15:40 Uhr - Timegate haben ein größeres Title-Update für den Shooter Section 8 veröffentlicht. Neben ausgebesserten Achievements, optimiertem Matchmaking, verfeinerter Steuerung und,... allen möglich anderen Tweaks, soll sich das Patch auch um die Bot-K.I. sowie fehlerhafte Stats und Verbindungsprobleme gekümmert haben. Wir listen folgend das englische Changelog!

MAJOR

• Automatch: several improvements to improve responsiveness and likelihood of finding a good match
• Ranked Stats: fixed some issues with stats getting lost, new records now show at match end
• Tank: Improved controls
• Achievements: Fixed issues with not being awarded in certain situations
• Projectiles: Improved behavior in high latency situations to be more reliable
• AI: bots will now help defend human squadmates
• Multiplayer: several improvements related to high latency situations

VEHICLES

• Heavy Tank controls were adjusted to make driving more intuitive. The main turret will now turn with the vehicle.
• Modified vehicle FoV to show more of the vehicle's exterior.
• Fixed exiting vehicle sometimes placing characters inside of structures.
• Removed an exploit that allowed users to increase the movement speed of vehicles by moving side to side.
• Fixed a bug that would break the player's health display if they died while piloting a Heavy Armor.
• Tank corpses will no longer hover after they are destroyed.
• Fixed situations where the Heavy Armor would display a knife kill icon instead of the fist icon.
• Renamed Tank seat two to "Minigun."

GEAR

• Fixed bug where client and server would get out of sync about the equipped gear
• Fixed a bug where a player's weapon could disappear after interrupting the set aside animation.
• Fixed a bug where a player could lose the ability to switch weapons.
• Fixed a bug where equipment would fail to function in high latency scenarios.
• Fixed exploit which allowed using gear while sprinting.
• Adjusted Friendly Fire Penalties for Weapons.
• Shotgun in singleplayer gametypes will now have the same magazine size (7) as multiplayer gametypes
• Slightly decreased the piercing damage dealt by the Machinegun’s rounds, and, the Assault Rifle’s piercing rounds. This does not affect the Assault Rifle’s non-piercing rounds.
• Missiles will now detonate more consistently on a target in high latency situations.
• Mortars will now split and detonate more consistently on a target in high latency situations’
• Improved mortar targetting in certain situations.
• Fixed the missile launcher's animation pop when zooming out immediately after firing.
• Microsensors and Det Packs will now remain deployed if a player switches to another loadout which contains the Microsensor or Det Packs.
• Shotgun and Machine Gun descriptions now indicate which feats they contribute to.
• Fixed a problem with the knife where the equip animation would play after every attack.

BOTS

• Fixed a bug where bots would continuously join and leave a 12 player game set to the balanced 25% bot mode.
• Quick Match default bot mode now set at balanced instead of balanced 25%.
• Bots will now attempt to defend nearby human squad members, particularly in Swarm mode.
• Improved bot intelligence.
• Players may now lock bots into squads.
• Bots will no longer be added to teams during conclusion mode at the end of a match.

DCMs

• Fixed a bug which would cause the DCM HUD to show up as blank in high latency situations.
• Carried actors will now be returned to their starting location when they enter an unreachable location.
• Fixed convoy DCM HUD showing "escort playerName" when a player would join a server after the convoy DCM had started.
• Improved the logic behind awarding DCM participants score based on their participation.
• Adjusted DCM spawning behavior in regards to AA turret locations.
• Reduced the amount of damage taken by DCM actors from AA turrets.
• Convoy will now always be oriented with the dropship that is delivering it.

GAMEPLAY

• Added a jump delay of .85 seconds.
• Fixed a problem where score could still accumulate during conclusion mode at the end of a match.
• Resources will no longer be immediately replenished when a user interacts with a supply depot.

UI

• Increased Default Sensitivity from 35% to 40%.
• Fixed a bug which prevented players from being able to navigate the multiplayer settings screen on controllers 2-4.
• The loadout screen will now close if a player moves outside of the supply depot's usage range.
• Fixed a problem where players could interact with usable objects through walls in certain situations.
• Fixed a problem where a user's camera would get stuck in matinee mode at the beginning of a match.
• TacNet Spawn tab will now default to the previously selected spawn method.
• Lock-On now aborts when line of sight is lost
• Dropping: improved accuracy of the braking threshold

PURCHASING

• Fixed a bug where the purchasing menu would close if the player cycled immediately upon opening the menu.
• Fixed a problem where the purchasing menu would flash red while closing.
• Fixed weapon being re-equipped after purchasing an item under very high lag.
• Purchasing beacon will now always orient itself vertically.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing users from destroying their own deployables when attempting to purchase a new deployable if the team was at the team limit.

CAMERA

• Fixed a problem where players would get a bad third person camera if the match ended while they were dropping.
• Fixed a problem where players would get a bad third person camera if the match ended while they were at the TacNet screen.
• Added a new death camera view for when you are drop killed

MATCHMAKING

• Automatch: several improvements to reduce time to get into a game, and to fix situations where automatch would fail despite servers being available.
• Fixed bug that was capping the number of favorite servers to 9 instead of 10.
• Server search results are now prioritized by player count.
• Fixed map cycle issue that was preventing servers from proceeding to the next map correctly.
• Fixed a bug where canceling an automatch search would sometimes not work correctly.
• Fixed a problem where the loading screen would display the incorrect number of maximum players.
• Added messaging that informs a player why they were disconnected when a disconnect happens.

RANKED STATS

• Records will now be shown during conclusion mode at the end of a match.
• Fixed a stats problem where time played was being doubled.

XSERVER

• Fixed problem where map cycle would not work without modifying a config
• Added a map cycle validation check which prevents servers from being launched with an invalid map cycle.
• Corrected some problems related to adjusting the number of bots after changing the bot mode.

MISC

• Fixed a bug that was preventing certain achievements from being awarded despite satisfying the requirements.
• Fixed an exploit in spectator mode that would allow players to follow players on the other team.

LOCALIZATION

• Fixed a bug where text overlapped in Italian for "Reset Loadout."
• Moved Italian text "For Expert Users" so it is next to the "custom" install option.
• Changed French host "HOTE" to "HÉRBERGE."
• Fixed translation of French "Kicked for idling" message.
• Updated the "With all due Haste" achievement descriptions in French and Italian.