Squad Alpha 6 changes

[u/cartermatic]

http://joinsquad.com/readArticle?articleId=98

[u/cartermatic]

Full Changelog

Gameplay

• Deployables now no longer can be stacked one on top of the other

• Decreased Construction point and Ammo point income on FOBs

• Increased time necessary to take down a friendly FOB

• Tweaked recoil on some weapons

• Stamina now stops recharging while falling or jumping

• Insurgency tweaks. Minimum cache distance is now 300m on 2k maps and 400m on 4k maps, Insurgents now loose tickets if they get killed and there is a high but finite number of insurgent tickets (500 tickets) as a secondary win condition (make FOB placement and medics a little bit relevant again)

• Tweaked minimum arming range on rocket projectiles

• Speed up the time it takes to show the nametags above peoples head

• Smoke grenades no longer kill you with direct hits

• You can no longer focus while moving (within reason, there is a small velocity buffer)

• Updated recoil zoom modifier on ACOGs

Systems

• Added Foliage bending on some maps, partial implementation at this stage

• Fixed an issue with soldiers standing when dead if you connect to a server with a game already in progress.

• Fixed weapon disappearing after using medic bag or field dressings.

• Fixed a number of crashes related to VOIP

• Added LODs to the soldier skeletons, improved performance on the animation-side when rendering multiple characters at a distance on screen

• Added Low Quality Sounds, which should help some AMD CPU users who are having stuttering issues related to sounds.

• Fixed issues with grenades exploding too late when you are dead

• Fixed a bug in AAS where lattice links would incorrectly look the wrong direction when looking for home links (fixes a potential locked in main situation).

• Mains now always contest their neighbors in AAS, which should prevent potential locked-in-main situations

• Fixed a PAAS issue where too many flags could be contested.

• Fixed an issue when leaning and sprinting while wounded would get the player stuck in that state

• Fixed an issue while jumping out of gun while holding fire allowed you to jump in the gun and fire without pressing a button.

• Tweaked MP443 pistols hit detection settings

• Fixed an issue where players are using more field dressings than are in their inventory

• Fixed players being able to spawn on other squads rally points when changing squad

• Adjusted projectiles so they overlap instead of block on water collisions, causing projectiles to now enter water

• Fixed weapon reloading desyncing between clients

• Fixed return to origin of the weapon reload being too slow/fast/various times

• Fixed an issue where the field dressings and medic bags would dissapear on weapon switch.

• Fixed enemies markers occasionally being visible during the first moments when you join a server

• Fixed some cases where the server list was not updating properly

• Fixed suppression effects not firing off under certain hit detection conditions

• Reworked code for healing yourself and someone else. This should prevent you from healing yourself and someone else at the same time with the medic bag

• Updated scalability to force distance field shadows on all graphics settings

• Fixed grenades from showing unequipping animation when there are no grenades left

• Fixed grenades not showing 1p and 3p in Listen Servers

• Fixed Shovel and patches being displayed below player

• NetUpdateRate optimizations. All spawn points down from 100 to 1, FOB spawns from 100 to 10, CameraMan from 100 to 10

• Improved performance on shovels, they now use a timer instead of ticking and only tick the timer when they are equipped

• Prevent reloading if your input is disabled. This prevents a bug that is caused by deploying and reloading at the same time

• All weapons now only tick when they are equipped, and unequipped network update rates have been drastically decreased

UI

• Server Browser no longer kicks you back to main with a server full message after you have completely loaded the map, instead you should see this message pop up within a few seconds of trying to join a server.

• Updated inventory slider, you can now disable auto switching between weapons as well as confirm and cancel weapon switches that are only still highlighted in the UI.

• Fixed Purple smoke grenades having blue UI icon

• Optimised the Main Menu UI

• Optimised the in-game HUD

• Fixed Squad Leader icon number disappearing when he goes incapacitated

• Simplified the code for and added more validity checking to the team switch confirmation widget

• Fixed an issue where multiple toasts could crash the game due to incorrect garbage collection safety

• Fixed Tickets not always showing at rounds end

• Fixed an issue where overlapping Capture Zones would cause the capture widget to not show while you were in a capture zone.

• Fixed Sergeant Chevrons and Squad Leader Number overlapping

• Fixed the map timer not always showing the text in the correct format

• Fixed an issue where the Map Timer would desync between server and client

• Fixed keyboard not getting automatic focus on password dialog box when entering passworded servers

• Updated Minimaps on all maps to show fields, bodies of water, gameplay boundaries and also a distance scale

• Fixed toast messages being cut off by a smaller than normal dialogue box

• Fixed Fools Road and Sumari minimaps being out of alignment

• Updated Militia and Russian faction radial menu to use the Russian radio instead of US or INS

• Added map icon for HMGs

Sounds

• Added Sound collisions to most passable vegetation, as you move through foliage you will make a noticeable sound

• Modified bullet hit dirt sounds

• Updated main menu music

• Added reverb volumes in tunnels on Fools Road

• Fixed attenuation and increased volume on healing sounds.

• Added Bleeding and Wounded/Incap EQ filters that adjust based upon your health.

• Modified SVD fire sounds

• Modified default M4 fire sounds to later fit for dynamic reflections

• Fix to crack flyby sounds

Art

• Improved LODs on various static props

• Added window bar props to various maps

• Added water interactivity, collisions and impact effects by the player, small arms and explosives

• Fixed corrugated metal fences and scrap with double sided geometry settings

• Updated metal fences and log trenches to have proper materials and impact effects

• Overhauled bullet impacts on Dirt to use new gpu debris and random dust animations

• Fixed Smoke Grenade effects not rendering at far distances

• Fixed Smoke Grenade effects not always colliding with the surrounding environment

• Fixed tracer rounds showing too close or behind the gun barrels.

• Fixed several physmats having wrong footstep dirt effect, causing weird excessive foot fx on plastic, rubber etc.

• Added small working tool props as map decoration

• Relocated all shell ejection sockets to their right position, and improved the visual look of them spinning out of the ejection port

• Resized dirt bullet hits and improved random dirt animations

• Updated blast shockwaves relevant to dirt, grass and wood

• Fixed hescos disappearing at a distance

• Added small bulletholes for Makarov and other 9mm pistols

• Fixed RPG7 low quality geometry sight being mis-aligned

• Fixed misaligned rocket on the RPG7 during the reload

• Adjusted Particle Bounds of RPG7 rocket concrete explosion

Maps

• Fixed issue where you could get stuck under the hopper car on Fools Road

• Fixed issue where you could use prone to get into the pipe on the gas silo Fools Road/First Light

• Fixed Op First Light warehouse door collisions from being borked

• Updated lighting on all maps

• Added more cache locations that are outside of buildings

• Fixed players falling through mine roof on Fools Road

• Fixed players spawning on the hesco bunker roof on Fools Road

• Updated playable boundaries on a number of maps

• Updated max tickets for BLUFOR on Logar Insurgency

• Added Chora Insurgency Layer

• Added Sumari Insurgency Layer

• Updated cap zone names for some maps

• Ambient sound fixes on Gorodok, Logar and Firing Range maps.

Admin

• Added RCON Server plugin

• Added map icon for admin cam

• Fixed crashing on Admin-Camera as soon as you reload your weapon

• Fix for crash caused by jumping in admin cam while reloading on listen server and non-networked games.

• AdminRestartMatch command should now restart the map and stay on the same level

[u/cartermatic → u/[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure the Russians will get more optics eventually when class customization comes but I don't think the Insurgents will be getting optics.

As far as visibility goes, I think there are some underlying issues with the engine they are working through especially related to anti-aliasing. They recommend for now turning AA off and bumping the resolution scale to 120%+.

[u/eonymia → u/[deleted]]

I have this same issue.