War of Rights - Patch Notes

[A. P. Hill]

SWEET!

Congrats!

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[Saris]

September 20th - Update 73 (released)

- Added first version of a directional based melee system. When attacking you will always hit the center of where ever your view is pointed at, making it possible to aim your hits.
- Changed bayonet & sword stabs required to kill someone from 1 to 2 in order to bring the non vital areas being hit into the damage equation. It is the plan to replace this with a hitbox damage system that will determine whether the player requires 1 or 2 hits to take down (for instance torso, head = 1 hit to kill, legs, arms = 2 hits to kill) and thus bring in a higher amount of player skill to melee as well as a higher degree of uncertainty as to the outcome of the fight.
- Added screen effects when the player gets hit by the bayonet or hit by a rifle swing. Additional sounds for the effects will be added in a future update.
- When the player gets hit by a rifle swing, the amount of available stamina gets somewhat capped. When stabbed by the bayonet, the amount of available stamina gets severely limited.
- While in melee mode with a bayonet attached, if the player starts aiming and left clicks just before being fully aimed, the player will no longer unintentionally thrust with the bayonet.
- The player can now only move at the quicktime speed while thrusting the bayonet or swinging the rifle.
- When reload or fix/unfix bayonet is cancelled, the player can immediately start moving, without having to wait for the soldier to shoulder arms.
- The soldier no longer pulls the rifle up to the chest when double quicking in melee mode. While in melee mode with a bayonet attached, the bayonet is always pointing forwards.
- Added a new sprint animation for the officer when wielding the sword, when not in melee mode.
- Fixed an animation glitch when reloading a long arm rifle while kneeled, the rifle would spin 360 degrees. The fix will soon be applied to short arms as well.
- Added footstep sounds when double quicking with a sword.
- Possible fix for a potential crash when joining a server.

Known issues

- It is still not possible to melee attack through the gaps in a fence.

Thank you! Some much needed fixes!

[Lyman Trumbull]

Fantastic news devs! Hope to see this put into great effect on Sunday's event.

[Charles Caldwell]

I had a small update just a minute ago, what was the hotfix?

[TrustyJam]

I had a small update just a minute ago, what was the hotfix?

No update has been applied in the last 12 hours.

- Trusty

[Charles Caldwell]

How strange, it was 27mb and then gone!!!!

[michaelsmithern]

How strange, it was 27mb and then gone!!!!

I think this was brought up a while back, it's just a random update that occurs after some updates where either you didn't download everything correctly or it has something to do with drivers. there are also some other reasons but i believe if you search in this thread near the beginning you might find the post about it.

[Bivoj]

I have downloaded the same patch (27mb) in the same day as Charles Caldwell ...

[Fancy Sweetroll]

It was a small hotfix we released 30 minutes after the most recent update. It fixed a crash that had slipped from our internal testing.

[jwhal]

In my opinion the lose of stamina from melee is way over done and not needed. The two stabs to kill should have been sufficient. Again just my opinion.