Battlefield 5 Firestorm patch is right here with a shock revamp to air fight

21.03.2019

Games

Air fight overhaul

Wings and ailerons

Flap Scaling has been tweaked to provide much less manoeuvrability at speeds beneath 200 kmh.
Drag Coefficient is now much less excessive at 90-degree angles to take away “floatiness” at low velocity.
Going gradual will now extra closely affect your skill to manoeuvre your airplane.

Elevator and rudder

Drag Coefficients for elevators and rudders have been separated out and tweaked to get a extra bodily stalling behaviour as in nostril down quicker when stalling.
Elevator raise curves are tweaked for giving optimum turns above 180 kmh. This provides you a extra sensible stalling behaviour and permit good pilots to make use of this behaviour in making extra superior manoeuvres.

Airplane physique and gravity

Drag over velocity tweaked per airplane to max out at cruising speeds. This implies that planes will retain vitality for longer and never decelerate as quick.
Gravity will have an effect on planes extra when climbing. Combined with drag adjustments, this makes it extra viable to commerce altitude for velocity.
You will discover that reducing solely throttle will not have an effect on your velocity as rapidly. If you actually wish to decelerate, be sure to make use of gravity to your benefit. With lowered drag generally, additionally, you will discover that diving means that you can acquire velocity quicker than earlier than.

Vehicle fixes

The participant is not clipping with the machine gun on the M3 halftrack when seen from a 3rd particular person perspective.
The throwing grenade animation will now correctly play when throwing grenades whereas within the passenger seat of autos that assist it.
Players can now fireplace the rocket launchers whereas within the passenger seat of a car that helps it.
Players ought to not get crushed when exiting the Universal Carrier at steep angles on hills / uneven terrain.
Fixed some visible points that might happen when utilizing the Field Drab paint job for the Valentine Archer tank.
The Valentine Archer tank now correctly exhibits that it’s utilizing APDS rounds as a substitute of MG rounds within the person interface.
It is now potential to restore the Valentine Archer tank’s engine as soon as it will get broken.
Fixed a bug which might set off the enter car animation when a participant pressed the exit car interplay button too many occasions.
Player at the moment are ejected out of towables ought to they find yourself in deep water.
Airplanes will not collide with medical pouches and crates, which might trigger accidents.
Fixed a bug which might trigger gamers to set off tank sights whereas in a Universal Carrier.
Players can not injury the PAK-40 with small melee weapons corresponding to knives.
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers may very well be immune to wreck throughout a small window of the animation when transferring between in-vehicle and the highest gunner seat.
Players will now die in the event that they exit a airplane for the time being it will get destroyed, beforehand in some circumstances you’ll survive exiting whereas the airplane simply had began to blow up.
Fixed an exploit associated to the resupply stations for autos.
The “Camera Roll” choice now works with the Blenheim planes.
Fixed an exploit that permits gamers to make use of tanks throughout the “waiting for players” part.
New injury curves have been carried out for all giant and medium bombs. These curves now give extra predictable injury ranges relying on proximity to a goal. This change impacts each armor and infantry targets. Additionally, some direct hit injury current on some bombs has been moved to the explosion injury in an effort to obtain higher injury consistency.
The 75mm and 6 pounder cannons on airplanes have had their explosive injury lowered to roughly equal the effectiveness of the BK37 Stuka cannons in injury per second. With a considerable variety of further bombs obtainable to those planes the excessive injury output of the cannons was merely over-performing.
The path results for rockets have been considerably improved to assist in monitoring the rockets each for the shooter and for victims.
The most explosive radius of the GR21 rockets has been barely lowered to raised stability them towards RP-3 Rockets. The GR21 solely wants to fireplace two rockets to get most injury, and the deadly killing vary of those weapons was simpler than balanced.
The small bombs outfitted on the BF-109 G2 can now be dropped collectively to permit each bombs to land nearer to their goal. This ought to improve their effectiveness towards infantry and make them a sensible choice towards the GR21 rockets for that tree.
The 4000 lb. Blockbuster bomb has had a big discount in blast injury, however retains in spectacular blast vary. Additionally, the big bomb has vital drag, making it slower to achieve the bottom when dropped. This bomb is an space weapon designed to devastate a considerable amount of buildings, autos, and infantry. For stability
functions it’s vital it reliably damages a lot of targets over a big space with out outright killing all the targets.
The 250 lb. bombs dropped by the Spitfire VA can now even be dropped collectively for a equally better impact on track. These bombs have additionally acquired a slight increase to their blast injury towards infantry, as beforehand, a single bomb was unable to kill a full well being soldier in a dependable method. This is a change for consistency, and mustn’t significantly enhance the efficiency of the weapons.
Reduced the splash injury of the Bordkannone 37.
Fixed autos in order that they take the right constant injury to the highest and backside of the tank.
Reduced the injury of the Valentine AA’s Canister shot so it takes a number of photographs to kill. With 40 rounds and an excellent price of fireplace it mustn’t reliably one-hit kill infantry at mid-range.
Increased the armor of turrets on medium and heavy tanks. These at the moment are more durable to destroy.
Adjusted the STUG and Panzer default HE shell trajectory to be slower initially however retain velocity over distance higher. This returns the howitzer feeling of this shell with out making ranged hits considerably tougher than different tanks.

Soldier, gadget and Specialization fixes

Fixed a bug the place the strolling animations would cease updating if gamers walked over sure obstacles whereas crouch-walking.
Improved floor detection to forestall transitioning to falling state when crawling beneath a low object.
Fixed a bug the place a motion animation can be performed when standing nonetheless.
Adjusted the PIAT for the brand new tank values. It now has the correct blast injury for infantry kills, however has over all a barely lowered injury.
The AP Mine’s blast injury has been lowered beneath a one-hit kill once more, with a brand new injury curve mannequin giving a dependable flat injury quantity out to the sting of the blast’s efficient vary.
Adjusted the injury performed to components by explosives like mines and dynamite so they don’t immediately destroy components upgraded through the spec tree.
Added a brand new AT Mine and dynamite injury curve. Mines and dynamite do superb injury if caught to or triggered by a car, however quickly drop off if detonated solely close to
the car. This additionally makes the lethality towards infantry good solely at very shut ranges after which reduces to a big wounding radius.
Fixed a difficulty the place weapons wouldn’t acquire full accuracy rapidly sufficient when zooming in and never utilizing iron sights.
FG42: Reduced base horizontal recoil to 0.5 (was beforehand 0.525). The FG42 was a bit too uncontrollable for its small journal.
Sturmgewehr 1-5: Reduced reload threshold to 0.78 (was beforehand 0.82) to raised match the reload animation. This means you may change to a distinct weapon a bit earlier with out aborting the reload.
Semi-automatic rifles: Tweaked recoil lower and recoil per shot. The weapon kind now has extra and longer felt recoil. Numbers aren’t immediately akin to older variations of the game.
Polished Action: This Specialization now gives a stronger impact on the primary photographs to make it a more sensible choice.
Fixed a bug which might trigger Sticky Grenades to self replenish someday after utilizing an ammo crate.
Fixed a visible bug that would seem when selecting up the Bren gun with an allied Medic that has The Phantom outfitted on their torso slot.
Throwing ammo and well being pouches have been improved in these circumstances the place they’d generally be standing near different objects.
Melee assaults now correctly does injury when each gamers are in deep water.
Improved the V-1 Rocket explosion when immediately hitting water and when hitting actually near gamers.
Fixed a bug the place gamers generally would nonetheless see a sure gadget of their hand, whereas the performance was for one more gadget.
Fixed a visible difficulty with the ZK-383 the place a bullet was seen by means of the physique of the weapon when utilizing ADS with the iron sights.
Made further minor enhancements to bipod placement on sure objects.
Fixed a bug which triggered weapons to not reload correctly, after gamers had climbed on high of a car whereas reloading.
The Reinforcement binoculars will not float if the participant has them outfitted and does a slide.
The Kar98okay will not present the unsuitable variety of bullets inserted throughout a reload animation after the participant has positioned the spawn beacon and the final bullet has been fired.

Maps and modes

Improved vaulting by means of sure home windows on Narvik.
In Combined Arms, the end-of-mission gradual movement impact will now solely set off over the last three seconds of the mission timer.

UI and HUD

The Combined Arms mission particulars display screen will now correctly present which map it takes place on.
The Tides of War display screen on the end-of-round display screen will now all the time present the descriptions for every node.
The participant can now select whether or not to carry or press button for request/skip revive when down through a brand new management choice.
Screenshot decision is now affected by the decision scale setting. For instance, if you happen to take a screenshot at 1920×1080 with decision scale set to 200%, the decision of the screenshot shall be 3840×2160.

Stability

Multiple crash fixes and stability enhancements.

PC-specific

Made efficiency enhancements in Combined Arms.
Improved NVIDIA DLSS picture readability at 4K and 1440p.

PS4 and Xbox One -specific

The Specialization and customise buttons have been added to the “Replace Weapon” display screen.
Made previous vaulting activation enhancements to additionally work on 30hz servers.

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