Today Doctor Entertainment released a major update for Gear Up which includes support for Linux and increased stability on all platforms.
- Fixed crash bug with Proximity Mines.
- Changes to the impact determination system.
- Added team member lists to the large map view.
- Rubber rotation to the tank in front end.
- 50xp awarded for taking a tower in Conquest.
- Added target aim functionality to Skyfire mortar.
- Increased resolution of trails.
- Fixed bounding projectiles with a trace radius.
- Added more colors to the tank customize menu.
- Fixed OpenGL issues with reflective tank materials.
- Reduced speed of sniper bot.
- Activated Steam Cloud for saving tank loadouts.
- Fixed freecam in bot matches.
- Changed input settings should be stored in config files.
- Tank propulsions should not hinder jets to increase max speed.
- Dockyard: Removed floating plants, added road pieces, new railings, container colors, banners, windows and team colored glass dome entrances.
- New effect system for weapon projectiles.
- Fixed crash bug if no sound device available.
- Removed all network settings except Record Traffic.
- Ability to set the gamepad thumbstick to inverted for Weapon up/down.
- New hull part: Wooden Framed
- New turret part: Wooden Framed
- Added water splashes on impact.
- Added movie-grain effect to post processing.
- Fixed collision mesh for container carriage.
- Fixed collision mesh for maglev cart.
- Changed social buttons in the main menu.
- Fixed missing team colors on Electronic Capsule entity.
- Added team colored ground vents.
- Added two railing pieces to various maps.
- Added hover fan ground effect.
- Ability to name loadouts in customization menu.
- Migrated experience points to savegame.
- Changes to Tilted Tracks mesh, skeleton and textures.
- Various updates to bamboo meshes.
- Island: Added end railings, plants, team colored banners, antenna, window. Changed container colors and some road pieces. Fixed elevator threshold. Team object corrections. Adjusted some day and night lights. Added and repositioned WayPoints. Removed a troublesome spawn position.
- ConSite: Changed team objects such as vents and containers. Added antennas, team banners, team colored glass dome entrances, windows and radar. Small railing changes. Some panel changes. Fixed cactus that grew inside a building. Moved troublesome spawn. Added and repositioned WayPoints. Fixed ambience sound (no more seagulls in the desert).
- And as always, a bunch of texture and mesh updates (new ball propulsion design).
- Some propulsion offset fixes.
- Fixed sound issues with Saw.
- Added a podium to the main menu and moved the arrows slightly.
- Added support for weapon warmup.
- Various Linux and Mac fixes.
- Center panel scaling of scoreboard for low resolutions and windowed mode.
- Changed Sniper Basic damage and fire rate (40 to 42 and 0.5 to 0.3, dps from 20 to 12,6).
- Changed Sniper Desecrator damage and fire rate (45 to 50 and 0.4 to 0.25, dps from 18 to 12,5).
- Reduced armor for Heavy Spider propulsion (from 100 to 70).
- Reduced firerate for Proximity Mine Launcher from 1 to 0.75.
- Reduced auxiliary Proximity Mine damage from 30 to 20.
- Removed weapon zoom on all weapons except snipers.
- Optimized post processing step.
- Added ocean detail settings.
- Experimenting with screen space reflection for oceans (ocean settings high).
- Tank explosions and some other particle effects are now tinted with sun color.
- Ensure ray projectiles doesn't deal multiple damage per impact.
- Limits to tank name and chat input text fields.
- Fixed tank rotation hit box in UI.
- Bot matches can be restarted when the player wins.
- Changes to fog
- Added camera shake when player tank explodes.
- New design for Heavy Spider propulsion.
- Added God rays.
- Added ”remove parts” icon with the possibility to detach Flags, Accessories and Auxiliary parts. (Not present in the update, something went wrong – you still have to click in the empty space next the last part, will be fixed in the next update).
- Fixed saving of keyboard, mouse and gamepad settings.
- Fixed order of markers in minimaps (not able to hide under minimap symbols).
- Added ”Death to the Deserter” achievement.
- Added easy, normal and hard bot levels.
- A lot of collision changes to various parts.
- Removed invisible walls from all maps.
- Changes to impact damage system.
- Fix to prevent the Bastion bot from getting stuck in the ground when spawning.
- Fixed spinning texture on Modern Fans aux.
- Teslaball texture changes.
- Increased LOD distance on tall cacti.
- Fixed Modern Fans rotating texture.
- Increased Plasma Blaster Basic projectile time to live from 1 to 3.
- Mortar Skyfire increased impact radius.
- Increased damage for flamethrowers and shotgun
- Halved damage for machineguns.
- Slightly reduced damage for Grayhound.
- Added impact events to Repair Cannon.
- Changes to Linux mouse input.
- Fixed bots spawning in the same space that the player occupied.
- Fixed some mouse cursor and restart issues when winning a bot match.
- Fixed bug that caused Proximity Mines to crash the game.
- Improved bot navigation in certain situations.
- Water edge tinted by primary light color (should look better at night).
- Playernames not overlapping the big map.
- Particle effects do not disappear immediately when the shot disappears.
- Slight effect change for Armor Hardeners.
- Some body texture and socket fixes.
- Proximity Mine changes (no longer triggered by player and also explodes on enemy contact).
- New trajectory for Skyfire mortar.
- Bot health regeneration.
- Skeleton joints fix (quad wheels shouldn't go through the fenders).
- New color grading for day and evening scenes.
- Fixes to particle rendering (less flickering and incorrect particles drawn)
- Memory checking in OpenGL renderer to determine if resources should be preloaded.
- Improved refraction.
- Work on premium hangar.
- Fixed the water tank shader.
- Fixed lingering player tanks in bot matches when restarting.
- Fixed conquest tower capture sounds (Island, ConSite, Dockyard).
- Added static noise loop to conquest towers.
- Increased physics simulation rate by 25%
- Fixed color picker bug
- Set default bot level to normal.
- Added UI and camera feedback to some nozzle effects (Machinegun aux, Bronze Cannon, Heavy Cannon, Dragon Cannon, Saw, Sniper).
- Players now take damage from their own mines.
- Added support for localized level names (also renamed levels).
- Speed Jets force set to 400 (shouldn't topple as much).
- Healthbar increases when taking damage.
- Changes to sniper bot collision model.
- Added separate post processing when the player is deserting.
- Added dust particles to premium hangar.
- Fixed weapon reload bar in singleplayer.
- Changes to bomb bot collision model.
- Fixed flickering dust effect.
- Minor tweaks to tank explosion and mortar shader.
- Improved camera position when the tank explodes.
- Fixed in-game customization bug (bug if no previous load-out had been modified in the front end).
- New hull part: Jet Engine.
- Proximity Mines now cause splash damage on direct hits (to other targets nearby).
- New reflectionmaps for Island and Construction Site.
- Reduced hovers max speed by 25%.
- Bot AI reaction speed now depends on difficulty level.
- More work on localization for the front end UI.
- Fixed script crash when starting SP Shooting Range.
- Lowered capture sound effects for Conquest towers.
- Improved support for multiple mouse input devices
- Fixed flickering minimap marker bug.
- Fixed bug with team colors in Conquest.
- Fixes for when splash damage is dealt.
- Added Max Velocity data for spider propulsions in UI.
- Flamethrowers no longer deal damage through obstacles.
- Five seconds of invulnerability when spawning.
- Bots can return to patrol mode after an attack.
- More localization support for menus.
- Fixed retrieving number of friends in lobbies.
- Flamethrowers no longer apply insane physics impulses.
- Added small bursts of fire at flamethrower hit points.
- Added team colored smoke flares to Conquest team bases.
- Flamethrower dps numbers should match the damage output.
- Redesigned Triple Rockets to Wasp Rockets.
- Redesigned Mega Rockets to Bumblebee Rockets.
- Normalized movement input for Ball, Hovers and Spider propulsions.
- Slightly increased the spider propulsions max velocity.
- Updated a couple of thumbnails.
- Changed rotation limits to tower sockets (less restriction up/down).
- Conquest towers sound fix.
- Hover propulsion elevation fixes.
