Update v0.14.0.0 Changelog

Animations

• Unarmed Animations added
  
• New Vehicle Poses for Passengers
  
• MG Recoil Increased
  
• Mounted Recoil Decreased Significantly
  
• Passive Wall Mounting Reduced by 25%
  
• Non-bipoded weapons have their recoil reduced by 50%, while bipoded weapons have their recoil reduced by 85%
  
• All Weapons Except Machine Guns can benefit from passive mounting, and receive a 25% reduction in recoil
  

Audio

• Rework of all weapon sound cues
  
• All weapons received new sounds
  
• Ambient sounds added to several maps
  

Core

• Bipod System
  
• Construction System
  
• Vaulting Optimizations
  
• Weapon Mounting
  
• Medical System and Revival
  
• Vehicles
  

Core Art

• Made new Desert buildings, better optimized and more detailed than older versions
  
• Optimized WW2 buildings, fewer material slots, reduced draw calls
  
• Added impact decals to explosion effects
  
• Created new Normandy Foliage assets
  
• Assortment of "Buildable" meshes created for the construction system
  
• Fixed class icon in Squad Member Listing widget getting squished due to padding enforced around it
  

Characters

• Character LOD optimizations
  
• Reworked equipment on characters
  
• Retextured all characters and gear
  
• Optimized materials, and weight paint for animations to reduce mesh stretching
  
• Added Cold War Woodland Camo US Faction
  
• Added new 1P Arms
  
• Added additional skeletal meshes to WW1 Factions
  

Cleanup

• Migrated all assets from the Operation folders to HDAssets
  
• Renamed several assets for consistency
  

Credits

• Added Developer and Contributor names from the past year
  

Gameplay

• Bipod System
  
• Construction System
  
• Vaulting Optimizations
  
• Weapon Mounting
  
• Medical System and Revival
  
• Enabled the ability for bots to deploy from buildables that provide a spawn point (i.e. rally points and outposts from the Construction system)
  
• Optimizations to character suppression volume
  
• Fixed issue with hit reactions that resulted in players getting noticeably suppressed by friendly fire
  

Lighting

• Sky Textures downscaled to reduce texture memory
  
• Dynamic shadows reduced for performance
  

Main Menu

• New background scenes have been created
  
• New soundtrack added to main menu
  

Maps

• Spawn Protection Volumes added to all main base and spawn flags
  
• Vehicle spawners added to all maps
  
• Flag layouts adjusted for vehicles
  
• More neutral and no spawnable flags placed for all maps
  
• Skirmish maps made for all maps
  
• HLODs baked on larger maps to help reduce tri count, draw calls, and texture memory
  

Khafji

• Complete overhaul
  
• Buildings replaced, and small details added
  
• Small details and set dressing added
  

Risala

• All buildings swapped out with updated versions
  
• Terrain, foliage, and prop optimizations
  

Argonne

• Foliage improvements Distant terrain Foliage additions
  
• Distant terrain added
  
• Optimizations and performance tweaks
  

Montecassino

• Foliage improvements Distant terrain Foliage additions
  
• Distant terrain added
  
• Optimizations and performance tweaks
  
• Castle meshes optimized to reduce draw calls and texture memory
  

Lam Dong

• Optimizations and foliage improvements
  
• Lighting improvements
  
• Distant Terrain and Foliage added
  

Jaziira

• Buildings swapped out with new versions
  
• Terrain adjustments and optimizations
  
• Prop placement and optimizations to collision
  

Al Dhakir

• New modder-donated map made by Putridi
  

Carentan

• DLC map now included in the base game
  
• Terrain improvements
  
• New Foliage Assets
  
• Lighting and Shadow Optimizations
  

Omaha Beach

• DLC map now included in the base game
  
• Terrain, Foliage, and Mesh Improvements
  

Saint Quentin

• DLC map now included in the base game
  
• Terrain improvements, Distant terrain added
  
• Trench lines reworked
  
• New Foliage Assets
  
• Lighting and Shadow Optimizations
  

Tan Binh

• DLC map now included in the base game
  
• Foliage additions
  
• Tunnels added
  
• Prop placement, scorched earth areas added
  
• New Lighting Level added
  

Multiplayer

• Increased net relevancy range of grenade and rocket projectiles (they now match relevancy range of player characters)
  
• Minor reduction in the bandwidth usage of weapon RPCs
  
• Fixed issue where hard pivots in the direction of movement while sprinting resulted in excessive rubberbanding
  
• Additional security improvements and enhancements
  

Vehicles

• Logistic and Transport Vehicles Added:
  
• 1917 Matchless Motorcycle
  
• FMTV, GAZ66
  
• GER Lorry
  
• GER Opel Blitz
  
• GMC CCW, Humvee
  
• IMV Rhino
  
• KAMAZ
  
• Kubelwagon
  
• Liberty
  
• M35
  
• M923
  
• M939
  
• USArmy Motorcycle
  
• MRAP Catamount
  
• MRAP Oshkosh
  
• MRAP Ural Typhoon
  
• MT
  
• Pickup 85'
  
• Technical
  
• UAZ
  
• UAZ Hunter
  
• Willy's Jeep
  
• ZIL Cargo
  
• Many more vehicles to come!
  

SDK

• Prevented mods from being packaged in the editor if there is any build in progress (lighting, navigation, etc) and present a warning to the user
  
• Minor updates to layout of Upload Mod window which includes multiline item descriptions as well as enlarged, word-wrapped Description & Changenote text boxes
  
• Don't overwrite title, description, preview image, etc of a workshop item if they are left blank when publishing a mod
  
• Remember selected mod plugin as a user preference when Upload Mod window closes
  
• Re-enable Git, Perforce, and Subversion source control plugins that were previously disabled by the project
  
• Default navmesh generation method changed from 'Static' to 'Dynamic Modifiers Only' in order to allow for AI navigation around buildables and other dynamic objects
  
• Expose tank track lock/unlock functionality to BPs
  
• Add BP write access to "ADS Fire Only" and "Can Aim While Equipped" weapon flags
  
• Expose skeletal mesh component PredictedLODLevel value to BPs via the 'GetAnimLODLevel' (anim instance) and 'GetMeshLODLevel' (mesh component) BP statics
  
• Expose to BPs the ability to override the navigation export behavior of SM, ISM components (i.e. export as dynamic obstacle, Area Class overrides)
  

VFX

• New Projectile Effects added
  
• New Grenade and AT Explosion Effects added
  

Weapons

• New Weapons Added:
  
• 9A91
  
• AK74M
  
• AK74W 1P87
  
• AKS74U
  
• AUGA1
  
• CAR15
  
• G3A3
  
• Gewehr 43
  
• Gewehr 98
  
• HK417 with G33 Magnifier
  
• M1 Garand with M84 Scope
  
• M1A Woodstock
  
• M14 with Redfield Scope
  
• M1903A3 with M73 Scope
  
• M1917
  
• M24
  
• M240B
  
• M249
  
• MAT49
  
• MDR .308
  
• MG34
  
• Mosin Nagant
  
• OSV96
  
• Stoner63
  
• VSK94
  
• Several weapons were retextured and details added