Wargame Update Notes

NEW: Wargame Mode, night missions with Flares, and Sandstorms.

Please restart the Steam client to download the latest build.

NEW FEATURES

Night missions with Flares
- Flares flicker and move across the sky
- Reduced visibility in the darkness
- Improved concealment from enemy AI
- Flashlights and muzzle flashes reveal position to enemy AI
Sandstorm
- Sandstorms sweep violently through the battlefield
- Reduced visibility and hearing
- Reduced radio effectiveness
- Introduced player “cough” mechanic, interrupting comms and alerting enemies
Wargame Mode
- Customize the simulation in Six Days
- Time-of-day selection, including Flares
- Weather selection, including Sandstorm
- Mission selection
- Role selection
  - “Ranked Selection”—choose preferred fireteam role
  - “Unrestricted”—any player can play in any role
    - NOTE: Team Lead can still assign roles on the UI but player choice takes priority (we’re improving this for the future)
- Hard variant “FUBAR” for Fireteam missions
- “Hard” difficulty option for enemy AI
- “Survival Rules”
  - No reinforcements—AAV respawns disabled
  - No KIA Allowed—mission failure upon player KIA
- Mission timers can be extended, reduced, or disabled
- Mission intro cinematics can be disabled
- Procedural Architecture sliders
  - Exteriors — Fewer/More Structures and More Accessible/Constrained
  - Interiors — Sparse/Crowded Interiors and More Open/Fortified

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

Enemy AI can lure players into traps
Enemy AI now throw grenades
Improved enemy AI suppressive fire
Improved enemy AI ability to create fatal funnels with PKM
Improved tracers to pass through windows
Reduced audible “hammer click” to one when weapon is empty
Added automatic adaptive noise gates on player VOIP
Added visible F16 and AC-130 models to jet flybys
Tuned fireteam missions with new features in mind

KNOWN ISSUES

Upscaler sometimes gets disabled, causing degraded performance. To fix this,
go to your graphics settings and turn the Upscaler back on.

LOCALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS

Added support for Portuguese language
Improved support for Korean language

BUG FIXES

Fixed the known cause for players being unable to ADS after swapping weapons
Fixed the known cause for blurry scopes when ADS’ing
Fixed an issue causing “Windy” weather to roll too often
Fixed an issue causing mission objectives to be unsynced for host and clients
Fixed an issue causing multiple explosives planted on armory in Ruins
Fixed an issue causing players to fall through the map on Water Tower and Compound
Fixed an issue causing “Reinforcements available from AAV” to display under false conditions
Fixed an issue causing grenades to display incorrectly on vest UI
Fixed an issue causing overlapping invites in lobby
Fixed an issue causing “robotic” player VOIP
Fixed an issue in which IEDS on Apartments were silent
Fixed an issue in which player radio remained open upon death
Fixed an issue in which “Ghost” radio persisted for clients after respawning
Fixed an issue in which auto-detect didn’t first reset to default settings
Fixed an issue in which gamepad functionality was lost after using auto-detect
Fixed an issue in which framerate uncaps after changing graphics settings
Fixed an issue in which hanging rugs were clipping through geometry
Fixed an issue in which players were killed through geometry by VBIEDs
Fixed an issue in which staircases were obstructed by geometry
Fixed an issue in which enemy AI couldn’t pass through holes in walls
Fixed an issue in which VBIEDS were stopped by M203 “duds”
Fixed an issue in which M203 grenade “duds” still detonated
Various AI behavior fixes
Various performance optimizations
Various fixes for common crashes

For bugs we're currently tracking, please see our Known Issues list.

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