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Steam News7 October 20205y ago

Patch 20280

Added New gameserver backend (first release, open source). It is able to collect game statistics. A player toplist will be live soon™. If you want to use it for your servers contact us on discord.

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Full TO4: Tactical Operations update

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What changed

10 fixes12 additions35 changes2 removals
  • Server
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
  • Maps
addedAddedNew gameserver backend (first release, open source). It is able to collect game statistics. A player toplist will be live soon™. If you want to use it for your servers contact us on discord.
addedChangedIncrease size of hit collision primitives, add additional colliders for head, body & legs (comparison to the old version on the bottom of this article)
addedChangedWeapon rebalancing for bigger hit primitives: Increase aim error (about 8%), damage & add more damage falloff for SMGs & shotguns. We appreciate feedback on the changes!
addedChangedEdit spray pattern of full auto weapons to fit the new hit primitives better
changedChangedIncrease recoil strength (interpolation velocity)
changedChangedExchange bullet tracer fx (Spawned for every shot on high++ effect settings, feel free to give feedback, maybe it makes more sense to just spawn on every 2. or 3. shot)

TO4: Tactical Operations changes

addedNew gameserver backend (first release, open source). It is able to collect game statistics. A player toplist will be live soon™. If you want to use it for your servers contact us on discord.
addedIncrease size of hit collision primitives, add additional colliders for head, body & legs (comparison to the old version on the bottom of this article)
addedWeapon rebalancing for bigger hit primitives: Increase aim error (about 8%), damage & add more damage falloff for SMGs & shotguns. We appreciate feedback on the changes!
addedEdit spray pattern of full auto weapons to fit the new hit primitives better
changedIncrease recoil strength (interpolation velocity)

Added

  • New gameserver backend (first release, open source). It is able to collect game statistics. A player toplist will be live soon™. If you want to use it for your servers contact us on discord.

Changed

  • 3% wider player models to increase hit surface in general

  • Increase size of hit collision primitives, add additional colliders for head, body & legs (comparison to the old version on the bottom of this article)

  • Weapon rebalancing for bigger hit primitives: Increase aim error (about 8%), damage & add more damage falloff for SMGs & shotguns. We appreciate feedback on the changes!

  • UMP receives a laser which improves the aimerror by 6%

  • Edit spray pattern of full auto weapons to fit the new hit primitives better

  • Increase player acceleration for more responsiveness

  • Increase recoil strength (interpolation velocity)

  • Use resonance HRTF by default

  • Dead pawns are ignored by weapons

  • Exchange bullet tracer fx (Spawned for every shot on high++ effect settings, feel free to give feedback, maybe it makes more sense to just spawn on every 2. or 3. shot)

  • Reduce particle amount smoke (does this reduce load on slower systems?)

  • Increase blood spawn rate (damaged player)

  • 18->22% spray pattern random deviation

  • Increase bloody screen feedback

  • Refactor recoil recovery (only applied when player stops shooting or weapon empty)

  • Simple message buffering for announce widget

Fixed

  • Blood blocking hacking panel / bomb defuse

  • Infinite clip drop when replacing weapon while reloading

  • Scope toggle on any weapon possible if spammed during replication

  • 3d marker should disappear after hacked

  • Admin pause stopped in pre round

  • Bomb planted on pawn

MAP-Eviction

  • Complete rework added to the map list

  • Needs testing of trickjumps / getting out of the map / getting stuck / etc.

  • Need to check balancing in the map, chokepoints, OverPowered positions, etc

  • NOTE: FPS might be a thing in this map, since there has not been a great optimization yet

MAP-Scope

  • Reduced wind effect on Middle of the map (0,95 > 0,75)

  • Reduced sound effect on lamps middle of the map (0,7 > 0,55)

  • Fixed broken foliage all around the map (material was missing)

  • Fixed missing metal impact effect on roof Baracks A

  • Resculpt the landscape around the roads (had some gaps underneath)

  • Fixed the lighting and shadows (did a high quality build this time, apologies)

  • Fixed the strange shadow caused by the fences near A mountain (Remus)

  • Redid some material work on the main buildings (still need to redo building A and B)

  • Reduced the shadow / lighting quality on some of the new foliage (gives better performance)

MAP-Blister

  • Blocked the camping position above the doorframes in the sniperlane building, terrorist side (Riax)

  • Gave the crates some more height for better cover (middle tunnel area, towards low. The crate on lower bombspot, The crate overlooking sniper house) (tajfun)

  • Blocked the balcony above the hallway from middle to high. You could trick-nade-jump there (tajfun)

  • Blocked the clothing/curtain rail in SF spawn building (pLum0)

  • Blocked the doorframe in the middle house, in front of SF base, where you could jump on (and camp (kummelmuck)

  • Repositioned the metal door on lower hallway, the lock was sticking through the door frame (Autix)

  • Repositioned the concrete doorframe that was flying around (oops), in front of Terrorist base (Autix)

  • Blocked trickjumps in terrorist base (autix / cckane)

  • Fixed Kummelmuck's gracious 57 (!!) visual errors / miss-alignments / OCD-triggering stuff

MAP-Trainyard

  • Fixed the missing impact effects on the blue metal fences (Autix)

  • Fixed the strange lighting due to faulty roof on warehouse B (Autix)

  • Added extra light to dark corners (especially in warehouse B) (kummelmuck)

  • Redid collision on the office plants, now you cant trickjump on them (removed the plant in middle stairwell) (kummelmuck)

  • Blocked the trickjump in the office near terrorist side (you could sneak up the closet and camp) (kummelmuck)

  • Redid entire outside lighting + skybox - less brightness, easier on the eyes (kummelmuck / remus)

  • Fix nade bouncing sound not being played

MAP-Fueled

  • Reduced the brightness of the sky (2,5 > 2,0)

  • Blocked shooting under the white truck (except for a very small hole) in middle (wingah)

  • Fixed / changed / repositioned (58) number of visual errors in the map (foliage / mesh placement / etc) by kummelmuck

MAP-TrooperII

  • New look

  • Boxes 1.5 size (tajfuN)

  • Nade bug on tunnel (cckane)

MAP-Drought

  • Fixed wood material

  • Added light to the shadows

MAP-Arena-preAIM

  • Boosted general lighting in the pos process volume (1.0 > 1.2) and reduced contrast on both general as shadows (0.95 > 0.85). Increased the skylight (1.0 > 1.2)

  • Added very soft lights on specific corners, hallways, etc. mentioned where the SF skin is hard to spot (kummelmuck / tajfun)

MAP-Arena-LockDown

  • Added slight ambient dust to the map here and there (test)

  • Reduced general fog setting in the map (density 0,1 > 0,05)

  • Reduced skybox brightness (1,5 > 0,7)

MAP-Arena-KillThemAll

  • Removed the ceiling

Hit primitives

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Weapon rebalancing

Aim error

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TTK

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Source

Steam News / 7 October 2020

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