October 18 Patch Notes

[Qbicle 99]

Source:

https://aw.my.games/en/news/general/update-07020-now-available

 

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We are happy to announce that the Update 0.70.20 is now available!

 

List of Update 0.70.20 Changes

 

Please note: Premium Time rewards are not appearing correctly in this update. This is an interface issue and the rewards are handed out correctly.

Rate of Decay Special Operation

We are introducing the first mission of the Black Company Special Operation, which is called Rate of Decay. The Rate of Decay Special Operation takes you to north-western Texas where you’ll have to navigate through perilous canyons and fight your way through the ambushes while providing protection for your allies. For more information about the background, please visit our earlier article. Please note:

• Special Operations are available in the PvE section of HQ
• Make sure to turn your voiceover sound settings on (or up) to understand what’s going on in the mission

Make sure to submit your feedback in Discord so that we can iron out any potential issues!

Red Cold Event

The Red Cold event is bound to launch tomorrow, on October 19 in the morning (CEST/MSK). We are adding the new content including the Gadyuka skin called Patriot.

General Changes

• Added a brand-new Garage to the game (make sure to turn up your voiceover volume as there are story dialogues in the garage itself)
• Fixed an issue where the queue window was displaying strange incorrect bonuses
• Improved the game’s loading performance once more
• Arjun: Added a dozer blade ramming damage bonus
• BMPT-72: Removed the incorrect weakspots on the upper frontal plate
• Challenger 2: Improved the damage on the HESH round (it dealt less damage than the Challenger 1 round)
• Derivatsiya: Camouflages on this vehicle now appear correctly
• Leclerc: This vehicle now has 12.7mm machinegun instead of 7.62mm
• M50 Ontos: This vehicle now loses camouflage when moving (as intended)
• Merkava Mk.1: Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to switch fast between HEP shells and other types
• PTZ-89: HESH shells now have the same loading time as other shell types (they took longer to reload)
• Shadow: Removed the chance to set the engine on fire (hybrid engines should not burn)
• T-80UM1 Bars: Fixed an issue where the module unlock cost corresponded to Tier 7 (now corresponds to Tier 8)
• T-80UM1 Bars: The tank now shows in the garage filter correctly
• T-80UM1 Bars: Fixed the ERA layout
• TOS-1M: Autocannon now has correct elevation and depression values and no longer clips into the hull
• TTB: Added the Modern Kinetic Round trait (TTB has them already)
• ZTZ-20: WP missiles now load the correct amount in the UI (20/20)
• PvE mission “Sapphire”: Fixed a spot where players could get stuck (bunker at H4)
• PvE mission “Spearhead”: Fixed a spot where players could get stuck (pipes at F6)
• Special Operation “War”: Fixed a spot where players could get stuck (sector E7)
• Special Operation “Unrest”: Fixed a spot where players could get stuck (sector B5)
• Fixed several other minor spots on multiple maps where player vehicles could get stuck
• Fixed the AI vehicle behavior on a number of PvE maps, including Anvil, Life Jacket and Wages of Sin
• Reduced the amount of cases where players see an incorrect vehicle model when obtaining a new vehicle
• Fixed some small visual issues
• Fixed some small UI issues
• Fixed some small localization issues
• Added some assets for upcoming events

 

Other notes:

• The update was supposed to come last Thursday on 12th October, but the devs ran into problems and postponed the update to today.
• Rate of Decay is the first and only mission available for the Black Company spec ops chain right now. The Apocalypse and Exodus missions will be moved to weekend mode.
• Arjun got a functioning dozer blade module back in April, but the ramming bonus allegedly didn't work until now.
• Despite what patch note suggests, the Bars' module and upgrade costs actually remain unchanged.
• People who own the T-72 M1R skin have lost access to it, and its visuals are not displaying in the game
• There are also reports of cooldown timers in contract missions and BP repeatable missions resetting after update, or that those in progress were forced to go through a timer before resuming its original state. Some people are also not happy that battalion mission timers no longer reset after at a certain time of the day, but always a fixed cooldown time after completion.
• If clicking on the reset button on a commander's skill field screen, the confirmation window shows no reset options (i.e. free reset and lose XP, paying with credits to lose less XP, or pay with gold to lose no XP), and continuing to reset will allegedly use the free reset option. Previous options to reset for free and without XP loss as a result from commander rebalance / changes are no longer available. It is not known if this bug occurred from this patch or from a previous update.
• The "Remove" option from contextual menu is gone if you try to remove an expired rental vehicle from garage.
• There is also a more serious problem where the game crashes with Nvidia graphics card driver. SS made an announcement about this:

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  ... we are aware of the Nvidia driver issue that's causing crashes in Armored Warfare. As a temporary solution:

  • Disable all overlays (especially Nvidia Experience, Discord or Steam)
  • AND/OR replace drivers with an older version

Edited October 26, 2023 by Qbicle
Added game crashes related to Nvidia driver (see edit history)

[Qbicle 99]

The Red Cold event started today but is put on hold at the moment, because there is a bug where cooldown didn't occur, and it is possible to get the next days' rewards on the same day.

[Qbicle 99]

Regarding the T-72 M1R skin problem, SS has an answer for it:

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So, about the T-72M1R skin and why it is locked, here's an explanation our GM gave me:

 

A year ago when it was issued, the bundle was corrupted and the affected players received a compensation for that. Now a year has passed and the affected players no longer remember that and demand their skin. To issue the skin, the compensation would have to be removed, so contacting support is the only proper way how to deal with it.

 

TLDR contact support please. All "locked skins" and "skin looks corrupted" issues are due to this issue apparently. We have tested the skin on multiple drivers and multiple PCs on live and works just fine (including for me)

 

This T-72M1 skin was originally available as as part of the 2022 Polish Independence Day. According to the article it was available as a standalone (premium tank + skin) or part of a bundle (with other Polish skins).