Today starts the Range is Haunted Halloween Tournament!
Dates: Oct. 18th through Nov. 5th
Patch Notes v0.62, July 18, 2023
* Changed platform backend to OpenXR * Fixed missing decals when SSAO is disabled
Patch Notes v0.61, July 6, 2023
* Updated engine version * Improved lighting on gun flashlights * Improved decals * New courses for Welcome To Freedom! 2023 tournament
Remove Prematurely Released Course Editor
We had missed it was available for use during our QAing (we are a small team with no dedicated QA) and didn't intend for it to be available to the public yet. The course editor is still a WIP with a lot of stubbed in features that aren't implemented yet and it is, from feedback we received, very buggy at the moment. It's not ready for public yet.
We hope to get it to a good enough state for public testing and feedback soon and apologize to anyone who was excited at seeing it being available.
Patch Notes v0.60, December 22, 2022
* Added 3 New Year 2023 courses * New penalty for shooting drop turners/snappers before triggered * Reduced loading times between courses * Draw call reductions/optimizations * Increased visibility on some courses via wood pallets, in particular Desert Fox courses
Out With A Bag New Year tournament starts Dec. 23rd!
Reverting grip/pose changes
Hey Shooters,
Our changes to grip and hand poses when grabbing firearms weren't good enough and many Shooters were having issues with them. We have reverted them back to what they were previously.
Thank you for the honest feedback and sorry if this caused any issues playing.
Patch Notes v0.59, October 14th, 2022
- Added 3 Halloween 2022 courses, targets, and FX - Color option per optical, per weapon - Collapsible course groups - Fixed snapper target scoring - Fixed grass texture bleed - Fixed hand orientations on all firearms. - Fixed light intensity of Desert Fox environment to match other environments - Fixed walking areas in Long Alley 02 and 06
Patch Notes v0.58, June 22, 2022
* Massive asset overhaul for improved performance * Option for toggling end of course FX present on Course Brief. Jets and fireworks no longer restricted to Tournaments! * New environment (the Warehouse) for the Freedom Town 2022 Tournament including 3 new courses * Bullet holes will appear on the backside of paper targets * Added configuration options for a desktop monitor / spectator camera
Second Annual Welcome to Freedom Town 3-Gun Tournament
It's that time of year again, Shooters! Get ready for the Second Annual Range is HOT!™️ Welcome to Freedom Town 3-Gun Tournament. This year, we have 3 new courses for the tournament.
You will have 2 chances to compete on each course. We are not locking away new courses before participating in the tournament this time 'round, so make sure to run through the new courses beforehand to give yourself the best chance of topping the leaderboard.
The tournament will run June 23rd through July 25th.
In addition to new courses, the entire game has undergone some major optimization. This several month effort should have courses loading faster and give higher framerates across the board. Also, you may notice, two of the new courses are in a new indoor environment.
For all of you content creators out there, a new option has been added for configuring the output on your monitor!
You can select which eye is displayed so spectators can properly see down your sights.
The field of view can be adjusted to show more or less of the environment around you.
There are position and rotation smoothing options to reduce the jittery look of head movement.
Finally, the roll of the camera can be disabled.
All of these features can be tweaked to make for a much more pleasant viewing experience!
Be warned - this level of customization is only possible by using an additional camera, which means everything gets rendered twice. It looks great, but comes with a big performance cost.
We're not exactly pros at the whole streaming thing, but if you want help getting yourself set up to stream your Range is HOT!™️ gameplay, hop on over to our Discord and we'll help you the best we can.
Thanks and good luck in Freedom Town! -The Range is HOT!™️ team
Patch Notes v0.57 April 9, 2022
- Targets that are failed to be engaged or were not neutralized will now have an arrow pointing them out upon course completion for ease of finding missed targets. No shoots will also have an arrow. - Texture improvements to firearms for more realistic look