Nach dem Update Anfang Januar führen wir mit dieser Veröffentlichung das Fahrzeug Sturmgeschütz IV ein – ein Panzerfahrgestell mit Sturmgeschützaufbau der Achse, das gut für die Selbstverteidigung ausgestattet ist, mit einer oberen Schützenposition und einem ferngesteuerten MG-Turm, der sicher aus dem Inneren bedient werden kann. Du schaltest das Sturmgeschütz IV frei, indem du die wöchentliche Herausforderung des dritten Kapitel-Events von Kapitel 2: Blitzeinschlag meisterst.
Außerdem erhält unser Übungsgelände neue Funktionen, wir haben zahlreiche Verbesserungen an der Panzersturm-Karte vorgenommen und wie immer diverse Fixes und Anpassungen durchgeführt. Darüber hinaus gab es einige Änderungen auf Basis des Feedbacks und der gemeldeten Probleme durch die Battlefield™-Community.
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Complete Changelog:
New Vehicle – Sturmgeschutz IV
The StuG IV’s low silhouette makes it great for ambush tactics, and the turretless design makes it less
vulnerable to enemy tanks. Not having a turret is a bit of a drawback of course. StuG IV drivers have
to align the hull of their tank in the direction of the enemy, in order to overcome the limited
movement of their main cannon.
The StuG IV is well equipped for self-defense, having both a top gunner position and a remotely
controlled machinegun turret that can be operated by a passenger safely from within the tank.
The Specialization tree for the StuG IV provides further options for improving the survivability and
the anti-infantry capabilities of the tank, for those drivers who want to get into the thick of the
action. Or alternatively, drivers might want to go for a longer barrel and armor-piercing shells, to
achieve much improved shell velocity and long-distance anti-tank capabilities.
Practice Range Improvements and Features
- Gadget practice: Practice shooting the Panzerfaust and other gadgets against stationary and
moving targets.
- Skeet shooting: Improve your accuracy in the skeet shooting arena with various difficulty
levels.
- Grenade practice: Learn how to accurately toss grenades at randomly spawning barrels.
Again, with different levels of difficulty
- Bullet drop: Various modes will now offer you the ability to toggle bullet drop, a visualization
of where your bullets will land.
- Updated initial spawn positions to suit players wanting to go to the open range more quickly.
Various bug fixes relating to previous content.
- Open range mini modes now feature, one-star, two-star, and three-star Practice Range
ribbons that can be obtained by scoring streaks in easy, normal, and hard, respectively.
- Practice Range ribbons can be viewed, in the scoreboard for solo play or co-op play
separately.
Panzerstorm Map Updates
A while ago we released the map Panzerstorm and we've been super happy with how it's been
received by you, the players! We've played with you and listened to your feedback and comments.
We've also looked at the telemetry gathered from thousands of games played by millions. Based on
all this, we've decided to make some changes to the map, both big and small.
Probably the most obvious change is the extension of the F point. We added additional buildings to
the Swine Farm and made it basically four times bigger. These buildings should bring additional cover
to infantry and tanks alike. We also added an oak alley along the road between G and D to make it
easier for infantry to navigate in this previously open space.
A common criticism of the map from infantry players is that they feel they are too exposed. We've
worked a lot to try and help you out with this. We've added lots of ditches and mounds along edges
of fields to help you sneak up on tanks out in the open. We call it the “Arras treatment”, and if you’re
familiar with that map you will now find more height differences along ridges, stone walls, and roads,
as well as deeper ditches next to those roads. Lots of these changes are fairly minor but will add up
to a more enjoyable infantry life.
While the tank battles from A to D are really cool, we want to add some soft cover to allow tankers to
actually advance. We've added a few trees to help with this. We've also rotated the house on the D
point 180° so you can use the top floor for sniping. We've also added ladders to the barn on D if you
want to take a peek out into the fields. Some of the changes should mirror gameplay improvements
we achieved by adding the oak alley to the area between D and G.
The path between D and E offered no real lanes or good cover and when studying the data, we could
clearly see that fighting between D and E is much more erratic than we'd hope for. We've tried
improving upon what's already there by adding additional soft cover and height changes in the
terrain to help you at least get some of the way before deciding if it's worth taking the risk running
out in the open. This should hopefully lead to fewer firefights where getting shot from unexpected
angles occur. We'll keep an eye on the telemetry to see if we need to make additional changes going
forward.
The area between B and C has been integrated into the tank defense line. This will lead to more
infantry cover between these points and hopefully extend the strong infantry movement from E, D, C
to B as well.
We've also heard that the flight ceiling feels a bit low on this level. So, we raised it.
Lastly, we added additional Fortifications across the map to help infantry build up a stronger foothold
against advancing tanks.
/Matthias Wagner and Erik Rönnblom
Twitter: @Kenturrac @ErikRonnblom
Soldier Fixes and Tweaks
- The volume attenuation of third-person footsteps over distance has been increased. It is now
at a point between the original shipped value and the previous update. At 25m from the
player, the footstep volume will now drop to 28% (11dB drop) of the volume heard when
compared to someone next to the player. This compares with a previous update value of
71% (3dB drop), and an original shipped value of 10% (20dB drop).
- Footstep sounds on snow have had their perceived volume reduced slightly.
- Fixed a bug where players were unable to redeploy if they had been killed by Dynamite and
then almost got revived by a medic.
- Made multiple bipod deploy detection improvements on different surfaces that would
previously be ignored or tend to easily not connect.
- Transitioning to prone is no longer possible if there is not enough space to fit the player. This
means that players will no longer attempt to prone if there isn’t enough space to begin with.
The feature is currently missing messaging that will come into a later patch.
- Fixed an issue where it wouldn’t be possible to damage players performing a high vault.
- Increased the minimum vault height when players are moving forward with a minimum
forward velocity of 1m/s. This improvement will reduce situations where players will vault
over small height obstacles (rubble etc.) instead of simply jumping.
- General vaulting improvements.
- Players are no longer vaulting stairs when trying to jump while running.
- Added a faster ledge-grab animation that can be triggered when falling for a short duration.
- Improved the slow ledge-grab animation to make it less jarring.
- Made the detection of ledge grab continuous when pressing and holding the vault key while
falling. Mashing buttons is no longer required to grab a ledge while falling.
- Improved tracking of enemy soldiers by reducing the leaning on turns and sharp direction
changes animation. This will keep the soldier’s upper body steadier and bring more
consistency to combat (mostly with rifles and pistol poses).
- Fixed an issue where the enemy soldier’s head would be turning towards the wrong direction
when some nearby events would be playing, creating situations where players could feel like
they got killed by players not looking at them.
- Fixed an issue where the transition between killcard and bleed out would be delayed for a
minimum of three seconds.
- Fixed an issue where the revive icons seen above downed friendlies would not deplete
preventing players from understanding the time left for a revive.
Vehicles
- Blenheim passengers will no longer be able to see the pilot’s crosshairs within their view.
- Fixed the third-person bomb sight on the Stuka B-1 which was missing.
- Fixed a bug with the Spitfire MK VB where the plane could no longer fire its guns once the
ammo count was below 50 bullets.
- The Staghound will now play all of its collision sound effects.
- The Flak 38 now shows the correct ammo name.
- Improved the behavior of the flares on the Panzer 38t.
- Moved the The Last Tiger emblem on the Tiger tank, so that it’s no longer hidden behind the
camp gear attached to the tank.
- Added a horn to the Universal Carrier. Honk away!
- The Blenheim Supplies Specialization will now drop both health and ammo.
- Fixed an issue where the vehicle repair process would not reset if the repairing player would
exit the vehicle.
- Fixed an exploit where players could skip the reloading process for weapons.
- A substantial system improvement in AA behavior has been made to make the experience for
shooting at airplanes more consistent. Players should notice that shells that detonate in
proximity to an airplane do damage more consistently, and also that shots that are closer to
the target do more damage than shots that are further from the target. This is especially
obvious when planes are flying directly at or away from an AA, with higher damage for flying
at an AA and lower when trying to escape an AA. We have adjusted damage values on all AA
guns to compensate for this improvement, and the different kinds of AA guns should now be
clearer choices. Fast-firing AA is now better against highly maneuverable, small targets like
fighters. Slow-firing AA is now better against larger targets like bombers.
- Tweaked the projectile firing position on all Stationary and towable AA guns, which no longer
causes players to fire into sandbags or into the ground when aiming low.
- Fixed an issue where using a controller for movement and mouse for aiming simultaneously
could randomly cause vehicle turrets to break and not rotate anymore.
Weapons, Gadgets, and Specializations
Gameplay
- Fixed an issue where the repair tool would sometimes not work when attempting to repair
the Universal Carrier.
- Cancelling an armed grenade can now be done by either pressing reload or any of the
inventory switch buttons.
- Aiming Down Sight (ADS) animations with all weapons and all sights have been revamped to
better reflect the correct point of aim while strafing and walking. All rifles, SMGs, LMGs, and
shotguns now have improved visual stability across all scopes and firing a first shot will be
much more accurate.
- The transition animation from stand to crouch while in ADS has been improved to better
match the accuracy changes.
Visual
- Removed the floating bullets when getting shipments to the Armory for the Bren Gun.
- Fixed an issue where SMG magazine parts would sometimes disappear when swapping from
the smoke grenade launcher back to the primary weapon.
- Fixed an issue where the M1907 SF iron sight was obstructed by some muzzle
customizations.
- AT Mines should no longer appear as floating in the air for players joining after those mines
have been placed.
Maps and Modes
- Frontlines: Fixed several issues with Frontlines that were causing the game mode to be
played with the wrong number of players, the HUD to be missing, and some text strings not
showing the correct information.
- Fixed an issue where players could be notified that their “deploy point is no longer available”
when attempting to spawn.
- Removed any traces of Reinforcements from the Domination and Team Deathmatch game
mode, as Reinforcements are not intended for these modes.
- Fixed an issue on Aerodrome that would let players get into an unintended area within the
airplane hangar.
- Improved the painted floor textures on Hamada near Objective F when playing Conquest.
They were previously very blurry.
Panzerstorm-Specific Fixes and Changes
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to see below the ground in an area where gameplay
often takes place.
- Some bushes are no longer bulletproof.
- Multiple graphical fixes.
- When playing Conquest, players can now capture flags while standing on the roof of
buildings that are within the capture radius.
- The F flag (Swine Farm) got a complete rework.
- An oak alley got added between flags D and G.
- The terrain received a lot of small height adjustments to improve concealed infantry
movement.
- More bushes and trees between flags A and D were added to improve tank and infantry
movement.
- The infantry lanes between flags D and E got improved.
- The area between flags B and C has been integrated into the tank defense line to improve
infantry movement between those points.
UI/HUD/Options/Assignments
- Added support for separate aim-assist options for soldiers and vehicles. The aim-assist
strength can also be adjusted smoothly instead of the old on/off switches.
- Added a freelook decouple option for pilots so that they can rebind the freelook controls,
separate from pitch/roll and have them active without pressing a button.
- Players can now assign a button for taking screenshots.
- The heal button now gets highlighted when the player should use a health pack.
- The UI for health now turns yellow when healing, to better show the amount of health that
has been healed.
- The bleed out circle is now properly showing the state of downed soldiers, so that Medics
can once again better prioritize who to revive. Sanitäter!!!
- In Squad Conquest, players will now be able to give objective orders, even if the flags are in a
neutral state.
- Various text fixes in the Arabic localization.
- Fixed an issue that would display unsupported characters on the recommendation cards
when playing in either French or Korean.
- Updated the tool tips to be more up to date with current design.
- Various Tides of War text fixes.
- Added a “watch tutorial” button for Squad Conquest. The video that is shown is the regular
Conquest tutorial as the rules are basically identical.
- Fixed an issue where the background in the in-game weapon customize screen was missing,
making it very difficult to see the text on snow levels.
- Added a bayonet icon for the killcam and kill feed.
- The previous map loading screen will no longer show for a few seconds when loading into a
new map.
- Fixed the requirements for the “MP28 Proficiency II" Special Assignment which were
previously incorrect.
- Players should no longer get the message "The class you have selected is violating the server
rules" when selecting a new weapon that was unlocked in the previous round.
- Fixed a bug that made players unable to spawn using the random spawn after a squad wipe.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused players to not be able to spawn with a tank, even
though there are tanks available for spawning.
- Tides of War: Only nodes completed prior to the end of round should be shown, and not
nodes that have been previously completed in other past rounds.
- The Battlefield Veteran dog tag should now be selectable for those players that meet the
requirement.
- The top rank class icon should now show the correct class icon, and not always Assault.
- The Outstanding Field Gallantry ribbon is now awarded after each round if the requirements
are met.
- The Outstanding Marksmanship ribbon is now awarded after completing the requirements.
- The Outstanding Explosive Ordnance Deployment ribbon is now awarded after completing
the criteria.
- Fixed an issue which could make a player trying to join a friend on a full team end up in an
infinite joining loop.
- Fixed a bug which could result in squads getting kicked from a server by a team balancing
script that runs between matches.
Netcode-Related UI Improvements
- HUD aim lead indicator has been implemented. This will help players understand when and
how much they need to lead their shots, should they have a bad ping. It currently appears
once players have a higher ping than 162.
- Improved the damage rounding on the HUD health counter to avoid misleading situations
where health could be shown as “0” or the rounding could lead the players to believe that
they could get hit by more damage than they realistically could take.
- Added an option that lets players select the network performance graph to show if there are
problems.
- Added the ability to resize and reposition the network graph.
Stability
- Multiple crash fixes and stability improvements.
Single Player
- The single player menu now tracks the progression after the user completes the
requirements for the challenge named Stay Undetected in the Storm.
- The single player menu now reflects the progression after the user completes the
requirements for the challenge named Play Onslaught.
PC-Specific Improvements
- Players joining on friends that are on a full server will now be placed in the queue instead of
being prompted by the “squad is full” error message.
- Improved how the single player loads on certain AMD GPUs. Players should no longer have
20 seconds of black screen and should see a loading cinematic much faster.