Squad 44 — HOTFIX - Changelog v1.5.2

Hey folks, here's a quick hotfix for you! This fix addresses the short ADS time, colour grading and other fixes; please read the full changelog for complete information!

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Changelog

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Level Design

• Fixed Best seeding has way too dark light layer

• Fixed Carentan seeding loads frontline

• Fixed Foy offensive forward supplies are empty

• Fixed subway range RP says it can be time extended

• Optimised Arnhem/Subway range targets

• Fixed Subway Range targets not respawning after being destroyed.

Weapons

• Increased damage effectiveness of the Lunge Mine, it should do more catastrophic damage to the vehicle and it's components.

• Fixed Lunge Mine not killing the user when hitting a target from certain angles.

• Fixed crashing local play bug with Lunge mine

• Fixed texture error on the M1912 Shotgun, Type 1 TB Smoke Grenade and Type 100 Late war variant.

• Updated textures on the Type 4 Ceramic Grenade and Kaenbin Petrol Bomb.

• Fixed Type 97 Fragmentation round on the Knee Mortar not dealing damage

• Added a hissing sound to the Type 97 frag grenade when thrown.

• Updated animations on the Shin Gunto sword.

• Fixed Greek Knife growing huge on equip and unequip

• Added sparks and blood impacts for the bayonet and knife thrusting.

• Fixed Sten Mk V bayonet dealing no damage

• Fixed FG42 Bayonet dealing no damage.

• Added Pattern 1907 bayonet as a melee weapon for the ANZACs

• Attached a bayonet to the Type 100 Grenade Launchers.

• Added more unique foley for the bayonet and knives.

• Lowered volume of the Bayonet charge screaming voices.

• Fixed sight alignment on higher zero settings on the Arisaka Type 44 Carbine.

• Set K98k to use the animations from the K98AZ

• Added +1 in the Chamber for the G41, K98 and K98 Scoped

• Added Berthier M1907/15 as a rifleman option for the French 1940

• Replaced Lebel with the older Berthier M1907/15 rifle on the French 1940 recruit kit

• Toned down ping noise from the Knee Mortar firing sound

• Added shovels to German Machine Gunners

• Added knives to German, US and UK Machine Gunners, removed 1911 sidearms from BAR Gunners

• Set type 11, Type 96, Type 99 LMGs, MP40 and STG44 to not have overlapping burst fire audio on single shots while on Auto fire mode

Vehicles

• Reduced cost of M3 AT Gun and Type 1 AT guns to 500 from 800

• Reduced cost of MG42 Bunker to 250 to keep it in line with the other MG bunkers.

• Fixed Type 92 HMG Heavy Bunker variant not being enterable

• Cleaned up damage settings on the Type 10, Type 88 and Type 96 world emplacements so that they can be destroyed in the same way standard deployables can be destroyed

• Added unique cannon firing audio for 37mm, 40mm, 90mm and 128mm cannon ammunition.

• Fixed British Sherman V tank playing American voice overs.

• Added more unique engine sounds for Tractor, Sturer Emil, Panzer 38t (and derived vehicles), B1 Bis, Jagdtiger, King - Tiger, Nashorn, Matilda, Vickers MkVI, Valentine, Type 94 Truck, Tetrarch, Pershing, M10 Tank Destroyer, LVTs, Ha - Go, Chiha, Challenger, Jagdpanzer IV, Comet, Sdkfz 222 and AEC Armoured Car.

• Added new mechanical foley for reloading and switching ammo on tank guns.

• Fixed wreck meshes on the LVTs.

• Fixed Puma driver not being able to be killed when the driver hatch is open.

• Attempted fix for weak tank coaxial MGs

• Fixed Chi Ha Kai Late War variant crashing on commander seat

• Fixed French Infantry Logi passenger seat clipping through the back of the vehicle

Game Mechanics

• Fixed melee hitting targets behind the first victim.

• Updated focus time when ADSing + added focus bar

• Fixed players screaming multiple times at the same time, forcing the audio to overlap.

• Fixed teleportation bug when using the bipod on the small pontoon assets in Operation Market Garden maps.

• Fixed Admin Cam stuck in Manage menu

• Fixed spelling mistake on kit change crate from "Armys" to "Armies"

• Disabled dead soldier outline visible after leaving admin cam

• Tweaked naming of some roles to be more historically accurate

• Potential fix for colour grading slider resetting to 0.5 at times

• Tessellation distance slider set to (15-50), default set to 15

• Lowered camera shake on turret/emplaced MGs

• Enabled new player tooltip system

Known Bugs:

• Some tooltips are too high, like on the movable AT-Guns

• Some tooltips show "Press F to enter" on deployables not yet fully built

• Tooltip missing on Regroup Call

• MP40 sound cue plays a little bit too fast

• 1940 Wehrmacht mg08 kit missing a pistol

• 1944 FJ Grenadier missing grenade rifle

• K98k firing pin is not animated

• STG44 sometimes has double shell cases ejecting