AUDIO

• Completed polishing of all weapons in first- and third-person perspectives, including bullet impacts.
• Improved all weapons sounds, including new shots, mechanics, and melee sounds.
• Fixed issue with duplicate steps behind the player's back.
• Fixed sound of footsteps and their volume during shooting.
• Fixed volume issues for most vehicles.
• Improved all suppressor sounds in first- and third-person perspectives.
• Improved the optimization of audio environmental sounds, including global ambients and room tones.
• Added velcro sound effects for some weapon reloads.
• Improved air vehicle engine rotation sounds.
• Added ‘No Ammo’ sounds for all weapons, including separate sounds for launchers.
• Fixed issues with missing sounds when equipping and unequipping weapons.
• Improved hearing distances for all weapon sounds.
• Improved hearing distances for strike sounds and fixed volume issues.
• Improved shell sounds - every calibre now has its own specific sound.
• Improved shell sounds mechanics for G29, M200, and Tochnost.
• Improved grenade sounds in first-person perspective and hearing distances in third-person perspective.
• Added low ammo feedback to assault rifles, battle rifles, SMGs, sidearms, and the shotgun Vepr 12.
• Fixed reload timing in first- and third-person perspectives, and the volume of reloads.
• Fixed problem with a lack of sound on incoming bombers and the sound of other aircraft cutting off.
• Fixed problem where Mephisto is silent in first-person perspective.
• Problem with interior soundproofing after the destruction of a quadcopter or drone has been eliminated.
• Fixed problem with a lack of armament soundproofing in vehicles.
• Lowered the frequency of emitted voiceovers on maps (for example from radios, TVs, megaphones).
• Improved RCWS volume and attenuation.
• Fixed ‘no shot’ sound when using Mini Cannon 25mm.
• Fixed problem with the volume of shots fired by vehicles underground being too high.
• Fixed problem with some reloads in first-person perspective.
• Problems with silent vehicles in first-person perspective have been eliminated.
• Improved attenuation performance for vehicle parts and strikes.
• Fixed problem with disappearing sounds of shots and explosions.
• Fixed issues with high CPU consumption caused by the reverb system.
• Improved sounds of rockets and jets, added new sounds, and fixed some audio issues.
• Fixed issues with shooting and explosion sounds cutting out, especially from long distances.

TECHNICAL

• Fixed party issues.
• Tweaks to rejoin system.
• Tweaked issues with statistics.
• Fixed causes of multiple crashes on Summary Screen.
• Reworked material on player gear.
• Multiple bug fixes in matchmaking.
• Corrected wording on strike customization.
• Fixed issue where party members were not being connected to the server.
• Added animated loading screens.
• Updated thumbnails in the hub.
• Improved loading times on the initialization screen.

GENERAL

• Added newcomer screen (for new players).
• Added Backpack unlocks to Summary Screen.
• Other players’ levels will now update on the scoreboard.
• Improved muting and unmuting players on voice chat.

GAMEPLAY

• Team Deathmatch respawn timer reduced to 3 seconds.
• Updates and fixes to localizations.
• Helmet hitbox adjusted to improve the distinction between headshots and helmet shots.
• Lights added to all infantry players to aid in target recognition.
• Neutral combat vehicles now count towards the team vehicle limit, including vehicles that spawn on the base and vehicles stolen from the enemy.
• Combat Vehicle limit reduced to 2.
• Drone limit separated into Ground Drones and Air Drones.
• Ground Drone limit reduced to 3.
• Air Drone limit reduced to 3.
• Fixed issue where destroying a friendly vehicle via Self-Destruct awarded players with negative BP. The fix also applies to the intended use of the Loitering Munitions Drone.
• Fixed issue where empty enemy vehicles could be repaired with a Repair Tool.
• Fixed issue where the kill cam would follow players after they died.
• Fixed issue where players couldn’t fire while holding down the Interact key (Default: F). Interacting with objects (packs, mines, etc.) still blocks firing.
• Mobile Spawners no longer have a mounted machine gun.
• Throw force of all grenades readjusted to make them feel more natural.
• Gas Grenade: Significantly increased damage per second, increased friction to make it less bouncy.
• Thermite Grenade: Decreased damage per second, increased area of effect and duration.
• Semtex C4: Disabled explosion delay, reduced splash damage range lethal to infantry.
• Smoke Grenades now explode on impact.
• AQPTF flashlight and AN/PEQ laser sight no longer switch on when aiming down the sights.
• Rebalanced benefits and drawbacks of most magazines.
• Underbarrel Grenade Launcher now deals damage to armoured vehicles.
• The majority of Assault Rifles had hip-fire accuracy increased to make them more consistent in close-quarters firefights.
• Recoil adjustments to AK-based Assault Rifles (Beryl 762, AK-15, Alpha).
• RPG: Increased starting ammo by 1, reduced mechanical and visual recoil.
• Tochnost now properly damages drones and vehicle parts; also implemented fixes to ADS timings.
• Fixed Shotgun spread issue
• M200: Increased minimum damage to ensure one-hit kills at extreme ranges.
• Piorun: Increased reload time to match the animation.

LEVELS

• Warsaw (Tactical Ops): Increased out-of-bounds area in Eastern Base to prevent spawn killing.
• Warsaw (Tactical Ops): Moved BCV spawn location on the Eastern Base.
• All maps (Tactical Ops): Adjusted air vehicle spawn locations to prevent spawning in line of sight.
• Multiple movement tweaks.
• Multiple collision tweaks.
• Texture tweaks.

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