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Hotfix v1.5.6

Changes
The scoreboard should now show players you killed in the last round with red skulls.
Reduced AI Juggernaut’s overall durability significantly. He now has a little more health than a player, and utilizes body armor, which means he is even more vulnerable to armor piercing rounds and high explosives (M203 Frag, RPG, C4) than bullets.
We now prevent M203 Frag grenades and RPGs from firing for five seconds after spawn jail expires. M203 Smoke grenades are now allowed to be fired during spawn jail.
Tweak Photon settings a bit to assist players experiencing bouts of network lag.
Further reduced network traffic generated by AI, pickups, and gun rotations.
Smooth out the motion of the moving targets in Shooting Range for clients.
Added launch option to play using our ESL ruleset in Onward.
AI will no longer ignore explosions, they will investigate them.
AI no longer looks at the floor when investigating sky flares, unless it’s looking directly at a flare that is actually lying on the floor.
Pinning a live smoke grenade to your chest holster will no longer fool the AI unless you are moving very slowly with it.
Made vote kicking much more responsive to player input. The UI should always respond somehow when you push a button now.
You can now only initiate a new vote kick for one player per game round. This does not affect voting in votes that other players have started.
Dust storm audio now smoothly fades out when the storm expires rather than abruptly stopping.

Fixes
Fixed an additional player collision bug that popped up.
Fix AI on Suburbia (Dusk) sitting idly rather than patrolling.
Fix the “Yes” and “No” buttons on the vote kick interface being larger than intended, making them hard to push properly.
Fix “in water” status sometimes applying incorrectly on remote clients.
Fix for some trees “popping” due to occlusion in Snowpeak.
Fixes for some exploits and glitches on Snowpeak.
Potentially fixed reports of controllers letting go of your weapon at random.
M40A5 bipod no longer glitches out when attempting to deploy it.
Fix loss of hand animation when players join the game.
Fixed potential memory leak with C4.

Hotfix v1.5.5

  • Reduced network traffic generated by synchronizing player data by 63%.
  • Disabled many “clutter” objects that players could pick up around the maps that were generating some adverse network traffic.
  • Fix player outfits persisting between rounds for spectators, causing players to appear to be wearing the wrong uniform.
  • Added additional “bullet drop” for shotgun slugs.
  • Fixed many objects embedded underground in Shooting Range.
  • Improved hand pose on the SA80.
  • Improved G17 magazine location.
  • Fix some exceptions generated by the spectator outline.
  • Fixed an exception generated by grabbing something that is not a weapon grip.

Hotfix v1.5.4 Rerelease!

General
  • A new social gamemode is out and will end Sunday night- One In The Chamber (live for 10 days)
  • Added C4, RPG, Molotov, and Flare Gun to operations. AI will flee if lit on fire, and will attempt to walk around patches of flaming ground. The flare gun will attract the AI if fired on the ground, and to a greater degree if fired into the sky.
  • We now have a karma system in place that detects when you are not being nice to your teammates. It is both automatic and requires user intervention. If this system is triggered, your victim will be given an interface that will allow him to "Forgive" or "Punish" you. With enough punishment, you will be removed from that game.
  • Falling damage was meant to be disabled on Shooting Range and Free Roam, this was reversed - it was off everywhere else and on for those modes. This has been corrected.
  • Vote kicking now requires a majority of your team to pass, or a majority of the entire lobby (including enemies) and at least one player from each team to pass.
    Vote kicking is no longer possible when only two players are in a lobby, as the majority would be a single vote.
  • Master clients in public Shooting Range and Free Roam lobbies can no longer kick players on their own.
  • You can now mute the voice chat of individual enemies in the tent. This does not affect their voices in game.
  • The audio of grabbing and holstering pickups now adjusts its volume based on hand velocity, so you can slowly unsheath a knife for stealth.
  • Updated our Photon Networking library, adding many bug fixes and much improved stability.
  • Improved performance of projectiles and projectile penetration.
  • Damage boundaries are now shown on the tablet map during Uplink Assault.
  • AI should be incapable of damaging themselves now. They can still damage each other.
  • Getting tasered will disable your radio for 15 seconds.
  • Smoke grenades are now allowed to be primed prior to spawn jail expiring.
  • Tweaked grenades to be slightly easier to use for Vive Wand users.
  • Improved performance when passing a ballistic shield from one hand to the other.
  • Slow players and AI down when they enter water.
  • Fire can be put out by entering water knee-deep instead of head-deep.
  • Refactored how we pool objects, greatly improving performance in some areas of the game such as bullet holes.
  • Made it easier to do a press check on all of the weapons.
  • The material of chambered shotgun shells now matches the ammo type used.
  • Fog on Snowpeak no longer appears in the loadout tent.
  • Lowered player minimum height.
  • Made the shield easier to grab while holstered.
  • Players can no longer sprint while bleeding.
  • Replaced the picatinny rail on the AKM, SVD and the AS VAL with a russian to picatinny rail adapter.
  • Added ironsights to the M40A5.
  • More accurate visualization of bullets in a magazine.
  • Made enemy tent mutes also mute your outgoing voice to that player.
  • Made server filters save and load between play sessions.
  • Made Operations games bring up a map vote after 4 victories or 6 rounds (win or lose).
  • Gave AI a much better concept of "firing lanes". They can still inflict friendly fire upon each other at a distance, but they will be much less inclined to pull the trigger if allies are in front of them at close to medium ranges.
  • Added additional locks to AI firing logic to prevent them from hurting themselves.
  • Made several significant performance optimizations.



Fixes
Fixed many AI spawn points being off the navigation mesh, which resulted in them being stuck the moment they spawned.
Fixed juggernaut AI breaking on Jungle and Abandoned, causing him to be unresponsive.
Fixed scoreboard in spectating mode showing spectators like regular players.
Fixed scoreboard in spectating only showing one team at times.
Fixed logic issues with disabling uplink in competitive lobbies.
Fixed objective not visible in spectating mode.
Fixed round time getting out of sync in spectating mode.
Fixed autostart timer being unreliable.
Fixed delay on lobby counts when hovering over a multiplayer playlist.
Fixed firing flare spawning one flare per person in the lobby.
Fixed flare visuals disappearing at odd times.
Added new firing sounds for flares.
Fixed flares showing up through the fading animations when enabling and disabling night vision.
Fixed the size of the 12x scope on the AKM and the M39.
Fixed random events (dust storms, jets, helicopters, etc) not functioning outside of the main menu.
Fixed the social mode countdown time being slightly inaccurate.
Fixed the G17 slide to work better with the red dot sight.
Fixed players automatically crouching when they look down.
Fixed players getting stuck in the loading scene.
Fixed enemy volume outside of the tent being affected by the team chat setting inside the tent.
Fixed ammo boxes not appearing on Snowpeak.
Fixed players not receiving scoreboard credit for killing AI with non-bullet based weaponry.
Fixed AI losing their names if the master client is changed mid-round.
Fixed "Make Host" button not appearing in two player lobbies.
Fixed tent muted enemies being permanently tent muted if you switch teams.
Fixed not being able to kill yourself with blunt M203 damage.
Ammo boxes no longer refill with magical infinite items when you close them unless you are playing on Shooting Range.
Drone now correctly launches facing forward
Made rowboat in Snowpeak's lake solid.

Reverting back to v1.5.3. Re-releasing Hotfix v1.5.4 on Tuesday

Hey guys,

We've seen reports of an issue in our recent hotfix (pertaining to player collision and maps), and have decided to revert back to v1.5.3. We have a fix for the issue and are doing some final testing. We will rerelease v1.5.4 on Tuesday. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The new Social mode One in the Chamber will still be available on v1.5.3.

Thank you for your continued support, we will have a fix out asap.

Best,

Downpour Team