Update 0.39.0: ranked, weapon skins, a new Kessel, the website and support

Update 0.39.0 is the biggest one yet: ranked matches, the first weapon skins, a rebuilt Kessel, a website with your account on it, a support system, and a long list of fixes from your playtest reports.

Ranked is here

Open Ranked in the lobby and join the queue for a 4v4 Competitive Explosive match, first to 9 rounds.

Accept, then pick. When eight players are found everyone has 20 seconds to accept. The two highest-rated players are captains and pick their teams in turns. The map is drawn at random, and the players can vote once to reroll it.
ELO and ranks. Everyone starts at 1000 ELO and climbs from Bronze through Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond to Master. The match's end screen shows what you won or lost.
Seasons. At a new season everyone drops one rank, and past seasons' final rankings stay on the Ranked screen.
Play it out. Leaving a ranked match costs the loss, 15 more ELO and time out of the queue. Missing the accept twice in a day costs 30 ELO. Penalties are public, on the Ranked screen.

Each team has one tactical pause a match, and a round waits for a player who disconnected, so a dropped connection doesn't decide a match. If someone misses the accept, the next player in the queue takes their place.

The first weapon skins: fly your flag

Thirty skins, for the Medic's K1 and the Assault's M4A1: fourteen flags for each, and one in honour of the game itself.

Pick your country and carry it into every match:

Turkey: Turkish red, with the white crescent and star on the side
Netherlands: red, white and blue, with an orange magazine and grip
UK: the Union Jack across the whole gun
Italy, France: the tricolour from stock to muzzle
Germany, Spain, Poland, Russia, Ukraine: their bands across the gun
Sweden: the Nordic cross over the receiver and handguard
Portugal: green and red, with the coat of arms on the side
Israel: blue stripes and the Star of David on the side
Palestine: black, white and green, with the red triangle at the stock

Every flag is painted where you can see it: on the gun in front of you, and across it when you reload.

One skin on each gun is ours: K1 TLF and M4A1 TLF, in The Last Fight's own colours. Dark gunmetal, a brass line down the side, and the game's emblem in brass.

How skins work

Skins are rented with Cash, from 3 days up to 30, in the shop's new Skins tab.
Every skin has a tier: Common, Rare, Very Rare or Legendary, each with its own colour, and you can filter by rarity. Legendary skins are awarded, never sold.
They become available over time: some through the shop's skin rotation, some from events, and more ways to come. Keep an eye on the news.
A skin is its gun in a new coat: it handles exactly like it. You need the K1 or the M4A1 itself to use its skins. Everyone in the match sees your skin, and it's named in the kill feed.

TLF Coins are coming: a second currency for keeping a skin for good. You can already see your Coins beside your Cash, and the shop has a Coins tab; the Coins store isn't open yet. Every weapon is still earned by playing.

A new Kessel

Kessel is now a lived-in town: shop fronts and awnings, windows with curtains, posters and graffiti, real cars and trucks, new crates, containers and sandbags, and baked light that sits everything on the ground. It plays as before, except at the vehicles, where cover now follows their real shapes: you can see and shoot under a truck's bed.

Every map also gets clearer air, shade that shows the shape of walls, and hands that no longer glare white in the sun.

The website

tlf-game.com is the game's new home: the download, the news and the patch notes, every map and the whole arsenal. Sign in with your game account to see your level and stats, your inventory and the shop.

Support

Need help, found a bug, or want to appeal a ban? You can now open a ticket and talk to staff directly.

On the website: open Support, pick a topic, describe what happened and attach pictures. Staff answer in the same ticket, and you get an email when they do.
On our Discord server: press Open a ticket in the support channel. Each ticket is a private thread between you and the staff.
Ban appeals go the same way, one per ban.

Discord

The bot's status shows how many players are online and how many are waiting in the ranked queue.
Discord shows you as playing The Last Fight while the game is running.

More Cash, smoother soldiers

One and a half times the Cash for everything you do in a match.
Rolling left, right or backward is now a roll of its own, and other players turn, start, stop and land without a jolt.
Plant and defuse hints on the HUD, a proper right-click menu in the waiting room, and an option to hide the crosshair.
The loadout screen shows only the weapons you have.
Relic's glass corridor is wider and taller, with cover at the defenders' end.
Movement fixes: ramps along a wall no longer shoot you up them.

The launcher

If the launcher never opened on your PC (".NET Runtime internal error"), download it again from the website: that crash is fixed.

The full list is in the patch notes. See you on the front line. Show us your colours.