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