Player Experience Upgrade Notes

This update includes a host of improvements -and changes- in the basic player experience. We’d love to get your feedback through this survey: https://form.jotform.com/251045652392051

One of these changes is a new method for issuing Go! Commands to your AI fireteam. This new method shows all your GO! Command options on the screen when issuing commands, which is something many players requested.

We’ve also made our next batch of improvements in our friendly and enemy AI, movement and shooting, lighting, animation, networking, reliability, stability, performance, and a bunch more.

Please restart the Steam client to download the latest build.

Some highlights:

NEW GO! COMMAND CONTROLS

On-screen Go! Command Menu:
- Go! Commands are now issued by long-pressing the Radio button
- Holding the Radio button will show a menu of Go! Command options

AI IMPROVEMENTS

Marine Fireteam AI
- Improved reliability and awareness
  - Use of cover
    - Added ability to lean from behind cover to fire
  - Line-of-fire avoidance
  - Line-of-sight selection
  - Room clearing and navigation (especially through doors)
  - Bandaging player when incapped
  - More fixes coming
Enemy insurgent AI
- Updated perception and accuracy values
- Reduced cases of walking through walls
- Reduced cases of inappropriate spawning

COMBAT IMPROVEMENTS

Re-tuned damage required to eliminate enemy AI
Updated hit reactions
- New enemy reactions
  - Added physical hit reactions
  - Hit reacts properly interrupt AI actions
- More visible blood splatter VFX
- Added audible impact FX
Improved enemy ragdolls

PLAYER MOVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS

Reduced cases of losing Sprint speeds when turning
Increased sidestep and backstep speeds
Reduced time required to crouch/stand
Locked doors capped at two door kicks, maximum, to unlock
Reduced wall clipping
Reduced stumbling over objects
Decluttered environment causing player stuck
- Doors
- Windows
- Hallways

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

Crosshair
- Added color options
  - White
  - Red
  - Green
  - Blue
- Added opacity slider
Long, single-press interactions updated to hold function
- Player bandaging
- Player healing
- Planting C4
- Can be canceled until specific committal point
  - Canceled by movement or damage taken
Increased speed of interact animations
Camera improvements
- Reduced jarring camera control during actions
Updated Training tutorials to support new GO! Command keymapping

ANIMATION IMPROVEMENTS

Replaced first-person rig
Character animation improvements
- Elbow skinning
- Hand/finger deformation
- Inverse Kinematics

GRAPHICS IMPROVEMENTS

Updated first-person assets
- Improved models, textures, and animations
Improved ray-traced lighting fidelity
Improved reflections

GAMEPAD IMPROVEMENTS

Updated controller mapping across all schemes
- Supports new GO! Command controls
- Fewer discrepancies between layouts
Adjusted input curves

AUDIO IMPROVEMENTS

Added audio for m16 bolt carrier release from empty
Added prominent feedback FX
- Bullet impacts
- Kill reactions
- Sprinting
Improved dialogue reactions for Marines and insurgents
- Getting shot
- Death
- Ally death

NETWORKING IMPROVEMENTS

Improved client responsiveness (especially at higher latencies)
- Reduced cases of AI bullet sponginess
- Smoother player movement
- More responsive player actions
  - Wall hops, climbs, vaults
  - Weapon swapping and reloading
  - Opening, kicking, breaching doors
  - Dead checking
  - Mission interactions
Improved lobby stability
- Reduced issues transferring between lobby and game
Improved lobby flow
- Players can now manually select lobby owner independently from assigned roles in invited (peer-to-peer) games
  - Lobby owner indicated by star icon
  - Lobby owner defaults to game host in P2P games
  - Lobby owner defaults to Team Lead in matchmade (dedicated server) games

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Increased performance gains
- Most apparent on mid-and high-end machines
- Additional improvements coming for entry-level hardware
Reduced cases of spikes in fps (with more fixes coming)

BUG FIXES

Fixed an issue in which enemy AI ignores players
Fixed an issue in which camera control not functioning correctly during fall animations
Fixed an issue in which bullet impact and footstep occlusion audio not functioning correctly
Fixed an issue causing door desyncs
Various AI behavior fixes
Various fixes for AI clipping in environment
Various fixes for AI getting stuck in environment
Various fixed for players clipping in environment
Various fixes for players getting stuck in environment
Various fixes for collision in environment
Various fixes for interior and exterior lighting
Various fixes for missing textures
Various audio fixes
Various networking optimizations
Various performance optimizations
Various fixes for common crashes
300+ more bugs fixed

For a list of major, unfixed bugs we're currently tracking, please see our Known Issues list.

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