Squad 44 News

• Fixed Best seeding has way too dark light layer
  
• Fixed Carentan seeding loads frontline
  
• Fixed Foy offensive forward supplies are empty
  
• Fixed subway range RP says it can be time extended
  
• Optimised Arnhem/Subway range targets
  
• Fixed Subway Range targets not respawning after being destroyed.
  

• Increased damage effectiveness of the Lunge Mine, it should do more catastrophic damage to the vehicle and it's components.
  
• Fixed Lunge Mine not killing the user when hitting a target from certain angles.
  
• Fixed crashing local play bug with Lunge mine
  
• Fixed texture error on the M1912 Shotgun, Type 1 TB Smoke Grenade and Type 100 Late war variant.
  
• Updated textures on the Type 4 Ceramic Grenade and Kaenbin Petrol Bomb.
  
• Fixed Type 97 Fragmentation round on the Knee Mortar not dealing damage
  
• Added a hissing sound to the Type 97 frag grenade when thrown.
  
• Updated animations on the Shin Gunto sword.
  
• Fixed Greek Knife growing huge on equip and unequip
  
• Added sparks and blood impacts for the bayonet and knife thrusting.
  
• Fixed Sten Mk V bayonet dealing no damage
  
• Fixed FG42 Bayonet dealing no damage.
  
• Added Pattern 1907 bayonet as a melee weapon for the ANZACs
  
• Attached a bayonet to the Type 100 Grenade Launchers.
  
• Added more unique foley for the bayonet and knives.
  
• Lowered volume of the Bayonet charge screaming voices.
  
• Fixed sight alignment on higher zero settings on the Arisaka Type 44 Carbine.
  
• Set K98k to use the animations from the K98AZ
  
• Added +1 in the Chamber for the G41, K98 and K98 Scoped
  
• Added Berthier M1907/15 as a rifleman option for the French 1940
  
• Replaced Lebel with the older Berthier M1907/15 rifle on the French 1940 recruit kit
  
• Toned down ping noise from the Knee Mortar firing sound
  
• Added shovels to German Machine Gunners
  
• Added knives to German, US and UK Machine Gunners, removed 1911 sidearms from BAR Gunners
  
• Set type 11, Type 96, Type 99 LMGs, MP40 and STG44 to not have overlapping burst fire audio on single shots while on Auto fire mode
  

• Reduced cost of M3 AT Gun and Type 1 AT guns to 500 from 800
  
• Reduced cost of MG42 Bunker to 250 to keep it in line with the other MG bunkers.
  
• Fixed Type 92 HMG Heavy Bunker variant not being enterable
  
• Cleaned up damage settings on the Type 10, Type 88 and Type 96 world emplacements so that they can be destroyed in the same way standard deployables can be destroyed
  
• Added unique cannon firing audio for 37mm, 40mm, 90mm and 128mm cannon ammunition.
  
• Fixed British Sherman V tank playing American voice overs.
  
• Added more unique engine sounds for Tractor, Sturer Emil, Panzer 38t (and derived vehicles), B1 Bis, Jagdtiger, King - Tiger, Nashorn, Matilda, Vickers MkVI, Valentine, Type 94 Truck, Tetrarch, Pershing, M10 Tank Destroyer, LVTs, Ha - Go, Chiha, Challenger, Jagdpanzer IV, Comet, Sdkfz 222 and AEC Armoured Car.
  
• Added new mechanical foley for reloading and switching ammo on tank guns.
  
• Fixed wreck meshes on the LVTs.
  
• Fixed Puma driver not being able to be killed when the driver hatch is open.
  
• Attempted fix for weak tank coaxial MGs
  
• Fixed Chi Ha Kai Late War variant crashing on commander seat
  
• Fixed French Infantry Logi passenger seat clipping through the back of the vehicle
  

• Fixed melee hitting targets behind the first victim.
  
• Updated focus time when ADSing + added focus bar
  
• Fixed players screaming multiple times at the same time, forcing the audio to overlap.
  
• Fixed teleportation bug when using the bipod on the small pontoon assets in Operation Market Garden maps.
  
• Fixed Admin Cam stuck in Manage menu
  
• Fixed spelling mistake on kit change crate from "Armys" to "Armies"
  
• Disabled dead soldier outline visible after leaving admin cam
  
• Tweaked naming of some roles to be more historically accurate
  
• Potential fix for colour grading slider resetting to 0.5 at times
  
• Tessellation distance slider set to (15-50), default set to 15
  
• Lowered camera shake on turret/emplaced MGs
  
• Enabled new player tooltip system
  

• Some tooltips are too high, like on the movable AT-Guns
  
• Some tooltips show "Press F to enter" on deployables not yet fully built
  
• Tooltip missing on Regroup Call
  
• MP40 sound cue plays a little bit too fast
  
• 1940 Wehrmacht mg08 kit missing a pistol
  
• 1944 FJ Grenadier missing grenade rifle
  
• K98k firing pin is not animated
  
• STG44 sometimes has double shell cases ejecting
  

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• Mass disconnect issue fixed