Onward Update 2.0 Is Out Now, Overhauling Every Weapon In The Game

Onward Replace 2.0 is out now.

Meta-owned Downpour Interactive describes the replace as “the most important replace we have now ever performed for the reason that recreation’s launch in 2016”. In line with Downpour, each single weapon and piece of kit has been graphically upgraded, new weapons have been launched, a brand new recreation mode has been added, now you can select and customise your character mannequin, a basic map has been remastered, and a brand new map has been launched.

Weapons and gear have taken a “big visible leap” with the fashions, textures, and sounds changed, Downpour says. This consists of every part from weapons to drones and even smoke grenades.

13 new weapons have additionally been added, together with a pump-action shotgun and revolver with distinctive hand interactions:

MARSOC

M870 (Specialist)
Vector (Specialist)
HK416 (Rifleman)
HK45T (All Courses)
M45A1 (All Courses)
M27 (Marksman, Help)
MR73 Revolver (Rifleman, Marksman)

Volk

AK103 (Rifleman)
Saiga 12 (Specialist)
APC9 (Specialist)
MP443 Grach (All Courses)
Stechkin APS (Specialist, Help)
RPK-74 (Help with drum journal, Rifleman with molot journal)

Two weapons have additionally been faraway from the sport, the G3A3 and M1911. Downpour says it’s because the G3A3 is now not utilized by fashionable armies, and sees the newly added RPK-74 as its substitute. Equally, the M1911 isn’t utilized in actuality anymore has been changed by the M45A1, which is a modernized successor.

And whereas beforehand each participant on every staff seemed the identical, Onward Replace 2.0 provides 10 “operators” per faction, for a complete of 20, to customise their look.

The replace additionally provides a brand new map, known as Overgrowth, and a remastered model of the fan-favorite Downfall. Each can be found in day or night time mode. In addition to being “extra graphically superior” than present Onward maps, these two new choices add climbable ladders, which have additionally been added to Capturing Vary, FOB, and Bazaar.

Additional, the map Tanker is now obtainable in day mode, not simply night time.

Onward Replace 2.0 additionally brings a brand new co-op recreation mode, known as Retrieval, in addition to the choice for added AI enemies to spawn after 32 within the Hunt recreation mode.

Lastly, the replace brings dozens of quality-of-life and realism enhancements, together with extra lifelike bullet drop, scope zeroing, and new scope know-how.

Full Onward Replace 2.0 Changelog

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Changed all current weapon fashions, textures and every part else associated to their visuals and sounds.
Added new sorts of weapons: pump motion shotguns, and a revolver.
New weapons: M870, Vector, HK416, HK45T, M45A1, M27, MR73, AK103, Saiga 12, APC9, MP443 Grach, Stechkin APS, RPK-74 (Drum / Molot).
Changed all weapon attachments and added many new ones
Added new sorts of weapon attachments: grippods, alternate iron sights, hybrid scopes, combo laser sights, and extra
Changed all MARSOC and Volk characters
Added 20 selectable operators with customization choices in arm band colours and lens colours if relevant
Added two new maps: Downfall Remastered (changing Downfall), and Overgrowth
Added new music all through the sport
Added new visible results for bullets hitting objects, and for when the participant is hit
Added the choice to filter servers by platform.
Added interactable ladders to a number of maps.

Weapons

Overhauled ballistic trajectories, they now aren’t affected by framerate and correctly convey bullet mass, form, and drop over time.
Added alternate assist grip hand poses to help with overlap on a number of weapons when they’re utilizing different magazines, similar to an RPK drum journal in an AK fashion weapon.
Added “set off self-discipline” animations to the index finger on all weapons, when the person isn’t touching their controller set off they’ll relaxation their finger on the set off housing.
All weapons now assist set off animations when pulling the set off, together with the taser and the M203 attachments.
When utilizing tracer rounds within the Capturing Vary they now have an effect on each shot as a substitute of each third shot.
Volk now has their very own stun gun.
Stun weapons used to require gamers to be downed however not useless to hack tablets. That is nonetheless the case except that participant was shocked with the stun gun itself. Then they are often hacked even when useless.
Bipods on some LMGs are actually grippable.
Added shell carriers for shotguns.

Maps

Added new daytime map variant for Tanker.
The Capturing Vary now comprises a basketball purpose, and a number of other hidden easter eggs.
Ladders have been added to Bazaar to succeed in the rooftops on just a few key buildings.
Towers in Capturing Vary and FOB now have functioning ladders.
Improved lighting bakes and textures on varied maps most notably on Bazaar and Quarantine amongst others
Enhancements to propping and texturing had been made to the next maps: Capturing Vary, Quarantine, Tanker, Suburbia, Bazaar.
Enhancements had been made to a number of Skyboxes
Subway now helps Assault mode
Added an opportunity of lightning to nighttime maps, in addition to an opportunity of a jet or helicopter flyover on any map, and an opportunity of a ship driveby on maps with water like Tanker and Deserted

Sport Modes

New recreation mode: Retrieval. That is much like the laborious drive restoration mission from Mercenary Mode.
Gun Sport now makes use of random factions on faction particular gear like grenades.
Added a “pump motion shotgun” mode to One within the Chamber.
Male and Feminine VIP added for Escort mode, the gender chosen will match your Marsoc character.
In FFA modes we use your character picks however we do use a random faction, for selection.
Added “Secure Spawn” performance that permits gamers to respawn at random positions in Free Roam if their physique is being camped.
Added seen ‘partitions’ to point the playable space in Subway for Assault
Enable for as much as 512 bots to spawn in co-op modes – they’ll respawn when over 32 bots are chosen, and ammo containers will seem.

Bots / AI

Improved AI responsiveness throughout journey states, in order that they react extra realistically when taking fireplace.
AI now not speaks Russian however English with a thick accent, permitting the participant to listen to what they’re doing.
AI now has a number of new voice occasions for throwing flashbangs, throwing smokes, and taking fireplace.
AI now has each female and male voices.

Miscellaneous

Added seen Quest 3 controller for Quest 3 customers within the tutorial.
Up to date all menu tiles
Participant vocalizations now have female and male variants.
Added a brand new drafting board pen that deterministically randomizes its colours each spherical.
Fastened the aggressive warning when becoming a member of through playlist.

Bug Fixes

Eliminated some out of date Quest 1 optimizations to characters that would make them look worse.
Grabbing an LMG lid from the unsuitable facet will now flip your hand accurately.
Repair the sport doubtlessly getting caught if the participant leaves a recreation throughout a map transition.
Repair the sport getting brighter if the participant leaves a recreation throughout a flare.
Repair varied areas the participant may get caught in Deserted, FOB and Bazaar.
Repair minor collision points in Suburbia, Turbine, and Deserted.
Repair not having to sort the total Uplink code if it ends in zeroes.
Repair not with the ability to extract in Hearth Battle if the host disconnects.
Repair customized content material map authors being unable to check AI modes on native exports.
Repair a possible method to get two corpsmen on one fireplace staff.
Repair being unable to work together with a scroll bar when making a server.
Hearth Battle laborious drive now not falls by way of the helicopter and will get caught beneath it.
Casters in Mercenary Mode can now not take part in map or reward votes.
Repair holo sights not showing white when utilizing night time imaginative and prescient typically.
Repair an edge case that allowed instantaneous Uplink sends in Assault and Mercenary Transmit rounds.
Molotov flames now have an effect on gamers of all heights.
Repair server ID textual content overlapping different UI within the server browser.
Repair sabotage matches ending shortly after the spherical begins prematurely.
Repair just a few placeholder messages in Mercenary mode goal textual content, for instance in Extract mode.
Repair a Hearth Battle helicopter you possibly can not board in Turbine.
Repair Evac rounds not ever ending if a participant offers up earlier than the AI spawn in.
Repair participant rely on the watch in One within the Chamber being incorrect.
Repair a small seam within the ballistic protect between the window and protect that could possibly be shot by way of.
Repair AI being bizarre if you happen to broke line of sight close to doorways.
Repair the VIP having inexperienced trim round their night time imaginative and prescient even if you happen to hadn’t chosen it in your choices, additionally mounted VIP ignoring the participant’s default phosphor setting.
After customers efficiently end a mission involving a helicopter, repair the helicopter’s sound taking part in perpetually.
Repair just a few spots in Cargo Evening that night time imaginative and prescient didn’t illuminate.
Repair getting caught and not using a staff if you happen to attempt to click on on one staff whereas placing on the helmet of one other staff.
Repair not making footstep sounds in case you are rubbing towards a wall.
Repair some occlusion culling points on Tanker, Quarantine, & FOB.
Repair the drafting board being corrupted when becoming a member of a match in progress.
Changed the examine of your web connection from being ping primarily based to a common internet request, which can assist sure gamers.
Fastened bots throwing flashbangs when the participant(s) had lengthy since moved
Fastened syringes not syncing their state to different gamers
Gamers can now not hack allied tablets
Fastened flares illuminating subterranean areas of ranges
Fastened a problem that would progress a participant to the following gun in Gun Sport, if one other participant gave up
Fastened each medics spawning in the identical fireplace group on Firefight
Fastened a problem the place gamers would typically die whereas extracting within the helicopter on Quarantine
Fastened some situations the place head monitoring wasn’t working accurately, specifically in elevators, the killhouse, and whereas extracting in a helicopter
Repair AI getting caught when coming into sure cowl states (similar to when taking cowl from a grenade).
Fastened customers turn into caught and not using a Workforce after bodily equipping a helmet whereas utilizing the laser-pointer to pick out the opposite inside Tent Lobbies all through the title
Fastened the C4 having a collider that will block bullets
Fastened Spherical abruptly ending when a person dies after having beforehand entered a ‘disable uplink’ code throughout the newest round-end section of ‘Assault’
Fastened Sport ending in a VOLK victory when MARSOC slays VIP throughout Spherical Reset timer after Jail timer all through Escort
Fastened matches failing to finish instantly after urgent the ‘Give Up’ button in Evac
Fastened air drones with the ability to go away the spawn jail
Fastened a problem the place if two gamers timed their uplinks good, two can be despatched and MARSOC can be awarded 4 factors in Uplink
Fastened Mercenary Mode not being obtainable within the server filter as an possibility
Fastened the choice to permit altering recreation modes to seem when making a Firefight server, when this recreation mode doesn’t assist altering modes.
Fastened a problem whereby gamers may set off a victory situation in Mercenary Mode – Extract with out having the laborious drive

Onward is on the market on the Meta Horizon Retailer for Quest headsets, Meta PC Retailer for Hyperlink & Rift, and Steam for any headset supported by SteamVR.