Level object improvements, hitbox tweaks, lights out changes and equipment tweaks

Level Content:

• Doorways and most windows have been adjusted so that the building during lights-out looks the same from inside and out, instead of giving the player on the outside an advantage
  
• Square emergency lights over doorways now have a reverse hitbox that aligns with the light on the opposite side, so one shot should destroy lights on both sides.
  
• Square emergency lights have had slight reductions in intensity and distance.
  
• Fixed misconfigured glass that was shimmering in lights out
  
• Fixed levels and put back into rotation: [Killhouse] Uncertain King, [Killhouse] Sabre Rifle, [Factory] Tower Saga
  

Over 100 different surfaces had their geometry, thicknesses or hitbox shapes updated to be more consistent, here is a list of most of them:

• Dome - castle table, castle log, castle food stand, sand ramps geometry, dome wall breach, dome doorways,
  
• CStore - deli cooler / hot food, green office computer, various arcade machines, various thin metal shelves, soda machine, standing fridge geometry, smoothie machine, fire door, various storefront window panels, cigarette machine, urinal wall, bathroom stall, booze shelf, newpaper stand, magazine shelf, wood folding table
  
• Killhouse - couch, various wooden boxes, wooden wall breach, various thin wooden covers, whiteboard, wood pallet, thin wooden walls, thin window, small chairs, reception/breezeway windows
  
• Factory - dock door, fan doorway, conveyor pieces, forklift, dock green door, exterior 2f generic door, catwalk, catwalk rail,
  
• Some of these changes for objects which generate with random prop configurations, eg the tall storefront freezers, will only update on new maps going forward.
  

Equipment and weapons:

• Flashbang tweaks to make initial punch more consistent and decrease effectiveness at range, this should address the player occasionally "spinning" when banged while giving no input
  
• Fixed distance check used for destroying wire that caused it not to be destroyed in some cases
  
• Made wire spool "disappear" after wire is deployed
  
• Each weapon now makes a unique dryfire sound when the gun is attempted to be fired from empty
  
• Shotguns now have dryfire behavior
  

Media:

Demonstration of the change to exterior entrances and windows:

Previews:

Throwables, flashbang occlusion, barbed wire updates, Threat Indicator, lots of other misc fixes

Throwable SFX Update:

Smoke Grenades


• New Pin Pull SFX
  
• New Spoon Eject SFX
  
• New Bounce SFX
  
• New Detonate SFX
  
• Removed rattlesnakes (how did those get in there anyway?)
  

  Flash Grenades

  
  
• New Pin Pull SFX
  
• New Spoon Eject SFX
  
• New Bounce SFX
  

  Frag Grenades

  
  
• New Pin Pull SFX
  
• New Spoon Eject SFX
  
• New Detonate SFX
  

  Molotov

  
  
• New Molotov Burning SFX (Now with more firey intensity!)
  

Flashbang Behavior Changes:

• Flashbangs now look for walls, have reduced intensity when passing through walls
  
• Flashbangs now take closed doors into consideration, behaving like a wall (open doors do not count)
  
• Flashbang maximum length is slightly longer for full concussion
  
• Flashbang minimum length is much shorter, mostly when walls occlude most of the effects
  
• Flashbang point blank blind duration is shortened
  
• Flashbang concussion "mouse smoothing" has been changed to a different mechanism, now it amplifies and continues your mouse movements instead of slowing them down. Less intense mouse input is required to get back onto station, but makes high precision tracking harder while still concussed.
  
• "Walls" that affect flashbangs are generally room dividers that go from floor to ceiling. Factory and killhouse office walls count as walls. Tall props like storefront freezers or brickhouse brick stacks do not count as walls.
  
• The "white light" that is produced when blind is much stronger to eliminate some cases where the light might actually benefit the defender.
  
• The "white light" that is produced when flashed should no longer show up on the map view.
  
• The blind effect should also now apply consistently to scopes and NVGs.
  

• TL;DR: Flashbangs are generally more effective inside of the same room, less effective when in a different room.

  
  

Explosive / Frag Grenade Behavior Changes:

• Explosives can destroy wire that is exposed through a wall if enough of the wire is exposed (like putting a wire halfway through a door)
  
• Explosives now can detonate wire without direct line of sight of the spool
  
• Frag grenades now destroy wire more consistently at different ranges
  
• Frag grenades can now concuss attackers (similar to flashbang concussion, but attackers are still immune to flashbangs)
  

Directional Threat Indicator Updated:

• Threat indicator arrow plays near compass when being shot at, to indicate direction of incoming fire
  
• Previously was only visible when in hipfire stance due to a bug, now shows in other stances
  
• Threat indicator arrow now larger and has movement to help catch attention
  

Weapon Changes:

• Reloading guns while in the gear up room or attacker truck now causes the magazine to return to the wall it came from if (nearly) full
  
• Fix bug that would allow players to pick pick up chambered shells from other shotguns and cause a rack bug
  
• Fix to a bug that could cause a gun to rack indefinitely unless dropped and picked back up
  
• Fix a couple of errors around shotgun shell ownership and usage
  

Network Changes:

• Updated networking to resolve two critical bugs that could cause "Lag Detected" on servers, especially with several high ping players
  
• Network change to help address some cases where players can fall behind and have trouble catching up
  
• Updated network reliability to attempt to address placement of charges and input for interacting with doors
  
• Networking change to help improve reliability of fired shots
  
• Network change to resolve rare edge case regarding interactions
  

Gameplay/Other:

• Throwables are now being rendered at full framerate instead of at tickrate, so they should fly smoothly through the air
  
• Barbed wire audio is now more consistent when players pass through it, actual sound used is a placeholder made to be very audible
  
• Update to loading to reduce time spent waiting when joining a match in progress
  
• Sanitization of chat input to address exploit
  
• Change to seat look when standing up out of attacker chair during transition to Gear Up phase
  
• Fixed bug that minorly affected performance
  
• Fixed some errors caused by players who have drawn or left behind pucks, then disconnected
  
• Fixed issue where spectators could not see name of player they were spectating
  

Media:

A quick and dirty demonstration of the changes to flashbangs

Updated barbed wire audio

Incoming fire effect picture

Changes:

• Update to backend to improve behavior of squads "splitting up" after a match ends
  
• Updated five maps currently in rotation from user feedback, [Killhouse] Exit Saga, [CStore] Resolute Knight, [Killhouse] Sandwich Horn, [Factory] Frost Banner, [Dome] Breaking Point
  
• Retired 21 maps from rotation
  
• Added 21 new maps to rotation to replace retired maps
  

Looking For Group

New Roadmap

Team Changes

Doodle Time

Major overhaul for hit registration and reducing shooting input delay

Hitbox visuals demonstrating hit registration improvements

Graph showing difference in shooting delays before and after patch

Hit Registration and Shooting Improvements:

• Improved server understanding of client prediction for verification of hits to improve hit registration
  
• Improved client FX/Hitsounds prediction to line up properly with where the client should be predicting the hit
  
• No rolling back shots
  - Once a shot has done damage, the damage won't be undone when a high latency players movement is simulated
  - Players moving before incoming shot packets arrive on the server don't cause shots to be ignored when being simulated
  
• Clientside shooting delay is now mostly removed, shooting is nearly instant while hit FX/sounds have a slight delay
  
• Added modifier for multiple hit sounds to make it easier to understand how many hits are made with shotguns
  
• Added dryfire to client shot prediction, guns will play a dryfire sound when you attempt to fire them while empty
  
• Fixed bug where clients guns could occasionally have their sights mis-aligned
  
• Add client shot prediction RNG seeding so that clients can render shots involving RNG at client shooting time correctly (hipfire or brace without laser)
  
• Recoil is moved to client shooting time to give better recoil timing to resolve feeling with recoil feeling misaligned with fire rate
  
• Flinches from hits are now predicted as to avoid mis-predictions on double headshots
  
• Shooting the chambered bullet without a mag loaded is now possible (and displays on the ammo count)
  

Work that still needs to be done:

• Improve server extrapolation to smooth out movement for high latency players
  
• Improve time resolution of shooting to reduce discrepancy between player visuals and player hitboxes used for collision detection
  
• Update server and client communication to allow more up to date rendering of other players' movement
  - Increases limb shooting accuracy
  - Decreases animation judder
  

Other:

• Fix bug where clients body would change animation and "break" after laying on the ground for five seconds
  
• Modified home screen
  

Some audio and level changes along with a change to raise client framerate cap to 150

General:

• Speaker icon under your own profile picture in multiplayer menu now mutes yourself (instead of having no function)
  
• Client max framerate raised to 150 to allow for overhead to vsync to 144 on high performance machines
  

Audio:

• New Smoke Grenade Detonate SFX
  
• Updated distance attenuation curve on smoke grenade detonate sfx
  
• Added 3 new, slightly different Moltov Impact SFX
  
• Adjusted distance attenuation curve for molotov Impact SFX
  
• Removed errant "bounce" SFX from molotovs
  
• Throwing already lit flares now plays a weak sound for feedback instead of no sound
  

Levels:

• Added dome doors and castle gate to training.
  
• Changed behavior of ramps on Dome to allow UAV turrets to see through the base of the ramps and into the underside of dome better.
  
• Fixed a mesh on pipeworks mixer.