Update 1.1 - Perks 'A' Plenty

Hey Everyone,

Tonight's patch is one of our biggest yet, featuring 3 new perks, plenty of optimizations, bugfixes, balance changes, improvements to spectator mode, the UI, and more!

Read on for the full patchnotes.

Additions and Improvements

• Added new perk - "Armor Plates" (Cost: 20 Perk Points/$50k)
  -In an all-new 20 perk point cost tier, Armor Plates equips your player with ceramic armor plates, which give an extra 20HP worth of protection from damage before they wear out. This perk has a very high risk/reward factor - if you lose the extra health early on in the round, there is no way to recover it!
• Added new perk - "Squats" (Cost: 5 Perk Points/$5k)
  -After intense training, your crouching speed is improved by 15%
• Added new perk - "Double Agent" (Cost: 5 Perk Points/$5k)
  -Radios cannot detect you, and your position on the in-game map is scrambled
• Increased radio spawn rate in many military spawners
• Nerfed flare bombardment duration by 13 seconds, down to 7 seconds
• Improved spectator freecam movement
• Removed one unmarked minefield near the Old Airfield
• Improved some food item icons
• The server browser now shows more up-to-date information, and not show servers that have already ended
• Added server hosting readme
• Rebalanced ELO rating rank requirements
• Added new bush rustle sounds
• Added new helicopter flyby sound
• Hands now render under the UI by default
• The playable area no longer clips at long distances from the camera
• Added French translation to the main menu (thanks Adamyus!
• You can now see players current weapon & weapon stats when spectating them
• Added new "Throw Item" button (G by default)
  -Useful if you're teaming up and need to throw an item over a long distance to a friend, thrown items do not deal damage
• Added new playable area chat notification when it appears
  -This change should remind players in houses/without vision on the playable area to get outside and check
• Nerfed "Healthy" perk health regen amount by 25%
  -The Healthy perk has always been a bit too strong, and recent nerfs to playable area damage meant that it would let a player perma-tank the playable area. This change should fix that.
• Decreased most Military area spawner maximum spawns
• Decreased bloodbag spawn rate in medical and residential spawners
• Added new easy-start tick if a server does not start for a while
• Added !perks command (works in specator mode as well)
• Made the Southern Farm more lush

Bug fixes

• Improved rendering performance
• Removed blue bars on some aspect ratios/resolutions in the menus
• Fixed mines being invisible to late joiners
• Fixed performance issue as more players died
• Fixed infinite loop when faking death & gesturing
• Player ragdolls should now correctly fall off a ladder if they die
• Fixed sniper tower floating loot
• Fixed ELO showing as provisional when it shouldn't
• Fixed issue which could cause negative cash
• Fixed some translation errors
• Fixed some AI bugs related to weapon pickups & firing
• Optimized physics layers
• Fixed carepackage chopper spawning in at 0,0,0 for one frame
• Refactored some playable area related code that could cause it to collide with non-player objects. This should fix quite a few playable area bugs.

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