'83 - Quality-of-Life Patch #7

Today we're releasing a smaller patch with a number of changes/fixes that are ready to go live. In addition, we added the ability to votekick commanders and squad leaders.Our current development focus is currently focused on our first major content update and we will be sharing more of what it will bring to '83 in the near future - keep your eyes peeled!

Changelog

NEW

• Added ability to start a votekick for squad leaders and commanders of your team via role/squad select menu

Press the Red X next to your Squad Leader or Commander to start a vote kick – All other eligible voters (Squad Mates / Team Mates) will then get a popup similar to the Team Kill Forgive/Punish screen where they can decide if the Squad Leader or Commander should be removed from their role.

This is just a first pass at the feature and improvements, including to the UI, will be coming in the future.

Art 

• VRAM Optimisation: Shrunk 4k snow texture into 256 as it is always several miles from the player 

Audio 

• 1P/3P Cough set-up, refactor & handling

• AKS-74U sounds for interior firing updated

• Fixed water and waterfall attenuations that had an extra zero at the end of them

• Minor ambience tweaks to Fjord

• Fixed sync on 1p Skorpion reload 

• Made UI ping audio louder

• Knife sounds updated so no longer occluded

• M67 LAW 1p firing audio improved

• Skorpion 1p interior concrete small firing audio support

• Made tanks quieter at distance

• Reduced footstep attenuation by 10 metres

• Made PACT victory music quieter

• AKS-74UB interior concrete small audio firing support

• 1p interior firing for M870 Shotgun. Small concrete environment

• SVD 1p interior firing audio. Small concrete environments

• New battlechatter events UE assets

• More battlechatter events to support additional contexts. Wwise side setup

• Made bullet cracks and impacts louder and made breathing slightly louder

• M21 interior small firing audio

Code 

• Fixed a bug where upon game restart, despite the voice chat volume setting being saved, the volume will not actually be applied to in-game voice chat audio until resaving the setting

• Fixes some issues with strike marks

• No longer have labels on the strike target marks (only the area marks, the commander always plants the target so it’s not needed)

• Other teams labels now white

• TL and SL no should be correct

• Strike area markers have the correct index

Qonzer - New Community Server Povider

In addition, we're happy to confirm that Qonzer is available as a community server provided, they came highly recommended by our communtiy and we are happy to provide more choice to our community admins.

https://qonzer.com/game-servers/83See you on the battlefields of '83!