Wargame Update Notes

NEW: Wargame Mode, night missions with Flares, and Sandstorms.

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NEW FEATURES

• Night missions with Flares

  • Flares flicker and move across the sky

  • Reduced visibility in the darkness

  • Improved concealment from enemy AI

  • Flashlights and muzzle flashes reveal position to enemy AI

• Sandstorm

  • Sandstorms sweep violently through the battlefield

  • Reduced visibility and hearing

  • Reduced radio effectiveness

  • Introduced player “cough” mechanic, interrupting comms and alerting enemies

• Wargame Mode

  • Customize the simulation in Six Days

  • Time-of-day selection, including Flares

  • Weather selection, including Sandstorm

  • Mission selection

  • Role selection

    • “Ranked Selection”—choose preferred fireteam role

    • “Unrestricted”—any player can play in any role

      • NOTE: Team Lead can still assign roles on the UI but player choice takes priority (we’re improving this for the future)

  • Hard variant “FUBAR” for Fireteam missions

  • “Hard” difficulty option for enemy AI

  • “Survival Rules”

    • No reinforcements—AAV respawns disabled

    • No KIA Allowed—mission failure upon player KIA

  • Mission timers can be extended, reduced, or disabled

  • Mission intro cinematics can be disabled

  • Procedural Architecture sliders

    • Exteriors — Fewer/More Structures and More Accessible/Constrained

    • Interiors — Sparse/Crowded Interiors and More Open/Fortified

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

• Enemy AI can lure players into traps

• Enemy AI now throw grenades

• Improved enemy AI suppressive fire

• Improved enemy AI ability to create fatal funnels with PKM

• Improved tracers to pass through windows

• Reduced audible “hammer click” to one when weapon is empty

• Added automatic adaptive noise gates on player VOIP

• Added visible F16 and AC-130 models to jet flybys

• Tuned fireteam missions with new features in mind

KNOWN ISSUES

• Upscaler sometimes gets disabled, causing degraded performance. To fix this, go to your graphics settings and turn the Upscaler back on.

LOCALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS

• Added support for Portuguese language

• Improved support for Korean language

BUG FIXES

• Fixed the known cause for players being unable to ADS after swapping weapons

• Fixed the known cause for blurry scopes when ADS’ing

• Fixed an issue causing “Windy” weather to roll too often

• Fixed an issue causing mission objectives to be unsynced for host and clients

• Fixed an issue causing multiple explosives planted on armory in Ruins

• Fixed an issue causing players to fall through the map on Water Tower and Compound

• Fixed an issue causing “Reinforcements available from AAV” to display under false conditions

• Fixed an issue causing grenades to display incorrectly on vest UI

• Fixed an issue causing overlapping invites in lobby

• Fixed an issue causing “robotic” player VOIP

• Fixed an issue in which IEDS on Apartments were silent

• Fixed an issue in which player radio remained open upon death

• Fixed an issue in which “Ghost” radio persisted for clients after respawning

• Fixed an issue in which auto-detect didn’t first reset to default settings

• Fixed an issue in which gamepad functionality was lost after using auto-detect

• Fixed an issue in which framerate uncaps after changing graphics settings

• Fixed an issue in which hanging rugs were clipping through geometry

• Fixed an issue in which players were killed through geometry by VBIEDs

• Fixed an issue in which staircases were obstructed by geometry

• Fixed an issue in which enemy AI couldn’t pass through holes in walls

• Fixed an issue in which VBIEDS were stopped by M203 “duds”

• Fixed an issue in which M203 grenade “duds” still detonated

• Various AI behavior fixes

• Various performance optimizations

• Various fixes for common crashes For bugs we're currently tracking, please see our Known Issues list.

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