• Improved direct input controller detection. This should mean issues where controllers were being picked up erroneously are reduced.
  
• Added a configuration tool option to disable direct input controllers. If you’re still having issues, use this to disable legacy controller support.
  
• Added an inifile option to disable the “critical control” warnings. This should aid setup in cases with unusual “joysticks”, such as headtrackers using Vjoy.
  
• Added an inifile option for scaling the FOV from its default size. Not compatible with VR mode. Intended for advanced users only.
  
• Added “force freelook” inifile option which causes the freelook control to stay on continuously. This should be useful for headtracking setups.

BATTLEZONE® is now playable both with or without a VR headset!

Patch 1.08

Main

• ALL Battlezone owners will be upgraded to the GOLD edition.
  
• Battlezone Gold will include the game, Classic Mode and all released tank skins, and bobbleheads.
  
• This will mean that owners of the game will get all the DLC and play without VR FREE!
  
• VR and non-VR players can play co-op together!

Updates

• “Play Again” button added to the end of a campaign.
  
• Healing shards are now present in a Nemesis Duel.
  
• Updated Radar
  
• Improved messaging when using team lives. (Respawn progress now slows down if being healed by an ally)
  
• Updated weapon behaviours.
  
• Balanced end of level rewards.
  
• Improved AI pathfinding.
  
• Increased chance of different environments throughout a campaign.

Bug Fixes

• Radial Weapons no longer occluded by geometry.
  
• Combo kills now retrigger in the same level.
  
• Jets now count for combo kills.
  
• Health shards will now return more health.
  
• Hacker tank rebalanced.
  
• Various smaller balance tweaks, bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Mouse and Keyboard support added.
  
• Text chat added.

We’re excited to announce that from May 1st Battlezone will be fully playable with OR without a VR headset!

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UPDATE

Patch 1.07

• Added support for direct input controllers which should include the vast majority of flight stick, HOTAS controllers and older gamepads. Due to the sheer variability of these controllers, customising your controls is required before attempting to play. Note that direct input controllers aren’t currently supported in classic mode - apologies for the inconvenience but we wanted to get controller support for the main game to you as soon as possible.
  
• Further improvements to voice chat quality on Steam.
  
• Further improvements to jet pathfinding.
  
• Improved UI messaging when the player is dead/being revived to discourage unnecessary use of lives. We’re aware that new players aren’t always aware that campaign lives are shared and we’re hoping that this will help to discourage premature respawning.
  
• Fixed a bug where artillery shells would sometimes split prematurely, causing them to spread more than intended.
  
• Tweaked artillery shell splitting. This change should make artillery hit the intended target more reliably. This, coupled with the above fix, should make the higher-level artillery weapons more viable.
  
• Fixed a bug where Steam achievement progress was not being updated.
  

• Increased time the respawn button must be held for while a player is being revived. This is intended to discourage players from respawning while they’re being revived.
  

• Added ‘Comfort’ menu with a single option, Peripheral Vision Reduction, which reduces the viewing area whilst turning in order to mitigate motion sickness. This option has three levels, Low, Medium and High. Feedback on this feature is very welcome.
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause a friendly convoy to not move on a convoy escort mission on Industrial levels.
  
• Added an option, DisableHMDMask, to GraphicsOptions.ini (found in AppData/Local/Battlezone) to disable the HMD masking when using Vive headsets to make it easier to capturing gameplay footage. This will negatively affect performance so should only be used if you’re confident your system can maintain framerate.
  
• Attempted fix for OpenVR headsets. Should enable users with HDK2.0, etc. to play.
  
• Various localisation fixes.