Sniper Elite V2 Update Released

[Dirty]

SEv2 Update 1.04: 29th May 2012

 

 

New Features/Content:

 

- 2 new Multiplayer maps available for DM and TDM:

* Coast

* Graves

- Command Line Options added to fix/diagnose/workaround various issues customers are having:

* "-nosound" - disables all sound.

* "-novid" - disables all movie playback.

* "-60hz" - should now clamp to 60Hz in all cases.

* "-RV6xx" - for older ATI chipsets (for example, Radeon HD 3650) as a workaround for a driver crash in some areas (such as Facility - level 3).

- New server option: Headshot Only (AKA: Power 10)

- New server option: Sudden Death

- New server option: Team Autobalancing

- Voice-comms mute via the console ("Voice.Mute" and "Voice.UnMute" with a substring of player name).

- Console available on Ctrl-Tab as well as the grave key for non-US-English keyboard configurations.

- In-game "swap team" button for balancing.

- Players remaining on the loading screen, or not respawning, for more than 3 minutes after game has started will now be kicked.

- Spawn-point evaluation changed to try to prevent spawning behind the enemy in Multiplayer.

- Coop Lobby chat in place.

- Added Compute Shader versions of HDR Bloom and Depth of Field effects for DX11 hardware.

- Added Supersampling option for top-end graphics cards. Choose between Off (default), 2.25x and 4.0x supersampling. This can be used in conjunction with existing Anti-Aliasing options.

- Added Advanced Shadows option - this enables contact hardening shadows on DX11 hardware.

 

 

Fixes:

 

- Fixed issue with black square occasionally displayed when destroying explosives.

- Tweaks to the following maps:

* Opernplatz (Multiplayer only)

* Kreuzberg (Multiplayer only)

- Various voting improvements in Multiplayer.

- Partial fix to fix grenade throwing during periods of high-latency in Multiplayer.

- Fixes to tagging when joining a Multiplayer game-in-progress.

- Panzerfaust kills now counted against the career stats.

- Partial fix to solve people seeing different servers when refreshing the server-list.

- Partial fix to prevent graphic card overheating while game is minimised.

- Successfully completed Overwatch missions can now be retried.

- Various server browser fixes:

* Longer search times

* More search results allowed

* Fixed flickering text while scrolling with the mousewheel

 

 

Dedicated Server improvements:

* Invites to dedicated servers fixed.

* There is a new console command "Server.Say" which can be used to send text chat from the dedicated server.

* Dedicated server logs more game information.

* The console command reference has been updated.

* The example server config file has been updated.

 

 

If you encounter problems, please contact us on: [email protected].

 

 

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