Howdy Folks!

We're starting off the Update 114 cycle this week with a new little toy, and some maintenance stuff mostly. Bug fixes, some QOL improvements and such. For those of you who use the Pistool system for laying out ranges and such, I'd love some feedback on the new clipping behaviour (covered in the Devlog) for the Tractor tool. I think it's far more usable now for placing walls. Many thanks to 42nfl19 for hounding me to fix it :-)

Hope you have fun with it!

Cheers,
Anton

• Right click H3 in Steam
  
• Go to Properties
  
• Click Betas
  
• Click The Dropdown
  
• Select Alpha!

• Added New Firearm: Big Franking Fifty (.50 BMG)

• Altered Center of Mass of Comp Barrier Set to make them harder to accidentally knock over
  
• Tractor Pistool now only regards static environment objects when doing placement casting. This allows for clipping physics-locked objects into each other more easily.
  
• Refactored mag ejection on Bolt Action weapons to prevent errant magazine drops when laser grabbing them.

• Fixed issue where laser-grabbing Comp Barrier Objects would permanently make them no longer block player navigation
  
• Fixed Carl Gustaf being able to be operated and fired by its fore handle
  
• Fixed Bubble Level Shader lighting and normals
  
• Fixed Bolt Action weapon chambered round catching grabbing empties

Greetings!

Hope you're all having a WONDERFUL Friday. We sure are as we've finally finished the Update 113 development cycle, and H3's beautiful new Magnified Optics system, along with a fully rebuilt suite of magnifiers, is now in game and on the Main Branch.

If you haven't been playing around on the Alpha/Experimental Branches the past 2 months, I HIGHLY recommend you dive right in the new Duney Range scene, grab your favorite Sniper Rifle, and try out some scoped shooting.

Everything about the experience has been reconsidered and refined. Rendering, Stabilization, Zeroing, Interactions, & UI. I feel comfortable saying that this is the biggest upgrade distance shooting in H3VR has ever gotten, and I'm simply delighted by it.

If you want more details about everything that's been packed into this one, make sure to peruse the Devlogs from the Update 113 cycle to see all the nuances. Thanks again to all our loyal community members who've been invaluable in testing these systems as they've been worked on, and helping us to bring them to their full potential.

Hope you all have a blast playing Update 113!

Peace,
Anton

• Added New Scope System (the focus of this entire Update Cycle)
  
• Added New Attachment: KCD Bubble Level
  
• Added New Attachment: Periscopescope
  
• Added New Utility Object: RulerLevel
  
• Added New PipScope Subsystem: Laser hit point plus auto reticle zero to laser hit point
  
• Added New Option: Scope Dial Auto Menu Open
  
• Added New Gameplay Panel: Sosig Outdoor Combat Panel (WIP) to Duney Range
  
• Added New Firearm: P90 USG (Yes, it’s that one)
  
• Added New Attachment Set: GhostDR in Black and FDE
  
• Added New Attachment: Mile High Riser (thanks Meat Banana lol)
  
• Added New Firearm: P90 (with fancy shmancy transparent magazine)
  
• Added New Attachment: Classic 3-12x42mm Scope
  
• Added New Level: Duney Range
  
• Added New Option: Scope Recursive Rendering (very expensive)
  
• Added New Firearm Set: Mk12 Mod 0 SPR, Mk12 Mod 1
  
• Added New Attachment: Mk12 Suppressor
  
• Added New Attachment: Attachable Bipod H
  
• Rebuilt and Migrated Scopes To New System: AugA1, CAWS, G11, M40A1, NTW-20, Panzerfaust 3, PSG1
  
• Added New Scope: ACOS TA01 in Picatinny and Handle Mount configuration (with SO many reticle options)
  
• Added New Scope: VRZ 6-36 x 56mm. This scope replaces a number of high magnification scopes in game.
  
• Rebuilt and Migrated Scopes To New System: AR18, G3SG1, HamScope4x24, K98k, Lee Enfield, M1D, M1 Garand Prototype Optic, M76, M88 for M1 Carbine, M1903, MAS 4956, Python, QLB06
  
• Added New System: Physical Scope Manipulation
  
• Added New System: Scope Lateral View Parallax Simulation (toggleable in Options)
  
• Rebuilt the following optics to use New Scope Systems: C79, C79A2, BR4, Susat, WA2000 Scope, G36 Scope, G36 Comboscope, Telescopescope, C601 Scope, Art 3-9x40 Scope, Deagle Scope, Lion 2.5x, C3x20 Scope, PSO-1, EVU 1-10x28mm, W330, Mosin PU Scope, SVT40 PU Scope, TS30A2 3-9x36 Scope, VS Prism 1x Scope
  
• Rebuilt the following rifle integrated Optics: EM2, G36, FRF2

• Both 3x Magnifiers have been migrated to new Scope System
  
• Scope UI now has functionality for Flipping Magnifiers (including new quick interaction)
  
• Added Ladder to roof of shooting tower in Duney Range
  
• Migrated Meat Fortress Sniper Rifle to new Scope System
  
• Added Sosig Teams Page to Outdoor Sosig Fight Panel with a bunch of new Spawn Options
  
• Rebuilt Scope Magnification Control to be continuous instead of quantized, using a correctly nonlinear curve.
  
• Grabbing any physical scope control now automatically opens the Scope menu, set to the control being changed.
  
• P90 renamed to ‘P90 Tactical”
  
• Material Parameters and Textures of P90 Magazine tweaked to give more ‘solid’ opacity
  
• Altered internal Scope interaction system to allow for behavior overrides (needed on some advanced optics)
  
• Rangefinder Rebuilt to use new Scope System, with accurate HUD for range and angle (Ole dragged me kicking and screaming through implementing this and I’m glad he did)
  
• Gong Steel Target sound shifted to “Very Long Range” pool, allowing it to be heard from as far away as 3000m (hopefully this isn’t too loud up close)
  
• Added Scope Render Distance param, defaults to 3500m currently. Will eventually make this a quality setting
  
• Added Functionality and Option for Recursive Scope rendering (very expensive)
  
• Adjusted virtual stock distance for G11, CAWs, PSG1 and NTW20 to better accommodate their integrated scope’s eye boxes
  
• Modified Internal Scope Placement on some LPVOs to prevent clipping
  
• Changed Scope System UI Text scaling and placement
  
• Scope UI now has specific names for Reticles and Reticle Colors rather than auto-generated indices
  
• Scope Rendering and Culling can now be configured to allow multiple scopes to draw, in parallel, and recursively. This has not been wired up to Quality settings yet, but will be in a future update.
  
• Scope view now has anti-aliasing if AA is enabled in currently active quality setting

• Fixed a bunch of null equipment references in Spawn Tables in Return of the Rotwieners that could break spawning
  
• Fixed a bunch of null equipment references in Spawn Tables in Cappocolloseum that could break spawning
  
• VRZ, LT 3x9 and Classic 3-12 scopes re-pivotted to allow them to connect to short rails on bolt action scopes more reliably
  
• Fixed 5.8x42mm incendiary projectiles not igniting things
  
• Ammo Panel now properly reloads minigun box
  
• Fixed Meat Fortress Smoke Grenade smoke prefab connections
  
• Fixed Freedom smoke grenade prefab connections
  
• Fixed Attachable Bipod H separation behavior
  
• Fixed 1 Charge Mortar Shell velocity
  
• Fixed M1903 Springfield tagging
  
• Fixed Breadcrabs spawning from dead breadcrabzombies not having the correct IFF
  
• Fixed broken outfit metadata for desert camo sosigs
  
• Fixed missing Item Spawner Entries for the following Sosigguns: M17, M17 Suppressed, Rhino 40DS, DT11, M1014, PP19, Black Mamba, MK47, R1022, XM5, XM250
  
• Fixed floating point precision display error with scope UI
  
• Fixed NonFunctional Interaction Points on weapons with integrated Scopes
  
• Fixed backwards scope rendering
  
• Fixed missing chromatic aberration and distortion on scope rendering
  
• Fixed Scope UI to properly display Scope and Reticle Windage and Elevation Adjustment in proper units (instead of ‘ticks’)
  
• Fixed scope zeroing math to properly take into account lateral offsets and rotation
  
• Fixed Null references for deleted scopes that were causing certain ItemSpawner Entries to error when displayed
  
• Fixed SVT40 coloration
  
• G3SG1 scope correctly reclassified as bespoke mount
  
• Yolographic optic and Telescopescope correctly reclassified as ‘meme’ set
  
• G36 Comboscope and Scope now can be interacted with once attached
  
• Fixed Incorrect Metadata on EC79A2
  
• Fixed broken material on Wurstwurld ammo (will fully update models later)
  
• Fixed ACOS carryhandle version being present in the item system
  
• Fixed unreliable disconnection of EVU 1-10 and LT 3-9x scopes on short pic rails
  
• Tweaked Pic rail sizes on Model 70 Bolt Action to prevent issues
  
• Fixed G36 Scope and Comboscope missing interactions
  
• Fixed handling of scopes with no options
  
• Fixed Reticle DIsplayNames on EVU 1-10
  
• Fixed LT3-9x turret rotation
  
• Fixed PSO-1 Scope menu position
  
• Fixed PU scope controls
  
• Fixed view jittering in scopes
  
• Scope settings changes in the Options panel are now immediately represented in spawned scopes

• Removed Flamenco 1-6x LPVO (this will be replaced in Update 114)
  
• Removed ANCIENT 2x Magnifier (will be replaced with something modern in Update 114)
  
• Removed old GhostDR model
  
• Removed Old P90 model & Magazine
  
• Removed Old/Inaccurate/Bad Scopes: 3-12x, 1-24x, 8-32x, 12-60x, VD1-6x, M145. FVRObjectIDs for these have been ‘rerouted’ to new/replaced scopes, so previous saved guns SHOULD still load with these substituted components instead. Don't worry, some of these will get 1:1 replacements.