Update Notes:
This is the second update for World in Conflict, primarily adding new
functionality for server administration, updates to Massgate and fixes to
various performance and stability issues.
New features:
- Several new Admin Commands have been added to give Server Admins increased
control. For details on each of the individual commands and how to use them,
please visit our forums at www.massgate.net.
- A time delay of 20 seconds has been added between Assault rounds.
- Clan officers can now invite other players to the clan, as well as kick
Grunts.
- A successful map vote will now change the map instantly.
- Two new permanent chat rooms have been added to Massgate for clan war and
few player mode matters.
- Players should now get an in-game notification when receiving an "Instant
Message".
Units and balancing:
- The cost for the "Heavy Air Support" Tactical Aid has been reduced from
30/50/70 to 25/45/65.
- Score from repairing your own non-repair units has been reduced by 50%.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a crash that could occur directly after map load (on systems not
supporting Pixel Shader 2.0). Was released on the forums as a Hotfix.
- Fixed crashes that could occur on localized versions (languages other
than English).
- "Solo VOIP" (to specific player(s)) checkbox now stays enabled when
exiting score sheet.
- Players who experience occasional freezes/lockups can now try to append
"-stabilityfactor 10" (without the quotes) to the target path of the WIC
shortcut. It can also be toggled in the console (in-game) by typing
StabilityFactor 10. The number 10 can be decreased or increased if users
want to experiment (StabilityFactor 0 turns the feature off).
- The game now defaults to full Field-of-View for Widescreen resolutions
(such as 16:9). The widescreen Field-of-View from Update 1 can be used by
appending "-widescreenscale" (without the quotes) to the target path of the
WIC shortcut.
- Entering the Mega-Map no longer resets changes to the camera settings.
- Better feedback to players that are moved to the other team as a result
of "Team Auto-Balance".
- Players should no longer experience disconnects when selecting a role
that has already reached its cap.
- Players should no longer experience disconnects when buying more units
than they had credits for. This could occur if a player “resupplied” and
then ordered more troops before the server had responded.
- Players should no longer experience disconnects when ordering more
Tactical Aid weapons than they could afford. This could happen if a player
ordered two different Tactical Aid weapons before the server responded.
- Added Dynamic Lag Margin, activated by appending "-lagmargin" (without
the quotes) to the target path of the WIC shortcut. This increases the
lag margin to a maximum of 0.45 at packet loss / variation in ping.
- Updated the NATO heavy helicopter texture.