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Resource Mines
Mines are a new world structure that provide a brand new way to gather resources. For a nominal amount of Fuel, Mines will gather raw resources automatically over time. Players can kick off an order of raw resources from Mines along a supply route on the way out and then pick them up on their way back. This won't replace Hammer gathering, but will allow logi players to increase their overall efficiency when multitasking.
Since this is a brand new mechanic, we hope to hear your feedback on how it works in the live environment and are open to making improvements to it in the future.
Operations Voice Chat
Player Operations is a brand new tool to help players organize and communicate. Operations are essentially a group of players that work towards an objective. Players in an Operation can also see each other in a persistent player list on the HUD and also share dedicated communication channels.
Speaking of communication, we've completely revamped in-game voice chat. Operations enable players to form a group voice chat in-game. In conjunction with this, we've also ripped out our old voice engine and have replaced it with Vivox, the industry standard technology for voice chat.
In the future, we hope to add even more features to Operations, such as dedicated roles. Give us your feedback on what you want to see added in future updates!
New Combat Mechanics
We've completely overhauled the combat mechanics in Foxhole. There's several key areas of improvements:
- Stability System - Player movement and shot recoil both significantly reduce the aim of a player, makes running and gunning tactics much less viable
- Damage Falloff Indicator - Aim line now fades out at the location where your weapon damage falls off, clarifying how far you can effectively shoot
- Aim Height Indicator - An additional orange line is now drawn to show exactly how far away from the ground the aim is, clarifying the target location
- Firing Range - The firing range (target dummies) on the Home Islands now provide additional stability and range statistics
In addition, we've reworked the stats every single small arms weapon to take the new Stability system in to account. We will be continuing to tune these weapons in future updates.
For a full breakdown on the new combat mechanics, read our latest Devblog.
World Updates
There's been several big updates to the World in this update. First, the entire east coast of the Conquest mainline has been updated to support amphibious landings. Deadlands has been opened up to water travel as well which means you can now travel all the way from Farranac Coast to Endless Shore (through Deadlands) on a Barge for example.
Two regions in the world have been completely overhauled. Umbral Wildwood has been redesigned to include a shore so that amphibious landings can be made. Reaching Trail has also been completely revamped from the ground up and now offers a more balanced experience.
Every Conquest region has also been refreshed in some way, providing additional improvements. More natural barriers have been added to region borders to prevent free access to partisans. Certain towns have been pushed further from the region border.
Other Key Changes
- Bug that causes ammo to not refill after a reload animation has been fixed
- Tunnel Networks no longer decay
- Camera now dynamically moves ahead for the driver of a vehicle, making it easier to avoid obstacles in front
Release Notes
There's a lot of other changes, features, and bug fixes packed into this update! Refer to the release notes for all the details: http://www.foxholegame.com/single-post/2018/08/16/016-Release-Notes
The next World Conquest starts at 2PM EDT on Tuesday, Aug 28th at 11AM EDT.
Update: After rolling out the 0.16 update to the live environment, we found a server bug that will affect the operation of World Conquest. As a result, there is a high chance that the start time for Conquest will be delayed to later tomorrow. We will keep everyone updated on Discord. Skirmish mode will continue to operate without issues. Thanks for the patience.
Update 2: World Conquest start time has been delayed to Wed at 11AM EDT.