Tim Climpy here, wishing you a Happy Halloween! Back in 82, we didn't celebrate Halloween, what with all the fighting going on. We were lucky to even get a smell of candy. One early morning, Private Jenkins found a rat which he cooked and covered in maple syrup. THAT was our Halloween. Anyway, that's neither here nor there, I am here to tell you about, *checks notes*, Tim Climpy's Warfair - Halloween update! Common Blob doesn't rest on his laurels, and has provided you with the following:

Brand New Map - Haunted House

10 new skins!

• Butcher. This local butcher charges double the price of local butchers! What an evil guy!
  
• The Yokai. She has brooding hair so you know she means business
  
• The innocent Jock! He isn't innocent, and has probably done some horrible things at school, but in this setting he is!
  
• The Count. He wants to suck your blood!
  
• And, this...guy.. He, erm, well, he has his thing, and that's fine, we aren't here to judge
  
• And 5 more!

New Features/Enhancements

• New Haunted House map
• 10 new skins
• New cloud system
• New weather effects
• New Aurora effects at night time with stars
• Improved shadow quality
• Tweaked the lighting during the day to be a little brighter
• Tweaked the LUT applied to be slightly more colourful
• Bullet damage now takes distance into consideration
• Added Sniper "Glint" when enemy players aim down sights
• Added sun exposure to give a more realistic feel to the lighting
• Added some Halloween based objects to maps
• Updated bot navigation code
• Improved bullet holes, they now sit better on surfaces and light correctly
• Bots can now open doors
• Changed how terrain is constructed
• Added tree and foliage culling to terrains
• Bots now have random skins rather than the boring one all the time
• Bots now stay in cover for less time
• Added different spawns after death in TDM to reduce the likelihood of spawn camping
• Added Chromatic Aberration effect to scopes
• Added basic Realtime reflections to some metallic objects
• Added settings options for cloud quality, Realtime reflections, and fog
• Reduced fire rate of tanks
• Updated Glass on El Mondo to be a bit more glassy
• Tweaked car settings to reduce slipping and snaking
• Increased damage bullets make to vehicles a little
• Added some sounds when a player dies
• Added some more sounds during a player takedown

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where your self shadow would have an extra set of limbs (spooky, but wrong)
• Fixed knife animation not showing
• Fixed kill zones not working on maps
• Fixed MP5 not showing on other players
• Fixed an issue where when a round finishes it incorrectly calculates your level
• Changed how Steam stats are cached to reduce chance of 0 being passed while waiting for Steam to update
• Fixed an issue where the sun effects were incorrectly applied on the moon!
• Fixed names not showing above players
• Fixed some missing materials on El Mondo after destroying a wall
• Fixed an issue where during a player takedown, duplicate players appear on camera
• Fixed an issue where scopes had a grey circle off-centre when not zoomed
• Enabled a beta of controller code in preparation for future Steamdeck support
• Fixed issue where on the end of the round, your killstreaks would be visible over the ending screen
• Fixed text size on end of round scoreboard
• Fixed an issue when, on returning to main menu after a match, it would not load all the map options
• Fixed missing glass on El Mondo
• Fixed an error if a bot dies when reloading
• Fixed parachute not appearing for other players
• Tweaked some bullet hole effects
• Fixed an issue where some player attachments would not assign correctly
• Fixed an issue where on death, some player attachments would appear that weren't there previously!
• Reduced skin width to closer align player with the floor
• Reduced volume of waterfalls on Temple map (again)
• Fixed an issue where a killstreak would claim its friendly on FFA (where nothing is friendly)
• If a player dies when underwater, ensure the audio stops
• Fixed fog not showing on weapon scopes
• Fixed issue where you could parachute from a stationary jump
• Fixed server list alignments on main menu with ultrawide resolution
• Fixed an issue where if you grappled onto a ladder, the grappling hook would not disappear
• Fixed a bug on cycled reload weapons where it could add 2 bullets in stead of 1
• Updated frameworks to improve rendering performance
• Added loading text to intro screen
• Load audio settings on intro screen rather than main menu to reduce audio problems
• Fixed bug where you could join a match that was about to finish
• Fixed a bug where the missile killstreak could not be launched on the minimap correctly
• Added Depth of Field effect to long range scopes
• Fixed some issues related to batching of models for performance
• Fixed some killstreaks not detecting all players during FFA