'83 - Quality-of-Life Patch #5

Quality of Life Patch #5 is out now - containing a number of key changes/improvements which you can read all about in the patch notes below.

In addition, starting today we will be a part of the Steam Summer Sale where you can grab '83 at a 50% discount. The sale will go live a couple of hours after this update - keep an eye out!

Hope you enjoy the update and see you on the battlefields of '83!

TL;DR Changes

• Added Round Start Speeches

• Objective capture points battle chatter added

• Other battle Chatter additions

• Low Ammo, Out of Ammo, Low Stamina

• Added chatter when reloading while suppressed

• Improved reloads for grenade launchers to prevent it looking finished when it's not

• Comms Rose enabled for tankers with tanker specific VO

Quality of Life Patch #5 - Changelog

Art

• Fix for player getting stuck in logs near sawmill building - Woodpecker

• Fix for getting stuck on cooker collision + intersecting with wall in a house in Woodpecker

• Fixed guardrails on the NATO Outpost tower in Fulda Gap

• Fix for Guard Tower in Fulda NATO outpost shooting through railing + Cosmetic changes

• Fix collision to stop player falling through the marketplace kiosk roof on Fulda

• Fix Rock placement to prevent player getting stuck inside

• Removed grass from Concrete floor in warehouse in Fjord

Audio

• Added voiced lines for round start speeches. Different lines depending on whether the player is attacking, defending or it's a neutral map (i.e. frontlines). Play only for the local player, and only triggers during the final 5 seconds of the pre-round start screen

• Interior concrete small environment firing audio for 1p MP5SD3

• Made tails slightly louder on M1911

• New audio to support binocular equip/holster.

• Made the tank engine audio handling server aware. The server now tracks and replicates a tank engine state out to connected clients

• Minor mix changes to 1p firing.

• Added gentle compressor to master output

• Fixed minor sync issues with weapon reloads on AK-74 and MP5SD3

• Added a missing reference for one of the 'neck shot' death sounds

• Added battle chatter for Low Ammo, Out of Ammo and Low Stamina Added alternative "reloading" chatter lines when suppressed

• Re-enabled comms rose for tankers, and set it to now play tank specific lines instead of infantry ones.

• Added some situational chatter when contesting objectives, which changes depending on who is capping, the direction the cap is moving, etc

• AddedAudioImprovements to bullet impacts across the board, supporting 6 most important materials esp. new bullet impact designs for glass materials

• Battlechatter lines for tanks.

• Minor mix changes - made 3p battlechatter slightly quieter and adjusted attenuation so that it's quieter at distance. Announcer and player breathing minor mix changes as well

UI

• Vehicle passenger UI widget now shows different icons to better indicate who is in which tank seat

• Encumbrance text on loadout menu now turns red to indicate when a player's loadout is over the max encumbrance weight

• Icon updates for single shot weapon ammunition, to fix the "ghost" projectile problem on the HUD

• Icons on the objective overview correctly update their "orders" overlay when an objective changes hands

• Objective icons on the edge of the screen now have a larger and more clear margin between themselves and the viewport limits

• Attack/Defend orders overlay now continues to display when objectives are off screen instead of being hidden while the icon was on the edge of the screen

Code

• Made freelook camera interpolate back to the weapon quicker

• Made the weapon quickly move to the camera direction after a vault instead of snapping

• Fixed a bug that causes unintended negative score to be given when exploding an already burning enemy vehicle.

• Added objective contest score for players who stay in a contested objective for 10 seconds.

• Adjusted final reload stage for M203 and GP-25 grenade launcher to be more intuitive

• Added voiced lines for round start speeches. Different lines depending on whether the player is attacking, defending or it's a neutral map (i.e. frontlines). Play only for the local player, and only triggers during the final 5 seconds of the pre-round start screen

• Added objective capture and defend scores

• Objective Icon fixes:

• Icons on the objective overview correctly update their "orders" overlay when an objective changes hands

• Objective icons on the edge of the screen now have a larger and more clear margin between themselves and the viewport limits

• Attack/Defend orders overlay now continues to display when objectives are off screen instead of being hidden while the icon was on the edge of the screen

• In Assault mode if the attackers run out of tickets, the match time is reduced to 2 mins (designer setting)

• Speculative fix to a crash to desktop

Design

• Fixed incorrect physics materials on multiple materials

• Adjusted vfx of 105mm, 122mm and 220mm impacts, increase intensity and duration of smoke

• Updated the display names for the M870 shotgun and Model 653 carbine

• Fix explosion variants not appearing for 155mm explosions

• Applied 3p muzzle flash VFX's for tanks

• New VFX for 1p and 3p HEAT and HE/HEP/HESH projectiles

• Encumbrance text on loadout menu now turns red to indicate when a player's loadout is over the max encumbrance weight

• Using the menu button to respawn (suicide) will now close the escape menu on confirmation instead of leaving it open over the top

Servers

• Fixed RCON listMapRotations command so it displays map rotations where it would display none previously.

Level Design

As-Fjord Siege

• Ticket amount for attackers has been increased by 150, capture point in D has been amended, seeding logic has been applied, creating smaller map/round for low player counts.

As-Woodpecker NATO

• Adjusted the terrain near by the checkpoint station and adjusted terrain in the Pact HQ, Additional swamp gaps added where the shooting range used to be.

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