Patch notes

AI

• Made suppressed weapons less audible for AI (range reduction by 40% — WIP, testing things out)
• Increased influence of light scale to the overall character visibility: AI should no longer easily spot players in the dark
• Big AI update:
[list]
• Added AI coordinator system — the basis for exchange of information between AI bots
• Added target handling to GBKytController to register with the AICoordinator
• Enabled new hearing system for gunshots (now uses same system as footsteps)
• Gunshot range is treated differently for suppressed and unsuppressed weapons
• Fixed AI going prone when close to enemy, now require distance > 40 m
• Fixed a bug where AI wouldn't shoot when advancing towards the target
• Added new separation between cover behaviors for crouching and when leaning out of cover
• Reworked engagement rules for AI taking into account the current enemies that are engaging the player through the AI coordinator system
• Fixed an issue where Guard AI would follow noise but Patrol AI would not (reversed)
• Adding new behavior sub-trees for firing from cover
• Updated spatial queries for cover generation
• Slightly increased hearing distance for AI on 747, Compound and Depot

Audio

• Major audio overhaul to improve and fix ambient sounds: [list]
• Improved audio quality conversion — more details in the soundscape should now be hearable, and levels should now generally sound better and more "alive"
• Ensured ambient sounds update correctly when time of day (TOD) is changed

Animation

• Ongoing rework to improve/fix animation for NVG being lowered/raised in different stances and with different items being equipped
• Fixed animations to follow the new finger outside of trigger guard
• Fixed Specter DR 1x/4x lever animation being offset

UI

• Updated keybinds list in Settings > Controls to improve the names of a few actions and to ensure consistency between Keyboard/Mouse and Controller keybinds
• Added tooltip hint to "Night Vision Goggles" keybind to reinforce that goggles must be equipped on the character for the bind to be functional
• Hopefully fixed wibbly-wobbly VOIP indicator issue
• Attempted fix for reticles not keeping their color and different laser dot effects occurring when using colorblind filters
• Changed colorblind filter notice text at top-right to be smaller and less obtrusive
• Made Headcam the default spectator camera, by popular request
• Returning to Settings menu (from play area) no longer re-selects the Controls screen (now leaves it on whichever settings screen was open previously)
• Hiding the HUD in Headcam spectator view (default H) now hides the minimap and displays basic player info
• Tablet now shows player names for everyone, if in Training mode
• Updated City minimap so as to encompass the bank vault area
• Fixed bug where clearing an inventory item in character editor did not clear the [CUSTOM] tag and color scheme
• Cleaned up radial menus:
[list]
• Style consistency pass (background, hover, font, formatting etc.)
• Renamed attachment functions for better clarity

Gameplay

• Prone is no longer affected by stamina and arm strength (WIP, temporary)
• Removed ability to re-pin grenades
• Water: fixed bodies of water blocking projectiles, grenades colliding with water surfaces, and clean water blocking lasers (should still block if dirty water)
• Dying underwater and/or resurfacing should also correctly clear the underwater effect
• Fixed retention reloads dropping the first magazine with certain weapons (e.g. M110, MK46)
• Big cleanup of iron sights and optics zeros — let us know if you catch any bad ones still!
• Fixed some scopes seeing through walls (may require new weapon builds to be created)

Art and customization

• Art pass on Roster whiteboard (Ready Room): [list]
• Replaced font with more readable alternative
• Replaced status icons with text (OK = alive, KIA = dead, Prep = in Ready Room, Spec = in Spectator Mode)
• Minor alignment and formatting changes
• Updated text for Team Element selection instructions

Maps and missions

• Miscellaneous mission fixes: [list]
• Fixed random barrels in deck in Rig (Defuse)
• Fixed up some floating laptops in Small Town (Intel Retrieval)
• Tweaked laptop position in building D basement in Small Town Uplink
• Minor cleanup on 747 intel retrieval mission (moved laptop off Cessna struct even though placement was FINE really)
• Tweaked 747 PVE missions to remove AI from the avionics room (collision, clipping into ceiling and pathing seemed a bit tricksy overall)
• Adjusted OnHit logic in Defuse mission object so as to only run on server and ignore any hits except from bullets (so players can jump on bombs without consequences)

• Missions with out of date version number won’t show in mission selection screens
• Old missions (V1033, V1034.0, V1034.1) need to be loaded and resaved in editor
• If saved AI kits don’t load, mission loadouts will be used. If they don’t load, AI won’t spawn
• All standard missions updated via script
• Lots more changed under the hood, including in kit validation systems
• Ran script to remove AI spawn points from Deathmatch missions
• Ran script to convert Deathmatch missions to Last Man Standing versions

Miscellaneous

• Fixed problems with ResAtMe and ResNear commands
• Fixed up player names not appearing on Tablet: slightly changed behavior so names appear whether in play or in Ready Room, but not if not assigned to a team (e.g. when in a free-for-all mode, or in Ready Room reception lobby)
• Fixed spectator-only players getting stuck at loading screen, not seeing the correct sky, and being shown respawn option
• Many, many under-the-hood changes and fixes