Gear Up - update 0.112 released news

WHAT'S NEW
We're finally back with another update! The three main things to tell your neighbors about in this update are:

• Deferred rendering improving the GPU performance.
• Even more work on the net code.
• Improved navigation in menus and more polished panels.

OTHER CHANGES
Here follows a long list of other changes that we've made:

• Disabled lowpass and echo filters for audio.
• Replicator now only sync time with primary peer.
• Game scoring accumulation is only performed once every second.
• Fix to state replication issues. Primary peer is now responsible for camp balance.
• Fixed script crash when trying to award “Death to Deserter” achievement.
• Optimized tank extrapolation method.
• Disabling time synchronization after time variance has reached acceptable levels.
• Time synchronization forced if drifted too far, continuous sync only in lobby.
• Re-activated old extrapolation path – using explicit extrapolation instead of physics integration (should be cheaper on the CPU).
• Able to set a lower max player limit.
• A lot of optimizations in replicator and P2P, less memory allocations and reduced number of API calls.
• P2P topology now only scans first and second order routes.
• Fixed overlapping and misaligned issues in UI at half size.
• Fixed missing minimap in SP, and centered it.
• Fixed lobby user list UI glitches.
• Partially hidden panels in the tank customizer now flashes to attract attention.
• Various script optimizations.
• Steam integration optimizations, no longer polling lobby users, instead update local list in callbacks.
• Fixed a lot of shaders to use the proper output.
• Fixed full garbage container collision.
• Fixed arena monitor collision.
• Added dead plants to Oasis.
• Significantly slowed down the preview camera that's circling the map.
• Removed hours from match time, showing only minutes and seconds.
• Vintage Jets asset change.
• Reduced size of cloud textures in skypsheres.
• Added material to Vintage Jets hover.
• Reduced sound gain on some engines.
• Fixed flickering gokart textures.
• New Gear Up coin icon. Now also hides coin icon when no part is selected in the part store.
• Replaced XP with Rank on top of progression meter.
• Now shows green symbol on owned parts in part store, and a red number to indicate sell price.
• Changed the colors for difference when changing mass in the customizer. Lowering mass now shows green and adding as red.
• Various work on textures.
• Added sounds for victory and defeat when a Conquest or TDM match ends.
• Removed hit ground sounds for spiders (constantly being triggered).
• Added correct caption to the Replayer panel.
• Tank name is correctly truncated.
• Added one more LOD for containers to lower aliasing issues.
• A lot of small changes to weapon and auxiliary effects.
• Added loadout change panel to Conquest spawn screen.
• New minimap looks.
• Tweaked minimap symbols and added legend to spawn picker. Fixed misaligned symbols.
• Pressing Play now brings the player straight to the lobby list – removing one step.
• Pressing Back from own lobby now leads to lobby list instead of Create new game.
• Make sure we stop refreshing lobby list when creating a new game.
• Issue lobby query directly when entering lobby browser panel.
• Optimized pickup checking code a bit.
• Work on Create Game screen and localization.
• Minimap team mates now always seen.
• Show team mates on bigmap properly.
• Menu, menu sounds and localization tweaks.
• Players (both teams) now seen on the Conquest spawn map.
• Adjusted minimap pulse visibility.
• Cleaned up input mapping.
• Added military rank style badges.
• Merged all events controlling camps into a new class, should resolve synchronization issues.
• Fixed elevation projectiles (saw blade) that wasn't issuing any damage.
• Improved impulse direction calculation of projectiles.
• Work on lobby symbols and items.
• Fixed bug where AI bots didn't attack players in water.
• Fixed bot position on big map.
• Changes to improve heightfields in various ways.
• Conquest bar changes to a darker color when team isn't getting any capture score.
• Conquest bar flashes when the team is 25% from winning the round.
• Ammo symbols flash when replenished.
• New crosshair and screen center symbols.
• New thumbnails and loading screens.
• Friends show a green symbol when invitation sent.
• Fix to cap player positions to map limits on the various UI maps.
• Replaced “Confirm” with “Start” in the lobby.
• Fix to team coloring of meshes surrounding camps.
• Fixed lobby issues where lobbies could enter limbo when created.
• Moved the lobby search spinner to the center and removing it when the lobby search is finished.
• Now shows if a joined lobby is private or public.
• Fixed offset error in heightfield methods, causing misaligned ray queries in physics.
• Fixed incorrect camp states replicated when a ghost connects.
• Now both red and blue conquest tower rings count from down and up.
• Made neutral team color darker to match neutral tower counter color.
• Toned down the repair effect and corrected longevity.
• Fixed issues with specular in deferred renderer.
• Disable specular when tank is either stealthed or in near camera mode.
• Fixed skysphere direction on Oasis and Valley.
• Fix for store camera.
• Fix for part prices not going back from red to yellow.
• Neutral tank parts now matches the dark grey neutral camp color.
• Fixed dps stat when multiple main weapons are attached.

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