Updates to Section 8: Prejudice have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
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