Tribes: Ascend - FPS announced by Hi-Rez Studios. - Page 19

Several optimizations and fixes meant to help reduce system crashes, minimize “disconnects”, and improve overall performance. Further optimization is planned for future patches.
-You will now be able to test all classes (even those classes you do not yet own) in the single-player “Roaming Maps” on the Training menu.
-The XP Summary screen at end of mission has been reworked to present information in a more useful way.
-The Top Bar menu has undergone some changes. Further visual improvements are planned.
-Added a new perk for Juggernaut. Super Heavy reduces knock-back effects from AOE blasts.
-The separate VIP Queue has been removed. VIPs will continue to earn 50% bonus Tokens and XP by playing on the Free Servers. In a future patch, VIPs will also be able to vote on which map should be played next (between match rotations).
-Major change to the way first person weapon textures are setup to save large amounts of memory. In this build you will see a quality loss and possibly strange behavior on your in hand weapons. This will be addressed in a future patch to bring these weapons back up to high quality.
-A variety of audio-related cleanups, optimizations, and fixes.
-Variety of fixes and improvements to the Settings menu (more is planned).
-Players can now bind separate keys for their primary and secondary weapons (versus only using the switch weapons key).
-Decreased the cost on all vehicles (Shrike, GravCycle, Beowulf)
-Increased jetpack initial acceleration.
-Increased air control slightly across all armor types.
-Reduced Chaingun damage by 13%.
-Various cleanups to the 3D model display on the class screen, eliminating some crash scenarios and visual anomalies.
-Flag Assist accolade added - all flag holders share a net credit amount roughly equal to 1000.
-Solo cappers still get 2000 total. Reworked default credit gain of capture to fit.
-Modified the terrain on Katabatic for more balanced gameplay.
-Fixed Grav Cycle jitter issues and applied proper visual feedback on yaw.
-Fixed Grav Cycle passenger not being able to look up/down.
-Fixed projectiles appearing to go through generators.
-Fixed deployables not taking proper damage from bullet-projectiles
-Fixed dropped pickups sometimes giving players an additional weapon.
-Fixed call-in laser targeter not being able to work on some objects.
-Moved the location of the base sensors on some maps so they aren’t as vulnerable as before.
-Fix for Sentinel’s Drop Jammer deployables continuing to apply jamming effects on friendly and enemy players after its death.
-Fix for sometimes seeing overhead carets for nearby enemies through walls when a sensor is not present.
-Added a reminder message for when a player has a flag to help address reports of players not realizing or forgetting they held a flag in CTF.
-Fixed an exploit for Jumper’s Blink Pack where players could accelerate to high speeds with little-to-no energy cost.
-Doombringer’s Saber Launcher now requires a full lock-on routine (targeting, then lock-on) even for the same target.
-Doombringer’s Saber Launcher missile will lose the ability to perform tight turns when close enough to a victim and if it has passed the victim.
-AFK timeout at the team-select screen changed from 60 seconds to 180 seconds.
-Fixed a bug with Juggernaut’s health regeneration rate and skills creating faster than desired regeneration.
-BXT1 rifle now has a new and improved scope (visual change only).
-BXT1 rifle now has an increased charge-time while jetpacking or skiing at high speed.
-New scope on the sniper rifle. Please give feedback if you like/dislike.
-Better messages when errors on login.
-Variety of other fixups and visual improvements.