We are now pushing a version Alpha 8.2 hotfix release, here are the changes:
- Added a HUD indicator which shows the names of the players currently in your vehicle.
- Added color coded indicators showing the status of your squad members. The statuses are: not spawned in / dead (white), spawned in and not bleeding (green), bleeding (yellow), incapacited / revivable (red).
- Added new player first time help messages for fundamental events, including the first time: using the map, becoming a squad leader, becoming a medic, bleeding, using a vehicle, and using a supply truck.
- Added the yellow spawning dot to all spawnable points to make the spawning interface more intuitive and consistent.
- Made toggled crouch enabled by default for newly installed copies of Squad.
- Made the jump key untoggle crouch when crouch toggling is enabled.
- Increased round duration timer on 2k Insurgency maps from one hour to 90 minutes and 4k Insurgency maps from 90 minutes to two hours.
- Changed squad leader marker distance indicator so it is less precise at longer distances.
- Attempted fix for a server crash relating to vehicle claiming.
- Attempted fix for a server crash relating to players being ejected from a vehicle.
- Fixes to code for preventing players from clipping through walls.
- Fix for the draw distance on several deployables so they don't disappear after 80-100 meters.
- Fix for backblast rotation on RPGs and LAWs being in the incorrect direction.
- Fix for NSV not having sounds on low quality in the third person.
- Fix for giant player models appearing for a split second in certain cases where soldiers are entering or exiting vehicles.
- Fix for soldier's 3p mesh being shown when driving vehicles on listen servers, EG starting up Jensen's range in local training mode.
- Extended the logical scanning range of shoveling to improve it's reliability.
- Fix for certain server functions not being called properly and causing log spam.
- Fixes for the spawning mechanics of weapons caches.
- Fix for incendiary grenades to allow for better interaction with weapons caches.
- Disabled texture streaming on grass textures.
- Replaced missing and broken statics on Yehorivka.