This weeks Player of the week is actualy a draw with Muffinator and myself, however il go ahead and hand over the title to Muffinator:) Congrats Muff and keep up the good work!:)

Voting for this weeks player of the week ends 12am monday, so please go and place your vote as a comment in the appropriate announcement thread thanks!

GENERAL
Small corrections to credits

UI
Improved contrast on tuturial tips and other game messages
Improved contrast for some UI elements (tabs and sub tabs especially)
Improved support for international characters with in game font
Scoreboard ranks now have rank indicators (1 becomes 1st for example)
Rare crash with scoreboards fixed
When playing on a team, you cannot spectate players of the other team outside of the "kill cam", the default player that is shown when you are killed
Some performance improvements

GAMEPLAY

GENERAL
Order of abilities slightly adjusted for consistency across classes. We'll provide a method to move them where you like them soon, but for now, it may require a little adjustment via keybinds for your class to play exactly as it has up to now due to the movement of abilities on the hotbar. Now however, all players for all classes will have a more consistent experience with the default global keybinds.
Server size reduced from 8v8 to 6v6 for all servers and gameplay modes
Several other minor bugs addressed

GAMEPLAY MODES
Arenas are now live, in "public" mode where you can join mid match under spectator restrictions
Arenas can be selected as an alternate to the Random queue option
Arenas do not surface in Random queue mode, as they are intended for more advanced players
Arenas:
You have 1 life
You may select your class only at the start of the match
After 10 minutes, a tower spawns. Winning control of that tower for your team wins the round
Arenas only work with two maps, the Hall'Vak Arena (the arena the tutorial is located within), and a special version of Ymil's Throne modified specifically for Arena play

CLASSES

Shaman
Blessed Aura energy cost increased from 20 mana per second to 25 mana per second

Warden
Raise Morale energy upkeep increased to 6 energy per second from 5 energy per second
Protect Allies energy upkeep increased to 6 energy per second from 5 energy per second
Protect Allies protection decreased to 35% from 40%
Raise Morale damage increased to 4% per stack of vengeance from 3% per stack of vengeance
Vengeance damage increase decreased from 5% per stack to 4% per stack
MAPS

Hall'Vak Arena
Map introduced for Arena mode

'Shamans are getting a slight nerf to healing via a resource cost increase to Blessed Aura. Wardens are getting a slight nerf to Protect Allies amount of protection offered, a very slight increase to the maintenance cost of both Protect Allies and Raise Morale, and a slight buff to the damage increase per Vengeance.'

Link to the notes - http://www.playforgewar.com/category/development-diary/

so were gonna start having a regular vote for player of the week, rather than have just one bloke say OH YE WE'L JUST MAKE THIS GUY PLAYER OF THE WEEK derp or someone go 'Oh ye this guy hasnt gotten it yet lets make him player of the week' Itl actualy be up to all the group members to decide who player of the week IN THE GROUP was

So each week there will be a post where everyone in the group needs to leave a comment stating who they're voting or player of the week,obviously you can only vote for one person per week. The winner will be interviewed by either me or inferium and it will be posted on the group site so you can get a better idea of that player in regards to how they play FORGE and what there vision for the game is. WAY TO MAKE YOUR EPEEN GROW EH:D

Please leave a comment in this announcement with your vote thanks!