Client Updates:

• Added 24 new maps
  
• Removed 15 old maps from rotation
  
• Updated a couple of maps that were temporarily taken out of rotation due to bugs
  

Client:

• Fix for clients not properly transmitting to their squad channel after leaving a match in which their team is merged into their squad
  
• Fix for private match password box not being enabled whenever the setting is enabled
  

UI/Menu Changes:

• Changed the format of how teams and squads are arranged for matchmaking and matches
  - Squads going into a match are now considered seperate from the Team
  - You can see who makes up which squads on your Team
  - Team names are seperate from squad names and squad names will only be used for the team when the whole team is made of one squad
  - When a match is ending there is an option to exit the match as just your squad and not with the team
  
• Added a small popup that asks if you want to queue for both ranked and casual if only queuing for casual
  
• Fix for casual being unselected sometimes when exiting a match when you were previously queuing for casual
  

Client:

• Another pass on optimizations to incoming bandwidth used by the server to send data to the client.
  
• Another fix for a memory leak
  

Content:

• Glass decals on certain double swing door windows has been disabled
  
• Adjustments to flash effects on player kill for visibility
  
• Killhouse post effect and color grading tweaks
  
• Platform hardening for misc clusters in factory and cstore exteriors
  

Client Updates:

• 20 New maps, removed a small amount of old deprecated maps
  
• Flashbang tuning:
  
  
  
  1. 25% reduction to view angle affected by flash, down from 120 degrees to 90 degree angle
     
  2. 25% reduction to flash distance
     
  
  
• Possible fix for looking down on certain levels causing frame rate to drop
  

UI/Menu Changes:

• Fixed region selector to allow selection for brazil
  
• Fix player volume scroll bar disabling itself when player is muted
  

Gameplay Changes:

• Added fix for broken spine IK on other players. This was causing misalignment of opponent hitboxes and upper torsos during gunfights.
  
• Fix for certain game object pools slowly expanding forever, causing random hitches and a slow memory leak.
  
• Factory dock shutters now operate like cstore shutters, a wall charge allows for an entry point and a door charge makes a peek only.
  
• A basic version of keybinds for next and previous inventory slots is now an option in the controls menu. This is now bound to scroll wheel by default but can be bound to other keys, but was mostly added for people asking for scroll wheel swapping.
  

UI/Menu Changes:

• Added loading screen when moving from Menu to Training or vice versa to smooth out loading transition on machines that don't instantly load the map.
  
• Volume slider for other players in the menu now will complete mute them when in the left most position instead of leaving them very quiet. Quick mute button now highlights to show that it's a button.
  
• Debug MatchID in the bottom left corner is hidden during cinematic views (no-hud and vs screen), and is now labeled as "MatchID"
  

Maps:

• New maps are included in this update. These are the maps that normally would have been delivered over the holidays.
  
• Factory dock doors now operate like shutters, a wall charge allows for an entry point and a door charge makes a peek only. (duplicate from Gameplay)
  
• Factory box stacks optimized, should reduce draw calls and rendering time on factory.
  

• game client performance improvements
  
• network performance improvements
  
• improved animations
  
• improved hit feedback (click here)
  
• new hit sounds (click here)
  
• balance changes (click here and here)
  
• private matches (click here)
  
• added Brazilian servers
  
• bug fixes
  

Changes:

• Add Brazil region selection to the client UI
  
• Add additional region calculation for Brazilian servers on the backend
  
• No gameplay changes in this update
  

Gameplay Changes:

• New impact sounds for body and headshot hits
  
• New sound for friendly fire, give negative feedback for shooting wrong team
  
• Optimization and reduction of network traffic usage
  
• Fix jump penalty offset when firing from non-ADS stances in jump penalty state.
  

Balance tweaks:

Attacker

• Retuned flashbang flash to be more consistent based on the angle at which you are looking at it, as well as the distance to the flashbang.
  
• Increased the rate of falloff for the initial flash punch by 100%. So half the aim punch at the same distance.
  
• Nerfed smoke grenade, time reduced from 20s to 12s.
  

Defender

• Barbed Wire slow increased to 55% up from 50%
  
• Barbed Wire sprint slow increased to 65% up from 50%
  
• Buffed molotov, size increased 15%, damage increased up to 120dps up from 75dps. (note the previous patch notes listed a reduction of 15% size in the molotov, this was actually a 30% reduction and is now 15%)
  
• Fixed issue where gecnet would accept requests to join on private matches from relevant users
  

UI/Menu Changes:

• Reduction in amount of calls made when reloading to main menu to help with some crashes after a match
  
• Added instructions on how to the update game client if you connect and get the "Needs update" warning.
  
• Added new video to training section
  
• "Servers are locked down" > "Servers are being updated"
  

Client Updates:

• Added 21 new maps
  
• Updated barbed wire to resolve issue with wire sounds not playing