War Brokers v296



- Two new maps for the Storm Area 15 Event!

- Fixed ping on Steam build (was reporting 30ms too high). It will also make controls feel better.
- New kill feed.
- Matches always lasts 10 minutes in regular mode as opposed to 15 minutes.
- Fixed bullet vs. glass.
- Reformat menu bar nicely for all languages.
- Added compensator to BR mode. It will reduce recoil.
- Revamped the laser for BR mode. It significantly reduces hip firing sway.
- Increased SCAR damage drop off.

- War Brokers hit 10 MILLION play sessions this week, thanks to all you guys to make that happen! :-)
- Fixed crate images not showing up.
- Right click in the green box to respawn on ground in regular mode. Left click on green box or green player circle to parachute on that point.
- Adjusted AR rifle damage drop off to drop off quicker.
- Fixed bugs with "Play New Game" not always working.
- Improved server restart system, should auto reconnect more reliably now to a new server.
- You will loose 2 Kills Elo if you kill yourself by any method.
- If you are joining a server and one team is ahead by 15 or more points you will be placed on the loosing team to help it out.
- The game now allows more than 8 people on one team in cases of a lopsided score.
- If you right click on a health item that is not in the "6" spot it will get used (in BR mode).
- If you right click on a health item in your inventory and nothing is in the "6" spot, it will move to the "6" spot.
- Added "Toggle Fullscreen" button to Results screen.
- Put all levels in vote regardless of player count.
- Doubled damage of RPG versus vehicles.
- Set Hunting Rifle back to full auto mode.

- Purple Heart event until August 18th. Check out the new outfits in the store TAB.
- Only show purple spawn protection health bar for the enemy team when they are invulnerable.
- Separate squad tokens from nick as they become active.
- Fix nick color when dead and unique.
- Fix waiting for one more player message in BR.
- Don't spot an admin slewing in the map.
- Fix team assignment at beginning of round when in clan battle.

- New! Certain guns can switch between burst fire mode, auto fire mode, and single fire mode. Use the . key to switch firing modes (can be remapped in settings).
- Dead/spectating players now show up as gray on the leader board.
- You can now drag item armor pieces to the ground to discard them from inventory menu in BR. This is useful when you want to pick up a higher armor level that is damaged on the ground but can repair it with duct tape.
- You can now swap primary/secondary guns in BR mode by dragging one to the other slot
- Fixed overlays so you can see player nicks on moon base when it is against the night sky.
- Kills ELO is now displayed on the leader board instead of games ELO since matches are balanced on kills ELO now.
- Fixed players joining BR game on the ground.
- Tweaked BR circle times (increased them slightly so you have a few more seconds to loot at a few more seconds to outrun the circle when it is closing).
- Fixed the Jester head not appearing on the character when equipped.
- Fixed the arm and boot knife not showing up.
- Fixed the Uncle Sam Hat, beard, and head.
- Fixed the Plague Doctors mask item.

Small server update for Battle Royale mode with the following changes:
- Lobby time reduced to two minutes from three.
- Circle closing speed has been increased by 30%.
- Time in-between circles has been reduced by 30%
- Spawn tables have been tweaked. .50 cal, suppressors, and 100 round mags will spawn less in the general loot. You can still find them but a lot less likely to find them. You can get them now from bonus drops also.

Updated the OSX and the Linux Steam clients as there was a bug with them. After updating if you see any problems please let us know ASAP.

- New map: MOONBASE
- New space themed cosmetic items in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
- Upgraded to Unity 2018 LTS from Unity 2017 LTS
- You can now use the mouse wheel to switch between weapons.
- Added a link to the stats page from the main screen of the game.
- Team balancing is now based on kills ELO instead of games ELO.
- Fixed the flag patch icons.
- Fixed the position/orientation of the boot knife cosmetic item.
- Added crouching indicator (it will appear by your health bar when crouched).
- Disabled Unity Analytics (WebGL) to make the game load faster.
- Player who is spectating in BR mode will not draw now inside the base.
- Armor of people in BR mode will not be displayed on the leader board.
- Fixed item images of helmets that were swapped.

- Fixed crouch bug.
- Tweaked tactical shotgun damage +20%.
- Fixed weird Linux screen mirroring bug.

- New Weapon: Tactical Shotgun.

- Ability to interrupt shotgun reloading by pressing fire.
- Shotguns now only reload the number of shells that have been fired instead of the entire magazine.
- July 4th Event with cool new cosmetics.
- Air Strike and BGM do not affect Kills ELO anymore.
- All game keys should be reprogrammable now, except for ENTER and SHIFT + ENTER.
- Added Flag selection to Player tab.
- Fixed bug when you could not control BGM.
- Fixed VSS clip size bug.
- Updated Office Mini-Map.
- Fix for plane ejection on ground and inverted.
- Can select SCAR from weapon list when not connected to a server.
- Either SHIFT key + ENTER will trigger self destruct.
- If no flag is selected flag box will be empty instead of black.