H-Hour: World's Elite
DLC - Workshop Map Update
CrossRoads by PoisonCobra
-Fix for AMD GPU issues
Forgotten by SelfLessOne
-Rework of map
If you have any issues, comments or suggestions on either of these maps, please join our forums and post in the Workshop Map section so the creator is aware. The dev team is not responsible for workshop content.
Workshop DLC - Small Patch
If you did not receive the update, verify your game files:
- Right click on H-Hour in Steam Library
- Select Properties
- Click on Local Files tab
- Click on the "Verify integrity of game cache..." button and let it run until the download is complete
The community mapper noted the following changes to CrossRoads:
-Fixed some object collisions
-Added more props to the map
-Fixed a few bugs
-Added some blocking volumes to prevent players exiting the map
NOTE: The H-Hour team are not responsible for Workshop Content. If you wish to report issues on a Workshop map, please create a thread with the map name in the title on our forums so the content creator is aware.
H-Hour Forums
H-Hour: World's Elite Patch Release 3.6.0
As explained in our previous patch notes, Stats and Achievements have been reset so they reflect the latest changes in our ranking formula. Everyone will start fresh on day 1 of this new day for H-Hour.
We will be closely monitoring the game over the coming week to see if further bugs are identified.
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Patch Notes 3.6.0
New Features:
Credits Option on Main Menu:
- Game Credits added and Data Tables populated
- Kickstarter Donor Credits added and Data Tables populated
- Music queue created to play random track selections during viewing of credits
Startup Movie:
- New Startup movie created for game release
Controller Option:
- Scope Sensitivity UI slider added for controllers
Servers:
- Finalized Local Area Networking (LAN) capability for the game server
- Game can now be hosted through User Created Rooms, Dedicated Servers and LANs
NOTE: LAN sessions still require each player to be logged on to Steam to pass the pre-game Steam Owner Authentication check.
Updated Features:
Ranking System:
- Final fixes/changes to the proprietary Competitive Ranking System for H-Hour.
- Corrected logic issue when assessing the top player score used in Player Contribution calculations
Note: Stats and Achievements have been reset for the final time to include these changes and to coincide with the full release of the game on Steam.
Menus:
- Menu cleanup completed to reflect final release content
- Correct issue with Server Browser "Refresh" button that could in certain situations cause UI to freeze
Tweaks to Lucky:
-Removed cloth dampening on lucky webgear
UCRs:
Allow UCR Host to drop bomb
Macro Exploit:
- Dive to Prone animation adjusted to prevent key spamming/macro use to gain speed advantages
Workshop Content
New Maps:
Citadel
by newybond
CrossRoads
by PoisonCobra
Ruins
by Hype
Revised Maps:
Damitha
by newybond
- Work on consistency of explosive components and their reset
FishHook
by newybond
- Scale of map more like original map
- Change scale of some buildings
- Change building materials
Offshore
by Hype
- Downscaled water post processing volume so it would not interfere with Armory loading screen
Snowfall
by newybond
- Add a new climbable roof on the right cabin
- Opened cabin on high mountain left (from SOFs)
- Changed blocking volumes on trees to smaller volume to avoid blocking shots beyond bounds of trees
- Add Extra rocks on the ground for hiding purpose
- Add smoke particle on roofs
SandGlow
by newybond
- Add more ladders to climb on buildings
- Add a few more blocking and hiding objects, on the floor and on some buildings
- Add a few more stones to have a walk path on high pilars.
Sujo
by newybond
- Changed to new bushes and grass material
- Add new props to look better
- Add a few ceiling lamps to see better in some shacks
- Add Normal to some materials to have a better visual appearance
- Add Water Physics to water pools on the ground
- Add Wood Physics to wooden floor in Terrorist house
Upcoming Steam Release - 17 February 2020
Our upcoming release patch includes the final tweaks to our ranking frameworks, features and reported bugs. With the ranking changes, we will also be resetting stats and achievements which will allow everyone to start fresh on day 1.
For those who were previously part of our Early Access, we encourage you to check out H-Hour one more time after it officially releases. Many, many improvements have happened over the years to bring home this spiritual successor to the early SOCOM games.
For those who do not own the game, add H-Hour to your Steam Wish List so you are notified when the release goes live!
We could not have achieved this without the great work of our community developers, the custom map makers and the feedback received from our players during our Beta testing. Thank you one and all ːHHourStarː
Features in full release:
- One life and respawn game play
- 6 official maps and free DLC pack of community maps (a mix of SOCOM recreations and original content)
- 6 game modes including Elimination, Demolition, Breach, Sabotage, Suppression and Hostage Extraction for play with up to 16 players
- 6 different characters with 4 camos each to select from
- 4 dance moves to celebrate your kills
- A variety of loadouts for weapons and equipment to carry on the battlefield
- Action system to pickup weapons, open/close doors, plant/defuse bombs, melee, and dance
- Guns hot activated when near enemy or on clicking right mouse fire button
- Pick up ammo and equipment dropped by teammates
- Ladder climb, Jump to climb & Vault on selected objects
- Hud and compass in game
- Spectate your teammates when dead
- In game menus for Team Actions, Options and Weapons Inventory selections
- Team VOIP & Text communication with channels defined for live and dead players
- Unique Ranking system
- MVP award at end of match
- Lobby entry into matches to allow for Armory access, team switching and options setting
- Game menus for Achievement, Player and Leaderboard stats tracking
- Team kill management system
- Multitude of anti-cheat tools including "Easy Anti-Cheat"
- Support for LAN, User Created Rooms & Dedicated Servers
- Servers support customizations such as weapon class or rank restrictions, allowing Vote to Kick, Friendly Fire, Proxy Chat, number of players and number of rounds per match, one life or respawn, game modes and map rotation, ranked or unranked play, controller only options, password protection and admin functions.
- Custom tools for community map makers to create maps for addition to our DLC pack once approved
Patch 3.5.24 Release & Server Downtime
Announcements:
Player Ranks Overall:
Stats have been reset and H-Hour now includes a proprietary Competitive Ranking System.
Enlisted ranks (1-10) can only move up and are mostly driven by experience learned by gaining a rounded background in the game's main elements. In order to transition from Enlisted to Officer Ranks, players must have performed 4+ of each mission objective type (Bomb Plant, Bomb Defusal, and Extracted Hostages) and complete specific numbers of matches. This is as Officers are expected to have overall experience before promotion.
Officer Ranks are based purely on the player's position on the leaderboard which can change based on player performance as well as the relative performance of other players. Here, players' Ranks can go up and down in their positions (based on percentile of rating in completed matches). Continue the fight and achieve the coveted 4 Star General position reserved for only the #1 player.
Player Rating System:
While we cannot go into specifics due to the complexity involved, the rating system is more than simply who won over who lost. It takes in consideration numerous game elements, and the player's contribution to the final outcome is a major driver for how much rating change they will be awarded. For example, if you want the most boost from the winning team, you'll need to be the match MVP. If you want the most mercy for a loss, top contributors get the most forgiveness in their match rating.
Achievements and Potential Future Resets:
With the stabilization of this ranking/rating system, we released both an in-game achievement system and the steam achievements so players can track their progress. Be aware however, we need player progression to allow us to fully monitor the stat and achievement results. If further tweaks are required both will be reset in a future patch.
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Patch 3.5.24 Notes:
New:
Honoring KittyHawk's passing:
• Added memorial objects in Sismis Church rafters to commenorate our beloved long-time supporter and WorkShop contributor KittyHawk
Achievements
• An in-game Achievement display page has been added to the Profile section of the main menu to allow players to monitor their progress
• Steam Achievements have been developed and released
• Activated Game Achievements unlocks and progress (values will be reset at release)
Updates:
Rating/Ranking System:
• Modified the rating scale to prevent players with more loses than wins from going into a negative range which is the cause of 0 Ratings (previous ratings are reset with this patch).
• Made adjustment to Leaderboard Ratings scale to prevent negative ratings (which shows as 0) for players with more losses than wins. This should allow players to always have a positive rating and accurately place them on the leaderboard with non-zero values.
• 2v2 minimum player requirement in a Ranked Room (dedicated server - Non-Respawn) applied for both updating of Steam Stats as well as leaderboard rating.
• Leaderboard display now shows players' Rating Score, regardless of profile privacy settings.
• Leaderboard display can now be paged (prev/next) 50 entries at a time.
• Added Leaderboard Position & Percentile details in the Profile Stats page
• "Next Rank" requirement details added to the Profile Stats page
Animations:
• Added crouch Bomb Plant/Defuse animations
Known Scenario: When looking down while planting/defusing in crouch, the character will go in to "shot blocked", resulting in the plant animation losing priority and not being visible although the plant/defuse action continues progressing without issue.
Weapons Tuning:
• Corrected issue where some weapon attributes resulted in improved accuracy while moving instead of it being reduced. As a result, we may need one more final tuning pass prior to release if useful and detailed feedback is received about specific weapons and that exact desired modification is in the community's best interest.
Official Maps:
• Corrected Physical Material assignment on Cove Kitchen floor.
• Corrected Coffin room collision issues on Sismis
Bug Fixes
• BF(848): Able to force camera clipping with low ceilings/obstacles/stairs
Workshop Map Updates
Damitha
-Add blocking volumes to smooth walk across train tracks
-Add objects and walls on 2 bldgs for both Terrorist and SOF side to avoid easy sniping from water dam side
-Add a wall on water dam right of stairs to avoid easy sniping
-Create more walking space on Terrorist side behind the trains
-Remove collision on ground plants
-Improved visual effects of exploding barrels and trucks for replication on server
Snowfall
- Change Post Volume colour to more white instead of blue hue as sphere
- Change tree leaves to No Collision (some spots had invisible walls)
- Add routes on the ground to avoid drop down of high hills
- Add a few fences to indicate which hills are high
- Change SOFs spawn position to the right a bit so both sides have same timing to objective
Hotfix Patch 3.5.23 & Server Downtime
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Hotfix Patch 3.5.23
Updates to 3.5.22 Features:
BF(716) - Removed Gamepad Right Face Button (B on Xbox, Circle on PS4) from backing out of Lobby & In-Game based menus as this is also used for Push-To-Talk and would inadvertently cause players to leave menus/lobbies when trying to talk. Will consider changing the button assignment at a later time.
BF(834) - Further enhancements to smoothing out the control/movement of Scope Sway.
BF(847) - Resolved an issue where Workshop maps would stop stat/rank updates from committing to Steam due to an obsolete option not being enabled.
Patch Release 3.5.22 & Server Downtime
This patch includes a brand new competitive grade player skill rating framework that was built from the ground up by our Senior Developer. Player stat reset is required to move to this system. We are releasing on a test basis to allow for identifying any tuning requirements before a final release of the rating/ranking system which will also include game achievements.
Controller players with custom setups should take note of Bug Fix 830.
Special thanks to the community for their patience as this complex custom rating framework was developed. Also much appreciate the work done by the bug reporters and our community mappers who keep continually contributing to the betterment of H-Hour.
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Patch 3.5.22
New Features
Custom Rating/Ranking Framework:
Replaced the Proof of Concept Ranked Scoring system with a competition grade player skill rating system. This required a stat reset for all players to allow the new rating/ranking system to be implemented.
Player ratings are driven by a number of factors throughout gameplay and will vary according to match length, room size, ratings of team mates & opponents to name a few.
Ratings can raise or decrease depending on match outcome and drive the player's leaderboard positions which will be used for Officer Rank assignments.
Updated Features
Bullet Impact Feedback:
Bullet impact feedback for the shooting player is now instantaneous versus waiting for shot confirmation by the server. Note, due to the nature of networks and that data and player connections move at different/varying speeds throughout the internet, shot feedback cues (sounds and bullet impact effects) will always have a degree of inconsistency.
Recoil system:
Reduced the degree of impact from the recoil compensation system
Animations:
• Change blend in time for scoped animation
• New animation for presssing of bridge detonator
• Cleanup of stand back keyboard montage
Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) Updates:
• Connection of more in game actions for detection activities
• Log messaging corrections
Bug Fixes
• BF(716) - ESC key & Gamepad Right Face Button will back out of a UI window/menu like hitting the Back button
NOTE: Some interactions may take away focus from the UI widget which will require restoring focus such as hovering over the UI element (like one of the buttons) or clicking on the Back button directly
Right Face Button means the B button for Xbox controllers, the Circle button on PS controllers, etc
• BF(826) - Weapon points to the sky when doing a forced Reload (empty magazine) while changing stance out of prone
• BF(827/837) - Locked out of movement temporarily when holding grenade and knockback triggered
• BF(828) - Movement issues when in prone and traversing over bomb satchel
• BF(830) - Melee Controller Button too sensitive when using default trigger button.
Note: Players using Customized Controller bindings will be required to go in to their controller input options and set the Left Trigger binding in the Analog/Axis key assignment section for custom bindings
• BF(832) - Cove: Character "sinks" partially in to the Street at certain curves from sloped to flat elevations
• BF(834) - No smooth transition of camera movement effects while moving, looking, idling in Scope view (Jitter/Bounce). This may require additional tuning pending more feedback.
• BF(836) - FPV with grenades equipped and jumping can allow brief view through walls
• BF(838) - Knockback stops defuse action but not icon timer
• BF(839) - While holding action to Diffuse a Bomb and looking around, the action tile can disappear/reappear from view, causing multiple issues resulting from the desynchronization
• BF(840) - Softspot in Temple
• BF(841) - Temple-Painting in Seal right breach tunnel
• BF() - Corrected collision on WolfRun chicken coup bldg
Workshop Community Content
New
SnowFall by newybond (extraction & sabotage)
Damitha by newybond (demolition)
Updates
Desert Raid by SelfLessOne
-add j2c on balconys
-work on sand
FishHook by newybond
-Added 2 breach points and added 1 route to get into the compound
-Changed collision on trees so leaves no longer stop bullets
FoxHunt by newybond
-changes to fog density
RainForest by newybond
-add more ruins, new boulders for cover and ladders for access to hut roofs
Resilience by SelfLessOne
-Fixed Sabotage Loading screen
-optimizations and mesh gap fixes
-fix sound attenuations
-can get on depot roof
SubRosa by SelfLessOne
-fixes for sound and some collisions
Tribulation by Mik3C
-Adjust lighting slightly
-Added additional props to allow for better flow
-Re-arranged props to allow Seals better vantage for balance
Verge by Mik3C
-Added 2 Radio Tower POIs also doubles as barriers
-Adjusted Seals and Terr spawn locations slightly for better balance
-Added 3 additional cover props at Seals spawn area
Patch 3.5.21 Release
- Right-click on H-Hour in the game Library
- Select Properties
- Click on the Launch Options button
- Type the following into the Launch Option dialogue window and Apply (keep open so can easily remove after):
-w 1920 -windowed
- Run game and from main menu, go into Options/Video and set your proper Resolution type and size.
- Remove the Steam Launch Option entries, Apply and close the dialogue window.
- Restart the game.
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Patch Notes Release 3.5.21
New Features
Easy Anti-Cheat:
Preliminary integration of Easy Anti-Cheat into the game.
UCR Admin:
UCR creators can now define an "admin" pwd for their rooms on the main Create a Game screen. Once set, authorized users can open the Team Actions menu in game (ESC), login and Ban/Boot players from UCR rooms.
Updated Features
Player Characters:
Player characters were optimized to reduce rendering cost on full servers while retaining appearance.
Bug Fixes
BF(820) - Incorrect blocking volume size in corner by terrorist plant - Factory
BF(821) - Missing blocking volume in terrorist plant - Factory
BF(822) - Missing collision to factory computer room wall
BF(823) - Missing wall in Cove leading from kitchen to dining room
BF(825) - Character freezing briefly if shooting as player completes prone to stand animation
BF(833): SOF characters with Sunglasses - lens visible over fog
Servers Offline Awaiting Anti-Cheat Fix - Use UCRs (Create a Game)
Given we are a tiny team, a decision was made to take our servers offline and allow the team to focus their full attention on a permanent fix to the anti-cheat issue.
In the interim, players can create their own rooms (UCR) for game play together:
- At Main Menu, select Server Browser
- Click on Create a Game
- In the UCR window, click on the Map Rotation button
- Setup your desired maps and click on Apply once done
- In the UCR window, set your desired round counts, times and if you wish, you can add a server Password to give to players you know or just run as an open server, your choice. Note: To add a password, type it underneath the "Password" field shown on the screen.
- Activate the "Online" selection box so your game can be found on the Server Browser
- Once done, click on Create and invite your friends.
Our sincere regrets for any inconvenience this may cause!
Server Downtime & Patch Release 3.5.20
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Patch Release 3.5.20
Updated:
Official Maps:
Factory, Temple, WolfRun and Sismis all had major map optimizations. This is first pass and more work is scheduled.
The work included a complete overhaul of lighting, shaders, foliage, materials and meshes to improve GPU and CPU performance and increase FPS.
NOTE: Please keep in mind this is a first pass. There was a large quantity of changes to all content in the maps and some known work is still on our "to do" list. Please report any bugs you might find.
Character Movement:
Removed strafe, movement, look reduction while firing weapons
Dive to Prone Animation:
Increased the speed at which the character transitions from prone. Additionally stance transition can be triggered earlier in the dive animation.
Auto-Kick System:
Kicks due to abusive behavior (excessive teamkilling) will carry a longer temp ban period for the server.
Bug Fixes:
BF(053): Factory - Bridge bomb throws the character & applies no damage
BF(670): Hang point near half wall by "Rug Room" in Sismis
BF(799): Hang point at base of SOF right stairs when rounding building corner in Factory
BF(815): Movement lockout when going from prone to crouch with equipment items (nades, mines, claymores, etc)
BF(816): Movement lockout when detonating the Factory Bridge
BF(819): No interpolation in prone movement
Workshop:
FishHook –
Numerous changes to address bugs reported on steamhub bug report
Verge –
New map by MikeC