Patch #18 is now live on the Community Test beta branch!

❓ How to join the Community Test beta branch

• Right-click GROUND BRANCH in your Steam Library and select Properties…

• Click BETAS on the left-hand list menu

• Select 'communitytest - Community testing branch' from the drop-down menu
  (no password required)

Steam will begin downloading the files for the testing branch.>

🐞 Where to report bugs

You can report bugs and issues using any of these methods:

• The in-game Bugs & Issues screen (press [Esc] once in-game and look along the top menu)

• The Steam forums: steamcommunity.com/app/16900/discussions/

• The #bug-reports channel on the official GROUND BRANCH™ Discord

Your reports help us locate and fix issues faster, so keep them coming!

Patch notes

• Changed vote kick to not include player calling the vote

• Compound: potential fix for shimmering grass, and stopped poplar trees being weird

• Tanker: initial art consistency and improvement pass

• Removed Volumetric Scattering from several interior lights in Power Station, Rig, Run Down, Small Town and The Farm for performance reasons

• Fixed overly dark truck material in Run Down

• Fixed certain wooden fences not colliding with weapons in Depot

• Removed debug AI cover points in The Farm

• Reduced tac light illumination range to minimize performance impact

• Fixed bug that caused late joiners to be assigned the least populated insertion points rather than the most populated ones

• Added Lua script call OnWeaponAddedToInventory() so that game modes or mutators can detect when a particular player has picked up a weapon (or been assigned it in a loadout)

• Added a call to assign team element numbers when player teams are changed, so that standard callsigns (based on element number) will hopefully update when players are switched teams

• Fixed bug in WeaponRestriction mutator that wouldn't update the loadout if Breaching Charges were disabled

• Updated Hostage Rescue:

  • If the hostage player picks up a weapon, they become fair game for the Defenders (to prevent exploit where hostage becomes an unkillable terminator)

  • Added post-spawn check in Hostage Rescue to teleport hostage to hostage spawn if for some reason the spawn failed

  • Removed close proximity intimidation for hostages (should stop intimidation of hostages pinned behind a defender)

• Updated scopes (magnified sights) to stop dynamically scaling the render texture size if DLSS is enabled, and disabled PIP resolution scaling based on FOV

• Added "requires restart" dialog to Bloom Quality settings

• Made advanced Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) settings accessible again in Settings › Video

• Ongoing UI style and consistency pass on several menus, buttons, prompts and dialogs (still WIP)

• Fixed up the match system and match info board a bit, and made match info visible again on listen servers (servers created via Host Game option)

• Fixed team wins being counted double in game modes with team scoring (DTAS and Hostage Rescue)

• Initialized ZooKeeper and map voting when a listen server is started (for the map voting to work properly on the match info board the first time the server is run)

• Added game mode localization/lookup to the match info board vote buttons

• Changed the localization/lookup for game mode names on the match info board to use a different system that should work better on dedicated servers