Winter Holiday Event

The Winter Event makes a return! We've brought back the Winter Battle Pass, giving you a second chance to catch those cosmetics from last year if you weren't around or didn't finish the pass.

• The Winter Battle Pass is still free! Log in, activate it and start earning new limited-time cosmetics for the winter season!
  
• Winterized Killhouse Exteriors and Interiors
  
• Winterized Bank Exteriors and Interiors
  
• Jungle in Dome is replaced with "Winter Wonderland" variant using different cover
  
• 60+ New Maps (mostly Winterized tilesets)
  
• Winter Battle Pass should remember any progress/completion you had from last year, the Halloween Event could not do this because it was not a full battlepass system last year.
  

[h3]Lobby Mode For Unranked 5v5:[/h3]

• Unranked 5v5 now enters Lobby Mode when the match starts with less than 4 people on Each Team
  
• Lobby Mode ends when both teams have at least 4 players
  
• When the player count requirement is met, the game transforms into an Unranked Mode and the score resets
  
• Lobby Mode starts with 2v2 gameset rules and maps, but allowing more players
  
• If the Lobby Mode score limit is met before 8 players join, the match will end
  

[h3]New Reticles:[/h3]

• Holographic and red dot sights have updated reticles
  
• Reticles are now less blocky and more smooth to be easier to aim with
  
• Fixed bug on AP25 reticle where it could turn into a large unusable cross at lower resolutions
  

[h2]Other Changes:[/h2]

• 2v2 mode is now 9 rounds (shorter)
  
• 2v2 mode power weapon mechanic requires one less score difference to activate
  
• Flat value cap for movement speed in barbedwire, instead of being a compound multiplier
  
• Removed "random direction" for weapon jiggle on the F1, BLK-TAR, and AP25
  
• Tweak ingmar brace sway
  
• Phase change text readability improved
  
• Added a new fog system to replace the deprecated nonfunctional one, currently just being used for holiday backgrounds/menu
  

[h2]Fixes:[/h2]

• Fixed menu interface scaling being off on 16:9 or wider resolutions, it might still be slightly jank on resolutions more square than 16:10 but this is intentional to make certain buttons visible on 4:3 monitors
  
• Fixed gameplay resolution scaler not affecting scopes/NVGs as intended
  
• Fixed UAV kills sometimes being "undone" and causing players to be in a bad state
  
• Fix UAV bug Current Target is never cleared (which caused UAV ping bug)
  
• Fixed UAV ping error found in player logs
  
• Fixed torch particle effects on factory doors being on at the start of a round
  
• Added protection to help against maps that crash the server/clients in production environment(s)
  
• Fixed some background buildings in bank background looking off due to mipmap errors
  

• You may not be prompted to activate the Winter Battlepass on startup and may have to activate it manually if you already had partial progression on it last year
  
• 2v2 killhouse is not winterized, we wanted to winterize them too but the new 2v2 levels didn't make the cutoff date for the holiday.