Greetings good fellows of the Holdfast community! After the most exciting release of Frontlines, we’ll be pushing forward the first patch featuring bug fixes, optimisations amongst other additions. Come have a read of our latest blog post for all that needs knowing.

Expect more gameplay focused content to hit the game in April.

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Changelog 75 - Game Version v2.1.8096.40598


Bug Fixes

● Solved an issue where sometimes players turned invisible.

● Solved an issue with incorrect decimal numbers being read on server and client files when a language other than English is involved.

● Solved an issue where certain actions of the game chat could crash the game during the round’s end.

● Solved an issue where cavalry against cavalry collision wasn’t working as intended.

● Experimental fix towards an issue which caused squad camps to not show correctly in the spawn menu.

● Solved an issue which was causing naval servers to crash when a ship or a boat despawns.

● Solved an issue with incorrect clean-up occurring on interactable objects when it gets destroyed.

● Experimental fix towards an issue causing players to get stuck after they spawn.

● Solved an issue with the Mauser’s bayonet being incorrectly positioned.

● Solved an issue with the Fieldguns in Nations At War being difficult to interact with.

● Solved an issue with certain modded uniforms appearing in white when using the UBER shader.

● Solved an issue with certain modded uniforms appearing in pink when a mobile shader was involved.

● Solved an issue where players would be presented with a config error when launching the game.

● Experimental fix towards and issue which caused settings to reset on launch.

● Solved an issue where cannonballs where not penetrating through objects.

● Solved an issue where the damage radius of mortars and rockets was smaller than initially intended.

● Solved a memory leak with explosions on the server.

● Solved an issue where cannons where not recoiling correctly.

● Solved an issue where players didn’t play the crouching animation when aiming a cannon.

● Solved an error which occurred when players respawned.

● Solved an error which occurred when a player fired his firearm.

● Solved an issue when explosions erroring out if the player disconnects from the server.

● Solved an issue where grenades damaged individuals standing behind the protection of artillery shields still received damage.

● Solved an issue where players got stuck in position after spawning.

● Solved multiple issues revolving around the opening and closing of squads.

● Solved issues with line shader placement on the terrain.

● Changed the way the settings file is saved to try to avoid corruption.

● Solved an issue with one of the officers missing a head.

● Solved an issue where the ‘Fire’ command was not being correctly synched.

● Solved a bug with the locked server’s filter.

● Officer flags now use the correct material.

● Solved an issue with the artillery related UI not showing when an artilleryman takes over a piece from another player.

● Changed the rocket launcher to once again allow for freer downhill and uphill aiming.

● Solved an issue with horse saddles not looking as intended due to low mipmap priority.

● Solved an issue with lights from lanterns and other objects not rendering correctly when look from certain angles.

● Solved an issue with missing textures appearing in purple on Blackforest.

● Solved an issue with weather particles leaking inside the tunnel on St Peters.

● Fixed an issue with the river on Mansion not producing particles when shot at with a firearm.

● Solved an issue with one of the buildings not producing dust particles when destroyed.

● Solved multiple issues with incorrect particles and sounds playing when shooting at specific objects with a firearm.

● Solved an issue with the biplane on animating. You can now see it flying around as the battle rages on.

● Solved an issue with warnings appearing due to missing sounds on terrain.

● Solved an issue with the rainbow being too close to the playable terrain on Blackforest.

● Solved an issue with some of the barbed wire props not dealing damage.

● Solved an issue where players had to deconstruct barrels after exploding in other to build them again.

● Solved an issue with cannonball trails erroring out on low graphic preset options.

● Solved an issue with musket particles not appearing as intended when the particle is out of view.


Optimisation

● Optimisation passes on touch bending for grass interaction.

● Optimisation passes on the snow weather effects.

● Optimisation passes on the animator.

● Optimised and adjusted the explosion and smoke effects.

● Optimisation on data packets being sent to early prior to joining the server.

● Introduced an additional function to aid players with below the recommended RAM requirements to launch the game.

● Players now default to full screen borderless rather than full screen exclusive.

● Optimised the ocean to gain a significant FPS boost.

● Optimised the game’s user interface.

● Optimised cannon, grenades, mortar, shell and other physical projectile objects.

● Optimised the main menu scenes to reduce RAM usage.


Gameplay

● It should now be much easier to place a line whilst playing as the Infantry Officer class.

● Adjusted the detection of the line marker placed by the Infantry Officer class so players can more easily get the buff while standing behind it.

● Reintroduced all missing spawnable objects.

● Squads no longer output player join and leave messages in chat.

● Introduced new direction indicators for when an officer spawns a table.

● Officer respawn points are now hidden when aiming a firearm or using an artillery piece.

● Engineer and Sapper pre-placement buildable object identifiers now retain the rotation of the previously placed object.

● Grassy maps on both Nations At War and Frontlines now have less of a chance to randomise weather.

● Grassy maps will no longer feature snowy weather pre-sets when randomising weather.

● Adjusted the frequency of certain snowy weather types on snow maps.

● Adjusted the ocean and the terrain surrounding the river on Island Plains.

● A different big tree on Island Plains has magically reappeared.

● Blocked off swimable areas on the Mansion map.

● Introduced some more boxes to make windows passable on Foxhole.

● You can now shoot through the window barricades on Foxhole.

● Changed how the Sapper menu works to be more responsive when swapping weapons.


Quality of Life

● You can now launch the Round Player ‘P’ panel when the match is at an end or voting initiates.


Misc

● Introduced a new loading screen on Foxhole.

● Introduced a sample ‘serverconfig_frontlines_default.txt’ to dedicated servers.

● The DLC text label now supports localised languages.

● Removed multiple unnecessary log messages.


Localisation

● Updated the Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional languages (Lengeka).


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