ZERO CALIBER 2 | Major Update (Refined Gunplay, Smarter Enemies, New Content)

Hey everyone,

This update is a BIG one and focuses on three main areas: weapon feel, AI behavior, and hands-on VR interaction. A lot of this comes straight from community feedback: things that felt off, looked odd, or just didn’t hit as hard as they should.

You’ll find long-requested features like the flippable G33 magnifier, fully dynamic pistol hammers, deeper belt and weapon customization, improved AI reactions, and a big polish pass across weapons, audio, animations, combat and visuals. There’s also new content to unlock, plus a mountain of fixes under the hood.

Let’s break it down.

🔧 NEW OPTIONS | GAMEPLAY TWEAKS 🔧

• Added Grenade Throw Assist with 3 strength levels

• New Weapon Smoothing setting

• Bloom on/off toggle

• Chromatic Aberration on/off toggle

• Weapon attachments are now visible when holstered

• Weapon slots and player belt are now fully customizable and can be repositioned individually

• Added trigger interaction for grabbing ammo from the belt (Known issue: when trigger grip is set to toggle, releasing the trigger may drop the ammo)

• Improved force-pull mechanics

🔫 WEAPONS | INTERACTIONS 🔫

• Flippable G33 magnifier

  • Can be flipped by hand or with other objects

  • Other players can also flip your sight

• Grenade launcher barrels can now be opened and closed manually

  • Also interactable by other players

• Dynamic pistol hammers

  • Can be pushed down manually

• Animated pistol hammers across supported weapons

• Overhauled several weapon, magazine, and attachment models based on player feedback for more realistic visuals

• General weapon polish pass:

  • Recoil behavior fixed and refined

  • Controller rumble values adjusted across all weapons for stronger, caliber-dependent feedback

• Reworked weapon sounds to feel more powerful and punchy

• Fixed gunstock calibration, added horizontal adjustment

• Lobby now includes newly added weapons

🆕 NEW CONTENT 🆕

New Weapons

• Moss500 – Black Edition

• VSS

New Weapon Skins (Pulse Series)

• AUG – Pulse skin

• AK15 – Pulse skin

• Smith & Wesson .45 ACP – Pulse skin

• VSS – Pulse skin

• Pulse Breaker (melee weapon)

All unlockable through in-game challenges.

🎯 RECOIL | AUDIO | GUN FEEL 🎯

• Overall recoil tuning pass for:

  • Pistols

  • SMGs

  • Assault Rifles

  • Snipers

• Improved weapon audio

• Improved controller vibration and weapon rumble

• Colt Python fixes:

  • Spent casings now appear correctly after firing

  • Cylinder rotates on trigger pull

  • Hammer animation corrected

🤖 AI BEHAVIOR 🤖

• Enemies now use cover more effectively under fire

• Improved AI interaction speed

• Added movement smoothing for enemies

• Improved enemy animation frames

• Improved enemy head-turning animations

• Added 100+ new physical death animations

• Fixed enemies getting stuck in reload loops

🎮 CONTROLS | UI 🎮

• Fixed tutorial holo controller buttons and widgets

• Fixed weapon UI:

  • Magazine order

  • Magazine naming

• Fixed armory item info widget issues

• Improved hand poses for rope climbers

• Fixed various input-related issues

🛠️ FIXES | STABILITY 🛠️

• Fixed multiple server crash issues

• Improved OpenXR and Virtual Desktop support

• Fixed Vivox voice chat randomly stopping

• Fixed missing music or sound playback

• Fixed projectiles passing through the ground

• Fixed laser pointer locking in one direction

• Fixed incorrect height calibration when calibrating while crouched

• Fixed players getting stuck in crouch after respawning from checkpoints

• Fixed smoke grenade visual blocker not clearing on kill

• Players can no longer damage teammates with grenades or grenade launchers when friendly fire is off

• Added additional cheat protection

🎨 VISUALS 🎨

• Replaced low-resolution title screen with a high-quality version

• Updated lighting for:

  • Hill Nest

  • Richwood’s Fall

  • Richwood’s Shock

  • Lobby

• Improved LOD for distant characters to reduce choppy animations

• Added new burning surface effect

• Fixed glowing barrels and attachments

• Numerous weapon-specific texture and mesh fixes across pistols, SMGs, ARs, shotguns, and snipers

⚔️ PVP ⚔️

• Fixed lighting on all PvP maps:

• Fixed rank display in the lobby

• Removed random leftover text from host panels

As always, thanks for all the feedback! A huge chunk of this update came directly from things you called out. Keep it coming. We’re already working on what’s next!

Have fun! o7

- Dan & the XREAL Games Team