Welcome Soldiers!

We've worked to get this first hotfix ready to resolve some issues that arrived with V0.10 last week - including some stability fixes and the return of Cantigny after having to to be pulled from the map rotations. Check out the changelog below!

Gameplay

Changes

• All Medic 01 roles now have smoke grenades instead of hand grenades
• Disabled explosion when digging down Ammunition dump

Fixes

• Fixed Heavy Fortification barbed wire causing movement to be slowed down permanently
• Fixed Ammo Bags and Ammunition Dumps rearming constantly and rearming outside of radius
• Fixed players not being able to shoot people through QF 13-pounder shield opening
• Fixed taking damage and being slowed down for a second after cutting wire
• Fixed barbed wire slowdown and damage applying even when not overlapping with the actual barbed wire model. Previously you would start taking damage from further away than intended
• Fixed barbed wire slowdown not being removed when the current barbed wire is cut. Previously you could take damage right after cutting barbed wire and walking through it
• Fixed GER Medic 02 wrong loadout name
• Fixed damage not being removed when entering the next sector during prep phase and the next sector becoming active on Assault
• Fixed AEF HMG NCO has field dressing in inventory
• Fixed equipment name being misspelt for BEF Signaller

Weapons

New

• Added No. 20 Rod Rifle Grenade to BEF Grenadier

Changes

• Updated ADS view for all pistols. Sight pictures should be improved and be more consistent.

Fixes

• Fixed Lewis Gun having incorrect equip/unequip animations
• Fixed P14 having wrong HUD image
• Fixed incorrect HUD images for Mk1 grenade and Mills bomb grenade
• Fixed Assault objective map markers being filled 70% at match start

Maps

• Fixed visual effects not loading for some maps

• Cantigny

  • Fixed barbed wire causing major performance drop

  • Fixed various gaps in Cantigny cathedral

• Combles

  • Fixed aggressive culling in certain areas

  • Fixed cart disappearing too close to the player

  • Fixed floating trees in certain areas

• Frise

  • Fixed fire sound being audible but no fire effect being visible in certain areas

• Poelcappelle

  • Fixed floating rock at B3-3-2

  • Fixed tunnel at B3-4-5 having collision and terrain issues

  • Fixed a hole in the ground at D3-4-3, Fixed a gap in the sandbags at C3-3-4

  • Fixed Poelcappelle frontlines layers missing blocking volume during staging

  • Fixed missing wall section

• Séchault

  • Fixed floating cans

  • Fixed floating assets in bunkers

  • Fixed foliage clipping through building

  • Fixed bad collision in tunnel

  • Fixed no collision on trench wall

• Shooting Range

  • Fixed BEF and HHF versions of shooting range not loading

Art

• Improved visibility of characters in darker scenarios
• Fixed collisions for dead trees
• Fixed sprint animation not stopping during climb/vault
• Fixed animations not resetting when a player is wounded while interacting
• Fixed wound and blood textures not showing on player models
• Fixed deployment view floating above maps

UI

• Added message to server queue widget to notify players about seeding empty servers
• Updated neutral sector flag for Frontlines
• Updated spawn type icons
• Fixed spelling error in spawn button and fixed formatting for overrun rally / SL spawns
• Fixed end round screen displaying "The match is a draw" briefly
• Fixed spawn point list only showing two spawn points
• Fixed next map widget displaying incorrect image
• Disabled option to enable automatic bolting
• Disabled option to share rally point in map widget

Optimization

• Various crash fixes
• Improved the prioritization of sounds. This ensures certain sounds will always play, even if the audio channel limit is reached.
• Increased audio channels on Epic from 128 to 192 to allow more sounds to be played at once and reduce the likelihood of sounds cutting out
• Improved performance on deployment view
• Optimized HUD widgets
• Optimized character models
• Optimized dismemberment limb models

Known issues

• No. 20 Rifle Grenade equip animation not properly lined up
• No. 20 Rifle Grenade uses placeholder sounds
• Players may experience blurry textures on certain graphical options
• Switching Audio quality in the options menu will cause a crash. Please restart the game to prevent that from happening.
• AMD FX users will have degraded performance due to issues with the audio system. We’re still investigating possible solutions
• VOIP widget role icon is not being displayed correctly
• Damage radius of field cannons will sometimes cause players to not be killed immediately
• No. 20 Rifle Grenade is called “VB Rifle Grenade”