Onward Replace 2.0 is out now.
Meta-owned Downpour Interactive describes the replace as “the most important replace we now have ever accomplished because the recreation’s launch in 2016”. In response to Downpour, each single weapon and piece of kit has been graphically upgraded, new weapons have been launched, a brand new recreation mode has been added, now you can select and customise your character mannequin, a basic map has been remastered, and a brand new map has been launched.
Weapons and gear have taken a “big visible leap” with the fashions, textures, and sounds changed, Downpour says. This contains every part from weapons to drones and even smoke grenades.
13 new weapons have additionally been added, together with a pump-action shotgun and revolver with distinctive hand interactions:
MARSOC
- M870 (Specialist)
- Vector (Specialist)
- HK416 (Rifleman)
- HK45T (All Lessons)
- M45A1 (All Lessons)
- M27 (Marksman, Assist)
- MR73 Revolver (Rifleman, Marksman)
Volk
- AK103 (Rifleman)
- Saiga 12 (Specialist)
- APC9 (Specialist)
- MP443 Grach (All Lessons)
- Stechkin APS (Specialist, Assist)
- RPK-74 (Assist with drum journal, Rifleman with molot journal)
Two weapons have additionally been faraway from the sport, the G3A3 and M1911. Downpour says it’s because the G3A3 is not utilized by trendy armies, and sees the newly added RPK-74 as its alternative. Equally, the M1911 is never utilized in actuality anymore has been changed by the M45A1, which is a modernized successor.
And whereas beforehand each participant on every group appeared the identical, Onward Replace 2.0 provides 10 “operators” per faction, for a complete of 20, to customise their look.
The replace additionally provides a brand new map, referred to as Overgrowth, and a remastered model of the fan-favorite Downfall. Each can be found in day or night time mode. In addition to being “extra graphically superior” than present Onward maps, these two new choices add climbable ladders, which have additionally been added to Capturing Vary, FOB, and Bazaar.
Additional, the map Tanker is now obtainable in day mode, not simply night time.
Overgrowth
Onward Replace 2.0 additionally brings a brand new co-op recreation mode, referred to as Retrieval, in addition to the choice for added AI enemies to spawn after 32 within the Hunt recreation mode.
Lastly, the replace brings dozens of quality-of-life and realism enhancements, together with extra sensible bullet drop, scope zeroing, and new scope know-how.
Full Onward Replace 2.0 Changelog
Headline Options
- Changed all current weapon fashions, textures and every part else associated to their visuals and sounds.
- Added new varieties of weapons: pump motion shotguns, and a revolver.
- New weapons: M870, Vector, HK416, HK45T, M45A1, M27, MR73, AK103, Saiga 12, APC9, MP443 Grach, Stechkin APS, RPK-74 (Drum / Molot).
- Changed all weapon attachments and added many new ones
- Added new varieties of weapon attachments: grippods, alternate iron sights, hybrid scopes, combo laser sights, and extra
- Changed all MARSOC and Volk characters
- Added 20 selectable operators with customization choices in arm band colours and lens colours if relevant
- Added two new maps: Downfall Remastered (changing Downfall), and Overgrowth
- Added new music all through the sport
- Added new visible results for bullets hitting objects, and for when the participant is hit
- Added the choice to filter servers by platform.
- Added interactable ladders to a number of maps.
Weapons
- Overhauled ballistic trajectories, they now will not be affected by framerate and correctly convey bullet mass, form, and drop over time.
- Added alternate help grip hand poses to help with overlap on a number of weapons when they’re utilizing different magazines, similar to an RPK drum journal in an AK model weapon.
- Added “set off self-discipline” animations to the index finger on all weapons, when the consumer will not be touching their controller set off they may relaxation their finger on the set off housing.
- All weapons now help set off animations when pulling the set off, together with the taser and the M203 attachments.
- When utilizing tracer rounds within the Capturing Vary they now have an effect on each shot as a substitute of each third shot.
- Volk now has their very own stun gun.
- Stun weapons used to require gamers to be downed however not lifeless to hack tablets. That is nonetheless the case until that participant was surprised with the stun gun itself. Then they are often hacked even when lifeless.
- Bipods on some LMGs at the moment are grippable.
- Added shell carriers for shotguns.
Maps
- Added new daytime map variant for Tanker.
- The Capturing Vary now incorporates a basketball purpose, and several other hidden easter eggs.
- Ladders have been added to Bazaar to achieve the rooftops on a couple of key buildings.
- Towers in Capturing Vary and FOB now have functioning ladders.
- Improved lighting bakes and textures on numerous maps most notably on Bazaar and Quarantine amongst others
- Enhancements to propping and texturing have been made to the next maps: Capturing Vary, Quarantine, Tanker, Suburbia, Bazaar.
- Enhancements have been made to a number of Skyboxes
- Subway now helps Assault mode
- Added an opportunity of lightning to nighttime maps, in addition to an opportunity of a jet or helicopter flyover on any map, and an opportunity of a ship driveby on maps with water like Tanker and Deserted
Recreation Modes
- New recreation mode: Retrieval. That is much like the onerous drive restoration mission from Mercenary Mode.
- Gun Recreation now makes use of random factions on faction particular gear like grenades.
- Added a “pump motion shotgun” mode to One within the Chamber.
- Male and Feminine VIP added for Escort mode, the gender chosen will match your Marsoc character.
- In FFA modes we use your character alternatives however we do use a random faction, for selection.
- Added “Secure Spawn” performance that enables gamers to respawn at random positions in Free Roam if their physique is being camped.
- Added seen ‘partitions’ to point the playable space in Subway for Assault
- Enable for as much as 512 bots to spawn in co-op modes – they may respawn when over 32 bots are chosen, and ammo containers will seem.
Bots / AI
- Improved AI responsiveness throughout journey states, in order that they react extra realistically when taking fireplace.
- AI not speaks Russian however English with a thick accent, permitting the participant to listen to what they’re doing.
- AI now has a number of new voice occasions for throwing flashbangs, throwing smokes, and taking fireplace.
- AI now has each female and male voices.
Miscellaneous
- Added seen Quest 3 controller for Quest 3 customers within the tutorial.
- Up to date all menu tiles
- Participant vocalizations now have female and male variants.
- Added a brand new drafting board pen that deterministically randomizes its colours each spherical.
- Fastened the aggressive warning when becoming a member of through playlist.
Bug Fixes
- Eliminated some out of date Quest 1 optimizations to characters that would make them look worse.
- Grabbing an LMG lid from the incorrect aspect will now flip your hand accurately.
- Repair the sport probably getting caught if the participant leaves a recreation throughout a map transition.
- Repair the sport getting brighter if the participant leaves a recreation throughout a flare.
- Repair numerous places the participant may get caught in Deserted, FOB and Bazaar.
- Repair minor collision points in Suburbia, Turbine, and Deserted.
- Repair not having to sort the total Uplink code if it ends in zeroes.
- Repair not with the ability to extract in Fireplace Combat if the host disconnects.
- Repair customized content material map authors being unable to check AI modes on native exports.
- Repair a possible solution to get two corpsmen on one fireplace group.
- Repair being unable to work together with a scroll bar when making a server.
- Fireplace Combat onerous drive not falls by means of the helicopter and will get caught beneath it.
- Casters in Mercenary Mode can not take part in map or reward votes.
- Repair holo sights not showing white when utilizing night time imaginative and prescient typically.
- Repair an edge case that allowed instantaneous Uplink sends in Assault and Mercenary Transmit rounds.
- Molotov flames now have an effect on gamers of all heights.
- Repair server ID textual content overlapping different UI within the server browser.
- Repair sabotage matches ending shortly after the spherical begins prematurely.
- Repair a couple of placeholder messages in Mercenary mode goal textual content, for instance in Extract mode.
- Repair a Fireplace Combat helicopter you would not board in Turbine.
- Repair Evac rounds not ever ending if a participant provides up earlier than the AI spawn in.
- Repair participant depend on the watch in One within the Chamber being incorrect.
- Repair a small seam within the ballistic protect between the window and protect that might be shot by means of.
- Repair AI being bizarre when you broke line of sight close to doorways.
- Repair the VIP having inexperienced trim round their night time imaginative and prescient even when you hadn’t chosen it in your choices, additionally fastened VIP ignoring the participant’s default phosphor setting.
- After customers efficiently end a mission involving a helicopter, repair the helicopter’s sound taking part in ceaselessly.
- Repair a couple of spots in Cargo Evening that night time imaginative and prescient didn’t illuminate.
- Repair getting caught with no group when you try to click on on one group whereas placing on the helmet of one other group.
- Repair not making footstep sounds in case you are rubbing in opposition to a wall.
- Repair some occlusion culling points on Tanker, Quarantine, & FOB.
- Repair the drafting board being corrupted when becoming a member of a match in progress.
- Changed the examine of your web connection from being ping primarily based to a common internet request, which can assist sure gamers.
- Fastened bots throwing flashbangs when the participant(s) had lengthy since moved
- Fastened syringes not syncing their state to different gamers
- Gamers can not hack allied tablets
- Fastened flares illuminating subterranean areas of ranges
- Fastened a problem that would progress a participant to the following gun in Gun Recreation, if one other participant gave up
- Fastened each medics spawning in the identical fireplace group on Firefight
- Fastened a problem the place gamers would typically die whereas extracting within the helicopter on Quarantine
- Fastened some situations the place head monitoring wasn’t working accurately, particularly in elevators, the killhouse, and whereas extracting in a helicopter
- Repair AI getting caught when coming into sure cowl states (similar to when taking cowl from a grenade).
- Fastened customers change into caught with no Crew after bodily equipping a helmet whereas utilizing the laser-pointer to pick out the opposite inside Tent Lobbies all through the title
- Fastened the C4 having a collider that will block bullets
- Fastened Spherical abruptly ending when a consumer dies after having beforehand entered a ‘disable uplink’ code in the course of the newest round-end section of ‘Assault’
- Fastened Recreation ending in a VOLK victory when MARSOC slays VIP throughout Spherical Reset timer after Jail timer all through Escort
- Fastened matches failing to finish instantly after urgent the ‘Give Up’ button in Evac
- Fastened air drones with the ability to depart the spawn jail
- Fastened a problem the place if two gamers timed their uplinks good, two could be despatched and MARSOC could be awarded 4 factors in Uplink
- Fastened Mercenary Mode not being obtainable within the server filter as an choice
- Fastened the choice to permit altering recreation modes to look when making a Firefight server, when this recreation mode doesn’t help altering modes.
- Fastened a problem whereby gamers may set off a victory situation in Mercenary Mode – Extract with out having the onerous drive
Onward is offered on the Meta Horizon Retailer for Quest headsets, Meta PC Retailer for Hyperlink & Rift, and Steam for any headset supported by SteamVR.
