Onward - Tactical FPS Shooter

SolKutTeR · 26. Mai 2018

Und da ist das Update 1.2 wieder da und das recht umfangreich.

Update v1.2 Released
We’ve been doing a lot of testing and fixing on v1.2, and we’re happy to announce its full release today! We hope you guys enjoy it, and we appreciate your patience and continued support!

Some new additions are included below since our v1.2 test weekend and known issues with v1.2 can be found at the bottom of the patch notes. Go go go!
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New Map: Cargo
We used to have a very different version of Tanker in the game, before our re-make of it. A lot of the community felt that the replacement wasn’t true to the original (given that the layout had drastically changed. We heard the feedback, and felt it was a good time bring that layout back with an improved location and lighting, so here’s Cargo!
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New Map: Bazaar2
A night-time version of Bazaar, complete with lit up neon signs! It’s terrifying on Operations.
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Lighting Improvements

All maps have had their lighting redone to take advantage of performance improvements and new Unity features. Notable improvements:

Improved specular lighting: metal objects, especially weapons, have a much more metallic look instead of the previous matte finish

Interior lighting for Downfall 1 & 2

Scope glint

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Inventory Refactor

Ambidextrous! All pickups can be picked up, dropped, swapped between hands and shared between players. Dominant hand no longer matters in determining which hand can grab what

Added Hold to Grip option!
We highly recommend this for players using an Oculus Rift

You can hold two objects at the same time
Not including primary or secondary weapons

Downed/dead AI and players drop all their pickups, and you can loot their dropped gear

Holstered grenades are now visible on other player vests

Interchangeable magazines: Some magazines can be inserted and fired from multiple weapons. Most Marsoc rifles use STANAG mags and will be interchangeable.
Full list of mag support at the bottom of the patch notes

Some things you can now do:

You can grab and throw live smoke grenades

A teammate gets downed, you can pick up their syringe and revive them with it

Steal weapons and equipment from downed enemy combatants

Pull the pin on a grenade but leave the spoon attached, you can pass the grenade to your other hand or another player without the spoon flying off

You can keep your weapon out with one hand while you use your other hand to check your Tablet

You can put magazines in your holstered guns, other player’s holstered guns, or other player’s guns they are currently holding

In Escort, sacrifice your gear to get the VIP better-equipped to survive

You can have a primary weapon holstered while having a different primary weapon in your hands

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Added TAR-21 and weapon remodels

Replaced M9, M1014, and G36c models with in-house created ones

Added TAR-21 rifle to Volk Specialist loadout

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Easy Anti-Cheat
We’ve previously been relatively vulnerable to some advanced methods of editing game code and gameplay. With the inclusion of Easy Anti-Cheat, this will give us the same protection as many of the AAA developer games out there! Some games using EAC include: Squad, Fortnite: Battle Royale, Farcry 5, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Smite and many more!

If someone snipes you across the map and you think he’s cheating (lookin’ at you MrDeath), I’m afraid they’re probably just a good shot.
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Competitive gamemode improvements

Each class can only be used by one player at a time

Game mode on map vote will only show the currently played one

Objective/Spawn behavior changed. Teams will take turns defending/attacking the same objective before changing to a new objective (ex. Volk defends objective A, Marsoc spawns at a random spawn. The round ends, teams swap factions, and Volk still defends objective A, and Marsoc spawns at a random spawn)

Turned off random weather events

Based on community feedback, suiciding/exiting as the last player on Volk (after the round reset ruling) will give Marsoc 2 points

We’ve replaced the suicide with the ability to destroy the Uplink dish (only as the last alive player left on Volk). This can be done by inputting a code on the tablet and waiting for a progress bar. The further you are from the objective, the longer this will take to send (signal bars will indicate this). While it’s sending, the objective will beep franticly, and once sent it will shutdown, giving Marsoc 1 point.

On both comp and non-comp lobbies (but affecting comp more), the map will be visible with the objective location in the tent prior to spawn, to allow players to plan accordingly

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Oculus Improvements

Added Oculus Dash support. Press the Oculus button (universal menu) on the right Touch Controller to access

Upgraded Oculus Utilities to 1.22
Oculus users should see a GPU performance improvement[developer.oculus.com]

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Multiplayer Free Roam

We’ve extended the Free Roam gamemode to be available in private multiplayer lobbies. This is intended for players to be able to explore and/or learn the maps together, plan strategies and create content. We’re considering making changes to this mode in an upcoming patch to help target it more for our intended usage (instead of it being used as a TDM). However, it’s worth noting that we aren’t ruling out gamemodes with respawns for the future. If introduced, we would be sure to implement it in such a way that it wouldn't take away from what we consider to be the ‘core’ Onward experience.

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Casting improvements

Cameras will be hidden by default until space is held

Loading message added to freecam view between maps

Voice sliders, team names over cams and spectating text are all color coded now

Hotkeys added to jump to and cycle through alive players through team 1 and 2 (hotkeys are - and + respectfully)

Hotkeys added to spectate individual players on each team (if they are alive) - keypad numbers 1 - 5 for team 1, CTRL + keypad numbers for team 2. If no keypad is available, ALT + alpha numbers, or CTRL + ALT + alpha numbers.

Colored dots have been added under the scores to indicate how many players alive/down/dead on each team at a glance. This is useful for knowing which player you want to spectate

Mouse smoothing setting is saved between rounds & sessions

Main menus can now be navigated using keyboard. Can now get into a casting lobby without touching a VR headset or controller.

Chat volume sliders affect lobby voices too

Free roam cam locks mouse into window (no more edge snapping!)

Better scoreboard setup

Potential fix for cams turning white

Added reset cams button which should solve any cam problems if they arise

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General

Server browser: Added some basic info for each lobby as a pop-up box when hovering over

Additional anti-cheat/exploit behavior

Updated to Unity 2017.3

Removed DirectX9 support. This should not affect any users.
Support for DX9 willl be officially removed from Unity in the near future and current versions of SteamVR and OVR don't support DX9.

Items

Radio: Added physical radio object which will drop by your feet when you get downed. This can be seen through any other meshes and allows players to always be able to reach it (as opposed to a ragdolled body, which was inconsistent)

Player: Added semi-transparent hands when downed, to help with interacting with the aforementioned radio

Audio: Added audio to grabbing, holstering, and throwing items

Haptics added to many weapons/pickup interactions (pickup up, dropping, throwing, interacting, fire-mode toggle, drop/insert mag)

Ammo boxes: Will now contain equipment in addition to mags. The mags will be based on the weapons you currently have holstered and/or held. Only you can see the gear until you pull it out, then it can be shared

Magazines: with the addition of interchangeable mags, your vest will now sort holstered mags. Magazines that can be inserted into your current held weapon (or holstered weapon, if you are not holding anything) get priority on being shown holstered. Additionally, mags are sorted by their amount of remaining ammo so you always know that the mag closest to the front has the most ammo in it

Night Vision: Now lights up the surrounding area with an IR light. Will be a lot more useful on dark maps. Nobody else can currently see this light (for performance reasons, though this may change in future)

Tablet: Added signal bars to indicate when the uplink/destroy code can be send

Ballistic Shield: Can now stop pickups thrown at it

Ballistic Shield: Kills caused by grenades bouncing off your shield are attributed to you

Settings

Wristwatch hand preference can now be set in the settings menu

Gun-smoothing options have now been introduced in the settings menu. Stock and/or snap-turn users may want to try these out

Graphics options added to main menu. Preset options (Low,Medium,High), anti-aliasing, shadow resolution, shadow distance, shadow cascades, texture resolution

Updated quality presets
Full list of quality presets at the bottom of the patch notes

Tent

Added a drawing board with some pens to uplink, operations & escort! Drawings will only be shared with your current team and will reset at the end of each round
Drawing board also has a secret pen. We won’t tell you how to get it

Added military base surroundings

Changed colors of tent map and VR spectate maps for consistency and reduce confusion. Marsoc players are now always blue, Volk players are always red

Enemy players are now shown on the map in non-competitive lobbies
Enemy players could already be seen from flying VR spectate camera

Dead players now have white noise on spectate screen to indicate loss of signal (to help prevent ghosting in comp lobbies)

Added cross symbol next to player names to indicate that player has been downed

Moved Exit button to the back

Gamemode

Free Roam: Added ammo boxes

Shooting range: The ammo boxes on the shooting range can now spawn more gear by closing and re-opening them. Removed the pile of mags

Shooting Range: Added some screens which will show the last target you hit with weapon fire

Operations: AI can no longer see through hedges on Suburbia

Operations: AI can now spawn with lasers (night maps only), holo and red dot sights equipped

Tutorial: reworded to accommodate new control options

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Balance

Downfall: Added lights to interiors to reduce Volk advantage of having black camo inside buildings

Downfall & Quarantine: Fire now causes damage over time. Prevents Volk hiding in crashed heli

Artificial turning: Snap turns will now have a delay (and smooth turning slowed down) based on whether you’re stood, crouching or prone.

AI: Nudged player and AI spawns on Jungle and Quarantine to prevent getting shot at on spawn

M40A5: Increased magazine count from 3 to 6 to balance with the SV-98. SV-98 has 10-round mags and M40A5 only has 5-round mags

Extended grenade blocker time for competitive lobbies to better match up with the Onward Master League’s ruling

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Fixes

Connection: Increased timeout length for network traffic to help prevent random disconnects for users on WiFi and/or less stable connections

Exploit: Fixed exploit related to running across playspace & snap/smooth turning

Quarantine: Fixed LOD terrain issues

Bazaar & Downfall: Fixed bad collision with white van (large area in front of van and gaps below van were incorrectly blocking bullets)

Tent Fixes

Fixed VR spectate goggles up/down rotation inverted when held in hand

Fixed players being unable to hear you until the end of the round if you join while it’s in progress

Highlighted VR goggles when available, to help highlight to players that they are functional

Fixed issue with spectating screen going black when someone leaves the lobby

Fixed death message in back of tent sometimes not displaying correct cause of death

Gamemode Fixes

Improved victory/defeat condition code to stop potential issues with round ending problems

Uplink: Fixed ammo boxes incorrectly being visible sometimes

Uplink: Fixed being able to play the same objective placement three times in a row

Uplink: Fixed occurrence where the uplink could be sent without the tablet being fully inside the signal region

Uplink/Escort: Fixed rare case of playing the same objective 3 times in a row if host left

AI Game Modes: fixed “dumpster spawn” that occurred when gamemode was changed while spawning

Shooting Range: Fixed getting stuck when respawning on hills

Shooting Range: Fixed problem with players not having audible proximity voice

Escort: fixed players connecting to game in progress not seeing VIP player skin correctly

Player Fixes

Fixed vest fidgeting while sprinting

Radio: Fixed occurrence where one or more players would not be audible on the radio

Fixed breath particles on cold maps not appearing in correct position for non-local players

Improved "push back" when putting head through walls to fix improper behavior around complicated geometry

Snap and smooth turns now rotate you on the spot. This will prevent players rotating into walls/out of the map. Previously rotated around room center, and then attempted to reposition the player

Fixed vest being visible if quit to lobby and started spectating

Fixed occurrences which could lead to players falling through the map

Fixed occurrence which could lead to spawning in with a black screen and flies

Fixed very close objects clipping through white flashbang and fade to black visual effects

Fixed being able to move through walls in playspace when downed

Fixed night vision lenses being very visible through smoke grenade particles

Inventory Fixes

Knife: Can no longer deal damage through walls

Syringe: Can no longer be used on dead or un-wounded players

Syringe: Fixed incorrectly being able to be used on you while you are not bleeding (syringes only stop bleeding, they do not add health)

Syringe: Fixed healing sometimes causing a lag spike for all players

Syringe: Fixed accidental healing when trying to holster syringe

Ammo Box: Fixed grabbing mags from ammo boxes being difficult

Ammo Box: Mags taken from ammo box will now be visible to all players

Gun: Re-grabbing a weapon that is only held by barrel/foregrip is no longer as difficult

Gun: Fixed unwanted firing of primary weapon while holstering (if holding weapon in just offhand, holding down trigger button to use radio, let go of offhand, dominant hand would snap back to weapon and begin firing as it was being holstered)

Gun: Fixed hand getting stuck to weapon bolt if holding onto bolt as you grab the foregrip/barrelgrip

Gun: Fixed being able to grab foregrip/barrelgrip while a weapon is holstering resulting in an invisible hand

Gun: Fixed being out of shotgun ammo but shells are still visible on vest

Gun: Fixed dying with weapon just in offhand causing no visible hands on respawn

Gun: Fixed getting stuck in hand if you died while it was only in your offhand

Gun: Fixed AUG laser sight disappearing/reappearing when toggled on/off

Gun: Fixed PKM bullet belt missing material

Gun: Fixed bolt action rifles not chambering a round when bolt is cycled after a new mag was inserted

Gun: Fixed holstered weapons always showing a mag attached regardless of if there really is a mag attached

Gun: Fixed attachment click on/off audio not playing in correct position on weapon

Ballistic Shield: Fixed stretching horizontally when revived repeatedly

Magazine: Fixed mags getting stuck while ejecting if another mag was inserted before the first one finished ejecting

Magazine: Fixed M40A5 mag incorrectly showing bullets when it is empty

Grenade: Fixed multiple flash grenades exploding at the same time breaking the flash visual effect

Grenade: Fixed smoke particles from smoke grenades persisting between rounds

Grenade: Fixed holding a live smoke grenade until it times-out preventing you from using smokes in the following rounds

Grenade: Fixed being able to unpin and un-spoon a grenade while inside a wall

Tablet: Fixed being able to send uplink code while tablet inside a wall

Hand: Fixed "broken finger" animation resulting from hand attempting to interact with things that are disabled (hand hovering over ammo, holster primary, hand could still attempt to grab ammo)

Hand: Can no longer use the hand/anything being held further than 1.5m from your player

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Additional Notes

Known Issues

Audio: Popping sounds briefly plays from some audio sources when far away audio plays

Tutorial: Using syringe on chest is inconsistent (can use syringe on head until fixed)

Performance: We’re actively investigating potential issues with recent OS and driver updates and will continue to work towards improving performance

Joining in progress can sometimes result in a problem with some players’ ragdolls in the next round

Full list of interchangeable mags

STANAG mags: Mk16, Mk17, Mk18, M16A4, FAMAS, AK5C, TAR-21, SA80

G3 mags: G3, G3 Auto

12 gauge: SPAS12, M1014

AK banana mags: AK12, AK74

Updated quality presets

Lowest - Quarter res textures, 2x MSAA and low res shadows

Low - Half res textures, 4x MSAA and medium res shadows

Medium - Full res textures, 4x MSAA and medium res shadows

High - Full res textures, 8x MSAA and high res shadows
The shadow resolution change will only affect realtime lights

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[Edit]

Auf die schnelle noch ein kleines How-to-fix:

How to fix auto kicking
If you are getting auto kicked from lobbies, you might not have EAC (Easy Anti Cheat) installed. Here are the steps to manually install it.

Right click Onward in your steam library, click properties, go to the local files tab, and click browse local files.

Open the EasyAntiCheat Folder.

Click the EasyAntiCheat_Setup.exe.

Find Onward in the drop down, and install.

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SolKutTeR · 2. Juni 2018

Recht umfangreiches 1.2.1 Hotfix update.

Hotfix v1.2.1
Today we're pushing out a hotfix to solve a few of the problems that have been encountered since the launch of v1.2.

We wanted to let you guys know that we will be using the community's passionate feedback in an upcoming hotfix, which will involve changes with the lighting of some of the maps.

There is still a known issue with some audio clips "popping" during gameplay, which we are actively investigating. We will push out a fix for this as soon as it can be solved. If you are having difficulty launching the game or getting kicked from lobbies shortly after join, please look to our EAC help documentation[www.easy.ac].
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General

Tent: During map vote, limited the number of maps that will display Escort

Hand: Added hitbox colliders to controller models. Can now damage and heal your own hands

Pickups: Increased grab zone when pickups are free-floating. It is now easier to catch thrown pickups and pickups that are on the ground

Guns: Increased grab zone size on all guns. It is now easier to pick up and grab guns out of your other hand

Foregrip: Adjusted vertical foregrip collision to prevent accidentally letting go

Holster: Moved magazine holster and mags up slightly

Holster: Expanded primary weapon holster size downwards to help with accidental dropping

Cargo: Improved collision on black tarp covered crates

M249: racking the bolt is easier now

LMG Belt: Added audio cues to the belt attaching to the gun and when the belt is released from the hand for being too far away

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Fixes

Game is now playable offline again when there's no active internet connection

Network: Connection parameters have been tweaked to help with lagging/teleporting players

Player: Fixed problems with local IK body which could cause players to die from "accidents happen" (falling through the map) and bad ragdoll on down/death

Player: Fixed an occurrence which would cause some players to incorrectly be ragdolled (when alive) after a join in progress

Player: Fixed some problems causing players to spawn without any inventory

Compass (both watch and tablet): Fixed degrees flipping 180 degrees when compass raised over the horizon line

Syringe: Fixed healing your own chest not working sometimes

Holster: Fixed magazine holster not correctly holstering 6 mags (was only holding 5)

Holster: Fixed controller incorrectly vibrating when hovering over mag holster while holding weapon fore/barrelgrip

Tent: Fixed pen getting stuck in hand when map vote appears

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SolKutTeR · 8. Juni 2018

Jetzt scheint es gut vorranzukommen, dass neue 1.2.2 Hotfix.

Hotfix v1.2.2
In this hotfix we're bringing back the lighting for Suburbia1 and Downfall1 from v1.1 (since they were drastically changed in v1.2) whilst keeping the newer lighting as new versions (Downfall3 and Suburbia3). We've also included some improvements to the overall visual fidelity of the game, fixed a few of the game's biggest bugs and issues and made some additional changes, based on player feedback.

There is still unfortunately a known issue with throwing objects on Oculus Rifts when running through SteamVR. We'll be pushing out a new hotfix soon to address this. In the meantime we recommend running the game through Oculus SDK. We're also working hard to solve the audio popping problem.
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General

Downfall and Suburbia now have 3 variants instead of 2.

Downfall1/Suburbia1: Original daytime lighting from v1.1

Downfall2/Suburbia2: Nighttime variants

Downfall3/Suburbia3: Afternoon/dusk variants that were added in v1.2

Graphics: Added some brightness/contrast post-processing to improve visuals

Player: Lowered the height that the vest starts rotating. Vest should now be less-rotated when in a crouched position

Player: Tweaked player collider slightly to better support players using each other to boost onto scenery objects

Player: Exit button (Vive menu, Oculus B/Y) now only appears when the hand pressing the button has nothing in it (was a problem if holding weapon in non-dominant hand, press exit button to close bolt but it also popped up the exit)

Ammo Holster: now shows secondary mags while no weapons in hand or holster and primary mag holster is empty (previously only showed primary mags even if there were none)

Casting setup: Added speed slider for the flycam movement

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Balance

Shotguns: Buckshot falloff adjusted to be more damaging at close range

Shotguns: Fire rate increased

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Fixes

Player: Fixed networked players bouncing up and down rapidly when on slopes/stairs

Oculus SDK: Fixed an issue which resulted in players not being able to throw objects consistently (soon to be applied to SteamVR version also)

Anti-exploit: Fixed an exploit which allowed players to climb up buildings using external software

Gun Grip: Fixed grip letting go when trigger hand gets too close to front grip

Gun Grip: Fixed proximity grip not releasing correctly when pressing grab button

Gun: Fixed being able to shoot your hand while it was holding the barrel/foregrip

Tablet: Fixed map image not rotating correctly when on a perfectly flat surface

Cargo: Fixed some objects not rendering on scopes

SA80 now correctly labeled as SA80 LSW variant

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SolKutTeR · 8. Juni 2018

Und ein weiteres Hotfix...

Hotfix v1.2.3

Oculus: Reverted a change to controller velocity that caused difficulty in throwing objects quickly

Fixed Suburbia3 incorrectly having Escort mode

Removed Escort mode from Cargo

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SolKutTeR · 11. Juni 2018

Jetzt geht es wirklich schlag auf schlag, ein weiteres Hotfix.

Hotfix v1.2.4

Audio: Fixed audio "popping" from guns firing and frag grenade explosions
We recommend using a 48khz sample rate for Onward

Gamemode: Fixed round incorrectly ending early when a player quit to tent and there were still teammates alive

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SolKutTeR · 30. Juni 2018

Interessanter Hotfix für das 1.2 Update.

Hotfix v1.2.6
Hey guys, we're releasing a hotfix that will fix a few recent issues.
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General

Downfall: Added lights into two building instances to ensure adequate lighting

Drawing Board: Added indicator to show who is currently drawing (and what color)

Pickups: Added generic impact sound for all pickups that didn't have one

Observer: Now allows score/map overlay to be hidden.

Observer: Now available on all private maps, to aid content creators

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Fixes

Syringe: Fixed being unable to heal other hand when holding weapon by barrel

Pickups: Fixed issue which could cause pickups to be thrown backwards during a high velocity throw

Pickups: Fixed issue causing pickups to be potentially thrown further than intended

Fixed a problem where the grenade blocking invisible wall would disable too soon

Fixed an occasion where players could be killed when proning with tracking loss due to "Accidents Happen"

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SolKutTeR · 6. Juli 2018

Interessantes Sitrep mit Ausblicke auf das kommende Update, mit der kommenden neuen Map, neue Gadgets, Optimierungen und Ankündigung für das kostenlose Test Wochenende.

Monthly Sitrep - July 2018
We’re starting a new series; in these we will be telling you what we’ve been up to in terms of development in the form of monthly write-ups.

I have been given this role as the Community Manager to inform you guys on what we’re planning and working on. If you have any suggestions on community involvement be sure to contact me on either Reddit, Steam discussions or the Discord[discord.gg].

So, now that's out of the way, let’s start with the upcoming features and fixes!

Note that these following features are still in progress and are likely to change before release!
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Optimising game performance & stability

Optimising Inverse Kinematics CPU usage.

Refactoring old code to improve efficiency.

EAC problems with launching the game.

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We’ve been getting reports from some players that their performance has been negatively affected by our v1.2 release. One particular nasty bug which seems to be caused by players leaving the game (and new ones joining afterwards) is being looked into as we speak, and a fix will be available ASAP when the guys have found the cause.

In addition to this fix, we also have some potentially huge performance patches coming!

Better Inverse Kinematics with new animations!

We’re working on making the player models look a little more streamlined!
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The potential improvements to players appearance could include :

Crouch fix (no more legs poking through your chest)

Better and smoother running animation

‘Taking a knee’, instead of squatting, when crouched and not moving

Better calculated elbows

Fixing the player rotating when close to a wall

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New map - Abandoned
So we’ve pretty much been keeping our heads down with the development on this new map since it’s announcement back in October 2017.
With the loss of our environmental artist, Abandoned had to be shelved for a brief time.

Here are some screenshots of what abandoned looks like right now. Again this is subject to change before release.
This is going to be the biggest map yet.
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New gear and tools!
We’ve been working on several new pieces of equipment you can use on the battlefield. These new items will allow you to play in a different ways and tactics that weren’t possible before!
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Stun gun and hacking
We’re adding a stun gun (for MARSOC only) that gives you the possibility to stun your enemy, while he’s stunned you can hack his tablet and temporarily receive enemy locations on your tablet. This will likely be limited to the specialist class.
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Bipods
A new way to get more accurate shots on longer ranges! The bipod attachment will allow you to steady your gun on any object low enough to put your bipod on. This will become very helpful for players looking to get long distance kills, by providing a potential extra layer of accuracy previously unseen in the game.
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Eyes in the sky
Now, I won’t reveal too much on this. But in the next big update you might want to watch out for the MARSOC marksman and check the skies next time when protecting the objective….
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Hammerschaedel · 19. Juli 2018

um nochmal darauf hinzuweisen..

SolKutTeR · 24. August 2018

Kleiner Sneak Peek für das kommende v1.3 Update.

SolKutTeR · 25. August 2018

Und da ist das Update auch schon draußen, hier die restlichen und relevanten Informationen.

Update v1.3 Released
Version 1.3 is here! New map (our biggest yet), bipod, drone, stun gun, new tablets, and a bunch of spectate and casting improvements and additions. Check out our video below for a quick overview of some of the new features.

In other news, a collaboration between Oculus, ESL Gaming, and the VR Master League will be hosting a tournament at Oculus Connect 5 on September 26-27th! 4 Teams will be competing for a total prize pool of USD$60,000! We will post more more announcements and links to streaming options as we get nearer to the event dates. For more information, see our previous sitrep.

Abandoned's performance is still being worked on, and will be improved in a hotfix next week.
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Featured Updates

New Map: Abandoned A large overgrown forest with forlorn operating bases and rough terrain. Volk and MARSOC vie to gain the upper hand and lay claim of this strategic piece of land.

New Attachment: Bipods available for all marksman and automatic rifleman weapons. Deploy, snap to ground, and open fire.

New Equipment: Stun Gun and Hacking Tablet available to Marsoc specialist. Comes with a laser sight and one shot. Get up close and stun your enemies. Use the hacking tablet to locate your enemies on the map.
If Volk drops a tablet (they throw it away, they get downed, they exit to tent) then that tablet is hackable. If that player dies, the tablet gets locked

New Equipment: Drones available to Marsoc Marksman (and on all PvE loadouts). Deploy the drone with your tablet and use the camera feed to locate targets.

Tablet: New model, Volk/Marsoc colors, can be two-handed (used for drone control), hacking and drone control attachment variants

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General

Performance: Greatly improved IK calculation CPU cost which should lead to better overall performance.

Scope Improvements

Increased Marsoc 4x Scope model size. Is now closer to its real world equivalent. Scope lens ends up being closer to player's eye than before

Vignette is easier to control. Now it "snaps" to the center when you get close to lining up your eye with the lens.

Parallax effect reduced on all 4x and 12x scopes

Scope reticle texture is no longer affected by texture quality (will always be high resolution)

Center marker: Added an optional in-game center marker to help players remain in the middle of their playable space (and oriented if need be) when playing Onward.

Round time: Round times can now be flexible. Currently only Abandoned has a longer round time (8 minutes), but we will consider changes for other maps. Please let us know your thoughts!

Smoke Grenades: Particles redone to be more performant

Shield: Rotation is now networked, what you see is what everyone sees

Tablet: Holstering is now more consistent. If the Tablet is behind your head when you let go it will attempt to holster

Guns: Spawning with 12x scope now defaults firemode to semi-auto if available

Guns: Rotation is now networked, what you see is what everyone sees

LMG: Change mag remove behavior to only require LMG top to be up (belt no longer has to be removed)

Guns: Added "double click" behavior to holstering. Letting go of trigger hand, and then letting go of barrel/foregrip hand will now attempt to holster weapon using the trigger hand (previously would drop the weapon if the barrel/foregrip hand was far from the holster)

Guns: Bolt action mags have higher grab priority than bolt when trying to drop mag out of gun

M39 and SVD no longer have bolt release buttons, but still lock bolt back on last round

Mk17 STANAG support removed (different caliber)

Map Vote: Public lobbies now vote on a selection of 6 maps. Players can vote for the maps shown, or vote to refresh the choices with new ones

Map Vote: When a majority of the lobby have voted, the countdown will reduce to 5 seconds

Map Vote: Private lobbies no longer have a vote. Instead, the lobby leader is given full choice of map and gamemode and can start the next map immediately

Operations: Volk pistols added to player loadouts in PvE mode

Suburbia: Short bushes can now be walked through

Tablet: Added negative audio sound when attempting to send incorrect code

Settings: Left/right eye preference setting added
currently only functions to help spectate cams know which eye you’ll be using for scopes but will likely be used for other things in the future

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Fixes

Audio: Fixed master volume not affecting splash screen

AI: Fixed alive AI despawning players

Player: Disabled players being able to walk inside each other using game movement, causing both player models to jump up in the air

Player: As part of the IK calculation improvement, player models will now be fully networked, which will fix the de-sync issues we previously had (league banned spots need not be banned anymore!)

Player: Player models shouldn’t spin around randomly when the player is running and should generally be a bit more reliable. There still is a known aesthetic issue with crouching which will be addressed in a future update

Player: Stacking has been disabled until we are able to implement a more reliable method

Main Menu: Fixed server browser next button continuing into empty pages

Magazine: Fixed empty ejected magazines being grabbable from any distance and seeming to appear from mag holster

Magazine: Fixed joining a game in progress causing magazines to spawn very far away and slowly move to insert into guns

Guns: Fixed incorrect fire selector animations on M16, AKM, AK74

Guns: Fixed fire mode selector being incorrect on spawn for some weapons

Guns: Fixed grabbing a bolt that was already locked back causing weapon to animate bolt forward and backward quickly

Lasers: fixed first frame laser being very wide and then getting smaller

Syringe: Fixed used syringe incorrectly being re-holstered if you were holding a used syringe when you got downed, and then got revived

Pickups: Fixed being unable to grab your gear if you were downed, another player grabbed your gear and dropped it, then you were revived

Downfall: Fixed occlusion problems popping small props in/out of vision

Downfall: Fixed barbed wire blocking bullets

Downfall2: Removed grass near ‘Volk tower’

Tent: First person spectating should be a lot closer to where the player is looking, and should see their viewpoint through gun meshes a lot less frequently

Tent: Fixed some guns and attachments not appearing the same in loadout previews as they do when spawned-in

Tent: Drawing board pens now have physics when thrown and can be used by either hand

Competitive: Volk suicide using a grenade now counts towards the suicide penalty

Competitive: Lobbies will auto-start between rounds after a 2 minute timer to help enforce quicker planning phases. Auto-start can be cancelled by lobby leader.

Oculus: Fix loading scene texture incorrectly being affected by texture quality setting

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Casting/Observer
New additions

Fully operational without VR running! Use launch option -novr to boot the game without the need for VR. You can then close and disconnect your VR hardware.
We’ll soon be able to make it so you don’t need VR software even installed.

Hide map hotkey (CTRL + M)

Hide all UI button/hotkey (escape)

Left/right eye player preference can be overridden with left/right arrow keys when spectating a player

Freecam movement has become more smoothed to allow for better viewing experience

Freecam movement now has a button to allow it to continue floating on the last velocity. Hold down the middle mouse button and tweak your movement to achieve panning/slow shots.
You can also hold down the middle mouse button and shift to unlock the max speed and whizz across maps when needed

Right mouse button is now effectively a brake for the freecam, use in conjunction with the middle mouse button to slow down panning shots

Freecam now has cinematic zoom! Use mousewheel up and down and a zoom slider has been added to choose your preferred zoom amount

Camera positions are now stored per map! Observers can choose to import their saved cams when joining a lobby (communicate between multiple observers to decide whose setup to use, as they will be overwritten once imported)

Camera positions will now also be shared amongst other observers joining at any time

Changed team name editing to a dialogue box for easier editing, this is now also synced across all observers

Added an option to alter the in game score. This must only be used in the event of a bug or lobby re-host to keep the correct scores from the last lobby as it affects the score for players also

Added grenade trails. This can be toggled on and off with the “Visibility” button/hotkey (V)

Added a kill feed. This will show the last 5 downs, kills, headshots, resses and tablet hacks and slowly fade out

Added ability to jump straight into first person cam when looking at a player. A small white circle will appear when this is possible and players can use R on the keyboard to spectate

Frame rate has been capped to 60fps to help with performance

Added new screen for casters! This screen will have a scoreboard, team scores, large map and a kill feed on it. This is intended mainly for offline events but will be able to be moved to a second monitor once multi-monitor is implemented for the observer setup. The scoreboard names will flash when shooting and darken when dead

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Fixes

No more performance drops when players spawn in. Performance should remain solid throughout

First person spectating: When returning to free cam from first person spectating, the camera should keep the previous orientation, and move slightly behind and above the player’s head

First person spectating: Now able to exit first person spectating directly into a saved camera position by using the position’s keyboard hotkey

First person spectating: Player names should now remain visible when spectating a player

Map: Made player dots slightly larger and disabled colour changes due to damage

Map: Player dots now have a small red wave around them when the player is being damaged

Map: Shouldn’t need to be refreshed again (hopefully!)

Map: Fixed FOV lines being offset

Map: Mouse is now hidden when fullscreen

Player: Removed outlines when players are dead

Player: Moved player name to follow head so when players crouched it moves with them. Downed players will have the name below them

Scoreboard: Now fully functional at all times

UI: Increased minimum mouse smoothing slider value to stop less mouse ‘bouncing’

Lobby: Upped observer slots to 6 people

Lobby: Fixed issue where observers couldn’t join full lobbies

Tent: Fixed needing to press enter twice to go into freecam on first join

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