Build 0438-CL2840
Public Testing branch
New
Rewrite AI smoke grenade handling:
Smoke between you and them blocks their view and aim.
If you are inside smoke, you get a concealment bonus (harder to detect and hit).
It's not a perfect shield, they can still shoot at you! Just like a human would.
Enemies won't blindly walk through smoke, unless they have no other path. They treat it as 'danger zone'.
It's still an approximation with a spherical volume and not some pixel perfect simulation, so expect situations where you can see them through the smoke and they can't
Also worth noting that flashbangs apply a disoriented/suppressed effect to NPCs; they don't have clear visuals/animation communicating the state, so it may still feel ineffective, but they are not useless.
Edits & Tweaks
Allow playing emotes while seated in helicopter, so that you can politely greet opposing teams
Make emote wheel a bit more responsive to by adding a rotating arrow
Helicopter markers are only visible for friendly teams
Add a soft beep to the intel notebook when it's dropped on ground
Fix AI visibility issues on chainlink fences which had a cloth/tarp covering them: AI was seeing through them since chainlink fences usually aren't visibility blockers. Affected mostly the Renegade Oil map which has a lot of tarps :)
Expand shell casing impact sounds to more surface types, they were often silent
Ops: change hostage rescue to use the safe house vicinity instead of safe house landing zone to check for safety reached, just bring them close to a safehouse. You don't have to bring Smith completely indoors to complete the mission.
Add a tooltip to loadout limit arrows so it's obvious which team they belong to without relying on color.
Update loadout editor in main menu/solo play screen; equipment and appearance are more clearly on separate tabs. This is work in progress as part of the economy rework.
Fixes
Block GPS while seated in heli (not an allowed action, but a keybind hint was coming up and the ability was active)
Error when dropping grenades from a helicopter because you have no equipped weapon - you can still drop nades, unintended but not fixing it as it's fun, there's just no animation. Drop some smoke on your LZ for cover.
NPCs in wandering NPC benchmark were not wandering! (missing navigation mesh)
Don't allow editing attachments on locked/disallowed loadout items
