We are back with another bigger patch for Isonzo, addressing several achievement and progression issues; better handling of grenade crates; memory and connection stability improvements; and better handling of LMG deploys, which no longer interrupt your firing!

This update is a 780 MB download.

Balancing

We have been monitoring the outcome of matches and will be making serverside changes to improve balancing across the board.

Patch notes

Improvements:

• Players can now melee with the shovel by using the Primary Fire keybinding instead of a dedicated melee key
  
• Customization screen now defaults to your currently equipped uniform when not hovering over any selection
  
• Improvements to LMG handling and animation - firing and aiming down sights with LMGs is no longer interrupted by the bipod auto deploying or folding
  
• Grenade crate cooldown is now triggered immediately on spawn
  
• Decreased TAA ghosting and improved the overall look
  
• Significant improvement for "Connection lost" kicks (efforts to further reduce this are ongoing)

Fixes:

Audio and graphics:

• Fixed characters screaming after spawn
  
• Fixed being able to see through smoke through buildable highlights
  
• Prone Stance change sound should no longer play if the player hasn't actually gone prone
  
• Fixed straight ammo belt in the Schwarzlose building highlight
  
• Remove building highlight from already built grenade crates
  
• Fixed showing the first person weapon too late after quickly equipping rifle grenades when spawning
  
• Ardito 1917 uniform now uses the correct gas mask
  
• M13 and captured M95 now have correct attachments

Progression, achievements and DLC:

• Fixed "Thus with a Kiss", "Luigi Cadorna", "Farewell to Arms" and "Shaken, not stirred" achievements
  
• Various other achievement tracking fixes
  
• Various challenge tracking improvements and fixes
  
• Challenge HUD no longer shows challenges that can not yet be progressed
  
• Challenge HUD no longer shows duplicate entries when spawning
  
• Fixed Mountaineer Spotting I challenge not being translated
  
• Fixed the no progression text showing in valid matches
  
• Fixed DLC sometimes not registering on game start

Gameplay:

• Fixed Film Memoir mode not being available despite owning Digital goods
  
• Fixed ghost squadmates and not being able to join squads in squad menu
  
• Players can no longer place engineer buildables around objectives in their spawn sector
  
• Fixed scoreboard score visual desync
  
• Friendly dynamite explosions no longer kill teammates
  
• Fixed overly long sector cooldown timers
  
• Fixed Offline mode matches becoming unplayable after some time playing
  
• Officer aura is now properly applied to the whole team instead of only squad
  
• Improved first person sight alignment for some weapons
  
• Improved first person sight alignment when changing stances
  
• Improved hit reg for point blank shots
  
• Fixed Sniper Stalker perk functionality
  
• Fixed being able to equip wire cutters as a melee weapon
  
• Fixes for periscopes not being usable
  
• Fixed shots at extreme distances sometimes not registering
  
• Fixed missing sway when moving while prone and aiming down sights
  
• Fixed not swapping to correct weapon in third person if looking through binoculars on swap
  
• Various naming and localization fixes
  
• Various map fixes and balance improvements

Various UI:

• Removed spammy spotting text in chat
  
• Fixed Offensive progression showing the progress for maps as 0/3 on the loading screen
  
• Fixed mortar map not returning if HUD was toggled/held off
  
• Fixed officer call-in menu use being inverted if Invert Look was on
  
• Fixed players not being able to open the Context menu of a player they reported
  
• After Action Menu scoreboard now lists up to 24 players per side without need to scroll

Performance:

• Significantly improved memory use

Bots:

• Fixed some bots standing still and being invincible
  
• Fixed some bots being able to run through barbed wire in no man's land sectors
  
• Bots should no longer use Static weapons if there are no enemies nearby

Known issues:

• Voice chat doesn't work while on the spawn map
  
• Headgear customization visible through gasmasks
  
• Tutorial pop-ups not automatically cycling
  
• Switching to previous stance option doesn't work
  
• Explosions sometimes hitting players through walls
  
• Mountaineer Spotter perk text description shows x4 increase in spotting when it should show x2