We are pleased to announce that the next Homefront PC patch and dedicated server tool has entered the final phase of testing and we expect to release it within several days.
New Server Options:
- Increase Weapon Damage
- Increases weapon damage for head and torso shots with all weapons.
- Increased Weapon Recoil
- 15% recoil increase across all weapons.
- Reduce UI Elements Shown
- Disables UI elements such as ammo count for all players.
- Only Squad Members on Map
- This restricts the player position information shown on the mini-map to only include squad members and players that have been spotted.
- Only Show Ally Names
- Player nameplates for enemies will not show up.
- Require Manual Weapon Reload
- Disables auto-reload for all players on the server.
- Disable Death Follow Cam
- Disables the follow cam that is ordinarily shown when players die.
- Force First Person Cockpits
- Third person view is not permitted for drones or vehicles when this option is enabled.
- Reduce Ability Effectiveness
- Limited duration for thermal goggles and personal UAV.
- Force Ace Helicopters
- Enforces ace as the difficulty setting for all helicopters.
- NOTE: To disable specials and vehicles, scale the battlepoint earnings to 0% and set the initial BP to 0
Dedicated Server Tool:
- Improvements to the dedicated server tool UI.
- Added new dedicated server settings to the tool:
- Initial BP
- BP earning scaling
- Respawn delay timer
- Idle kick time
- Voting parameters:
- Enable voting
- Minimum players in a server before player voting is active
- Vote pass %
- Vote cooldown time (per user)
- Vote duration
- The autobalance status label will now display information on remaining swaps.
Anti-cheat Support
- Cheat detection improved
- Global banlist:
- Each time a server boots, the entire global banlist will be pulled down from the URL specified in the playlist file.
- On each round change an incremental download is done based on sequence number.
Private Messages:
- Added “Private Message” functionality: pm playername message
Voting:
- All voting information is sent to RCON tools (start information, result and individual votes).
- Voting related UI (see pause menu).
- Implemented match restart.
- Supported vote types:
- Kick player.
- KickBan player.
- Next map.
- Restart level.
Server Splash Screen Added
We now display the server name, Message of the Day (MOTD), and a list of server options active at the start of the game when applicable (settings are located in the dedicated server tool’s checkbox game settings/options).
