Today we are glad to bring you a new patch for Tactical Operations with quite a few fixes, new maps and some iteration on existing content.
The team wishes you happy holidays and a smooth start into 2022.

New Maps

• MAP-Arena-Pool

• MAP-BattleRoyale

• MAP-Bunker

• MAP-Deflect

• MAP-Faiyum

• MAP-TrainstationII

Player movement

• Higher speed threshold for falling damage: 1725 -> 1677

• Lower falling damage multiplier: 0,109 -> 0,102

• Sneak Speed: 260 -> 250

• Max. speed crouched: 242 -> 220

• Weapon drop toss speed: 350 -> 400

• Tweaked direction change feeling

• Reduce the average movement speed gap between knife and weapons from 7% to 6%

• Fix crouch speed overridden when sneaking while crouching

Weapons

• General weapon balancing (we kinda lost track of the changelog, no major changes tho, mostly minor tweaking)

• Fixed auto recoil recovery odd behavior in semi auto mode

• Changed parameter set of the physics settings of nades to get a more reliable bounce

• HE-Nade: Full damage radius 220 -> 210, Radius 920 -> 870

Animations

• Reworked animation blueprints (third person & first person) for better performance (multithreaded animations & fast path optimisations)

• Fixed wrong animation played for only a few frames on weapon draw

• Added a blend time/transition for the weapon switch from one handed/two handed to two handed/one handed to third person animations

Programming

• Core game code refactoring

• Blueprint nativization for a few blueprints with hot blueprint code and porting some bp code to C++ (most of TO4's code is already C++)

• Fixed blood not attached to moving actors

• Improved balancing workflow of development build (dynamically loading datatables from filesystem without rebuilding the game)

UI

• Exchange main font

• New weapon images in HUD and buy menu

• Serverlist: Fixed sort by players function

• Serverlist: Fixed password handling (fixed game freeze after wrong password, added apply with enter key)

• Added ingame menu clan tag switch

• Rework key mapping, new functions: overwrite, clear, swap

Sounds

Deagle

• New shoot sound

• New draw sound

• Reworked reload sound

M9

• New draw sound

Glock

• New draw sound

Hostage

• New AI-Controller for better movement

• Adjust swimming parameters

Gameservers

• TO4ST-core officially supports assigning configurations to gameservers (game settings like map duration, round length, password, reserved slots etc)

• Auto login to TO4ST-core via steam browser by clicking a button in the admintab

• Masterserver with global player stats list (for now very simple).
  The website uses the player statistics of the TacByte servers.
  However, we can add more TO4ST-core instances.
  If you run servers and want your statistics to be included in our official player statistics list write a message in our #gameserver_hosting discord channel and you’ll receive a key you have to add to your TO4ST-core settings in order to be included.

Map Changes

MAP-RapidWaters

• Reconstruction of the T-Start base-layout; lower water, water-hole, basement, upper and lower bridge

• Changed sunlight angle

• More lights on terror side

• Wider entry into basement

• Increased the force of the water-fall

• Give hostage more teleport possibilities for better following

• Fixed blocking collision on waterfall wall and truck

• Added some dust decals to basement ground

• Increased the fog panorama

• Added sounds to movable doors

• Higher basement floor on stair entry

• Slight decrease of leaf movement

• Better light at the spot near the truck on sf side

• Some new/more design elements

MAP-Blister

• Reconstruction A-Spot and A-Long

• New sniper bunkers (also on lower and market)

• Added rune on terror sniper spot

MAP-Escape

• Increased the lighting on lower mid house and underground

• Reduced the width of mid-way slightly

• Removed blue container from landscape

• Changed lower mid construction

• Changed lighting and some materials

• General visual polishing

MAP-Trainyard

• Reworked bomb spots design

• Wall painting polish

• Access to roof in front of b-gate

MAP-2on2-Lock

• Fixed nade collision on the big tree

• Foliage polish for better view

• Some performance improvements

MAP-FollowTheMoney

• Collision polishing

• Removed some overloaded objects for better movement and enemy spotting

• Removed a useless little room on upper stairs area

MAP-RGB

• Removed OP shadow

• Nerfed skynades by adding higher buildings

• Blocked one middle gap for terror snipers, so SF are in less disadvantage

MAP-Thunderball

• General bug fixes & polishing