Characters Reduced the number of character draw calls created by wearing any type of glasses cosmetic

Particle Effects Optimized muzzle flash effects to have less draw calls and overdraw when firing weapons Optimized shell eject effects to no longer use PhysX fluid emitters as this was causing hitches due a legacy version of PhysX. Shell ejects now use a normal mesh emitter Reduced number of draw calls and overdraw added to the scene by gameplay related effects like impacts, explosions, etc Reduced overdraw of level placed effects like smoke, dust, etc Reduced number of particles using collision calculations Significantly reduced the hitching caused by having many Smoke Grenades spawned in the world

Level Optimizations Updated all maps with the following: Turned off dynamic shadows being casted on small or thin objects Cull distance pass Turned off decals, rice paddy meshes and some facade meshes when using Low World Detail setting Refinements to cull distance settings - fixing distances that were too short and making culling more aggressive for other objects Adjusted Terrain Component sizes on some levels that either had this value set too high or too low Increased threshold for static meshes to be considered for Instanced Rendering on some maps to reduce draw calls to a more reasonable number

Instanced Rendering Instanced Static Meshes now properly respects cull distances set in the Editor Instanced Static Meshes now properly respects settings for turning off receiving dynamic shadows

World Objects Fixed a trench mesh using perpoly collision Fixed a log error related to a dynamic actor that had no collision Reduced vertex shader complexity on small foliage objects like ivy and rice paddies

Texture Optimizations Added option to use a Pool Size for texture accollocation Fixed several instances of large uncompressed textures Corrected several instances of textures using the incorrect Texture Group Reduced the overall number of mipmaps being used and constantly being streamed from the HDD



BAR

Browning Hi-Power

M1911

F1 SMG

L1A1

L2A1

M1917

M1919

M1A1

M1 Carbine

M1 Garand

M1-D Sniper

M2 Carbine

Makarov PM

Owen Gun

RPG-7

XM21 Suppressed Variant

Spawn Tunnel

Bird Dog

Canberra Bomber

Skyraider

F4 Phantom

AC-47 Spooky

Various particle effects

Hello everyone!The focus of this weeks CTB will be performance optimizations - and we will want your feedback on those. We will have a survey link posted in the coming days which will allow you to submit your feedback about the optimizations we've made. More about that in the patch notes!For those that have not been a part of a CTB test already, you will find it available in your Steam Library on Friday.The following maps will be included for the server map rotation: SU-Forrest, Firebase Georgina, Hue, and Song Be.Here's a list of all the new changes players will be getting their hands on soon!The big focus of the Community Performance Test is to test the effectiveness of changes made toin order to aid players who get poor performance when playing the game. Many of these changes are visual, but some are purely on the back-end, and we'd like feedback both on the changes made to the visual elements of the game, but also to hear how much/how little these changes have affected your performance!Several art elements in the game were displaying LODs with far higher poly-counts than necessary at distance. These included both weapons and vehicles. Here is a full list of art with new LODs:Designed by the Germans during the Second World War this fully automatic submachine gun can fire up to 550 round per minute. Tens of thousands of these short range weapons were put in the hands of the NLF during the Vietnam War, sourced from Soviet stockpiles.PAVN players will see a new ammunition variant for the machine gunners RPD with this update. The new 200 round belt holds 100 more rounds than the drum and can be optionally changed in the Role Select out screen.Available at any ammo resupply point, the North have a new weapon to add to their arsenal - a deployable version of the (previously static) DSHK .50 caliber machine gun. Simply pick up the tripod, find a quiet patch of Jungle and set up to become a portable anti-air emplacement.These guns can be destroyed by explosives, however, so staying in one place for too long is bound to get you blown up, giving the Southern forces a counter to this devastating new weapon.A brand new trap for the NLF Sapper, the Fougasse Mine is an improvised explosive device planted under the ground and activated by a pressure plate. It leaves a cloud of toxic vapour behind, making it a great tool for area denial.Added "audio occlusion" to RS2, ensuring that gunshots and other ingame sounds are appropriately affected by their environment. This does not apply to all sounds in the game, but will affect any sound loud enough to be heard through walls, and be muffled/occluded by obstacles such as buildings or terrain.When testing this feature, please provide feedback of any kind at the following link: https://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/forum/rising-storm-2-vietnam/rs2-vietnam-general Doing so will allow the development team to adjust things prior to the release of 1.2!As always, thank you for your continued support! We are continuing to work hard on, and would not be able to provide fixes like these without your feedback.Antimatter Games & Tripwire InteractiveTwitter - https://twitter.com/rs2vietnam Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RS2Vietnam/