Vivendi Universal and Massive Development have released the 1.008 patch for World in Conflict. This patch includes new features, game balance changes and bug fixes.
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Patch 1.008 Changelog:
This eighth update for World in Conflict fixes balancing and bug issues and introduces some new features, like improved in-game voting, new ignore functions and improved network code stability. There are also several additions to Massgate, including new banners and new explanatory texts for missing content.
New features:
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Improved in-game vote system.
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Special Ability icons now show the number of selected units ready to fire.
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Extrapolation added to the network code. This should decrease lag caused by high packet loss. To disable extrapolation, append “-noextrapolation” (without the quotes) to the target path of the WIC shortcut.
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Expanded the ignore functionality on Massgate to cover clan challenges and chat rooms.
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Unit shields will now always be enlarged on mouseover regardless of selected unit.
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Unit movement arrows are now more visible on the Megamap.
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Added a hyperlink pop-up when the client is missing map or mod content.
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Remote admins can now switch a ranked server to unranked and back.
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Added explanatory text to the abuse report window.
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Added Massgate banner.
Units and balancing:
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Improved infantry forest cover logic. When ordered into forest cover, infantry units should now always find actual cover.
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Increased accuracy and tweaked fire rates for Armored Transports.
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Improved stealth slightly for Demolition Engineers.
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Improved power of Demolition Engineers’ Demolition Charge. It now destroys most bridges with one charge.
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Fixed discrepancies with US Medium Tank and US Light Tank view ranges compared to USSR and NATO.
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Fixed discrepancy with the duration of the USSR Medium Artillery special ability compared to US and NATO.
Bug fixes:
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Fixed a bug that caused disconnects with wireless network cards.
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Friendly fire warnings are not triggered by stray bullets anymore.
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Fixed a Reinforcement Point exploit that used unit drops and role changes to get additional Reinforcement Points.
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Fixed a bug that caused units dropped by Tactical Aid to be blinking and untargetable.
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Fixed buildings on several maps that could not be targeted by air units.
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Fixed fortifications on several maps that could become untargetable.
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Fixed a bug that caused Kick-vote to be active in clan matches.
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Fixed a bug that caused Kick-on-idle to stop working.
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Fixed a bug that required spectators to click “ready” for servers in match mode to start. Only players in teams count now.
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Fixed a bug that caused the TA cooldown to not reset when matches started in match mode. It should no longer be possible to deploy Tactical Nukes prematurely.
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Fixed a clan challenge bug that caused the wrong number of members to be shown as online on the clan you challenged.
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Fixed a crash related to map voting and custom maps.
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Fixed an issue with TA ground markers behaving incorrectly in single player.
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Max camera height settings no longer affect single player.
