This update brings the beta of Ranked Mode, a points-based leaderboard tracking player performance across matches on official servers. It's similar to ranked systems in other games like CS2/chess ELO etc, where you gain more points for performing well against high-ranked opponents, but with a higher emphasis on individual performance vs team wins or losses. W/L plays a small factor the points calculations, but the main emphasis is on KDR and score (currently it's a 1/1/0.4 split between score/KDR/win-or-loss). This allows for bots to be included; bots on ranked servers are configured to have varying skill levels (1-9), and the lower skill bots typically have very low ranks -- hopefully this will make farming more difficult.

We're still twiddling knobs calibrating the algorithm, so during beta you may see your points change quite drastically. In fact, it's been running in the background over the past couple of weeks, and if you've been playing in that time you might already have a rank. https://stats.militaryconflictvietnam.com/ has public leaderboards and a history of all your matches, so you can look there and see how your points have been changed by each match. You can also view this in the new in-game "Ranked" tab in the Personal menu, as well as at the end of matches.

To participate in ranked matches, just play on servers with the "Ranked" check in the server browser. Please let us know what you think in our Discord as we continue to test!

https://stats.militaryconflictvietnam.com/

[Game]

- Khe Sanh Depot (mcv_depot) ready for Military Conflict: Vietnam 1.0
- Fixed invalid grenade fuse time shown
- Fixed VC long sleeve clipping
- Changed zombie climb height to 150
- Made C96 upgradeable in zombie mode
- DoV updated playermodels melee weapons panzershreck and bazooka
- Fixed bug related to picking up dropped money bundles

[Maps]

- Khe Sanh Depot ready for Military Conflict: Vietnam 1.0
- Improved models and textures for garbage scrap construction and industrial props
- Improved textures for small grass
- Fixed skybox grass, needs recompile on some maps
- Added a lot more ground details and props, such as plants and rocks (mcv_depot, mcv_siege, mcv_saigon, mcv_port)

[Client]

- Fixed grass losing textures after reloading materials
- Fixed grass shadow materials were loosing basetexture after reloading materials
- Fixed sky textures not being released when reloading materials
- Fixed overlay vertex buffers not being released when reloading materials
- Fixed Dynamic Resolution Scaling making the image darker
- Fixed controller mappings and attributes
- Fixed sniper weapon shadow issues
- Fixed shadows of sniper rifles appearing floating near the player
- Fixed water reflections were not cleared in sniper scope view
- Fixed one-frame VFX lag in sniper scope view
- Fixed flickering in sniper scope view
- slightly more efficient viewmodel rendering to depth buffer
- slightly improved depth buffer rendering
- Rremoved redundant copies of depth buffer texture
- Added support for multisampled rendertargets
- Added support for MSAA for sniper scope view
- Optimized SSAO in sniper scope view
- mat_ssao_combine renamed to mat_ssao_debug
- Added ability for shaders to not bind unused resources
- Fog color from env_fog_controller is now used as haze color for procedural sky
- env_atmosphere added flag Haze Color is Sky color disabled by default
- env_atmosphere removed flag Moving Sun
- env_sky and env_atmosphere no longer load moon and star textures if sky is static
- Changed reflections and refractions to be reprojected from main scene for better performance
- Scope camera now supports water intersection
- Gamma correction now turns off when rendering to floating point render targets
- Fixed blurfilter shader

[Server]

- Added sv_hitmarkers_enable
- Added sv_hud_damagenumbers_enable
- Added vietnam_airstrike_independant
- Added sv_radar_display_shooters
- Added support for map-specific zombie wave configuration files
- Added zombie_climb_height command
- Added vietnam_zombies_item_money_value

[Weapons]

- Fixed firemode changing for weapons picked up from the ground
- Updated over 30 weapon icons
- Updated Stoner 63 effects
- Updated textures and models for Type 56 assault rifle
- Updated textures and models for MAS-36 CR39 rifle
- Updated textures and models for SVT-40 and AVT-40 rifles
- Updated textures and models for F1 and N-60 rifle grenades
- Updated textures and models for VC Type 64 high explosive grenade
- Updated textures and models for ChiCom frag grenade
- Fixed misplaced bullets on PK machinegun and PPK pistol
- Improved reload system allowing some interactions during reload
- Bashing no longer interrupts reloading by default
- Reduced attack delay after bashing by 40 percent