Update 0.17

Release date: September 26, 2018

New Content

• Storage Facility
  • A large building used to store crates of weapons and equipment
  • Acts as a "stockpile" for crates
• Upgrade Part
  • Technology that can be used to build structure Facilities
  • Refined from Tech Parts
• Research Part
  • Technology that can be used to research new weapons, equipment, and structures
  • Refined from Tech Parts
• Factory:
  • Visuals & UI has been redesigned
  • Now requires Facilities to produce each type of item
• Refinery (New):
  • Visuals & UI has been redesigned
  • Now requires Facilities to refine each resource type
• Fisherman's Row V2:
  • Map has been expanded and redesigned to be part of Conquest and to support a larger number of players
• FCL3
  • This is an experimental map used for Foxhole Competition League events

Gameplay Features and Changes

• Facilities
  • Facilities are upgrade modules that add new functionality to World Structures
  • Base Facilities:
    • Small Garrison - Prevents structure decay on surrounding structures when Garrison Supplies exist in the stockpile
    • Large Garrison - Reduces the cost of Garrison Supplies for preventing structure decay
  • Factory Facilities:
    • Small Arms - Enables the production of small arms weapons.
    • Special - Enables the production of heavy and special weapons.
    • Utility - Enables the production of tools and equipment.
    • Medical - Enables the production of medical items.
    • Supplies - Enables the production of supply items.
    • Basic Materials - Enables refining Scrap into Basic Materials
    • Refined Materials - Enables refining Components into Refined Materials
    • Explosive Materials - Enables refining Sulfur into Explosive Materials
• Base mechanics changes
  • Garrison Size is no longer exists
  • AI radius is fixed to 80m for Forward Bases and 150m for Town Bases
  • Small/Large Garrison Facility is now required to upgrade bases to T2/T3
• Forward Bases now leave behind a destroyed "husk", which retains built Facilities and can be claimed by the enemy faction
• All Town Bases can be upgraded to T3, regardless of whether or not they are at a Victory town
• Tech Part changes
  • Tech Parts can no longer be submitted to the Tech Center directly
  • Tech Parts are now refined into Research Parts (Tech Tree) and Upgrade Parts (Facilities)
  • Bad luck protection - Chance for Tech Part drop is now guaranteed over a certain period of time
• Pistols & Revolvers have a much shorter time to stability when aim is invoked
• Foliage Visibility mechanics changes
  • Players are now only hidden when they are standing still inside foliage
• Previous Medical Lab structures have been converted into Garrisoned buildings
• Decay timer resets incrementally with each repair strike, rather than all at once when a structure is fully repaired

Game Balance

• Campsite is no longer available
• Tunnel Networks are no longer available
  • Bases now have a fixed large AI radius now, rendering Tunnel Networks obsolete
• Outposts are now available in Skirmish mode
• AT Rifle damage increased by 50%
• Port Bases start with 500 Upgrade Parts in their stockpiles
• Upgrade Parts have been added to Supply Drops
  • Obtaining these during skirmish will be vital in getting a head start in Conquest
• Port Base layouts have been redesigned
• Forward Bases without Garrison Facilities / Supplies now decay at a very slow rate
• Storage Box item capacity reduced from 18 to 15 slots
• All Base structure item capacities increased from 12 to 15 slots
• Refinery cost is changed from Scrap to Basic Materials
• Refinery now requires a CV to build
• Tech Parts
  • Tech Parts now retrieve from stockpiles at a faster rate
  • Tech Parts are no longer stackable
  • Tech Part drop rate increased by ~30%
  • Tech Part drop rate increased by an additional 50% in Skirmish mode
• Tech Tree changes
  • Scrap Mine and Sulfur Mine moved to an earlier location in the Tech Tree
  • Scrap Mine Research Part requirement decreased from 800 to 400
  • Sulfur Mine Research Part requirement decreased from 800 to 400
  • Metal Wall Research Part requirement increased from 250 to 400
  • Howitzer Research Part requirement increased from 200 to 300
  • Smoke Grenade Research Part requirement increased from 200 to 300

UI Revamp

• The user interface has been revamped across the board for improved efficiency, usability, and immersion
  • The visuals may take some time to get used to, so please be patient!
  • Let us know if there is a particular workflow that is slower/more painful than before
• Key improvements
  • Item Categories - Tabs to organize item categories on Production and Stockpile screens
  • Faster Item Retrieval - The stockpile screen no longer closes when retrieving items
  • Factory Screen - One screen displays all production information so all orders and queues can be managed in one place.
  • Items can now be individually removed from an order before submission without the need to cancel the entire order first.
  • Structure Build Screen - Build menu is now located on the bottom of the screen, leaving more space on screen for placement planning
  • HUD - HUD elements have been pushed to the corners of the screen, increasing the viewable area for gameplay

Map Changes

• Almost every town now has a Factory, Refinery, and Storage Facility
• Trench asset has been updated
• Port Bases have been redesigned for consistency and game balance

Other Changes

• Friends List
  • Players can now mark players as a friend from any player context menu (ALT-click OR operations list)
• Alert is now shown when you spawn into a region where your spawn point was destroyed
• Improved robustness of initial server connection code, which reduces the chances of "No Home Regions Found" error
• Create operation button is now hidden when the player is already in an operation
• Vehicles moving at slow speed can no longer be blocked by enemies

Bug Fixes

• Player jittering making it nearly impossible to land a bullet on said player
• RPGs being lobbed over long distances using tall environment meshes
• When the last friendly town in Mooring County gets destroyed, players spawn in darkness
• Water travel to Weathered Expanse causes multiple vehicles to become stuck
• Drawbridge build sites don't properly collapse into a Destroyed Drawbridge after a server reboot (resulting in the bridge vanishing completely)
• Facing west will cause you to instantly lose accuracy
• Player can not edit profile; Sees error 'Could not retrieve profile'
• Fixed critical server bug that causes entire regions to be inaccessible during poor network conditions
• Stockpile items lost sometimes after a region server reboot
• Gate state (open / close) isn't properly restored after a region server reboot
• Welcome to Foxhole! message sends after traveling between regions every time
• Players able to easily shoot other players that are prone behind sandbags
• Gates can be built in places where they intersect with the landscape, prevents them from being closed
• If you enter a boat while your character is drowning, you can no longer swim until you die
• RPG can't fire over sandbags, hits AT mines on the road instead of flying over
• You cause friendly fire if you throw explosives at friendly backpacks on the ground
• You are not able to fire an RPG above sandbags while crouching
• Travelling from Endless to Umbral sometimes positions vehicles incorrectly (ie; facing east instead of south)
• Voice chat is not muted despite Foxhole being put into the background
• After border traveling it is possible that your chat channel is set to nothing
• Looking through binoculars and closing tank hatch causes crosshair to aim strangely
• Players can fire out of Fortress Bunkers without facing proper direction
• Metal bridges over trenches cause slow driving speed
• Jumping off waterfall in Umbral Wildwood Q8K8 results in you can swimming in the air
• Setting spawn at a Regional HQ and rejoining this region (from Home Island) consumes 1 Soldier Supply Works with every regional HQ
• Local voice chat is now muted on the death screen
• Map bugs
  • Players spawn in the water or other unplayable areas after a Home Region or Skirmish Lobby rollover
  • Central road and road just outside of Colonial Portbase Oarbreaker acts as if it's off road
  • Traveling from Deadlands to Farranac on land can place player in water
  • Vehicle Factory at Luch's Workshop in Mooring County buried in snow
  • Townhall in Oarbreakers, the Report, is raised above the ground
  • The Reaching Trail; Ice Ranch tag far removed from Townhall
  • Road outside Camp Posterus causes vehicles to slow
  • Barges are teleporting onto land in Westgate when travelling south from Farranac Coast
  • Very top right of the Umbral map (around T1) will show player at 0x0 on the map
  • Floating wall in Umbral Wildwood N7k5
  • Smoke effect above ground at L11k1 Umbral
  • Road in Southwest Deadlands / Southeast Farranac don't match up when traveling, goes from road to offroad
  • Random snow texture at C19 Umbral Wildwood
  • Snow footprints / vehicle tracks appear in mud/stone landscapes in Deadlands - D10K4
  • Weathered Expanse P13, most of the beach are cliffs, can't land troopship, drive APC up
  • If player goes to the northern, or southern border of Great March, the player location icon will be placed at A1k7
  • Road on map near Morrighan's Grave doesn't exist in world

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