Fall Guys players are demanding Mediatonic stop vaulting so much of the game’s content after a short server outage allowed players to access the full library of courses yesterday. Today, the movement is really starting to pick up steam, with #UnvaultFallGuys beginning to trend on Twitter and several topics popping up on the game’s subreddit.
On Thursday, a server hosting service called Cloudflare went down, and apparently, the infrastructure that vaults certain content in Fall Guys is connected to that server. This allowed players to see old courses that Mediatonic had turned off due to certain bugs impacting performance if everything was always available. There were some reports of courses missing many obstacles and bugs with all the old content back, but for the most part, everyone loved the variety that they felt had been missing from Fall Guys for a long time now.
While putting in a map rotation is not uncommon these days — games like Overwatch 2, Apex Legends, and Fortnite do it all the time — it seems the community around Fall Guys would prefer more variety. That makes sense given how quickly rounds go. You can pretty easily start to repeat courses in the current map rotation even if you’re not playing all the time.
As of this writing, it appears that Mediatonic is sticking to its guns that vaulting is necessary for a better experience in Fall Guys. Given the complexities of maintaining everything on the server side, it’s hard to blame them, but hopefully, they can find a way to give players the variety they seek.
A possible solution could be more routine map rotations in the vault. As it stands now, the vault is switched out at the start of every new season, which lasts multiple months. More variety injected into the game every week or two would probably go a long way to helping soften many of the player base’s hard feelings at the moment.
Published: Jan 20, 2023 01:22 pm