POPULATION: ONE News

Gun Balance

• Ammo: Pistol ammo per box increased from 12 -> 16. Shotgun ammo per box decreased from 8 -> 6
  
• AKM: Increased recoil when not 2-handing
  
• 1911: Damage increased from 18 -> 20. Mag capacity increased from 7 -> 12
  
• Px4: Mag capacity increased from 12 -> 16
  
• 1911 & Px4: Virtual crosshair design changed from chevrons to traditional 4-tick crosshair
  
• MP5: Reduced recoil when 2-handing
  
• P90: Damage reduced from 13 -> 12
  
• UMP: Damage reduced from 12 -> 11. Rounds per second lowed from 13.5 -> 13
  
• Build Tile Damage: Shooting a build tile now always does full damage, regardless of distance
  

Friends Challenges (WILL BE ENABLED SOON)

• New challenges for adding friends and squading up with friends
  
• Friends challenges can be seen in the main menu above the regular daily challenges
  
• Completing a friends challenge awards the players with Bureau Gold
  

Voice Comms

• Pre-Match: Loud SFX volume is lowered if players are talking (in the lobby area only)
  
• After losing wifi/internet, voice chat will attempt to reconnect instead of giving up
  
• Device Selection: Added dropdowns to the settings for selecting the desired input/output devices
  

General

• Battlezone: Bias towards moving unpredictably instead of favoring the center
  
• Guns: Fixed issue where shooting and putting away a gun at the same time would unload it
  
• Defibs: Fixed issue where gripping then switching to defib could teleport the player
  
• Defibs: Putting away while mid-charge now clears the charge
  
• Locomotion: Fixed issue where a player could stand much taller than the height they set
  
• Main Menu Firearm Loadout: Fixed obnoxious clicking while previewing gun skins & other assorted polish
  
• Misc performance improvements and bug fixes
  

Known Issues

• Steam VR users playing on an Oculus headset: When Purchasing Bureau Gold, you will need to take off your headset to approve the purchase
  
• If you're unable to find a match after 3-4 tries, force quit the app and relaunch to see if you need an upgrade
  
• If you're seeing a notice that you need to update to play and don't see it in the store, uninstall and reinstall POP: ONE to force the upgrade to happen. You won't lose any progress or data.
  

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Hey all,

Due to a number of vulnerability and exploit opportunities associated with Steam Family Sharing, we will be disabling the feature in POPULATION: ONE.

This is part of an ongoing effort to prevent cheating/hacking in POPULATION: ONE and keep a respectful, fair, and healthy community.

Please don't hesitate to report any cheaters you encounter in-game using the 'Report' feature in the top right corner of the mini-map or by sending a ticket to our support center


Trent

Energy Core Scavenge Event is LIVE!
Collect the hidden Energy Cores to receive free in-game rewards, rewards are given at 5, 10 and 20 cores!




PATCH NOTES

• Oculus Headsets on Open VR: Fixed issue where you couldn't get past the set height screen
  
  
• Cosmos & Reverb G2: Proper headset and controller support
  
  
• HTC Vive: Fixed snap turn ejecting the gun's magazine and being unable to turn right.
  

General

• Post Match: Exit door icons show when a squadmate has left the match
  
  
• Servers: Improved latency detection to help ensure players get placed into servers with the lowest latency
  
  
• Reticle: Fixed issue where it would incorrectly show as yellow instead of red
  
  
• Comfort Vignette: Fixed mode labels to be "High", "Medium", "Low"
  
  
• Blood: Added ability to toggle OFF blood on the General Settings page
  
  
• Misc performance improvements and bug fixes
  

Known Issues

• Steam VR users playing on an Oculus headset: When Purchasing Bureau Gold, you will need to take off your headset to approve the purchase
  
  
• If you're unable to find a match after 3-4 tries, force quit the app and relaunch to see if you need an upgrade
  

If you're seeing a notice that you need to update to play and don't see it in the store, uninstall and reinstall POP: ONE to force the upgrade to happen. You won't lose any progress or data.

Jack-o-lanterns are placed throughout the POPULATION: ONE map.
Can you count how many there are?
Graveyard is now spooky and foggy!