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For Patreon members on early builds. If you uninstalled and installed again and the new clothes, patches and camos never came back, the launcher now notices the missing files and downloads them again, about 3 GB. Open the launcher and it updates itself.

The usage statistics are gone. The launcher no longer sends them, and what had been sent is deleted. The terms are back to the September wording, so the launcher asks you to tick the box once more. Open the launcher and it updates itself.

Three launcher updates on the v2.2.3 pack. Open the launcher and it updates itself. If the mod loader is missing, the launcher now downloads and installs it for you, and it tries again when GitHub has a hiccup instead of stopping. Patreon members get their early builds installed properly in this launcher too. If someone gives you an invite code and you're already signed in, there's a box for it on the ACCOUNT page now. The terms have changed, so everyone ticks the box once more. The launcher now sends anonymous usage statistics, and the terms list exactly what they hold. SETTINGS has a button that deletes what was sent.

Six new patches in the closet: FBI, Canh Sat Dac Nhiem, Expedient Solutions, Aegis Group, Citadel CSOD and The Sentinel Group. Nothing else changed in the pack. Mods and missions are the same as v2.2.2. The Linux installer now carries the release number as well, so this one is ODG for Linux 2.2.3.

Enemies on our missions walk again. Patrols, searches and assaults work on every one of them.

Enemies on our missions patrol, advance, flank and search again. On OPERATION RED WINGS, COUNTRY RETREAT and POLAR PLUNGE they climb the hillsides. A man who sees you up close turns his gun on you and stops walking. One or two squads search your last position, and no more than three push one player.

An enemy AI update for every difficulty. Enemies get into cover when shot and check both ways at doors. Trees hide you properly now, pines included. Squads stack on doors, clear corners first and cut off the back of your building. Tier 1 kicks doors, uses breaching charges and wears four-tube night vision at night. The JTAC radar tracks moving enemies and the A-10 is no longer pink. Items you cannot wear show a lock and the reason.

This is the biggest release we've made. It brings the public pack up to date with everything we've built since September: nine new mods, three new missions and an update to every mod that was already here. The pack is now twenty-six mods and over 226,000 lines of code, built across 123 developer builds.

Three new missions. COUNTRY RETREAT is two farmhouses and a tent camp in a forest gorge. You walk in up the creek bed, or a helicopter fast-ropes you onto the rim above it. POLAR PLUNGE is a forward base on a frozen coast, and the only way in is to swim from the sea. OPERATION RED WINGS puts five enemy camps along a river valley in the mountains. A Black Hawk ropes you onto the hill above them and comes back to the same spot to take you out.

A new enemy. They walk patrol routes, hold rooms and come looking when they hear shots. They clear a building room by room, lean around cover and use grenades. Their medics treat their wounded, and at night they wear night vision. They talk to each other in the game's own voices, and you only hear it when you're close. The difficulty you pick on the laptop now changes how they fight.

The lounge. There's a new door in the lobby corridor. Behind it is a cigar lounge with a bar, a fire and a memory wall, a game room with pool, chess and a poker table, and a bowling alley upstairs. The shoot house next door has steel targets and enemies to run drills against, and you can lay out your own rooms in it. Everyone in the lobby is in the same room and plays the same games.

Vehicles and roles. On Mexico Depot you can drive a Ford Raptor with your team in the back, or fly a Little Bird with Hellfires and a minigun. Crash it and it breaks. The JTAC can call in an A-10 gun run. The Assaulter fast-ropes off rooftops, the Sniper gets a rangefinder and can hold his breath for the shot, and the Breacher can now blow through fences.

Kit. The closet holds close to two hundred items now. New this time are the Desert Night Camouflage and DCU sets, a kitted helmet with working IR strobes, MultiCam Alpine vests, a wetsuit set for the water and a Rolex Day-Date that keeps real time on your wrist. At the weapon bench you can paint any part in six rattle-can camos and fit suppressors in twelve colours. There's an M18 smoke grenade as well.

Everything else. There's text chat with emoji and reactions, and a new home screen with its own picture and music. Loading is faster and the game uses less memory. Launcher 4 adds Steam sign-in, Discord and an inbox. Your first launch downloads the new map data, about 2.4 GB, and after that you only get what changes.

Fireteam Roles and the patch pack updated. Launcher 3.

Fireteam Roles updated, the ghillie suit and new patches in the cabinet, and launcher 2.

Two new patches for the cabinet. TASK FORCE HADES, a three-headed hound roundel, and DONT TREAD ON ME in the digital camo cut. Both seat on a sleeve or a vest panel like every other patch.

The first public build. Seventeen mods, five missions and the launcher in one installer. A hundred and four developer builds came before it: spawn protection on every map, breach doors that open for the whole team, and co-op that holds together when somebody loads slowly.