R39.1

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New Bag and Tag map: Icebound

Level designer: Dmitriy Nechay
“Our new map in the icy wilds is set around a military base which houses a scanner with the codename Ice Prophet. When active in test conditions, it will highlight everyone at close range and at the base perimeter, but when its central control panel is activated everyone in range is shown on the radar – but remember, while you can see everyone, everyone can see you too. The layout has been designed to have easily identifiable landmarks with focal points which will favor different tactics. The frozen lake lends an advantage to snipers, the burnt forest suits long and mid-range hunters, while those who like to get up close and personal with shotguns or lay claymores will want to head to the central areas. The Ice Prophet dominates the map which aids with navigation while the snowy backdrop can make you stand out – move quickly when you're not in cover. There's plenty of different ways to come out on top, so try out different kinds of tactics and experiment with different classes. We hope you enjoy this new map!"

The map also comes in with an X-MAS version:

X-MAS

We're enabling the X-MAS versions of the following items:

• Safe House
• Oil Depot
• Hangar
• Icebound

Default Special Kit gets a XMAS skin
Lobby and loading music is changed to XMAS chimes.

Daily login bonus

Special Daily Login Bonus for the next 5 days:

Consecutive days	Reward	Amount
Day 1		7 days
Day 2		15 units
Day 3		15 units
Day 4		1000
Day 5		One of the Evil Santa weapons for 5/7/14 days

The daily login bonus streak will automatically be changed to the normal daily login bonus on December, 26th 09:00 UTC.

Items

New weapons

SMG-9 ARES

Gold SMG-9 ARES

Snowball grenade

We've added a new grenade in the form of a snowball with a unique explosion and throwing animations. The grenade has the same properties than the default grenade. It is sold in the shop for 25, 50 and 100 units at 100, 190 and 360 Kredits respectively.

Evil Santa weapons

We've added a new set of X-MAS themed weapons. Stats-wise they are the same as their basic versions.

FY-103 Evil Santa

M4 Super 90 Evil Santa

SMG-19 Wisent Evil Santa

BNP SNR1 Evil Santa

P57 Evil Santa

Random boxes

Added:

IMAGE	NAME	CONTENTS	PRICE
	Gold SMG-9 ARES Random Box	Gold SMG-9 ARES (permanent) SMG-9 ARES (permanent) Primary Weapon (1 or 3 days) Skins (1 day) HEX Autorevolver (3 or 7 days) Utility Knife (3 or 7 days) Blue Smoke Grenade (3 or 7 pieces) Anti-Personnel mine (1 or 2 pieces) XP (200, 500, 1000, 1500)	1st – 2700 WF$ 2nd – 2615 WF$ 3rd – 2530 WF$ 4th – 2445 WF$ 5th – 2360 WF$
	Evil Santa Random Boxes (primary weapons)	Evil Santa primary weapon (permanent) VIP booster (1 day) Resurrection Coins (5 units) X-MAS Vest (3 days) X-MAS Boots (3 days) X-MAS Gloves (3 days) X-MAS Helmet (3 days) X-MAS Class Equipment (3 days) X-MAS Mine (5 units, Sniper only)	1st – 20 K 2nd – 19 K 3rd – 18 K 4th – 17 K 5th – 16 K
	Evil Santa Pistol Random Box	Evil Santa Pistol (permanent) VIP booster (1 day) Resurrection Coins (5 units) X-MAS Vest (3 days) X-MAS Boots (3 days) X-MAS Gloves (3 days) Candy Cane (1 day) X-MAS Firecracker (1 day)	1st – 20 K 2nd – 19 K 3rd – 18 K 4th – 17 K 5th – 16 K
	Farar, S.A.T. 8 Pro Random Box	Fararm S.A.T. 8 Pro (permanent) Primary Weapon (1 or 3 days) Skins (1 day) HEX Autorevolver (3 or 7 days) Utility Knife (3 or 7 days) Blue Smoke Grenade (3 or 7 pieces) Anti-Personnel mine (1 or 2 pieces) XP (200, 500, 1000, 1500)	1st – 2700 WF$ 2nd – 2615 WF$ 3rd – 2530 WF$ 4th – 2445 WF$ 5th – 2360 WF$
	EXAR-L PDW Random Box	EXAR-L PDW (permanent) Primary Weapon (1 or 3 days) Skins (1 day) HEX Autorevolver (3 or 7 days) Utility Knife (3 or 7 days) Blue Smoke Grenade (3 or 7 pieces) Anti-Personnel mine (1 or 2 pieces) XP (200, 500, 1000, 1500)	1st – 2700 WF$ 2nd – 2615 WF$ 3rd – 2530 WF$ 4th – 2445 WF$ 5th – 2360 WF$
	T27 Random Box	T27 (permanent) Primary Weapon (1 or 3 days) Skins (1 day) HEX Autorevolver (3 or 7 days) Utility Knife (3 or 7 days) Blue Smoke Grenade (3 or 7 pieces) Anti-Personnel mine (1 or 2 pieces) XP (200, 500, 1000, 1500)	1st – 2700 WF$ 2nd – 2615 WF$ 3rd – 2530 WF$ 4th – 2445 WF$ 5th – 2360 WF$
	Katana Random Box	Katana (permanent) HEX Autorevolver (1 or 3 days) Utility Knife (3 or 7 days) Blue Smoke Grenade (3 or 7 pieces) Anti-Personnel mine (1 or 2 pieces) XP (200, 500, 1000, 1500)	1st – 1700 WF$ 2nd – 1615 WF$ 3rd – 1530 WF$ 4th – 1445 WF$ 5th – 1360 WF$

Removed:

• Gold Honey Badger Random Box
• Gold PEG-7 Random Box
• Gold R16A4 Random Box
• Gold Tactical Axe Random Box
• Miller AP6 Random Box

Flag

We've added the Greek and Algerian flag.

We'd also like to remind you that the price of all the flags available in Warface is reduced to 100 K until 28/02/2017 11:59 PM UTC.

Modified items

1-day Vendor item rental price was significantly decreased for some items:

Other

Windows XP support

We will discontinue support for Windows XP on December 31 ^st, 2016. Effective 1st of January we will not fix bugs that only affect Windows XP Operative System.

Matchmaking changes

• Limit the group for pre-invite depending on the game mode:
  • Coop: up to 5
  • Versus: up to 3
  • Versus Ranked Matches: by default up to 5 but this value will be tweaked depending on season
• Decrease time from 586 to 360 seconds after which it's not possible to join Blitz matches in progress.

Random Box mechanics

For now, you can't buy a Random Box anymore if you already won its top item (only counts for indestructible items, such as the golden weapons and skins). Another result of this change is that when a random box contains more than 1 top item, you will not receive duplicates – just the items you haven't rolled yet.

Vendor unlock selection update

After you unlock an item in the vendor, you'll see a screen asking you to choose the item you want to unlock next.

Updated melee weapons descriptions

We've updated the descriptions of all the melee weapons and added detailed stats for both primary and secondary attacks. For now it's only in the English version, but we will localize it in the near future.

New skins for the FY-47 rifle

The classic FY-47 assault rifle will receive the Flor de Muerto, Sweet Revenge and Wilderness skins (available via a random box).

Scope support for the FY-47 assault rifle

The classic FY-47 assault rifle along with its golden variant finally receives scope support. You'll be able to use the following attachments with it:

• Advanced Rifleman Scope
• Red Dot Sight

FY-47 Random Box price was increased to 1,200 WF$ to reflect the item re-balancing.

New Sight

We're introducing a new 1.4 zoom sight: Holographic Sight, fairly similar in appearance to the classic 1.2 zoom one. The Holographic Sight replaces the Reflex Sight in the arsenal and will be available to you if you previously had the Reflex Sight unlocked.

The Reflex Sight will now be available to all players as default sight for all weapons that support sights.

Important: the Reflex Sight (1.2) is not available on Gold weapons anymore and was replaced with the new Holographic Sight (1.4)

Reduced client freezes

Optimization to reduce client freezes

Congratulation for rolling best item in Random Boxes

A message is displayed in case you are lucky and obtain the top item in a Random Box. It will allow to equip the top item.

Achievements

Badges and marks

Along with the assortment of achievements for the new guns, this time we'll also introducing a batch of top-secret badges and marks for you to unlock. How to do that? We'll leave it up to you...

IMAGE	NAME	DESCRIPTION
	Something went wrong	CLASSIFIED
	Large calibre	CLASSIFIED
	Head crush	CLASSIFIED
	Vanquisher	CLASSIFIED
	10	CLASSIFIED
	Angularity	Kill 10 000 enemies with a SMG-9 or its gold version
	Advanced Angularity	Kill 25 000 enemies with a SMG-9 or its gold version
	Icy Souvenir	Collect 10 dog tags on the Icebound Bag and Tag map. * Also achievable on the X-MAS version of the map.
	Cold Souvenir	Collect 50 dog tags on the Icebound Bag and Tag map. * Also achievable on the X-MAS version of the map.
	Frozen Souvenir	Collect 100 dog tags on the Icebound Bag and Tag map. * Also achievable on the X-MAS version of the map.
	Merry Christmas to you ggrrrhhh…	Kill 2000 enemies with Evil Santa weapons in PVP
	Krampus	Kill 2000 enemies with Evil Santa weapons in PVE

Stripes

Bug fixes

• LOCA: Localization issues in the Pre-Invite screen
• CONTENT: The PEG-7 Random Box contains a Rifleman Skin instead of a Medic Skin
• CONTENT: The Engineer tutorial is now fixed and can be completed
• CONTENT: It was possible to see and shoot through a wall in PTB Destination
• CONTENT: An African Co-op mission could not be completed if there was only one player alive at the last checkpoint
• FUNCTIONALITY: BLACK SHARK: The white dot indicating the player's minimap position is not displayed any more (Special Operations do not display the minimap)
• CONTENT: BLACK SHARK: The game froze at levels 3, 6 and 9 if the player shot at destructible objects
• CONTENT: BLACK SHARK: The player could fall through the floor in the lift
• CONTENT: PTB TRAILER PARK: A pile of sand looked like a pile of snow
• CONTENT: CHALLENGES: The Black Shark Tactical Axe does not count toward the 'Crazed Axeman' challenge
• CONTENT: B-5000: Zooming animation for the B-5000 was not synchronized
• CONTENT: COOP: Heavy Gunner did not take damage using the default knife (Executor knife)
• FUNCTIONALITY: MATCHMAKING: Accepting an expired invite could cause an infinite matchmaking loop
• FUNCTIONALITY: MEDKIT/ARMOR KIT: Medkit and Armor Kit restored health and armour too quickly when other players had low health and armour values
• FUNCTIONALITY: CRASHES: Game client could crash after inactivity under rare conditions
• FUNCTIONALITY: HAPPY HOURS: Crown counter did not show the increased amount of crown rewards in the lobby/loading screen
• FUNCTIONALITY: VERSUS: Sometimes a player could appear to not be holding any weapon (empty hands) from the third person view
• FUNCTIONALITY: RANDOM BOXES/BUNDLES: It was not possible to purchase or obtain all permanent items if the player already owned an expiration version of an item present in the Random Box or Bundle
• CONTENT: VERSUS: It was possible to become stuck in some locations on the maps PTB D17 and PTB BRIDGES
• CONTENT: CHALLENGES: BT50 XMAS counted towards the normal BT50 achievement 'Over and Out'
• FUNCTIONALITY: VERSUS RANKED: It was possible to pre-invite more than the set amount of invites for Versus Ranked Matches

Known Bugs

• CONTENT: The 'R98B' has a Wilderness Skin applied by default
• CONTENT: VERSUS: A player can become stuck in certain areas in BAT ICEBOUND
• CONTENT: VERSUS: It is possible to exit the BAT ICEBOUND map boundaries in certain locations
• CONTENT: The congratulatory message for winning top random box item does not always display
• CONTENT: Third person view animation for the Xmas Special Kits was missed (from third person point of view players will not seems like restoring armor/health,…)
• FUNCTIONALITY: BLACK SHARK: Under certain circumstances, it's possible to fall through the floor in the Black Shark missions on level 5, 8 and the top floor