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Small patch focusing on performance improvements and other fixes.
Improved clouds performance
Improved falling snow effects performance
Disabled “VSync” setting by default
Issues with self hosted lobbies
No voice chat audio output if no input device is available
Race checkpoint double jump
Drop into the X-Mode Love Patch, featuring love themed cosmetics and other small improvements.
Love themed cosmetics
Português (Brasil) language setting
“Clouds” graphics setting
Silo map (Gray boxed)
Improved performance on the Valley map
Sections of the maps disappeared for some players
Small patch focusing on performance improvements.
“Render Distance” graphics setting
“Shadow Quality” graphics setting
“Anti Aliasing” graphics setting
“Upscaling” graphics setting
Removed general “Quality” graphics setting
Slightly improved performance of the grass rendering
Slightly improved performance of the cavity curvature effect
Crashes caused by memory leaks
Small patch to fix some critical issues.
Increased Gun Game time from 5m to 10m
Curtain guns having no animations after respawning or ranking up in Gun Game
Item hand slot issues for players with higher packet loss
Movement issues for players with higher packet loss
The new X-Mode update is dropping Dec 12th! New gamemode, new item, more map variants, and lots of other general improvements!
Gun Game gamemode
Deagle gun item
Attachments
UMP flashlight
L249 flashlight
R870 flashlight
Map variants
Winter Mountain Temple
Night Mountain Temple
White Testing Grounds
Night Testing Grounds
Customize cosmetics while in game
Customize key bind setting
Customize control tip UI that appears when in the lobby
End of game screen shows newly unlocked cosmetics
Main menu background panoramas
“Show Main Menu Panorama” setting to show/hide the main menu panorama
“Uniform Aiming” control setting to uniformly adjust aim sensitivity at all zoom levels
"Modify Loadout Time" lobby setting to set the time you can modify loadouts after respawning
"Map Variant" lobby setting to set the map variant
New cosmetics
New hidden achievements
Improved loading screens
Displays the map thumbnail in the background
Displays the gamemode name and description
Improved performance of the cavity curvature effect
Improved Infection bot AI so infected bots return to the last known survivor position
Improved voice chat audio quality
Low pass filter audio effect is no longer applied to UI and voice chat audio
Improved team score UI
Point Hold gamemode team score increases from 0 to 150 rather than decreases from 100 to 0
The level required to unlock curtain cosmetics
New main menu and lobby music composed by Dubscr
Able to obtain items by modifying your loadout before the game starts in Elimination
Unlocked paid and exclusive cosmetics appear after locked level cosmetics
Gun kickback animation issues
Chat input does not clear when canceling chat
Hey all, this patch mostly focuses on QOL adds and tweaks. Provided there are no big issues found, this will be the last patch for a bit while I work on a larger update with more content.
Near hit direction indicators
Voice input device setting
Change your loadout for 10 seconds after respawning, or until you attack
Vault control tip UI that appears when you’re able to vault
Grab control tip UI that appears when hovering over dropped items
Profile button in the player score popup which opens the player’s Steam profile
Stats button in the player score popup which opens the player’s stats
Mic icon in the scoreboard when a player is speaking
Relocated the blue flag on the Valley map for easier access
Improved direction indicator animation tween
Increased proximity voice chat distance
Removed invisible barriers along the center cliff on the Mountain Temple map
Improved space low/muffled audio effect
Incorrect crosshair when first spawning with a melee item in your loadout
Connection failures when joining servers
Able to jump over the invisible barriers in some spots
Smaller patch focusing on fixes and improvements
Chat input text persists when changing maps
Reduced smoke duration from 30s to 15s
Smoke will dissipate faster
Improved bot AI
Bots try to avoid walking off of deadly edges
Bots try to keep their distance a bit more and are less likely to get right up in your face
If more than one player is visible bots will switch their focus to the closest player
Reduced the probability that bots will use melee and throwable items
Electric unicycle is visible through other players in selfie camera
Control tips don’t localize when changing your language mid-game
Player character animation state issues
Capture point states are not correct when joining mid-game
Bots are able to see through smoke if they’re standing in it
New player connecting does not always join the team with the most bots (Least real players)
Drop into the X-Mode Spooky Patch, featuring Valley and Ship night map variants, spooky cosmetics, the Thriller emote, and more fixes/tweaks.
Thriller emote
Spooky themed cosmetics
Loadout radial explanation text
Control tips UI for loadout and attachment controls
“Show Control Tips” setting to show/hide control tips UI
Valley night map variant
Ship night map variant
Voice chat becomes global when in the end of game screen
Improved UMP sight visibility
Enabled “Sway While Aiming” setting by default
Reduced sliding cooldown from 1.7s to 1s
Reduced spawn protection time from 5s to 3s
Reduced muzzle flash light bloom intensity
Improved Valley map environment audio
Updated Unity version to address CVE-2025-59489
Flag does not return if thrown off the map
Current race time pauses when its UI is hidden
Spamming the ready vote prevents the game from starting
Bots aren't always replaced on the correct team
Can’t change gun attachments in gamemodes where loadout changing is disabled (Infection)
Indicator to display the current location of the flags
Damage taken sound effect
Health bar now indicates when you have spawn protection
Removed race checkpoint #33 from the Space Station map
Improved held item bob/sprint animations
Flag item team colors
Weapon balance:
Glock reload time 2s to 1.5s
UMP mag ammo 25 to 30
UMP fire rate 840 to 900
UMP reload time 2s to 1.75s
L249 fire rate 720 to 780
The spawn protection barrier appears on all other players when you first join the server even though they don’t actually have spawn protection
No footstep sounds play if you constantly jump
Voice chat stuttering (Improved but still needs more work)
Current race time display stopped working when playing consecutive races
Player collision not disabled in race when joining mid-game
Directx11 support
Bloom enable/disable setting
Current race time displayed during the race
Labelled last race checkpoint “Finish”
Aim sensitivity multiplier settings for each zoom level (x1 x2 x4)
Sight settings for each zoom level (x1 x2 x4)
Size
Color
Crosshair settings
Static
Size
Length
The race starting barrier indicates the direction of the first checkpoint
Reduced shadow resolution on lower quality settings
In infection the item upgrade sometimes was not given to the last 2 survivors
“Ready” vote required 1 extra vote
Unable to cancel ADS mid animation
Extremely low controller aim sensitivity (Introduced in v1.0.3 by the invert setting)
Invert mouse look settings (Vertical and horizontal)
Invert change slot setting
Click chat messages to copy their user ID
Click players in the scoreboard to copy their user ID
Reduced the amount of XP required to gain levels (Your current level will increase)
Gamemode XP can now be fully earned while playing with bots
Level cosmetic unlock order adjusted (First 10 levels)
Chat messages now persist when changing maps
“No Bots” vote denominator now represents the amount of votes required to remove bots
“Ready” vote denominator now represents the amount of votes required to start the game
Long usernames cut-off in kill confirmed text
Lobby countdown sometimes stopped
Loading doesn’t immediately start when joining a server
Setting to invert the flash screen effect (white to black)
Max bots lobby setting
Scope crosshair size setting
Your “No Bots” vote will now persist between games
The max amount of bots will now default to 12 (Before it was the servers max player count)
Ammo pickups now refill throwables (3rd hand slot)
Increased new chat message display time from 2.22 to 5 seconds
Flash improvements
Reduced flash effect max range from 60 to 30
Removed the ringing sound
Low pass filter for the audio effect
Issues that caused the server to freeze/crash
New main menu and lobby music composed by Dubscr
Empty player slots are now populated with bots by default when in game
Vote "No Bots" in the lobby to remove bots from the next game (Requires 20% vote count)
"Auto Vault" controls setting is now off by default
After 5 years of development X-Mode will be available free-to-play September 19th!
World space capture point names
Flag stolen UI in Capture The Flag gamemode
Grass render distance setting
“Aim Time” item info UI
Idle players will be kicked after idleKickTime server property (Default 60 seconds)
Per player voice chat mute
/help command that lists all available commands
Mountain Temple map has been fully detailed
Recoil adjustments
Reduced recoil on all automatic guns
Gun recoil is no longer increased while moving
Gun recoil spring back amount now adjusts to compensation from player input
Increased other player footstep volume
Race checkpoint numbers are now visible through walls
Increased proximity chat distance
timeoutTime server property time unit changed from milliseconds to seconds
Improved cosmetic progress screen UI
Elimination border appeared when it shouldn’t
Physics objects not affected by lifts/jump pads
Player level in scoreboard didn’t increase between rounds after levelling up
Rare chance that players were unable to move after respawn
Issues with server console input on Linux
Throwables would appear to begin throwing but fail if item is still equipping
Issues with setting slider fields
July 4th-6th there will be servers running and we will be playtesting the game. Feel free to join us!
Mountain Temple Map (Gray boxed)
Show/hide cosmetics setting
Auto vault setting
Back key bind setting
Change slot key bind setting
Chat profanity censoring. Community servers can opt out.
Alive count UI in Elimination gamemode
Cosmetic progression UI screen
Store link for paid cosmetics
Buy button for paid cosmetics
Player emotes
Server list type filters
Re-enable voice chat
More achievements
Player XP visible on scoreboard
Mostly full controller support
Additional language support
German
Russian
Portuguese
Japanese
Polish
Secrets
Removed bots from /playerlist command
Improved Death Wish achievement unlocking reliability
Decreased elimination border shrink speed
Infection gamemode team scores now represent the player count of each team
Physics objects are effected by low gravity
Fly through windows while in respawn free fly
Gamemode time/score UI remains visible in death screen
Kill feed now uses item icons
Improved valley map performance
Improved R870 reloading
Improved hit markers
Improved player/EUC movement on slopes
Testing grounds map tweaks
Multiple elimination border centers
Limited gamemode XP while playing with bots
Stopped tracking kill/death/assist stats collected from bots
Bot improvements
Use other items in their hand slots
Use throwables
Less likely to get stuck
Loose focus on their target when flashed
Baby Herb was not visible
Errors on the server
Endless sliding sounds
Infection gamemode ended if a player died before the infected were chosen
Bot racing AI issues
Colliding with physics objects while in respawn free fly
Controller camera sensitivity not frame independent
Memory leak issues
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