Map Changes

• New Map: MAP-2on2-Conquer; feedback appreciated!
• Enabled precomputed visibility on all maps (might increase performance especially for older systems)
• 2on2-Lock: Fixed the objective description & Added a third hostage

Misc

• Fixed impact fx on local listen server

Code

• Fixed occasional dedicated server crash
• Fixed wrong starting money for players who join during a game
• Update FSR 2.1.1 to 2.2

Maps

MAP-Fueled

• Redid the pain-causing-volume near the window on SWAT spawn. This caused strange impact effects
• Adjusted the collision on the big containers (Terrorist and SWAT spawn) for smoother movement
• Fixed the missing impact effects on the SWAT tunnel materials

MAP-Thunderball

• Reduced texture load

MAP-Arena-Shaolin

• Fixed missing physical materials on some walls

MAP-2on2-Lock

• Fixed misaligned rescue zone
• Changed overpowered spot on the stairs near T-base (could look directly into SF base)

MAP-RapidWaters

• Blocked entrance to truck underwater

MAP-Filth

• Fixed the bouncing evidence bags

MAP-Smuggler

• Slightly increased overall darkness to the map

Fixes

• Fix hit zone bug

TL;DR

• Game size halved
• Better game performance (+ upscaling technologies for more FPS)
• Update project to Unreal Engine 4.27 & a lot of core source code refactoring
• A new gamemode

Unreal Engine 4.27

• Enable Oodle Compression (ratio about 60%, 50GB => 20GB game size; while also providing faster loading times, however even small updates will be a lot bigger in the future)
• Nvidia Reflex Low latency
• Nvidia DLAA
• Support new upscaling technologies for better performance with only some minor visual artifacts on balanced / quality preset
  • AMD FSR 2 (works also on older Nvidia cards without DLSS support)
  • Nvidia DLSS 2

Recommendation for good performance:

• Nvidia Platform: DLSS > TAA, Always use Reflex (Reflex Low Latency boost mode trades additional GPU load for even less latency if you have the resources)
• General: TAA even on high / epic offers great performance (seems to have issues on older GPUs, known fix is to set AA to Low / Medium or use FXAA), FSR improves performance a lot and even works on older Nvidia / AMD GPUs

Other changes

• General source code refactoring & cleaning (needed before even thinking about adding bots; more lines of code deleted than added :))
• Rework weapon hit / miss fx replication (affects especially shotgun fx replication)
• Reactivate low pass filter automation when flashed
• Hide minimap setting
• Usage of async trace interface for continuous tracing: third person weapon laser, "aim-at" ui features (player name, tooltips), might improve performance
• Fix TAA artifacts on first person meshes
• Removed overlap workaround for collision events of physics actors (onCollide events caused random physx crashes when using them in earlier engine versions; might improve performance)
• Fix "random" fps hitches caused by garbage collector due to unnececary rebuilding of ui maplist (yes that happened :D)
• Fix nade clipping through window without breaking it

New Gamemode: Sabotage (WIP)

• SBT-Abstract
• SBT-Terminal
• SBT-Underground

Coming up todos (some already wip)

• Migration from OSS Steam to EOS Plus (with Steam)
• Freebie Easy Anticheat (EOS Game Services)
• New replicated projectile actor (for nades & at some time knives / nade launchers)
• Gamemode overrides for Maps; run game modes without the need to package extra maps for them (Classic / TDM / CTF / SBT)
• New / Reworked distributed builder framework (distributed compiling the game / gameservers on multiple servers at once)
• TO4ST features: Gamemode specific game config overrides, maplist presets (map + gamemode override)
• Gameserver distribution via SteamCMD
• First person animations rework + new weapons (long term)
• Bots (long term)
• UE5 (very long term :D)

Maps

MAP-2on2-Lock

• Enlarged both T-base and SF-base. No longer there is a direct sightline into base for both teams
• Hostages are slightly more spread
• Made it possible to access both T-base and Hostage area without it being a one-way street
• Changed all glowsticks into decent models
• Redid some rain parts (let heavy on performance)
• Added some more surrounding buildings and landscape
• Slightly increase overall lighting
• Added a few extra strategic cover points on both connecting sides
• Fixed new minimap
• Fixed collision on stairs new SF base
• Removed some foliage due to sight lines

MAP-Fueled

• Moved the palm on sniper alley on T-side (was an overpowered spot)
• Replaced some meshes since they were broken (due to engine migration?)

MAP-Thunderball

• Enlarged and replaced the SWAT buyzone (was a strangely placed and small zone)

MAP-Torii

• Replaced most blocking volumes (for pawn) around the cliffs on the edge of the world. We need these for smoother movement, but it also prevents from picking up weapons/bomb laying behind the volume

MAP-Drought

• Fixed the one strange blocking volumes (and bullet impact effects) on walls
• Fixed foilage

MAP-Scope

• Fixed the strange blocking volumes on some windows (especially middle house)
• Changed the look and feel of RedHouse to actually match the map more
• Removed breakable bottles that looked bad

MAP-Trainyard

• Fixed misaligned meshes on the ground
• Fixed some materials that were broken
• Fixed strange collision / wall in the air near the bombspot A (inside warehouse)
• Fixed the bug where you could shoot through the train (especially the glass)
• Fixed the strange opening in the container on the backside of bombspot B (near the train)
• Redid the mesh painting on the big walls near SF-base; they had strange lines to it which seemed unnatural

MAP-Smuggler

• Replaced the T-base. It's seconds closer to the middle of the map now
• Added some extra cover for T-base routes towards points in the map
• Redid all glowsticks
• Fixed some misplaced / overlapping actors in the map
• Closed the breakable windows in the lower middle building (cant see through anymore, gives cover)
• Added some extra lights in the map to get rid of too much darkness
• Fixed missing ceiling in the house next to SF-base (you could look through the entire building)
• Added a snipers nest on the high route, only accessible from the Terrorist side. This point overviews the high route Escape but also part of the middle roof

MAP-FollowTheMoney

• Fixed the one-sides mesh on the stairwell (you could look through, but not shoot)
• Fixed the strange collision on plants
• Fixed the one-sided panel

MAP-Arena-PreAIM

• Added extra ramp for T-base to get up more quickly (Balancing)
• Adjusted containers completly to the floor to prevent damage being done from underneath
• Adjusted small overlapping actors

MAP-Arena-KillThemAll

• Slightly brightened the wall texture

UI

SettingsPage

• Added min/max value and unit to slider component
• FOV slider works with absolute values 85-120 (instead of 0-100%)

Gameoverlay

• Fixed dmg values in killed by info
• Fix hide hud bind

ServerPage

• Fixed overlapping of serverlist and buttom bar
• Scrollable playerlist

MainMenu

• Design polish (overlapping pages with buttom bar)

BuyMenu

• Fixed closing with OpenBuyMenu bind

Game performance

• Optimise tick utilisation (remove tick from various blueprint map actors, rework bp logic which does not need tick, apply bp -> c++ to even more actors)
• Implement object pooling for weapon fx (ejected shell actor; bullet fx actor, in addition to particle system pooling)
• Misc ini tweaks to improve performance for some configurations (don't expect much from those changes, it might reduce hitches, in comparisons it could improve FPS by a little for GPU bottleneck scenarios)

Misc

• Fix spectator join on listen server
• Fix typo in player controler movement tooltip

Hello everyone!

How will we continue?

Changelog

Fixed

• Breakable objects like windows not reset after round
• "Validation Failed" connection reset on some systems
• Serverbrowser bugfixing
• Pause-in-pre-round bug

Maps

• MAP-2on2-Exile: Reworked floor near Pool (fix flickering artifacts)
• MAP-2on2-Lock: Reworked light (too muddy and washed out before)
• MAP-Trainyard: Some wall painting, fix collision train ladder, fixed broken middle door
• MAP-Scope: Scope a bit brighter overall, collision fixes, slightly polished landscape near Silo-Bunker.
• MAP-Escape: Landscape and collision fix
• MAP-RapidWaters: More light in team bases, less harsh contrast outside, added concrete in hostage base instead of gravel
• MAP-Blister: Collision fixes
• MAP-Fueled: Updated Wall of Fame
• MAP-Trainstation][: Added blocking collision on the train, removed the OP spot on high bridge for Terrorist

UI

• Reworked main menu (still work in progress, feel free to give feedback!)

Misc

• Crouching now allowed pre round

Hello everyone, the end of March is upon us! We promised that after our long break (dec - march 2022) we would get back to you what the future of TO4 would be. We took our time to redefine our goal, our game and our team. Below you will find the first setup of the road forwards for our game.

April 2022

May - July 2022

Today we are glad to bring you a new patch for Tactical Operations with quite a few fixes, new maps and some iteration on existing content. The team wishes you happy holidays and a smooth start into 2022.

New Maps

• MAP-Arena-Pool
• MAP-BattleRoyale
• MAP-Bunker
• MAP-Deflect
• MAP-Faiyum
• MAP-TrainstationII

Player movement

• Higher speed threshold for falling damage: 1725 -> 1677
• Lower falling damage multiplier: 0,109 -> 0,102
• Sneak Speed: 260 -> 250
• Max. speed crouched: 242 -> 220
• Weapon drop toss speed: 350 -> 400
• Tweaked direction change feeling
• Reduce the average movement speed gap between knife and weapons from 7% to 6%
• Fix crouch speed overridden when sneaking while crouching

Weapons

• General weapon balancing (we kinda lost track of the changelog, no major changes tho, mostly minor tweaking)
• Fixed auto recoil recovery odd behavior in semi auto mode
• Changed parameter set of the physics settings of nades to get a more reliable bounce
• HE-Nade: Full damage radius 220 -> 210, Radius 920 -> 870

Animations

• Reworked animation blueprints (third person & first person) for better performance (multithreaded animations & fast path optimisations)
• Fixed wrong animation played for only a few frames on weapon draw
• Added a blend time/transition for the weapon switch from one handed/two handed to two handed/one handed to third person animations

Programming

• Core game code refactoring
• Blueprint nativization for a few blueprints with hot blueprint code and porting some bp code to C++ (most of TO4's code is already C++)
• Fixed blood not attached to moving actors
• Improved balancing workflow of development build (dynamically loading datatables from filesystem without rebuilding the game)

UI

• Exchange main font
• New weapon images in HUD and buy menu
• Serverlist: Fixed sort by players function
• Serverlist: Fixed password handling (fixed game freeze after wrong password, added apply with enter key)
• Added ingame menu clan tag switch
• Rework key mapping, new functions: overwrite, clear, swap

Sounds

Deagle

• New shoot sound
• New draw sound
• Reworked reload sound

M9

• New draw sound

Glock

• New draw sound

Hostage

• New AI-Controller for better movement
• Adjust swimming parameters

Gameservers

• TO4ST-core officially supports assigning configurations to gameservers (game settings like map duration, round length, password, reserved slots etc)
• Auto login to TO4ST-core via steam browser by clicking a button in the admintab
• Masterserver with global player stats list (for now very simple). The website uses the player statistics of the TacByte servers. However, we can add more TO4ST-core instances. If you run servers and want your statistics to be included in our official player statistics list write a message in our #gameserver_hosting discord channel and youll receive a key you have to add to your TO4ST-core settings in order to be included.

Map Changes

MAP-RapidWaters

• Reconstruction of the T-Start base-layout; lower water, water-hole, basement, upper and lower bridge
• Changed sunlight angle
• More lights on terror side
• Wider entry into basement
• Increased the force of the water-fall
• Give hostage more teleport possibilities for better following
• Fixed blocking collision on waterfall wall and truck
• Added some dust decals to basement ground
• Increased the fog panorama
• Added sounds to movable doors
• Higher basement floor on stair entry
• Slight decrease of leaf movement
• Better light at the spot near the truck on sf side
• Some new/more design elements

MAP-Blister

• Reconstruction A-Spot and A-Long
• New sniper bunkers (also on lower and market)
• Added rune on terror sniper spot

MAP-Escape

• Increased the lighting on lower mid house and underground
• Reduced the width of mid-way slightly
• Removed blue container from landscape
• Changed lower mid construction
• Changed lighting and some materials
• General visual polishing

MAP-Trainyard

• Reworked bomb spots design
• Wall painting polish
• Access to roof in front of b-gate

MAP-2on2-Lock

• Fixed nade collision on the big tree
• Foliage polish for better view
• Some performance improvements

MAP-FollowTheMoney

• Collision polishing
• Removed some overloaded objects for better movement and enemy spotting
• Removed a useless little room on upper stairs area

MAP-RGB

• Removed OP shadow
• Nerfed skynades by adding higher buildings
• Blocked one middle gap for terror snipers, so SF are in less disadvantage

MAP-Thunderball

• General bug fixes & polishing

Hello everyone, We want to let you know that our community organised a nice 2v2 tournament. Free to join, free to have fun and chances are there for prices and that eternal glory on our ingame Wall of Fame! On Saturday the 4th of September 2021 the tournament will take place. Servers are in place, all communication will be done through the TO4 Discord. Just make sure you sign up on the roster (link below), be there on time, have a partner in crime and understand English. Hope to see a lot of people ingame! Check this link to sign up!

Fixed

• "Wrong password" serverbrowser bug

Weapons

Deagle

• Decrease AimError: 0.97 -> 0.94

Vector

• Increase AimError: 0.65 -> 0.75
• MP5
• Decrease AimError: 1.58 -> 1.47
• Decrease y-recoil: 0.161 -> 0.130
• Increase x-recoil: 0.013 -> 0.045
• Decrease interp. speed: 58.0 -> 45
• Increase random aim Error 0.22 -> 0.50 need feedback

M9

• Higher RPM: 286 -> 315
• Less "AimError": 2.2 -> 1.7
• Slower "Recoil Interpolate Speed": 60 -> 48
• Lower "AimError Interpolate increase Speed": 90 -> 65
• Higher "AimError Interpolate Recover Speed": 70 -> 85
• Increase "random AimError" 0.66 -> 0.90
• Decrease "x-recoil": 0.082 -> 0.090
• Increase "y-recoil": 0.820 -> 0.650

Glock

• Less "AimError Burst": 2.2 -> 1.8
• Increase "random AimError": 0.80 -> 0.90
• Higher burst RPM: 815 -> 830
• Decrease "x-recoil": 0.100 -> 0.090
• Increase "y-recoil": 0.760 -> 0.670
• Slower "Recoil Interpolate Speed": 65 -> 60

590A1

• Slightly more damage for hitting long distance shots

M16

• Burst RPM: 720 -> 740

Maps

MAP-Thunderball

• Adding police radio sounds to police cars
• New landscape
• Fix graffity
• More lighting on Sf base
• Some little sound volume polish
• MAP-Escape:
• Fix Wall bug on midleehouse stair
• Adding graffity
• Trickjump a little harder on high roof
• More roughness on coilwire surface
• Increase the lighting on some spots
• Some little changes on mid-way

MAP-Arena-Shaolin

• New lighting: edited sky(light), less shadow bugs, better visibility, a bit more FPS

MAP-RapidWaters

• Repositioned some spawn points for better balance (buffed SF spawns, but also T spawns in another way, feedback appreciated)
• Easier jump from boxes to highbridge spot in T Base
• Nade from highbridge T side to SF side not possible anymore (closed gap)

Fixed

• Workaround for "server leave button does not work" bug

Changed

• Increase the falling damange around 2%: Falling speed threshold 1660 -> 1630
• Reduce player AirControl 0.72 -> 0.65
• Slower crouching, but no foostep sounds while crouching

Weapons

Vector

• Increase AimError: 0.64 -> 0.75
• X-recoil: 0.20 -> 0.10
• Y-recoil: 0.065 -> 0.075

590A1 Shotgun

• Increase RPM 0.80 -> 0.82

Spas

• Increase the shooting volume: 1.00 -> 1.15
• Less AimError: 3.10 -> 2.85

MP5

• Decrease AimError: 1.58 -> 1.47
• Decrease y-recoil: 0.161 -> 0.130
• Increase x-recoil: 0.013 -> 0.045
• Decrease interp. speed: 58.0 -> 45
• Increase random aim Error 0.22 -> 0.50

M16A1

• RecoilInterpolationSpeed: 35.0 -> 65.0 for "sharper" recoil feeling/handling
• Less AimError 3er burst: 2.2 -> 2.0
• AimError single Shot: 0.82 -> 0.87
• Less y-reoil: 0.80 -> 0.65
• Higher x-reoil: 0.006 -> 0.025
• Louder shooting sound by enemy

MAC10

• Higher base damage: 72 -> 75

Sound

• Adding new bomb announce voice by TheCleaner82
• MP5-SD: Increase the shooting volume: 1.20 -> 1.30
• MP5-N: Lower the shooting volume: 1.20 -> 1.15
• Glock: Lower the shooting volume: 1.43 -> 1.30
• Mac10: Increase the shooting volume: 1.55 -> 1.62
• Saiga: Increase the reload volume: 0.35 -> 0.60
• Radio: Lower the "RoundStart" and "ScoreRound" volume: 0.65 -> 0.58
• Louder ammo drop volume 0.6 -> 0.9

HUD

• Target Player names: added HP to friendly player names, health stats in Player HUD rounded instead of truncate(floor), it fits now to values in damage stats.

Maps

Map-Trainyard

• Open the lower gate on mid again (but close the door) to get faster to A-Spot
• Blocking the door-way on terror "ladder room"
• Removeing the bomb-plant area from the top of truck

Map-Thunderball

• Slower elevator for better SF timings
• Adding police radio sounds to police cars
• New landscape
• Fix graffity
• More lighting on Sf base
• Some little sound volume polish

MAP-Escape

• Fix Wall bug on midleehouse stair
• Adding graffity
• Trickjump a little harder on high roof
• More roughness on coilwire surface
• Increase the lighting on some spots
• Some little changes on mid-ways

Map-Trooper

• Some gaps, flickering fixed
• Terror stairs to roof - blocking volume improved, still stuck after ducking
• Removed superfluous meshes below and outside the map

MAP-Arena-Shaolin

• New lighting: edited sky(light), less shadow bugs, better visibility, a bit more FPS
• Map is now generally a little brighter, dark spots have been added lighter
• New player-terror skins added (needs test+feedback)
• Heavy meshes were replaced by lighter ones (made the map unnecessarily large)
• Middle roofs are no longer accessible
• Further access to the centre of the card on both sides in the base
• Landscape was exchanged (something was wrong with the old ones)

MAP-RapidWaters

• Repositioned some spawn points for better balance (buffed SF spawns, but also T spawns in another way, feedback appreciated)
• Easier jump from boxes to highbridge spot in T Base
• Nade from highbridge T side to SF side not possible anymore (closed gap)

Map-Blister

• Reduce one background volume on lower connector
• Reducing volume of "Steam01_Cue": 0.56 -> 0.40 and changing the position

MAP-Arena-Deagle5k21

• Remove the planks and replace it with boxes
• Only 4 ways to get to the top
• Adding the Physic on some Materials
• Removing the collision from the cable
• Adding some AirPipes

What is new?

• The game now runs on Unreal Engine 4.25.4
• TO4 now has Steam Audio in place with all new sound effects. This system will still be tweaked as we go (sound effects, reverb, etc.). Most obvious is the better possibility to locate sound effects (weapons, footsteps, etc) throughout the map.
• Tweaked and reworked player(s) movement and animations
• New player models for Special Forces, Terrorists and Hostages. We can now also set the player skin per map to change.
• Tweaked and balanced the weapon specifics (timings, damage, falloff, recoil, etc.)
• New effects on the weapons and grenades (sounds, impacts and decals), overhauled the smoke nade effect. Physics on nades are on our list for a next patch.
• Redid and added parts of the User Interface (better keybind inputs, detailed round stats overlay, new minimap, etc)
• Added two 2on2 maps, three arena maps and five normal maps. We have also (performance) tweaked, balanced, fixed and overhauled on all the old maps. This alone is over 1.000 changes.
• Rewrote and structured a lot of code in order to fix the core of the game for further updates on the engines, this also helped in gaining overall performance

Hi everyone, backers, enthusiasts, critics and want-to-try'ers! It has been 7 months since we released our latest patch. We announced we would take our time to make the next step for the game. Coming friday 25th of June, we will release the new patch on Steam. We will make sure there are servers up and running from the start! The time for the release will be 21.00h CEST.

What's new in the patch?

What is Tactical Operations again?

Organised by a couple of enthousiastic players from our community, we played 1on1 Winter Tournament last night.

Organisation

Ruleset for the tournament

Stream and winner

Our last post dated from the end of november 2020 - this seems like ages ago! Not to worry, we are still here! Working very hard indeed, we still have those filled servers in the evening hours (European times - sorry). We also still get a lot of feedback on various stuff: little bugs in maps, annoying UI menu's, cries for new and more maps.

New maps

That's an interesting list, but what else?

Where is the community?

Hooray TO4, 1st anniversary

This newspost serves three purposes.

Community

The route forwards and Unreal Engine 4.25

Upcoming patches (Short to medium long term)

• Most important: the game will remain free to play! We have the servers, the players, the game... now you play it and have fun! It is also good to mention: the system requirements for the game will not change with this engine switch (we actually hope for a little increase in performance).
• We removed the Wwise audio engine we used. We go back to the original Unreal Engine 4 Audio engine (which we already used for ambient sounds in maps). This engine will add for us binaural panning (hrtf) and reverb on sounds. An important topic on the more competitive setting of the game. Initially we already included some new weapon sounds that were in mono on the old engine. We will also get Voicechat reimplemented using UE4's voice chat module
• The maps we currently have will get updates on this new sound engine over time. Don't expect this directly, it's a time consuming job to finish per map.
• Redo the grenade projectile movement and physics (this will also include throwing knives). Also redo the smoke grenade which currently has a bug on longer distance with playermodels.
• Redo some User Interface elements (complete menu's, structures, etc.). Yes this also includes the key binding menu and the strangly positioned Leave Game when playing
• We will further flesh out the UE4 online subsystem, the Steam backend tools and our own to4st sytem, which allows player statistics, game achievements, better admin controls and a lot more potential for the future.
• When we have tackled a few of the above points and deliver a new stable patch, we want to start working a little more on gaining more attention and thus players. Feel free to contact us if you think you can help us out here!
• We will remove the current CTF and Team Deathmatch maps for now. We still have the game mode included, but we want to create dedictated maps for it. We have found out that you need a 100% fitting and great map to complement a game mode. So this will be pushed towards the future.
• Besides our normal game mode there will be an experimental new game mode. We call this one Sabotage. In short: both team rush for one bomb in the middle. First team to pick it up will plant it on teambased bombspot, the other team has to defend. So there is no more dedicated defending and attacking team, this will be decided during the round. This game mode also have players respawn during the round for more quick and focussed gameplay. For this gamemode we want fitting and proper maps. These will be brought over time, we might start with one map in one of the newer patches.

Upcoming patches (long term)

• We are looking into redoing the complete 3rd person player animations (the current animations are slightly wooden, we agree)
• Apart from that the regular stuff: new weapons (some surprises there!), new maps, new weapon animations - in short, more content!
• A great action keybinder system
• Unique character models, combined with taunts and voices
• More depth to sounds in the environments (better footsteps, reverb effects, etc)
• You can see our complete roadmap here: TO4 Trello

What will not happen soon (just so you know)

• Added bot support (you can have absolutly stupid bots or they come with a pre-aim to them. There isn't really a good way in between. We want them, but we lack the time currently and we have other priorities (see the list above).
• More remade maps from the Tactical Ops game. We want to focus on new stuff. Maybe a map will slip in, who knows!
• Insane new graphics, overhauls of maps, etc. We simply lack the manpower to create more unique settings and looks then we currently have.
• Don't expect weapon skins and stuff like that. We are looking into possible tweaks to your guns, but there will be no flashy, cartoonsy weapon skins.

Changes

• Remove MAP-Torii (still WIP, pushed by accident)

Fixes

• Rework TrooperII lift to fix FPS issues it caused

MAP-TrooperII

• Reduced the delay of the elevator from 2.2 to 2.1 (cckane)
• Elevator shaft: Removed the top ceiling of the so the nades don't fall off and moved killing volume a bit lower (cckane)
• Removed round wall on the underground passage testing new walls due to nade bugs. (cckane)
• More light in the upper mid room (f0r5er)
• Removed reflexion on ceiling on the elevator corridor (wingah)

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

Weapon rebalancing

Aim error

TTK

Changed

• Removed official / community server filter

Maps

MAP-Blister

• Removed the crate that prevented climbing in the middle area, towards Terrorist tunnels (dizzorizor)
• Fixed hole in the wall, near lower bombspot (ccKane)
• Fixed annoying flickering effect (overlapping meshes) in SF spawn and terrorist base (cckane)
• Removed the top of the little walls around trees (strange collision with players and nades) (remus)
• Added fences on both low and high bombspot to prevent more nadespamming
• Changed the tree in the middle. It are now 2 palms, giving less annoying blocking places and better overview (kummelmuck)

MAP-Converge

• Removed the fences around the pillar on right side SF base (near escape point) (cckane)
• Enlarged openings and hallways in the building next to the hostage point
• Removed annoying stuff that blocked movement on the floor
• Replaced all tree meshes with decent looking ones (omfg)
• Removed access to the Terrorist balcony in their base (pLum0)
• Blocked the trickjump on the fences on rescue point (Riax)
• Removed some crates in the middle building for smoother movement
• Blocked the sniper spot on terrorist side, outside hostage hiding place, where you could shoot through the fences towards SF spawn
• Enlarged the metal bars on the middle area (easy to shoot people from there or throw nades) - not ideal still (ccKane)
• Smoothen the terrain near the stairs from middle into middle building
• Removed the fences and poles in sniper lane, right side from SF (annoying and strange blockades for players)
• No longer possible: shoot through boxes

MAP-Scope

• Added more grass and green feelings to the map (yes yes, i do listen to you guys) (alex333x)
• Changed the road meshes in the map, new material with better asphalt and this new mesh prevents guns from falling through it (currently there are some shadow artifacts; will be fixed in the next patch)
• Changed the window/glass material (there was an issue on linux machines with this) (pLum0)
• Changed look of the 'RedHouse' (connector middle - silos)
• Removed the wooden bars in the window of 'RedHouse' (connector middle - silos), still unpassible (kummelmuck)
• Smoothen the terrain and rocks left side of bridge (SF side) (cckane)
• Blocked trickjump on the entrance next to SF spawn on facility entrance (remus)
• Reduced sound of Electric zoom on the Lights (1,0 > 0,7) (remus)
• Closed 2 holes in the rockwall on Terorrist spawn (Riax)
• Closed the gap on the railing on bridge SF side (koystikojo)
• Closed the gaps under the silo's (koystikojo)
• Redo complete silos
• Thickend the walls of barracks A, this prevents playermodels, shadows and guns sticking through (wingah)
• Removed the middle beam on upper facility (this was blocking the view) (wingah)

MAP-Trainyard

• Fixed the hole in the floor on balcony, overlooking the entrance towards Terrorist base (cckane)
• Fully closed the door leading from middle onto Warehouse of bombspot A (cckane)
• Removed the boards with numbers / logos that kept shining through the whole map (voodi)
• Blocked the window frames in the middle area. When you jumped down towards the ladder tunnel, you could stand in them (Riax)
• Blocked the window next to balcony bomspot B (wingah)
• Set the gate to: crush (it will kill a player when he's under) and No Interrupt (even when it kills, it will finish the close/open) (cckane)
• Replaced some meshes for better alignment, especially on the Slate from warehouse A
• Gave bombspot B a little more lightning

MAP-Filth

• Replaced the trains
• New interior gives better movement options then the previous one
• Replaced the train tracks (some faulty stuff there ...)
• Closed the gap between the escalator and the normal stairs on Bombspot B, also made the escalator somewhat wider for better movement (cckane)
• Changed all blockvolumes to PawnBlocker only. So player can't go through, all other stuff can (kummelmuck)
• Slightly smoothened the collision on all metal pillars in the map; better movement and more precise nade throwing
• Added a stairs to SF starting point
• Removed the boxes in the room next to ladder room (ground floor), they made it possible to climb very high and camp there
• Blocked the access to the electrical installations in the room next to the ladder room (ground floor), you were able to climb the doors with this (kummelmuck)
• Set all door frames to: 'Ignore Pawn', this way you can't jump and stand on them
• Changed the railing from backway towards Bombspot B, for a more simple version. This way there is less 'random' bulletblocking in fights
• Changed the glass material on the escalators to a metal material (cckane)
• Redid entire Train material (less shiny) (cckane)
• Blocked trickjump next to upper ladderroom (pLum0)
• Adjusted traintracks (kummelmuck)
• Adjusted escalators near bombspot B (lower) (AutiX)
• Fixed material setting on impact glass trains (kummelmuck)
• Added blocking volume for player movement in between trains bombspot B (tajfun & cckane)
• Removed (random) bulletblocking fences on lower bombspot B and added solid walls (cckane)

MAP-RapidWaters

• Removed crate on the stack in front of Terrorist base. This spot was very overpowered to look into terrorist base (wingah)
• Removed all the crates in the corner opposing the main entrance of Terrorist base, you could climb them and this gave an insane overpowered overview of the map (wingah)
• Lowered the walls on Terrorist water entrance a bit more. Increased the lighting source there (3,0 > 5,0) with dynamic shadows on playermodel. Also gave the crates behind the spot a more white look. This all to increase the sight on this spot with opponents camping there (cckane)
• Removed the possibility to stand on the lamp and ledge above water entrance SF side (pLum0)
• Slightly increased the lighting in the basement area
• Redid the water material a little bit, hope to make playermodels slightly harder to spot (koystikojo)
• Replaced the highbridge open parts of the floor with closed ones (bonus effect: nades should behave better) (wingah)
• Repositioned and transformed the postprocessvolume on the water surfaces. When underwater you will always have the underwater effect (remus)
• Redid some parts of the terrain underwater, to prevent standing in the water (remus)
• Repositioned some crates on the lower bridge (first cluster left from SF spawn), you can now walk besides them on the right side and the bridge (remus)
• Increased lighting source in the corner of high bridge, overlooking lower bridge (5,0 > 8,0)
• Added white paint on the walls on specific spots (high bridge sniper spot, terrorist side) to increase sight for players on the other end of the map (wingah)
• Slightly increased light on the total of high bridge (wingah)
• Reduced waterfall sound (0,25 > 0,18 on Volum multipler)
• Reduced dripping sounds in basement (1,0 > 0,8 on Volume multipler)
• Reduced river sound (0,15 > 0,12 on Volume multiplier)
• Reduced the on Water PostProcessingVolumes Shadows Gain (1,5 > 1,2), and the shadow contrast (0.95 > 0,8) - better sight under water?)
• Reduced the on General and Water PostProcessingVolumes Exposure Max (1,4 > 1,0)

MAP-Drought

• Lights in middle reworked

MAP-Arena-LockDown

• Fixed the mis aligned wall piece (and a few more) (cckane)
• Changed light in the middle corridor from deep red to deep yellow (better sight)
• Gave PostProcess Exposure a 0,8 (min) / 1,2 (max) value - slightly better sight on long distance

MAP-Arena-preAIM

• Fixed the missing impact effect on the floors (and also some glass) (wingah)

MAP-Arena-KillThemAll

• Higher ceiling on both bases

Added

• Hidden, Right handed & mirrored weapon mode
• Steam Achievements

Changed

• Lower volume reload saiga, ak
• Add 18% random offset to individual spray pattern shot
• Bomb speaker range 38 -> 46m
• Hostages receive 25% more damage
• Bomb defuse and hacking panels give score points (12 total, equally distributed to all involved players)
• Reduce falling damage threshold / multiplier

Weapon balancing

• Generally lower TTK for full auto weapons; RPM & basedamage increased (details on the bottom of this article)
• Slightly increase spread on most full auto weapons, reduced on MP5 & FAMAS

Movement balancing

• The goal is to make the movement feel more responsive while trying to prevent "chaotic" situations
• Player gravity 2.025 -> 2.130
• Running speed 600 -> 610
• Braking Deceleration 400 -> 1500 (player stops faster)
• Ground Friction 9.5 -> 8.5 (faster direction changes while running)
• Acceleration 1950 -> 2025

Fixed

• Nade spawn clipping through thin walls
• Delayed nade spawn into next round possible
• Map switch bug (CTF / TDM servers)
• Minimap hacking panel marker not visible
• SpecHUD scope overlay
• Outline visible in water
• Init money after swap teams, inverse round winner array & swap team score

MAP-Blister

• Fixed the LOD (popping effect) on the carpets on the floor (plum0)
• Added extra buildings near lower bombspot. This prevents SF from create a rain of nades onto the left hallway from Terrorist towards lower bombspot (ccKane / plum0)
• Closed the little gap in between boxes on left corridor towards lower bombspot (seen from terrorist) (kummelmuck)
• Fixed the hole in the wall on palm tree area (ccKane)

Smoothen movement / blocked obstacles:

• Board on the wall on the outside ring of lower bombspot (ghosty)
• Little area on SF side, where you enter the tunnel of middle area (ghosty)
• Wall segment in the tunnels near palm tree (wingah / ghosty)
• Lower wall on high bombspot in sniper lane (ccKane)

MAP-Drought

• Changed skylight bpadded a bit more light to the map in general
• New light positioning on both terror and sf entrances

MAP-TrainYard

• Windows on the train now block bullets (Kummelmuck)
• Removed the hole in the floor towards the main entrance on bombspot A (ccKane)
• Changed the ladders system towards the balcony on bombspot B. Its now part of a semi-trick-jump (wingah / kummelmuck)
• Removed the text from the Oil reservoirs (for some reasons this keeps popping up through all other walls and meshes :D) (Remus)
• Added more general lighting from: PostProcess Gain on Global Color (1.3 to 1.5), SkyLight (Intensity 1.2 to 1.5)

MAP-TrooperII

• Changed Mid building floor (nades where getting slowed down)
• Corrected a blocking volume at the elevator
• Rearranged boxes on elevator corridor
• Reduced elevator delay time by 0.3 (Kummelmuck)
• Blocking volumes blocking nades fixed (pLum0, koystikojo)
• Getting stuck on spawn fixed (pLum0)
• Getting stuck on lower mid building on the stairs
• More damage added, decals and props

MAP-Followthemoney

• Removed the collision in the staircases, where you could walk on the ledge (kummelmuck)
• Added breakable glass to some interior windows (testing phase)

MAP-Fueled

• Added a little stairs in the canals, next to the bridge. This way you can get from canals into Terrorist spawn (Kummelmuck)
• Replaced the red tank in the canals, now its slightly more easy to make the jump from the tank to the normal grounds (Kummelmuck)
• Added some extra details to the canals

MAP-RapidWaters

• Block railing on Terrorist side of low water ladder exit (ccKane)
• Changed the railing of high-bridge. Less blocking points, mainly to have a better overview towards water entrance, terrorist side
• Changed the plants on the high-bridge, giving better sight on all sides
• Made the water entrance on Terrorist base smaller; easier to spot enemies
• Slightly less opacity on the water; players are harder to see. There has also been a fix on character model skins that would help here. Needs testing
• Gave the door meshes a little more thickness
• Replaced the Terrorist sides waterfall rock, giving a little more space for a player to move there unseen (remus)
• Reworked some rocky areas below (espcially lower bridge) to prevent fall damage from the bridge to the rocks below / in the water (remus)
• Removed some water plants for better sight underwater
• Added cover near the stairs on Terrorist side water ladder (also blocking OP spot on the ladder into Main Area with this (ccKane)

MAP-Arena-LockDown

• Gave general light a little boost - easier to spot enemies
• Gave a minimal amount of light to the little tunnel in the middle (it was pitch black)
• Fixed the broken material of the little stuff laying on the floor (Remus)

MAP-Arena-RGB

• Changed the box material back to standard grey (Remus)
• Fixed the strange seam on the material when boxes where on each other (Remus)
• Added an extra cover box, directly left from SF spawn
• Moved the little box, directly right from Terrorist base slighlt closer to the larger box. You can now make the jump on the larger box

MAP-Arena-KillThemAll

• New Look WIP

Weapon balancing comparison

Added:

• MAP-TrooperII
• Ladder sounds
• Death screams

Changed:

• Better visibility for player characters (tweaking colours, add subtle effect that helps the characer stand out from the background)
• Scoping only possible after weapon finished equipping process
• New headshot impact sounds
• Increase sound occlusion effect
• Mk20 6 -> 5 ammo per clip
• AirControl 0.82 -> 0.6
• Strafe speed multiplier 0.86 -> 0.87
• New default FOV 96
• Knife range 120cm -> 135cm
• 10% higher ladder speed
• Removed ambient sound on MainMenu map
• Lower range water enter / leave sounds
• Additional weapon balancing (slightly nerf precision of SMGs, increase RPM / nerf precision of AUG)
• Some volume balancing on footstep sounds (higher volume for carpet, grass, disable weird metal step sample)
• Max time in ghostcam after death 3s -> 1.75s (if ghostcam disabled)
• Init all sounds to 0 volume when main menu is loaded (sounds start playing once settings are loaded)
• Slightly more bloody screen on low dmg (meant for Saiga hits especially)
• Rework team outline effect

Fixed:

• Gate / door replication
• Scope view bob not decoupled from weapon bob
• Spray pattern of sniper rifles not random

Maps:

MAP-Eviction

• Removed until rework is ready (soon)

MAP-Escape

• Removed until rework is ready

MAP-Crossfire

• Removed until rework is ready

MAP-RapidWaters

• Reduce strenght lights SF base
• Walking on the ledge of highbridge no longer possible (tajfun)
• Adjusted the distance of the boxes in front of Terrorist base for smoother jump movement (for5er)
• Disappear in rocks directly right from lower waterentrance (tajfun)
• Removed and lowered some of the rocks on the riverbed - better sight of enemies
• Lowered the terrorist water entrance sniper spot, it was too easy for Terrorist to snipe from here. Also increase contrast on colour here (ccKane)
• Gave the underwater effect a litle more easy to the eye; easier to spot enemies
• Fixed the speed jump on lower bridge towards the entrance of Main Terrorist building (ccKane)
• Adjusted the Terrorist window on the water side (less sight on low bridge, lowered the wall a little for better sights)
• Closed the pillar of high bridge and the stairs and the railings from middle water (terrorist side) for less random and hard to see spots
• Closed the middle pillar of high bridge further
• Smoothen the wall near stairs from middle water to lower bridge (you could run on that ridge) (ccKane)
• Changed the TL armatures on the ceiling. Previous ones looked kinda odd (ccKane)
• Changed material next to high bridge door opening SWAT side (ccKane)

MAP-Blister

• Increased height on the box on Sniper lane Terrorist side - you can now hide behind it as player (kummelmuck)
• Add extra height to the building between sniper lane and higher bombspot - prevents nadespams on sniperlane (ccKane)
• Gap on the door on lower bombspot B. Overpowered sniper spot (ccKane)
• Can get into the wall (middle area) next to the boxes (Nasenbaer)
• Fix impact on blue barrels (plastic to metal) (Pirate)

MAP-Fueled

• Block roof building above bombspot A (ccKane)
• Block roof buildings around bombspot B (ccKane)
• Block roof building near z-stairs (ccKane)
• Redid collision on broken concrete wall part
• Redid some LOD's on the ventilation system meshes near bombspot B (was popping in and out)
• Reduced the distant explosion sounds by 20%

MAP-Scope

• Tweaked the road mesh a little more, to prevent playermodel' feet get in the roads. Not great yet :) (ccKane)
• Removed roof access from the building on SF spawn (Tajfun)
• Removed getting stuck on crate lower A Building (ccKane)
• Smoothen the rock directly right from SF facility, looking towards RED building (ccKane)
• Getting stuck under rock directly left from Terrorist base, up the little hill (ccKane)
• Remove bush under the ramp on silos (overlooking Terrorist base) (ccKane)
• Fixed the no impact effects on door close to silos (ccKane)
• Reduce 'light fitting' sound on the whole map (-15%)
• Reduce the 'wind' sound on the whole map (-15%)
• Remove bush on the ramp towards scaffolding silo's. Looking towards Terrorist bunker (ccKane)

MAP-TrainYard

• Add ladder to balcony Bombspot B (kummelmuck)
• Closed the main entrance from middle area to Bombspot A (ccKane)
• Volume on middle building Trainyard is invisible again (Kummelmuck)
• Open/close gate mesh in middle building has wrong LOD (ccKane)
• Added Evidence (3 locations) through the map. Picking this up and surviving the round will give a money reward!
• Added general lights everywhere
• Fixed the broken lighting on the interiors of the maps
• Blocked path from the containers to the left of terrorist base, you could get out of the map (m4kSerial)
• Further closed the wall further on roof from Terrorist spawn to Bombspot A (ccKane)
• Decorated the middle building a bit more
• Replaced some trees on the B side bombspot; less annoying in movement
• Added white painted surfaces behind key points where it might be too dark

MAP-FollowTheMoney

• Added Evidence (3 locations) through the map. Picking this up and surviving the round will give a money reward!

MAP-Drought

• Evidence spawns added
• Rework light sf base
• Lowered sand effect

MAP-Arena-LockDown

• Removed volumetric fog throughout the map (less impact on performance)
• Gave the map overall a little more lighting for better sight

MAP-Arena-preAim

• Removed volumetric fog throughout the map (less impact on performance)
• Changed the spotlights to Static Lighting and the LightPoints to Stationairy. This for better performance and lighting/shadow effects in the map and on models.
• Fixed the LOD's on the lights on the ceiling (ccKane)

MAP-Arena-RGB

• Fix artifact reflections on weapons (wrong setting in Skylight)
• Added slight general lighting
• Added boxes in front of SF base (was to easy to get spawn killed by snipers)
• Changed the boxes to light grey with wood pattern

MAP-Arena-KillThemAll

• Added crates to both bases

Changed

• Rework player character skins
• Spatial update buymenu on weapon received (no shadow selling anymore)
• Further weapon balancing (slightly higher precision for MP5, Mac-10; nerf precison of Vector, UMP slightly; -2% Basedamage AUG; 5% more spread SAIGA)
• Running speed 590 -> 600, strafe speed multiplier 0.85 -> 0.86
• Rework free spawn detection
• Smoke particles are slightly softer and affected by light
• Explosions destroy destructible objects
• Grenades break windows on collision
• New spawn protection material for TDM and CTF
• Display 6 decimals in mouse-settings-menu.

Fixed

• Resize weapon hud images (should no longer overlap on 4:3)
• Sort smoke particles always on top (glass material no longer erases smoke particles behind the glass)
• Rework replicated reset of vertical gate actor
• Fix black gloved first person mesh
• Fix bug which prevented key mappings from being saved

Maps

MAP-Arena-LockDown

• Reduced dynamic lighting and volumetric fog throughout the map (less impact on performance)

MAP-Arena-RGB

• Fix artifact reflections on weapons (wrong setting in Skylight)
• Added slight general lighting

MAP-Blister

• Replaced the left door on lower bombspot, you could snipe towards sniperhouse (ccKane)
• Replace the bench in Terrorist spawn, getting stuck between benches (ccKane)
• Removed the tent in Terrorist base that you could jump on (and through the linnen...) was obsolete and annoying

MAP-FollowTheMoney

• Added Evidence (3 locations) through the map. Picking this up and surviving the round will give a money reward!

MAP-Fueled

• Blocked the side balcony of the building near Drop-Point / Balcony (reDean)
• Reduced the frequency and volume from the Distant explosions (ccKane)
• Added Evidence (3 locations) through the map. Picking this up and surviving the round will give a money reward!
• Reduced texture size on loads of materials for smoother performance

MAP-Prelude

• Blocked the Fences near escape point, they could be jumped on (kummelmuck)

MAP-RapidWaters

• Reduce strength lights SF base

MAP-TrainYard

• Add ladder to balcony Bombspot B (kummelmuck)
• Closed the main entrance from middle area to Bombspot A (ccKane)
• Volume on middle building Trainyard is visible again (Kummelmuck)
• Open/close gate mesh in middle building has wrong LOD (ccKane)
• Added Evidence (3 locations) through the map. Picking this up and surviving the round will give a money reward!

UPDATE 26-5-2020 Something went wrong in our packaged and distributed content to Steam. Our apologies for taking hostage 90 gb of diskspace for a moment. The size of the game is back to normal (around 37gb) with the hotfix 20146. ORIGINAL MESSAGE Hi everyone! A few days later then we hoped for, we release a new patch for the game. Yesterday it was already on the PubTest branch for a final test (yes this branch is available to everyone on Steam also!). Attached you will find the patchlogs, since its an enourmous list again. Some really great work! Thanks to our very dedicated PTR testers we tweaked the weapon behaviour and player movement ones more. It's starting to feel better and better with every patch. Besides that I am very proud to introduce 5 (!) new map to the game! 4 of theose maps are ARENA maps. Smaller worlds, for quick games, ideal for that fast-arcade-fps-blood-pumping-feeling of a random day! Besides those Arena maps, Darksoe finished his MAP-Escape (yes... you have to escape the map). Try it out! Great work by DarkSoe, Dissident and Ssswing` with this new content. Th120 and Darksoe have been putting out a lot of work on tweaking, fixing bugs and overhauls on various elements of the game. Most noticable is the UI reworks here and there (some menu's are still a pain, we know that!). But the movement and weapon behaviour tweaks should make the game slightly more accessible to new players. Enough chitchat here, let's play! The servers are updated already! And do remember: we love feedback! Leave it in #feedback on our Discord channel! Come and visit us!

Patchlog 20146

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**** MAP CHANGES ****

New patch version

Changelog patch

Overhaul on the TO4 Discord

Route forwards and Trello

The TO4 team

TO4 Patch notes 20125

Added:

• MAP-TrainYard & MAP-Crossfire (both work in progress, feel free to give feedback)
• New setting "Decrease input lag", replaces "SkipGPUBuffering" (experimental, feel free to give feedback)
• Apply a small view offset animation after falling to make landing smoother

Changed:

• Further tweaking on the movement to smooth out running, mostly decreasing BrakingDeceleration (affects player movement after stopping to run)
• New general spray pattern (smaller x movement deviation)
• +6% Basedamage MP5
• -20% X Recoil MP5
• +5% AimError MP5
• -5% X Recoil M4
• -3% Basedamage M4
• -7% Basedamage UMP
• -12% X Recoil AK
• -30% X Recoil, -10% Y Recoil Famas
• -10% X Recoil Mac10
• +7% Basedamage Mac10
• +7% Basedamage Vector
• +6% AimError AUG
• +5% Basedamage M16
• Higher damage range for SMGs
• Aug recoil interpolation speed 38 -> 34
• Weapon hits up to 120ms after death still do damage (local hit fx already played on remote)
• +200ms tolerance cancel reload (switch Weapon)
• Empty chat textbox on toggle visible

Hi @everyone. First off all; happy Easter or simply enjoy the weekend! We have been kept busy on our game, currently we are tweaking the new patch (this will include new movement and weapon tweaks). PTR test group We do this with our so called PTR tester group. These are players that love the game and spend time with us testing and refining the game. We do this on a different branch the public game. Perhaps you've seen in the #serverinfo channel some servers populated, but you can't find them in your server browser ingame. First things first: we are always on the lookout for enthousiastic people who want to join this PTR team. What do you need? Some spare time in the (European) evenings, a microphone and our Discord and motivation and time to give detailed feedback about the game. You don't need great skills ingame or be known with everyone. Remember that we (as DEV team) work with the PTR team, we listen to the feedback and with that we work. Interested? Leave a personal message at @Ssswing` or @ccKane or @w1ng4h on Discord! You mentioned a new patch? Yes, we have a new patch we have been working on. We have had feedback that the game feels to chaotic at times. Also the tracking on enemies is not always simple and easy. The use of certain weapons (yes i'm looking at you famous MP5) doesn't feel as satisfying as we like it to be. Another topic is the mouse input and the feeling some players have with this (or the lack of this actually). Th120 is figuring out various fixes that have a less heavy performance impact than the current "Skip GPU Buffering". More on this topic later. Also included is new content! Besides these tweaks we have also included two brand new maps. Mind you: heavy Work In Progress on both of them. MAP-Crossfire is made by Darksoe (he also made the Labyrinth map!) MAP-TrainYard is made by Ssswing`. Both are bombing scenario maps, where MAP-Crossfire is somewhat larger than most maps we have so far. The new patch will also include a new system for our maps on the servers and the voting system. Not all maps are fun playing 1on1 (hi MAP-Fueled) or are more competitive orientated (hi MAP-Prelude). We introduced the new tag: MAP-Arena-Name for small and fast maps. These are based on the more classic Arena or WarmUp setting maps. No objective, except shooting as you please Community So our community is more and more active. There are several great initiatives going about. Let's mention one of the most important ones: TO4 Clanwars (made by @L4UR3NS and his team). The idea is that there will be a easy to use matchmaking system on Discord, combined with a website with competitive ladders. This is also the platform from which our first Tournament was held (congratz to emP.to for winning). For now we will keep using the #looking-for-match channel in the TO4 Discord. When our community grows we will move this activity completly to the TO4 Clanwars Discord. TO4 Clanwars will stay active during all this time offcourse! Final words We see more and more people playing the game, which is great. We do realise that our game is rough in places. The "easy to learn hard to master" is kinda steep in the game, especially if you join a server with already great players. I want to ask you all: help each other out! There is no fun playing a game where you get instantly shot by semi-pro's and their m40's. Another topic; empty servers. Again, we are a small game, with a smaller DEV team and a non-existant budget. We have to grow the community by playing a lot, sharing experience from player to player, etc. Best way to get some players when you want to play: do a shout-out on Discord! Thanks for reading, think about the PTR roles we offer and hope to frag you soon ingame! TO4 Discord: https://discord.gg/TVp9Xd

Changed

• Rework visuals of ammo counter, clean up player HUD (feel free to give feedback)
• Start nade with sphere collision and blend it to capsule after first collision (more reliable bouncing)
• Slightly faster nade throwing and faster switch to next weapon after throw
• Boost smoke particles on spawn and make them smaller to avoid clipping
• Further movement tweaking: -3% player gravity, -4% breaking deceleration, +5% ground friction
• Sniper weapons precision: Max speed in air 128 -> 96, max speed general 255 -> 180 (cm/s)
• -8% precision deagle
• +2% dmg shotguns (dmg nerf after +2 bullets was slightly too much)
• SAIGA RPM 142 -> 139
• Deagle, M16 10% -> 12% more precision laser on (the M16 +2% were subtracted from the general precision)
• Higher intensity damage taken feedback (view shake, bloody screen)
• Remove auto chat when throwing nade
• Increased steam authentication time limit 10s -> 30s ("Steam auth failed" kick message)
• +15cm X spawn offset nades

Fixed

• Replay player not switching to spectator HUD
• Spamming server reset while using auto demo recording corrupts demo header
• UMP pickup doesn't spawn
• Closed small gap between smoke and floor

Added

• Demo rename
• Announce hostage rescue

MAP-Fueled

• Blocked the rumble in the back of SF base. You could jump on it and snipe towards middle (remus / kummelmuck)
• Moved the back player spawns of SF more forward. This gives a 1,5m faster spawn, so SF can be slightly faster on the bombspots
• Set all blocking volumes to "PawnBlocker only". This removes the annoying effect that nades bounce off in mid air (wingah)
• Removed trick jump onto the blue truck at Palm Tree (sniper lane) (sCion)
• Fixed Default winner (Special Forces), no draw at the end of the round (wingah / remus)

MAP-RapidWaters

• Removed all the splash effect on water (remus)
• Added water foam on a few positions
• Gave the underwater effect more brightness, now it's easier to spot enemies under water
• Fixed the "No water flow in waterfall" (remus)
• Gave the water material less opacity from above; players in the water aren't as visible anymore as before (iAmTheOne)
• Redid the terrain next to the border/sidewalk opposing the Terrorist base. You can now move more fluently here (Vo0di)

MAP-Scope

• Closed 1 window in lower mid building
• Made 1 window in lower mid building so you can't move through, but shoot towards A roof
• Give a little more general light in the outside areas

Fixed:

• Chat rendered above buymenu
• Early Access info page still bugging (attempt 9999, please report to us if you still encounter problems)

Changed:

• Slightly lower sound range movement (32m->28m) & reload (30m->26m)
• Bars for UI Armor status

MAP-Scope

• Blocked strange corner near facility where player could get stuck (cckane)
• Close planks in Terrorist bunker (looking towards SWAT bridge) (ccKane)
• Removed the jumpable crate on the right side (seen from terrorist) next to SWAT bunker. You can only climb it on the left side now (cckane)
• Repositioned 3 pillars at the silo's. You can now walk around without being blocked by a too small gap in between the pillars (cckane)
• Removed bullet blocking on Barbed Wires all over the map (cckane)
• Removed collision on beams in House A for more smooth movement (cckane)
• Redid the material on the A and B House for better looks
• Repositioned the little walls next to RedHouse (they blocked view towards Terrorist bunker) (Streety675R)
• Removed the rock that blocked movement where you jump on the bridge (swat bunker side) (remus)
• All Blocking Volumes are now 'BlockPawnOnly', some also blocked nades and bullets (cckane)
• Added extra pathnodes for hostages to follow you (House B on the ramp, sometimes they couldnt follow) (cckane)

This update will introduce some changes to the movement parameters. We got quite a lot of feedback which was about gun figths being too random or general feedback about a chaotic feeling while fighting at closed quarters. For this reason some movement parameters were edited to reduce abrupt changes in direction. In the linked video you can spot the effect of fast changes in direction on the player's aim. The goal is not to completely nerf strafing, but reducing those "random" situations. We appreciate any further feedback on this topic. We will tweak the movement in upcoming patches if needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ-raQwz6dM Another point was the quite short TTK of our rifles. In this patch we generally decrease the damage of all full auto weapons. Now all of them need +1 hit on the chest to kill. Feel free to also give feedback on these changes.

Changelog

• Slower change in direction (-12%), less acceleration (-12%, start running / swimming etc), less deacceleration when stopping to run (-12%)
• All shotguns +2 bullets (8 -> 10), Rebalance damage: SPAS 8, Mossberg 9, SAIGA 10 hits on chest to kill, slightly adjusted shotgun spraypattern
• Deagle RPM 170 -> 167 (Last patch was 180 -> 170)
• Crouch camera interpolation speed +100%

Base damage changes:

• M4 -15,5%
• AK -14%
• AUG -13%
• FAMAS -12%
• UMP -13,5%
• Mac10 -12%
• MP5 -11%
• Vector -10%

Weapon player speed penalty

• Glock / M9 -4% -> -3%
• Deagle -5% -> -4,5%
• Vector / Mac10 -6% -> -4,5%
• MP5 -6% -> -5,2%
• UMP -6% -> -5,2%
• SPAS / Mossberg / SAIGA -6% -> -6,5%
• M4 -10% -> -6,5%
• AK -7,5% -> -6,5%
• M16 -9% -> -7%
• FAMAS -13% -> -10,5%
• AUG -6,5% -> -7%
• Mk20 -10% -> -7,5%
• M40 -11% -> -10%

Fixed:

• Some weapons visible through walls
• Recoil multiplier (increasing recoil while spraying) not applied when using single taps

Added:

• New health widget for player & spectator hud

Changed:

• -5.5% RPM Deagle (180 -> 170)
• Sniper max speed (while precise) set to a value lower than sneak speed (it was on 1/3 sneak speed before)
• Faster reset spray pattern after stopping to fire

MAP-RapidWaters

• Fix water blocking bullets
• Fix position of water post process volume

Fixed:

• Higher tolerance for hit validation (less server check failed & offset exceeded messages)
• Crouch camera movement too fast

Changed:

• Work in progress: New first person arm meshes SF male; changed materials of Glock, Beretta, Desert Eagle, AKM, M16, AUG, Saiga 12, Mk20 Scope and M4A1 Receiver and Carry Handle

MAP-Scope

• Removed the Ladder on SWAT base building; this is now a pile of crates. Ladder Sniping there was an annoying spot (cckane)
• Remove railings in lower area Barrack A (remus / cckane)
• Closed all the window jumping in Barrack A (remus / cckane)
• Removed collision on metal bars next to middle house (insane lame camping spot)
• Cover Terrorist bunker (lower terrain behind for more cover) (streety675R)
• Removed the blocking the upper stairs in upper facility (remus)
• Fixed collision windows on barrack B

MAP-Fueled

• In general work on Lower Bombspot (B) with feedback from: Remus, sCion, ccKane, Tron>Lumi, vain
• Closed off 1 tube on lower bombspot (B)
• Added higher cover on the walls around lower bombspot (B)
• Gave the connector hallway between lower bombspot (B) and Tube area a roof (more cover), also you cant get shot over it anymore
• Closed little holes in planks / cover areas on lower bombspot (B) (less unpredictable shooting)
• Removed the flying grass near the bridge terrorist spawn (remus / Riax)
• Removed all the metal bars on the overview spot above the tubes on lower bombspot (B) (less random bullet blockers)
• Reworked the canals next to lower bombspot (B), more space to move around
• Added extra crates and cover and an overpass over the canals next to the lower bombspot (B)
• Reduced opening from canals onto lower bombspot (B)
• Placed plywood on the metal pointy wall in front of SWAT spawn (ccKane)
• Lowered the general light, but gave dynamic shadows in the tube near lower bombspot

MAP-RapidWaters

• Reworked the water (this removes the bug that you could see through from higher to low water), new material, etc. Still work in progress.
• Closed the crates on lower bridge (especially one looking at water entrance, you could should through) (cckane / remus)
• Replaced leaves peaking through floor snipernest on high bridge (Kummelmuck)
• Removed the little bushes near waterside SWAT area (player can hide in) (wingah)

TO4 Tournament Now the signup can begin for the TO4-cup! Date has been set to 21st of March (Saturday) with starting time at 6.00PM (18.00) CET. Everything isn't sorted yet but mostly done with planning. There is set a cap of 16 teams in the cup, so be sure to sign up as soon as you can! And there must be at least 4 players signed up to get accepted into the tournament, so that means that you are not signed up before you've assigned a total of 4 or more players on the webpage! Signup @ https://battlefy.com/tactical-operations-4-4on4-cup/4on4-cup/5e53ea6729027a1e76b912c6/info - Let the fun begin! For more information, contact m4ttiz on Discord! TO4 Ladder website A few enthousiastic TO4 players have started an initative to create a ladder-alike website, to bring back a competitive element to the game! Before they work out the idea any further, they do want to find out how many backers there currently are for the initiative. Please visit the website https://towars.net/ and register your name there to support this idea! The details wont be shared with anyone. For more information, contact L4UR3NS on Discord! TO4 MixedWars Also don't forget, almost every evening around 20.00 -21.00 CET there is a mixwar organised. Based on the number of players the mixedwars are formed. Its free for everyone to join, just make sure you have an active microphone (and preferably speak english). All is organised through Discord. Take a look at the #looking-for-match channel and add yourself to the game! It brings a whole new dimension to the game instead of the regular Public gameplay. Where to find us? www.Discord.gg/TO4

Fixed:

• Vote widget not displayed, player hud visible in wrong state
• Adminreset executed after first round if adminreset was executed during warmup before (reset is applied twice)

Fixed:

• Buymenu: Money Preview not showing correct values
• Mouse not visible in the main menu (sometimes, under certain conditions)

Changed:

• No map replay limit 2 -> 3 (new server default value)
• Hide player HUD when buy menu is open

Added:

• New Main menu work in progress (feel free to give feedback)

Added:

• Simple quick join button (don't expect it to be smart, it just tries to put you on a server with players once the server list finished loading)

Fixed:

• Damage stats ignore damage on players that were assigned to their current team before join (was fixed in the last version, but did not make it into the changelog)
• Alternative weapon hud hidden behind weapon
• Alternative weapon hud broken in spec mode

Changed:

• Removed mouse sensitivity sliders (weren't helpful anyway)
• Less spectator camera smoothing

MAP-Filth

• Enlarged the Train interior with 10%, removed collision on the metal bars in the middle, etc. This should give a more smooth and better movement. Not ideal, but working for now (ccKane)
• Removed the collision on the doors handles (you could jump on them and peak over the door) (ccKane)
• Removed the stair railings on the Terrorist route towards Bombspot A (more movement options on the stairs now)
• Removed collision on small stuff on the floor (more smooth movement)
• Opened the full doors towards the sniper nest for terrorist towards Bombspot A
• Gave the general contrast of the map a slight boost without removing the clear eyesight everywhere
• TEST: removed 1 escalator near bombspot B (lower) and made a wider stairs in its place. What does this with the gameplay?

Fixed:

• Broken UI scaling prevents the buttons to be clicked on first start(s) (to be validated, please contact us on Discord if you still encounter that problem)
• Minimap icons behaving weird when recording demo
• Issue where buying armor would not update weapon availability
• Issue with Money Preview not updating when a weapon is clicked
• Inventory backup bugging with free weapons, armor

Changed:

• FOV has no influence on first person meshes anymore
• 15% more recoil on UMP (recoil multiplier increasing 1..5 shots)
• 1/3 damage on hostages, max teamdamage 650 (new server default)
• More friction and less bounciness nades
• All TacByte TDM / CTF servers enable free Mac-10 / Vector, free AK / M4, free armor

Buy Menu Improvements:

• Move Buy / Reset / Cancel buttons to right side
• Improve right click armor behaviour
• Center Buy Menu with fixed gap
• Show depreciated weapon price on shop list
• Swap Buy with Sell All
• Show enemy weapons on shop list (if equipped)

Added:

• Launch pawns when hit by an explosion

MAP-Prelude

• Fixed jumping on the hangar (Terrorist spawn) (ccKane)
• Jump on garbage house from the little wall besides (wingah)
• Blocked off garbage depot roof access
• Blocked off cliffs in between garbage depot and middle house (wingah)
• Blocked off middle house roof access (wingah)
• Blocked off (even more) the route from SWAT base to middle area (near cave). You were able to shoot under the gate there
• Fixed missing material effect on Electricity pole SWAT base (Streety675R)
• Blocked off the trick jump near the side building (you could jump on the trailer, then the cliffs and then out of the world) (Streety675R)
• Blocked off the roof on the wooden middle building (Streety675R)
• Blocked off the roof of the Terrorist starting building + blocked the metal beams where you could hide under (Streety675R)
• Sniperdepot: smoothen all walls and pillars. Removed access to the beams and roofs there (Terrorist side)
• Sniperdepot: removed the little corner from Terrorist base where you had an overview to the middle tunnel towards SWAT base (ccKane)
• Added killvolume on the cliffs near terrorist base (in case you want to jump down... just don't)
• Added extra blocking volumes on the concrete fences between garbage depot and cave area (Streety675R)
• Blocked off the gates on the back of Terrorist base (no more walking on barbed wires) (Streety675R)
• Removed lightmesh that was broken

MAP-RapidWaters

• Removed tree near the water on SWAT side (was blocking nades) (Streety675R)
• Lowered the PostProcess volume on the waters (you had the underwater effect when above water) (Streety675R)
• Gave all foliage more depth of green / moss alike, to respect the contrast in the map better (Tron)
• Added extra sounds in the map
• Removed collision on all foliage (Remus)

MAP-Scope

• Silo house, on ladder you can look through the building (autix)
• Window bars on B house, you can stand on them (wingah)
• SWAT bunker could look into A house, this is now blocked (ccKane)

MAP-PreAIM

• Get stuck near container / pallets / overhead door (tajfun)
• Fixed impact effect on the mobile toilet (was metal, now plastic)

Added:

• New buymenu; still work in progress, feedback / suggestions appreciated (TO4 Discord)
• Tutorial tooltips (can be disabled in the settings)
• Show team outlines as setting instead of keybind (enabled by default)

• Auto recoil recovery: 42% more recoil for auto weapons (interpolating 0..42% while shooting first 7 shots)
• AUG -12% -> -16% recoil scoped, -3% recoil
• M4 +9% recoil

• Set earliest time to shoot / switch weapon without losing ammo to roughly the same motion after reload on every weapon (last rising up)
• Hacking impossible while standing inside the hacking panel volume
• Hacking panel / hossie not reacting on certain angles
• Knife not working after round reset
• Admin panel text box using grouped number notation while not supporting it as input

• Removed little bars on SWAT bunker
• Blocked the green pillars near facility entrance SWAT spawn (no more trickjumps and more smooth movement)
• Removed the wallpiece sticking through stairs facility

• Remove dark areas sewer near lower bombspot (the tubes made a player invisible)
• Raised the walls near middle area to prevent shooting from base to base (you could jump on the bridge and see SWAT spawn)
• Reduced shadow contrast with 0,05- Set back general fog in the map starting distance from 3000 to 4000 (better sight on long distances)

• Fixed water blocking bullets from above

Added: Pulse on bomb zone image when bomb is planted Hide blood fx setting Weapon wear (resell to 2/3 original price when sold after the round it was purchased, the buymenu price coloured red in that case) Reset round vote & admin command (restores money and inventory to the last round end) Scale hitshake on damage (1..36hp min / max) Changed: Moneysystem RoundWinnerMoneyNormal 3000 -> 2500 WinEscapeMoney 3000 -> 2500 HostageRescueMoney 1000 -> 500 WinHostageMoneyTerr 3400 -> 2700 WinHostageMoneySF 3400 -> 2500 WinBombMoney 3000 -> 2500 RoundLoserMoney 2400 -> 2000 RoundLoserBonus3 500 -> 800 RoundLoserBonus5 1000 -> 2000 DrawMoney 2500 -> 2000 EvidenceMoney 800 -> 500 Adjust eye height in water, make water leaving easier MP5 +4% RPM UMP +3% RPM Pause classic game on next or current pre round when voted (only if player game control vote is enabled on the server) Higher range water enter / leave sound Higher volume bomb timer New bullet decals and impact effects Reset money when swap teams is executed Unscope weapon on reequip attempt Treat leave as death for round end +7% recoil if auto recoil recovery used Treat hostage damage as FF, auto temp kick ban player with >500 FF dmg (new default value) Fixed: Use complex collision for use action to avoid bomb being overlayed by rough collision primitives Force zoom reset to spectators on weapon change Clunky hostage handling Bad rounding hostage killed (ends round when first hostage dies) Character blocking own nade after spawn (in some cases) Wrong laser state replication High loser money after swap teams executed Night vision not saved when escaping Some clantags not saved MAP-Prelude Complete overhaul; still work in progress, please give feedback MAP-Fueled Remove graffiti static mesh and replace with Decal Middle area, remove higher fences, brought back the old ones Floating rocks on groud A bombspot removed Floating crate A bombspot back on the ground Blocked a small hole under the truck on SWAT sniper lane On sniper line near the SF area, the tree can no longer be used to climb On sniper line near the SF area, the truck can no longer be used to climb Removed the has blurry lines on the Building near bombspot B MAP-FollowTheMoney Removed cabines near the red sofa; you could see the entire map from there MAP-RapidWaters Closed the window on highbridge, closed to Terrorist base (you could jump out) Fixed physical materials Lower bridge has a blocking volume, removed the BlockAll function and made it BlockPawn only Change railing on high bridge. Less change that bullets get blocked, better view towards WaterEntrance on Terrorist side Changed settings on blocking volumes (also on crates), removed the BlockAll function and made it BlockPawn only Added more foam to the streaming water, this covers the swimming players better

Changed: Max FPS 210 instead of 150 Allow TO4.cfg update instead of replace when new settings were added The team which kills half of the hostages loses Mk20 -9% damage, price 4800 -> 5000, ammo 15 -> 100 M40 Price 8750 -> 8900, ammo 75 -> 150 Glock, M9 100% dmg 0-10m, 100->60% 10-28m, 60->16% 18->88m MP5SD shoot sound louder (3dB) Defuse volume bomb scaled up slighly Lower jump off speed for pawns (when jumping on another player) Hostage kill penalty 800 -> 1200 Fixed: "Real" spectator not able to enter ghostcam Weapon cloning exploit Maps: MAP-Fueled Blocked middle lane, the gate window, half Lowered the metal bars in the middle area, near the gate window Redid the middle drop-point where SF can sidestab Terrorst going to A (higher) bombspot. Its a smaller opening, less random where a player may appear Closed a lot of railings / fences where you could should through Gave canals a little more cover from the middle (for instance; blocked the gap under the blue truck) Raised the fences in middle area, near the white truck. Better cover Blocked a part of the area near the palm on SF sniping lane (no more shooting under the truck), also slight better cover on the bombspot Added a blockade under the red tank on B (lower) bombspot, it was too easy to shoot someone when it was planting / covering the bomb Added an extra crate on B (lower) bombspot to give more tactical movement possibilities (its now an L-shape) Slightly moved the coal container near SF spawn to overview the B (lower bombspot more). As a counter, the spiked railing on top of the wall is blocked off. So its less random where a player shoots from MAP-Scope MiddleHouse, lower area, gained a little more general light. This way its easier to see from the outside in Removed collision from all BarbedWires (blocked bullets and players) Redid some meshes of the B building, with a higher shadow resolution. This gives it a better shadow quality (was very blocky) Added Plywood to the metal fences on the bridge. This prevents lame sniper / random bullets passing from this position. Now its more obvious where a player can shoot from Removed the pillar in the lower facility (near the hostage), this was annoying on movement Lowered the light intensity slightly on lower facility hallways (had annoying bright spots on the player and gun model) Added a new rock on Sniper Mountain (near SF side) to make it obvious just can't jump any higher Removed shrubs near Sniper Mountain Fixed Trees; leafs blocked bullets MAP-Eviction Blocked the ledge on the towerflats next to the sniper roof near Terrorist base Closed the gap between the plywood on the 1st floor "construction floor" of the main building Added more Global Illumination light, less intense Direct Sunlight, in order to get less intense contrast between shadow and lit areas Rescaled the fences on the stairs infront of SF base, you can now jump and walk on them Removed a Bookcase and pillar just outside of CFO laptop hackspot (blue room), for better movement Removed a few yellow poles on the outside area, in between SF and Terrorist spawn, for better movement

Added: X/Y mouse sensitivity settings Allow to hold use before object is in range, use action is executed as soon as in range (useful for defusing / hacking) Optional Auto Recoil Recovery setting (crosshair interpolates to its initial position after shooting a bullet) Third person physic animation on body bullet impact Changed: 20% more gravity for all physical objects (for the player it is about +10% in total since its gravity multiplier was decreased by 10%; jump height stays the same) Subtle velocity boost when falling / jumping (4%) HE nadetimer 3.66s -> 3.3s Higher pitch body impacts Higher range other impacts Balance audio of bullet flyby samples (they varied by ~6dB) Louder nade impacts (+2dB) Glock, M9 -4% YRecoil UMP, MP5 -5% YRecoil New Mossberg / Spas spray pattern Spas -10% YRecoil Mossberg -15% YRecoil Saiga price 1800 -> 2800, +7% precision, -35% YRecoil, RPM 152 -> 142 AUG -10% YRecoil, -12% recoil scoped M4, AK -4% YRecoil M16 -7% YRecoil Famas -9% YRecoil M40 2% more movement speed (-13% -> -11%) Less angular damping on nades (should reduce the "stone throwing" behavior) No map replay for 2 maps (new default value for servers, if servers have changed that value at some time it is not applied) Fixed: Defuse / hack bar missing for executing player Fix TDM crashing on Blister, Fueled, Rapid, Converge due to missing navmesh Allow weapon reloading if chamber is empty, but clip is full (+1 bullet in weapon) Wood bullet impact sound missing

Added:

• SAIGA shotgun for terrorists

• +8% spread shotguns
• Pseudo water physics for thrown nade
• Temp disable can't walk off ledge restriction in sneak movement mode (will be added as optional setting later)
• Aggregate and persist hit stats until respawned (regardless whether enemies respawn in the meantime; affects TDM & CTF mostly)
• Shorter delay between playing shot empty weapon event (1,2s -> 0,2s)
• Replace CTF placeholder sounds

• Make sure all TacByte CTF / TDM servers use the correct round length (round length = map length)
• Step sound not playing when moving on small rails / ledges
• Damage aggregation on roundstats widget
• Shotgun reload anim stutter
• Avoid weird nade movement after spawn (twisting in the air)

• Fixed bullet blocking leafs on middle area (palm area) Blister (and with this on every location of the map)
• Smoothen the ledge on long tunnel High bombspot (you could stand on a little ledge next to the opening to Terrorist sniper lane)
• Raised the SF house balcony (looking over sniper lane) with 20 cm. Lowered the door opening leading to A / high bombspot, giving less sight from balcony over sniper lane (you cant look further back anymore)
• Removed playerstarts Terrorist that were furthest away in the base (playerstarts are now more compact, with only 1 secs difference in spawn to reach areas in the map)

• Bullet block on Decals (best noted on the jump-down spot near sniper lane, you couldnt shoot from below)
• Ledge block on lower bombspot
• Removed a lot of bushes, lowered the grass to prevent Foliage standing in the way of sight
• Gave the landscape materials a little more character and wearyness

• Terrorist spawn slightly closer to middle (more control over middle)
• Removed ledge above sniper tunnel on SF side
• Reduced Tessalation on Snow material landscape (gave strange lighting effects)
• Tweaked lighting (removed dark corners)
• Flatten the floor on the stair area from middle building to middle
• Removed gates on hostage area (entrance from the long hallway), for more smooth and spacier movement towards the hostages

Added:

• Click sound on last shot before weapon empty

• Bomb timer 42s -> 52s (the old duration was not enough to run a coordinated retake; feedback appreciated)
• Rework weapon spray pattern: More spread on x-axis than y-axis in general (feedback appreciated)
• 7% more recoil AUG
• 10% more recoil mk20
• More accurate sync bomb timer to server (beep sound, display)
• +60cm explosion radius HE (8,60m -> 9,20m)

• Add missing (general) shoot empty weapon sound back

Added: Flash grenade audio lowpass effect Chat vote: !vote nick (nick could be any unique nick substring on the server, "iana" -> "Xhiana") Allow flash aggregation (only add half of the smaller value to the greater value) Print updated player votes when a voter leaves Changed: Mk20 -8% RPM, clip size 7 -> 6 -5% damage taken on arms, decrease damage M40 -> one shot death, arm hit zone not possible M40 always apply movement penalty (even when holding knife), draw time 0.212s -> 0.64s, Max clip size 5 -> 4, Max clips 6 -> 5 Deagle +5% YRecoil, more XRecoil (12% of YRecoil) Scale dropped money mesh +20%, money reward 500-> 300 +18% flash duration Restrict show mouse keybind to scoreboard Longer dmg range for m9, glock Assault rifles (ak, aug, m4) +2,5% player speed (still slightly lower than smg) Longer range for shotgun dmg Add initial burst to smoke particle system (should spread slightly faster) Reduce smoke particle spawnrate Fixed: Fix warmup money restored when player reconnects during round Buymenu not closing after warmup Fix sort servers by playercount (click "Players") blocked by text label Fix closing scoreboard when player dropdown was used Avoid scoreboard dropdown closing if mouse is 1px off from buttons Fix banned message invisible on 4:3 Fix weaponbob 0 after restart Fix admin could be votebanned (results in a ban which only works if they lose their admin status) Fix mouse still visible after closing ingame menu (in some cases) Fix viewmodel offset slider mode (only setting a value works as intended)

Changed:

• Bombtime 47s -> 42s (please give feedback on that)
• Hacking / defusing, +50% speed for 2nd player, instead of +30%
• Deagle +10% YRecoil, introduce subtle XRecoil, -4% RPM
• Glock, M9 +3% RPM
• CTF respawn time 3s -> 4s
• Run auto maketeam at the end of the round before map cleanup
• M16 -6% RPM Semi auto, -8% RPM Burst

• Last alive player of team left, round does not end
• Player vote, mute not registering correctly
• Nades can be spawned in walls on low distance
• Slow nade movement after first collision

Version 19362 includes a few fixes and a movement change. Changed:

• 10% more gravity for player pawn (less airtime), jump height scaled to match old height, more aircontrol

• Fix explosion damage not displayed on roundstats
• Fix roundstats enemy jump damage displaying wrong damage causer
• Fix M40 throw after fire causing glitches
• Fix last spectated player invisible after spectator being auto team changed
• Fix death for auto teamchange not removed
• Relocate ctf hud text (no overlaps with other text anymore)

First large patch for Tactical Operations

• Knife slash first implementation
• Reload interrupt, force player to drop a full clip
• Plant bomb directly under the player if not aiming at a proper plant spot
• -10% spread if using a laser sight on a weapon
• Nades can be dropped now
• Add not empty filter to the server list
• 5 hp damage for the enemy when jumping on their head
• Equip last weapon bind
• Under settings: Weapon Bob Scaling, Viewmodel offset, skipGPUBuffering (experimental due to performance impact)

• Player running & water speed based on current weapon (-2% pistol, -3,3% smg, -5% rifle, -9% M40, -9% Famas) and armor, scaled by armor health (Helmet: -2%, Vest: -3,5%, Legs: -3%)
• 18% more sneak speed
• +4% water speed, +5% ladder speed
• -10% RPM Scar
• Allow input bind clearing (Escape), hard bind menu to Escape
• Higher auto pickup radius
• 50% more nade bounciness
• Flash nade time 3,6s -> 2,9s
• -14% HE radius
• Famas 6% more spread
• Nerf spray pattern, weapon spread kicks in with 70% instead 40% after the first shot and decreases slower
• M40 new price 8750
• Attenuation curve update movement & weapon fire (drop volume faster)
• Nade bounce volume boost 3db
• Clean up damage taken on round stats when map is over
• Smaller font size in the server browser list
• When launching TO4 for the first time it will launch in fullscreen at your current desktop resolution instead of 1024x768 windowed
• Default crosshair colour is now red
• Lower priority for round stats (should no longer overlap the menu)

• Fix a negative time when map time is over (scoreboard)
• Disabled the ability to ADS (aim down scope) when entering the buy menu
• Fix clan tags not showing up
• Fix damage taken list including old damage, clear on map end
• Only play hitmarker after succesful replication & only if damage was applied

• Water entrance (terrorist side) now works when you come from the water, stairs side
• Added full ladder near lower water (this was a trick jump before). You can now enter the ladder from the water
• Added an extra window on high bridge (looking in the corner near the stairs towards front Main Base and the water
• Added blocking volumes over floors (lower and higher bridge, terrorist base) to give smoother gameplay and better bouncing of nades (instead of strange edges)
• Removed collision on objects or totally removed objects for more smooth / better movement in the map

• Overall 8% less contrast in lighting (removed dark spots)
• Overall cleaned the floors and walls with elements that prevent smooth movement
• Reduced fog thickness (0,05 > 0,03) and starting range (3.000 > 5.000 meters), this gives a better sight on long range
• Removed the ledge on the drop point near tunnel area (annoying backstab place)

• Moved the crate near lower bombspot a bit more to the wall. This to make the trickjump still possible, after movement tweaks
• Overall 5%-10% less contrast in lighting (reduced dark areas)

It's done

Hello guys, thanks for your patience, the Early Access version of Tactical Operations will be released to all players on 19th December 2019. We have uploaded our first release candidate to Steam and got approval. Current alpha testers can play the current release candidate via our steam alpha AppID, while we are working on the last remaining tasks. When Early Access launches all keys for the alpha release on Steam will be invalidated as we move development to our Early Access Steam AppID, you will not require a new key as the game will be free to everyone via our Steam store page. Please keep in mind that you will still encounter bugs in Early Access, we will need feedback on these to fix them. We track bugs via our #bugs channel on our Discord server. For us, the most important information you can provide is how to reproduce a bug on our systems. Please give us as much information as possible, screenshots and videos are also useful in most cases. Since launching the public alpha we have had plenty of feedback from the players. Thanks to the community feedback we have already received, we have altered and even added features. A shortlist of the most important new features: New audio engine: The audio engine was exchanged; we switched to Wwise by Audiokinetic which resolved most of the issues we had with the old one. Most of our sounds were migrated and some reworked (keep in mind most of the sounds are still work in progress). Additionally, an optional HRTF audio output for stereo headphones was integrated (allows more accurate spatialization, but loses sound quality). Two more game modes: Capture the flag is available for all maps, some maps have received small layout changes to better accommodate gameplay for that game mode. Team Deathmatch is also available for all maps. It should be fine for casual playing, but the spawn-find logic might need some improvements (feedback appreciated). Grenades update: Introducing the new flashbang, nades were split into two slots; Tactical Grenades and Explosives. Players are now able to carry a HE + Smoke or Flash. The deadly range of the Atomic Bomb called HE grenade has been greatly nerfed. We appreciate feedback on all grenades (range, total damage, usage, etc.). UI code rework: The entire UI code has been rewritten to allow easier additions/changes and less bug vulnerability in the future. Please keep in mind that a full rewrite always introduces some small new bugs. We try our best to fix them, please report if you have any issues (reliably reproducible bugs are an easy fix for us most often). Also, note that the User Interface is still the same visually. We cannot currently work on this due to lack of dedicated menu designer and there are higher priorities. Early Access, and then? As you have already noticed we are still in development which means we will continue to improve the game after we launched into Early Access. After this Early Access release, bug fixing and balancing will still be prioritized. New content (weapons, public player statistics, maps) will be added later on. Within one month after release, we will provide a dedicated server package (Linux only) and a simple back-end tool to manage bans, admin/mod rights. In the current state of the game, we use quite a lot of 2d / 3d placeholder content. We hope that this public Early Access helps us finding new developers who would like to join us as we further develop Tactical Operations. We badly need 3d modelers/environment artists, a 3d animator, and a 2d designer.

Hello again, First off, thank you all for your patience. Today we start with the release of the first 1.000 Steam keys for TO4: Tactical Operations. We are excited, happy and a little tense :) How to get a Steam Key for preload: (You only can request Keys in our Discord, time to join? -> https://discord.gg/TO4) The request module will be activated on monday 30. September @ 18:00 CEST How to request a key. 1) Search for user xhiana and send a private message to this user, something like "xhiana can i get a key?" 2) Xhiana sends back a TO4 Key for you. Start Steam and chose "Register a Product on Steam". Use the provided key by xhiana. The game will be downloaded from Steam. 3) Start the game at "TO4 Alpha" 4) Official Server Start is on Tuesday 1. October @ 18:00 CEST 5) Connect to a server through the server menu and have fun online! Important: Please remind yourself; this game is in alpha stage. This means it's still rough in places, it might contain bugs or unlogic user interface. You have been given the Discord role "1st Wave", more details about this soon.

Hello everyone, We have a Teaser for you and the Youtube Premiere is scheduled for today. [previewyoutube=9QmrH7VG45g;full][/previewyoutube]

Hey! We are going live later today with a music composer stream at 8:30 CEST + 5 Keys giveaway for our alpha. See you there! https://www.twitch.tv/to4game

We are close!

TacByte

The First100 Playtest

TacByte

Big closed Alpha with Discord Members

Tacbyte

New Map

Ssswing

FOV Slider, Voice Chat, Sniper Overlay and Character Speeches

DarkSoe & TH120

New Weapons

Slayer5530

Grenades

TH120

Building Changes

macfrog

Latest Livestream

TacByte

Final Words

TacByte

Hey everyone, we'll be doing a livestream today at 3:00PM EST / 21:00 CEST. We have some new things to show you and answer your questions, see you soon! Twitchlink

Hey everyone, we hoped you all had a great Christmas day and are continuing to enjoy this festive season, we said in our last devblog that we were going to start an internal stress test in December, yesterday that happened and we invited thefirst100 group from our Discord group to test the game. This test should help us to estimate an Early Access release date for everyone. We keep you updated! Enjoy the rest of your holidays from the Tacbyte Team.

Going Forward!

TacByte

Closed Stresstest

TacByte

TacByte team changes

Jack M & Skyline

The unraveling of a planetary sized constricted ball of hair aka our Code

TacByte

Main Menu, Crosshair Editor, Shell-Out, Gameplay

DarkSoe & TH120

Map work

Ssswing

New Weapon Animations

slayer5530

Introducing TO4ST

DarkSoe & TH120

Final Words

TacByte

Hey everyone, we'll be doing a livestream today at 2:30PM EST / 20:30 CEST. We have some new things to show you, see you later! Twitchlink

Not a Devblog

TacByte

Recruitment

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Number #12!

chr & kulan

Early Access 2018?

TacByte

Linux Client? wait I mean Server don't I?... Both!

macfrog & th120

Weapons Line-Up

TacByte

Pistols

• M9
• Glock 22
• Desert Eagle
• Stealth Hunter (Raging Bull Substitue)
• P250 (optional)

SMG & Shotgun

• Vector (SMG II Substitute)
• MAC 10
• Remiberg (Mix of Remington and Mossberg - we dont have a better name for it)
• Saiga 12
• SPAS 12
• MP5A2
• MP5A2 Silencer (MP5SD Substitute)
• MP7 (optional)

AR & Sniper

• M4A1
• M16
• AK47
• AUG (SIG Substitute)
• SCAR SSR (MSG 90 Substitute)
• M40 (Parker Hale Substitute)
• M4/M203
• MK18 (optional)

Weapon Animations

slayer5530

New M9

Robin replaced the Pizza box!

robin

Pizza box

TO4 Bomb Model

Discord Notifications

chr

How to get the role "@subscribed"?

Last but not least a big Welcome to, ojl10

TacByte

Upcoming Devblog

TacByte

Missed our stream? It is now available on Youtube, enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyxKfryMJ0c

Join our Stream on Twitch! Twitch

Upcoming Livestream Tomorrow!

The delayed #11

chr & kulan

The Q1 Dream

TacByte

Builds and upgrades

macfrog

Refactoring and bug fixing

th120

Voiceactors

chr

Music for MAP-Prelude

bluekoala202

MP5 Navy Silenced

darksoe

More Rapid Waters Pictures

ssswing & bluekoala202 & chr

Minimap and VoIP

th120

This is Number 10!

chr & kulan

Steam and Future

macfrog & ssswing

Optimizations

th120 & ssswing & darksoe

Elvis (it's not the real one, he's still with the aliens)

Final Words

TacByte

Twitch Recording

Please, join us today 21st January 2018 at 8 pm CET as we will be streaming our Pre-alpha TO4: Tactical Operations gameplay on Twitch www.twitch.tv/to4game, we will also be answering your questions about the game and its development. The game is due for release to Early Access Alpha testing via Steam sometime around Q1 2018. We are dedicated to making this game with the communities help and input. there is a lot that is still broken and a lot of content missing right now, but that will change over time. Please join our Discord group or visit our website www.to4.co for more information. This stream will be available in a couple of days time via YouTube or another platform if you miss it. Thank you! the TacByte Team.

Twitch Live Stream

DEVBLOG #9

Back in business!

Early Access

TacByte

The Game...

• to be downloadable through steam
• to updates through steam
• to have the following Gamemode: Team-Deathmatch
• to have the following Scenarios: Hostage Rescue, Bomb Scenario, Hacking and Escape.

The Servers

The Animations

Daily Builds and Engine Update

Polishing and Features

• Overhaul of our Main menu (done)
• Overhaul UIs (WIP)
• Overhaul Buymenu (WIP)
• Overhaul Server browser (WIP)
• Recoil System (WIP)
• Female Skins (done)
• Skin Selection (done)
• Integrated Music (WIP)
• New Buy Menu (WIP)
• Fixing Bugs (WIP)
• Map Vote (done)