RAID: World War II News

The M.U.G Team has got another small batches of critical fixes for you, that we just could not keep waiting until we can finally deliver the long awaited Update 22!

Lots of users on NVIDIA Cards were reporting seemingly random crashing, causing a so called TDR, during gameplay. This should likely be adressed with this patch.

TDR Crashes? Wasn't that a driver problem?
Yes it was, and still is technically. This was one of those crashes that had us stumped for quite a while, especially because it only happened on users of NVIDIA cards, while the AMD drivers were always running along.

Recently we have been experimenting with higher resolution assets for engine performance testing. During those tests we noticed that using decal meshes on them quickly triggered the infamous TDR crash when shooting at it.



Now having a reproducable crash our investigation lead to the shader code responsible for producing those decals. We quickly realized what was happening here:
Due to layering issues that sometimes occured a loop got started and ran infinitly, thus triggereing Windows to think that the driver was stuck. The AMD drivers simply noticed this and exited the loop, while others kept iterating until the crash happened.

Now a failsafe for this has been implemented in the shader, thus preventing the crash! Our testing showed that this works properly now, but if you happen to get the crash again please let us know!

Thought I would share some insights on how we approach these things while we keep working on the next major and long awaited Update - Update 22!

Additions and fixes adressed with this update:

• Fixed TDR crashes related to decal meshes.
  
• Reeanbled Ambient Occlusion.
  
• Fixed controller navigation for the video settings menus.
  
• Fixed doubled input on the stepper controls.
  

Mod users; Please check for broken mods!
If your game is not launching and you may have outdated or incompatible mods installed please be sure to completely uninstall mods if you have having immediate issues!
In your RAID World War II directory remove IPHLPAPI.dll or WSOCK32.dll files by hand, as verifying game cache will not remove these files.

Everyone at the M.U.G. headquarters is still working hard to deliver update 22 for you. In the meantime, here is a small hotfix update to address an issue with game performance from processors with E-Cores.

What are E-Cores?

E-Cores (Efficiency Cores) is a technology used on 12th and 13th Generation of Intel CPUs that allow optimization of workloads to run on lower power cores that don't require high power of the main cores.

Diesel, the game engine for RAID, was not aware of what is an E-Core and what is not, resulting in the engine running tasks that would require more performance on them, ultimately leading to bad FPS.

This was mitigated with an engine patch included in this small hotfix.

And now when the boring explanation is over, time for some... NEWS!

The M.U.G. team consists of a few core members that keep this game progression with each update, which means progress is slow. We said this many times before but it still holds true for now, more than ever. Passion projects can only take up so much of ones time before real life events take precedent.

Nevertheless, RAID's next update will be possibly the heaviest update to date. In the last major update's announcement post, we mentioned that there will be a new "Pick 10" system for how to build a character. This can open up to many new build ideas, and ultimately, travel down the road to new war-cry abilities!

[h2]War-Cry Redux[/h2]

We have been going back and forth on what could we add that would be unique for the game, coming up with some truly bizarre ideas that could fit certain play-styles, but we wanted to do something more with this new concept.

We want to include you for this new step in RAID.

[h3]What does this mean?[/h3]

To our players who still endure with us, we value your time, patience, and feedback; but if you wanted to go the extra mile; we would love to value your creativity and ideas for the upcoming new War-Cry system.



This is NOT a competition or a demand from you. We will not restrict multiple ideas from the same person. Go wild - think of something you wish could happen with the mechanics of raid, and create an idea of how it could be implemented in your new War-Cry.



PLEASE READ: If you decide to share your ideas with us, please be reminded that your entire idea might not make it in the update. It all depends on how it's structured and if it could fit into already existing ideas better; or maybe your idea might have one REALLY good part about it and the rest are duplication of existing newer War-Cries. There are many different elements at play here so keep those ideas coming!

Either way, we will try our best to keep your ideas as pure as they are offered, but as with everything with game development, things are always subject to change.

In order to participate in this raidstorming session, head over to the official discord server.

#blammosweep

Card drops have been tweaked recently to allow more than one card pack to drop per day.

Additions and fixes for issues people have regularly reported:

• Added "Camera Effect Strength" option in the Video Settings.
  
• Fixed bug where Halloween drops were exceedingly common, This should also fix rarely getting anything other than gold and xp.
  
• Fixed alignment of the Distraction Coin in the weapons menu.
  
• Improved stances to prevent some camera clipping on the Bren LMG.
  
• Reduced the horde, somewhat.
  

Mod users; Please check for broken mods!
Lua mods are not supported for the major recent update, if your game is not launching and you may have outdated or incompatible mods installed please be sure to completely uninstall mods if you have having immediate issues!
In your RAID World War II directory remove IPHLPAPI.dll or WSOCK32.dll files by hand, as verifying game cache will not remove these files.

Fixes for issues people have regularly reported:

• Fixed soft-lock when trying to start an online game from either Tutorial or Offline mode.
  
• Fixed loot not properly resetting when you reload levels after securing loot.
  
• Fixed Browning Auto-5 magazine size being too large when upgraded.
  
• Fixed shotguns and some other weapons ghost reloading extra rounds when lacking total ammo.
  
• Changed localization for Extraction on non-English games to fix clarity issue with the escape.
  

Please uninstall LUA mods!
Lua mods are not supported for the major recent update, if your game is not launching and you have mods installed please be sure to remove the IPHLPAPI.dll or WSOCK32.dll files by hand, as verifying game cache will not remove these files.

Another few fixes for the currently pressing gameplay issues.

• Fixed hardlock in the loot reward UI when getting card drops.
  
• Fixed down counter UI showing blank text.
  
• Fixed interactions being interrupted for animated shells.
  

[h2]Please uninstall LUA mods![/h2]
Lua mods are not supported for updates this large, if your game is not launching and you have mods installed please be sure to remove the IPHLPAPI.dll or WSOCK32.dll files by hand, as verifying game cache will not remove these files.