Hey Everyone,
As you may have guessed from the title, tonight's patch introduces a new creature into the game - snakes! As well as this new environmental danger, we've got some other pretty cool changes and improvements on the way for the update - read on for the full patchnotes!
Improvements & Additions
- Added snakes. Snakes will generally spawn in the rocky areas which are usually camped by players toward the end of the game.
- Snakes can be killed with any standard weapon in one hit, or with your fists in 3 hits.
- Snakes will attack the closest player to them, with their venom also affecting the players thirst level
- Environment - added some explosion burn-marks & ditches in the valley before the airfield
- Increased spawn rate of M4 mags
- Removed knives from spawn area
- Added another house in the area to the left of the Northern Outlook
- Reduced maximum time for chopper to drop, so it will drop earlier in the round
Bug fixes
- Stamina no longer depletes when climbing ladders
- Rebaked occlusion culling
- Fixed server sometimes thinking there were more players in the round than there actually were
- Fixed playable area UI sometimes not showing the correct information
- The heading UI in spectator mode should now work based on the player you are spectating
- The area UI in spectator mode should now work based on the player you are spectating
- Player name changes will now save correctly (and shouldn't revert back to your Steam name)
- Chat is now encoded in UTF-8
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