The old tutorial has been replaced by 2 new levels, "Combat Training" and "Flight School". Not only do they contain updated learning materials for noobs, they also contain minigames.

In combat training, you'll be defending a flag from increasingly difficult waves of enemies.

In flight school, you'll be sliding down a rocky half pipe trying to jump through hoops.

Both of these minigames get progressively harder forever and have leaderboards, so I'd highly recommend trying them out even if you already know how to play.

Grenades now have a number of audio/visual effects to let you know when they're dangerous.

The menu has received a nice paint job and the options tab has been heavily upgraded. There are now little 3D models that pop up on various tabs to show you what you're actually changing.

Buttons can now be freely configured to suit whatever needs you may have.

Oculus Touch controllers are now properly supported! There is a sensible default control scheme and your hands/guns will be adjusted to match your controller location. All references to buttons will be switched out according to your HMD type and button mapping settings.

Default player options have been changed to what I believe to be the optimal way to play. This will not affect existing settings, only new users.

• Players now default to white to differentiate noobs from bots
  
• Ammo location now defaults to rear instead of front, to prevent obscuring your vision when looking down
  
• Holster location now defaults to "Shoulders" to prevent issues when grabbing weapons off the ground

In the default "overloaded grip" control scheme, a quick tap of the grip button would pick up weapons or eject a magazine depending on the context. Holding the grip for 1 second would cause you to drop a weapon.

With this improvement, pickups will now happen on button press rather than on release. Holding the grip for 1 second will prime the weapon to be dropped, but it won't actually happen until you release the button. Additionally, there's visual and haptic feedback to let you know when you're ready to drop your weapon.

This setup feels much better and allows you to throw weapons if you want to.

• Equip/Drop/Reload netcode has been significantly streamlined to decrease lag
  
• Attempting to grab a new magazine when you don't have any now plays a little sound
  
• Equip logic now favors foreign weapons over holstered ones, to prevent conflicts when using hip holsters
  
• Wall jumps no longer cancel your fall, instead simply adding to your current velocity
  
• Fixed a bug where "Superhero" sprint players would gain altitude instead of diving

There is now a little death logger which displays recent deaths for about 5 seconds in the bottom left corner of your vision.

As an added bonus, the death log plays a little ding sound when you get a kill.

https://youtu.be/QOqtV6ePs90


Bullets now make a distinct and spatialized whizzing sound when they fly past your head. This allows you to more easily perceive where a threat is when you're under fire, particularly when you are too far away to actually hear the enemy's weapon.

https://youtu.be/gX0Utk2UQ1c


Keyboard/mouse support has always been technically in the game for the purpose of testing, but hidden behind a hotkey. The game will now auto-detect that you don't have a headset and press the hotkey for you when you spawn.

Additionally, an Xbox gamepad can now be used to control your character. The controls are as follows:

• A - Jump
  
• X - Reload
  
• Y - Swap weapon with holster
  
• L/R Shoulder - Grip with hand
  
• D-pad Up/Down - Raise/lower head
  
• Left Trigger - Aim down sights
  
• Right Trigger - Fire
  
• Select - Open tablet
  
• Left Stick Click - Sprint

It is really hard to play this way and I do not really expect anyone to want to do it, but it will come in handy for the following feature.


This feature only shows up in non-VR mode at this time because there's no proper VR controls, but it basically removes you from the game and allows you to fly around the map while it's happening. My intended use for this is for shooting videos for a new trailer, though there is no reason why it couldn't also be used for streaming competitive matches.

To do it, open the game without a headset plugged in. Press Tab or gamepad Start to open the menu. Join a match and go to your options tab, then check the option "Only Spectate". Next time you spawn you will not get a player and you'll be able to fly around.

• WASD/Left thumbstick - Move
  
• Mouse/Right thumbstick - Look
  
• Q/E or Thumbstick clicks - Move up/down
  
• Scroll wheel or D-Pad up/down - Adjust movement speed

This is currently a one-way process since you can't use your tablet, so I would not suggest doing it unless you are very serious about spectating a match.

• (Hopefully) fixed an issue where very high latency players could sometimes walk through a wall to their death
  
• Audio now plays while the game window is out of focus
  
• Teams will be re-muted whenever a new player enters a match to prevent unwanted chatter
  
• Weapons/grenades/pickups now get cleaned up more consistently between matches to help prevent the notorious floating gun bug
  
• Active camo now gets disabled on death