lobby types (#422)
• Display name sync — Discord nickname changes now correctly update in-game; override names are temporary, only locked names are permanent (#411)
• Lobby metadata fallback — handles stale presence data during reconnects instead of erroring (#409)
• Prometheus metric labels — fixed startup metric registration conflict (#415, #426)

New Features

• Combat matchmaking — behind EnableCombatMatchmaking toggle: party splitting for opposing teams, 1v1/2v2 support, uneven teams (3v4, 4v5). Design by @heisthecat31 (#413, #414)

Quality of Life

• Cosmetics — blocked rwd_goal_fx_0009 and rwd_medal_0017 (#404)
• Log noise reduction — demoted 5 expected-behavior warnings to info/debug (#418, #423)

Tools

• Party split detector — diagnostic tool measuring party split rate from production logs (#424)

v3.27.2-evr.300

Bug Fixes

• Cosmetics: Re-block 20 tags that were accidentally unblocked for all players (#407)
• Matchmaking: Party followers now queue for their own match instead of being dumped to social lobby when leader's match is full (#408)
• Lobby Join: Fall back to fresh metadata instead of "internal error" when entrant presence is missing — fixes 106+ occurrences of login failures (#409)

v3.27.2-evr.299

Fix party followers being falsely marked as placed during matchmaking, causing party splits. Fixes #406.

v3.27.2-evr.298

Player Changes

• Unlocked additional cosmetic items for all players — goal effects, medals, and tags that were previously unavailable in character customization are now accessible

Operator/Developer

No operator or API changes in this release.

v3.27.2-evr.297

Changes since v3.27.2-evr.293

Bug Fixes

• fix: OOM crash prevention — VRML startup race, Discord goroutine pileup, matchmaker leak
• fix: eliminate OOM from event queue memory retention
• fix: matchmaking — social-lobby race, party-splitting, nil panics
• fix: GamesPlayedLoad reads ArenaWins+ArenaLosses instead of nonexistent board
• fix: stats injection — validate XPID matches submitter
• fix: cosmetic profile bugs (race condition, NewUnlocks mutation, IsUnlocked check, MarshalJSON typo)
• fix: ambassador error message shows only failing condition(s)
• fix: keep party tickets out of new player team bias swaps

Other

• feat: add disable_matchmaker global setting
• test: expose party split in new player team bias

v3.27.2-evr.293

Matchmaking threshold fix, party stability, RoundClosing status, guild fallback fixes, LSP cleanup.

v3.27.2-evr.275

Party System

• Party Follow Fix: pollFollowPartyLeader now retries when the leader's old match label is unavailable during transitions, instead of permanently giving up. Fixes "unable to follow party leader" errors after matches.

Authentication

• Bearer JWT WebSocket Auth: EVR WebSocket connections accept Authorization: Bearer <jwt> headers.
• Device Auth Token Refresh RPC: New device/auth/refresh endpoint validates refresh tokens by JWT signature.

Match Lifecycle

• MatchHistory Orphan Fix: Async terminate task no longer races with post-match cleanup.