SPECTRE news & patch notes

Weapon Mod Update Muzzlebreak - Muzzlebreak Recoil Reduction: 0.5 -> 0.65 - Updated Muzzlebreak UI info from "will reduce recoil massively" to "will reduce recoil considerably" Developer Thoughts: Currently there's no reason not to take Muzzlebreak, it's good in every situation, and has nonexistent tradeoffs. It's still very good, just slightly less good. Laser Dot - New: Lazer Dot Weapon Mod - Laser Dot Recoil reduction when hipfiring: 0.3 (It grants no benefits for ADS) - Laser Dot color matches reticle color - Laser can be toggled on and off with C key (Rebindable) (Turning Off the laser will also disable the recoil effects) - Laser Dot reduces gun bounce when shooting (this may potentially be turned into an overall effect scaled by total recoil instead of just a laser dot benefit) - Laser can be seen by other players - Laser does not turn off upon switching weapons (may be removed in future patch) Developer Thoughts: In our continuous efforts to promote different playstyles and diversity, we felt like laser dots would be a great implementation. This is a great choice for hip firing, and further increases lethality at up close and medium range. Try picking the Laser Dot if you're looking to do some serious damage by beaming your opponents, no pun intended. Tracer Rounds - New: Tracer Rounds Bullet Mod - Tracer Rounds will appear as a projectile every 3 bullets fired (they do not apply additional damage) - Tracer Rounds will cause a bullet sound audio effect upon just missing you (it sounds like fewwwm, whoosh, zshoom) - Tracer Rounds are visible to everyone - Tracer rounds unlock hit marker sound effects and visuals (we are very interested in ideas on what visuals this could also unlock, let us know if you have any ideas) - Tracer Rounds unlock fear in your enemies Developer Thoughts: Tracer Rounds, the bullet choice for maximum clarity. We plan to experiment and find more creative ways for tracer rounds to benefit the reaper through abstract methods. Think of this as an information gathering tool

Patch 0.6.1.0 Spectre Locomotion changes - Spectre hands trace downward to touch object distance: 50cm -> 100cm (This allows you to snap to the object 50cm sooner) - Spectre hands hitbox to touch object: 6cm sphere -> 20cm (Both hands hitboxes need to be touching the object in order to grab it) - Spectre reach up height 95cm -> 100cm (pretend you're 200cm tall, if you put your arms in the air you can reach the top of a 205cm wall and climb it) - NEW: Spectre running reach up height 95cm -> 130cm ( this isn't as big of an increase as it initially seems, due to the way the movement system works, when running you actually had a lower jump velocity then if you were standing still. So if the default was 95cm, you could only reach 85cm when running. You could consider that a bug. Anyway, you can actually have a better chance at reaching a tall object if you're at max speed) - Spectre Air Control: 0.1 -> 1.0 (This respects momentum, trying to jump around to do sick bullet dodges will most likely get you killed. Often times spectre's were just barely missing the range required to snap onto the wall, If you were running parrellel to a wall you were less likely to wall grab because of being just slightly out of reach. this air control change allows them to push slightly further to reach the wall when in the air, which should result in more successful climbs attempts. Notes: Currently climbing and latching onto objects don't feel great. A lot of the time you won't latch onto something you felt like you should have, and it feels bad especially when you're being gunned down. These changes should allow for more responsive, reliable latches. you still need to reasonably position yourself, but the system overall will do a much better job letting you do what you were intending to do. Optimization Changes General - Continued to correct/optimize materials throughout game. - Updated character highlight (now only shows when player is occluded). - Reduced intensity of character highlight. - Adjusted the properties of the new glass system. - fixed the bullet casings texture issue on main menu - Placed Environment Mod explosive locations across all maps (When you interact with a tablet to breach a door or vent, the explosion is where it's supposed to be and not at the tablet) - Corrected UI issue where selected weapons in Loadout had white background Frost - Corrected wonky textures in the Frostbite spawn - Replaced snow particles (Still having issues on DX11) - Replaced inefficient particle system in Main building. - Replaced repeated meshes with instanced static meshes (Optimization) +Server Boxes + Fences + Catwalks Jungle - Replaced repeated meshes with instanced static meshes (Optimization) + Catwalks + Catwalk support - Replaced inefficient particle systems, removed others Yard - Replaced repeated meshes with instanced static meshes (Optimization) + Perimeter fencing + Background Meshes + Fencing in Processing area + Racks and assets in Inventory area + Shipping containers in Storage area + Subfloor units across map

This patch brings us to a new milestone where we've changed a pretty important system. Control settings have been completely reconsidered, a lot has changed keybind wise, and reaper get much more control over what buttons they want to use. There is also a new way to swap between gadgets, via the gadget wheel. I won't list all of the keybind changes here, please check them out in the keybind settings! Removed the scroll wheel gadget switcher in replace of the Gadget wheel. Revamped default keys for reaper and spectre to be more up to date with fps shooter controls Equipping Passive Gadgets no longer stop you from running fixed a bug where reapers movement detection pulse sound would persist through electro vision fixed numerous bugs that occured when trying to place a stickymine or poison mine You can now always spawn a stickymine or poison mine mines will appear red when you cannot place them mines will appear green when you can place them mines will be canceled when running mines will be canceled upon opening gadget wheel Added a gadget mode for reapers (you can swap in and out of it by pressing alt) Using an ability will immediately put you back into weapon mode Reworked the input key settings, you can now see and change all action keys currently supported in the game. Added the ability to clear an action key Added action key categories (All, General, Reaper, And Spectre) Added ability to reset keys to default, All, Reaper only, and Spectre only Settings button now works in the menu Added a new button for controls in the menu

AR Changes 1/3 BaseDamage: 30 -> 12 (Now takes 9 shots to kill a spectre upclose instead of only 4) New: HeadshotDamage: 100 New: Bullet Damage Reduction Per Meter: 0.2 (this means for every meter the bullet will do 0.2 less damage) New: Headshot Bullet Damage Reduction Per Meter: 4 New: Headshot Bullet Damage FallOff At Distance: 25 (this means headshots won't accumulate falloff damage until after 25 meters, Example: 26 meters would do 99.8 damage) New: Minimum Possible Damage: 5 New: Minimum Possible Headshot Damage: 30 Upclose shots to kill: 4 -> 9 Shots to kill past 15m: 4 -> 13 Headshots To Kill before 25m: 1 Headshots to kill before 36m: 2 Headshots to kill before 41m: 3 Headshots to kill after 40m: 4 Notes: Right now the only correct gun to use is the AR, With no bullet drop, only 4 shots to kill, and an instant kill headshot, along with attachments, least recoil, etc. You were actually putting yourself at an all around disadvantage using anything else. These changes aim to entice you to switch to your secondary weapon for faster kill potential when a spectre is nearby. It also aims to discourage camping the best area on the map for easy hotshot insta kills. (The AR is not a sniper... but potentially we could add a sniper to the game if needed). Finally we want the AR to be a good choice in all situations, just not the best choice in all situations. SMG Changes 2/3 BaseDamage: 18 -> 15 New: Headshot Damage: 20 Automatic Speed: 0.1 -> 0.05 (it spits bullets out twice as fast) Magizine Capacity: 20 -> 30 New: Bullet Damage Reduction Per Meter: 0.6 New: Headshot Damage Reduction Per Meter: 0.6 New: Minimum Possible Damage: 3 New: Minimum Possible Headshot Damage: 7 Notes: This gun really hurts upclose, and doesn't depend on headshots for fast kills like the other guns. Good recoil management is key with this gun. It has the fastest kill time at medium and short ranges excluding headshots. (though headshotting will still kill about 1.5x times faster assuming every bullet landed) This gun has insane fall off damage, and unlike the shotgun Aiming down sights won't help much landing your shots due to the high recoil. Shotgun Changes 3/3 Shotgun Pellet damage: 8 -> 10 Shotgun Pellets per shot 7 -> 8 Shotgun spread 2 -> 2.5 ShotgunSpread hipfire: 2.5 -> 3.0 Removed: 5 Shotgun pellet hits required to be considered a headshot NEW: ShotgunSpread aiming: 1.5 New: Shotgun headshot pellet damage multiplier: 5 New: Shotgun pellet damage reduction per meter (also reduces headshot damage): 1 Notes: These changes will help the shotgun standout as a strong upclose weapon, while also doing good chip damage from a medium range. Barrel stuffing a spectre with a shotgun will require two shots minimum unless atleast one pellet hit their head. This change makes it so that the SMG will provide the fastest nonheadshot killtime upclose for bodyshots. The shotgun should be a great weapon upclose even without having to aim, but it became rapidly unusable and luck based the further the player got due to the randomness of the pellets, and falloff damage. Accurately aimed shots should feel rewarding and not so dependent on pellets deciding to hit or miss the target Reposted shotgun changes so you can see all the changes in one post.

Fixed a bug where spectre's aim would sometimes be off The game remembers and automatically sets your last used loadout Rejoining a game will now load your last used loadout, or default loadout Improved default loadout to have attachments, and better begginer gadgets and edges Cloak Adjustments New: Minimum Cloak Time: 0.75 (cloak will not deactivate for any reason until after 0.75 seconds of activating) New: Cloak Cooldown: 4 seconds Notes: The cloak adjustments was not meant to be a buff or a nerf. If this change becomes problematic we will adjust it quickly. This change addressed an issue where it could be spammed without fail to drop framerates of everyone nearby. You could use it to lower the frames of the reaper shooting you for a nasty advantage. The minimum cloak time is to help cases where you accidentally moved too quickly after cloaking and became uncloaked. Now if you accidentally uncloak yourself and have to wait out the 4 seconds you only have yourself to blame. (The cloak cooldown starts at the time of the cloak starting, not upon ending. So it is possible to use the cloak again directly after uncloaking)

Patch 0.5.5.4 ShotgunSpread hipfire: 2.5 -> 3.0 NEW: ShotgunSpread aiming: 1.5 Notes: The shotgun should be a great weapon upclose even without having to aim, but it became rapidly unusable and luck based the further the player got due to the randomness of the pellets, and falloff damage. Accurately aimed shots should feel rewarding and not so dependent on pellets deciding to hit or miss the target Updated meshes in Frost with ISM. Reapers can now see a red glow around vents indicating they can not crouch and go in Replaced snow with new, efficient local particle system (with LODing) Updated character highlight (now only shows when player is occluded). (Still have to outline when character is not occluded) Reduced intensity of character highlight. Map improvements addressing quality and fps You can now shoot through catwalks/fences in whiteout

Shotgun Pellet damage: 8 -> 10 Shotgun Pellets per shot 7 -> 8 Removed: 5 Shotgun pellet hits required to be considered a headshot New: Shotgun headshot pellet damage multiplier: 5 New: Shotgun pellet damage reduction per meter (also reduces headshot damage): 1 Notes: These changes will help the shotgun standout as a strong upclose weapon, while also doing good chip damage from a medium range. Barrel stuffing a spectre with a shotgun will require two shots minimum unless atleast one pellet hit their head. This change makes it so that the SMG will provide the fastest nonheadshot killtime upclose for bodyshots

Fixed a crash where a mine and a grenade going off on the same time would flush the gpu causing the game to stall, and inevitably fail Fixed a bug where you could sometimes spawn in as a spectator even after selecting spy or reaper Fixed a bug where the game could sometimes end unexpectedly near the start of the game Fixed a bug where changing music volume would override all other settings Fixed a bug where changing mouse axis would override all other settings Master volume now functions properly

Hey guys, we're back with a massive update! Many changes to maps, bug fixes, settings, features, and more! We're so excited for this release and we'd like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for sticking with us. If you haven't already be sure to join our discord for the latest information on our thoughts, and devlogs, We hope you enjoy! :) --Bug Fixes-- • Fixed a bug where many settings did not properly reflect their true values (e.g., resolution scale might show 100 - but be set to 66). • Fixed a bug causing FSR sharpness to not apply on the next session. • Fixed a bug where selecting loadout 1 could cause a crash. • Fixed a bug where rapidly selecting gadgets could cause a crash. • Fixed a bug where voice chat code could cause crashes. • Fixed a bug where Reaper's reload sound could be heard from anywhere. • Fixed a bug where Reaper lacked footstep sounds when moving diagonally. • Fixed a bug where Reaper could move while being grabbed from a ledge. • Fixed a bug where respawning could fail due to actor initialization issues or respawn timer bugs. • Fixed a bug where FSR and Nvidia DLSS could be enabled simultaneously. • Fixed a bug where Ready Up in the lobby wasn't being utilized; the server host must now also ready up to start the game. • Fixed a bug where it was impossible to knock out the reaper after grabbing them • Fixed a bug where the timer did nothing when it ran out after grabbing reaper (now knocks them out if timer runs out) • Fixed a bug where reapers could not be grabbed if they were standing in specific situations due to height difference • Fixed a bug causing new patches to overwrite your saved settings • Fixed a bug causing a crash when pressing tab • Fixed a bug where you could no longer move after being knocked out by a spectre • Fixed a bug where jittering and animation issues would occur for a few seconds after snapping the reapers neck as spectre • Fixed a bug where when sprinting, the reaper would try to tackle/bash the location a spectre has recently died in • Fixed a bug where pressing shift as spectre would uncrouch you even when it shouldn't • Fixed a bug where if a spectre died in the middle of a neckgrab, the reaper would no longer be able to move • Fixed a bug where the spectre could not execute a necksnap or knockout after grabbing the reaper (both would be stuck forever as a result) • Fixed a bug wherelobby player count always showing as ?/4 • Fixed a bug where explosions from hacked terminals would happen in unexpected areas • Fixed a bug causing Settings UI to have an incorrect value meter when turning on FSR. • Fixed a bug where spectre could continuously grab a knocked out spectre potentially stunlocking them forever • Additionally, Reapers can no longer be grabbed from behind for 2 seconds after recovering from knockout --Quality of Life (QOL) Improvements-- • Turning off FSR automatically reapplies your last screen-scaled resolution • Changing Anti Aliasing settings no longer turns off DLSS • Readjusted the placement of some settings for consistency • Added confirmation prompt when changing window settings (automatically reverts resolution and screen mode if changes are not confirmed) • DLSS sharpness now has the same UI slider as FSR sharpness • Fixed padding issues with certain settings being misaligned • Slider percentage values now range from 0 to 100 instead of 0.0 to 1.0 • FSR and DLSS sharpness now have a minimum value of 10 to avoid accidental deactivation (dedicated checkboxes must be unchecked to disable them) • DLSS Sharpness renamed to NIS Sharpness • Fixed UI bug causing incorrect value meter when turning on FSR • Pressing shift as a specter while crouched will now uncrouch you • DLSS settings are now disabled when the DLSS button is unchecked, similar to the way the FSR section works • Enabling DLSS now applies the DLSS Quality Mode and NIS Sharpness Settings (previously required re-selection) • Only possible for one to be enabled at a time • As long as the game is focused when a player spawns after death, they will immediately have input for their character (sometimes you had to click in order to receive input) • Pressing shift as a specter while crouched will now uncrouch you. --What's new-- • New Spectator System • Spectators can now see who they are spectating • Spectators now have a way to leave the game • An eyeball appears when someone is spectating you • Matches are always visible, even after the game starts. • Ready Up system in the lobby; server host must now also ready up instead of immediately starting the game. • Loadout & Game Settings Changes • Added default loadouts: activates if the game starts and no meaningful loadout changes have been made. • Saving a loadout is no longer instant and must be held for about 0.65 seconds to avoid accidental overwrites. • Game time now drops to 5 seconds remaining upon a team losing all of their lives • New respawn system • Smoothed camera following Spectre • Corrected Spectre aiming to feel less ‘floaty’ or ‘drifty’. • Adjusted Spectre Night Vision to better illuminate dark areas while not blinding player in all other • areas. Tested on all maps for consistency. • Fixed Reaper Motion Vision to allow for better world visibility while active (before, the map beyond the pulse grid was blacked out). --New Settings-- • Window Modes & Resolution Options • Added borderless windowed mode option. • Added fullscreen mode option. • Added windowed mode option. • Added all resolution options. --Neck Grab Adjustmemts-- • (Buff) Neck Grab Attempt can now be held down instead of only clicked and will automatically grab the reapers neck the moment it is possible • Notes: The window of opportunity can be very small, and grabbing a player shouldn't be a game of luck and smashing down left click in hopes of it activating. • (Direct Buff) Neck Grab Max Height Difference: 10cm -> 20cm • Notes: sometimes a reaper could be ungrabbable/unkillable because you had to be right behind them, but the hill or stairway directly behind them was too high or too low... • (Direct Buff) NeckGrab Forward Direction Variance: 0.8 -> 0.6 • Notes: This is Dot Product calculation, before you needed to be looking 80% at the same direction as the reaper, now you only need to be looking at least 60% the same direction. This should result in more successful grabs • (Direct Buff) NeckGrab Trace Radius: 15cm -> 45cm (Now matches the size of the reapers hitbox) • Notes: The hitbox was made slightly larger to help detect if a reaper is actually near you, and latch onto them. At 15cm you essentially needed to position your spectre perfectly onto the reaper (not your crosshair) At 45cm you have a little bit more wiggle room --Maps-- • Frostbite • Corrected placeable explosive not opening door • Corrected issue where Reapers would get stuck on outdoor stairs. • Material and texture fixes throughout. • Yard • Corrected an asset draw-distance issue that would cause areas of the map to disappear. • Optimized and corrected unnecessarily taxing materials around map. • Revised Spectre spawn for easier/faster navigation. • Changed the way vents in Spectre Spawn translate to exits throughout the map to reduce time spent reaching exit. • Jungle • Corrected lighting at Spectre spawn so that the paths are actually visible with NV on. • Fixed particle systems throughout map that would cause drops in framerate (namely the fog in the - Harvester room). • Optimized rain particle system • Reduced directional light • Updated underground entrances • Revisited Foliage LOD • Adjusted audio attenuation throughout map. • Corrected blinding Harvester light source • HQ • Adjusted lighting throughout • Started instancing actors throughout • Replaced larger, inefficient meshes • Textures fixed, started optimizing materials throughout • Corrected mesh draw distance throughout • Corrected light, fog, reflections and bloom • • General • Updated and optimized Main Menu • Optimized Smoke Grenade performance, as the particle system used would cause severe drops in framerate. • Created a new Niagara system to replace existing smoke. • Adjusted audio of Reaper weapons giving them unique audio and specialization • Added attenuation and spatialization to Reaper reload sfx (before, the Reaper reload could be heard from anywhere on the map) • Corrected and applied appropriate LODs to all meshes in use by maps. • Started instancing meshes for better performance and reduced draw calls. • Reviewed all textures in use by the project and optimized where applicable including converting - - - texture to PowerOfTwo and reducing size. • Reduced light inscattering on the Reaper flashlight, so the beam isn’t cast/visible through assets. • Corrected any textures that weren’t able to generate mip maps (optimization) • Revised all alternate vision modes. • Texture and material fixes after moving to 5.4 • Updated map previews in UI • Assigned missing physical materials throughout.

Global Performance updates across maps New vision modes Updated Main menu Added team player outline/highlights Updated location/camera tags to accurately reflect area Started reviewing physical materials throughout maps (ongoing) Jungle reduced directional light updated entrances Corrected Foliage LOD Audio corrected in Jungle Elevator correction HQ Corrected lights on second floor unable to be disabled Still working on persistent menu settings. The only things left that aren't saved to the user profile are the DLSS settings. Another update to come to fix that up.

Troubleshooting issues with previous build. Global Performance updates across maps New vision modes Updated Main menu Added team player outline/highlights Updated location/camera tags to accurately reflect area Started reviewing physical materials throughout maps (ongoing) Jungle reduced directional light updated entrances Corrected Foliage LOD Audio corrected in Jungle Elevator correction HQ Corrected lights on second floor unable to be disabled Still troubleshooting persistent menu options.

Patch

See August 30's patch notes for additional

Roll back previous patch for additional work

Controller Support

[*} - Changes to controller support, namely implementation of Steam Input, official Spectre controller configurations
• - Customizing controller configurations is now done entirely through the Steam Client and is now available through the in-game menu
• - Removed controller configuration ability from menu
• - Menu input display show reflect current Steam Input configurations

General

• Updated door materials to better reflect locked state
• Corrected broken materials throughout

HQ

• Bug fixes
• Adjusted lighting
• Corrected collision issues
• Remade Double Office area
• Relocated Health Station
• Performance optimization

Trainyard

• Lighting correction
• Health station and terminal in tunnel
• Remade Inventory area
• Remade Spawn area
• Corrected collision issues

Frostbite

• Remade Main building
• Remade Garages and Helipad area
• Remade front of main building
• Remade Outpost area
• Completely reworked Filtration area
• Corrected lighting
• Performance optimization
• corrected collision issues
• Changed landscape to include more hiding spots
• Updated Helipad area
• Added Wall Jump area to Main building
• Corrected vent collision issue
• Corrected landscape warping issue

Trainyard

• Performance enhancements
• Reworked parts of the level to allow for more fluid traversal
• Reworked Spectre spawn exits to be more integrated with map.
• Modified height of several assets to allow Spectres to climb them
• Added new closed area around Trainyard Alley (Measured and tested for Split Jump)
• Reworked interior of Inventory area
• Adjusted lighting
• Added new vent entrance to Inventory building with EnviroMod
• Corrected breach terminal of Control Room in Terminal building
• Modified layout of catwalks on Inventory roof, allowing for easier descent
• Replaced vent into Terminal (via roof) with an easier entry
• redid entire asphalt meshes to take care of some collision issues
• Adjusted material on non-shootable glass to include visible reinforcement

Always On Screen Objective UI - hackable objectives now appear on screen at all times, follow edges of the screen - position themselves to give players a better sense of direction for each objective - Reaper-version of the hackable objectives now flash and are easier to locate, find when being hacked - Reaper's alarm logs now display when an objective is being hacked and which objective is being hacked - objective UI should react to character HUD opacity adjustments in the main menu

Changes to maps: Frostbite

• Reaper stair wallwalking bug
• Garage ceiling opening bug
• Lighting reduction
• Reaper sgarage stairway bug
• Opened front of Garages
• Reaper garage ledewalk issue
• Garage roof access

HQ

• Blast Door speed increase, reduiced idle open time.
• L1 terminal repair bug
• Added wallflip on L2 stairell in the interim. Will be reworking layout/

Changes to functionality: - various minor bugs relating to Repulsor, Melee, reloading, and how they interact - Objectives are now marked with an alphabetical letter to identify objectives better, and also assist in communication with partners Things we are actively working on:

• 'Always-On-Screen' objective UI, this will assist Reapers/Spectres in determining direction of objectives and which objectives are being hacked. We were hoping this functionality would make it to this patch, but it requires some additional work before it's ready. Likely in the next coming days.
• Enhanced controller suport
• ADS sensitivity
• Fixed/Enhanced voice chat / team voice chat
• ... and a whole lot more!

Thanks and enjoy! - Fred and Jordan

Solved respawn UI population issue Fixed ladder bug re: sprinting Fixed bug re: getting knocked out, as a Spectre, while aiming Fixed Trainyard OfficeA roof climbing bug Fixed Trainyard wall clip & objective clip Fixed physics on hackable vent cover in Frostbite Fixed Repulsor / Get Knocked out Issue Fixed Spectre's prone-to-ziplining issue Investigating / working towards client-death respawning other players at spawns issue

Patch to patch the patch

Fixed!

The Reapers' molotovs no longer cause fire to burn *FOREVER*! This was an issue in QA, but I suppose when we were updating some of the particles, the fact that they infinitely loop became... a thing, again. FIXED!

Howdy all! ALL gadgets are now completely unlocked, progression is cosmetics only. So go wild! Enjoy! Let us know what you think! Numerous minor bugs corrected

Numerous issues resolved as a result of reported bugs. Many more to go, but this update put a *huge* dent in some of the reported issues. Can't wait to solve the rest of them!

This patch will increase your performance! We had a rough start after making some last minute engine changes. Let us know how this works better for you :)

- Corrected collision issues at Spectre spawn in Trainyard - Corrected some texture/material issues in Trainyard