August 2025 Development Update

Development Update

We're rounding the bend on our MVP and have significant progress to report as we seek to expand our testing ability and are looking for more community contacts and prospective admins to work together with on bringing back the good ole days, here's a high level summary of recent updates:

• 🎨 Broad UI Updates. We've been working on bringing mobile, tablet and desktop versions into conformity and taking a look at knocking out all the nits from buttons to colours, refreshing screens when needed to make a really good on-page experience for all TWL fans
• ✏️ Team Signups have been radically improved with queued teams and captains being able to join ladders and direct recruits to join their roster as members
• 🕐 Time management for challenges is back and floated into match comms, we're aiming to make it easier and more flexible back-in-the-day (which found most teams coming to agreements that suited them for matches) while providing suitable structure to keep things moving forward
• ✔️ Most placeholder text replaced with functioning code which brings some of the fun, final bits into play and provides deeper interest with stats and data that will let you and your teammates enjoy comp a lot more
• 📜 User roster history is implemented and allows for tracking all of the applications, denials, acceptances, kicks, promotions, demotions and more
• 📰 Expanding to multiple, parallel ladders is now in place after hitting our milestones on the ladder code, we're ready to open up for more!
• 🔗 Social links don't suck anymore and when you link profiles and ladders you'll get more, better, nicer.
• 💬 Tighter Discord and TWL integration means that the events you see in our discord are also mirrored on the website and our TWLbot is out there providing help and notifications to keep things running smoothly.
• 🪲 More bugs squashed than we can count and we're still going forward clobbering out more of these creepy crawlies as we iterate over all of the functions

It's time to play more

Our Chronophoto ladder has provided incredible value over these months. We've opened up multiple test ladders to increase the amount of iteration opportunities available to us and are racking up a good amount of insight from banging around the roster management and match challenge functions. The software development has now outpaced the people portion of the project and so we're actively looking to start reaching out and bringing both old and new participants! While building the reboot we always thought that there was room for both competitive and casual gaming so we're firing up events and reasons to get together across the board. Come visit, bring your friends, make yourself comfortable and enjoy what's on offer - we're looking for more folks that are hungry for quality gameplay with quality people, try our discord!

Battlefiled 6 Got Us Good

Two weekends in a row found us playing an awful lot of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta and, liking it! Battlefield has a great history at TWL and we've got a broad range of fans in our discord looking for games from 1942 up to 6 and everything in between. There's been talk of setting up ladders for various modes of BF6, join in the chat and let us know how it's been treating you while we revisit older versions on the countdown toward October launch!

We're looking for admins

Considering our current state of readiness we're looiking for admins that want to host ladders, if you're interested please come by our discord and drop us a line!