'83 - Quality-of-Life Patch #4 Notes (12th June 2026)

Quality of Life Patch #4 is out now - containing a number of key changes/improvements which you can read all about in the patch notes below.

Hope you enjoy the update and see you on the battlefields of '83!

TL;DR Changes

• Communications Rose Added (Default key ‘K’)
• Added the ability to mercy kill downed players which will stop their death screams mid sentence.
• More battle chatter added
• More HUD/UI rendering options for players in settings
• Fix for multiple bandaging issues
• Map out of bounds is now visible on the overhead map
• Tank engines are no longer silent when started outside of local client hearing range

Quality of Life Patch #4 - Changelog

Art

• Fix for Collision on Silo Railings in Norway Fuel Depot and on all of the road barriers, you can shoot through them now!
• Fix for Soviet trucks collisions being too big to shoot around sides
• Update to Fish Farm dressing
• Fix for grenades falling through map when throwing into a pot prop in Fulda Nato village
• Fix Rug material in Power station to bright
• Fix for door with no material in Bunker

Audio

• Added the ability to mercy kill downed players which will stop their death screams mid sentence.
• "Wounded" and "Bleeding" battle chatter now functional with audio lines hooked up
• Mix updates
• New battlechatter lines for American voices
• Added Missing AK-74 soundbank
• Tank engines are no longer silent when started outside of local client hearing range

UI

• Implemented a communication rose for user selected voice comms (default key = ‘k’).
• Fixed various world objects obscuring friendly team icon in HUD
• Replaced VOIP broadcasting icon
• Replaced placeholder "receiving VOIP" icon with a permanent one
• Added user-configurable setting to disable rendering of red walls indicating the out-of-combat areas
• Added user-configurable setting to disable rendering of objective boundaries (the lines on the ground).
• Changed objective world icon ironsight opacity shift from being FoV based, to being ironsight based (like all other world icons).
• FIxed objectives being borderline invisible while driving vehicles for anyone using a higher than default base FoV
• Fixed an issue where you can get stuck in UI and you can't move your cursor in many situations
• Fixed gunner UI state lingering after leaving tank from gunner seat
• Fixed kill feed showing PKM kill icon for T-64B gunner coaxial kill
• Fixes kill feed showing incorrect kill icon for M60A3 gunner
• Fixed stretched preview character
• Optimised preview character rendering
• Added opacity setting for score feed.
• Fix player score sometimes not updating on scoreboard

Code

• Added scores for when a vehicle is exploded or ignited
• Set default low settings for Steam Deck
• Strike target area marks have their own label (TL, SL 1, SL 2, etc) and squad colour if the mark came from your squad
• Added scores for when a player spawns on SL's/Commander's spawn point
• Hide the objective bounds shader when an objective is disabled
• Fixed T-64B coaxial MG getting stuck after reload
• Fixed M60A3 (Patton) co-axial MG reload time
• Tweaked LOD settings and removed Min Max texture to help reduce landscape tessellating down over short distance.
• Fixed height texture not reading landscape height to RVT properly
• Made sure the scope texture matches the shape and offset and that scopes don’t get too bright.
• Speculative fixe for client crash on commander gameplay cooldown changed
• Fixed some bugs relating to weapon pooling optimization
• Makes building with both spawn beacons easier on concrete fjord areas
• Fixed steering from look and keyboard mutex
• Fixed not being able to give MG ammo despite having MG ammo belt. Added score for sharing MG ammo.
• Implemented bandaging a teammate score.
• Fixed uncontestable objective kills awarding scores in assault mode

Design

• Modified taunts to not send accompanying chat messages
• Adjusted 155mm impact explosion

Servers

• Updated map rotations with new beta map - Fjord Siege!
• Speculative fix for server crash on killing disconnected player pawn in vehicle seats
• Fixed SetTeam command not working as intended and stopping people from spawning after team switch
• Minor adjustment to map voting settings to attempt to resolve issues where the setting does not persist, additional logging to provide more info if it still happens

Level Design

As-Fjord Nato

• Added new overhead maps with OOB representation
• Adjusted spawn protection in a few places to match the OOB representation on the Overhead map

As-Fjord Pact

• Added new overhead maps with OOB representation
• Adjusted spawn protection in a few places to match the OOB representation on the Overhead map

As-Woodpecker Nato

• Removed concrete wall on the elevated platform in the Sawmill.
• Made the lower concrete walls 86cm and reduced the number of walls looking towards Nato home base within the Lumberyard building.
• Removed clipping foliage in rock
• Foliage removed from hut near the substation.
• New OH map variants have been added to all variants of Woodpecker.

As-Woodpecker Pact

• Pact HQ Icon has been moved to the stage 1 static spawn location.

Fl-Fjord

• Added new overhead map with OOB representation
• Adjusted spawn protection in a few places to match the OOB representation on the Overhead map

Fl-Woodpecker

• File cases that are laid down on the top floor of the Command Center have had their collision set to custom and their mantle response set to ignore.
• Wall within the Lumberyard building have been adjusted.
• Adjusted terrain in outpost B to accommodate the correct cover metrics. Added additional props to cover gaps in between assets.
• Building next to outpost B and the shack in the village have had additional props added to them.
• Multiple trees in the Nato HQ, Pact HQ, Substation area have been adjusted.
• Vegetation removed from the abandoned shack at the back of the train station.
• Black tree removed from the Lumberyard zone.
• Bright tree in farm area has been replaced with another tree.
• Rock clipping through tree at the Substation has been adjusted.
• Floating tire adjusted near Scrapyard.
• Placed props against the lower level of the command centre’s opaque windows.
• New overhead map variants have been added to all variants of Woodpecker.

Shooting range

• Shooting Range map has been updated on the overhead map to the correct material.
• Shooting Range - Foliage adjustments
• OOB has been updated and the overhead map has been added to the world settings and overhead camera.

Fjord Siege

• Icon on B centred to the location and higher over the building
• Fixed CP bounds bleeding through walls
• Fixed overlapping protection zones
• Time and tickets adjustments

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