TimeGate Studios vient de sortir sur Steam un gros patch pour Section 8 : Prejudice. La rustine touche à peu près à tous les domaines, en améliorant la stabilité, le matchmaking, la navigation, le gameplay, l'équilibrage du jeu, le gameplay, les serveurs dédiés, les stats etc. Ce patch accompagne d'ailleurs la sortie du DLC « Overdrive Map Pack », vendu au prix de 4€ et qui contient deux maps.

Comme d'habitude avec Steam, le patch sera téléchargé automatiquement au prochain démarrage.

La liste complète des changements se trouve dans la suite de la nouvelle.

STABILITY:

Fixed a crash that could occur when retrying to join a match after losing connection to LIVE
Fixed a crash that could occur when accepting an invite while a disconnection error message was displayed
Fixed a rare Lock-On crash that could occur during gameplay
Fixed a rare issue where player's controls could become unresponsive after performing a fatality

MATCHMAKING:

Fixed an issue with not being able to see some servers in Custom Match
Changed the Server Clan search to only list servers running the specified game mode
Fixed an issue with Server Clan search not listing SOD servers
Fixed an issue where Quick Match would sometimes join an empty SOD server when there were populated servers available
Changed Quick Match to prefer joining an empty SOD server of the same region/language before a populated server of a different region/language
Changed Custom Match to hide empty SOD servers when Hide Empty is selected

USABILITY

Fixed an issue with binding Shift as the Use key
Fixed an issue where the bot icon would be missing under System Link
Fixed an issue where the hintbar could disappear after disconnecting from the server
Fixed an issue where players would be unable to free spawn after cancelling a squad spawn
Improved the ability for the tank to fire over a slope
Added the ability for some Prejudice Online tweaks to be available when not connected to LIVE or Prejudice Online

AUTOBALANCE

Changed Autobalance to more aggressively place you with Friends
Changed Private servers to force Autobalance off
Changed Ranked servers to allow Autobalance off
Changed Autobalance to allow a team size discrepancy of 2 (to facilitate getting Friends on the same team)

GAMEPLAY

Changed the Friendly Fire to penalize napalm damage less than regular damage
Changed Overtime to constantly increase both team VP at the same rate (10% of maximum VP per minute)
Fixed an issue where the tank would fire an extra shot after exiting the driver seat
Fixed the Ball Hog achievement (Assault) to count CPs captured because of implicit turn end due to all defenders being killed

STATS

Changed Swarm to implicitly be Ranked for PC Listen servers (provided difficulty is at least Medium)
Changed Badges to only allow earning each 2 times per match
Changed Repair and Auto Repair ScoreEvents to have a maximum per match (200)
Changed Repair Feat to have a maximum per match (66)
Changed Ranked Swarm to only require two human players
Fixed an issue where players could host a Ranked Swarm match on Trivial Difficulty (Medium is the minimum requirement)

DEDICATED SERVER

Fixed an issue where the user configs would not work if there were trailing spaces on lines
Fixed an issue where SOD servers were not able to host certain game modes after rotating
Fixed some crashes related to hosting service server queries
Fixed an issue where the hosting service server query would return the incorrect max players for SOD servers
Fixed an issue starting SOD servers on virtual machines
Fixed an issue where SOD servers would become unplayable after being idle for more than a day