Update 9.4.0

Audio: Added a sound for inserting a second Cashbox into a Cashout Station

Gameplay: Added a hit marker when successfully glitching a Gateway

Gameplay: Added a critical hit marker for Flashbang. The hitmarker now indicates flash effectiveness, showing yellow for a very successful hit

Phase 2: Added extra Ziplines to increase rooftop access

Phase 3: Added extra Ziplines to increase rooftop access

Monaco: Added a ladder on the flat-roof building in the Hotels area to improve rooftop traversal across all modes and variants

UI: Added the Match Recap to Power Shift

UI: Added click and hover sounds to World Tour progression and reward buttons in the menu

UI: Added the Point Break leaderboard to the Career menu

Added primary and secondary shortcuts to the World Tour calendar for the current week, allowing quick access to start the mode or view contracts

UI: Added an animation to the Attacker ticket view in Point Break to make changes easier to spot

UI: Added a larger header to the Point Break rule information on the loading screen for improved visibility

Sword: Added a small timing buffer to charged lunges, preventing cases where damage would trigger but the lunge wouldn’t when released just before landing

Breach Drill: Increased the length of the drill bit from 83cm to 108cm, to allow it to more effectively drill through deep walls

Cashout/Ranked Tournaments: Updated the logic for deciding where Cashout Stations should spawn, to create more consistent distances between Cashout Stations and Vaults

CB-01 Repeater: Increased aim down sights zoom time from 0.2s to 0.24s, making it slightly slower to aim down sights

CB-01 Repeater: Increased bullet dispersion when crouched, moving while crouched, and when standing still, making the weapon slightly less accurate

FAMAS: Adjusted the recoil pattern, making the weapon jump more during the initial burst and adding slightly more recoil overall

FAMAS: Increased bullet dispersion slightly, across all stances

FAMAS: Decreased the delay before recoil recovery begins from 0.7s to 0.24s, making the weapon much easier to control if the player fires in bursts

FAMAS: Decreased recoil recovery speed from 0.9 to 0.8

Recurve Bow: Increased rate of fire from 98 RPM to 103 RPM

Recurve Bow: Decreased minimum draw time from 0.15s to 0.08s, making it faster to perform quick shots

V9S: Decreased the damage fall-off end range from 25m to 20m

Adjusted the animation when a Contestant using .50 Akimbo pistols is pulled by a Winch Claw

Audio: Included the announcer as part of the commentary volume slider which can be adjusted in Settings

Audio: Updated and polished deploy sounds for many Weapons and Gadgets to improve clarity and consistency

Audio: Adjusted ÖRF grenade voice lines to prevent them from cutting off. Inspect lines now stop when you throw, but continue when preparing to throw

Cosmetic: Improved hoodie compatibility for the Military Mechanic Hat, fixed hood clipping on Engineer’s Crown, and made Facewear correctly replace the Crisp Ops Helmet to prevent overlap

Cosmetic: Improved the reliability of outfit icons when creating a new outfit in the customization menu

Cosmetic: Improved cloth collision on Heavy Outfits to better fit the Moonbeam Dress top and to reduce visual clipping

Cosmetic: Reduced clipping on The Beakon and The Beakend Masks from the Chirurgeon and Apothecarion sets

Cosmetic: Adjusted the Surgeon’s Cowl and Best Practice Cowl fit around the shoulders

Wrist and watch cosmetics now display correctly with the Crosswind Cloak

Cosmetic: Improved compatibility with Long Coats for the Brush of Greatness fox tail

Cosmetic: Adjusted the Core Slinger Emote’s muzzle flash on the Player Card to prevent overly bright flashes

Cosmetic: Adjusted the Sledgehammer’s on-screen positioning when customizing or inspecting it in the menus

Cosmetic: Magazines now visually reflect remaining ammo and empty-mag visuals have been added

Gameplay: Environmental kills now correctly display the granted score

Party members now spawn together more often at the start of Point Break matches

Lockbolt can no longer attach to the Grand Vaults

Slightly adjusted a Phase 2 Attacker spawn on Bernal to improve flow

Phase 1: Moved objectives B and C one house further away from the Cathedral

Phase 1: Moved attacker spawns back a little to maintain similar travel distances to the objectives

Phase 1: Tweaked Ziplines and planks for smoother routes between the adjusted objective locations

Phase 1: Replaced a Zipline for a Jump Pad at one of the Attacker spawns for more consistent access to the rooftops

Phase 2: Moved objective E in the Cathedral slightly away from the wall to make movement around it more comfortable

Phase 2: Adjusted the Attacker border so it sits a bit further away from the shed in the Forest where Objective G of Phase 3 is located

Phase 1: Slightly moved Objective B to avoid a small gap between it and the wall, through which you could unexpectedly get shot

Phase 3: Adjusted a Defender spawn to improve flow and make a Zipline easier to spot and use

Adjusted Kyoto’s map border to better follow the hillside terrain and restored a missing wall end at the stables

Fangwai City: Improved the visibility of railings and monitors at lower quality settings in the Terminal Area

Monaco: Adjusted the cover placement in some of the Hotels and Shopping District houses to make them less cluttered

Improved animation performance in 8v8 matches

Performance: Improved Instant Replay timing

Optimized lighting data to improve performance across all platforms

Improved performance by loading Player Card Backgrounds asynchronously to reduce hitches during previews

Optimized character cloth simulation during animation updates to reduce CPU cost and improve frame performance

Performance: Optimized destruction updates to reduce stutters during large-scale breakage, improving responsiveness in heavy destruction moments

Optimized performance by disabling ray tracing on VFX static meshes

Improved ray-traced performance on Kyoto by reducing triangle counts on common environment meshes

We’ve made a series of ray tracing optimizations across several maps to improve performance and visual consistency

Optimized collision for Frag, Smoke, Sonar, Goo, Gas, Incendiary, EMP, and Flashbang grenades to improve performance and interaction accuracy

Performance: Optimized replay loading during checkpoints, reducing startup time

Improved performance and reduced hitching on Xbox

Improved performance by optimizing animations, especially on lower-spec PCs

Refined collision for Dome Shield, EMP Trap, Gravity Vortex, Gateway, Explosive Mine, Gas Mine, and Incendiary Mine to improve performance and interactions

Performance: Improved network stability by fixing an issue that could cause unexpected lag spikes and rubberbanding

Social: Party invites across platforms now show an error when crossplay is disabled

UI: All icons now display a direction marker when highlighted

Gameplay UI elements now respect slow motion and pause

UI: Improved controller navigation in the Game Mode Rules screen: you can now scroll through the Arenas & Variants tab with a gamepad and the map list correctly includes Fangwai City where applicable

UI: You can now back out of the "Sign with Sponsor" screen by pressing Esc

UI: Progression animations in menus now play in parallel for a snappier feel

UI: Improved World Tour calendar navigation: left/right buttons move between stops, and map stops are now clickable

VFX: Improved victory line-up lighting on Monaco at night to address overly bright, washed-out visuals

Animation: Fixed a visual issue where one of the .50 Akimbo pistols could appear to float when affected by a flashbang or when burning

Animation: Fixed incorrect thigh deformation on characters during movement

Fixed meshes appearing blurry during inspect animations

Fixed an issue where, in some BFR animations, the Weapon Charm could appear on screen before the Weapon

Animation: Fixed an issue where being glitched while aiming with the H+ Infuser could cause melee weapons (such as the Dagger) to be held in an ADS pose until swapped

Fixed animation distortions when entering Low Gravity while using Akimbo pistols and Mesh Shield

Fixed a firing animation issue for .50 Akimbo pistols after using Mesh Shield

Fixed an issue where certain Weapon action animations would not play after switching items mid-action and switching back

Fixed an issue where the quick melee animation sometimes did not play when used immediately after the Spear spin attack or while using Mesh Shield

Fixed throwing animations not playing after certain actions

Audio: Fixed an issue where sounds could be muted when leaving paused private lobbies

Audio: Fixed incorrect destruction sounds on various environmental objects

Audio: Fixed an issue where the commentator voice-over at the end of a round in Cashout could be cut off

Fixed an issue where grenade damage was not recognized for related sponsor Contracts

Cosmetic: Fixed finger clipping with the QuickSpark sight when inspecting the Revolver with the Plundersteel skin

Cosmetic: Fixed several boots clipping with pants

Cosmetic: Fixed an issue where newly purchased customization items were not equipped when selecting Equip from the store highlight splash screen

Cosmetic: Fixed a visual issue where the CL-40’s bullet glow could persist after using the Choppy Check inspect and starting an emote

Cosmetic: Fixed an OSPUZE Sponsor Emote, Mizdown, where the can prop could appear upside down

Cosmetic: Fixed naked characters appearing in team intros

Cosmetic: Fixed a visual issue where the Anti-Gravity Cube could sometimes show an incorrect skin when deployed

Cosmetic: Fixed an issue where the Concrete Canopy skin would cause the XP-54 to render incorrectly

Gameplay: Fixed some instances of the “can’t shoot” bug

Fixed an unintended loop in the Power Shift platform path on Kyoto that caused rapid rotation

Kyoto: Fixed a hillside spawn that could cause players to clip into terrain

Bernal: Fixed an issue where the ISEUL‑T Hotel could collapse erratically after partial destruction

Bernal: Fixed an issue where parts of a building could float after nearby structures were destroyed in the residential area

Seoul: Fixed an issue where the bridge to the Data Center could clip into nearby structures in the Hospital area

Fangwai City: Fixed a destruction weak spot in the Traditional area that could cause structures to collapse too easily

Fangwai City: Fixed a gap in the ground that could appear after destroying a residential building

Fangwai City: Resolved an issues that caused objects to disappear when moving behind certain cliff rocks

Practice Range: Fixed an issue in the Combat Arena where Gadgets and Specializations could be placed out of bounds under the entryway

Fixed performance issues caused by NVIDIA Shader Cache being full

Fixed an issue where Spectators in Private Matches could not see the health bars of Contestants while invisible due to the Vanishing Bomb or Cloaking Device

UI: Fixed an issue where the season introduction screen could repeatedly reappear when returning from sub-menus after dismissing it

UI: Fixed an issue where Practice Range dummies displayed an incorrect specialization icon

UI: Fixed an issue where Attackers who backfilled into an ongoing Point Break match could see "Hold to Disarm" instead of "Hold to Arm" when arming the Grand Vault

UI: Fixed an issue where a new marker could appear on the Career screen despite no new items being available

UI: Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in an Instant Replay if revived right as it started

UI: Fixed an issue where tutorial hints in World Tour could not be skipped with a controller and might instead open the Rewards screen

UI: Fixed interaction prompts appearing during the Spear’s spin attack when actions cannot be performed

UI: Fixed an issue where the schedule button on the World Tour map screen was not clickable

UI: Fixed an issue where input progress would not display during hold interactions

UI: Fixed an issue where the left navigation arrow in the Store’s Legacy Battle Passes were hard to select

UI: Fixed an issue where the tournament screen could be skipped in Ranked matches

UI: Fixed an issue where team wipe notifications could incorrectly state that a team eliminated themselves

UI: Fixed an unintended camera zoom-out when returning to the menu after previewing a reward in the Contracts screen

UI: Fixed some concurrent game show events missing icons

UI: Fixed an issue where newly created outfits could display a missing icon

UI: Fixed an issue where background audio could continue after leaving mid-animation

UI: Fixed a brief stretch of the loading screen background before entering a match

UI: Fixed incorrect progress indicators when objectives are armed in Point Break

VFX: Fixed overexposed Meteor Shower visuals at night

VFX: Fixed missing impact decals on ice in Kyoto (winter condition) for Weapons and Gadgets

Kyoto: Removed the bamboo cluster between Cliffside and the Temples to improve readability

Disabled dynamic shadows in reflections to improve performance