Blood Trail News

Changes

• Added sounds for ejected bullet shells colliding with the world. More sounds will be added for different calibers and surface types soon.
  
• Lowered amount of physical force imparted by .308 rounds.
  

Fixes

• Increased performance for:
  -Shooting
  -Muzzle flashes
  -Discarded and empty shells
  

Changes

• Significantly increased rate of fire for Ghost .308, AKS-74U, and Specter .45.
  
• Reduced impulse from .308 rounds.
  

Fixes

• Improved speed and reliability of bullet hole appearance on enemies.
  
• Reduced feeling of "wobblyness" on stabbing weapons.
  
• Improved performance when firing full-auto headshots.
  

As usual, this is also pushed to experimental for people who like to hang out on that branch. Thanks everyone! More updates and fixes coming soon.

Fixes

• SEAMS NO LONGER APPEAR IN ENEMY DAMAGE EFFECT TEXTURES!
  
• Fixed blood particles from freezing in mid air on occasion.
  

Changes

• Updated lighting and skyboxes in some Raid levels for look and performance.
  

Raid

• Maps 6-9 are now available!
  
• New times of day for most maps.
  
• New lighting, materials and trees for all maps.
  
• Performance enhanced across all of Raid.
  

Changes

• Holographic sight reticle size increased.
  
• Enemy body impact sounds louder when falling greater distances.
  
• Some equippable melee weapons can be thrown at / stabbed and left inside of enemies. The weapon will return to its holster after 7 seconds unless it's grabbed again before that. A melee weapon can be holstered by letting it go near its assigned holster.
  
• Pipe bombs can be detonated by other pipe bombs and by being shot.
  
• Adjusted pistol recoil settings to give a smoother feel and to mitigate a recoil-related bug some users were experiencing.
  

Fixes

• Enemies no longer occasionally enter A-pose when dying.
  
• Bug fix for enemy death physics.
  
• Various collision meshes improved for better performance and accuracy.
  
• Round options menu made more performant.
  
• Fixed a glitch where left-handed shooters could reload the shotgun instantly.
  
• Fixed a glitch where catching a shotgun shell in the loading port while holding it with the right hand would cause it to return to the holster.
  

Changes

• Added new weapon, Piovra 92FU, a 9mm handgun. Equippable from weapon menu and from enemy drops.
  
• Original, intuitive style of pistol stabilization is back: no need to grip the pistol with your off-hand. Just hold your off-hand against your main hand in a natural way to drastically reduce recoil, off-hand no longer affects aiming direction on pistols.
  
• Added holographic sight on Specter .45ACP.
  
• Slightly reduced recoil on Specter .45ACP.
  
• New reloading sounds for Schramm G40.
  
• Added sounds for holstering and unholstering weapons.
  
• New sounds for reaching into the ammo pouch and for grabbing an item from it.
  
• Material updated on Hollington 570 shotgun.
  
• Adjusted enemy physical reactions.
  
• Damage increased for 9mm, .40sw, .45, 5.45x39 and .308 rounds
  
• Enemies will fall from stabbing or punching damage to the groin.
  
• Enemy fall damage implemented.
  
• Heavy melee weapons will now cause a fall-down from lighter strikes to the legs -and groin.
  
• Added more blood splatter, and increased its visibility.
  
• Added new blood mist effect.
  
• Pipe bombs now detonate on impact with enemies, making them more useful.
  
• Improvements to pipe bomb throw assist.
  
• Added temporary locked graphics in the basement for raid levels 6-9 (which will return #SOON)
  
• Performance improvements on heartbreaker arena map.
  

Raid

• Raid maps 4 and 5 are back with updated layouts and visual overhaul.
  
• Melee enemies will continue to chase you rather than remaining in their patrol zone.-Raid enemy awareness grunt sound can now be heard from further away due to new attenuation settings.
  
• Enemy awareness distances adjusted so that enemies can see further.
  
• Melee patrol behavior adjusted for more stealth kill potential, melee patrollers will now wait at their patrol point approximately 45 seconds before moving to the next point.
  
• Outdoor compound shooters are back, once inside a compound, they will continue to come after you until the compound has been cleared.
  
• All new Raid ambient sound.
  
• Trees adjusted for performance and visual breakup.
  
• Raid buildings with lights now have a 50% chance of having the light turned off.
  

Fixes

• Fixed Schramm G40 from ejecting tiny shells.
  
• Fixed bug preventing certain enemy physical reactions from happening
  
• Fixed bug causing blood decals to disappear abruptly and not obey max ragdoll time option.
  
• Fixed collision on one of the Raid buildings which prevented the player from going upstairs.
  
• Fixed bug causing some enemies inside buildings to be unable to move.
  
• One raid building removed from rotation due to collision and material issues.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the ammo pouch overlap to "flicker", making it difficult to grab magazines.
  
• Fixed a major bug that caused incorrect spawn pool counts in arena maps and occasionally caused rounds not to complete correctly.
  
• Fixed collision settings on numerous meshes throughout the game which were causing incorrect AI behavior and unblocked bullets.
  

(All changes also pushed to experimental branch.)