Hey there!

RUNNING WITH RIFLES version 1.62 is out! As another fine tuning update, this time we worked on improving vehicles, boats and tanks in particular, along with vehicle "ghost" rendering when occluded by other visuals and some new particle effects. Another rare weapon has also been added in campaign and Invasion, there can never be enough of those!

Boats behave more smoothly with beach areas now, having a larger range how far into beach you can steer and moving slower when in partial contact with ground. Tracked vehicles such as tanks now allow finer rotations while in motion and the so called "neutral steering" behaves more reliably - appears the AI drivers think highly of these improvements as well. Additionally, the AI can now handle straight driving better (surprisingly difficult if you think about it) with much less zigzag from side to side.

Additionally, we have some new vehicles for the Pacific DLC as shown in the picture; an armory boat for the IJA and one for the USMC. Those can be pretty handy when landing at a beach without any static armory far and wide.

We also added a new armored transport vehicle for the IJA: Type 1 Ho-Ha. It's a relatively fast half-track with 3 mounted MGs that are covering the front part of the vehicle. It has been added as a radio call as a counter-part of the USMC LVT-4.



Changelog v1.62:

• boats: speed and acceleration made to drop when in contact with beach
  
• boats: extended range to stay alive when in contact with beach
  
• vehicles: tweaked collision handling when broken
  
• vehicles: improved tracked vehicle steering control when switching between accelerate and reverse while turning
  
• vehicles: tracked vehicles now have a short window for smooth rotation when in movement
  
• vehicles: added ghost rendering
  
• vehicles: added marker_offset support for offsetting player and squad member markers
  
• visuals: improved beach - land transition area
  
• visuals: added smoke particle emitter for vehicles under 25% HP
  
• visuals: added custom effects/sounds for some blast projectiles when hitting a vehicle
  
• visuals: fixed vehicle "Spawn disabled" text color
  
• inventory: fixed narrow item background frame rendering
  
• lobby: reduced loading time when processing individual maps for quickmatch menu
  
• ai: fixed bug with leaders not calling for medic when wounded
  
• ai: improved vehicle steering, less zigzag now
  
• ai: fixed vehicle weapon slot indexing for sight range
  
• ai: overall higher sight range for AI vehicle gunners
  
• invasion: official invasion servers set to Graycollars as player faction
  
• weapons: very rare Stoner 62 added (LMG with scope)
  
• weapons: mesh based weapons no longer show ghost visual over character
  
• modding: added support for vehicle and terrain tags in hit type projectile sound effects
  
• modding: added support for vehicle tags in projectile particle effects

• invasion: official pacific invasion servers set to IJA as player faction
  
• weapons: AN/M2 "Stinger" commonness from 0.0001 to 0.05
  
• weapons: Type 98 commonness from 0.0001 to 0.05
  
• vehicles: Higgins Armory boat for the USMC added
  
• vehicles: Daihatsu Armory boat for the IJA added
  
• vehicles: Type 1 Ho-Ha transport half-track for the IJA added
  
• calls: Reinforcements - Type 1 Ho-Ha radio call for the IJA added